UPDATED! greendemon's Top 500 Singles of the 2000s *#321*

[greendemon]

*coming soon...ish*

The list so far...

500 About Your Dress The Maccabees (2007)
499 Destroy Everything You Touch Ladytron (2005)
498 Followed The Waves Melissa Auf Der Maur (2004)
497 I Miss You Blink-182 (2004)
496 Outwards Kubichek! (2006)
495 Dakota Stereophonics (2005)
494 Since I Left You The Avalanches (2000)
493 The Ex Billy Talent (2004)
492 Little Bit Lykke Li (2007)
491 Grace Kelly Mika (2007)
490 Let's Dance To Joy Division The Wombats (2007)
489 Inertiatic ESP The Mars Volta (2003)
488 Poker Face Lady Gaga (2008)
487 Cherry Blossom Girl Air (2004)
486 Harrowdown Hill Thom Yorke (2006)
485 She's Got A Reason Dogs (2005)
484 Hello Operator The White Stripes (2000)
483 Not Nineteen Forever The Courteeners (2008)
482 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani ft. Akon (2007)
481 All My Friends LCD Soundsystem (2007)
480 Give Me A Reason The Corrs (2001)
479 Black Dollar Bills Hope of the States (2002)
478 Better Off With Him A (2005)
477 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers (2006)
476 Reasons Not To Be An Idiot Frank Turner (2008)
475 Minority Green Day (2000)
474 Arts & Crafts Red Light Company (2009)
473 Do The Whirlwind Architecture in Helsinki (2005)
472 I Am Blisters I Am The Motorettes (2006)
471 Golden Retriever Super Furry Animals (2003)
470 Wires Athlete (2007)
469 Who Needs Enemies? Cooper Temple Clause (2002)
468 Breathe Leaves (2002)
467 The Importance of Being Idle Oasis (2005)
466 Danger! High Voltage! Electric Six (2002)
465 River Below Billy Talent (2004)
464 Weekends And Bleak Days Young Knives (2006)
463 Lost And Found Feeder (2006)
462 Far Away Cut Copy (2008)
461 Monster The Automatic (2006)
460 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Good Charlotte (2002)
459 Stuck In America Sugarcult (2001)
458 America Razorlight (2006)
457 3 Feet Tall I Am Kloot (2003)
456 Jenny Stellastarr* (2003)
455 Graffiti Maximo Park (2005)
454 Cassius Foals (2008)
453 Mundian To Bach Ke Panjabi MC (2002)
452 Can't Explain Longview (2003)
451 When It All Falls Apart The Veronicas (2006)

450 Chase The Sun Planet Funk (2001)
449 Sometimes Ash (2001)
448 Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs (2006)
447 Silent Sigh Badly Drawn Boy (2002)
446 Knives Out Radiohead (2001)
445 Mr Understanding Pete & the Pirates (2008)
444 KC Accidental Broken Social Scene (2003)
443 Something Anything Travis (2008)
442 Glósóli Sigur Rós (2005)
441 Long Time Coming Delays (2004)

440 Gimme Sympathy Metric (2009)
439 Hey There Delilah Plain White T's (2006)
438 First Of The Gang To Die Morrissey (2004)
437 Clint Eastwood Gorillaz (2001)
436 In Demand Texas (2000)
435 House Of Jealous Lovers The Rapture (2002)
434 Movies Alien Ant Farm (2001)
433 Rubber Lover Marmaduke Duke (2009)
432 Area The Futureheads (2005)
431 Assessment The Beta Band (2004)
430 The Zephyr Song Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)
429 Porcelain Moby (2000)
428 So Says I The Shins (2006)
427 Milkshake Kelis (2003)
426 Overload Sugababes (2000)
425 You Will You Won't The Zutons (2004)
424 Juxtapozed With U Super Furry Animals (2001)
423 Nehemiah Hope of the States (2004)
422 Nothing A (2002)
421 Hitten Those Dancing Days (2008)
420 This Picture Placebo (2003)
419 That Great Love Sound The Raveonettes (2003)
418 Fidelity Regina Spektor (2006)
417 Oh, MJ! The Little Ones (2007)
416 Big Sur The Thrills (2003)
415 Golden Age TV On The Radio (2008)
414 Sewn The Feeling (2006)
413 She's Got You High Mumm-Ra (2006)
412 Romantic Rights Death From Above 1979 (2004)
411 Another Chance Roger Sanchez (2001)

