The trend buck starts here

Every music blog you seem to visit now (or a few weeks ago at least) were all getting their knickers in a twist over their 'Best of the noughties' lists and countdowns. As much as there is something rather pleasing (and OCD indulging) about creating lists and ranking things, I also think it's an ompossible task. One minute you can't get enough of some obscure Latvian NSBM band that only you and 15 other people have heard via the internet and the next you're going ape shit for the King's of Leon's brand of pop rock.
Therefore, my very own inadvertant countdown of the Best of the 2000s has taken on a greater meaning. When I started it I never intended for it to become a retrospective look at the decade's best music, but rather a poke in the eye to all the people who seem to regard new music as some great unwashed being. Sure, the heyday of British Prog rock, the fleeting yet deadly grip that Punk had over the world for a few years in the 70s, the glorious early 80s chaos that spawned Thrash and the brutal language of Death Metal spoken beautifully in Florida and Gothenburg up til the mid 90s...they're all gone, never to be recaptured. Equally, there is undoubtedly a shit load of imitators and fakes trying to emulate those golden sounds for new audiences and selling it like it's some new, great beast, but it's not. Thus was spawned my concept of trying to sell the music of the decade rather too enthusiastically (in a very embarrassing British, Carry On brand of titillation) dubbed 'the noughties.'
And now I find myself wading through numerous such rundowns on all the blogs I visit, but much less in a sense of how epic some of the music was from the last 10 years and more in a sense of 'this is the shit I'm into, check my e-peen biatch.' Very few of the lists I've read threw up any surprises or anomalies with regard to genre and blog content. So in a 'this is the shit I'm into, check my e-peen biatch, I'm so fucking eclectic it hurts' manner I shall continue my Best of the 2000s whilst sticking two fingers firmly up at all those blogs that seem to think the last 10 years just means 'your favourite albums you can remember from the last few years.'
Eat shizzle and die, nizzle.