Your Favourite Songs of the Noughties

Macavity.

Generally not remembered for it's music. The Noughties - the 80's and 90's inbred cousin.

What are your favourite songs from the decade?

Macavity.

According to my iTunes most played.
My top 10 are:

Intro - The xx
Where I End And You Begin - Radiohead
Crystalised - The xx
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
Execution song - Johnossi
Kettering - The Antlers
Publisher - Blonde Redhead
Every Day is Exactly the Same - Nine Inch Nails
Three Seed - Silversun Pickups
Dakota - Stereophonics

Not even close to the quality of my 90's one IMO.

Dozer Dave

The King of Moo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znFBkB_qtu8

Copa Mundial

Released in 2002, hard to look past it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXumtgwtak

efb

The killers - Mr Brightside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE

Riddle101

The noughties is a hard one for me. My favorite songs are from other decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ

PARlance

Shocking decade for music. Take The Libertines, Amy Winehouse & Artic Monkeys out and I'm left with very little that I would bother listening to.
Not a fan, but I would throw Eminem & The Streets in there for standing out from the huge pile of noughties crap of soft pop rock & reality show winners.

Best song for me, a cover (says a lot for the decade) by Johnny Cash - Hurt.

JupiterKid

Goldfrapp - Strict Machine

PARlance

Darude - Sandstorm: https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU

Dangerous Man

Ten years of music and we already have people who can't pick a single song from the thousands and thousands of songs written in that decade.

Anesthetize

PARlance wrote: »

Shocking decade for music. Take The Libertines, Amy Winehouse & Artic Monkeys out and I'm left with very little that I would bother listening to.
Not a fan, but I would throw Eminem & The Streets in there for standing out from the huge pile of noughties crap of soft pop rock & reality show winners.

Best song for me, a cover (says a lot for the decade) by Johnny Cash - Hurt.

Wow. Some people make no effort at all whatsoever to look for music themselves. You could at least give seminal 00's artists like Broken Social Scene or Burial a chance. I think overall the 00's was just as good as any other decade musically.

PARlance

Anesthetize wrote: »

Wow. Some people make no effort at all whatsoever to look for music themselves. You could at least give seminal 00's artists like Broken Social Scene or Burial a chance.

Wow, there's always <insert whatever you wish> out there willing to impart their "wisdom".
I thought it's a given that by posting, I am giving my opinion, but I should have included an IMO for you.
I was aware of Burial, and they don't float my boat at all.
I wasn't aware of Broken Social Scene... turns out not many were either.
While seminal is a nice word to bandy about when talking music, neither are seminal... useless we're going back to it's literal origins, and in that case, I can't swallow either. IMO IMO.

Fwiw, most people when discussing the vast topic of music from a certain decade, they tend to keep within the realms of populist music for that period.

Anesthetize wrote: »

I think overall the 00's was just as good as any other decade musically.

Fair enough, that's your opinion.
I would disagree strongly.

Oasis1974

If you changed it to the Nineties I'd be typing all day. Music today is complete utter crap. Just amazing rappers rapping about washing up liquid and those funny punk bands who wear makeup and of course the obligatory tattoos. Few gems maybe but there far between.

SeanW

With the exception of some good dance music in the early part of the 00s, it seems to have been the decade that music forgot. Arguably it still is but there seems to some decent stuff being made today, albeit in nowhere near the same amount as the late 20th century.

SEPT 23 1989

after the highs of the 90's what followed was truly terrible

crockholm

QotSA, a wee bitta slipknot and most of the rest is pretty forgettable "muh d1ck,muh bitches,muh Money-imma kill you"

Macavity.

Always reminds me of playing FIFA online with my friends.

MonkeyTennis

Just looked at Rolling Stones Top 100 songs of the Noughties. Dreadful stuff to be honest.

Gorillaz the best of a bad lot

Macavity.

Probably one of the best decades for ambient/post rock/dream pop music. But that wouldn't appeal to a lot of people.

Yeboah

Interpol - Evil
White Stripes - Seven nation army
The Streets - Dry your eyes
Franz Ferdinand - Take me Out
MGMT - Kids
The Darkness - Growing on me
Scissor Sisters - Laura

Off top of head !!!

IamNotNumber

Give it 10 years and there will be a thread about how great noughties music was and how crap the 2010-2020 decade was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvZ4N1RfS8

mosstin

IamNotNumber wrote: »

Give it 10 years and there will be a thread about how great noughties music was and how crap the 2010-2020 decade was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQvZ4N1RfS8

One of the best songs of that decade featuring one of the worst videos.