410 Dashboard Modest Mouse (2007)
409 Lady (Hear Me Tonight) Modjo (2000)
408 Jacqueline Franz Ferdinand (2004)
407 Say Hello Deep Dish (2005)
406 You Bring Me Down Blood Red Shoes (2006)
405 The Widow The Mars Volta (2005)
404 You Drove Me To It Hell Is For Heroes (2002)
403 Unwell Matchbox Twenty (2003)
402 Only One Word Comes To Mind Biffy Clyro (2005)
401 Same Jeans The View (2007)
400 Recover The Automatic (2005)
399 She's Attracted To Young Knives (2006)
398 Valerie Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse (2007)
397 Here It Goes Again OK Go (2006)
396 In For The Kill La Roux (2008)
395 Valentine Delays (2006)
394 Pass It On The Coral (2003)
393 Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You) Aqualung (2002)
392 Suzie Boy Kill Boy (2005)
391 This Is The Life Amy Macdonald (2007)
390 Date With The Night Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2003)
389 Love Me Like You The Magic Numbers (2005)
388 Watching Xanadu Mull Historical Society (2002)
387 Re-Offender Travis (2003)
386 Don't Look Back Into The Sun The Libertines (2003)
385 Crazy In Love Beyoncé ft. Jay-Z (2003)
384 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 The Flaming Lips (2003)
383 Adventure Be Your Own Pet (2006)
382 Fake Tales of San Francisco Arctic Monkeys (2006)
381 Animal R.E.M. (2004)

380 There Goes The Fear Doves (2002)
379 The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2006)
378 We Are Your Friends Justice vs. Simian (2006)
377 Island In The Sun Weezer (2001)
376 Actually It's Darkness Idlewild (2000)
375 Go With The Flow Queens of the Stone Age (2003)
374 Emerge Fischerspooner (2003)
373 The Zookeeper's Boy Mew (2006)
372 Love Burns Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2002)
371 Show Me How To Live Audioslave (2003)
370 Blind Pilots Cooper Temple Clause (2003)
369 I Believe In A Thing Called Love The Darkness (2003)
368 Bedshaped Keane (2004)
367 Sixteen Military Wives The Decemberists (2005)
366 When You Were Young The Killers (2006)
365 Coming Around Travis (2000)
364 Oh Yeah The Subways (2005)
363 Parliament Square Stina Nordenstam (2005)
362 You! Me! Dancing! Los Campesinos! (2007)
361 Remember Me British Sea Power (2001)

360 Believe The Chemical Brothers (2005)
359 I'm Good, I'm Gone Lykke Li (2008)
358 Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend (2008)
357 Sweetness Jimmy Eat World (2002)
356 All My Life Foo Fighters (2002)
355 Hard To Explain The Strokes (2001)
354 Move Your Feet Junior Senior (2003)
353 Let Robeson Sing Manic Street Preachers (2001)
352 Black Cherry Goldfrapp (2004)
351 We Own The Sky M83 (2008)
350 The Blues Are Still Blue Belle and Sebastian (2006)
349 Spread Your Love Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2002)
348 Intervention Arcade Fire (2007)
347 Formulae JJ72 (2002)
346 Don't Give Up Noisettes (2006)
345 The Rake's Song The Decemberists (2009)
344 The Angry Mob Kaiser Chiefs (2007)
343 Beat Control Tilly and the Wall (2006)
342 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab For Cutie (2008)
341 Untouched The Veronicas (2007)
340 Golden Touch Razorlight (2004)
339 Generator The Holloways (2005)
338 Teddy Picker Arctic Monkeys (2007)
337 Mercy Duffy (2008)
336 Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Florence + the Machine (2009)
335 I Don't Feel Like Dancin' Scissor Sisters (2006)
334 Blue Orchid The White Stripes (2005)
333 Long Live The Queen Frank Turner (2008)
332 Mica Mew (2000)
331 Air Sparta (2003)
329 La Ritournelle Sébastien Tellier (2005)
328 Do You Want To Franz Ferdinand (2005)
327 Cause = Time Broken Social Scene (2003)
326 Can't Stand Me Now The Libertines (2004)
325 Everyday I Love You Less And Less Kaiser Chiefs (2005)
324 1901 Phoenix (2009)
323 DOA Foo Fighters (2005)
322 Little Thoughts Bloc Party (2004)
321 Meccano Red Light Company (2008)
320 Don't Save Us From The Flames M83 (2005)

