So, I’ve been inspired by my friend Mike’s posting his memories of each year in music. I’m going to try to follow in kind, though with significant amounts of shame. I’ll throw out what I listened to, and what I find from that year that I still listen to, regardless of when I started to listen to it.
So, 2000.
Freshman year of high school, and you can imagine the crap I listened to. Limp Bizkit and Korn stick out in my mind, as well as a handful of bands in that vein. I’m a little more appreciative of my brief Rage Against The Machine revolutionary socialist phase, if only because I got that youthful Marxism out early, and RATM is still pretty awesome. Also, Napster and its ilk was arriving, which more than anything else this decade expanded my musical tastes, starting with classic rock and random R&B and rap from the 90s that I remembered from elementary/middle school days.
Now, looking back, I basically see Outkast’s Stankonia (Awesome Bombs Over Baghdad video). There is nothing out in my iTunes library under 2000 that sticks out to me that much.
