Monday, January 11, 2010

Getting "Oughty," 2000-2009




21 songs from 21 artists to mark the best music of the 21st Century

Bright Eyes - "At The Bottom Of Everything" from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (January 25, 2005)
Gillian Welch - "I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll" from Time (The Revelator) (July 31, 2001)
Iron & Wine - "Love And Some Verses" from Our Endless Numbered Days (March 23, 2004)
Fleet Foxes - "Blue Ridge Mountains" from Fleet Foxes (June 3, 2008)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - "Magnolia Mountain" from Cold Roses (May 3, 2005)
Kings of Leon - "Fans" from Because of the Times (April 3, 2007)
The Raconteurs - "These Stones Will Shout" from Consolers Of The Lonely (March 25, 2008)
The White Stripes - "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" from Elephant (April 1, 2003)
The Killers - "All These Things That I've Done" from Hot Fuss (June 15, 2004)
Arcade Fire - "Rebellion (Lies)" from Funeral (September 14, 2004)
Radiohead - "Everything in Its Right Place" from Kid A (October 3, 2000)
Muse - "Starlight" from Black Holes and Revelations (July 11, 2006)
A Perfect Circle - "The Noose" from Thirteenth Step (September 16, 2003)
Tool - "10,000 Days (Wings, Pt. 2)" from 10,000 Days (May 2, 2006)
The Flaming Lips - "Fight Test" from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (July 16, 2002)
My Morning Jacket - "Wordless Chorus" from Z (October 4, 2005)
Band of Horses - "Ode to LRC" from Cease To Begin (October 9, 2007)
Ben Harper- "Everything" from Diamonds On The Inside (March 11, 2003)
TV on the Radio - "Ambulance" from Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (March 9, 2004)
R.E.M - "Until The Day Is Done" from Accelerate (April 1, 2008)
U2 - "Grace" from All That You Can't Leave Behind (October 31, 2000)

A great essay about the decade without a name:

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