Cool music from last decade

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I've been very nostalgic for the early-mid 2000s as lately, in terms of the music, movies, TV, etc., really the entire culture. It was that time where we were out of the 90s phase, but there was the angst from the 90s left over with a more contemplative, mature, experimental tone. It was also before social media and smart phones really took hold, along with this new irony-obsessed, sarcastic detachment our culture seems immersed in now...

...but enough about my depression!

There was some really cool music around that time with Mars Volta, Fall of Troy, Muse, Man Man, Comets on Fire, TV On the Radio, Modest Mouse, Blonde Redhead etc. I know some of these groups are still together, I'm just trying to find more music in that vein if any of you fine people have any suggestions/music you want to gush all over.

[Talent Name]

Have you checked out the porcupine tree, if not I suggest them. Also Massive Attack is pretty good too

[Bo Rida]

[Tarik Dee]

The whole Post-Punk Revival followed by the new wave of Indie Rock along the return of Dance-Punk and the birth of New Rave followed THEN by the rise of Indie Pop, Electropop and Chillwave; basically the whole decade got amazing music to listen, really good times. some of my favorite bands are from this past decade:

The Killers
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
LCD Soundsystem
The White Stripes
The Strokes
Klaxons
The Black Keys
Franz Ferdinand
Gorillaz
The Horrors
Hot Chip
Kasabian
MGMT
Passion Pit
Neon Trees
Ra Ra Riot
Vampire Weekend

Amazing music for an amazing decade.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I know it wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I really liked the "snap music" of 2005-2007

[DZ: WF Legacy]

Jan 22, 2013 11:25:45 GMT -5 Talent Name said:

Have you checked out the porcupine tree, if not I suggest them. Also Massive Attack is pretty good too

I love you.

One of my favorite albums by them, Lightbulb Sun, is my avatar image. Came out in the year 2000 - it's probably their most personal album, ripe with nostalgic feeling. "Where We Would Be" is one of the saddest songs I know, but it also has a few more alt-rock oriented songs like the title track:

[Yami Daimao]

Gorillaz and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory made up the early 2000s for me. I agree with the OP, those were some fun years.

[Deleted]

Getting more into the hip-hop/r&b/soul side of things, today I've been listening to The Roots - Phrenology, Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds, and D'Angelo - Voodoo (this one in particular...WOW). 3 seriously good records with great musicianship and production that go far beyond what we expect from mainstream music.

I'm really starting to think the noughties were better than the nineties musically, something I would've never thought until recently.

[Hawk Hart]

[lildude8218]

Jan 22, 2013 12:24:38 GMT -5 Tarik Dee said:

The whole Post-Punk Revival followed by the new wave of Indie Rock along the return of Dance-Punk and the birth of New Rave followed THEN by the rise of Indie Pop, Electropop and Chillwave;

you're totally just making things up now.

[Tarik Dee]

Jan 23, 2013 2:22:49 GMT -5 Hawk Hart said:

I love The Vaccines! nice to see some else here is a fan, their new album is my third best album of the year.

[Tarik Dee]

Jan 23, 2013 2:26:27 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

Jan 22, 2013 12:24:38 GMT -5 Tarik Dee said:

The whole Post-Punk Revival followed by the new wave of Indie Rock along the return of Dance-Punk and the birth of New Rave followed THEN by the rise of Indie Pop, Electropop and Chillwave;

you're totally just making things up now.

Good or bad all that is totally true, it was kinda confusing to me at first but lately I've been listening to all that genres and you can see a slight difference between them, but yeah, for someone who isn't into music all that must sound like made up words; I sound like a parody of Pitchfork

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Jan 23, 2013 2:33:51 GMT -5 Tarik Dee said:

Jan 23, 2013 2:26:27 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

you're totally just making things up now.

Good or bad all that is totally true, it was kinda confusing to me at first but lately I've been listening to all that genres and you can see a slight difference between them, but yeah, for someone who isn't into music all that must sound like made up words; I sound like a parody of Pitchfork

There's just too many damn labels these days. On music, on people, everything. And rarely to the labels do the thing their describing any sort of justice. None of it is the truth. It's just a bunch of catchy 2-syllable phrases made up by critics to put everything in a box and help people label themselves "oh I like indy pop, and chillwave"...CHILLWAVE?! ARE YOU SERIOUS!? HOW COULD THEY STOOP. THAT. LOW.

A slightly more distorted guitar or slower tempo doesn't constitute making up a whole new subgenre. Whenever it's done the bands themselves usually find it stupid and reject the label anyway.

[Tarik Dee]

Jan 23, 2013 2:50:18 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

Jan 23, 2013 2:33:51 GMT -5 Tarik Dee said:

Good or bad all that is totally true, it was kinda confusing to me at first but lately I've been listening to all that genres and you can see a slight difference between them, but yeah, for someone who isn't into music all that must sound like made up words; I sound like a parody of Pitchfork

There's just too many damn labels these days. On music, on people, everything. And rarely to the labels do the thing their describing any sort of justice. None of it is the truth. It's just a bunch of catchy 2-syllable phrases made up by critics to put everything in a box and help people label themselves "oh I like indy pop, and chillwave"...CHILLWAVE?! ARE YOU SERIOUS!? HOW COULD THEY STOOP. THAT. LOW.

A slightly more distorted guitar or slower tempo doesn't constitute making up a whole new subgenre. Whenever it's done the bands themselves usually find it stupid and reject the label anyway.

If I remember, it was the band Klaxons who coined the term "New Rave" as a joke, eventually it blown up of proportion with many music magazines calling them the leads of the New Rave movement and labeling other bands with the same genre, one that it started as a simple goofy joke, the same with Chillwave, many of the artist labeled in that genre like Neon Indian, Twin Shadow and Toro Y Moi moved on past the label and neither of them like to be grouped with the name.

[Jam]

For me, the last decade was all about Queens of The Stone Age and Every Time I Die. Those two bands were the soundtrack of my life.

[Banecat]

Thrash made somewhat of a comeback in the mid to late 00s.

Municipal Waste

[kidglov3s]

For me it's Neko Case's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Joanna Newsom's Ys and Milk Eyed Mender, Suzanne Vega's Beauty & Crime, Regina Spektor's Soviet Kitsch, Nellie McKay's Get Away From Me and Pretty Little Head, Nina Nastasia's On Leaving and A Fine Frenzy's album. I could listen to those anytime and they all take me right back to the good gone days.