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.
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“Get Free” |
| The Vines | ||
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2002
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| She never loved me Why should anyone? |
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“Golden Skans” |
| Klaxons | ||
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2007
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| A hall of records, or numbers, or spaces still undone. Ruins, or relics, disciples of the young. |
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“Good Woman” |
| Cat Power | ||
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2003
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| I will miss your heart, so tender And I will love this love forever |
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“Hang Me Up to Dry” |
| Cold War Kids | ||
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2006
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| Careless in our summer clothes Splashing around in the muck and the mire |
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“Hate to Say I Told You So” |
| The Hives | ||
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2000
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| Gonna get through your head what the mystery man said |
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“Heartbeats” |
| The Knife | ||
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2003
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| To call for hands of above to lean on Wouldn’t be good enough for me |
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“Heavy Lifting” |
| Ambulance Ltd | ||
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2004
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| I’m taking it easy if it comes to fate But for the time, I’ve gotta wait |
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“An Honest Mistake” |
| The Bravery | ||
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2005
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| People, they don’t mean a thing to you They move right through you Just like your breath |
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“Hope There’s Someone” |
| Antony and the Johnsons | ||
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2005
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| I’m scared of the middle place Between light and nowhere I don’t want to be the one left in there |
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“Hysteria” |
| Muse | ||
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2003
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| It’s bugging me, grating me, and twisting me around I’m endlessly caving in and turning inside out |
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“I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor” |
| Arctic Monkeys | ||
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2006
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| 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 |
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“I Predict a Riot” |
| Kaiser Chiefs | ||
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2005
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| A friend of a friend, he got beaten He looked the wrong way at a policeman |
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“I Turn My Camera On” |
| Spoon | ||
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2005
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| When I turned my feelings off, I turn my feelings on inside Feel like I’m gonna ignite |
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“Idioteque” |
| Radiohead | ||
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2000
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| We’re not scaremongering This is really happening |
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“If I Ever Feel Better” |
| Phoenix | ||
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2000
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| 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? |
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“If She Wants Me” |
| Belle & Sebastian | ||
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2003
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| 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 |
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“In the Waiting Line” |
| Zero 7 | ||
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2001
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| Do you believe in what you see? There doesn’t seem to be anyone else who agrees with me |
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“Insistor” |
| Tapes ‘n Tapes | ||
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2006
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| When you rush I’ll call your name like Harvard Square holds all inane And don’t you know, I’ll be your badger |
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“John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” |
| Sufjan Stevens | ||
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2005
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| In my best behavior, I am really just like him Look beneath the floor boards for the secrets I have hid |
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“Kicking the Heart Out” |
| Rogue Wave | ||
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2004
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| If music is my lover, you are just a tease You make love to a shadow whose face is hollow money |
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“Knife” |
| Grizzly Bear | ||
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2006
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| I want you to know when I look in your eyes With every blow comes another lie |
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“L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)” |
| Kasabian | ||
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2005
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| Oh come on, we got our backs to the wall Get on and watch out, Saying “Yer gonna kill us all”! |
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“Last Nite” |
| The Strokes | ||
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2001
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| People, they don’t understand Girlfriends, they don’t understand … And on top of this, I ain’t ever gonna understand |
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“The Laws Have Changed” |
| The New Pornographers | ||
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2003
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| What’ll be revealed today When we peer into the great unknown From the line to the throne? |
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“Lazy Eye” |
| Silversun Pickups | ||
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2006
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| I’ve been waiting for this silence all night long It’s just a matter of time |
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“Little Bit” |
| Lykke Li | ||
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2008
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| Come here, stay with me Stroke me by the hair ‘Cause I would give anything to have you as my man |
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Awesome Playlist! I have a great variety of these Songs Already but just discovered some great ones as well. I will and shall return to for reference.l
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)