Better decade for music - 2000s or 2010s?

hard for 2010's to beat papa roach, 3 days grace, linkin park, disturbed, godsmack, metallica, chili peppers. i just absolutely love the bands i mention. i just can't get into the music from the music these days or from the 2010's. i might like a song or 2 from a random band, but the overall music kinda sucks. jmo.

2000s had Audioslave

2000's by a mile. There's still quality to be found, but it takes wading through endless crap to find.

My "top 10 songs off the top of my head in no particular order" lists for the two decades:

2000's:
Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
Last Train Home - Lost Prophets
Cochise - Audioslave
Blackbird - Alter Bridge
Shameful Metaphors - Chevelle
Niki FM - Hawthorne Heights
Can't Be Saved - Senses Fail
Hate It Here - Wilco
Walking Disaster - Sum 41
The Pot - Tool

Honorable Mention: The Pretender - Foo Fighters


2010s:
Runaways - The Killers
All Alright - Zac Brown Band
Ashes, Pt 2: The Struts
Smile - Durand Jones & The Indications
Sign of the Times - Harry Styles
Shut Up And Dance With Me - Walk The Moon
Help Is On The Way - Rise Against
Sirens - Pearl Jam
Anastasia - Slash & Myles Kennedy
Cry of Achilles - Alter Bridge

Honorable Mention - Uptown Funk - Bruno Mars

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Sign of the Times - Harry Styles

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2000's

mostly punk music I'd get downvoted for, but some albums not yet mentioned..

Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World
Bomb The Music Industry! - Goodbye Cool World!
Samiam - Astray
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
Against Me! - Against Me! Is Reinventing Axl Rose

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Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between

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Check out “The Hands That Thieve” While you’re at it.

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Just checking in to say Jeff Rosenstock is so fricking good

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Check out Bomb the Music Industry!, basically his main music project before he decided to go by Jeff and or Death Rosenstock

He has a few other projects like Kudrow and Antarctigo Vespucci you might dig too.

fwiw, It's all available for free to d/l on his label Quote Unquote Records

Never really realized how solid a lot of the rock coming out in the 2000s was til this thread. At the time it was hard not to compare it against the 90s but looking back now it's held up well.

I think what causes this is that too many folks forget that some of the big artists from the 90’s (slash, chris cornell, maynerd, etc were all still putting out awesome albums into the mid 2000’s. Too many people associate the rock music of the aughties only with pop punk/emo or cock rock bands like Five Finger Death Touch and Nickelback, but there’s actually a really deep roster of excellent rock of all stripes in that decade.

In addition, I think the 2000’s take an unfair lump of criticism for occurring after the transition to gridded music production which occurred during the 90’s.

The 2010’s are a lot tougher because the good shite is buried under mountains of stuff that sounds like cold play and Lumineers.