The Best of the Decade: Songs
Thursday, January 7, 2010
So I've spent a whole day trying to put together my best (read, in some senses, favourite, though I've left out really really obscure things) songs of the last decade. Next comes South African songs, then art, books etc. I do this because I like lists, especially lists of songs (and, of course, mix tapes - I think this would make a great mixtape too). Please feel free to argue flagrantly with this post/post your own lists.
Most of these songs remind me of jumping up and down in our studio at art school, or in Robert Sloon (before he was Robert Sloon)'s kitchen. Others are from earlier, and some are from now. These are in no particular order, you get the MGMT video cause it's my favourite and the most 2000sy. If you're bored, follow the links and listen to them
P.S I am aware of the whiteness and (largely) maleness of this list
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (2003)
The Strokes - Last Night (2001)
The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love (2003)
Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers (2003)
Postal Service - Such Great Heights (2003)
The Knife - Heartbeats (2003)
MGMT - Time to Pretend (2008)
Cake - Shaddow Stabbing (2001)
Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away (2000)
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood 1 - Tunnels (2005)
The Kills - No Wow (2005)
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (2004)
The Unicorns - I was Born (A Unicorn) (2003)
Justice - D.A.N.C.E (2007)
Moldy Peaches - Steak for Chicken (2001)
Muse - Time is Running Out (2003)
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (2002)
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test (2002)
Radiohead - Idioteque (2000)
posted by Linda Stupart at 6:48 AM
7 Comments:
Terrific list, but I would've replaced "Muse - Time is Running Out (2003)" with "Muse - Plug in Baby"
Yeah, I think Plug in Baby is a better song, but it's 2001, and list already leaning pretty heavily towards really early 2000s, which is basically the 90s, which is kinda cheating...
Thanks Linda. Now I'm going to go and have a little cry in the corner.
It was a good kitchen for dancing.
No Belle and Sebastian?
I will make you a Mixtape I promise, except on that one there will be Belle & Sebastian (and yes, they should be on the list, but which song?)
And also that Kelly Clarkson song
i 'd choose belle and sebastian electronic renaissance
and from last year I'd want Matt and Kim Daylight
also last year...
The xx - heart skipped a beat
so glad you remembered the unicorns and the mouldy peaches.
yay!
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone? Absolutely.
(In an interview with ChicagoPostmodernPoetry.Com, Graham Foust is asked to name his poetic influences. I love his answer:
More often than not, these lists get boring rather quickly, perhaps more for the maker than for the reader. I don’t know. Am I moved by someone or something that someone might assume wouldn’t move me? I’ve always found Louise Glück to be a fine poet. I love Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone” and Rick Springfield’s “Jesse’s Girl.” I collect found photographs and the limbs of action figures that have seemed to litter the streets of the places I’ve lived. But maybe this is all old news.)
- From Alec Soths' archived blog
May I draw your attention to the fact that there is no Grandaddy on this list? And no Gossip? And no Arctic Monkeys? And no Simain Mobile Disco? And no...
Seriously, though, this was a great list: it was like 'Strokes: tick. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: tick. Kings: tick.' Well done.
Agree with Jem, though: Plug in Baby is the best thing Muse ever did. They might as well have gone down the pub and started a nine year long darts game after that song (and video).
Your list also proves something I've suspected for a while: the 2000's were the decade of yank rock: the best stuff by far on your list is American. The limies, with some exceptions, seem to have descended into national Vicky Pollard-ism... Anyone still think The Streets are cool...?
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