[TheThorne]

I have my top 1000 ready to go but I will wait till yours is done cant wait to see it

[greendemon]

sure, although i may not start for a few days yet so i will defer to you if you want to start yours in the meantime

[TheThorne]

No waiting till have Raliverpool has finished his list and after my exam

[raliverpool]

I can't see me doing a 2000's list until circa 2020, although my current Top 2 nicely bookend either side of the decade.

[Razzle Dazzle]

looking forward to this

[greendemon]

haven't been well the last couple of days and i have a job interview on tuesday, so it looks like i'll finally start posting this up on wednesday

[raliverpool]

Sept 5, 2014 21:28:22 GMT 1 greendemon said:

haven't been well the last couple of days and i have a job interview on tuesday, so it looks like i'll finally start posting this up on wednesday

That would be great, as I'm on track to finish just before then.

[greendemon]

OK, at long last this is ready to go! but first, a note on compilation...

This list is made up of my favourite 500 singles released during the decade 2000-2009 (so between 01/01/2000 and 31/12/2009 inclusive). Any track released in any part of the world was eligible, as long as it was originally released within this period. Tracks from EPs and cover versions of songs originally recorded before 2000 do count (although there aren't many of either). Promo-only singles don't count.*

It's also going to be a very subjective list, being based entirely on my personal preferences without attempting to produce an authoritative list of the biggest or most influential hits. So it's going to be pretty heavy on indie, rock, post-punk, garage rock, etc, but there's also quite a bit of pop, electronica, dance and some R&B and hip hop. Never having had a personal chart, I compiled the list by trawling through my music collection and memory, so I will definitely have forgotten something (and will probably kick myself when others post their lists).

In an attempt to avoid the list becoming totally dominated by my favourite bands, I've borrowed raliverpool's maximum 10 entries per artist rule. Obviously as this is only a list of 500, strictly speaking the restriction should be 5 entries per act. Given how prolific some of my favourite artists were during this decade, it quickly became apparent that doing that would result in my leaving out a number of songs which I actually liked a good deal more than much of the list. So the upper limit is 10 - but I think in practice only one artist has more than 7 or 8 entries.

* my chart knowledge is pretty shoddy so I may well have made a few mistakes here, especially with dates which may not always be accurate. Corrections appreciated!**

** that said, there is one album track on the list which is there on purpose. It was included because it's one of my favourite songs ever (and not at all because I originally thought it was a single and only found out it wasn't late in the process... *cough*)

[greendemon]

First group...

491 Grace Kelly Mika (2007)
492 Little Bit Lykke Li (2007)
493 The Ex Billy Talent (2004)
494 Since I Left You The Avalanches (2000)
495 Dakota Stereophonics (2005)
496 Outwards Kubichek! (2006)
497 I Miss You Blink-182 (2004)
498 Followed The Waves Melissa Auf Der Maur (2004)
499 Destroy Everything You Touch Ladytron (2005)
500 About Your Dress The Maccabees (2007)

A pretty random group to start with, including several acts that only had one track make it. I was surprised at how low I ended up putting Dakota, but then the 2000s really wasn't Stereophonics' best decade in my opinion (although the people who got it to the top of the charts presumably disagreed...). Anyway, here it is:

[greendemon]

more later or tomorrow!

[suedehead]

Dakota is by no means the Stereophonics' best song but it did seem to be a deliberate attempt at getting a number one single. It worked.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Followed The Waves Melissa Auf Der Maur was a cracking tune, loved Real a Lie off the same album aswel

[Shireblogger]

Sept 13, 2014 23:48:17 GMT 1 suedehead said:

Dakota is by no means the Stereophonics' best song but it did seem to be a deliberate attempt at getting a number one single. It worked.

