itself

at the time. Thats all that matters surely ?

I've been involved in debates about how MySpace is bigger to this generation than Nirvana was to the last. It's sad, but true. Peoples love is so fleeting. There are hardly any bands anyone will die for at the moment. It's sad, but true.

Maybe Muse?

is remembered for portable music systems?

I think these things are seperate from the music created. Might aswell say the 40's gave us grammaphones or something.

but the music will always be remembered by at least some of us hehe

Unless you consider 'bands that sell well at Tesco' a genre there's been no real musical movement to follow rock'n'roll/Beatlemania/punk/house/grunge-Britpop, but what has been consistent across the decade is this march that really started with Napster and Apple's increased prominence. I suppose you could mention the Walkman and the rise of the CD as technological advances that changed the way we approached things in the past, but neither irrevocably altered the fabric of music consumption as much as technology has.

alot of music made doesnt sound like it could have been made in any other decade yet it is hard to pin down specic genres and stuff. And the no big band of this generation I don't see as necessarily a bad thing, there is the same amount of passion just spread over more bands because of the greater choice and access. It is my personal favourite decade of music with 2005 being the pinnacle.

since the 60s obv, fuck knows that happened before then.

because there are always great bands and artists at any given point in time

had a bigger impact technology-wise on musical form.

00s technology hasn't actually affected musical arrangement that much.

It just existing production techniques have been streamlined

It will be remembered for the pastiche artist. In other decades we've had successful artists borrowing from the past but this decade will be remembered most for artists that just rip off the past wholesale and don't bring anything new to the table.

It'll be remebered for the Strokes saving us from all the dull bland UK music like Starsailor around 2001, for the Libertines then ripping off The Strokes to bring it back to the UK, then for the Arctic Monkeys to rip off the Strokes and rule the roost ... I'm just waiting for the next band to rip off the Strokes ..... who in turn had ripped off The Ramones hence allowing Topshop stock their T-shirts ... oh and the ipod and myspace .... and yeah, ... yer right

The noughties will be remembered (not just for music but for many things) largely for repackaged soul-less derivative shite, retro fashion in both music and everything else (as a means of avoiding new ideas) and a largish dumbing down of the populace, devaluation of intellectual property and shortening of attention spans thanks to unprecedented levels of hype, marketing, accesibility and greed.

There have been many ace things too, but at best its 50/50 and there is nothing distinct to identify this decade as anything more than a fumbling of ideas through our new technological possibilities. Hopefully by the next decade we will know where we stand a bit more and things will improve.

(I actually really want someone to prove me wrong as I am in a pessimistic mood right now, having just seen my umpteenth advert for Jamster ringtones on my day off and being plagued by the builders outside playing Radio 1, so have at me!)

people will think this was a good musical decade
or not
maybe it will only get worse

rose-tinted glasses and all that...

as the decade when -everyone- could become a music fan, rather than just the 18 year old boys in record shops in the 70's. The internet means having your music heard and loved is a real possibility, and opens up the consumers to the comparitive qualities of 'major' bands versus the unknown. I think there are probably a much higher amount of people with deep musical knowlege than there were in the early 90's for example- just because it's easy. So it should be remembered as the time of Indie, in it's purest sense, music fans and bands with very small budgets and no record labels becoming open to the consumer.

lol.