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My 60 Favourite Records of the 2000s are:

Air – The Virgin Suicides [Original Motion Picture Score] (2000)
PJ Harvey – Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age – Rated (2000)
Radiohead – Kid A (2000)
Radiohead – Amnesiac (2001)
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
Millionaire – Outside The Simian Flock (2001)
The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001)
The Strokes – Is This It? (2001)
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World (2001)
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells (2001)
Zita Swoon – Life = A Sexy Sanctuary (2001)
2 Many DJ's – As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2 (2002)
Beck – Sea Change (2002)
Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow (2002)
Johnny Cash – American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002)
The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us (2002)
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Hörse of the dög (2002)
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
Milwaukee Wildmen – Psychosomatic (2002)
Queens of the Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Stuurbaard Bakkebaard – Chuck (2002)
Supergrass – Life on Other Planets (2002)
Tom Waits – Alice (2002)
Tom Waits – Blood Money (2002)
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Blur – Think Tank (2003)
Calexico – Feast of Wire (2003)
Radiohead – Hail To The Thief (2003)
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
Tindersticks – Waiting for the Moon (2003)
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South (2004)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Kings of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street (2004)
Tom Waits – Real Gone (2004)
Antony & The Johnsons –I Am a Bird Now (2005)
The Arcade Fire – Funeral (2005*)
Calexico / Iron & Wine – In The Reins [EP] (2005)
dEUS – Pocket Revolution (2005)
Eels - Blinking Lights And Other Revelations (2005)
My Morning Jacket – Z (2005)
Ian Siegal – Meat & Potatoes (2005)
Sufjan Stevens – Come Feel The Illinoise! (2005)
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Persuit (2006)
The Knife – Silent Shout (2006)
Mastodon – Blood Mountain (2006)
The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007)
LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (2007)
M.I.A. – Kala (2007)
The National – Boxer (2007)
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007)
Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007)
Feist – The Reminder (2007)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2008^)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! (2008)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (2008)
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (2008)
TV on the Radio – Dear Science (2008)
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic (2009)

*) 2004 in Canada & U.S.
^) 2007 in U.S.

I've made a lot of decadelists, like most musicnerds. Top 10 follows in december! Yeah!

Opening Credits
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
HELL YEAH!!! This is EPIC!


Waking Up
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Great song for waking up and then, when David Gilmour's guitar solo kicks in... THIS must be a great day! =)


First Day At College
Bob Dylan - 4th Time Around
Yeah the other three times I was visiting the young and attractive female professor, if you know what I mean, harrharr.


Falling In Love
Joshua Radin - What If You
Really beautiful song. It's a break-up song though. Maybe she's falling in love with me but I'm not with her.
Like he sings:

"So, for tonight
I'll stay here with you
Yes, for tonight
I'll lay here with you

But when the sun
Hits your eyes
Through your window
There'll be nothing you can do"

I'm such a bad guy! :D


Losing Virginity
Jack Johnson - Cocoon
She is losing virginity and I'm the one who breaks her cocoon. Oh what a metaphor! ;)


Fighting
Eddie Vedder - Long Nights
I'll not use "fight" as the common term of "combat", more like "struggle". Maybe I'm struggling with not knowing who I am, where I belong, etc.


Breaking Up
Blackfield - Open Mind
Is it that I'm too open minded that she breaks up with me?!


Prom
Robbie Williams - Feel
Wow, this is a beautiful song! I could imagine dancing with a gorgeous girl to this song.


Life
The xx - Fantasy
Erm, my life is just a fantasy?


Depression
Bright Eyes - The Movement Of A Hand
Maybe I'm depressed 'cause I couldn't understand the movement of a hand.


Driving
Death Cab for Cutie - Bixby Canyon Bridge
I'm listening to this song while driving on an early winter's day.


Partying
The Doors - Soul Kitchen
Not the party song that I had expected, but yeah, nice though.


Happy Dance
Pink Floyd - Bike
Yeah, I'd love to dance to this song! It'd be ridiculous and funny.


You & Friends
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Red House
Me & friends making a jam session and listening to this song to get inspired by.


Betrayal
Tenacious D - Fuck Her Gently
I'm so sorry honey! It was just that girl I've seen on the streets, you know, she was so drop-dead gorgeous and I, I just couldn't resist.


Regretting
Jack Johnson - Times Like These
I miss times like these, where everything was so perfect and these times were only with you. So please, don't leave me!


