Album: Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Year: 2003
I don't think there is any reason for me to write about this song. It simply can't avoid a place on this list, being that it is the funkiest single track of the decade.
Album: Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer
Year: 2007
From one of the all-time great break-up albums, a track that threatens to suck you into a black hole of despair at any second.
"Shave your head
Have a drink
And be left alone.
Is that too much to ask?"
Album: Electric Version
Year: 2003
From the early days of the power-pop juggernauts, one of their true moments of perfection. As indulgently catchy as the song is, it holds back the cathartic release of its titular line through multiple iterations of the chorus, finally unwinding that tight feeling in your chest after a pair of fake-outs at the 1:50 mark.
Album: God Loves Ugly
Year: 2002
Yes, Slug's raps can certainly cross the line into emo, but when he is flowing with that self-deprecating charisma and spitting verbose observations, he is among the most engaging MCs in the game. Here he muses on the nature of love and humanity over a perfectly chosen beat.
Album: Alright, Still
Year: 2006
Lily Allen is one spunky girl. Several tracks from her MySpace success story debut album are worthy of note, most of all this ode to trashy girls at the clubs. If you're wondering how Lily feels about them, she's pretty straightforward about it in this wonderful song.
Album: Deep Cuts
Year: 2003
The Knife have left a significant impact on the modern electro-pop scene with their eerie beats, but early notable track "Heartbeats" makes itself felt through a deep, sinuous synth line that is hard to take seriously but easy to love. I found this track annoying right up until the moment that I put it on every playlist I had.
Album: D-D-Don't Stop The Beat
Year: 2002
In memoriam of the deceased SAT Analogy section. At a party,
"Move Your Feet" : Disco Ball ::
(A) Hiroshima : Fireworks
(B) Gandalf : Dumbledore
(C) Salvador Dali : Etch-A-Sketch
(D) All of the above. Yes, I went there.
Album: Made In The Dark
Year: 2008
This track is the bounce in your step, the slight nod of your head, the tap-tap-tapping of your foot. It hot-wires its way into your dance control center with Hot Chip trademark sensitive vocals, burbling synths, a jouncing bass line and quick-stepping percussion.
Album: Feast of Wire
Year: 2003
Calexico's Southwestern blend of indie rock blends quality songwriting and a touch of the exotic, from mariachi-style horns to heartbreaking sweeps of cello. On "Black Heart", they conjure image after rich image of the harsh desert, putting you through the gauntlet along with the illegal immigrants whose journey they chronicle. By the way, congratulations to Arizona for practically begging their police officers to racially profile. I don't see any way that could go wrong...
Album: Demon Days
Year: 2005
A wildly successful party mega-jam with wistful, Beck-like interludes and idiosyncratic rap verses from Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. Coming from the brain and fingers of one of the pillars of Brit-pop, Blur's own Damon Albarn. Really? Good job, contemporary music scene. No one would have predicted it five years prior, but "Feel Good Inc" showed the potential in abandoning genre and just going for broke with equal parts artistic merit and relentless pop hook.
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