As a music fan who recently re-discovered the beauty of the sound and the experience of playing vinyl records, I think music this decade has undergone a bit of a rebirth with greater emphasis on songwriting and the intimacy of ‘roots’ instrumentation and acoustic performance. Having said that, I wonder how the Best of the 2000s will stack up to the best of previous decades.

I was JOLTED into thinking about this by a recent entry at blog.limewire.com/posts/24345-pitchforks-best-of-the-decade-list-too-soon entitled "Pitchfork's Best of The Decade List: Too Soon?"

A decade is a long, disjointed period. Look at the Sixties, which started with bubblegum pop and ended with heavy, blues oriented rock, or the Seventies which began with sensitive singer songwriters like James Taylor and ended in Disco - ugh.

So, how do the 2000s look? How did they begin and how are they ending? Hard for me to say. Who are the ’signature’ performers of the moment that might lead this list of the best? Seems the music world is even more eclectic than it was in previous eras, but then again, maybe its always been this way, and maybe it is more homogeneous than it currently appears. Time passing has a way of clarifying these questions. But we love to try to answer them right away anyway!

I will be thinking about the best of the decade on my blog but probably not until the decade is a decade - 9/10ths of a decade is something else!