March 6, 200817 yr Generally excellent, although a few seem to be missing. Dido; holds 2 of the top 5 biggest albums this year, I'd have put White Flag in over the likes of Suddenly I See, Foundations or Out Of Reach. Arctic Monkeys, much as I dislike them, but I Bet You Look You Good On The Dancefloor really should have a mention. I'm also not sure about Shayne Ward's inclusion. Yes, it was an Xmas #1, but I don't think it really had any long-lasting impact at all. I'd also have included Independent Women over Survivor for Destinys Child, Beautiful over Dirrty for Crusty, Yellow over Clocks for Coldplay, and perhaps Push The Button over About You Now for the Sugababes. But the rest of it is pretty much spot on.
March 6, 200817 yr Author Generally excellent, although a few seem to be missing. Dido; holds 2 of the top 5 biggest albums this year, I'd have put White Flag in over the likes of Suddenly I See, Foundations or Out Of Reach. Arctic Monkeys, much as I dislike them, but I Bet You Look You Good On The Dancefloor really should have a mention. I'm also not sure about Shayne Ward's inclusion. Yes, it was an Xmas #1, but I don't think it really had any long-lasting impact at all. I'd also have included Independent Women over Survivor for Destinys Child, Beautiful over Dirrty for Crusty, Yellow over Clocks for Coldplay, and perhaps Push The Button over About You Now for the Sugababes. But the rest of it is pretty much spot on. My original shortlist of 120 had White Flag on it but I discarded her as Stan is on there...I still think people remember Thank You and Here With Me more than White Flag... Arctics I accidentally forgot :P Shayne's was a million seller hence its inclusion...I wasn't sure about those particular tracks you mentioned...Whenever I listen to 'best songs of all time' shows on radio stations at the end of the year, people always seem to rate Survivor and Dirrty highly even though I personally far prefer Beautiful and Independent Women... It's so hard to come up with a list like this as there's always debates over certain artists signature tunes vs. biggest selling hits etc... For example I would have wanted Reach by S Club 7 on it but I think Don't Stop Movin' was just a little bit more representative of the decade...same with Shakira's Whenever, Wherever
March 6, 200817 yr If we look back at Gorillaz in 20 years I'm sure people will more fondly remember Clint Eastwood than Feel Good Inc...considering how quick the charts were in 2001 it stayed in the top ten for about 2 months...but that's just my opinion, not fact :P ill see you in 2028 then to see! lol (if im still alive!!!). feel good inc though is known more by 'non gorillaz' fans, well in my experience anyway.
March 6, 200817 yr Author Updated the tracklist...taken off Lemar, Gabrielle, Kate Nash and KT Tunstall and shoved Enrique and Mary Mary onto disc 5. Added Room 5 to Disc 2, the Arctics and The Darkness to disc 3 and Usher to disc 4...can't believe I forgot them :o here is the updated tracklist: 100 Greatest Hits Of The Noughties CD One 1. S Club 7-Don’t Stop Movin’ 2. Shakira feat Wyclef Jean-Hips Don’t Lie 3. Britney Spears-Toxic 4. All Saints-Pure Shores 5. Scissor Sisters-I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ 6. Natasha Bedingfield-These Words 7. Mika-Grace Kelly 8. Suagababes-About You Now 9. Westlife-You Raise Me Up 10. Wheatus-Teenage Dirtbag 11. Melanie C-Never Be The Same Again 12. LeAnn Rimes-Can’t Fight The Moonlight 13. Atomic Kitten-Whole Again 14. Daniel Bedingfield-If You’re Not The One 15. Pink-Get The Party Started 16. Lily Allen-Smile 17. Liberty X-Just A Little 18. Girls Aloud-Love Machine 19. Christina Aguilera-Dirrty 20. Will Young-Evergreen CD Two 1. Kylie Minogue-Can’t Get You Out Of My Head 2. Madonna-Hung Up 3. Fragma-Toca’s Miracle 4. Eric Prydz-Call On Me 5. Spiller