Yep, I thought I had posted the trailer for Moonrise Kingdom here but evidently not. I liked Darjeeling Limited and Life Aquatic. I still haven't seen Fantastic Mr. Fox. When this board was more active you were more likely to find people that were into movies and music that were outside of the mainstream. These days, I get the impression that aside from a precious few, most of those sort of posts fall on deaf ears.

Some of my favorite albums of all time came out in the 00's including the Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera. Another one would be Megafaun's Gather, Form and Fly which was released in 2009. More recently I would name Mount Moriah's debut, which was released last year. Still lots of great music being made out there and nowadays there's even more ways to be exposed to it than ever before.

I believe I posted about Moonrise Kingdom a few posts back. I have absolutely no interest in seeing Ted or Rock of Ages but I'll most likely go see Moonrise Kingdom (which just now opened here). That said, it's not like I've steered clear of the summer blockbuster-type movies this year but none of those pique my interest in the least. Even the previews for The Amazing Spider-man didn't do a whole lot for me. I recall reading that the wide release for Moonrise Kingdom was put off because they didn't want it competing with The Avengers back in May. If so, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to wait until so close to the 4th to release it when it's going head-to-head with several other strong releases.

This marks my first ever mp3 purchase. At $8.99 for the entire box it was kind of hard to turn down.

I'm guessing "She Rides" wasn't commercially available until the deluxe edition of Clapton was released in 2006 and most likely wouldn't get played on most commercial rock n' roll stations in this day and age because so few would play such a deep cut. I know there's still some true AOR stations out there but they're few and far between these days.

I'm sure. I may well end up with it eventually, I just had a case of sticker shock.

Love to have this but at $14 at the local B & N, that's a bit steep.

I don't think Plant was "aping" Zeppelin at all with Pictures At Eleven. If it sounds like Zeppelin it's only natural since he'd been a member of that band for eleven years of his life. If it didn't bear some sort of sonic resemblance to his former band, I would have been surprised. Not matter what the guy does there's always going to be some asswipe out there such as Major x2 to give him shit.

Aside from Buddy Miller and Marc Ribot.

Meanwhile, at the X Games...

From the 2012 X Games

The first ten years of the 00's was also a great time for new music as is the present day. Nowadays with commercial radio pretty much being a corporate arm controlled by the likes of Clear Channel you have to explore other options to get your musical fix. With the advent of the internet and access to radio stations from around the world, that really isn't much of a problem. Add satellite radio in there as well as a means of being exposed to new music and you have even more options than before.

Never have cared for Oasis a whole lot but I do love Ryan Adams' version of "Wonderwall". As for Shaken n' Stirred, I never revisited it until a few years ago when the Nine Lives box set came out. Lots of good stuff there as well as his more recent material. Some love to hate on that too but I'm not one of them. Plant and Zeppelin have led me down many other musical paths including blues, rockabilly and Tinariwen. Of course they alone weren't always responsible for that but their music and influences certainly played a part and continue to do so all these many years later.

Shaken n' Stirred is one of my favorite records by Plant. As for those that are stuck in the past or those that believe rock n' roll is "dead", I've never been one for that as I'm constantly seeking out new music and have never stopped doing so. Like I've said countless times, the train of thought that no good music was made after 1980 or that there is no good music currently being made are unique to boards such as this one. Good rock n' roll didn't stop being created just because Led Zeppelin came to an end in 1980.

We didn't get cable TV until the 80's so MTV didn't play a very big part in the music I heard. I've also never put much stock in the whole "Video Killed the Radio Star" nonsense, probably because it didn't. Did music videos make an impact? Most certainly but I believe the effects of that have been overstated to the point of exaggeration. If one was a music fan (then, like now) you sought out music wherever you could find it: friends, record stores, magazines, radio, etc. The 80's tends to get a bad rap, especially on "classic rock" oriented boards like this where more often than not, many of the members are stuck in the past and extremely unreceptive to anything new or challenging. Not really all that surprising since the board is devoted to a band that for all intents and purposes, ceased to exist as a creative entity in 1980. I'm not saying that goes for everyone here but it's been my experience that it goes for the majority rather the minority of members here. As for Pictures At Eleven, I think it stands up pretty well especially given the amount of time that has passed. Yes, there are some telltale signs of 80's production techniques here and there but otherwise I don't think it's a bad record at all. In regards to seeing Plant in concert during that time period, I can't speak to that as I didn't see him in concert for the first time until the Non Stop Go tour in '88 but I hate to hear you had a less than pleasurable experience.

The worst decade in the history of modern music? Far from it. Maybe for people that only watched MTV and didn't venture beyond what was getting played on commercial radio (which was mainly a mirror of what was popular on MTV, especially after MTV took off). Just off the top of my head I can think of my favorite artists of that decade including (but not limited to) Stevie Ray Vaughan, R.E.M., the Replacements, U2, the Cure, X, Rank n' File, Lone Justice, XTC, the The Three O'Clock, Peter Tosh, the Itals, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Third World, the Blasters, Drivin' n' Cryin', Uncle Tupelo, the Gourds, the Long Ryders, Jason and the Scorchers, Guadalcanal Diary, the Connells, 10,000 Maniacs, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett, World Party, Midnight Oil, Indigo Girls, etc. The list is nearly endless. Definitely one of the very best decades on record for music, ever. This was a time period that helped to give rise to college radio and therefore more and more artists were reaching a larger audience than ever before. There was also the diversity of the music itself: ska/twotone, blues, reggae, punk rock, alternative (before it was called that), country and western, the paisley underground, cowpunk, roots rock. There's not been anything quite like it since.