Classical lines then and now
"My life is an open book, you can read it on the radio" (Neil Young).
My life is an open window you can scroll it on the internet.

"The times they are a-changing" (Bob Dylan).
We all are, even me, 'cept you Bobby boy.

"My life was saved by rockn'roll" (Lou Reed).
Techno destroyed mine.

Let's count down the top ten 2000:

#7 Godspeed You Black Emperor!: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! (80)
Music to be listened to on headphones with hardly any lights on. It starts very calm and slowly and builds up to climax in a cacophony of sound. I think Godspeed who are from Quebec have eight members, they play some classical instruments like violins, french horn, but also drums (2) and guitars and are a collective in the sense that no member is privileged. There are no lyrics except recorded statements of people (love the old man remembering Coney Island). The music is almost symphonic and closer to classical than pop music.
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	#6 <a href="http://www.tbstars.co.uk/"><b>Trembling Blue Stars</b></a>: <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/tremblingbluestars/brokenbywhispers"><b>Broken by Whispers</b></a> (70)<br>Robert Wratten used to be the head of the late 80s/beginning 90s British band <a href="http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~rjh/fm/"><b>The Field Mice</b></a>. I think they are the most underrated band of the last 10 years. They are something like the missing link between <a href="http://www.compsoc.man.ac.uk/~moz/"><b>The Smiths</b></a> and <b><a href="http://www.belleandsebastian.co.uk/">Belle and Sebastian</a></b>. Melancholic very tuneful pop which only the English are able to create. The Trembling Blue Stars is more or less his solo project. Their third album is their best. Robert seems a little out-of-place still lamenting about an old love story (the female singer of the Field Mice) in his mid-thirties. He is something like the never growing-up adolescent.