BBC 6Music Top 100

[suedehead]

To mark ten years of broadcasting BBC 6Music has compiled the top 100 new songs in that ten years. The 100 were chosen by 6Music with only one song per artist. Listeners then voted to make up the final chart...

1 Coldplay - Clocks

2 Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor

3 Elbow - One Day Like This

4 The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

5 The Killers - Mr Brightside

6 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

7 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??

8 Johnny Cash - Hurt

9 British Sea Power - Remember Me

10 Radiohead - There There

11 Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

12 Arcade Fire - Wake Up

13 LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

14 M83 - Midnight City

15 Midlake - Roscoe

16 Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows

17 Sigur Ros - Hoppipola

18 Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart

19 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

20 Bon Iver - Skinny Love

21 Richard Hawley -Tonight The Streets Are Ours

22 The Libertines - Time For Heroes

23 The Walkmen - The Rat

24 Lana Del Rey - Video Games

25 Amy Winehouse - Rehab

26 Florence + the Machine - Kiss With A Fist

27 Doves - There Goes The Fear

28 Adele - Hometown Glory

29 Foo Fighters - All My Life

30 Blur - Out Of Time

31 Bloc Party - Banquet

32 The Maccabees - Love You Better

33 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

34 Outkast - Hey Ya

35 La Roux - In For The Kill

36 Alabama Shakes - Hold On

37 Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle

38 Mumford & Sons - The Cave

39 MGMT - Time To Pretend

40 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

41 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - There She Goes My Beautiful World

42 Foals – Spanish Sahara

43 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

44 Kasabian - Fire

45 Alt J - Tessellate

46 Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

47 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

48 Interpol - Obstacle 1

49 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

50 The Cribs - Men’s Needs

51 The XX - Islands

52 The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love

53 Gorillaz - Dare

54 Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God

55 The Strokes - Juicebox

56 MIA - Paper Planes

57 Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life

58 PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder

59 Hot Chip - Over & Over

60 The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

61 Animal Collective - My Girls

62 The Roots - The Seed (2.0)

63 The Streets - Weak Become Heroes

64 Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

65 Laura Marling - Sophia

66 Mclusky - That Man Will Not Hang

67= Bat For Lashes - Laura

67= Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

69 Vampire Weekend - A Punk

70 Kings Of Leon - Molly’s Chambers

71 Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever

72 Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out

73 Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream

74 The Shins - Phantom Limb

75 The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers

76 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control

77 Underworld - Two Months Off

78 Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt

79 Goldfrapp - Strict Machine

80 Cat Power - The Greatest

81 Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock

82 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

83 Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

84 Klaxons - Golden Skans

85 Phoenix - 1901

86 Primal Scream - Country Girl

87 Janelle Monae - Tightrope

88 Kanye West – Jesus Walks

89 Daft Punk - Robot Rock

90 Paul Weller - From The Floorboards Up

91 Metronomy - Heartbreaker

92 Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp

93 Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

94 Noah & The Whale - Five Years Time

95 Friendly Fires - Paris

96 Feist - 1,2,3,4

97 Kelis - Milkshake

98 Joan As Policewoman - The Ride

99 Lower Dens - Brains

100 Okkervill River - Calling & Not Calling My Ex

[greendemon]

great list, TERRIBLE #1! it's not even the best coldplay song by some stretch!

[o]

Are they counting this down on a programme, be worth listening to!

[greendemon]

just finished, andy...

[vastar iner]

Feb 1, 2013 19:20:53 GMT 1 suedehead said:

To mark ten years of broadcasting BBC 6Music has compiled the top 100 new songs in that ten years. The 100 were chosen by 6Music with only one song per artist. Listeners then voted to make up the final chart...

1 Coldplay - Clocks

Jesus f***ing Christ. Is it too late to scrap it?

[suedehead]

Feb 1, 2013 19:37:00 GMT 1 o said:

Are they counting this down on a programme, be worth listening to!

It's been on all day (I only heard the top 30) so it will all be on iPlayer

[raliverpool]

A great chart countdown from my favourite Radio station. A shame about the #1 though.

