Best Songs of the 2000s: Part 4

Now that the decade of the twenty-teens is five-plus percent complete, what better time than this holiday weekend to finally take a look back at some favorite songs of the '00s? This is the fourth of four parts.

		"Rebellion (Lies)"
		Arcade Fire
		2004
		People say that your dreams are the only things that save you
		"Reckoner"
		Radiohead
		2007
		You were not to blame for  bittersweet distractors Dare not speak his name, Did I cater to all your needs?
		"Reptilia"
		The Strokes
		2003
		You sound so angry, just calm down, you found me I said please don't slow me down if I'm going too fast
		"Run"
		Snow Patrol
		2004
		To think I might not see those eyes makes it so hard not to cry And as we say our long good-bye, I nearly do
		"Seven Nation Army"
		The White Stripes
		2003
		All the words are gonna bleed from me  and I will think no more And the stains coming from my blood tell me to go back home
		"Shine a Light"
		Wolf Parade
		2005
		You know our hearts beat time out very slowly They're waiting for something that'll never arrive
		"Skinny Love"
		Bon Iver
		2007
		In the morning I'll be with you  But it will be a different kind
		"Staring at the Sun"
		TV on the Radio
		2004
		I am the conscience clear  In pain or ecstasy And we were all weaned, my dear,  Upon the same fatigue
		"Steady, As She Goes"
		The Raconteurs
		2006
		Find yourself a girl and settle down Live a simple life in a quiet town
		"Still in Love Song"
		The Stills
		2003
		We were lovers, we were kissers We were holders of hands,  We were make believers
		"Stillness is the Move"
		Dirty Projectors
		2009
		Isn't life under the sun just a crazy dream? Isn't life just a mirage of the world before the world?
		"Such Great Heights"
		The Postal Service
		2003
		I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned
		"Take Me Out"
		Franz Ferdinand
		2004
		So if you're lonely, you know I'm here waiting for you I'm just a crosshair, I'm just a shot away from you
		"This Mess We're In"
		PJ Harvey (feat. Thom Yorke)
		2000
		Night and day, I dream of making love to you now, baby
		"Tiny Vessels"
		Death Cab for Cutie
		2003
		You touch her skin and then you think  That she is beautiful, But she don't mean a thing to me
		"To Be Young  (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)"
		Ryan Adams
		2000
		Young gal, you done me bad, and I went and did you wrong
		"2080"
		Yeasayer
		2007
		If you find me I'll be sitting by the water fountain Picket signs, letdowns, meltdown on Monday morning
		"Two Weeks"
		Grizzly Bear
		2009
		Would you always? Maybe sometimes? Make it easy? Take your time
		"U.R.A. Fever"
		The Kills
		2008
		Go ahead and have her, Go ahead and leave her, You only ever had her when you were a fever
		"Walking With a Ghost"
		Tegan and Sara
		2004
		No matter which way you go No matter which way you stay You're out of my mind, out of my mind
		"The Way We Get By"
		Spoon
		2002
		We found a new kind of dance  in a magazine Tried it out, it's like nothing you ever seen
		"Welcome Home"
		Radical Face
		2007
		You were never supposed to leave, Now my head's splitting at the seams
		"Wolf Like Me"
		TV on the Radio
		2006
		My mind has changed my body's frame,  but god I like it My heart's aflame, my body's strained, but god I like it
		"Wolves at Night"
		Manchester Orchestra
		2007
		I've got to crucify myself if I am gonna believe you, I've got to promise that I'll finish all the things I said I'd do to begin with, too
		"Yellow"
		Coldplay
		2000
		Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you And all the things that you do
		"Young Folks"
		Peter Bjorn and John
		2006
		If I told you things I did before, Told you how I used to be, Would you go along  with someone like me?

Best Songs of the 2000s: Part 3

Now that the decade of the twenty-teens is five-plus percent complete, what better time than this holiday weekend to finally take a look back at some favorite songs of the '00s? This is the third of four parts.