Caovyn Lineah

Without even thinking about it, the noughties brought us:

Kings of Leon(before they turned to crap)
Arctic Monkeys
The Libertines
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Kasabian
Muse
Coldplay(for some)

I'm sure if I put some effort in i could name at least 100 excellent songs from the decade and anyone who says they can't pick one is a liar.

SEPT 23 1989

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Kings of Leon(before they turned to crap)
Arctic Monkeys
The Libertines
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Kasabian
Muse
Coldplay(for some)

3rd Division stuff compared to previous decades

Caovyn Lineah

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

3rd Division stuff compared to previous decades

Nostalgia could be clouding your judgment.

IamNotNumber

mosstin wrote: »

One of the best songs of that decade featuring one of the worst videos.

I can show worse videos than that my friend,I quite like it ,suits the song.

rossie1977

this is a nice song, goes into detail about her early struggles to make it in the music industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJOfo9GRQn0

GLaDOS

Far too many to list tbh, tons of quality from that decade imo.

Birneybau

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Far too many to list tbh, tons of quality from that decade imo.

Sh!tload of good stuff.

I could go on...

efb

Every generation thinks the current generation's music stinks

razorblunt

Most of my favourite songs are around teenage discos and then heading out for 1st year in college.
Still have Darude - Sandstorms on my Running playlist, to me it will always be a classic.

The song that sums up the noughties for me though is Crazy Town - Butterfly.

bob skunkhouse

Had to double check this one, but being released in Oct 2000, it just sneaks in....

No doubt, best song of the decade is U2's Beautiful Day.
This song can't be beaten while 'cruising down the freeway in the hot hot sun...'

Saipanne

Roscoe by Midlake

razorblunt

razorblunt wrote: »

The song that sums up the noughties for me though is Crazy Town - Butterfly.

Jesus Mother of Mercy, even in the dirge that was that nu-metal rap crossover, they stood out as being possibly the worst.

http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-worst-bands-of-all-time

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/notoriousERC/the_top_25_worst_artists/

http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/top-ten-worst-bands-of-the-90s/

And so on.

34th "Most Awesomely Bad Song Ever" on VH1...and they should know bad.

The video really put the tin hat on it though. Nu metal with...butterflies?

razorblunt

Deleted User wrote: »

Jesus Mother of Mercy, even in the dirge that was that nu-metal rap crossover, they stood out as being possibly the worst.

http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-worst-bands-of-all-time

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/notoriousERC/the_top_25_worst_artists/

http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/top-ten-worst-bands-of-the-90s/

And so on.

34th "Most Awesomely Bad Song Ever" on VH1...and they should know bad.

The video really put the tin hat on it though. Nu metal with...butterflies?

I'm not even a Nu-Metal or Rap fan, the thread isn't "best" song it's your favourite. Saying that though it just has a nostalgic feel to it now, I don't even listen to it anymore yet my various playlists on Spotify have a good few songs.

Saipanne

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Jesus Mother of Mercy, even in the dirge that was that nu-metal rap crossover, they stood out as being possibly the worst.

http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-worst-bands-of-all-time

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/notoriousERC/the_top_25_worst_artists/

http://ajournalofmusicalthings.com/top-ten-worst-bands-of-the-90s/

And so on.

34th "Most Awesomely Bad Song Ever" on VH1...and they should know bad.

The video really put the tin hat on it though. Nu metal with...butterflies?

Plus the music ripped off the RHCP.

dark crystal

Back to Black by Amy Winehouse (I'd include most of that album, tbh), Trouble by Ray LaMontagne, Seven Nation Army by White Stripes, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall, Patience by Take That and First Day of my Life by Bright Eyes are all great songs.

There's definitely some good music that came out of the noughties, but I guess it just depends on your taste.

Tarzana2

Copa Mundial wrote: »

Released in 2002, hard to look past it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmXumtgwtak

The only Eminem song I ever liked. It is sweet.

Don't like The Killers but love 'All These Things That I've done'.

Also 'Crazy' - Gnarls Barkley (or however you spell it), various Lady Gaga songs from 'The Fame', 'Hey Ya' by Outcast though I can't listen it anymore through over-listening, various songs from Original Pirate Material by The Streets, Doves - 'There Goes the Fear', 'White Winter Hymnal' and 'Mykonos' by Fleet Foxes.