feat Sophie Ellis Bextor-Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) 6. Darude-Sandstorm 7. Modjo-Lady (Hear Me Tonight) 8. DJ Sammy & Yanou feat Do-Heaven 9. Basshunter-Now You’re Gone 10. Cascada-Everytime We Touch 11. Fedde LeGrand-Put Your Hands Up For Detroit 12. Infernal-From Paris To Berlin 13. Robyn with Kleerup-With Every Heartbeat 14. Ultrabeat-Pretty Green Eyes 15. Ian Van Dahl-Castles In The Sky 16. Sonique-It Feels So Good 17. Shapeshifters-Lola’s Theme 18. Room 5 feat Oliver Cheatham-Make Luv 19. Elvis vs. JXL-A Little Less Conversation 20. So Solid Crew-21 Seconds CD Three 1. James Blunt-You’re Beautiful 2. Ronan Keating-Life Is A Rollercoaster 3. Robbie Williams-Rock DJ 4. Daniel Powter-Bad Day 5. Coldplay-Clocks 6. U2-Beautiful Day 7. Take That-Patience 8. Gorillaz-Clint Eastwood 9. Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars 10. David Gray-Babylon 11. Oasis-The Importance Of Being Idle 12. Kaiser Chiefs-I Predict A Riot 13. Arctic Monkeys-I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor 14. The Killers-Mr Brightside 15. Linkin Park & Jay-Z-Numb/Encore 16. Evanescence-Bring Me To Life 17. The Fray-How To Save A Life 18. Nickelback-How You Remind Me 19. My Chemical Romance-Welcome To The Black Parade 20. The Darkness-I Believe In A Thing Called Love CD Four 1. Rihanna feat Jay-Z-Umbrella 2. Kelis-Milkshake 3. Jamelia-Superstar 4. Blu Cantrell feat Sean Paul-Breathe 5. Gnarls Barkley-Crazy 6. Amy Winehouse-Rehab 7. Destiny’s Child-Survivor 8. Nelly Furtado-Maneater 9. Timbaland feat OneRepublic-Apologize 10. 50 Cent-In Da Club 11. Black Eyed Peas-Where Is The Love 12. Usher feat Ludacris-Yeah! 13. R Kelly-Ignition (Remix) 14. Shaggy feat Rikrok-It Wasn’t Me 15. Mis-Teeq-Scandalous 16. Nelly feat Kelly Rowland-Dilemma 17. Outkast-Hey Ya! 18. Beyonce feat Jay-Z-Crazy In Love 19. Pussycat Dolls feat Busta Rhymes-Don’t Cha 20. Leona Lewis-Bleeding Love CD Five 1. Eminem feat Dido-Stan 2. Justin Timberlake-SexyBack 3. Maroon 5-This Love 4. Kelly Clarkson-Since U Been Gone 5. Anastacia-Left Outside Alone 6. Blue-All Rise 7. t.A.T.u-All The Things She Said 8. Enrique Iglesias-Hero 9. Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse-Valerie 10. Mary Mary-Shackles (Praise You) 11. McFly-Obviously 12. Gwen Stefani-What You Waiting For? 13. Duffy-Mercy 14. Mariah Carey-We Belong Together 15. Busted-Year 3000 16. Avril Lavigne-Complicated 17. Sophie Ellis-Bextor-Murder On The Dancefloor 18. Tony Christie-(Is This The Way To) Amarillo 19. Shayne Ward-That’s My Goal 20. Gareth Gates-Unchained Melody
March 6, 200817 yr Avril Lavigne-Complicated I would actually change it for either Sk8er Boi or Girlfriend! and :cheer: :yahoo: for including Cascada! Oh and I think a MUST stay on this album would DEFINATELY be The Killers, Mr Brightside! :D I wish i had the patience and time to do what you had done! :)
March 8, 200817 yr Author that's my final tracklisting, saved to my ipod and to be burned to disc for my own pleasure at some point later in the week... next time I'll change it will be Jan 1st 2010 :P
March 8, 200817 yr I would have thought the Arctic Monkeys debut at number one for 'Dancefloor' will be better remembered than a lot of those - mind you, you've captured the decade pretty well in general. yeah man you've got a point - but i dont think 'remembered' is just like the right word to use in this case - "over-analysed" might be nearer the definition - they will be running uni courses about that track by 2017!!! :lol: btw there was a thing a few week ago in the guardian that asked the same question Noughties so far: The soundtrack by Alexis Petridis (the guardian Jan 2 2008) The predominant sound of the decade to date has been what you might call consensus rock: the epic balladry of Coldplay and their ilk The biggest influence on rock and pop music