Category Archive: The Aughts

mini-poll: Other Stuff about the Aughts we're Wondering 'bout

Posted at 4:42 PM on January 12, 2010 by Jim McGuinn (9 Comments)
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It seems almost unbelievable that we've entered a new decade. Can you absorb what that means? How will be look back on the 2000s? The culture? The music? Technology? We know the stories that dominated our lives (9/11, War, Recession, Bush, Obama, etc), but how we sort out the developments and trends - and how did we ever find anything online before ?

This weekend we pay tribute to the decade - and ask you to weigh in on a few topics. Take the poll and listen over the weekend and catch the results (also to be posted here next week). I'm still not so sure what we're going to end up calling the decade that just was - Aughts feels soooooo 1907, but Zeros... ah, anyway - here ya go!

This one is pretty self-explanatory. .
Break-Out Artist

In a decade ruled by technology and change, what development do you think was most significant - especially for music?
Game Changer of the Decade

Finally, in a decade where mass culture de-volved into American Idol style/drama over substance, what was the worst of a lot of bad ideas?
The Aught Nots

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mini-poll: Best Album of the Aughts

Posted at 4:25 PM on January 12, 2010 by Jim McGuinn (36 Comments)
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How do you define the 2000s musically? Was it the left turn Radiohead took at the start of the decade? The rock and roll jumpstart from the Year of Garage that gave us The Strokes and White Stripes? Was it the dominance of the Canadian Collectives like Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene? Or the epic dropped / leaked / re-signed drama around Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot? Given the dispersion of culture and media in the past ten years, there's a pretty good chance that for you it was something else entirely, and maybe something beyond the 60 or so choices we're offering up here. But somewhere between 5 and 'every album released in the past decade' we knew we had to draw the line for this poll, and these seemed like a good starting point for conversation (and voting) as we ask you for your choice for the Album of the Decade. Could be Album You Love Most, could be Album That Changed Something, could be Album Pitchfork Told Me Was Important. Interpret the question as you will, but please give us your answer, and feel free to write your comments below the poll...

Album of the Decade

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