(JF). See Billboard's rankings of this year's most popular songs, albums, and artists. It took some months before we could muster the self-control to stop sneaking up on people and saying ”BONKERS” in their ear in that stupid robot voice. So here we are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UjsXo9l6I8. by David Garrick. The fact it was (oh dear) used as David Cameron’s campaign song during the 2010 general election should not detract from its amazing power to uplift and exhilarate, even if – as Bill Bailey likes to point out (“I’ve got ham but I’m not a hamster”) – the lyrics are a load of old guff. Jay-Z’s tale of a narrow escape after being pulled over by a patronizing cop while carrying coke is the ultimate ‘in your FACE’ anthem. (TC), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MiHQkQpF_Q, Although it climbed the chart slowly, and only hit the Top 40 for a fortnight, Mumford’s debut single from their debut album is perhaps their best known, and certainly their best. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. A very Manics combination. A decade on, it still sounds utterly fresh. Lyrics to 'Fifteen Years Ago' by Conway Twitty. (RS). Whereas Foals’ debut, ‘Antidotes’, was packed full with strange, vaguely math-ish constructions, like a spiky game of Tetris, the introduction to its follow-up, ‘Total Life Forever’, gaped like a hole in the heart. (PE), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zW9R9sj894, After a lengthy break, En Vogue returned with this track from the soundtrack of the little seen film Set It Off. OK, it might not be the song everyone bellows for at live shows, but ‘Reckoner’ is one of Radiohead’s most subtle and powerful songs. Here’s to the coolest song to reference the Discovery Channel (besides The Bloodhound Gang). “Look at the shakies, what’s with the blush?/Fresh off the plane in my fuzzy rush.” Something about a balding 18-year-old? By. He looks out for them. This and Del The Funkee Homosapien’s rap suggested a world of brave new possibilities, not least of all for Damon Albarn, who has managed a re-invention much more all-encompassing and successful than even his biggest fans could have ever imagined. (TC), Before Pigeongate, before the stage storm-offs, before the snooty, overpriced clothing line, before that rather embarrassing flop of an album, these Southern gents howled their way into our hearts with hits like this one. Constructed around a skyscraper-sized beat, the track’s lyrics might be cruder than the bits that were deemed too rude for Viz magazine, but it’s still stupidly catchy and hummable, as proved when Nicki Minaj’s underwhelming re-telling of the hook still left you singing along. The results are line-for-line authentic (the track begins like ‘The Modern Age’ played in a different key); whilst Clarkson’s vocals – steeped in the over-emoting Mariah Carey school (via American Idol) – sound both bruised but surviving and incredibly soulful. Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen initially refused permission for the Welsh band to use the sweary sample from ‘Showbiz Kids’, which gives this deliriously catchy protest anthem its title. But she wasn’t just an auteur of her own career, she was an auteur of her own sound; where swathes of glossy noughties pop were tempered by a lifetime’s worth of experience lived under the spotlight of the music biz. (PE), Some tracks, the very luckiest and rarest of tracks, hold a unique power in their opening seconds, a certain aural something that has the ability to shift huge numbers of people out of their seat to the very centre of the dancefloor. (PE). A riddle waiting to be solved, it was an alien melding of Ethan Kath’s 8-bit video game synth rhythm and Alice Glass’ desperate punk rock squall. This is intense, desperate and, like the wine you’re probably necking while boo-hooing along to it, gets better with age. In many ways it’s hard to believe that Hop Along has been around fifteen years. 