Nostalgia-inducing songs of the 2000s

Tori’s last radio-ready single and her last popular hit. I never liked the video, but the song is an exquisite contradiction in sound and meaning.

[quote]Based on the joy I derived from the 90s music thread,

Bless you - what a doll!

Maybe it's because she died soon after or because the album was released just a few months before 9/11 (and the two are sort of linked in my memory), but this song always transports me back to the Summer of 2001:

(P.S. I'm so glad we've moved past these ugly VR, overly CGI'd/green screen music videos that were so popular in the early 2000s)

This one. I get depressed everytime I hear it (or any other pop songs from the early 00s) because it makes me want to be a kid of 10 again. Those were the days...

Songs off the debut of Postal Service.

Higher Place-Royksopp

Being into Zero 7s debut as an import before 9-11 and then it meaning something different afterwards when it hit stateside.

Dannii's one brush with greatness (and, I'm willing to argue, the best thing the Minogue name has been attached to since 2000)

And one of the most beautiful pop songs of 2000's:

Black Coffee

🎵Cut My Life Into Pieces🎵

R6 - when "I Begin to Wonder" was first released, I just found it annoying. But I heard it again recently and found that I really like it.

"Everything You Need" by Madison Avenue from Late 2000/Early 2001.

The Cowgirl Hat craze was on!

Check out the Gap In-Store Playlists from 2000 to 2005 for great music of the era!

My claim to fame from one year ago:

I just heard this in the car on the way home tonight and was taken on a nostalgic journey back to 2004

Oops

White Flag

Fefe Dobson - Take Me Away

As cliche as it is, hearing Sia’s “Breathe Me” has me pining for the days of Sunday Nights with Sex and the City folllwed by Six Feet Under.

Frou Frou's, "Let Go". So lush and wistful.

Right there with you r3. Others have listed great ones too!

Lady - Modjo. It just captures a mood.

I was going to include ‘music sounds better with you’ by Stardust as I associate these two songs but apparently that’s from 1998! I found out years later one of the guys in Daft Punk was behind it.

Great one r21!

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This thread is a sad representation of a sad decade of music. The 90s one filled up in record time with such a diverse array of music. I like some music from the era, but it’s slim pickins compared with the rich 1990s.

Paul so hawt...

99, but had to include. Apologies. So nostalgic.

Heard this again recently and realized I never really did figure out what the hell he was singing about. Transgender love triangle?

My introduction to Dido...

Cigarettes and chocolate milk, these are just a couple of my cravings...

Haay ay ay ya!

R29, I disagree. I used to feel the same way, but the older I get, the more the aughts grow on me. It was a really odd in-between time on lots of different levels. It’s more challenging than the 90’s, less cliche, because it’s almost forgettable. It’s like an era that never was. It exists in my mind as a kind of dream and oddly that makes it all the more mysterious and compelling.

I really liked this album, as silly as it was

DO WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER STUPID LIST THREAD?

It’s battleship gray outside...

There’s gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high

YES, R40, WE DO, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

Remember her?

This sounds so 90s club hit to me

You have to love a Europop song that just calls itself la la la la la and whose lyrics just give up halfway through the chorus to give way to “and la la la la la.” No fucks given in y2k.

Whatever happened to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, she had a few hits and then just seemed to vanish.

I think r29 and r38 are both right. I it was a weird time, I barely remember any of the songs posted except for outkast and nikka costa. I had already stopped watching mtv and finding new music wasn't easy. I kind of liked this song from 2007, their video for it was a cool rushmore homage.

Also Y2K. I saw this Norwegian-British Europop group, A1, perform at G-A-Y (a club in London) during a study abroad at Cambridge. This cover of A-ha’s song went number one in the UK that year; of course it’s unknown here in the US. The video is silly but it’s a pretty good cover.

I doubt anyone else knows this song but it's one of my favorites from the 2000s. Pure Swedish pop bliss. Should have been a hit.

R47 Sophie still makes music. She had a baby and stuff, but I think she still tours around Britian. She never broke through in the US. I never knew why. It may have to do with her accent, which is strong when she sings unlike many British singers, who seem to sound more American when they sing.

This is my favorite Sophie song.

I was working in a music dept. of a barnes and noble in 2001 and we had to play this shit constantly. I wish I could forget it but this thread just jogged my memory.

Who was the band that sang She's So High, I heard that song everywhere?

I never liked John Mayer’s music. “Your Body is a Wonnderland”? OK, bro.

