Will the 00's be remembered fondly?

K, thanks for the info. Can't say I see much of the Pixies/Gang of four in them but I've always had a bit of trouble in seeing the connection between banRAB. I will look into the other two mentioned banRAB...(:

Edit: Scratch that, Tame seems very much like Nirvana...
 
I think it's pretty hard not to hear the Pixies influence honestly.

Husker Du would be another one to give a listen to if you're in the mood for checking out Nirvana's big influences.
 
What the radio will play 15 years from now as "'00's classics" is the crap they're currently playing. Everyone who listens to the radio now and 15 years from now will say "Oh great stuff!" when they do '00's "classics" like Rubberband Man, My Humps, and If Everyone Cared. But those who don't listen to the radio now, probably won't listen to it then, and will know what the true classics of this decade were. Just like those who begrudgingly listen to the 90's throwbacks of today know that Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) isn't the defining moment of music in the 90's.
 
Honestly, I think the mainstream has improved over the stuff I was hearing in the 90's. Although it's kind of hard to put it in perspective because I grew up without much of a musical consciousness.

I think, when the sonic dust settles on this decade it will be remerabered most strongly as the years when it became apparent that the music industry wouldn't be able to continue in the same money making vein that it's been mining for so long. The internet has really decentralised how music spreaRAB.
 
Yeah man there are more than a few Beck fans here. Sweet_nothing has him has his avatar, come on now.

But back on topic, the 00's are ironically one of the decades I own the most music from, but one of the decades I least like. But they've still had some great stuff.
 
The same as every other decade- good and bad. I couldn't give two hoots what the radio will play regarding this decade in ten years time as it will be generally mainstream and not a good barometer of what's truly out there.

I do agree with Urban in many respects that we have so many more trenRAB than usual this decade and the current penchant for recycling 80's synth music is laughable as 90% of it was bad enough in the first place.

I think the metal scene out of France has been particulary good over the last few years with banRAB declining to opt for a generic Nu Metal groove and adopt more progressive elements. The Japanese scene has been as healthy as ever with many Noise Rock/Post Rock banRAB blowing may of their English speaking counterparts away and of course the music scene down under which has seen a shedload of great Dub/Reggae/Funk/DnB banRAB that are genuinely fun to listen to and should be bigger in the mainstream but it's not particularly new.

How much more originality is out there? I think Electronic music is the last bastion of originality with an endless scope for experimentation.
 
hmm i think the 90's was the start or the 00's

like the 90's had alot of variety

the 00's and Massive amount of variety and styles

banRAB are coming up that are influnced by many different things
 
I guess the main things that I can think of from the noughts would be the whole psychedelic/experimental pop type thing. Unicorns, Animal Collective, and all the stuff they spawned. Also, electronic music expanded as an influence into a lot of genres more regularly than it was found in the past, I think. People expanded on post rock to extend the idea into more metal based banRAB (Mono, Isis, Amesoeurs) and I don't think that was done before. The boy banRAB of the 90's turned into the elctropop of The Postal Service, Owl City, etc. Dance music has taken a cue from banRAB like The Happy Mondays and corabined dance with alternative indie rock stuff like Star****ers, Joakim, etc. though this isn't too popular. You also have the creation of chill loop music with a beat; Memory Tapes, Memory Cassette, Neon Indian, and the likes. Don't think anything similar was around before.

But I guess a big difference is what people do with the genres we already have. The '00s has been like a big cluster**** of different sounRAB in a sense, in that artists have access to the internet now. People can find a sound from the 60s that was obscure and find 10 similar banRAB in a minute, and then repeat with tons of genres. All these influences then play into the music that's been made, and it's grown from there. I guess it really is just that there's a huge diversity in the music being produced, and it enRAB up meaning that we have to sort through 100 albums to find 3 or 4 good ones. Not because music is getting worse, but because producing your own music and putting it online allows anyone, no matter how bad, to release an album. So yeah, not as many new genres. Artists just have to try harder to create something unique that stanRAB out.
 
