Your Favourite Songs of the Noughties

efb · 10-04-2015 12:43PM

Every generation thinks the current generation's music stinks

razorblunt · 10-04-2015 12:47PM

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 · 10-04-2015 12:53PM

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 · 10-04-2015 12:55PM

Roscoe by Midlake

10-04-2015 12:59PM

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 · 10-04-2015 01:02PM

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 · 10-04-2015 01:10PM

[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 · 10-04-2015 01:12PM

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 · 10-04-2015 01:13PM

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 · 10-04-2015 01:14PM

Saipanne wrote: »

Roscoe by Midlake

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

Adamantium · 10-04-2015 01:18PM

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 · 10-04-2015 01:29PM

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 · 10-04-2015 05:59PM

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 · 10-04-2015 07:11PM

Looks like I read the thread title wrong.

Everything has been crap since the 90's

10-04-2015 08:15PM

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 · 10-04-2015 10:23PM

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 · 11-04-2015 06:09AM

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 · 11-04-2015 07:06AM

It's called the zeros not the naughties.

Birneybau · 11-04-2015 12:48PM

Triceratops888 wrote: »

It's called the zeros not the naughties.

I have NEVER heard it called that. EVER.

11-04-2015 12:54PM

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.

Mister Vain · 11-04-2015 01:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

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

Late 90's early 00's had some excellent choons. Trance was very popular and was in the charts a lot. From 2004 onwards it just went sh1t. I went through a heavy metal phase during the mid 00's because there seemed to be feck all else to listen to at the time. I've discovered some great house music on Youtube over the last couple of years though. There are some gems out there, its just a matter of finding them.

NotYourYear20 · 11-04-2015 01:27PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Late 90's early 00's had some excellent choons. Trance was very popular and was in the charts a lot.

Late 90's? The House music explosion and the multiple genres in created started in the mid-eighties. By the late 90's we already had a over decade of tremendous music. But maybe you missed all that or weren't going to the right clubs.

GLaDOS · 11-04-2015 01:33PM

No love for Tool in this thread I notice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-0rLI6-skQ

Mister Vain · 11-04-2015 01:36PM

NotYourYear20 wrote: »

Late 90's? The House music explosion and the multiple genres in created started in the mid-eighties. By the late 90's we already had a over decade of tremendous music. But maybe you missed all that or weren't going to the right clubs.

I'm well aware of when it started. I was just saying there was some great music in the late 90's and early 00's. The thread is about the 00's after all.

11-04-2015 01:39PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Late 90's early 00's had some excellent choons. Trance was very popular and was in the charts a lot...

Would be much more into house and techno. Could take trance when it first came out, Age of Love and that early 90s stuff. But by the late 90s it just became this ridiculous juggernaut with "superstar" DJs like Van Dyk and Van Buuren and Tiesto playing to 50,000 blonde German teenagers in hangars. It all just seemed so MTV friendly and the opposite of the old skool craziness. And now Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Avicii have taken up that role of heavy MTV rotation. Even good electronic music artists from Underworld to the Aphex Twin to Boards of Canada or whatever, IMHO, dropped the baton a bit in the 00s.

Mister Vain · 11-04-2015 01:46PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Would be much more into house and techno. Could take trance when it first came out, Age of Love and that early 90s stuff. But by the late 90s it just became this ridiculous juggernaut with "superstar" DJs like Van Dyk and Van Buuren and Tiesto playing to 50,000 blonde German teenagers in hangars. It all just seemed so MTV friendly and the opposite of the old skool craziness. And now Calvin Harris, David Guetta and Avicii have taken up that role of heavy MTV rotation. Even good electronic music artists from Underworld to the Aphex Twin to Boards of Canada or whatever, IMHO, dropped the baton a bit in the 00s.

Personally I think it peaked from 97 to 2000, but yeah I agree with the whole superstar DJ thing. Tiesto is a fine example of this. I loved his early stuff but now he's just the same as Harris, Guetta etc.

11-04-2015 01:47PM

I should say it was the decade when a French House came to the fore...and they churned out some bona fide classics...

http://youtu.be/UEQCASaxHgU

11-04-2015 01:51PM

And of course minimal techno...

http://youtu.be/r4RJsDuW4Q4

11-04-2015 01:52PM

And some very solid German techno...

http://youtu.be/sdl7PZmlGQI

Mister Vain · 11-04-2015 02:08PM

Don't forget the Saudi Arabian techno.

Your Favourite Songs of the Noughties

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