>>204
The 2000s is when 0% of the popular music was any good. The 90s was the last decade there was any good music with any popularity.

>>205
Completely agree. I also hate 80s popular music myself (if not all of it). The 60s, 70s and 90s had some great popular acts on the other hand.
The 00s do have many great niche works IMO, actually I was surprised when I realized how many of the albums I like are from that period:
>Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion gum
>Sweet trip - Velocity : Design : Comfort
>Royksopp - Melody A. M.
>Opeth - Damnation
>Mother Mother - O My Heart
>Luke Vibert - Lover's acid
>Justice - Cross
>Brand new - Daisy
>Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
>J Dilla - donuts
>Unwound - leaves turn inside you
These are albums I really enjoyed and come back to occasionally, but I'm afraid they're not "2000s-core" in the sense OP intended, except maybe melody a.m. and cross.
The 10s on the other hand are interesting. Worthless pop, but now there's an infinity of independent music to explore on sites such as bandcamp. Could be worth a thread actually

>>206
>Opeth - Damnation
That is the one Opeth album I like all the way through. Although I haven't been a big fan of Opeth's prior works, Damnation was an interesting album in its own right. I like the way that they are doing something different, and it is coming from a real place.
>I also hate 80s popular music myself
What about it do you dislike? I bet you hate music that lazily copies the 80s style.

>>207
>What about it do you dislike?
TL;DR It feels like music took a step back and became more of a shallow commercial product designed for mass appeal.

Maybe overexposure to its cliches ruined it for me as you say. Maybe it's just fundamentally incompatible with my personality and esthetic taste. Be it as it may, what little 80s pop I've heard I mostly strongly dislike. For example, I feel like rick astley sucks dick, eurobeat is absolute garbage, and bon jovi is dogshit vomit. "Final countdown" is a terrible song, "I want to break free" is forgettable, "africa" by toto is boring. Sweet dreams is tolerable, billie jean is ok.

My overall impression is that the music was severely dumbed down compared to before. The 70s had prog rock, jazz fusion, funk... Funk was about making the music as groovy as possible to make it hard not to dance when you hear it. That made it interesting to listen to. All of the dance music of the 80s dumbed it down, made the drum patters simple and straight, the rhythm more tame and put a greater focus on worthless cheesy lyrics. As a result I find it unlistenable.

The 60s, the 70s and the 90s all had something going for them. Original, distinctive pop (60s); creative songwriting (70s); unique atmosphere and vibe, lots of energy (90s).

I can't come up with something that I really like about the 80s however. They did have pioneering electronic music (which was mogged by 90s electronic music IMO), metal and new wave. I haven't listened much to the latter two. Maybe I've just not explored 80s music enough and there's actually something great I've yet to discover. But it's not like I've been intentionally avoiding it; it just kind of happened that very little music I like is form that era.

And it's not like I believe that all music should be complicated and intricate and deal with "deep" human emotions. But I think music should have something to make in interesting, something creative, something to give it character and set it aside from everything else. Otherwise there's no point in listening to it.

>>208
When the mainstream stuff is trash, the underground stuff you discover stands out even more. That is how I feel about the 90s onward for music. Also, I agree stuff like metal in the 80s was the best stuff to come out of that decade musically. I feel similarly when it comes to 2000s music especially the mainstream rock that it is dumbed down.

Here a few 2000s albums worth checking out.
>Alice Cooper-Brutal Planet
>Angel Dust-Enlighten the Darkness
>Vektor-Black Future
>In Flames-Clayman
>Gamma Ray-No World Order
>Eternal Tears of Sorrow-A Virgin and a whore
>Kalmah-They Will Return
>Helloween-Dark Ride
>Symphony X-Paradise Lost
>Children of Bodom-Follow the Reaper
There are more to come, but this is good start in my opinion.