The decade in music: post a list of artists from the 2000s that you love

[mvd]

The music artists you list should have started out in the 2000s.

Here's a solid but definitely not complete list:

Kelly Clarkson, New Pornographers, A Fine Frenzy, The Decemberists, The Veronicas, Michelle Branch, Kate Voegele, Josh Ritter, new band Tinted Windows (I can tell from the first single that they will be great), Jessica Harp, Francisca London, The Like, Brandi Carlile, Hey Monday, Karmina, The Love Willows, Avril Lavigne, Pink, The Weepies, She & Him & M. Ward, Nicole Atkins, Molly Jenson, Tracy Lyons, Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady, The Pierces, Aly & AJ, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Tilly & The Wall, Rilo Kiley, Priscilla Ahn, Amy Winehouse, TV on the Radio, Stacie Rose, Margot & The Nuclear So and So's, Leona Naess, Leslie Mills, Vanessa Carlton, The Shins, The Dollyrots, Damone, Youth Group, The Fratellis, Lavender Diamond, Coldplay, The Clientele, Camera Obscura, Joshua Radin, Bonnie McKee, Hem, Eisley, Alexz Johnson, Anna Nalick, Regina Spektor, Kasey Chambers, The Killers, Stars, The Faders, Fisher, Little Big Town, The Wreckers, Butch Walker, Lykke Li, Melinda Doolittle, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Marie Digby, Cara Luft, Sara Bareilles, etc.

Against Me!, White Stripes, The Essex Green, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Thea Gilmore, James McMurtry, Cindy Alexander are some artists who just missed the cutoff date.

I will have to hear more from Katy Perry first. The two Katy-written songs on Kelly Clarkson's excellent All I Ever Wanted are better than most of the songs on Katy's One Of The Boys, which is a good but not exceptional pop/rock CD. Katy's song "I Think I'm Ready" also shows a lot of potential.

[mvd]

1. And if anyone wonders where The Corrs, Kay Hanley and Nina Gordon are..

First Corrs album was in the mid-90s
Kay and Nina have 00s solo work, but they have been around a while.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. So they have to have started in the 2000s?

Let's see...

Bloc Party
Arctic Monkeys
Jaguar Love
Past Lives
Arcade Fire
Fucked Up
No Age
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Raveonettes
M83
Death From Above 1979
Desaparacidos
The Mars Volta
Sparta
Head Automatica
Gallows
Alexisonfire


Lots and lots of good stuff.

[mvd]

5. Have you heard It's Blitz! from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs yet?

I like it a lot - cool dance stuff, hard rock, and sublime all at once.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Yeah, it's a pretty solid album.

Though I missed Nick's usual guitar antics. Noticeable New Order influence throughout the album.

[Danger Mouse]

3. That would require more brain power than I can spare at the moment...

fuck, my head hurts just thinking about it.
I'll leave it at 'some of yours I agree with'

[mvd]

6. So my taste is acceptable?

:-)

Hi, DM! :hi:

[flvegan]

4. Let's see...Rise Against, Gaslight Anthem

Avril (of course)...ummm, I think that's it. There are the here 'n there songs I like from artists from the 2000s that I like, but very few that I'd say I like them overall.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. Great Lake Swimmers...

The Avett Brothers, The Decemberists, Apollo Heights, The Low Anthem, Espers, Hem (oops...1999), Page France.

Varying degrees of love/like.

[mvd]

8. Yeah, Hem formed in 1999, but I decided they could make..

the list since the first CD was later.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

10. Vanderslice? He's another 1999er... (n/t)

[mvd]

11. Close - first album in 2000 - but I add those

If you decide to go by form date, that is also ok. BTW - thanks for the reminder - would like to buy a CD from him.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

12. I haven't really liked much of the music this decade unfortunately

And that's surprising because I loved many of the artists in the 1990s.

Out of your list
Kelly Clarkson
The Veronicas
Michelle Branch
Pink
Coldplay

And a few others I can think of
Five for Fighting
Batasha Bedingfield
Daniel Powter

[mvd]

14. Hi, RFK!

I think there's a lot out there, especially if you look. I look on iTunes, MySpace, amazon.com, XM radio, review websites, etc.

I like some of Natasha's stuff. I have the CD Unwritten. :hi:

[MrSlayer]

13. Short list, no one is on it.

This decade blows even more than the 90's for music.