And I'm just scratching the surface. There is TONNES of amazing music from the noughties.

Saipanne

Saipanne wrote: »

Roscoe by Midlake

Midlake - Roscoe: https://youtu.be/hL6j5LksMcM

Adamantium

Like most decades sift through the junk you'll find lifetimes worth of to listen too. There is much less good stuff than previous decades but you'd still need lifetimes worth of time to listen too all of it, so what does it matter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q89kDoMnpTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=867iyhVFyEw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96Ua-p3y7o

The rock "American Idiot" craze of the mid 2000's was amazing, I never understood why in my school chipmunk music and terrible rap+ DJ Fcukface, Cammy, Turntable got the majority vote in discos.

Well we did have the EMO thing going on from 2003-early 2008, and fair dues it produced some amazing pop-punk-rock. They were lot more fun than hipsters too and creative too boot. I always though emo took off after 9/11 in ways and the 2000's in general started.

dr strangelove

Bit of a mixed bag, but some of my favourites:

National Prayer Breakfast - Feeding Frenzy

The Avalanches - 'Frontier Psychiatrist'

Rammstein - Feuer Frei

Joan As Policewoman - Flushed Chest

Grinderman - Honey Bee

Red Elvises - Rocketman

Anesthetize

Adamantium wrote: »

Well we did have the EMO thing going on from 2003-early 2008, and fair dues it produced some amazing pop-punk-rock. They were lot more fun than hipsters too and creative too boot. I always though emo took off after 9/11 in ways and the 2000's in general started.

Emo started in the mid 80's though. Most of the stuff labelled "emo" circa 2003 to 2008 had very little to do with the original sub-genre.

fleet_admiral

Looks like I read the thread title wrong.

Everything has been crap since the 90's

Macavity.

I almost feel sorry for people who are so blinded by nostalgia and stubbornness that they're willing to write off an entire decade without scratching beneath the surface.....but then again, it's their own fault so fúck 'em! :P

Here are 20 of my favourite songs from the noughties, many of which are among my favourite songs of all time:

Arcade Fire - Haiti (2005)
Bat For Lashes - Daniel (2009)
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (2005)
Cat Power - Maybe Not (2003)
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating (2008)
Feist - My Moon My Man (2007)
Interpol - Obstacle 1 (2002)
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness (2001)
Marilyn Manson - Heart Shaped Glasses (2006)
M.I.A. - Galang (2005)
Radiohead - Reckoner (2007)
Robyn feat. Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat (2007)
Sia - Breathe Me (2004)
Sigur Rós - Glósóli (2005)
The National - Fake Empire (2008)
The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (2005)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love (2000)
Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag (2004)
Warpaint - Elephants (2009)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeletons (2009)

Macavity. wrote: »

According to my iTunes most played.
My top 10 are:

Intro - The xx
Where I End And You Begin - Radiohead
Crystalised - The xx
Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez
Execution song - Johnossi
Kettering - The Antlers
Publisher - Blonde Redhead
Every Day is Exactly the Same - Nine Inch Nails
Three Seed - Silversun Pickups
Dakota - Stereophonics

Not even close to the quality of my 90's one IMO.

You were going so well and I was getting ready to click the 'Thanks' button....and then I saw "Dakota". Can't stand that fúcking song. :mad:

Anesthetize

A list of my own:

Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
At The Drive-In - Cosmonaut
Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
Radiohead - There There
Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
Bat For Lashes - Daniel
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder
Camera Obscura - French Navy
My Vitriol – Always: Your Way
School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
Neko Case - Star Witness
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
Deftones - Digital Bath
Band of Horses - The Funeral
Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
The Postal Service - Clark Gable
Beck - The Golden Age
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday
Carissa's Wierd – So You Wanna Be a Superhero

The 00's were great

Mister Vain

There was some good songs in the early 00's. It only started to go downhill in the mid 00's.

Some of my faves:

U2 - Beautiful Day
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Tiesto - Urban Train (Before he went all commercial.)
Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky (A bit cheesy but I loved it when it first came out.)
Rui Da Silva - Touch Me

Triceratops888

It's called the zeros not the naughties.

Birneybau

Triceratops888 wrote: »

It's called the zeros not the naughties.

I have NEVER heard it called that. EVER.

I have to say, I thought the 00s were okay, but reading back through the lists here has made me think they really weren't for me.

How many people have said Darude and Ian Van Dahl and Tiesto?

I hadn't realised how much trance, EDM and electro house dominated.