The Strong Look Twenty-Hundreds in Music

!!! 'Take Ecstasy with Me' / 'Me & Giulliani Down By The Schoolyard (A True Story)' / 'Louden Up Now'

65 Days of Static 'Retreat! Retreat!' EP

A2dgee 'Mario & Zelda'

Aesop Rock 'Nightlight' in companion to 'Daylight'

Air 'Playground Love' from The Virgin Suicides

Alela Diane 'The Pirates Gospel'

Alvino Rey Orchestra 'My Buddy (live)' (from Arcade Fire 'Neighbourhood #1 and #2' single)

Animal Collective 'My Girls' / 'Grass' / 'Fireworks'

Anti Pop Consortium 'Dystopian Disco Force' / 'Vector'

Arcade Fire 'No Cars Go (EP version)' / 'Funeral' (+ live at St. Johns Church Jan 2007)

Architecture in Helsinki 'Do the Whirlwind' (+ vs Busta Rhymes version) / live national anthems competition at ULU May 2006

At The Drive-In 'Relationships of Command'

Avalanches 'Since I Left You'

Avenged Sevenfold's massive word of mouth hype and in particular the solo on 'Second Heartbeat'

Bat For Lashes 'What's A Girl To?' (video)

Beck covers 'True Love Will Find You in the End' / 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime'

Beyonce & Jay-Z 'Crazy In Love'

Bjork 'Vespertine' / 'Medulla'

Blink 182 'All The Small Things' / 'Whats My Age Again?'

Blood Brothers 'Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck'

Bonde Do Role live 14 times

Boom Bip & Gruff Rhys 'Do's and Don'ts'

The Books 'The Lemon of Pink'

Bright Eyes 'I'm Wide Awake It's Morning'

Broadcast 'Poem of Dead Song' / 'Unchanging Window'

The Bronx 'Bats!'

Broken Social Scene 'Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl' from 'You Forgot It In People'

Camden Crawl 2006 - fun time

Cannibal Ox 'The Cold Vein' (+ instrumental RJD2 remix of 'The F Word')

Capdown 'Ska Wars'

Cassius 'Rock Number One'

Chromeo 'Night by Night (Skream Remix)'

City of God Soundtrack

Christina Aguilera ft. Redman 'Dirrty'

Clark (Chris Clark) 'Dusk Raid'

Clouddead 'Clouddead'

Coco Rosie 'Noah's Ark'

The Cool Kids 'Flossin'

Daedelus 'Exquisite Corpse' / 'Sundown' / 'Fair Weather Friends'

Dam Funk 'Let's Take Off (Far Away)' from 'Toeachizown'

Dani Siciliano 'Come As You Are' (non-album version)

Dangermouse 'The Grey Album'

David Holmes introducing the Free Association 'Come Get It, I Got It' (mix album)

Daytime Lovers 'Club Sandwich'

Death From Above 1979 'Your a Woman, I'm a Machine' (+ covers of 'Luno' and 'Better Off Dead')

Definitive Jux before 2003

Deftones 'Back to School' from Mini Maggot

Directors Label Series

Dizzee Rascal 'Boy in da Corner'

DJ Food 'Raiding the 20th Century'

DJ Teen Age Wolf 'Nas vs Dun'

DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist 'Brainfreeze' / 'Product Placement'

DMX 'X Gon Giv It To Ya'

Donnie Darko soundtrack and score

Dr. Dre 'Still D.R.E.' / 'The Next Episode'

Dr. Who Dat? 'B-Boy Portrait in Spain'

Edan 'Primitive Plus' / 'Beauty and the Beat' / 'Beautiful Food' / 'Sagittarius Rap' (also live at Ocean Rooms Brighton October 2006)

Eminem 'Without Me'

FabricLive albums - Diplo / Spank Rock

Fantomas 'Suspended Animation' April 2005 calendar packaging

The Filaments 'Bastard Coppers'

Finders Keepers Records - especially Selda 'Selda'

Freelance Hellraiser 'A Stroke of Genius'

Fridge 'Happiness'

Glassjaw 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence' / 7/7/7

Graham Coxon 'Happiness in Magazines'

Gwen Stefani 'Hollaback Girl'

Hans Zimmer soundtrack for The Dark Knight

Head Automatica 'Beating Heart Baby'

Interpol 'Untitled' from 'Turn on the Bright Lights' / 'Antics'

Jackson and his Computer Band 'Smash' (+ 'Midnight Fuck remix' of M83 'Run Into Flowers')

Jaga Jazzist 'I Could Have Killed Him in the Sauna'

Jamie Lidell 'Multiply' album / 'Multiply-in a Minor Key' Gonzales Remix')

