...of the decade #1 - The Shins 'Phantom Limb'

Part one of my shuffled series of my favourite things of the Noughties.

Nominee for Best Lyrics

Foals in winter coats
White girls of the north
File past one five and one
They are the fabled lambs of Sunday ham
The EHS norm

And they could float above the grass
In circles if they tried
A latent power I know they hide
To keep some hope alive
That a girl like I could ever try
Could ever try

So we just skirt the hallway sides
A phantom and a fly
Follow the lines and wonder why
There's no connection

A week of rolling eyes
And cheap shots from the trite
And we're off to Nemarca's porch again
Another afternoon of the goat-head tunes
And pilfered booze

We wander through her mama's house
The milk from a window lights
Family portrait circa '95
This is that foreign land with the sprayed-on tans
And it all feels fine
Be it silk or slime

So when they tap our Monday heads
To zombie-walk in our stead
This town seems hardly worth the time
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme
Too far along in our climb
Stepping over what now towers to the sky
With no connection

So when they tap our Sunday heads
To zombie-walk in our stead
This town seems hardly worth our time
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme
Too far along in our crime
Stepping over what now towers to the sky
With no connection

Seanin00s - a Spotify Playlist

So Pitchfork are doing their P2K run-down of the songs of the decade. I've been slowly putting together DiS' coverage in the background. I'm still deliberating on what the acts/songs/bands of the decade are (I wanna do a definitive editorial list, lots of discussion sparking lists and the ultimate reader census, with all sorts of bells and whistles).

Anyway, in the meantime, here's my 90-songs-so-far Spotify "mixtape" of my favourite songs of The Noughties (not in any order other than listenable coherence). What have I forgotten and what's on your premature end-of-decade digital mixtape? I might add 10 requests and run this on Friday on DiS as a Spotifriday playlist.

Electrelane – Film Music
Arctic Monkeys – 505
Six by Seven – I.O.U. Love
The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
The Radio Dept. – 1995
The Stills – Still in Love Song
The Shins – Sleeping Lessons
Friendly Fires – Paris
Blonde Redhead – The Dress
PJ Harvey – A Place Called Home
M83 – Don't Save Us From the Flames
TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
The Cooper Temple Clause – Let's Kill Music
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
The Kills – No Wow
Justice – Phantom
Crystal Castles – Vanished
The Knife – Heartbeats
Phoenix – Too Young
Tarwater – Stone
Cut Copy – Out There on the Ice
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
Hot Hot Heat – Talk to Me, Dance With Me
Les Savy Fav – The Sweat Descends
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control
Liars – Mr Your On Fire Mr
Death From Above 1979 – Romantic Rights
These New Puritans – Swords of Truth
No Age – Everybody's Down
Interpol – PDA
Idlewild – Listen to What You've Got
The Walkmen – The Rat
At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor
Gwen Stefani – What You Waiting For?
OutKast – Hey Ya!
The Streets – Let's Push Thing's Forward
Justin Timberlake – Cry Me a River
The Faint – Paranoiattack
Panic! At the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Paramore – Crushcrushcrush
Destiny's Child – Independent Women, Part 1
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Feist – I Feel It All
Girls Aloud – Je Ne Parle Pas Francais
Youthmovies – The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor
Battles – Atlas
Foals – Balloons
Radiohead – Idioteque
Regina Spektor – Us
Kate Nash – Nicest Thing
The Cribs – Be Safe
Bloc Party – The Pioneers
Pretty Girls Make Graves – This Is Our Emergency
Sonic Youth – Incinerate
Midlake – Roscoe
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon the Author
Manic Street Preachers – Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Deftones – Digital Bath
Biffy Clyro – 57
Rival Schools – Used for Glue
Queens Of The Stone Age – Lightning Song
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
The Maccabees – No Kind Words - Single Version
Sufjan Stevens – Come On Feel The Illinoise!
Björk – It's Not Up to You
The National – Squalor Victoria
Beirut – Postcards From Italy
Andrew Bird – Plasticities
Jeniferever – From Across the Sea
Explosions In The Sky – Magic Hours
Sigur Rós – Starálfur
Four Tet – She Moves She
Panda Bear – Bro's
Bright Eyes – Poison Oak
Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
The Veils – The Tide That Left and Never Came Back
Frightened Rabbit – I Feel Better
Modest Mouse – Float On
The Dandy Warhols – Get Off
Franz Ferdinand – Darts of Pleasure
Metric – Monster Hospital
Nine Inch Nails – The Hand That Feeds (DFA mix)
Beck – Lost Cause
Grizzly Bear – On a Neck, On a Spit
Jamie T – If You Got the Money
Cat Power – Free
Les Incompétents – Escapades

Listen to the Seanin00s playlist by clicking here (note: you'll need the Spotify software and it's not yet available in all countries)