I am treading on thin ice here perhaps, but the noughties, the decade with no name, is now twenty years ago! YIKES!
So to celebrate a decade which I swear was only a decade ago but in fact wasn’t, let’s assemble a list of our favourite tunes from the era. I will start with “I Walk” by Quarks. Genuinely fantastic pop here…
22 Years old! Surely not
The Hives – Hate To Say I Told You So
I’m not sure how many of these videos clips are clicked on and we’ll all be certain that our choice is more special than anyone else’s. I love this song so much. I love the band. It really is special.
Maximo Park – Books From Boxes
Album of the Decade?
This one surely – Madness: Liberty Of Norton Folgate
My fave from this album, one of my fave Madness tracks, is Sugar and Spice. My mate had been songwriting with Suggs during his solo years and it had obviously rubbed off on him.
Brilliant album. Madness’s best “album” I think. Not that I have heard any others apart from Greatest Hits ones…
It is. A late period triumph, trumping The Rise And Fall from the original incarnation
I’d say One Step Beyond (which contains Bed & Breakfast Man), The Rise & Fall and The Liberty of Norton Folgate, plus the Divine Madness singles compilation, are probably all you really need.
Complete Madness is the best compilation, closely followed by Utter Madness
In my view, “Full House (The Very Best Of Madness)” (2017) rather superseded Complete Madness as the best compilation (I’ve got them both).
42 tracks of nutty goodness. An absolute treat.
Complete Madness (1982) was a single LP, the double LP Divine Madness (1992) superseded it with all the singles bar “Sweetest Girl” up to the first split.
The excellent 4LP or 2CD Full House includes everything on Divine Madness. Still no “Sweetest Girl”, though.
And still no “Blue Skinned Beast”!
I posted this elsewhere the other day as it resonates with my family history a little. A great track from a great album.
Well it is certainly my favourite noughties album.
A noughtie bangaroonie!
Love this band, love this song, love this version.
This may not be typical Afterword fodder, but I do have a soft spot for Bryan and Mel C on this ….
The song showed Mel C to be a pretty good singer. Who knew under the hypnotised those Spicy Girls.
Her debut album Nortern Star isn’t a bad listen.
Loved that song too
Oh, and then there’s this one….
Feb 2000! Feels late 90s.
I bloody loved All Saints.
@moseleymoles Yes, I had to check to see if it was noughties.
I like that one too …
(runs away and hides)
Glorious. Both these crazy varmints at their best.
Never heard this before. Good, innit?
Vido not required: Doves – There Goes The Fear.
Top tune, obviously, but also something of a benchmark: for the 20 years before it came out about 75% of the music I enjoyed was somewhat like it i.e. catchy(ish) guitar pop made by blerks in bands. In the 20 years since I’d guess that figure is closer to 10%..
Twenty years old man! To my ear it’s still as modern as tomorrow and would be used by me as proof that I am still with it.
Do the kids still say “with it”?
Amy Whitehouse, Back to Black. Such a sad end (Rehab is just too on the money)
And a cheery one that is sadly still relevant. Cathal Coughlan, Amused as Hell
‘Only’ 19 years ago…
About to do some dates to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this masterpiece
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Very appropriate again, unfortunately.
The great man at his best.
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A London song and why not?
Bob and Pete look like estate agents from Homes Under the Hammer.
A copper-bottomed noughties reference, if nothing else
The album that song is from, “Tales From Turnpike House” is fabulous and is easily my favourite St. Etienne album. But I’m pretty sure that image is from the cover of an earlier compilation and not from 2005 when this album was released.
Yikes @noisecandy
Wasn’t this released last year?