Your favorite song of the 00's - PICK ONLY ONE

Since we're in Listmania mode, I want to know.

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Missy Elliott - "Get Ur Freak On"

Sonic Youth - "Rain On Tin"

Life Without Buildings - The Leanover

New Pornographers, "My Slow Descent Into Alcoholism"

ciara ft. ludacris - oh

Max Tundra - Merman

Röyksopp – What Else Is There (Trentemoller remix)

this would be a good mixtape

Bob Dylan - Mississippi

The Fall- Blindness (Peel version)

(lol old)

'heartbeats'

The only song that I can think of that I'll always be in the mood for:
Amerie - 1 thing

Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix)
(chose it before seeing call all destroyer's answer, not being contrarian)

Ween - flutes of the chi

"oye mi canto" -- n.o.r.e, nina sky, tego calderon et al

^^^^^^^^YESSSSSSSSS

Tempted to say Of Montreal "Gronlandic Edit", but I know that's not right so I'm gonna get back to you on this one.

pharoah monch - simon says

Laffy Taffy

Rihanna - umbrella

Mariah -- Shake It Off

Bros- Panda Bear

this should be a youtube thread

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ohhh fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7pESuX9E24

If you're gonna post youtubes, plz post song name too for those who can't see youtubes

Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Remix)

Daft Punk - "One More Time"

If you're gonna post youtubes, plz post song name too for those who can't see youtubes

Oops, by all means! Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway.

the youtube repost:

"oye mi canto"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2rSOaz0X9Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFm8RQA_ltE

and we get out first lol answer

"No Children" by The Mountain Goats

jay-z ft ugk - big pimpin

spiritualized - "dont just do something"

Girls Aloud - Biology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jRhiuFKmdc&feature=fvst

High on Fire-Thraft of Canaan

i thought more ppl would be waving the populist/big singles flag. kinda shocked

i always do fav singles lists -- so when you asked for "favorite song" i went with a deep cut

also "your favorite" makes me feel like going with a more personal choice than just "hi i like 'Since U Been Gone' too"

Well what's the BEST song of the 00s then

I want everyone's big choice!

i dunno dog -- i gave an honest "favorite" choice and a few months ago when we went through the "biggest/most decade defining" thing i had a few suggestions. "best" is a tall tall order, though.

I might agree with Fetchboy. I'd be hard-pressed to think of another song that blew me away as much on first listen or as consistently thereafter as '1 Thing'.

That said, my official choice will take some hardcore pondering.

yeah 1 Thing is pretty mindblowing.

I don't think there should be a difference between "best" and "favorite". If you choose the one you 'appreciate' the most because of whatever reasons, but that is NOT your favorite, your being dishonest IMO... my chose is definitely the BEST and my FAVORITE.

"chose" = "choice"

Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

I think the "this is my favorite because it's the best" mentality is a certain way of thinking that I don't share. I look for certain things in music that not everyone does, and even if I believe in something's value I don't necessarily think it's inherently the best on some objective level.

'best' is just a non-starter. best musically, best to dance to, best selling etc.

la ritournelle - sebastien tellier

guys don't have the favorite/best argument here.

if the question is vague just clarify in yr answer thx

Yeah if I went the some dude route I'd have said of montreal - "we were born mutants again with leafling" but I guess I read the thread more as the "song you couldn't imagine never hearing again" or "song that sums up the decade" /alex in manhattan

"Everything Is Free" - Gillian Welch

All You Need is Hate - The Delgados

I am not a huge fan of the Delgados or symphonic indie in general but there is something about this song, so Steely Dan-ish in construction (by which I mean it is a lush, beautiful, expertly plaid and very artificial sounding song that is undercut by vicious, bitter, deeply idiosyncratic lyrics). I can't think of any other song that has had such an instant emotional impact on me in the past decade. Sure there's other stuff that's been more immediately exciting or sonically innovative or whatever, but from a strictly classical-songwriting sorta view this is a perfect song. I always want to sing along to it, and the words always hit me in a weird way, the string arrangement is gorgeous, the sentiment brutal and wry.

Thursday - War All The Time

Maxïmo Park – "Graffiti"

I think the "this is my favorite because it's the best" mentality is a certain way of thinking that I don't share. I look for certain things in music that not everyone does, and even if I believe in something's value I don't necessarily think it's inherently the best on some objective level.

― some dude, Friday, August 21, 2009 6:53 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

(OK sorry Whiney, I'll just reply to this and then I'll stop, promise.)