Long Night Alone
Jack Johnson - Enemy
You might think I'm your enemy, but that don't make you mine.


Flashback
Bright Eyes - Arc of Time (Time Code)
Would fit nicely as a flashback song.


Getting Back Together
Coldplay - Swallowed By The Sea
Cute and tearful reunion. Very moving.


Wedding
Bon Iver - Flume
GREAT! I love it. Memo to myself: This song should be played on my wedding.


Honeymoon
Yann Tiersen - Comptine d'un Autre Été L'Après Midi
Beautiful!


Birth of Child
Iron & Wine - Carousel
Nice song for one of the best moments that life offers: The birth of a child.


Losing Someone Dear
Weezer - The Damage In Your Heart
Man, it fits so perfectly.


Final Battle
E.S. Posthumus - Ebla
An epic battle this will be.


Death
Ólafur Arnalds - Fok
I didn't expect that Ólafur Arnalds would be the last thing I'd hear.
I'm sure I'll die peacefully and with a happy smile after listening to Fok.


Funeral
Mono - Pure As Snow (Trails Of The Winter Storm)
Really beautiful. The funeral will be very moving.


Final Credits
Ludovico Einaudi - Yerevan II
Sad ending credits. Could imagine half of the people are crying while leaving the theatres.


I'm a bit disappointed that there was no Muse, Radiohead or Jeff Buckley.


So here's how you do it:
- Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc.)
- Put it on shuffle
- Press play
- For every question, type the song that's playing
- When you go to a new question, press the next button
- No cheating!

1 – The Black Crowes – Before The Frost…Until The Freeze
2 – Gov’t Mule – By A Thread
3 – Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
4 – The Derek Trucks Band – Already Free
5 – Clara Luzia – The Ground Below
6 – Miranda Lee Richards – Light of X
7 – Vic Chesnutt – Dark Developments
8 – Simple Minds – Graffiti Soul
9 – Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
10 – Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
11 – Son Volt – American Central Dust
12 – Sonic Youth – The Eternal
13 – Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
14 – Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine
15 – Portugal.The Man – The Satanic Satanist
16 – Ozric Tentacles – The Yumyum Tree
17 – The Bottle Rockets – Lean Forward
18 – The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
19 – Ben Allison – Think Free
20 – Bill Frisell – Disfarmer
21 – Phish – Joy
22 – Simon Finn – Rats Laugh Mice Sing
23 – Cross Canadian Ragweed – Happiness & All the Other Things
24 – Blue Rodeo – The Things We Left Behind
25 – Branford Marsalis Quartet – Metamorphosen
26 – Levon Helm – Electric Dirt
27 – Kris Kristofferson – Closer to the Bone
28 – Sister Hazel – Release
29 – Sons Of Bill – One Town Away
30 – The Felice Brothers – The Mix Tape
31 – Robert Cray – This Time
32 – Tinsley Ellis – Speak No Evil
33 – Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King
34 – Luther Dickinson/The Sons Of Mudboy – Onward And Upward
35 – 3rd World Electric – Kilimanjaro Secret Brew
36 – Marissa Nadler – Little Hells
37 – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Speed of Life
38 – Iron & Wine – Around The Well
39 – Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
40 – Frontier Folk Nebraska – Pearls
41 – Bon Iver – Bloodbank (EP)
42 – Willard Grand Conspiracy – Let The Lead Fly
43 – Urban Sevdah – Urban Sevdah
44 - Tomasz Stańko Quintet – Dark Eyes
45 - Éric Le Lann - Le Lann, Kikosky, Foster, Weiss
46 – Portico Quartet – Black & White Sessions
47 – John Zorn – Femina
48 – Sumru Ağıryürüyen – Issız
49 – Birsen Tezer – Cihan
50 – Neil Young – Fork In The Road
51 - Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun

1) Sucioperro - Pain Agency
2) Placebo - Battle For The Sun
3) Bon Iver - Blood Bank
4) BlakFish - Champions
5) Twin Atlantic - Vivarium
6) Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
7) The Lonely Island - Incredibad
8) Baddies - Do The Job
9) Frank Turner - Poetry Of The Deed
10) Marmaduke Duke - Duke Pandemonium

Sorry Biffy, Only Revolutions just isn't up to scratch.