[Mojambo]

15. I can't do a list, but I freakin love Camera Obscura

Have you heard the new record yet?

I know I said I couldn't list, but here's a few...

Fishboy, The Smittens, Cars Can Be Blue, Desmond Reed, Eux Autres, Fruit Bats, I'm From Barcelona, The Charade, Jellybean!, Paul Baribeau, Speedmarket Avenue, The Besties, The Hot Toddies, The Thermals, The Honeydrips, The Just Joans, The Morning benders, The Peekers, Tilly and the Wall, Tinyfolk, Washington Social Club...

Well what do you know. I had a list in me after all.

[mvd]

16. Haven't heard it. Any good place for samples?

I will listen before going to bed. :hi:

[Mojambo]

17. I think a couple of cuts are on their myspace profile.

That's the only place I know of.

http://www.myspace.com/cameraobscuraband

[mvd]

18. Thanks - the new stuff sounds very impressive!

:hi:

[LostInAnomie]

19. Mastodon!

[electricmonk]

20. Some of mine

A partial list, the 00's have been awesome so far and 09 is shaping up to be pretty good.

Mr Gnome
CSS
Joss Stone
Crippled Black Phoenix
Ting Tings
3epkano
She and Him
LCD Soundsystem
KT Tunstall
Cold Fairyland
Her Name is Calla
Mr Gnome
For a Minor Reflection
Gifts from Enola
Fight Like Apes
The Evens
Lilly Allen
If These Trees Could Talk
Ascent of Everest
Ana Never
66e
Subways
Beware of Safety
Noisettes
Zoe Keating
Aranis
Night on Earth
and last but not least Mr Gnome :9

[mvd]

21. I'm with you on KT Tunstall

The Ting Tings also have some irresistible songs. I'm sure there are quite a few I left out: Miranda Lambert (known Repuke, but good artist,) Lucy Walsh, Laura Marling, Duffy, Kathleen Edwards, Jesse Malin, Candice Accola, The Format, and Holly Brook are among them.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

22. Re: Regina Spektor

I had a chance to listen to Soviet Kisch and loved the song "Us." Great song!

[mvd]

23. Right now I only have Begin To Hope

I assume Soviet Kisch is a CD well worth having?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. It's pretty good.

My sister bought it for me because I'm a big Tori Amos fan, and Spektor has the same type of "quirky female singer with a piano" way about her that Tori does, although Spektor's a little more low key.

But "Us" is an A+ song, no doubt.

[Eyerish]

24. There's been good music this decade??

:shrug:
I worked in a music store from 2000-04 and if there was any good new music i wasn't aware of it...

The only CD's I find myself buying (yes i still go out and buy them-*gasp* the horror) are from groups that started in the 70's 80's or 90's...

[mvd]

28. There's been just as much as any other decade IMO

[Eyerish]

31. That's cool & I appreciate your opinion...

I'm sure it just has to do with preferences... the music styles of this decade i just don't appreciate. Emo, (ugh I can't even stand that industry-driven phrase), Rap, Bubblegum (Hannah Montana, Jonas brothers, AI) are mostly filled with empty-headed, vacuous "artists" who's only talent is looking good in front of a camera or how much cross-marketing merchandise they can sell. There's no soul in any of it.

I guess being forced by my store to listen to Ashlee Simpson's first cd on a never-ending loop for 2 weeks before it released can produce some bitterness. :grr:

[mvd]

33. I don't find some of that bubblegum to be bad

Jordan McCoy, Brie Larson, some Britney songs, and the second Jonas Brothers CD are fun - and not as content free as you say IMO. To each his own..

I do agree that Ashlee Simpson is mediocre, though.

[blue_onyx]

41. I agree...bubblegum doesn't necessarily mean bad

I was in middle/high school when the last wave of bubblegum pop started (Britney, Christina, Nysnc,) and I loved it. I haven't heard much of the Jonas Brothers' music but their songs just aren't as good as the previous boybands. The Backstreet Boys, for example, actually had at least one really good song (I Want it that way). The Jonas Brothers seem more restricted to the tween/teen market while the previous teens stars had more mainstream appeal. For example, I bet most people can't name a Jonas Brothers song but can name at least one Britney/Christina/BSB song. As far as Britney, I wouldn't consider her bubblegum pop anymore...her first 2 CDs (and maybe her third a little) were though.

