Best Songs of the 2000s: Part 1

2000s: Decade, Best Of, Songs

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.

100 “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
100 “All the Wine”
The National
2005
I’m in a state, I’m in a state
Nothing can touch us, my love
100 “Animal”
Miike Snow
2009
In your eyes I see the eyes of somebody
I knew before, long long long ago
100 “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?”
Jet
2003
Big black boots, long brown hair,
She’s so sweet with her “get back” stare
100 “Balloons”
Foals
2008
There’s this thing called…
We fly balloons on this fuel called love
100 “Banquet”
Bloc Party
2005
And if you feel a little left behind,
We will wear you on the other side
100 “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
100 “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
100 “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
100 “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
100 “Cherry Blossom Girl”
Air
2004
I’ll never love again,
Can I say that to you? …
Tell me why can’t it be true?
100 “Chinese Translation”
M. Ward
2006
If life is really as short as they say,
then why is the night so long?
100 “Combat Baby”
Metric
2003
I want to be wrong
But no one here wants to fight me 
like you do
100 “Crystalised”
The xx
2009
Don’t think that I’m pushing you away
when you’re the one that I’ve kept closest
100 “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
100 “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
100 “Do You Realize??”
The Flaming Lips
2002
Instead of saying all of your good-byes,
Let them know you realize 
that life goes fast
100 “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
100 “Electric Feel”
MGMT
2008
She got the power in her hands
To shock you like you won’t believe
100 “The Engine Driver”
The Decemberists
2005
I’ve written pages upon pages,
Trying to rid you from my bones
100 “Evil Urges”
My Morning Jacket
2008
It ain’t evil, baby,
If you ain’t hurting anybody
100 “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
100 “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
100 “Fortress”
Pinback
2004
Stop, it’s too late,
I’m feeling frustrated
I see no sign of fortress
100 “The Funeral”
Band of Horses
2006
I’m coming up only to hold you under
I’m coming up only to show you wrong

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15 Responses

  5. Taylor Pope

    electric feel? really? just picked the highest chart topper there, did ya? mgmt regrets getting famous for this song and just about every other song from that album an their new one shits on it

  7. nevanevaneva

    lets see a torrent of these songs!

    not that its too much different from some of my pandora stations..

  9. Scott

    I love that you put All the Wine on here, I would've cited different lyrics though: "So tall I take over the street, with high beams shining up my back. A wingspan unbelievable, I'm a festival. I'm a parade."

  10. piroteknix

    Here's the Spotify playlist for Jonk Music's Best of the 2000s. I don't think there's an official one, so I built it myself. Also, it's missing five tracks that weren't on Spotify (at time of construction):

    The Black Keys – All Hands Against His Own
    The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes
    Radiohead – Reckoner
    The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
    Yeasayer – 2080

    spotify:user:piroteknix:playlist:12UDvL14aR5ohRfeTwc4H6

    (Users: if one of these songs becomes available, shoot me a Spotify message. I'd love to have a complete playlist.

    Jonk Music: if this infringes on a copyright issue or something, shoot me a Spotify message and I'll see what I can do)

  13. Cabron

    there is nothing "amazing" about this list. all lists suck. this list should be called "best songs of the 2000s by hipsters under 25 who have an extremely pathetic and limited taste in music"… truly truly awful, i feel so sorry for you all.

  15. E-drizzle

    Fucking brilliant list mate. This list embodies my last ten+ years of music listening.