since picking the best music of ‘09 wasn’t fun enough…

i’m gonna do a list of the best 115 tracks of the aughts.  bam!

so here goes.. (chronologically)

so, ps: after i wrote this list i realized a few things - 1) 2003 was a really good year personally and musically, at least near the end of it.  2) this is absolutely crazy for several reasons.

pps: am i a racist? shit.

Air - “Playground Love” (2000)

Cat Power - “I Found a Reason”, VU cover (2000)

Elliot Smith - “Son of Sam” (2000)

PJ Harvey - “This is Love” / “You Said Something” (2000)

Yo La Tengo -  ”Madeline” (2000)

The Strokes - “Someday” (2001)

Kings of Convenience - “Toxic Girl” (2001)

The Shins - “The Celibate Life” (2001)

Beck - “Paper Tiger” (2002)

Beth Gibbons - “Romance” (2002)

Broken Social Scene - “Stars & Sons” (2002)

Devendra Banhart - “Legless Love” (2002)

Interpol - “NYC” (2002)

Little Wings - “Look at What the Light Did Now” (2002)

Octopus Project - “What they found” (2002)

The White Stripes - “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” (2002)

Wilco - “I’m the Man Who Loves You” (2002)

Belle & Sebastian - “If She Wants Me” (2003)

Blur - “Out of time” (2003)

Camera Obscura - “Books Written for Girls” (2003)

Cat Power - “He War” (2003)

Jens Lekman - “Black Cab” (2003)

Squarepusher - “Tommib” (2003)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Maps” (2003)

Yo la Tengo - “Little Eyes” (2003)

The Arcade Fire - “Haiti” (2004)

Erlend Oye / DJ Kicks - “2d2f” (2004)

Blonde Redhead - “Equus” (2004)

Camera Obscura - “Eighties Fan” (2004)

Danger Mouse - “Dirt of your Shoulder” from the Grey Album (2004)

Feist - “Gatekeeper” (2004)

Joanna Newsom - “The Book of Right-On” (2004)

Nouvelle Vague - “In a Manner of Speaking”, tuxedo moon cover (2004)

PJ Harvey - “The Desperate Kingdom of Love” (2004)

Stereolab - “Cosmic Country Noir” (2004)

The Walkmen - “Thinking of a Dream” (2004)

Beck - “E-Pro” (2005)

Broadcast - “America’s Boy” (2005)

Bright Eyes - “First Day of My Life” (2005)

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth” (2005)

Holly GoLightly - “Nothing You Can Say” (2005)

Jamie Lidell - “Game for Fools” (2005)

LCD Soundsystem - “Daft Punk is Playing at My House” (2005)

Jens Lekman - “A Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill” (2005)

My Morning Jacket - “Knot Comes Loose” (2005)

Vashti Bunyan - “Here Before” (2005)

Asobi Seksu - “Strawberries” (2006)

Bat for Lashes - “Whats a Girl to Do” (2006)

Beach House - “Childhood” (2006)

Beirut - “After the Curtain” (2006)

The Blow - “Parentheses” (2006)

Camera Obscura - “I Need All the Friends I Can Get” (2006)

Dustin O’Halloran - “Opus 23” (2006)

Electrelane - “To the East” (2006)

The Fiery Furnaces - “Benton Harbor Blues” (2006)

Grizzly Bear - “Knife” (video) (2006)

Jay Z - “Lost One” (2006)

Jarvis Cocker - “Black Magic” (2006)

Perro del Mar - “Here Comes that Feeling” (2006)

Sonic Youth - “Incinerate” (2006)

Thom Yorke - “The Eraser” (2006)

Andrew Bird - “Plasticities” (2007)

Calexico - “Departure in F Minor” (2007)

Charlotte Gainsbourg - “Everything I Cannot See” (2007)

Chromatics - “Night Drive” (2007)

Cortney Tidwell - “Don’t Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up” (2007)

Gonzales - “The Tourist” (2007)

Herman Dune - “Take Him Back to New York City” (video) (2007)

The Long Blondes - “Lust in the Movies” (2007)

Radiohead - “House of Cards” (2007)

Rilo Kiley - “Dreamworld” (2007)

Air France - “No Way Down” (2008)

Beck - “Gamma Ray” / “Volcano” (2008)

Bon Iver - “Skinny Love” (2008)

Cat Power - “Song to Bobby” (2008)

Chairlift - “Bruises” (2008)

Deerhoof - “Chandelier Searchlight” (2008)

Dent May - “Meet Me in the Garden” (2008)

Erykah Badu - “Soldier” (2008)

Foals - “Olympic Airways” (2008)

Girls - “Hellhole Ratrace” (2008)

Harlem - “South of France” (2008)

Jenny Lewis - “Acid Tongue” (2008)

Juana Molina - “Vive Solo” (2008)

Lele - “Breakfast” (2008)

Little Joy - “The Next Time Around” (2008)

The Middle East - “The Darkest Side” (2008)

The Muslims - “Extinction” (2008)

Richard Swift - “Lady Luck” (2008)

Thunderheist - “Jerk It” (2008)

Vetiver - “Blue Driver” (2008)

Animal Collective - “Bluish” (2009)

Asobi Seksu - “In the Sky” (2009)

Au Revoir Simone - “Anywhere You Looked” / “Shadows” (2009)

Best Coast - “When I’m With You” (2009)

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - “Natural Light” (2009)

Cass McCombs -“Don’t Vote” (2009)

Dirty Projectors - “Two Doves” (2009)

Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - “Knotty Pine” (2009)

Eternal Summers - “Safe at Home” (2009)

Florence & the Machine - “Kiss with a Fist” (2009)

The Fresh & Only’s - “Endless Love” (2009)

Grizzly Bear - “Two Weeks” (2009)

Jeremy Jay - “Gallop” (2009)

Junior Boys - “Hazel” (2009)

Kings of Convenience - “Rule My World” (2009)

La Roux - “Armour Love” (2009)

Little Girls - “What We Did” (2009)

Magic Wands - “Teenage Love” (2009)

Night Jewel - “We Want Our Things” (2009)

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - “Side Ponytail” (2009)

Washed Out - “New Theory” (2009)

The Whitest Boy Alive - “High on the Heels” (2009)

Wilco - “You and I” (2009)

The xx - “Islands” (2009)

Yacht - “Psychic City” (2009)