I really, really didn't like Ashlee Simpson. She is mediocre and only got a record contract because of her reality show star sister. I don't see much of a future for her in music which probably why she went back to acting on the new Melrose Place.

[mvd]

42. I'm the opposite on boy bands

BSB and N'Sync are boring singing machines IMO. BSB do have some singing talent, but the material is lacking. They also seem very female-oriented to me.

Jonas Brothers have a bigger audience for power pop lovers like me.

Britney's music now is kind of a bubblegum version of Madonna's new stuff - less bubblegum than before, though.

[blue_onyx]

45. I was never really fan of Nsynce or BSB

I just liked some of their songs. Pretty much all boybands are female-oriented. Jonas Brothers are a little too clean-cut for me. I've heard a few of their early songs, which were cover songs, and they changed lyrics that weren't even controversial. Their whole "pure" image is a little off-putting for me.

[mvd]

46. I don't really focus on the JB's lyrics

The new album is where they have grown on me with some nicely catchy music. I'm not saying their audience is mostly male, but as a fan of Cheap Trick, the sound appeals to me more.

[Jamastiene]

26. It's a short one.

The Vines
Band of Horses
Big Elf
Coldplay
the White Stripes
The Hives

[mvd]

27. Good call on Band of Horses

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

29. I fuckin' love them.

They are great. :hi:

[mvd]

34. What's your favorite CD from them?

I'm still partial to Everything All The Time. :hi:

[Initech]

30. Here's my list:

- Queens Of The Stone Age
- The Foo Fighters
- Opeth
-Dream Theater
- White Stripes
- The Mars Volta
- Arcade Fire
- Porcupine Tree
- A Perfect Circle
- Nine Inch Nails
- Muse
- Manu Chao
- Explosions In The Sky
- Pelican
- The Decemberists
- Damian Marley
-Stephen Marley
- The Black Keys
- Wolfmother
- Gnarls Barkley
- Between The Buried & Me
- Agalloch
- The Flaming Lips
- Tomahawk
- Tool
-Tenacious D
- The Racontuers

[Eyerish]

32. Quite a few of those are Pre 2000 though...

aren't they??

[Initech]

36. True.

But a lot of those bands on my list have put out their best stuff this decade so that is why I included them.

[dana_b]

53. you're my musical soulmate

;)

even though a lot of them weren't started during this decade, they are continuing to produce decent music.

[Initech]

55. Yeah consistency is a lot of what I look for in the bands I listen to.

As long as bands keep putting out quality albums, I'll buy them and listen to them. If they jump the shark, like say Aerosmith and record a puke-tastic love song and do Pepsi commercials, then I wont.

[dana_b]

56. haha! me too

I loved Soundgarden and Audioslave. Then Chris Cornell has decided that doing booty shaking songs with timbaland is the way to go. buh-bye Cornell!

[mvd]

57. I can't stand that Cornell CD Scream

It may be the worst album of the year so far - it just is a complete mess.

[dana_b]

59. amen!!

It is really bad. He's not a pop artist and even if he were, he hasn't created anything that hasn't been heard before AND done better. what's worse is that it's made a bad joke of him.

[Initech]

61. I'm pretty disappointed in Cornell.

His first solo album was pretty awesome - especially the Casino Royale theme song. Then he decides to go do this shit.

[Initech]

60. Yeah, I'll skip his new CD for sure.

The LA Times slammed it in a review the other day.

[mix]

35. doves

debut april 2000, lost souls

[mvd]

37. Haven't listened to them in a while - but yes, they are good

:thumbsup:

[martymar64]

38. My small list of Millenial Darlings

Gnarls Barkley
Apollo Sunshine
Gorillaz
Modest Mouse
Norah Jones
Sleater Kinney
Nico Case
Franz Ferdinand
Lady Sovereign

[BulletproofLandshark]

39. My List

Not exactly my favorite decade for music.

[Deja Q]

40. Here's my list:

:(

[blue_onyx]

43. These are my favorites

Kelly Clarkson
Britney
Pink
Michelle Branch
Avril Lavigne (I'm not much of a fan of her but I like her music)


There might be more I like but these are the ones at the top of my list of favorite music artists.

[mvd]

44. That's a good list

Avril is a little dismissive of her fans and tries to market herself as different than pop when she isn't, but I've always been a fan of her music. She hasn't topped Let Go yet, but I think she'll do it.