Every kid under 14 came into buy Britney or aaron carter! It was awful.

I think people were sick of Cher after Believe but I liked her follow-up album Living Proof better. Song For The Lonely is a great song and the post-9/11 video is moving.

Remember the reggae-calypso by way of Virginia Beach stylings of the original vegan-yogi-sexually-fluid pop-brah Jason Mraz?

What an annoying song.

Great song, great video.

It gets good at 2:22 and then suddenly gorgeous at 2:43.

La la la was a popular philosophy of the era.

Can you believe this was 2000?

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don’t confuse them with mountains!

I liked this Jason Mraz song, The Remedy (I Won't Worry)

He left no time to regret, kept his dick wet with his same old safe bet.

I think this is a perfect-perfect dance song. When it came out, though, I was so confused because I honestly thought she was a drag queen but I couldn’t quite make sense of her. I am embarrassed to admit I found out about Lady Gaga through Perez Hilton’s blog, and I was a very early adopter. I had tickets to her first concert at a small venue in DC. She abruptly canceled the day before for alleged illness, and she performed live the next night on American Idol, which was sort of her first big mainstream boost. She rescheduled her concert for about six months later at a much bigger venue, and she was *two hours* late, not taking the stage until 10:00.

I honestly don’t get the Rihanna thing because I think she’s not a very good singer, but even so, when I think “2000s music,” this is the one song that seems to sum it all up for me.

It’s so interesting that post-9/11 sooooooo many hit songs are completely vapid and meaningless, many of them even just replacing words with la la la or ba ba ba or hey ya or do doo doodoo or ella ella ella ay ay ay.

"Milkshake" by Kelis

Gary Jules - 'Mad World' (from the 'Donnie Darko' soundtrack)

Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"

“Hayling” - FC Kahuna....

I played it at my brothers funeral back in 2002.

“Don’t think about all those things you fear... Just be glad to be here...”

Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)

I loved Avril Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, as a teen. I remember feeling like the follow-up was taking FOREVER, even though it was less than two years. As an adult, I now know the pain of waiting seven years for a new Fiona Apple album. Unfortunately, by the time she released Under My Skin I had outgrown her somewhat, so it was a bit of a let-down. I still remember reading interviews with her during that era where she kept banging on about wanting to record more credible rock music, which is ironic as hell in hindsight, considering she went on to release "Girlfriend" a few years later. To say nothing of "Hello Kitty", which is far more juvenile than anything she recorded as a teenager...

E-Type feat. Na Na - Life

Southside

I had forgotten how beautiful Sophie Ellis-Bextor is.

r38, I think the decade is hard to pin down because it was sort of identity-less for so long. No one could decide what it was called or how it should be referred. The whole 00s decade was kind of dazed and rudderless from the start given that it basically kicked off with 9/11 and ended with the Great Recession. This decade has felt even less defined and anchored. The Obama years now seem like a fog and Trump will definitely go down as the greatest disaster of the 2010s. The 90s seems like a Shangri-La compared to the past two decades.

Armand Van Helden - My My My

Still one of my go-tos for karaoke night...

Hoobastank, "The Reason"

They are a one-hit wonder, right?

Madonna - Hung Up

Stereophonics - Have a Nice Day

Scissor Sisters - "Comfortably Numb"

Don't don't don't don't stop the beat

I ca ca ca can't control my feet

Pe pe pe people in the street

So c'mon everybody and move feet

Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

Kevin Lyttle - Turn Me On

Alizee - "Moi... Lolita"

(of course, this could never be done today)

Poe - Hey Pretty

This song reminds me of 9/11

R38 I just recently remembered that Travis existed, for some reason or other, and that I was completely obsessed with them for 6 months in 2002/2003. I started to listen to them less after 12 Memories, but I enjoyed several songs on that album. I've rarely thought about them until "Flowers in the Window" popped into my head a few weeks ago.

The only song I ever kinda liked from this band.

Bright Lights - Matchbox Twenty

But I always found Rob Thomas fuckable.

Sleepwalker by the Wallflowers

Noir Désir - Le vent nous portera (2001)

"The Blower's Daughter" by Damien Rice

I bought his album 'O' around the time one of my cousins committed suicide, so it's an album I haven't listened to fully since that time period but it transports me to 2003.

New Kids On The Block with Neyo, "Single"

Fergie and Luda - Glamorous

Eurovision's 2005 winner

R98's video is proof that I now see transgenders everywhere, even where there are none.