in the noughties has been the 90s. It was Britpop's desire for mass appeal that firmly introduced consensus culture to rock: the notion that it should not even nominally be the expression of authority-baiting, parent-scaring counterculture, but light entertainment that excludes no one, something the whole family can enjoy. So it has continued. The predominant sound of the decade so far has been what you might call consensus rock: the epic stadium balladry of Coldplay and their ilk. You could argue that the fact that its designed for packed stadiums to bellow along to en masse suggests a desire for communion and togetherness in the post-9/11 world, but what it really tells you about the decade is that it has been filled with artists whose desire to be universally adored precluded doing anything particularly daring. Fear of scaring off potential customers has largely proscribed politics in pop (if you're looking for a reflection of the weird combination of apathy and dissatisfaction that seems to define the noughties' electorate you'll find it on Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, an album filled with distrust of the government and dread for the planet's future, but on which the overriding message appears to be not "storm the barricades" but "tsk, typical"). Musical innovation has been left to predominantly black genres, be they R&B in the US or the multifarious offshoots of garage here, as well as the more forward-thinking pop producers - it's one of the weirdest quirks of noughties music that manufactured pop artists such as Britney Spears or Girls Aloud have ended up making more sonically interesting records than their more earnest rock counterparts. So its capacity for wry, sharp lyrical observation has been the most interesting thing about rock music in recent years, whether it takes the form of the dextrous vignettes painted by Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys or the Libertines' depictions of life in impoverished east London bohemia. Occasionally, the words collided with trail-blazing music to startling effect, as in the case of the Streets' idiosyncratic take on hip-hop and lad culture or Dizzee Rascal's astonishing Boy In Da Corner, the latter the most eloquent musical depiction of the sink estate teenager's aimless, disenfranchised rage. But someone in 10 or 20 years' time looking to find the music that's most evocative of the noughties should remember that the most dependable Proustian rush is never provided by the best or most successful rock and pop music of any era. In a decade or two, the songs that will remind you the most sharply of this decade will be the ones that you'd forgotten had ever existed. The record that transports you back most efficiently to a Saturday-night town centre in the age of asbos and binge-drinking won't be Kaiser Chiefs' I Predict a Riot or the Arctic Monkeys' A View From the Afternoon, but something such as Bodyrockers' I Like the Way You Move, a novelty dance hit, that in its thick-necked, knuckle-dragging, open-gobbed stupidity inadvertently makes you think of men in Ben Sherman shirts stamping on each others' necks outside a nightclub.
March 8, 200817 yr Author thinking about it...perhaps I should have included Bodyrockers on my tracklist...
March 8, 200817 yr ill see you in 2028 then to see! lol (if im still alive!!!). feel good inc though is known more by 'non gorillaz' fans, well in my experience anyway. I will put together a list soon, as this is an excellent thread. Regarding the Gorillaz, I agree with Rob that Feel Good Inc will be seen as a 00s classic - and I think it already is. It is such a groundbreaking song, was the fist to take advantage of the downloads rule and had wide appeal (and a massive chart run). For these reasons, I would inclide Feel Good Inc over Clint Eastwood, 19/2000 or Dare.
