Was there any good music in the 2000's?

Cold War Kid wrote: »

I'm actually putting together a 21st century playlist on Spotify to take me out of living in the past when it comes to music, and there's some outstanding stuff. E.g. Let England Shake is PJ Harvey's best album IMO.

Great album

tigerboon wrote: »

Funny you should say that. My wife used to play it over and over and over. She should be nursing home age then. Karma might strike. She was the same with your man from Wales..can't think of his name
David Gray

That White Ladder album and Play by Moby were feckin massive

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Otherwise though, Amy Winehouse I think put an indelible mark on the 2000's / noughties and I think Back to Black is pretty much the song I will always associate with that decade.

Good call. Winehouse was a true original with a back catalog that will stand the test of time. It's true that the 00's might not be remembered as the most fertile but autotune has a lot to answer for on that front.

As a final point anyone referencing Coldplay, leave it out. I hope those melancholic charlatans are confined to elevator music for ever more.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

There's no real one movement that defined the 2000s. Referring to mainstream acts I think the decade started off promising with the nu metal scene and rock stuff like the Libertines, Strokes, Hives, Vines.

Around 04 05 was a bit dodgy, you had the Artcic Monkeys burst onto the scene in 06 but you had a lot of average sh1t like Kaiser Chiefs and the Killers around too. The decade petered out with autotune garbage filling the commercial airwaves.

Well, for me the 2000s was split between being in school, and working in an office filled with very sound but musically unsophisticated chicks who had the radio on all the time, so my knowledge of pop music from that era is good. This is how I remember it:

The start of the decade was dominated by nu-metal, garage-influenced pop (Craig David and his ilk), pop starlets, and turn-of-the-century trance. The 90s boyband and girlband behemoths were were still a visible force but the gimmick as a whole was waning. Eminem was big and original enough (at the time) that he probably deserves his own category.

Early-to-early-mid 2000s is a little less defined in my mind. I'm not not sure if this is because I was really getting into alt-rock then, your Muses and Placebos etc., or because pop music was just less distinctive. But from memory there was loads of that tedious quasi-gangster rap (50 Cent, Nelly and the likes) and rock-styled boybands like Busted and Mcfly. Artists who earned (or "earned?") their fame from TV talent shows were definitely a thing by then.

Mid-2000s, from what I recall, was saturated with contemporary R'n'B and indie/post-punk revival. The former, in the vast majority of cases, was trash - Neyo, Chris Brown and suchlike - but could be decent on very rare occasions (Future Sex Love Sounds by Justin Timberlake is a bit of a classic). The latter included some of my favourite acts from the period, coming-of-age stuff like The Libertines and Arctic Monkeys, but also encompassed bands like The Kooks, whose existence contributed towards the development of the ignominious label of "landfill indie." Pop-punk and emo were bubbling under the surface, occasionally popping up to claim a number one spot. Snow Patrol and Timbaland were always there or thereabouts.

Again, the late 2000s is a little less clear in my head. X-Factor winners all over the place anyway, and autotune everywhere. 40% of radio airplay consisted of Lady Gaga. The influence of electronic music was becoming apparent, whether it was dance-influenced stuff by the Black Eyed Peas, or straight-up hairdresser house like David Guetta. An auger of things to come in the next decade.

...funny to think that The Libertines are firmly within nostalgia territory now. So much coming back to me typing up those few words, and mainstream music was a very minor part of my growing up. People here look down on the 2000s like it was a decade of no cultural relevance, but it will be remembered fondly like any other. Been meaning for ages to start a thread about how the 2000s will be remembered. Must get the finger out and make it.

PS: I'm what AH might term a "music snob" and the Kaiser Chiefs are a guilty pleasure of mine.

**EDIT: in case it wasn't clear, I'm referring exclusively to mainstream music here.

The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show, Stankonia, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, The College Dropout, Late Registration, Back to Black..........Grand old decade for the tunes!

Jaylene Plain Tech wrote: »

Eh...Arcade Fire, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Amy Winehouse, The Libertines, The Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Bright Eyes, Outkast, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse?

Even the stuff more at the billboard end of the scale, you had your Kylies, your Lady Gagas, your Justin Timberlakes, your Destiny's Childs, your Eminems (might sound crazy to you youngsters but he used to be good!). Fairly solid pop choonage right there. There was a lot of sh1te too, but sure you'll have that whatever the decade

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IamNotNumber wrote: »

Who?

Oh fucck off.


Some of the best music known to humanity is being produced right now, only people won't take their heads out from their arses for 2 minutes to realise it.

Nostalgia is the most horrific thing, and it kills everything. I'm really excited by the prospect of the likes of the Rolling Stones etc dying off so that we can see what's really going on.

Anything by the strokes, the libertines, kings of leon(red morning light,mollies chamber, four kicks etc) jamie t, modest mouse, foals, arcade fire, flaming lips, artic monkeys, franz ferdinand(unreal live band), gorilaz! Quality

anncoates wrote: »

There's accepted signpost decades that are accepted as periods of fecundity like the 60s and 80s but there's probably a case to be made that 'originality' in music has been gradually tapering away from the 60s onwards.

If you're talking about commercial music I'd tentatively agree you.

If you get outside that...based on a single overarching genre of music (or, more accurately, a modality of music production) from the UK alone: acid house, hardcore, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, garage, 2-step, grime, dubstep. I won't even get into the fusion genres that came after.

All distinctive genres; like anything else, you can find their roots in scenes that came before, but if you go back ten years from their emergence you won't find anything that sounds like them.