Mr. Brightside

Mika - "Grace Kelly"

Daniel Bedingfield - "Gotta Get Thru This"

Hot Hot Heat - "Middle of Nowhere"

For those who know the Housemartins, this always felt like a record they would have done.

We are talking 18 years here, so it is hard to sum up with any one song. I think of my life in eras usually and this song was the beginning of my life in Los Angeles. When I hear it, my mind floods with memories of the difficult cross-country move, the amazing new scenery, beautiful hills, ugly strip malls, trashy Hollywood streets (who knew? I was expecting Brentwood for some reason), gorgeous Malibu beach vistas, Drop dead Bel Air and BH streets, a beautiful but small 2/2 that could only hold half of my furniture (I had to CL the rest), Griffith Park and the views of the city, how huge,/endless/generally ugly the Valley really is, The Grove, Bar Marmont, SMOG that really does haze over everything, jarring traffic, amazing new restaurants/bars and even the new clothes - black v necks, skinny jeans, bright hoodies and neon Ray Bans (Dallas was an entirely different look and one that I was ready to shed..). All of the anxiety seems so distant now, but at the time it was a brave new world. Oh, and I love Lana Del Rey anyway:

Take That "Hold On"

I thought it was just a cash grab that Take That got back together, and no Robbie Williams of course. But this whole album was great. I love this song the most.

R102 Don't forget me!!!

Carolina Liar - "I'm Not Over"

Head Automatica - "Beating Heart Baby"

Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry"

Sara Evans - "Suds In The Bucket"

Samantha Mumba - "Gotta Tell You"

Blu Cantrell - "Hit Em Up Style (Oops)"

Hey Ladies...

Ginuwine - "Differences"

I wanted to come on Shifty's tits

Probably the theme song for mug-cradlers but I liked it at the time.

Jessica Simpson - "I Think I'm In Love With You"

Back when she was being marketed as a more wholesome version of Britney Spears - and one that could sing live.

Moony - I'll Be Loving You.

Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning

Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland - Promiscuous

Eve feat. Gwen Stefani - Let Me Blow Ya Mind

It’s probably just my age, but this feels like a musical wasteland compared with the 90s. Anyway, I do love this Robyn album.

Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

M83

Rehab - Rihanna (ft. Justin Timberlake...sort of)

Live Your Life - T.I. (ft. Rihanna)

Missy Elliott - One Minute Man

Garbage - Why Do You Love Me

Swollen Members - Watch This

PJ Harvey - Good Fortune

Paulina Rubio - Y Yo Sigo Aqui

Gossip - "Heavy Cross"

Tegan & Sara - "The Con"

Westlife - "Uptown Girl"

Phoenix - "Everything is Everything"

OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"

Angie Stone - "Brotha"

So much bubblegum crap. Ugh.

Jill Scott - "A Long Walk"

Alicia Keys - "If I Ain't Got You"

India.Arie - "Video"

Duffy - "Mercy"

Nelly & Kelly - "Dilemma"

Michelle Branch - "Everywhere"

Sisqo - Thong Song

One of the most recognizable songs of the decade

Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"

Linkin Park - "In The End"

Kelly Clarkson - "Since You Been Gone"

Michael Buble' - "Home"

gwen stefani/no doubt, beyoncé/destinys child, britney, christina and justin sum up the 2000s for me.

there was also some great rock music on the radio back then, the killers, the white stripes, etc.

the 2000s doesn't really get the credit it deserves for great post-grunge rock.

OMG....

I'm no fan of the 2000s (I think music peaked in the late 90s) but it's obvious that so many posters either slept through the decade or didn't have a finger on the pulse of what was popular then. With a few rare exceptions (Outkast, Gwen Stefani, Rihanna, etc.), seems like people are posting a bunch of obscure artists or obscure songs from artists who were more popular in the 1990s.

I mean, how could no one remember Coldplay, the first major act to break out in the 2000s?

We're still trying to forget that mediocrity. We're not all Midwesterns who only listened to Top 40 radio 10 years ago.

Yes, it's trashy, but it was a major hit in the 2000s.

Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (2004)

Eric Prydz - Call On Me (2004)

M.I.A. - Paper Planes (2009)

Enur feat. Natasja - Calabria (2007)

Singer tragically died shortly after this song became huge.

Shaggy- It Wasn't Me (2000)

U2 - Beautiful Day (2000)

Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom (2003)

Ke$ha - TiK ToK (2009)

Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun (2002)

Kanye West - Gold Digger ft. Jamie Foxx

The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha ft. Busta Rhymes

Another "classy" (*cough cough*) hit from the 2000s, right up there with My Humps, LOL.

