Now that the decade of the twenty-teens is five-plus percent complete, what better time than this holiday weekend to finally take a look back at some favorite songs of the ’00s? This is the third of four parts.
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“Love Burns” |
| Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | ||
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2001
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| Never thought I’d rather die than try to keep her by my side |
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“Lover’s Spit” |
| Broken Social Scene | ||
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2003
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| You know it’s time that we grow old and do some shit |
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“Maps” |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | ||
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2003
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| Pack up, I’m strayed Wait, they don’t love you like I love you |
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“The Middle” |
| Jimmy Eat World | ||
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2001
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| Don’t worry what their bitter hearts are gonna say |
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“Miracle Drug” |
| A.C. Newman | ||
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2004
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| While preparing his soul for a perilous slide into clime, He had decided that he would err on the side of divine |
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“The Modern Leper” |
| Frightened Rabbit | ||
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2008
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| You are not ill and I’m not dead Doesn’t that make us a perfect pair? |
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“Molly’s Chambers” |
| Kings of Leon | ||
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2003
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| Just another girl who wants to rule the world, any time or place And when she gets into your head, You know she’s there to stay | ||
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“Moth’s Wings” |
| Passion Pit | ||
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2009
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| You’re resting on your laurels and stepping on my toes Whose side are you on? What side is this anyway? |
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“Mr. Brightside” |
| The Killers | ||
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2004
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| Jealousy, turning saints into the sea Swimming through sick lullabies Choking on your alibis |
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“My Girls” |
| Animal Collective | ||
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2009
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| There isn’t much that I feel I need A solid soul and the blood I bleed With a little girl and by my spouse, I only want a proper house | ||
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“Mykonos” |
| Fleet Foxes | ||
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2008
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| And a sun to maybe dissipate shadows of the mess you made |
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“Naive” |
| The Kooks | ||
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2006
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| How could this be done by such a smiling sweetheart? |
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“Naked as We Came” |
| Iron & Wine | ||
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2004
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| Birds are leaving over autumn’s ending One of us will die inside these arms |
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“A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left” |
| Andrew Bird | ||
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2005
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| Stretched out on a tarmac, Six miles south of North Platte He can’t stand to look back |
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“New Slang” |
| The Shins | ||
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2001
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| I’m looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find |
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“No One Knows” |
| Queens of the Stone Age | ||
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2002
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| We get some rules to follow That and this, these and those |
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“Nowhere Again” |
| Secret Machines | ||
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2004
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| Another alone on an everyday night Thinking the morning, looking for alright Warming the blood flow with poison I don’t know why |
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“Obstacle 1” |
| Interpol | ||
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2002
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| It’s different now that I’m poor and aging, I’ll never see this face again You’ll go stabbing yourself in the neck |
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“Once Around the Block” |
| Badly Drawn Boy | ||
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2000
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| I’m infatuated by your moves I’ve got to search hard for your clues |
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“1234” |
| Feist | ||
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2007
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| Old teenage hopes are alive at your door Left you with nothing but they wanted more |
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“Over and Over” |
| Hot Chip | ||
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2006
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| Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal The joy of repetition really is in you |
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“Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)” |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | ||
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2005
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| Success is so forbidding But it makes me think I’m winning |
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“Oxford Comma” |
| Vampire Weekend | ||
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2008
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| All your diction dripping with disdain Through the pain, I always tell the truth |
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“Postcards From Italy” |
| Beirut | ||
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2006
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| There were always golden rocks to throw at those who admit defeat too late |
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“The Rat” |
| The Walkmen | ||
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2004
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| You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor Can’t you hear me when I’m calling out your name? |
I need to disagree with your choice for Beirut. Nantes is simply amazing. Beirut is a fantastic band, but I think that song sums them up as a whole.
No Imogen Heap… tsk tsk.
Otherwise a wonderful collection 🙂
Hot Chip's 'I Feel Better' isn't a bad song either. Then again, there are a lot of new songs coming out nowadays, you can't possibly keep an updated list. Oh well, still a good list, great choices!
Thanks.
Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" was released in April 2010, and this list involves the first decade of the new century, 2000 through 2009.
this is really weird…
this list contains most of my favorite songs… even ones by artists that i considered to be more obscure…
I'd only change:
specialist > obstacle 1
well done, good sir
Here's the Spotify playlist for Jonk Music's Best of the 2000s. I don't think there's an official one, so I built it myself. Also, it's missing five tracks that weren't on Spotify (at time of construction):
The Black Keys – All Hands Against His Own
The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes
Radiohead – Reckoner
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Yeasayer – 2080
spotify:user:piroteknix:playlist:12UDvL14aR5ohRfeTwc4H6
(Users: if one of these songs becomes available, shoot me a Spotify message. I'd love to have a complete playlist.
Jonk Music: if this infringes on a copyright issue or something, shoot me a Spotify message and I'll see what I can do)
Are you me?