The Last Ten Years In Music

The last ten years in music have been an exciting first ten years of the new century.

From The Strokes to the Monkeys and from X-Factor to Facebook, with a little bit of Pete in between there has been a massive social change and music has been at the head of it in the last ten years.

We have seen many great songs and albums come through in the last ten years. Now what seems a lifetime ago way back in 2001, The strokes released there sparkling debut album “Is This It”, which was recently voted the greatest album of the decade in an NME poll, set the course for bands in this decade. But which way should you take this? that music had peaked to early in the ‘noughties’ or that this was a sign of things to come. and to the joy of the world it was answer number two as the decade just seem to be packed with great albums, songs and songwriters.

This album was followed a year later by The Libertines debut “Up The Bracket” and it felt like it was the start of something special. It was, well for a few years.

Pete and Carl became a formidable force on the UK music scene giving us something else to listen to that wasn’t just another boy band or a solo artist that had been manufactured from pop idol. Pete may have been a bit loopy but the kid wrote a cracking tune and when Carl finally had to put an end to the libertines, there two albums influenced many band’s that would come along and try and fill the gap they left.

Franz Ferdinand, Hard-fi, Kaiser chiefs, Bloc party, Kasabian and even Pete’s new band babyshambles tried to fill the void left by the UK’s best new band. But only one band could do it and that was Arctic Monkeys.

The Monkeys came along with a debut to match the likes of “Is This It” and “Up The Bracket” and with “Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not” Alex’s Turners cheeky and catchy lyrics took over a nation, and this band became our new heroes.

But it wasn’t just these bands mentioned above. The first decade of the new century was an exciting love affair with music. We discovered many gems this decade such as amazing albums from bands such as Coldplay, Elbow, Kings of leon, The streets, The White Stripes, Vampire Weekend and even Jay-Z.

Klaxons also helped shape a whole new genre of music, a type of rave that you didn’t have to wear a Berghaus to enjoy. Along with the reunions from the likes of Zeppelin, Blur and eh,Take That. Together with the ’supposed’ end of Oasis, the ‘noughties’ were jam packed full of exciting times for music.

We have also seen a new way in which music is spread through the internet revolution. Nowadays many youngsters will probably grow up without having a physical musical collection of there own but with just a numerical figure in there itunes library.

Downloads have now taken over the world, illegal or not, downloading music is in-front of physical copies and many retailers aren’t stocking the same amount of singles that they used to, simply because there is’t that demand anymore.

But the revolution of the internet hasn’t just been downloading, its now the main way for bands and artists to connect with there fans. Such as the Libertines gigs that Pete and Carl held in their flat, they were organised by posts on the internet just hours before the happened. Arctic monkeys big moment came from the posting of the now infamous “Beneath The Boardwalk” demo’s online. this then led to many artists posting new songs through myspace accounts.

And now bands and artist keep you updated via e-mail’s and there facebook and twitter accounts on pretty much everything.

But what direction will music go in the next decade? Will we see a total end to physical cd’s? Will Klaxons ever finish that difficult second album? Will Jedward stll be here in ten years time? and will Robbie finally,officially get back with take that?

I personally can’t wait to watch the next decade unfold.