		"Love Burns"
		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
		2001
		Never thought I'd rather die than try to keep her by my side
		"Lover's Spit"
		Broken Social Scene
		2003
		You know it's time that we grow old and do some shit
		"Maps"
		Yeah Yeah Yeahs
		2003
		Pack up, I'm strayed Wait, they don't love you like I love you
		"The Middle"
		Jimmy Eat World
		2001
		Don't worry what their bitter hearts are gonna say
		"Miracle Drug"
		A.C. Newman
		2004
		While preparing his soul for a perilous slide into clime, He had decided that he would err on the side of divine
		"The Modern Leper"
		Frightened Rabbit
		2008
		You are not ill and I'm not dead Doesn't that make us a perfect pair?
		"Molly's Chambers"
		Kings of Leon
		2003
		Just another girl who wants to rule the world, any time or place And when she gets into your head, You know she's there to stay
		"Moth's Wings"
		Passion Pit
		2009
		You're resting on your laurels and  stepping on my toes Whose side are you on? What side is this anyway?
		"Mr. Brightside"
		The Killers
		2004
		Jealousy, turning saints into the sea Swimming through sick lullabies Choking on your alibis
		"My Girls"
		Animal Collective
		2009
		There isn't much that I feel I need A solid soul and the blood I bleed With a little girl and by my spouse, I only want a proper house
		"Mykonos"
		Fleet Foxes
		2008
		And a sun to maybe dissipate shadows of the mess you made
		"Naive"
		The Kooks
		2006
		How could this be done by such a smiling sweetheart?
		"Naked as We Came"
		Iron & Wine
		2004
		Birds are leaving over autumn's ending One of us will die inside these arms
		"A Nervous Tic Motion  of the Head to the Left"
		Andrew Bird
		2005
		Stretched out on a tarmac, Six miles south of North Platte He can't stand to look back
		"New Slang"
		The Shins
		2001
		I'm looking in on the good life I might be doomed never to find
		"No One Knows"
		Queens of the Stone Age
		2002
		We get some rules to follow That and this, these and those
		"Nowhere Again"
		Secret Machines
		2004
		Another alone on an everyday night Thinking the morning, looking for alright Warming the blood flow with poison  I don't know why
		"Obstacle 1"
		Interpol
		2002
		It's different now that I'm poor and aging, I'll never see this face again You'll go stabbing yourself in the neck
		"Once Around the Block"
		Badly Drawn Boy
		2000
		I'm infatuated by your moves I've got to search hard for your clues
		"1234"
		Feist
		2007
		Old teenage hopes are alive at your door Left you with nothing but they wanted more
		"Over and Over"
		Hot Chip
		2006
		Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal The joy of repetition really is in you
		"Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)"
		Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
		2005
		Success is so forbidding But it makes me think I'm winning
		"Oxford Comma"
		Vampire Weekend
		2008
		All your diction dripping with disdain Through the pain, I always tell the truth
		"Postcards From Italy"
		Beirut
		2006
		There were always golden rocks to throw at those who admit defeat too late
		"The Rat"
		The Walkmen
		2004
		You've got a nerve to be asking a favor Can't you hear me when I'm calling out your name?

Best Songs of the 2000s: Part 2

Now that the decade of the twenty-teens is five-plus percent complete, what better time than this holiday weekend to finally take a look back at some favorite songs of the '00s? This is the second of four parts.

