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"Back to Foulke! Red Sox fans have longed to hear it… the Boston Red Sox are World Champions!"
The Malice at the Palace
I won’t post any pics, but I can’t think of the aughts and not think of 9/11.
Or how beautifully crystal blue the sky was that day.
00s were when our kids were toddlers..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcIboJvlec4
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Great (best?) decade for indy rock
- Arcade Fire
- Radiohead
- Wilco
- The Strokes
- LCD Soundsystem
- TV on the Radio
- Sufjan Stevens
- The Shins
- Modest Mouse
- My Morning Jacket
- The New Pornographers
- Broken Social Scene
- Vampire Weekend
All Tomorrow's Parties Pacific Festivals at/on/around the Queen Mary in '03 and '04. They curated some sick lineups!
Did someone say vegan fixie?
Sox win is a big one. Caught the Malice live at a bar ordering a drink.
Certainly seemed like indie rock's heyday. Add MGMT, Arctic Monkeys, Peter, Bjorn, and John to the list. Also a new era of electronica; Zero 7's Simple Things is right there with Air's Moon Safari. Daft Punk's Discovery.
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Fucking great. Every one of those.Quote:
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One more
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unironically it was also a great time for food. Global supply chain was widespread, smart knowledgeable cheap workers because city’s weren’t horrendously expensiveQuote:
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The gastro, cocktail and chef-driven scenes really took off during the aughts. I was happy to be a patron during these years.
Also, it was a time in my life when we didn’t have kids and industry people were just more fun to be with than most other people.
I’ll also add the many other Boston championships too. 04, 07 Sox; 02,04,05 Pats; 08 Celtics, 10 Bruins.Quote:
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9/11 in NYC is my most predominant memory of the 00s. I was in midtown and my wife right across the street from the WTC.
Queens of the Stone Age - yeah started in late 90's but.......
it was a stupid decade.
This makes me smile.
https://youtu.be/jcVTczmNeMw
I miss these guys.
https://youtu.be/27G-wokE3TQ
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Love it, hate it, it was thrilling to watch
It’s been covered in other threads, but I’ll put early 00’s as the golden age of the internet too.
iGoogle.
Typical Google, good idea, horrible execution, could have been a contender to facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbf0dlESX8E&t=3s
Shaun White
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Hot take: Best Radiohead song is Paranoid Android thoQuote:
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America lost it's collective mind and we got the GWOT. Endless war. Weapons of mass distraction.
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No way you made it out of the 2000s without hearing this song. Still a banger.
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I was looking at the Hipster item checklists people post for laughs and thinking.. So what, I still own several of the things on those lists like records and a turntable (two). Then it hit me. Hipsters are 20-30 years younger than me. If I had grown up with digital music and media I'd have zero interest in typewriters or cassette tapes. It's not "hipster" if it's the same stuff you used when it first came out. Pretending you're 25 years older than you actually are is a different thing.. Why would anybody do that LOL!!!
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Fixied it for you...Quote:
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“I did it before it was cool, but now that everyone does it I wouldn’t!”Quote:
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Oh no I'm still all in on obsolete shit.. You should check out my quiver..Quote:
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How many iPods do you have?
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The 00s were my coming of age decade (17-26) and it really was a mixed bag. I had lots of fun and really things turned out well for me, but in comparison to some earlier decades, I think people around my age had a less care-free go of it. The dotcom bubble burst right at the beginning of the decade, then Sept 11 and the subsequent wars, which affected a lot of people I knew. We were already feeling the resume arms race and so for most people I went to school with, extra time during college and the summers were about getting future applicable internships rather than goofing off at some throwaway job. Because college had become so expensive that making summer job money didn't really affect your debt anyway. Then we all graduated with debt, got our first jobs, and the financial crisis hit, though things were worse for my brother who is just a couple years younger than me as he and his very well-qualified friends had a ton of difficulty even finding jobs as they graduated into the worst of it. Pretty much all studies suggest that our generation will have less wealth than those around us because of bad timing of external crises.
But that being said, I had a blast. In 2000 I could finally drive and so could get out and socialize (I grew up living in the woods in an already rural town). Pop punk was fun and I thought the girls were cute. Later the aforementioned garage revival was to my taste (the White Stripes were my favorite and I don't think mentioned on the earlier list). File sharing was just becoming huge as were online communities. For someone like me who wanted to get to know a bigger world, that was amazing. I love having basically every song ever at my fingertips, but there was something about burnt CDs as the last gasp of mixtapes before Ipods reduced the need to curate for length.
While I mentioned that we all felt pressure to constantly be upgrading our resumes, if you were - like me - not actually that ambitious and rather curious, you could find really cool opportunities and excuses to do them. I taught English in Mexico for a summer. Worked a a sea turtle conservancy another summer patrolling the beach. Studied in Spain for a year taking advantage of cheaper European education prices before my university caught on (now they just have students pay them their normal tuition directly and pocket the difference).
I luckily got into grad school right before the wave of people who couldn't find a job due to the financial crisis flooded it and then had a blast doing my PhD. I learned to ski, met a bunch of people who post/posted here at a random little hill, and skied every weekend, crashing on floors and in my car.
One underrated part of the decade, especially at the end, was that good beer was becoming available pretty much everywhere. There wasn't quite the growth in numbers of brewers that there was in the 90s (or later in the 2010s), but to me it seemed like distribution was getting much wider for good beers and a lot of existing brewers were figuring things out.