They have a youtube playlist set up:

www.youtube.com/playlist?feature=edit_ok&list=PLXo96vlNmlLKcHgZEkpZ2lS32kh-h4BAa

They also have one set up on Spotify & Deezer if you prefer.

[TheThorne]

Feb 1, 2013 19:35:12 GMT 1 greendemon said:

great list, TERRIBLE #1! it's not even the best coldplay song by some stretch!

1st album tracks wouldn't  have been eligible but even still thought 'The Scientist' would have been a better choice. 6 music chose the songs some strange choices but overall its a great list.

[greendemon]

it was a great list, indeed. i managed to listen to the top 52 (tuned in just in time to catch 'hounds of love') and really enjoyed it. was also quite nice to get a mention on the live blog for tweeting about how excited i was to hear 'midnight city' so high up

such a let down that it ended with coldplay though. it's a shame that they went for that coldplay song when it's one of their weakest singles IMO. i'd have sooner 'lost!', 'talk', 'the scientist', 'shiver' (although i think that predates 6music so wouldn't have been eligible) or even, dare i say, 'fix you'...

[suedehead]

I don't know how widely the vote was promoted outside 6Music itself. If some bands promoted it and Coldplay (or their publicists) were among them, it is not surprising that they won. They obviously had to be included as 6Music played them a lot in their early days.

BTW, Shiver is from 2000 and The Scientist from 2002.

[Milliways]

6Music have shot themselves in the foot with that dire countdown. May as well not bother and just call it Radio 2a on that showing.

[greendemon]

shame 'shiver' is so early; it's among the best things they've ever done.

i was surprised that editors missed out - thought 'munich' at least should have made it.

[borneoman]

good list some nice surprises like Sujan Stevens' Chicago or Cat Power

agree on Coldplay, should have been The Scientist

[TheThorne]

yeh but as Suedehead said 'The Scientist' wasn't allowed either

[Earl Purple]

Ok, so the #1 was always likely to be a big hit by a big name artist.

In general not too bad a top 100 except for that awful excuse for a cash-in at #83. Quite pleased they picked "A Kiss With A Fist", which reached my top 10 in 2008 whilst flopping if I recall in the UK before she got media attention.

[greendemon]

Feb 2, 2013 0:51:08 GMT 1 suedehead said:

I don't know how widely the vote was promoted outside 6Music itself. If some bands promoted it and Coldplay (or their publicists) were among them, it is not surprising that they won. They obviously had to be included as 6Music played them a lot in their early days.

BTW, Shiver is from 2000 and The Scientist from 2002.

actually, 'the scientist' should have qualified as it was released in november 2002 - 6 music was launched in march

there are several 2002 songs in the list - 'hurt', for instance...

[addpea]

The reaction to the number 1 on Twitter makes you wonder who did actually vote for it because I didn't see on positive comment. Given how little the station actually play Coldplay it was a surprise to me, but I guess a lot of fans must have voted. Don't think they have shot themselves in the foot though given some of the bands who are high up like British Sea Power.

[Maximo Mark]

Bar the number one (which I do like) it's an absolutely cracking list. There are only about a dozen I don't own, and most of those are because of unfamiliarity rather than choice. I think they did a very good job of picking just one song for each artist, the only one I couldn't understand was the inclusion of anything over 'Rebellion (Lies)'

[vastar iner]

What concerns me about the list is you have to go down to 24 before you find a woman - and even then it's someone whose fame was bought by Daddy. There don't seem to be any female-dominated groups at all. Sexism in alternaive music? Say it ain't so.

[borneoman]

Feb 8, 2013 13:17:25 GMT 1 Maximo Mark said:

Bar the number one (which I do like) it's an absolutely cracking list. There are only about a dozen I don't own, and most of those are because of unfamiliarity rather than choice. I think they did a very good job of picking just one song for each artist, the only one I couldn't understand was the inclusion of anything over 'Rebellion (Lies)'

agree on Arcade Fire. Should have been Rebellion!!!