The pink elephant in the closet, of course, is the 00s: There's a lot of great music from the 00s, but none of it is rock music. At least there were a few profoundly amazing Unsane and Royal Trux albums in the 90s. 00 killed the rock.
(I'd probably weasel outta any objections to this thesis by claiming that anything thought to be good 00s rock is really good pop. Which I'm allowed to say now, you filthy poptimists, 'cause the Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand have been officially declared POP. Not that I'm saying these folks are exemplars of the form, but it's the principle of the matter. Anyways.)
― libcrypt, Friday, 2 March 2007 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link