		"Get Free"
		The Vines
		2002
		She never loved me Why should anyone?
		"Golden Skans"
		Klaxons
		2007
		A hall of records, or numbers,  or spaces still undone. Ruins, or relics, disciples of the young.
		"Good Woman"
		Cat Power
		2003
		I will miss your heart, so tender And I will love this love forever
		"Hang Me Up to Dry"
		Cold War Kids
		2006
		Careless in our summer clothes Splashing around in the muck and the mire
		"Hate to Say I Told You So"
		The Hives
		2000
		Gonna get through your head what the mystery man said
		"Heartbeats"
		The Knife
		2003
		To call for hands of above to lean on Wouldn't be good enough for me
		"Heavy Lifting"
		Ambulance Ltd
		2004
		I'm taking it easy if it comes to fate But for the time, I've gotta wait
		"An Honest Mistake"
		The Bravery
		2005
		People, they don't mean a thing to you They move right through you Just like your breath
		"Hope There's Someone"
		Antony and the Johnsons
		2005
		I'm scared of the middle place Between light and nowhere I don't want to be the one left in there
		"Hysteria"
		Muse
		2003
		It's bugging me, grating me,  and twisting me around I'm endlessly caving in and  turning inside out
		"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor"
		Arctic Monkeys
		2006
		Stop making the eyes at me and  I'll stop making the eyes at you What surprises me is that I don't really want you to
		"I Predict a Riot"
		Kaiser Chiefs
		2005
		A friend of a friend, he got beaten He looked the wrong way at a policeman
		"I Turn My Camera On"
		Spoon
		2005
		When I turned my feelings off, I turn my feelings on inside Feel like I'm gonna ignite
		"Idioteque"
		Radiohead
		2000
		We're not scaremongering This is really happening
		"If I Ever Feel Better"
		Phoenix
		2000
		They say love ain't nothing but a sore, I don't even know what love is Too many tears have had to fall Don't you know I'm so tried of it all?
		"If She Wants Me"
		Belle & Sebastian
		2003
		If I could do just one near-perfect thing, I'd be happy They'd write it on my grave or when they scattered my ashes
		"In the Waiting Line"
		Zero 7
		2001
		Do you believe in what you see? There doesn't seem to be anyone else who agrees with me
		"Insistor"
		Tapes 'n Tapes
		2006
		When you rush I'll call your name like Harvard Square holds all inane And don't you know, I'll be your badger
		"John Wayne Gacy, Jr."
		Sufjan Stevens
		2005
		In my best behavior,  I am really just like him Look beneath the floor boards for the secrets I have hid
		"Kicking the Heart Out"
		Rogue Wave
		2004
		If music is my lover, you are just a tease You make love to a shadow whose face is hollow money
		"Knife"
		Grizzly Bear
		2006
		I want you to know when I look in your eyes With every blow comes another lie
		"L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)"
		Kasabian
		2005
		Oh come on, we got our backs to the wall Get on and watch out, Saying "Yer gonna kill us all"!
		"Last Nite"
		The Strokes
		2001
		People, they don't understand Girlfriends, they don't understand ... And on top of this, I ain't ever gonna understand
		"The Laws Have Changed"
		The New Pornographers
		2003
		What'll be revealed today When we peer into the great unknown From the line to the throne?
		"Lazy Eye"
		Silversun Pickups
		2006
		I've been waiting for this silence all night long It's just a matter of time
		"Little Bit"
		Lykke Li
		2008
		Come here, stay with me Stroke me by the hair 'Cause I would give anything to have you as my man

Best Songs of the 2000s: Part 1

Now that the decade of the twenty-teens is five-plus percent complete, what better time than this holiday weekend to finally take a look back at some favorite songs of the '00s? This is the first of four parts.

		"All Hands Against His Own"
		The Black Keys
		2004
		Don't talk about, don't think about love She's not the one you're dreaming of
		"All the Wine"
		The National
		2005
		I'm in a state, I'm in a state Nothing can touch us, my love
		"Animal"
		Miike Snow
		2009
		In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody I knew before, long long long ago
		"Are You Gonna Be My Girl?"
		Jet
		2003
		Big black boots, long brown hair, She's so sweet with her "get back" stare
		"Balloons"
		Foals
		2008
		There's this thing called... We fly balloons on this fuel called love
		"Banquet"
		Bloc Party
		2005
		And if you feel a little left behind, We will wear you on the other side
		"Black"
		Okkervil River
		2005
		Just let me stick around while I tell you, like before, you should say his name the way that he said yours
		"Born to Please"
		Sound Team
		2006
		Weren't you the one that told me not to move around but never through? That's the only thing you ever do
		"C'mon C'mon"
		The Von Bondies
		2004
		When my teeth bite down, I can see  the blood of a thousand men who  have come and gone
		"Cannonball"
		Damien Rice
		2003
		There's still a little bit of your taste in my mouth There's still a little bit of you laced  with my doubt
		"Cherry Blossom Girl"
		Air
		2004
		I'll never love again, Can I say that to you? ... Tell me why can't it be true?
		"Chinese Translation"
		M. Ward
		2006
		If life is really as short as they say, then why is the night so long?
		"Combat Baby"
		Metric
		2003
		I want to be wrong But no one here wants to fight me  like you do
		"Crystalised"
		The xx
		2009
		Don't think that I'm pushing you away when you're the one that I've kept closest
		"Daft Punk is Playing at My House"
		LCD Soundsystem
		2005
		There's a fistfight brewing at my house,  my house, because the jocks can't get in the door
		"Daylight"
		Matt & Kim
		2009
		I have five clocks in my life and only one has the time right I'll just unplug it for today
		"Do You Realize??"
		The Flaming Lips
		2002
		Instead of saying all of your good-byes, Let them know you realize  that life goes fast
		"Don't Save Us From the Flames"
		M83
		2005
		Bleeding all around Liquid metal through my veins The radio's burning A ghost is screaming your name
		"Electric Feel"
		MGMT
		2008
		She got the power in her hands To shock you like you won't believe
		"The Engine Driver"
		The Decemberists
		2005
		I've written pages upon pages, Trying to rid you from my bones
		"Evil Urges"
		My Morning Jacket
		2008
		It ain't evil, baby, If you ain't hurting anybody
		"Fell in Love with a Girl"
		The White Stripes
		2002
		Come and kiss me by the riverside Bobby says it's fine, he don't consider it cheating now
		"Float On"
		Modest Mouse
		2004
		I backed my car into a cop car the other day Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's OK
		"Fortress"
		Pinback
		2004
		Stop, it's too late, I'm feeling frustrated I see no sign of fortress
		"The Funeral"
		Band of Horses
		2006
		I'm coming up only to hold you under I'm coming up only to show you wrong