See, there are a lot of points in this argument that I would debate. You say I look for certain things in music that not everyone does, but isn't that how everyone (OK maybe not everyone, but a lot of people who really care about music) feels?

Also I really don't think there's any kind of objective level, only a degree of consensus (which can be high, but never to the point of objectivity).

On the same topic, that's why I object (and I know I'm not the only one) to the idea of 'guilty pleasure', I think it's paradoxical.

100 Reasons Why 'Ignition - Remix' Is So Damned Great

well, there are tards like Geir who think their priorities when listening to music are the only true important things to listen for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrMhrHgcPho&feature=fvw

This one, probably.

The problem with Geir is that he seems to think his own priorities should be universal.

x-post

I think I prefer lists like this one a lot more than p4k's because you know that every song here is at least someone's absolute favorite, while on the p4k there are probably tons of entries that everyone likes and nobody loves.

Tom Waits - Alice

LCD Soundsystem - Yeah

R. Kelly, Step in the Name of Love Remix

Peter Bjorn & John, "Young Folks".

the White Stripes - Black Math

mclusky - she will only bring you happiness

coal! coal!

my favourite line is "and bathe and breath and be murdered"

maybe "breathe" by fabolous

or "who wrote the night?" by sicbay

that is a great line, aye xp

Snoop Dogg (ft. Justin Timberlake) - Signs

I have this whittled down to two

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=5767922

^u can listen to "who wrote the night" here, written by ed rodriguez formerly of deerhoof when he was still in sicbay...nick sakes is main dude, from dazzling killmen and colossamite

Burial, Archangel, but this is a hard question.

Was this close to naming GhostFace, Walk Around; Hercules & Love Affair, Blind; The Knife, Silent Sh . . . ahhhh, this is an impossible exercise.

track was easy enough for me tbh

7/4 (shoreline) - broken social scene

my listening habits have progressively drifted much further towards rap and r&b over indie since 2005, but this is still a perfectly encapsulated moment of summer, feist floating effortlessly over the uneven drums and those cascading HORNS. evocative of a particular time/place/mood.

that said, the presence of oye mi canto, oh & 1 thing make me v. happy indeed.

Mclusky? Hm. Must check it out. (Not sure I've ever heard them, aside from soundscans).

(xp)

Everyone is encouraged to SB Daniel Esq for not following directions

mclusky are awesome but SWOBYH is not very representative of their sound in general, but it is a basically unmatchably great song

Easy now! I'm likely at 49 already.

only because you don't like Linkin Park

Mclusky sounds very different than what I remember/imagined. I thought they sounded more like . . . Jesus Lizard, maybe? But this song is very different from that sound.

Digital Love

lindstrom and solale - "let's practise"

but Something About Us should at least get a shout out.

Wow, had not heard that Ulrich Schnauss track before, but it's absolutely wonderful!!! WOW

^^^more of this plz ;)

For a very large part of the decade, it was this... but I'm not so sure anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqRnGdD_WV4

Delays - Long Time Coming

i do really like that song, guys voice reminds me of "i think we're alone now"

Spiller - 'Groovejet'

maybe Archer Prewitt - 'Sister Ice'
at least that's what I'll go with

since I can't vote for sister christian

Now that I've heard "On My Own" a couple more times I've realized maybe part of its appeal for me is that the "chorus" reminds me of "Biology". No?

Ooh, there is a similarity, yeah! Only in the final two chords, though, and then only at a very basic level which doesn't take into account Schnauss' genius for layering. OMO's chorus is more graceful, sublime, and was released 2 years earlier. :D

Biology's still a good song!

^ Really? I thought it was '07?

OK nevermind I was confused.

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health.

This comes after becoming deeply entrenched in dance music from 1991...and being gobsmacked at the reinvention.

Wilco - "At Least That's What You Said"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-8Ot62Ns8M

mclusky are awesome but SWOBYH is not very representative of their sound in general, but it is a basically unmatchably great song

Would have said exactly this but about "Alan is a Cowboy Killer," the only other song I really considered naming in this poll.

I will probably update this closer to December:

Pissed Jeans - Boring Girls

Good rule for people posting here: If you have to really think about it, it's probably not your song of the decade.

That kind of means I won't have a song of the decade, but oh wait that's probably true anyway.

Whiney: Should we be voting for "best" or "favorite"? Some people seem to be getting the two mixed up IMO.