[blue_onyx]

47. Yeah, she does try to be punk-rockish

but she's just as pop as the people she tries to distance herself from (Britney/Christina). I liked Let Go too. My favorite song from that CD is "I'm With You" and "Mobile" is probably a close second. She's done some pretty good stuff since her first CD. I love "My Happy Ending"...probably my favorite of her songs. Her last CD was disappointing. Other than Girlfriend, which is so catchy, there's weren't many great songs.

[mvd]

48. I've liked all her CDs, but the last one is her worst IMO

Really, Under My Skin was also filled with great songs. It's about equal to Let Go - what do you think? Even on her latest, her pop/punk stands out more than most does IMO. :hi:

[blue_onyx]

49. Yeah, she first 2 CDs are about equal in quality

The third just didn't work as well. "When You're Gone" was ok. The third single "Hot" wasn't very good. Hopefully her next CD is better. According to wiki, Max Martin is working on her 4th CD so I'm already excited to hear some new music from her.

[mvd]

50. Any news on when the 4th CD will come out?

I haven't seen anything.

[blue_onyx]

51. No, I haven't heard about when it may come out

Since her last CD was released in spring of 2007, I would guess probably late this year at the earliest, next spring at the latest (2-3 years seems to be the typical length between albums).

[bif]

52. Here are a few of my favorites

Air, Andrew Bird, Angus & Julia Stone, Antony & the Johnsons, Blue Merle, Bliss, Bon Iver, Bonobo, CaRIBOU, Manitoba, Death Cab for Cutie, Devotchka, Dufy, Efterklang, Eluvium, Guggenheim Grotto, Hammock, The High Dials, Jaymay, Karmina, Kendall Payne, Laura Viers, Lykke Li, Mice Parade. New Buffalo, Orbital, Page France, Pink Martini, Rogue Wave, Sea Wolf, Stars of the Lid, Sufjan Stevens, Taylor Swift, Waldeck, Yeasayer, Zero 7. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[mvd]

54. No wonder we share lists so often

I've really been enjoying searching out these artists.. hope you like my list, too.

[mvd]

58. Another one you might want to try, bif, is Mirah

The new album is called (A)spera

The upcoming Metric CD is also strong.

A couple disappointments: the new Decemberists CD and Marianne Faithfull's new one. Marianne just can't sing anymore, and the Decemberists are leaning on the prog-rock side too heavily on Hazards Of Love.

[bif]

67. I've tried finding Mirah on Limewire without much luck.

I'll keep trying though.

[ZombieNixon]

62. A slew of bands (mostly European) not really on the radar here.

I hope to keep it that way.

Scar Symmetry
Mnemic
Initech mentioned Opeth above, and even though they started in the 90s, they've been making consistently good music in this decade as well
I'll throw Meshuggah in there with the same excuse
And Cynic, because they didn't release anything between their debut in 1993 and last year, but the new album is pretty awesome
Rise Against technically started in 1999, but I'll let that slide since they didn't release anything until 2000
Eluveitie
Disarmonia Mundi
Dethklok
Blood Stain Child

[Broken_Hero]

63. hmm, hard to find any...truth be told

just looking at the bands on wiki, when they were formed, there are some bands I figured that were in the current decade, but fell short by a year or two(end of 90's)...

But here I go, on a gold mining search....

1. Velvet Revolver

2. Wolfmother

3. Airbourne

4. Five Finger Death Punch(Way of the Fist...I love this cd)

5. Demon Hunter

6. Kelly Clarkson

7. Senses Fail

8. Tokio Hotel

9. Silversun Pickups

10. Hinder

Damn, it took me a while to make a top ten....thats about all my foggy mind can recall at the moment. The current decade of music, in my view has been rather weak, for new bands...unless you like/are a fan of pop, rap...if you love those two genre's you are about in heaven.

I still like 60's-90's music more, from the 60's to present, the past decade has been the weakest for new music/bands....

[mvd]

69. Hi, petersond!

The 70s and earlier might have had more good music, or at least more great music - but despite the 80s having a lot of faves, I think I like this decade more overall than the 80s and 90s. In the 80s, too much music was happy considering Reagan was President! :hi:

[JCMach1]

64. Placebo, TingTings, White Stripes

[Roon]

66. I love white stripes

I think I have some of their songs on DVD around here somewhere. Haven't listened to them in years.

[ccharles000]

65. lilly allen and pink

[Arugula Latte]

68. People have mentioned most of the ones I like, but let me add "Doves."