Best Albums of the '00s

		Boxer
		The National
		2007
		"Start a War"
		Picaresque
		The Decemberists
		2005
		"16 Military Wives"
		Out of the Shadow
		Rogue Wave
		2004
		"Every Moment"
		Oracular Spectacular
		MGMT
		2008
		"Time to Pretend"
		Hail to the Thief
		Radiohead
		2003
		"There There"
		Franz Ferdinand
		Franz Ferdinand
		2004
		"The Dark of the Matinee"
		Chutes Too Narrow
		The Shins
		2003
		"So Says I"
		Alphabetical
		Phoenix
		2004
		"Everything is Everything"
		Bitte Orca
		Dirty Projectors
		2009
		"Two Doves"
		Our Endless Numbered Days
		Iron & Wine
		2004
		"Passing Afternoon"
		The Mysterious Production of Eggs
		Andrew Bird
		2005
		"Fake Palindromes"
		American Idiot
		Green Day
		2004
		"American Idiot"
		Transatlanticism
		Death Cab for Cutie
		2003
		"Title and Registration"
		Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
		Arctic Monkeys
		2006
		"Fake Tales of San Francisco"
		Lifted, Or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
		Bright Eyes
		2002
		"Lover I Don't Have to Love"
		Merriweather Post Pavilion
		Animal Collective
		2009
		"Brother Sport"
		Hot Fuss
		The Killers
		2004
		"Somebody Told Me"
		White Blood Cells
		The White Stripes
		2001
		"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
		Return to Cookie Mountain
		TV on the Radio
		2006
		"I Was a Lover"
		LCD Soundsystem
		LCD Soundsystem
		2005
		"Tribulations"
		Fleet Foxes
		Fleet Foxes
		2008
		"Your Protector"
		You Forgot It in People
		Broken Social Scene
		2003
		"Anthems for a 17-Year-Old Girl"
		A Rush of Blood to the Head
		Coldplay
		2002
		"The Scientist"
		The Moon & Antarctica
		Modest Mouse
		2000
		"Gravity Rides Everything"
		Fever to Tell
		Yeah Yeah Yeahs
		2003
		"Y Control"
		In Rainbows
		Radiohead
		2007
		"Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
		Vampire Weekend
		Vampire Weekend
		2008
		"A-Punk"
		Silent Alarm
		Bloc Party
		2005
		"Helicopter"
		Turn on the Bright Lights
		Interpol
		2002
		"NYC"
		Kill the Moonlight
		Spoon
		2002
		"The Way We Get By"
		Veckatimest
		Grizzly Bear
		2009
		"Cheerleader"
		You Are Free
		Cat Power
		2003
		"He War"
		For Emma, Forever Ago
		Bon Iver
		2007
		"Blindsided"
		Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
		Wilco
		2002
		"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"
		Illinois
		Sufjan Stevens
		2005
		"Chicago"
		Elephant
		The White Stripes
		2003
		"Black Math"
		Sea Change
		Beck
		2002
		"Lost Cause"
		Funeral
		Arcade Fire
		2004
		"Neighborhood #2 (Laika)"
		Kid A
		Radiohead
		2000
		"The National Anthem"
		Is This It
		The Strokes
		2001
		"Someday"