Honourable Mentions

Million Dead - A Song to Ruin (re-release)

Reuben - We Should Have Gone To University

1.How did you get into 29? (Air)
I guess it was when Sexy Boy & Kelly Watch the Stars got a lot of airplay on MTV in the late 90's.

2. What's the first song you ever heard by 22? (The Radio Dept.)
Not entirely sure, but I vaguely remember seeing them live on a festival in Sweden in 2004, which is probably when I heard their music for the first time. (Mind you, it was at a boozy music festival after all, so it's all a bit of a blur really...)

3. What's your favorite lyric by 33? (José González)
Maybe these ones from Broken Arrow:
"Summerlove left this town
It was too cold to bathe and the leaves turned brown
The sun went down
And with it the love we found
That's the way things are sometimes
Most of the time"

4. How did you get into 49? (Björk)
Well, seeing that I'm Scandinavian she was a pretty big deal there with her debut album (called Debut). The first track I heard was Human Behaviour, but I didn't start listening to her stuff properly until the late 90's.

5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (MF DOOM)
Two (Operation Doomsday & MM Food).

6. What is your favorite song by 50? (M83)
Graveyard Girl.

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (RJD2)
Not that I can think of, or maybe One Day.

8. What is your favorite song by 15? (El-P)
Tasmanian Pain Coaster is pure genius.

9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Sage Francis)
Sea Lion.

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Alias)
Not really, I wouldn't exactly say Alias is famous for his feelgood-tracks. Maybe Dr.C by Alias & Tarsier.

11. What is the worst song by 40? (Coldplay)
Violet Hill no doubt. Can't stand it. I never understood how it could be released as a first album single.

12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Sia)
Breathe Me, followed by Death By Chocolate.

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Sole)
I remember being on a road trip with my brother and he'd brought 'Selling Live Water' which had recently been released. I had never heard of Sole, but I loved what I heard.

14. What is your favorite song by 38? (CunninLynguists)
It's a tie between Seasons (Remix) and Don't Leave (When Winter Comes). The beat for the remix of seasons is amazing and fits the lyrcs perfectly.

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Murs)
The Night Before is nice. Bad Man! is a good party tune.

16. Is there a song by 25 that makes you sad? (Feist)
Yep. Let It Die, The Park & How My Heart Behaves. To name a few.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Jean Grae)
Love Song.

18. What's your favorite lyric by 11? (Bat for Lashes)
From Good Love:
"In the night time we are found
Misty sorrow swoop unbound
Whisper you mean it, say you'll stay
Hold my heart till brighter days"

19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Aesop Rock)
Ian Matthias Bavitz (aka Aesop Rock). Tricky one that.

20. Is there a song by 14 that makes you happy? (WHY?)
Gemini (Birthday Song) and A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under both put a smile on my face.

21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Burial)
I listened a lot to Burial when I initially moved to London, so maybe that.

22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Regina Spektor)
Samson was the first song I heard by her, and I absolutely loved it. Still find it amazing. But she's done so many incredible tracks, other favourites are Ode To Divorce and Somedays.

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Radiohead)
Creep, back in the day. Not really feeling their recent stuff.

24. What is your favourite album by 18? (The Clash)
London Calling - one of the greatest albums ever made imo.

25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Madvillain)
Accordion.

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Masta Ace)
Beautiful.

27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Death Cab for Cutie)
Plans. Even quality throughout, not one bad song on the entire album.

28. What is you favorite song by 2? (Sigur Rós)
Probably Með suð í eyrum or Saeglopur. A lot of good songs to choose from though.

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Boards of Canada)
Music Is Math was featured in a Swedish movie, and that's what made me start listening to them.

30. What is you favorite song by 8? (The Album Leaf)
We Need Help.

31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Bon Iver)
None, but I'd love to. Hopefully within the next year.

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Lykke Li)
Everybody But Me (Christoffer Remix). The lyrics are depressing as anything, but it's still that instant party anthem.

33. How did you get into 12? (Madlib)
Through Jaylib's Champion Sound.

34. What is the worst song by 45? (Buck 65)
Kennedy Killed the Hat (which a lot of people seem to love)

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (Groove Armada)
My friend, yet again on MTV back in High School. I still remember the video.

36. What was the first song you ever heard by 48? (Koushik)
Lying in the Sun.

37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (One Be Lo)
None.

38. What is you favorite song by 36? (The Shins)
New Slang & Sea Legs.

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Cat Power)
The Greatest

40. What is you favorite album by 7? (J Dilla)
Donuts! A classic.

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (P.O.S.)
Goodbye. Great beat.

