Pitchfork and DiS (ish) have made their end of decade lists. To fuel my own love of making playlists I gave it a go and began, thinking it would be a swizz. How wrong I was. This has been a great decade for music and at times I had to ask for help, partly due to my non-existant memory and also because a ceiling fell on my computer midway through the decade and wiped my i-tunes. This is not a counter-list to theirs, they have a far more music knowledge than me, it’s a smattering of songs I adore and those that have meant a lot to me over the last 9 1/2 years. I have been completely honest so inevitably there’s the odd suspect choice in there.

The list is in no order other than the one I wished to listen to it in, but just to throw it out there my favourite songs (again in no order) of this decade are I Feel It All by Feist, I Will Possess Your Heart by Death Cab For Cutie, Recurring by Bonobo (from the Live Sessions ep), Hey Ya! by Outkast, Romantic Rights (Love From Below Re-edit) by Death From Above 1979, The Weight of My Words (Four Tet Remix) by Kings of Convenience and, the most likely contender for No. 1 were I forced to choose, She Move She by Four Tet.

nb. One thing this undertaking showed me was that it seems I tend to like the first song from albums. Strange.

1.    Broken Social Scene – Windsurfing Nation
2.    Built to Spill – Goin’ Against Your Mind
3.    Hot Hot Heat – Talk To Me, Dance With Me
4.    Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
5.    Friendly Fires – Jump in the Pool
6.    Jamie Lidell – When I come Back Around
7.    Feist – I Feel It All
8.    Jimmy Eat World – Salt Sweat Sugar
9.    The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Let’s Make History
10.    Panic At The Disco – But It’s Better If You Do
11.    Weezer - This is Such a Pity
12.    Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
13.    Rilo Kiley – Portions For Foxes
14.    Mates of State – Goods (All In Your Head)
15.    Modest Mouse – The View
16.    Say Anything – Admit It!!!
17.    Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights (Love From Below Re-edit)
18.    Alkaline Trio – Private Eye
19.    At The Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
20.    Rage Against The Machine – Renegades of Funk
21.    The Roots – Seed (2.0)
22.    Head Automatica – Beating Heart Baby
23.    Handsome Boy Modeling School – If It Wasn’t For You
24.    Four Tet – She Move She
25.    The Shins – Sleeping Lessons
26.    Cinematic Orchestra – Man With A Movie Camera
27.    Battles – SZ2
28.    The Books – All Bad Ends All
29.    Phoenix – Girlfriend
30.    Cat Power – He War
31.    Hanne Hukkelberg – Do Not As I Do
32.    Grizzly Bear – On A Neck, On A Spit
33.    The Postal Service – Clark Gable
34.    Kings of Convenience – The Weight of My Words (Four Tet Remix)
35.    Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
36.    Bonobo – Recurring
37.    Blink-182 – I Miss You
38.    Queens of the Stone Age – In The Fade
39.    The Streets – Same Old Thing
40.    Dilated Peoples – Pay Attention
41.    Hymie’s Basement – 21st Century Pop Song
42.    Mos Def – Umi Says
43.    Talib Kweli – Get By
44.    Dead Prez – Hip Hop
45.    Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
46.    LCD Soundsystem – Disco Infiltrator
47.    RJD2 – Good Times Roll Pt. 2
48.    Amerie – 1 Thing
49.    The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
50.    Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dance With The Night
51.    Foals – Hummer
52.    Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push the Air
53.    Art Brut – Good Weekend
54.    CSS – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
55.    DJ Vadim – Terrorist
56.    Tom Vek – I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes
57.    Outkast – Hey Ya!
58.    Christina Aguilera – Aint No Other Man
59.    Youngblood Brass Band – The Movement
60.    The Dead 60s – Riot Radio
61.    Justice – Phantom
62.    Destiny’s Child – Lose My Breath
63.    The Walkmen – The Rat
64.    Deftones – Knife Prty
65.    Mice Parade – Sneaky Red
66.    Kelis feat. Andre 3000 – Millionaire
67.    Coconut Records – Nighttiming
68.    Cut Copy – Feel The Love
69.    Yeasayer – Sunrise
70.    TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
71.    Sia – Academia
72.    Beirut – Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
73.    Thom Yorke – Black Swan
74.    Animal Collective – My Girls
75.    Hot Chip – Shining Escalade
76.    Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
77.    The Whitest Boy Alive – Don’t Give Up
78.    Pharrell feat. Jay-Z – Frontin’
79.    Psapp – Happy Lamb
80.    Regina Spektor – Après Moi
81.    Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line
82.    Why? – The Vowels Pt. 2
83.    Ben Folds – The Ascent of Stan
84.    The Gossip – Don’t Make Waves
85.    Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
86.    Madcon – Beggin’
87.    DJ Shadow feat. Mos Def – Six Days – Remix
88.    Justice vs. Simian – We Are Your Friends
89.    Soulwax – E Talking
90.    Peaches – Tombstone, Baby
91.    MGMT – Kids
92.    Fingathing – You Fly Me
93.    Ratatat – Lex
94.    Radiohead – Everything in It’s Right Place
95.    Caribou – Bees
96.    Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around
97.    Ed Harcourt – She Fell Into My Arms
98.    Yo La Tengo – Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind
99.    Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
100.    Explosions In The Sky – First Breath After Coma

Spotify playlist here

Painfully absent are the following that haven’t yet made it onto Spotify:
Supersystem – Miracle
Plantlife – When She Smiles She Lights the Sky
Minus the Bear – Fine + 2pts
The Sea and Cake – Sound and Vision
Mice Parade – Focus on the Rollercoaster
Evil Nine feat. Aesop Rock – Crooked
!!! – Me and Guiliani Down By The Schoolyard
Arcade Fire – Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
Prefuse 73 – The Color of Tempo
Why? – 500 Fingernails
Fingathing – Drunken Master 2
edIT – Ashtray
Electric President – Insomnia President
Ben Gibbard – You Remind of Home