Comments on: Best of the 2000s: The 30 Best Songs of the 2000s http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/ A blog for the media generation. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:10:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TUiW Goes to the 2010 Pitchfork Music Festival « Tangled Up In Wires http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-862 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:22:18 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-862 [...] and “I Can Change”), the crowd went absolutely nuts during a particularly pulsing rendition of our favorite song, “All My Friends.” Though few of the twentysomething hipsters can identify with a song about [...]

]]> By: MW2K: Top 10 | PhotogMusic http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-773 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:05:21 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-773 [...] Sorry about showing Idioteque, its my favorite song in the album. [...]

]]> By: MW2K: Top 10 « MW Music Review Blog http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-73 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:31:32 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-73 [...] about showing Idioteque, its my favorite song in the [...]

]]> By: Neil Lumbard http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-44 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:51:49 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-44 This list is pretty close to accurate, as far as I am concerned. The only thing wrong with it is naming LCD Soundsystem as the artist with the #1 song. I’ve always found him to be over-rated – dating back to his “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” song. Perhaps it was the fact that I always felt he used his first single to capitalize on Daft Punk’s success. Of course, I still listened to all of his work and found it to be good overall so who’s to say he can’t be a top pick? The thing that impresses me the most about this list though is the inclusion of tracks like Dry Your Eyes (Mike Skinner in top form) and Radiohead’s Idioteque (which I couldn’t agree with more). Phoenix made so many of the best songs of the 2000′s that I’d find it hard to choose just one that stands out head and shoulders above the rest.

Personally, I’d probably suggest including the likes of K-Os (Sunday Morning), Junior Senior (Move Your Feet), Ed Harcourt (You Only Call Me When You’re Drunk), DJ Shadow (Six Days), Dido (White Flag), The Chemical Brothers (The Test), and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (The Line) on this list.

Picking just 25 songs is damn near impossible to do and please everyone though. For what it’s worth, this list was extremely well thought out and worthy of the time spent reading it.

]]> By: Adam Smith http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-43 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:58:43 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-43 Make that succinct. My bad, my blunder.

]]> By: Adam Smith http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-42 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:48:49 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-42 I couldn’t agree more with your number 1. It’s sort of hard to discount OutKast’s “B.O.B.”, but if there’s any song this decade that topped it, “All My Friends” is certainly it. That piano riff is the kind of perpetual motion machine that any good rock band dreams of creating, something that is strangely hypnotic, but always moving forward. It’s a song that I’ve always felt (to put it somewhat cheesily) moves at the speed of life–I can almost imagine the piano as counting the streetlights passing by as you drive, with each little rhythmic hiccup like a streetlight that flickers or is busted out.

And I also whole-heartedly support the notice of Band of Horses’ “The Funeral”. Musically, you’ve captured what makes it click perfectly, but all of that grandeur wouldn’t mean a lot if it didn’t ring true lyrically. I can say with confidence that it perfectly captures what it feels like to have a terminally ill family member–”On every occasion, [you're] ready for the funeral.” I’d argue that single line is one of the best lyrics written this whole decade, because it does what all great poetry does–it captures something unmistakably true in the most succint possible way.

]]> By: Dan http://tangledupinwires.com/2009/12/09/best-of-the-2000s-the-30-best-songs-of-the-2000s/#comment-41 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:39:48 +0000 http://tangledupinwires.com/?p=291#comment-41 I feel that Band of Horses has been criminally understated here… “Is There A Ghost” is a ridiculously underappreciated song, and did fairly well for itself. Sure, that’s the one song you think of with BOH, but come on, one great song? False statement.

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