OT: Songs of the Decade

cjcp
cjcp Posts: 13,345
edited December 2009 in Commuting chat
Your top 3 please. :)
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    I can't think of any off hand :oops:
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  • prawny
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    Ooh actually me and the wife did a quiz on sporcle.com I think it was the best songs of the decade there was some class on there. Some dross too though and it was all fairly mainstream.
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  • cjcp
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    How about:

    1. Doves - There goes the fear
    2. Cherry Ghosts - Mathematics
    3. Coldplay - Talk
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    prawny wrote:
    Ooh actually me and the wife did a quiz on sporcle.com I think it was the best songs of the decade there was some class on there. Some dross too though and it was all fairly mainstream.

    That was a stream of consciousness, wasn't it? :lol:
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    cjcp wrote:
    prawny wrote:
    Ooh actually me and the wife did a quiz on sporcle.com I think it was the best songs of the decade there was some class on there. Some dross too though and it was all fairly mainstream.

    That was a stream of consciousness, wasn't it? :lol:

    Just sharing the wealth :?

    Sporcle is great. Although now my wife knows all the countries of the world and their flags, I worry about what has gone to make way for it.
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    I thought it was going to be a quiet decade for Vera Lynn, but she came good in the end! Phew...
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  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    edited December 2009
    Best single of the year for me, by a country mile:

    Deadmau5 - I remember.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcXj40PCmY

    Nothing remotely comes close.

    Edit: just noticed it said 'of the decade', as opposed to of the year...

    Oh dear.
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  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    Its amazing that when I try and think of songs from the last decade my mind goes blank and I get slightly confused when songs were released and whetehr or not I acyually liked them that much! :roll:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Songs of the decade? Hmmm, there's a whole decade to choose from... tricky...

    Hmmmm.

    I'd have to say 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Toploader, an old one from 2000 that still makes me smile.

    Another 'oldie', the JXL remix of 'A little less conversation' - no.1 in over 20 countries in 2002, and stil no.1 in 2003 when I was in Australia driving around listening to it on a cassette in my grandfather's 1970's BMW convertible getting sunburnt.

    And Wire to Wire by Razorlight.

    None of these are typical songs that I generally like, but they're all songs that make me stop and listen. And then put them on again.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    gert_lush wrote:
    Its amazing that when I try and think of songs from the last decade my mind goes blank and I get slightly confused when songs were released and whetehr or not I acyually liked them that much! :roll:

    Let me help you...

    http://songofthedecade.com/year/
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    gert_lush wrote:
    Its amazing that when I try and think of songs from the last decade my mind goes blank and I get slightly confused when songs were released and whetehr or not I acyually liked them that much! :roll:

    Let me help you...

    http://songofthedecade.com/year/

    A-ma-zing!

    I just remembered I loved that pete doherty and wolfman one.
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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Thanks you lot, I feel old now :P
  • Roastie
    Roastie Posts: 1,968
    Not the greatest decagde in music history; but if I must, in no particular order:
    Foo Fighters - Stranger Things Have Happened
    Mark Knopfler - Silvertown Blues
    Graham Coxon - Latte
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,376
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd have to say 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Toploader, an old one from 2000 that still makes me smile.

    Can it really have been 10 years? :shock:

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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    WheezyMcChubby wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd have to say 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Toploader, an old one from 2000 that still makes me smile.

    Can it really have been 10 years? :shock:

    *Ponders a time that has slipped away unnoticed*

    +1. I have that album - Onka's Big Moka or something?
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
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  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    hhm I have had a little think over lunch and ok its not 3 but...
    Mr Brightside – the killers, what a choooooooooon
    Brushfire fairy tales – Jack Johnson – reminds me of the summer of ’02 in Sydney
    Cannonball – Damien Rice, yeah a bit slushy but just has some great memories with it from ‘03
    The scientist – Coldplay, see above ‘02
    Quality control – Jurassic 5, great Uni tune
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    I can't even get close to deciding my top 3 albums let alone songs, I hate these things

    At the time of writing these songs a top in no decernable order

    Nope....no I can't do it yet
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    Strokes - Last Nite
    or maybe Heart in a Cage

    Arctic Monkeys - Bet you look good on the dancefloor
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    jedster wrote:
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    That's a belter of a song.
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    Yeah - I think it probably is THE best song of the decade. I mean kind of objectively, trying to look beyond my personal favourites IYKWIM
  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd have to say 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Toploader, an old one from 2000 that still makes me smile.