Don't know why but at the moment I'm thinking Justin Timberlake - "What Goes Around..." -- between that and The-Dream's "I Luv Your Girl," will update it later on, though.

x-post -- the problem is that people likely have several obvious songs of the decade, and they aren't all comparable.

glad to see someone else reppin for Le Retournille. That just might be my answer. Or What You Know by T.I. Or...

Juan Maclean - "You Can't Have it Both Ways"

the best mclusky song is the bbc session of "friends stoning friends"

Bros

why is wilco guy wearing so much makeup, looks like a female impersonator imo

Kylie - "In My Arms"

Ghostface - Apollo Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esme7cRZu7o

Gusgus - Don't Hide What You Feel

Ween - "Flutes of the Chi":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnzEm0jXDM

chocolate rain

Fantasia - When I See U (remix feat. Polow da Don and Young Jeezy)

I haven't heard that version of "Flutes Of Chi" in many years.. thank you. (I usually listen to the live acoustic one from 96/97..)

If you have to really think about it, it's probably not your song of the decade.

In that case it's "One More Time" but that is an ordinary choice so I don't feel special. Oh wait.. I mean "Club Action" by Yo Majesty.

"The Valleys" / Electrelane

Fantasia - When I See U (remix feat. Polow da Don and Young Jeezy)

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:16 PM (1 hour ago)

^i actually posted this on my phone but it didn't go through for some reason. i took that as a sign from the ilx gods that i was frontin and switched my pick

"Stacey's Mom" with "Kerosene" a close 2nd.

The Valleys is an awesome choice

^i actually posted this on my phone but it didn't go through for some reason. i took that as a sign from the ilx gods that i was frontin and switched my pick

― ash ra - i love temple (k3vin k.), Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:08 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

hahaha no way! the mega-irony is that I was gonna post Umbrella, but saw that you had already done so and didn't wanna repeat

welcome to jamrock!

Om - At Giza

Soul Capsule - Law of Grace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F0I_pRkrbI
if not, then Animal Collective - Banshee Beat

whoops, shouldn't have added a second.

sbd u

^i actually posted this on my phone but it didn't go through for some reason. i took that as a sign from the ilx gods that i was frontin and switched my pick

― ash ra - i love temple (k3vin k.), Sunday, August 23, 2009 3:08 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

hahaha no way! the mega-irony is that I was gonna post Umbrella, but saw that you had already done so and didn't wanna repeat

― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:32 PM (46 minutes ago)

wooow

bump for revive

sean paul "like glue"

cross post with forgotten songs of 00s or whatever it was called

Either RAMMS+EIN's "te quirre puta!" or P!nk's "So What". Cannot decide.

I listened to just about every track in this thread. (uhh some hiphop tracks were ignored)
My favorite new find was Life Without Buildings - 'The Leanover' thanks NickB

The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend

Aaliyah - More Than a Woman

Boston - More Than a Feeling

mr. que, that isn't from the 00s

he means this one

http://www.qotile.net/files/mtaf.mp3

I'm gonna go with "Blind."

Luomo- Tessio

^^^

Brilliant song.

I'd say Perfume - Polyrhythm

Bros

i thought about this for a while, than i suddenly realized that
SOMEONE IN MY DICTIONARY IS UP TO NO GOOD

andrew WK - get ready to die

"Letter for an Occupant" - New Pornographers

tortoise - crest

Either 3x0 or This Red Book off of Pinback's Summer in Abbadon

Erykah Badu, "The Healer"

According to my last.fm, it isn't until #38 that I even hit anything in the last decade.
THIS IS NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIK3G7VuqXM

stars of the lid - requiem for dying mothers (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ60j24Tr2M

Fuck I'm changing my answer to Grindin.

LCD Soundsystem 'Losing My Edge'

Linkin Park, "Bleed It Out"

I fly like paper, get high like planes.

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?

t.A.T.u. - all the things she said

or any track off aaliyah s/t

Ladytron - Destory Everything You Touch

this would make a good Spotify playlist!

oh and my choice The Streets - Weak Become Heroes (Ashley Beedle's Love Bug Vocal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs8XyMvh4KA

bent - so long without you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmKkQJ6xb1s

shake it like a polaroid picture

keep thinking i posted my choice in here ages ago but maybe it was another thread. duh Knife 'Heartbeats' anyway.

"morris brown" by outkast, maybe

Paper Planes

Michelle Branch - All You Wanted

Ignition (Remix) is what first springs to mind.