Your elderly relatives have just stepped through the door, haven't they. "Oh god," you're thinking, "I've got to hang out with them for the next three whole days!". But don't fret, for I can help you legitimately distract yourself for around the duration of an afternoon.

Muso's Guide has done up a series where individual writers wrote 500-odd words on each year of the decade, their personal highlights and what-not. You're probably spewing lists by this part of December but this series is oxygenatedly list-free. Whoop whoop.

Anyhow here it is; have a read and a little chuckle as you remember how uncool you were 10 years ago!

2000: http://musosguide.com/2000-retrospective/8825
2001: http://musosguide.com/2001-queens-of-the-stone-age-staind-the-white-stripes-and-the-strokes/8988
2002: http://musosguide.com/2002-coldplay-the-vines-rival-schools-muse-cduk/8977
2003: http://musosguide.com/2003-the-brits-the-postal-service-and-crazy-in-love/9002
2004: http://musosguide.com/2004-danger-mouse-the-unremembered-80s-revival-bestiality-and-britneys-two-day-marriage/9093
2005: http://musosguide.com/2005-the-year-of-maximo-park/9206
2006: http://musosguide.com/2006-gnarls-barkley-arctic-monkeys-and-lily-allen/9135
2007: http://musosguide.com/2007/9095
2008: http://musosguide.com/2008-dubstep-grime-career-bests-and-jay-z-at-glastonbury/8992
2009: http://musosguide.com/2009-fragments-of-genre-confounding-greatness-a-parallel-overview/9157