As is necessary at the end of things like years and decades there’s been a load of these top tracks of the noughties lists and I’ve managed to disagree with just about all of them. Even the Gigwise 50 Greatest Songs of the 2000s included waaay too many Radiohead tracks for my liking! Obviously the old saying goes about opinions and arseholes, so, here’s my top 100 tracks from the last ten years. Actually just a few caveats, this is actually my favourite 100 that are on Spotify as I wanted to supply a Spotify playlist as well. So there’s actually about another 20 tunes I couldn’t find on there, plus there’s probably another 20 that I hear in the office but don’t know the names of or my booze addled brain has forgotten. Also, only one song per band, otherwise this list would have been a lot less varied. Anyway, here’s the Spotify link: Best Of The Noughties. Enjoy!

P.S. To all those moaners who say there’s no good music around these days: open your ears!

And the list:

At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
The Rapture – House Of Jealous Lovers
Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
The Knife – Heartbeats
Hot Hot Heat – Bandages
Jay-Z – 99 Problems
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Gold Lion
Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On – LP Version
Add N To (X) – Take Me To Your Leader (Make Me Really Happy)
Test Icicles – Your Biggest Mistake
Feist – My Moon My Man – Boys Noize Remix
Foals – Hummer
Battles – Atlas
The Mars Volta – The Widow
The Cribs – Mirror Kissers
Bloc Party – Helicopter
The Maccabees – Love You Better
Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down
Jamie T – Sheila
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
The Young Knives – She’s Attracted To – Radio Edit
The Rakes – 22 Grand Job
Art Brut – My Little Brother
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Bonde Do Role – Office Boy
CSS – Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex
New Young Pony Club – Ice Cream
Shitdisco – I Know Kung-Fu
Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
The Von Bondies – C’mon C’mon
Louis XIV – God Killed The Queen
Electric Six – Gay Bar
Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
Roots Manuva – Witness (1 Hope)
Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs Health)
Hot Club De Paris – Shipwreck
Klaxons – Magick
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Metronomy – A Thing For Me
Peaches – Kick It (feat Iggy Pop)
Secret Machines – Nowhere Again
The Bug – Poison Dart
Gorillaz – DARE
The Strokes – Last Nite
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster – Rise Of The Eagles
The Horrors – Scarlet Fields
Operator Please – Just A Song About Ping Pong – Kissy Sellout’s White Stallion Remix Radio Edit
Prodigy – Hot Ride
Kanye West – Gold Digger
Jay-Z – Swagga Like Us
Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
The Raconteurs – Steady, As She Goes
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Big Pink – Dominos
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Friendly Fires – Paris
The Futureheads – Stupid and Shallow
Beastie Boys – Ch-Check It Out
TV on the Radio – Staring At The Sun
Interpol – Evil
Editors – All Sparks
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – The Rest Will Follow
The Flaming Lips – It Overtakes Me
Portishead – Machine Gun
MGMT – Kids
Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
Miike Snow – Animal
Johnny Cash – Hurt
Snow Patrol – Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Laura Marling – Ghosts
Lupe Fiasco – Kick, Push
Tokyo Police Club – Tessallate – Tom Campesinos! Remix
Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
Death From Above 1979 – Blood On Our Hands
Tapes ‘n Tapes – Cowbell
Belle and Sebastian – I’m A Cuckoo
The Polyphonic Spree – Soldier Girl
Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks
Bat For Lashes – Trophy
Björk – All Is Full Of Love – LP Version
Wolfmother – Woman
Gossip – Standing In The Way of Control
The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
The Killers – Somebody Told Me
Kasabian – Club Foot
The Vines – Get Free
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
Pure Reason Revolution – The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning
Tom Vek – C-C (You Set The Fire In Me)
Nine Black Alps – Get Your Guns
Shy Child – Drop The Phone
David Holmes presents The Free Association – Don’t Rhyme No Mo
The Golden Virgins – I Am A Camera
Late of the Pier – The Bears Are Coming (Original)
Dan Le Sac – Thou Shalt Always Kill
The Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
The Go! Team – Ladyflash
Sigur Rós – Hoppípolla

Best of the Noughties, this post on Gigwise.