#TheN0ughtie5 Day 9
Hope of the States - Black Dollar Bills
(2003, 🇬🇧)
Post-rock gone pop, tapping into something that felt unusually emotionally monumental. I miss the band they should have got to be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2M...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 8
The Knife - Heartbeats
(2002, 🇸🇪)
The song quickly became a standard for a reason. The intensity they bring to it is something else
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPD8...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 7
Dntel - This is the Dream of Evan and Chan
(2002, 🇺🇸)
I love several Postal Service songs, but none of them quite match up to the crystal glitch dream sequence they launched from
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myis...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 6
Hikaru Utada - Hikari
(2002, 🇯🇵)
This is not here thanks to Kingdom Hearts, since I've never played it. Just a strong song (quite "White Flag", a year before it) and a really great performance from Utada
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlMd...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 5
Linkin Park - In the End
(2001, 🇺🇸)
As an indie kid I was very anti nu-metal, but even then couldn't deny the hooks and dynamic sweep here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTX...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 4
Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad
(2001, 🏴)
A swaying wall of emotion with stylophone solo as divine epiphany, my favourite Manic Street Preachers single
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3i1...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 3
JJ72 - Oxygen
(2000, 🇮🇪)
Starts off at "short sleeves and warm skin", ends up at "WE don't need OXYGEN", perfect indie rock expression of teenage love. And yeah, I was a teenager in summer 2000
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3O...
#TheN0ughtie5 Day 2
Whiteberry - 夏祭り [Natsu Matsuri]
(2000, 🇯🇵)
This is in my list thanks to Taiko no Tatsujin. But I only have so many years of fond memories of whacking drums along to it in arcades because it rocks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZRR...
#TheN0ughtie5 (favourite songs of the 00s) Day 1
Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 da Reload (Casualty)
(2000, 🇬🇧)
A song from when I first started listening to the charts every week, and it was the most unusual and thrilling thing on there, at #1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5T1...