March 11, 200817 yr Author Interesting...I asked ten of my friends what their favourite Gorillaz song is and 9 of them said Clint Eastwood and 1 said Dare :o
March 11, 200817 yr thinking about it...perhaps I should have included Bodyrockers on my tracklist... no thanks :puke2:
March 11, 200817 yr as for Killers I would put Somebody Told Me...and White Flag from Dido should be there...Beyonce got 2 appereance aswell and I dont like Scooter but there should be Maria on that list...Madonna and Kylie on CD1 and Teenage Dirtbag is 99
March 11, 200817 yr Author as for Killers I would put Somebody Told Me...and White Flag from Dido should be there...Beyonce got 2 appereance aswell and I dont like Scooter but there should be Maria on that list...Madonna and Kylie on CD1 and Teenage Dirtbag is 99 I think Mr Brightside is more generally regarded as a classic...Dido features on Stan...Beyonce is on there once and once as part of Destiny's Child... Maria by Scooter is not a classic in the UK, if anything I should have put The Logical Song (Ramp!) on there...and Teenage Dirtbag came out in 2001 in the UK
March 11, 200817 yr Interesting...I asked ten of my friends what their favourite Gorillaz song is and 9 of them said Clint Eastwood and 1 said Dare :o but im guessing your friends though are all about the same age and social standing... just the age group 'clint eastwood' was aimed at! imho a classic is the track that appeals to people outside their target market... 'feel good inc' did this, many people in my social circle like fgi but like me do not like 'dare' or 'clint eastwood'.. :)
March 12, 200817 yr Just to hop in on the Gorillaz debate, I personally think 'Clint Eastwood' is the song I associate most with the Gorillaz but I prefer 'Feel Good Inc.' and 'Dare' and those two also had higher peaks and longer chart runs. I recognise most of the songs on that list, except for some of the dance tracks, but that's probably because I don't listen to much dance OR I just don't know the names of them but I'd recognise the songs. Love Machine is an interesting choice for Girls Aloud, I think Sound Of The Underground is going to be the song that they are recognised for.
March 12, 200817 yr No, I think Love Machine was the right choice. It's one of my least favourite songs of all time, and Sound Of The Underground sold more. But it's Love Machine that seems to still be their most widely used track. I'm finding the Mary Mary inclusion a bit more odd every time I look at it. It was massive on the radio yes, but it was never really that big a seller (think it finished something like #45 on the 2000 year-end chart), and Mary Mary were one-hit wonders. I'd say Lemar or KT would have been more worthy of inclusion. Edited March 12, 200817 yr by Shoat
March 12, 200817 yr I think you should leave the tracklisting as it is! Coz it is amazing! You have captured the decade Very Very well! I would definately buy it!!
March 12, 200817 yr Author No, I think Love Machine was the right choice. It's one of my least favourite songs of all time, and Sound Of The Underground sold more. But it's Love Machine that seems to still be their most widely used track. I'm finding the Mary Mary inclusion a bit more odd every time I look at it. It was massive on the radio yes, but it was never really that big a seller (think it finished something like #45 on the 2000 year-end chart), and Mary Mary were one-hit wonders. I'd say Lemar or KT would have been more worthy of inclusion. I agree, I included Love Machine as it seems to be a song to sum up their career, and is always still on the radio. I never hear Sound Of The Underground on the radio any more... I'm keeping Mary Mary on there...it sold about 300k, much more than some of the songs on the rock disc for example, and I still regularly hear it on the radio, its a good summer track. Plus it's a pop/gospel track and there's no other song from that genre on there...for me at least, it will remind me of this decade Another big radio hit from 2000 with similar sales and chart success was Lene Marlin's Sitting Down Here. However I left that off as I haven't heard that since about 2002 whereas Mary Mary I still hear a lot...
March 12, 200817 yr Author The chart runs for Clint Eastwood, Dare and Feel Good Inc: Clint Eastwood : 4-5-6-4-5-6-9-9-12-14-14-23-25-39-49-59-65->17 Feel Good Inc: 22-21-22-20-2-4-5-3-4-5-8-10-13-15-17-17-18-23-23-34-45-51-55-63-71-74-73R(2)-66R(3)-67-68-61-65-61-59-41-52-69-74R(11)-72->39 Dare: 1-2-3-8-11-15-18-16-20-21-22-28-33-29-45-47-50-42-47-55-57-65-68R(2)-58-61-69-62R(5)->27 Considering Clint Eastwood came out in the quick moving chart era of 2001, its 8 weeks in the top ten were more impressive than those 8 that Feel Good Inc had in 2005. I also believe that Clint Eastwood was out at the same time as HUGE sellers from Shaggy, Westlife, Atomic Kitten and Hear'Say so it did well to stick around...However, I can appreciate why both songs would be equally considered as representative of the decade... Clint Eastwood sold more and appealed to younger people...Feel Good Inc appealed to a wider audience and peaked higher... its a very hard one to call for me and one of the harder choices to make for the tracklist
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