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Not sure what the naughties are. Anyways every decade had plenty to offer if you knew where to look, but if we are specifically talking about what was mainstream and popular then yes, the late ninties was pretty atrocious. If we are talking about Nu-Metal, if we are talking terrible rap-rock hybrid bands, that was a pretty sad period in mainstream rock music. It was such a diffrence from the early ninties, when "alternative" bands were popular. The "Seattle scene" tends to get the overwhelming attention, perhaps undeservedly so. I look back on it as there was so much variety in rock music, many bands were just sort of doing thier own thing, and for a short time everything was getting grouped into "Alternative" even bands that had been around for years like The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M.. None of these bands sound like one another, but they were all put under that "Alternative" tent. I think the variety of it was great, because for a short time all of those bands got attention, and sold well, but it lasted very briefly, and once Nu-Metal came along that got all the attention, we may look back on the early ninties with a bit of a cring, but it really wasn't that bad. The current state of mainstream radio is horrendeous, and there is not a decent music video channel right now. Even Mtv2 became just as bad as the first MTV, and Fuse is hardly the alternative to MTV. In fact the best music video channel is VHI Classics. There's something wrong with that.
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