Celebrity Paedogeddon and old men yelling at clouds

And that's the indie end of the spectrum. Looking mainstream it was the era of Cowell. Popstars, Pop Idol and the endless conveyer belt of X Factor bullshit.

It was also Libertines, Amy Winehouse etc with accompanying tabloid spiral

I do think we underestimate the impact of 9/11 and the war on terror as well. Really created a pervasive sense of paranoia.

It was slim pickings back then. That was around the time I stopped buying new music because it was all a bit crap.

That list is conclusive proof, if it was needed, that the 00s were indeed the worst decade.

I never like to comment on punctuation but honestly the thought of your Snow Patrol Kaiser Chiefs supergroup is making me feel quite unwell. Please add a comma, good user elstoof. 

The 2000s indie landfill. 100s of bands called The [something] and every single one of them absolutely sucked. 

Im actually quite surprised Razorlight didnt call themselves The Razorlight.

I'd still argue the 90s giving us Creed, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback and practically all the Britpop bands makes it a worse decade for music.

Hanson too.

Korn's was 1999.

rhaegyr You were a teenager in 90s, hence your young adult life was the naughties, of course you are going to prefer the utter dross you were fed for music 😊

Arguing about the music of the time kind of misses the point when you had the sexism of lads mags in the 90s and a tabloid press hounding people to death and the 00s the five minutes of fame nihilism of Big Brother and a tabloid press hounding people to death.

The mid-late 90s were probably more optimistic though. Geefe’s probably right about 9/11. In the 90s you eventually had the Good Friday Agreement and we were barely over the line into the new millenium before sweating while non-white was enough to have the Met execute you on the London Underground. Which is obviously going to cast a shadow over everything else.

Plus Deftones released Around The Fur in 98 but White Pony in 2000 so its a very close run thing.

Didn’t the American Pie films come out in that era also? That was pretty much promoting sex to teens

First one was 1999, but I think the whole "sexy teenagers in high school" thing was really kicked off by both Clueless (for younger teens) and Scream (for older teens) in the mid-90s. I always think of them as "teen movies from the 90s" - the whole Election, I Know What You Did, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things, Donnie Darko vibe of comedies and slasher movies - but tbh most of them came out around 1999/2000. 

All of which might be derailing the thread a bit. What were we talking about again? Perverts or which decade was the worst?