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Great albums of the 2000s?

The Verve - Urban Hymns
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Editors - The Back Room
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Kasabian - Kasabian/Empire
 
This thread just goes to show how badly music fell off a cliff towards the end of the 90s.

There are some decent, respectable albums on here that I suspect none of us would be ashamed to have been involved in. But the standard is so far below that of the 90s.

I'm now going to thoroughly contradict myself by putting forward:

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
White Blood Cells
The Black Album
Songs in A Minor
Late Registration
Boy in da Corner (not really my thing in terms of style, but I recognise it for the good album that it is)

Very US-heavy decade in terms of the top albums I think. Certainly compared to the 90s.
 
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Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Killers - Hot Fuss
Libertines - Libertines
Jeffrey Lewis - Em Are I
Deltawave - Discophobia
Jarvis roosterer - Jarvis
Long Blondes - Someone to Drive you Home
Puressence - Planet Helpless
Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
Mansun - Kleptomania

Are 10 that I know I still listen to a lot

For me 00s music was: Franz Ferdinand, Zutons, Bloc Party, Futureheads, Maximo Park, Keane, Kaiser Chiefs, The Music, Electric Soft Parade, Coral, Razorlight, Muse, Jet, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, MGMT etc. I listen to odd songs of most of them still, but rarely albums
 
scaramanga said:
This thread just goes to show how badly music fell off a cliff towards the end of the 90s.

There are some decent, albums on here that I suspect none of us would be ashamed to have been involved in. But the standard is so far below that of the 90s.

I'm now going to thoroughly contradict myself by putting forward:

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
White Blood Cells
The Black Album
Songs in A Minor
Late Registration
Boy in da Corner (not really my thing in terms of style, but I recognise it for the good album that it is)

Very US-heavy decade in terms of the top albums I think. Certainly compared to the 90s.
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I don't see much difference in quality between the albums listed here and those we discussed in the 90s thread.

Once the Internet exploded music became much more niche/specialist with variety going through the roof so from around this time period there are very few all encompassing bands/artists which appeal to everyone - there won't be another Oasis/Nirvana/Radiohead even if there are artists producing similar standards of music
 
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billyiddo said:
I don't see much difference in quality between the albums listed here and those we discussed in the 90s thread.

Once the Internet exploded music became much more niche/specialist with variety going through the roof so from around this time period there are very few all encompassing bands/artists which appeal to everyone - there won't be another Oasis/Nirvana/Radiohead even if there are artists producing similar standards of music
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That's what people said in the 50s when everyone was listening to watered down American brick. They said it in the 70s before Punk came along and in the late 80s/early 90s before guitar music made a comeback.

After every good era of music there's always a brick one for around a decade. This one has been longer than most so we're probably due a new scene that reminds us all why we like music.
 
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billyiddo said:
I don't see much difference in quality between the albums listed here and those we discussed in the 90s thread.

Once the Internet exploded music became much more niche/specialist with variety going through the roof so from around this time period there are very few all encompassing bands/artists which appeal to everyone - there won't be another Oasis/Nirvana/Radiohead even if there are artists producing similar standards of music
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Funny post!
 
billyiddo said:
I don't see much difference in quality between the albums listed here and those we discussed in the 90s thread.

Once the Internet exploded music became much more niche/specialist with variety going through the roof so from around this time period there are very few all encompassing bands/artists which appeal to everyone - there won't be another Oasis/Nirvana/Radiohead even if there are artists producing similar standards of music
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I tend to agree with this pretty much. Dance music exploded everywhere but wasn't really driven by mainstream hits. In fact the charts are an irrelevance these days for the most part. But not only dance music, all genres of music have such variety now mainly due to the ease of home recording. It is now far easier to release material but much harder to be king of the hill. The argument that home recording flooded the music scene with sub-standard tracks in also wrong in my opinion. Yes there is a load of poo produced now but there a corresponding amount of amazing material also produced. The music scene now is as healthy and vibrant as it has ever been, and more accessible than ever.
 
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parklane1 said:
I am sure if i think REALLY hard and long i could come up with a couple, brick decade for me for music.
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We're not talking 1970s or 1950s bad, but it's pretty fudging bad.

What's scaring me is that this decade has been significantly worse so far.
 
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