3 in the Official Top 40 singles chart (back when those kind of things still really mattered), the re-establishment of the word ‘angular’ into the pop lexicon, and enough money to allow their record label Domino to sign some band called the Arctic Monkeys a few years later. OK so it may not have a proper name but who cares when it had that riff? (LL). He seemed like he’d come from another time, a scholar amongst the knuckle dragging indie slackers who were rhyming ‘love’ with ‘dove’. Forget the lazy video, or those nagging Stereophonics comparisons that have haunted the track over the years (ie that it sounds like ‘Same Size Feet’), this is classic Oasis songwriting at its best. There are subtle sonic touches, with the sparse piano chords, the brush of drums and the sole cello that add to the sense of unease. ‘Overload’ was frontloaded with great, unexpected ideas: the sauntering rhythmic breaks, the sparse guitar line with pitches up like a hip Flamenco dancer, and of course the cool girl lyrics from Mutya, Siobhan and Keisha. (MW). The lead-off track from Blink’s phenomenally successful album ‘Enema Of The State’, this is everything pop punk does well. So good it was released twice – and it was voted single of the year back in 2006 by NME staffers. “You kind of have to be retarded to deny that [‘Milkshake’] literally changed female vocalists,” she told the Associated Press last year. 10am - 1pm, What You Know Bout Love Well, apparently the song’s sort of about bassist Jared Followill, who’d been thrust into rock stardom at a young age, though you’d never guess from Caleb’s vocal performance, sung with all the clarity of a man with gym socks stuffed in his cheeks. (TG), http://players.brightcove.net/19012535001/default_default/index.html?videoId=33748539001, If it was brilliant at the time, it’s even more poignant now. 6th October 2011. When Pulp reformed for their summer 2011 shows, it was ‘This Is Hardcore’ – the slow-creeping orgy of pop noir and perversion (from 1997’s criminally underrated album of the same name) – that was the fitting but unexpected climactic centrepiece. This track puckered up with the late-noughties trend of mixing simple keyboard riffs with punk-funk bass and a sprinkling of energized percussion. But can you still remember the words to the best songs of the year? The opening swooshingly sounded like an airplane descending (memories of 9/11 were still percolating in our heads) and the track soared above our heads for the next three minutes, never quite coming into land. Helicopters and grenades in the video! OutKast played so far away from rap’s boundaries, it’s no wonder they were so warmly welcomed by the hipsters. Oh, and it’s got a great video too. Inventive as always, Richard D James admitted he composed it whilst listening to some ‘crap death metal’, but in fact its brilliance was how it morphed genre into genre like a shape shifting time-traveler. After their tribalistic debut, ‘All Hour Cymbals’, ‘Odd Blood’ was a revelation and ‘O.N.E’ its shiny calling card. Archived [Serious] What songs from the last 15 years do you think will be remembered as classics? (TG), The kind of genius Bethany Cosentino displayed was a deceptively simple one: classic songwriting tropes featuring an undercurrent of grunge, brought together all with the endless Californian summer shimmer of Brian Wilson. But he was more versatile than that, and could turn his hand to anything, including mellifluous Prince-esque soul, as on this extraordinary track, released after his death in 1997. “I can’t believe I wrote it, it’s going to blow people away,” said Noel at the time, though he later admitted it wasn’t his finest hour. Depressingly incredible. That’s just how Jackie rolls. Nothing screams Britpop louder than Gaz Combes’ magnificent mutton chops, and while the big musical movement of the 90s may well have died on its arse by this point in time, Supergrass were still believing. A set text for any budding DJ to this day. The video, which saw Beck take on a variety of professions from garbage man to pirate, was the first ever clip played on once-essential station MTV2. Only Blondie were never this smutty (hell, neither is Lady Gaga for that matter). (RS). 10 facts you need to know about 'Whole Lotta Red' rapper, Capital XTRA's Ones To Watch 2021: Enny, Sheff G, Bellah, Rihanna's new album: release date, tracklist & everything, Quavo gifts girlfriend Saweetie a custom Bentley for, Playboi Carti 'Whole Lotta Red' album: release date, Download 'What You Know Bout Love' on iTunes. It stands strong as one of the cornerstones of the noughties’ indie stronghold and a bittersweet reminder of that youthful, us against the world optimism: “Oh my friends, you haven’t changed… (LS), Round about spring last year, it’s safe to say MIA had our attention. And Casablancas, during the bit where all the guitars go really high, “I’m not like them“. I'm looking for a song from ~15 years ago... 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