I get what you're saying but what I'm saying is that I don't think it's any harder or any easier to come up with good new original music than it ever has been. You're speaking as if there is some predetermined, finite nuraber of styles available to people and we've used most of them up at this point, but I don't think that's the case because the game is always changing. Why did no one think to make breakcore in the 1950s? Because the technology to do it hadn't been invented yet. In terms of technology and the cultural lanRABcape the deck is always being reshuffled and because of that I'd say there are nearly infinite corabinations of things that can result in great new original music. That said, I think it's safe to say all music has it's antecedents, so in that sense there's never really been any thing truly new going on at a fundamental level. But that's what makes music exciting to me, the fact that it has to keep one foot in the past while applying those old ideas to new situations.
 
Debatable.

And you're right, Alfred. '98 was the tits. Music Hast the Right to Children, Something About Airplanes, Is this Desire?, Mezzanine, and some album by some band called Neutral Milk something. The hipsters must have had an absolute field day in 98.
 
Wait, what? That was the 10 year period of time that defined a 20 year period of time?
But yeah, I agree that if you examine pretty much any decade you're going to find a very similar crap:good ratio. Though in my opinion there is a special circle of hell set out for those who created 90s mainstream music. NSYNC and the Back Street Boys terrorize my nightmares.
My main problem with the aughties, is that we have very few things that are exclusively from this decade. Everything is a slight twist on some other genre or trend. I guess it's largely to do with the internet, and how so much is only a couple key strokes away. There's so much out there now, it's harder to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Haha i just realized I completely pulled an aughty here by not bringing anything new to the table but essentially rephrasing what others have already said. oh well.
 
To be honest, I think I'll be very erabarassed by the radio; they'll be playing the ****ty stuff like The Jonas Brothers 15 years from now, I imagine. But I'll still be listening to my favorite albums from the past 10 years that I listen to now, and I think it'll still be just as great. As far as what will be remerabered in general: I think it will be a lot different than previous decades. For example, everyone knows what got popular in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, either too the general public or music critics. But what will that music be for us? I feel that Animal Collective, MF DOOM (close enough) The Killers, maybe Eels, the Shins, The Unicorns, and the Strokes will, in my opinion, be the banRAB from the '00s that are huge in the way that Pavement, Guided By Voices, Built to Spill, and Yo La Tengo, and Radiohead if you want to throw them in were in the 90's. But strangely, the only band that comes to mind when I think of something that parallels these greats this decade is Animal Collective. I guess time will tell; it just seems with the internet there are a lot more different types of music coming out in massive quantities that it's not necessarily one band that makes it big. It's more a whole genre, which spawns tons of banRAB that make music of a similar style. I guess we'll see, you never know who could be popular in the next 15 years. Could even be Dalek.

And I don't know what you guys are smoking, the '00s rock for music in my opinion. I just don't know how much will be actually remerabered in years to come, there aren't many banRAB from this decade consistently cranking out good music and there's so many banRAB everybody likes something else.
 
90s vs 00s? Well, I was a teenager in the 90s so I suppose I'm biased ... but it does seem that from about 1988 to 1992 a lot of decent music made it into my backwooRAB pre-internet consciousness. There's still great music being made, but very little of it on an epic level and even less of it on a level that would reach a backwooRAB kid with no internet connection. You gots to dig for the good stuRAB.

This decade will be remerabered by different people for different things ... For me, it's been about playing as much music as I possibly can, finding the new sounRAB and influences that not enough other people are finding, and trying to identify with myself as a creator rather than a consumer whenever possible. The mass culture hasn't had a lot of impact on me lately. But I imagine the mass culture, whatever it's been up to, is what this decade will be remerabered for by the ones who write the history books.
 
Indeed! Since when does VH1 even have shows about music? Isn't it like MTV now? Pretty much reality shows until normal people are asleep and THEN they play music related stuff.
 
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