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UPDATE: Here's my list!
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Friday, July 24, 2009
What are the best songs of the 2000s?
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My first thought was "Super Theory of Super Everything" by Gogol Bordello and my second was "Queens Will Play" by Black Mountain. Neither was on the list, so even with 100 responses, there's still room for plenty more.
The number of great songs is bound to be much larger than the number of great albums.
Leaving out the bands you mentioned, I think the following should be considered:
Suicide Underground - Air (not an instrumental, not sung, not hip hop - does that qualify?)
Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives
60 Miles an Hour (a.k.a. 60 mph) - New roder
Shining Light - Ash
In My Place - Coldplay
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Quelqu'un m'a dit - Carla Bruni
Schatten werfen keine Schatten - Tocotronic
Schreit den Namen meiner Mutter - Tomte
Out of Time - Blur
Vanishing Act - Lou Reed
This Is Such a Pity - Weezer
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
Don't Save Us from the Flames - M83
She - Sugarplum Fairy
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Machine Gun - Portishead
Pretty middle of the road, I know, but there you go.
Also, The Factual Opinion has an early-starting "best songs 2000-2009" countdown.
Forgot:
Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom
Hurt - Johnny Cash is a cover of the nine inch nails song that came out in 1994
Tool- parabola and schism
NIN- capital G
Radiohead- nude
Darn, you caught me there, rumetzen. On the plus side, however, the M83 song could be a good substitute for something from The Soft Bulletin, which John regretted not being able to include.
And another one:
Sixty Stories: First Bell
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