Is it just me or did the '00s (the decade) suck?

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...Not me though .

...Do you mean Diana ? (Frankly , I looked up Mick Avory first but saw that he was still alive . )

I didn't notice or care much about what else that was going on in the early 2000's because I was too busy having my entire life falling apart. Of course, it was hard not to notice 9/11.

It's going to get worse. Climate change is causing animals and plants to die but people are in serious denial. "Government conspiracy" this, "Government conspiracy" that. Personally I don't think the government can't really brainwash us into believing anything that's not true, because they are just too DUMB. I read that birds are starving to death in the Maritime provinces because they can't find food under all the snow, and by the end of the century the ice caps will be melted. I guess I won't have to worry about that because I'll be dead and I don't have kids but a lot of other people will. The radiation from the nuclear disaster in Japan is killing all kinds of fish and animals and the cancer rate will be higher than ever. And when people try to help animals they still get it incredibly wrong, like right now people in the States are trying to "save" tortoises by putting them in the ocean, where they drown because they're LAND TURTLES, idiots!!

As a collector who has compiled all of the pop music of the 20th century, organized by year and cataloged literally month-by-month, I would have to disagree with that. Looked at historically, the 1960s - specifically from the explosion of Beatlemania and the subsequent British Invasion in 1964, through the '67 Summer of Love and the Woodstock era of 1969, saw an explosion of creativity and a sea change in musical style, substance and form that has never been seen before or since.

Six short years took us from Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Perry Como and Pat Boone to Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Yes, The Who, Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop & the Stooges. What a transition!

I came of age as a teen in the 70s, so a lot of my favorites are from that decade (and the ratio of crap to quality in the 70s was about 50/50), but the 60s was an amazing time for music. Even the bad stuff was pretty damn good.