2000, a good year for music? For #x-daysofmusic

@steevc nominated me for the #x-daysofmusic in his recent post. I can't for the life of me find a free to use '2000' image, so you will need instead to look at my handsome avatar.

Was this the start of the end (of listenable music) or was it just that I listened to the radio more than usual in the year 2000?

Yes, the year of my birth was a hectic one. I was married the year before and had clinched a lucrative contract in Crawley, West Sussex of all places.

It didn’t feel right to leave @bingbabe ‘up north’ so I waddled into a property rental agency and babbled to the agent in best ‘baby’ that I wanted to rent a 4-bedroom detached property in Maidenbower, a rather ‘posh’ area.

After some questions about the legality of someone in nappies trying to achieve such a feat, I was granted the keys. The threat of pooping on the counter worked a treat!

The DVLA kindly granted me a driving license at the age of 3 months after some backhanders to a rather shifty bloke in a back alley with a big nose, bad complexion, pungent odour and rotting teeth.

Well, he told me he was from the DVLA and maybe there was some naivety... I was a little young after all.

We drove up and down the M6, M40 and that horrendous road named the M25 many times in the subsequent months, always with the radio on and I was digging the music while I drove with special extended plastic legs so I could reach the pedals.

The car was completely packed with clobber and our cat, ‘Food’ was squashed among all the gear somewhere in the back.

In the space of six months, he became a truly seasoned feline traveler and got very used to being stuffed in among all the other clothes, food, and household goods.

Here’s what I remember from my early years:

Dido – Here with Me (2000)

Even in my infancy, I loved these deep melancholic songs. This is probably the last truly great song I have heard in modern times; that is the 21st century.

There have been good ones, but this is epic in my mind.

Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence (2000)

Oooh, I was a bouncing little baby. This one had me dancing away but had the melancholic overtones that I still love now I’m at the ripe old age of 18. Who said I only like progressive rock?

There have been several remixes but the original one is my favourite.

All Saint - Black Coffee (2000)

At this age, I should have liked girly bands. All glitz, glamour, smiles, smooches and no talent you say? While I'm not an All Saints fan, they pulled out the stoppers with ‘Black Coffee'.

The song has something and seemed to be endlessly played on the radio during my main drives from north to south. I still listen to it nowadays.

This thread does have a chance of dying out if the rules are not modified a little. So, I will nominate THREE people to try and keep it going.

I nominate @k0wsk1 to join this challenge, as he is around the same age as me, more or less.

I nominate @nonameslefttouse to join this challenge, as he needs a break from art due to the loss of his brushes.

I nominate @verhp11 to join this challenge, as he won’t want to miss out on this one.

The rules are to be interpreted as you like really, but are something like this:

• Pick years from when you were born to now. It really doesn't have to be all of them

• Feature some songs from one of those years in a post with some details about why you like them. You can write something about the year in general too.

• Nominate some other Steemian(s).

• Use the hashtag #x-daysofmusic