    I pity any pedantics who wander by this thread now.
    They will feel compelled to point out that not only was 2000 not in this decade, it wasn't even in this millenium, let alone century. They will so want to add smugly that there is a whole year left in this decade yet.

    Then they will realise that actually a decade is just any 10 year period and the OP didn't say "of the noughties" or anything to define the decade and their heads will explode.

    Just how many times did Toploader re-release that song anyway? They might have had X number of hit songs, but if it was just always the same song doesn't that still make them a 1-hit wonder?
  • fletch8928
    fletch8928 Posts: 794
    jedster wrote:
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    Strokes - Last Nite
    or maybe Heart in a Cage

    Arctic Monkeys - Bet you look good on the dancefloor

    I had an ex text me last saturday saying she had just heard Last Night and thought of me. that made me smile.

    anyway mine are sort of

    The Killers - Mr Brightside

    Daft Punk - One More Time

    Girls Aloud - Biology
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    Songs of the decade:

    Back in the USSR
    Positively 4th Street
    Tracks of my tears.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd have to say 'Dancing in the Moonlight' by Toploader, an old one from 2000 that still makes me smile.

    I pity any pedantics who wander by this thread now.
    They will feel compelled to point out that not only was 2000 not in this decade, it wasn't even in this millenium, let alone century. They will so want to add smugly that there is a whole year left in this decade yet.

    Then they will realise that actually a decade is just any 10 year period and the OP didn't say "of the noughties" or anything to define the decade and their heads will explode.

    Just how many times did Toploader re-release that song anyway? They might have had X number of hit songs, but if it was just always the same song doesn't that still make them a 1-hit wonder?

    The noun is 'pedant', 'pedantic' is an adjective. I'm not sure 'pedantics' is a word.... :P

    See I counted 2000 as the zero year - which, if you go back to the theoretical start of the modern calendar is in fact incorrect, as they'd never have had a 'year zero', they'd have started with 'year one'. But I played along with 'song of the decade' and suspended my disbelief.

    Some people. :roll: :wink:
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  • bigmat
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    jedster wrote:
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    Strokes - Last Nite
    or maybe Heart in a Cage

    Arctic Monkeys - Bet you look good on the dancefloor

    Wow, that's pretty close to mine. Had "Hey Ya" and "The Modern Age" as my first two, hadn't come up with a third yet. Arctic Monkeys good, as is Daft Punk One More Time, Killers' Mr Brightside. Too many to mention really, have lost track of what was released this decade, loads of album tracks I could plunder...
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    cjcp wrote:
    jedster wrote:
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    That's a belter of a song.

    I prefer the Will Young version, well maybe not prefer but it is a great cover.
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  • Eau Rouge
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    lost_in_thought wrote:
    The noun is 'pedant', 'pedantic' is an adjective. I'm not sure 'pedantics' is a word.... :P

    Yesh but I never said I was such a person, so I don't need to worry about how to spell it properly :P
  • oscarbudgie
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    Christophe3967 wrote:
    Songs of the decade:


    Positively 4th Street
    quote]

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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    prawny wrote:
    cjcp wrote:
    jedster wrote:
    Outkast - Hey Ya

    That's a belter of a song.

    I prefer the Will Young version, well maybe not prefer but it is a great cover.

    Check out the Twilight Singers' version (I think its on YouTube) - they belt it out! :)
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  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    My faves of the decade - it's been a pretty good one!

    Doves - Cedar Room (2000)
    Supermen Lovers - Starlight (2001)
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Venice Queen (2002)
    Doves - Pounding (2002)
    Stereophonics - nearly everything on You Gotta Go There To Come Back (2003)
    KT Tunstall - Black Horse & the Cherry Tree (2004)
    Oasis - Importance of Being Idle (2005)
    Coldplay - Talk (2005)
    Kasabian - The Doberman (2006)
    Fratellis - Baby Fratelli (2006)
    Kings of Leon - Fans (2007)
    Foo Fighters - But, Honestly (2007)
    Fratellis - Milk and Money (2008)
    Pendulum - Propane Nightmares (2008) (memories of BBC's Manchester Track World Cup coverage :twisted: )
    Courteeners - Yesterday, Today and Probably Tomorrow (2008)
    Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go (2008)
    Madness - Forever Young (2009)

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