There were good moments in the past decade, right??

Prince playing at the Super Bowl!!
MP3s
The triumphant return of Maxwell


..help me out, folks.

I can´t think of anything really. That´s how bad this decade was.

1. Prince playing the Super Bowl.
2. U2's "All That You Can't Leave Behind" tour, culminating with a poignant Super Bowl appearance
3. Mariah Carey's comeback album, The Emancipation of Mimi
4. Madonna's "Confessions of a Dance Floor" tour
5. Prince entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
6. Susan Boyle shocking and electrifying audiences with her amazing voice on Britain's Got Talent
7. Kanye West's albums
8. Coldplay
9. Jennifer Hudson
10. Melissa Etheridge's Grammy performance after battling cancer

I really enjoyed Prince's halftime show.

I also really liked when MJ surprised the audience
at the MTV Awards when Nsync performed "Pop." Seeing him
dance and the way he was introduced was awesome.

This Is It..the movie takes the cake for me though.

melissa etheridge coming back after chemo and cancer and OWNING the grammys bald was right up there with gloria estefan doing "coming out of the dark" in the 90s after her tragedy.


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728huey said:

yes, yes and yes.
i was about to post the boyle video

and not just because of prince, though his solo is BLISTERING

granted, bey is no ella, and a large part of it was the moment in time rather than the performance, but i cried and i know i wasn't the only one.

since the thread is called musical moments rather than musical performances, it fits
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Mp3s were around in the 90's, darlin'. That's not a new development.

Janet's titty was one of the best.

Prince doing the 02 shows was great.

Maxwell.

love it or hate it, it was one of the most memorable, and the energy was electric

since the lil' man won't let us post videos of him, here'e the commencial.

that performance was legendary

Very tough one.



I would say:


1. Creed breaking up and failure of Scott Stapp's solo career.


2. Prince's terrific Super Bowl performance.


3. Prince's terrific RRHOF performances.


4. Prince's successful Musicology Tour and reclaiming chart success again.


5. Sonic Youth's most recent effort


6. Lady GaGa's entrance into Pop Music.


7. Nine Inch Nails increased musical output to include free offerings on their website.


8. Miles Davis Remasters


9. Increased output of the Indie art-rock music scene. Though not terribly evident on radio/T.V., it's very vibrant as of late


10. Kate Bush's Aerial

ernestsewell said:

I was thinking more of how it exploded with iPhone and cell phone/mp3s, and downloading from place such as Amazon, iTunes, Rhapsody. They were around but the potential was not nearly as noticeable as it has been this decade.

don't play, ernest, you knew what I meant, darling....

you could pick virtually any gaga performance, but this one is my fave. this girl EXPLODED in 2009, and deserved to.

1. Prince's Superbowl performance

2. Janet continuing her reign as the Queen

3. R. Kelly's epic comeback with Chocolate Factory

4. Janet's AFY era

5. Janet's RWU tour

6. Janet breaking up with JD

7. Janet working with J & L again

8. Janet's Damita Jo album

9. Janet's Discipline album

10.Janet's 20 Y.O. album

cborgman said:

She certainly did.

I'm not a big fan of diva-pop, but I LOVE Lady Gaga. I hope to see more of her in the coming years.

picking just one 9/11 related moment proved very difficult.

but bruce srtuck just the right tone. pained, but uplifting.

cborgman said:

That man is so incredible.

well, that's 8 from me. i can't think of two others.

1. Van Hunt
2. Prince's Super Bowl Performance
3. Stevie Wonder return to touring
4. Michael Jackson's This is it movie
5. The I-Pod
6. The Return of Maxwell
7. The Return of Britney Spears (not a fan but she hit rock bottom and got back up
8. Beyonce's performance of "Dangerously in Love" at the Grammys
9. The Success of Outkats Speakerboxx/love below project
10. The Success of Radiohead's In Rainbow project.

1.) Indie music's rise
2.) Outkast's Stankonia
3.) Prince's Super Bowl performance
4.) The return of Whitney
5.) The return of Britney (I just love stories of people coming back from the brink)
6.) Downloads (lol)
7.) YouTube
8.) Prince's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitar solo during "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
9.) Lady GaGa (yes I said it)
10.) Adam Lambert and Cassidy Haley for bringing back a bygone era.

If u don't like the last two, oh well...

Timmy84 said:

i seriously debated putting his AMA performance in my list.

glam rock bowie modern...

cborgman said:

Yeah people would scream bloody murder if u put it on the list. I say go ahead. It was a good performance regardless. But yeah I agree on "glam rock bowie modern..."
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fuck it, i put the madonna performance.

i am going with adam lambert for my number 9.



i HATE american idol. it's produced a handful of decent singers, but this kid blew. it. up.

and then best of all, he cast off that disneyfied american idol silly and turned and did exactly wwhat he wanted to.

and the AMA performance was awesome. i love the shock and the homphobia it caused to bubble up too.

the kid has talent, and is someone to watch. he might actually start the glam rock revival with gaga, if they don't crucify him before he can.
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cborgman said:

Right on.

the return of Kate Bush was a huge thrill, for sure.

The Beatles amazing remasters.

For me personally, seeing Radiohead in a horrendous downpour at an outdoor venue. I've never been so cold and wet and miserable but it was completely worth it.

Seeing Billy Joel, INXS, Matchbox Twenty, and Sugar Ray in concert were other great moments for me personally.

Beyond that, I loved seeing INVINCIBLE go to number 1. I also loved seeing the premiere of the "You Rock My World" short-film on VH-1, and before that, hearing it own radio for a few weeks earlier that summer.

*I also loved having both my 2 cds released and 2 of my bands music videos play
on local TV. Those were great moments!

Another would be when I had the chance to hear Jodie (one of the Real Milli Vanilli singers) hear a portion of "Rock With You" driving us
somewhere in her car in the summer of 2007. It was magic!

1. Rise of Ipod and Itunes
2. In Rainbows and Radiohead's pick your price
3. Madonna's epic comenback with Hung Up and Confessions
4. Prince's AMAZING Superbowl performance
5. Lady Gaga's VMA performance (so hard to pick one live performance form her)h
6. Simon Cowell's Xfactor beaten out for Christmas single by RATM
7. Led Zeppelin at the O2
8. Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine finally hits the market
9. Susan Boyle outsells Eminem in 2009
10. Kelly Clarkson stands up to Clive Davis, Still standing strong

-Michael Jackson AND Prince both being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
-Michael and James and the BET Awards
-the UK Garage scene
-The Beatles Remasters
-Stevie Wonder releasing another album
-Okayplayer
-The hipster hip hop scene
-Vinyl making a comeback
-Janet's titty
-Artists going independent