I beg to differ. "Dakota" is, by every measure, the Stereophonics' best song. It would undoubtedly have made my Top 5 from this period.

Delighted to see space for Ladytron in the Top 500, greendemon. A couple of tracks I don't know, and will have to search out.

[greendemon]

Sept 14, 2014 8:16:36 GMT 1 Shireblogger said:

Sept 13, 2014 23:48:17 GMT 1 suedehead said:

Dakota is by no means the Stereophonics' best song but it did seem to be a deliberate attempt at getting a number one single. It worked.

I beg to differ. "Dakota" is, by every measure, the Stereophonics' best song. It would undoubtedly have made my Top 5 from this period.

Delighted to see space for Ladytron in the Top 500, greendemon. A couple of tracks I don't know, and will have to search out.

well, according to my list, it's their best song of the decade they'd have performed much better if i'd done a list of the 90s - 'performance and cocktails' was one of my favourite albums at the time.

glad to see love for MADM and ladytron; i was glad to be able to squeeze both in.

[greendemon]

The first of several for The White Stripes, the first of two for Ms. Stefani, and the first and last for Stefani Germanotta...

481 All My Friends LCD Soundsystem (2007)
482 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani ft. Akon (2007)
483 Not Nineteen Forever The Courteeners (2008)
484 Hello Operator The White Stripes (2000)
485 She's Got A Reason Dogs (2005)
486 Harrowdown Hill Thom Yorke (2006)
487 Cherry Blossom Girl Air (2004)
488 Poker Face Lady Gaga (2008)
489 Inertiatic ESP The Mars Volta (2003)
490 Let's Dance To Joy Division The Wombats (2007)

#486. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill (2006)

During the five-year gap between Hail To The Thief and In Rainbows, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke released an album of solo material, The Eraser. One of the standouts was this spine-chilling single inspired by the death of Dr David Kelly, the biological warfare expert at the centre of a controversy over the presence of WMDs in Iraq. It was described by Yorke as 'the most angry song I've ever written in my life', and it's hard to disagree.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Nice to see Dogs and Mars Volta in there, I have just about every album they ever did and seen both live so would probably feature quite heavily in my list

[TheThorne]

491 Grace Kelly Mika (2007)

Maybe a case of revisionism but this isn't in my top 1000 right now, should change that I guess


492 Little Bit Lykke Li (2007)

Mit meh with Lykke Li


493 The Ex Billy Talent (2004)
494 Since I Left You The Avalanches (2000)
495 Dakota Stereophonics (2005)

All will appear in my list

496 Outwards Kubichek! (2006)

barely remember this need to hear it again

497 I Miss You Blink-182 (2004)
498 Followed The Waves Melissa Auf Der Maur (2004)
499 Destroy Everything You Touch Ladytron (2005)

These all made my top 200 of the 00s when I did the list a few years ago.

500 About Your Dress The Maccabees (2007)

missed this one, other Maccabees tracks will be in though

[TheThorne]

481 All My Friends LCD Soundsystem (2007)
482 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani ft. Akon (2007)
483 Not Nineteen Forever The Courteeners (2008)

These will all been in my top 1000

484 Hello Operator The White Stripes (2000)

Other White Stripes will be in but this missed the cut.

485 She's Got A Reason Dogs (2005)
486 Harrowdown Hill Thom Yorke (2006)

Forgot both of these Thom Yorke was especially good.


487 Cherry Blossom Girl Air (2004)

Will scrape into my top 1000

488 Poker Face Lady Gaga (2008)

Bit conflicted about including Lady Ga Ga at the moment she isn't in but that may change

489 Inertiatic ESP The Mars Volta (2003)
490 Let's Dance To Joy Division The Wombats (2007)

Both these will appear

[Earl Purple]

This is the only decade I actually have a formal chart of.

Auf De Maur "Followed The Waves" only #1814. Grace Kelly by Mika was 4 weeks at #1 and in the chart of the decade at #21.