J-Dilla 'Donuts' / 'The Shining' / 'Nothing Like This' / Jaylib

Joanna Newsom 'Ys'

John Peel 1939 - 2004

Johnny Boy 'You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve'

Johnny Cash 'Hurt' / 'Walk The Line' (film) / 1932 - 2003

Joy Zipper 'American Whip'

Justice 'Medley/Minimix'

Justin Timberlake 'Cry Me a River' / 'Rock Your Body' / 'Senorita'

Kelley Polar 'Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens'

Kid Koala 'Carpel Tunnel Syndrome'

Kings Magazine (2004 - 2 issues)

KMD 'Bl_ck B_st_rds'

Lady Gaga

Larrikin Love 'Happy as Annie'

Laurent Garnier 'Unreasonable Behaviour'

LCD Soundsystem '45:33' / and everything else

Lethal Bizzle 'Pow!'

Lex Records artwork and packaging

LFO 'Freak'

Life Without Buildings 'The Leanover'

Ludacris 'Area Codes' / 'Whats Your Fantasy?'

Mad Decent Worldwide Radio

Madvillain 'Madvillainy'

Marnie Stern 'In Advance of the Broken Arm'

Melt Banana 'Cell Scape'

Metronomy 'You Could Easily Have Me'

MF Doom in any guise

M.I.A 'Arular'

Michael Jackson 1959 - 2009

Mogwai 'Hunted by a Freak'

Mohammed Rafi 'Jaan Pehechaan Ho' from Ghost World Soundtrack

My Chemical Romance 'I'm Not Okay (I Promise)' video

Mystery Jets 'Umbrellahead' / 'Two Doors Down' (Duke Dumont remix)'

New Look 'How's My Hair?' EP

New Rave London / Chalk / Fabric / DIY Culture / Kate Moross / Cassette Playa / Gina Baber

Notorious B.I.G vs Miley Cyrus 'Party and Bullshit in the USA (Hathbanger mix)'

O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

Ol Dirty Bastard 1968 - 2004

Panthers 'Goblin City - Holy Ghost! remix'

Phoenix 'Kitsune Tabloid'

Prefuse 73 'One Word Extinguisher' / 'Extinguished'

Primal Scream 'Shoot / Speed / Kill / Light'

Prince 'Black Sweat'

Quasimoto 'The Unseen' / 'Rapp Cats, pt. 3' from 'The Further Adventures of Lord Quas'

Radioclit 'Ghettopop 24: Gaytoblaster mix'

Rappers Delight Club

Regina Spektor 'On the Radio'

Regular Fries 'Eclipse' / 'Super Sonic Waves (James Bradfield Remix)'

Rilo Kiley 'Portions for Foxes' from 'More Adventurous'

R Kelly 'Trapped in the Closet'

Sa-Ra Creative Partners

Semifinalists 'Semifinalists'

The Shins 'Kissing The Lipless' from 'Chutes Too Narrow'

Sisqo 'Thong Song'

Soul Jazz Records

Soulwax/2manydjs 'Nite Versions' / 'As Heard On Radio Soulwax pt.2' / 'Part of the Weekend Never Dies'

Spank Rock 'Bump (Switch Remix)'

The Strokes 'Someday' / 'New York City Cops' / 'I'll Try Anything Once ('You'll Only Live Once)' / '15 Minutes of Pain'

Sub Pop 'Paitent Zero' sampler

Team Megamix

Tes 'New New York'

The Thermals 'No Culture Icons'

Tommy Guerrero 'Intro Lectric Chilli Goat' from Soul Food Taqueria

TV On The Radio 'Starring at the Sun' & (Hollertronix remix)' / 'I was a lover'

UNKLE Sounds 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Beats'

Usher ft. Lil Jon & Ludacris 'Yeah!'

Wavves 'Mickey Mouse'

Why? 'Afterschool America'

Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Maps'

Youngblood Brass Band 'Bloodshot'

Spotify doesn't have a whole lot of this list, but here's a playlist using what it has got.

'The Strong Look Twenty-Hundreds'

Included in this list are a few tracks/artists/albums which were not recorded in this decade, for instance albums such as KMD 'Bl_ck B_st_rds' which was released for the first time this decade after being due for release in 1994 then cancelled; and Selda 'Selda' which relatively unknown upon initial release in the 1970s but found significant acclaim upon it's Finders Keepers release in 2006.

I've also tried to include records from all parts of the decade, even though some tracks might sound relatively dated in comparison to the sounds of now, I felt it important to chart progression in this way, and while this list is habitually eclectic it is notably missing UKG, World Music, and Jazz; although many tracks feature Jazz vibes/influence.