42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Zero 7)
Simple Things.

43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Azure Ray)
Rise. (In fact the song with the most plays in my entire library.)

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Dosh)
I listened a lot to Wolves and Wishes when I went to Tokyo last year, and listening to that album still reminds me of the good times I spent there.

45. What is your favorite song by 35? (DJ Shadow)
Stem/Long Stem, hands down. Amazing track.

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (The Streets)
I guess the easy answer here would be to mention any song off Everything Is Borrowed. But I'm not really a big fan of Mike Skinner going all happy-go-lucky, so I'd have to say Fit But You Know It and Don't Mug Yourself.

47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Atmosphere)
Lucy Ford, followed by God Loves Ugly.

48. Who is your favorite member of 37? (Bloc Party)
Don't have one.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Band of Horses)
The Funeral. Still reckon it's one of their best songs.

50. What is your favorite song by 20? (The Roots)
You Got Me. High school memories right there.

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1 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2 Ryan Adams -Heartbreaker
3 Beck - Sea Change
4 Low - The Great Destroyer
5 Sonic Youth - Murry Street
6 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
7 Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
8 Radiohead - Kid A
9 M.I.A. - Kala
10 Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
11 At The Drive In - Relationship of Command
12 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
13 Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
14 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
15 The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
16 M.I.A. - Arular
17 Mastodon - Leviathan
18 Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
19 M. Ward - Post-War
20 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood


WilcoRyan AdamsBeckLowSonic YouthGodspeed You! Black EmperorJim O'RourkeRadioheadM.I.A.At The Drive InBon IverBright EyesSufjan StevensThe Flaming LipsMastodonGillian WelchM. WardNeko Case

A
The Airborne Toxic Event
Alesha Dixon
Alexandra Burke
Amy Winehouse
Angels & Airwaves
Art Brut
Attack! Attack! (x2)

B
Baddies
Basement Jaxx
BeardyMan
Blur
Bombay Bicycle Club
Bon Iver
Brand New
Bruce Springsteen
Broken Records

C
Calvin Harris
Chairlift
Chipmunk
Coldplay
Craig David
The Cribs

D
Dan Black (x3)
Daniel Evans
Daniel Merriweather
The dead formats
Diana Vickers
Dizzee Rascal
DJ Pdex
Does It Offend You, Yeah?

E
Easy Star All-Stars
Elliot Minor
Emarosa
Enter Shikari
Eoghan Quigg

F
Faithless
Farewell
Florence + The Machine
Franz Ferdinand
Friendly Fires
Frontiers

G
Gareth Gates
Go: Audio
Gossip

H
Hellogoodbye
Houston Calls

I

J
Jamie T (x2)
Jason Mraz
JLS (x2)
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong

K
Kasabian
Kid British
Kylie Minogue

L
Lady GaGa
Laura White
Lil' Chris
Lily Allen
Lostprophets

M
Madness
McFly (x2)
Metric
The Metros
Metro Station
Mr Hudson (x3)
Mystery Jets

N
N*E*R*D
N-Dubz
Nelly Furtado
The Noisettes

O
Out of Sight

P
Paolo Nutini
Peter Andre
Pete Doherty
Pendulum

Q

R
Rachel Hylton
The Rifles
The Rumble Strips (x2)
Ruth Lorenzo

S
S Club 7
S Club Juniors
The Saturdays
Saving Aimee
Shontelle
The Script
Sherwood
Shontelle
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The Spill Canvas
Steps
The Subways
Sugababes

T
Taio Cruz
Tinchy Stryder
The Ting Tings (x2)
Tom Jones
Tonight Is Goodbye

U

V
Victoria Beckham

W
Westlife
White Lies
Will Young (x2)
The Wombats (x2)

X

Y
You Me At Six (x5)
Young Guns

Z
Zoe Birkett
The Zutons

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Met
You Me At Six - Josh Franceschi (x3), Matt Barnes (x3), Max Heyler, Dan Flint.
The Blackout
The Wombats
We Are The Ocean - Dan Brown
Tonight Is Goodbye - Anton West

Coming Up:
You Me At Six (x2)
We The King (x2)
Forever the Sickest Kids (x2)
Bombay Bicycle Club (x2)
All Time Low
The Blackout
Young Guns
The Maccabees
The Big Pink