Sisqo - Thong Song

Green Day-"Boulevard Of Broken Dreams"

Takes me straight back to my first year at university in 2002.

Vitamin C- Graduation

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

Modest Mouse - Float On

The other track popularly used in the Mitsubishi car commercials (Dirty Vegas "Days Go By" was posted earlier)

Telepopmusik - "Breathe"

MGMT - Electric Feel

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion

No Doubt - Hey Baby

R155 - great addition! Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack. One of the few unique hits (outside of Lady Gaga and a handful of others).

Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch

Lil' Kim (ft. Sisqo) - How Many Licks?

R177 - Another great one!!!

Fat Joe feat. Ashanti - What's Luv?

The song of the decade - according to Billboard Magazine. Impressive considering how she was on the way to becoming a has-been after Glitter.

Mariah - "We Belong Together"

Liked this song because of the Fall Out Boy sung chorus, but Travie Mccoy was always yuck to me.

Katy Perry is in this video. Didn't know who she was when this song was a hit though.

Gym Class Heroes "Cupid's Chokehold"

The Black Eyed Peas - Hey Mama

Katy - "Hot n Cold"

The indie scene was great in the 00's. Interpol, Bright Eyes, Postal Service, Arcade Fire, and so many more. You had to dig to find the great bands, but with the advent of napster, youtube, bit torrent and itunes it made it so damn easy.

I love you, R171! I can't believe I forgot that amazing track. Remember how in the late 90s and early 2000s, a lot of car commercials were using amazing EDM tracks (or what we used to call electronica)? There was even website dedicated to helping people track down songs.

The Chemical Brothers-Galvanize

Kanye West - Jesus Walks

KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See

Lily Allen - Smile

Afroman - Because I Got High

Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It's Hot

Lose Yourself

Maroon 5 - This Love

The Pussycat Dolls feat. Snoop Dogg - Buttons

Mandy Moore - In My Pocket

Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl

Céline Dion - A New Day Has Come

Under the Sun - Junior Boys

The Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up

Aaliyah - Try Again

Garbage - Androgyny

Nelly - Country Grammar

50 Cent feat. Olivia - Candy Shop

The Radio Department was the sound of the aughts, to me. Lucid-dreamy, the sound of rainy day ennui. Everything they make sounds like the nostalgia, manifest.

This song kicked off the lo-fi sound and sensibility of the aughts, "Last Nite":

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads will Roll":

"The Time Around" Hanson. Full of aughties cultural trappings and a pub sing-along sound.

R207 Oops, I re-posted the Yeah Yeah Yeahs vid. Here:

The simple, feel good earnestness that was still possible in the aughties, "Beautiful Soul":

Motorcycle // As The Rush Comes

Amerie - 1 Thing

Daft Punk "One More Time". "Intersteller 5555":

Weezer - Beverly Hills

Dido take my hand .Robyn dancing on my own. Dido here with me. sister hazel champagne high

R7 thanks. What a great song!

Untitled counting crows

A long December a counting crows. Pink i don't believe you.. Strange condition Pete yorn.

The wallflowers wasteland and fifth avenue heartache

Basement Jaxx - Romeo

Kylie Minogue - Slow

Rihanna - Shut Up and Drive

Sonique in 2000

Pitbull - I Know You Want Me

George Michael - Amazing

On a Night Like This by Kylie

Left Outside Alone

Kat DeLuna - Whine Up

Sinead O'Connor - No Man's Woman

Mya - Case Of The Ex

Timbaland vs. Nephew feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E. - The Way I Are

Estelle "American Boy"

Out gay frontman Dan Gillespie Sells with The Feeling "Sewn"

I always liked this song a lot but I never heard anything else by this group

Snoop Dogg, Timberlake, and Charlie Wilson - "Signs"

John Legend and Andre 3000, "Green Light"

Chromeo, "Bonafied Lovin"

All American Rejects "Move Along"

Bowling For Soup "1985"

Jimmy Eat World, "The Middle"

Lonestar, "Amazed"

Ja Rule with Ashanti, "Always On Time"

T.I. "Whatever You Like"

Ashanti, "Foolish"

Spooks "Things I've Seen". 2000

Marc Anthony, "You Sang To Me"

Velvet Revolver, "Fall To Pieces"

David Gray - Babylon

Kevin Spacey's boyfrie..... er.... um.... business manager.

Evan and Jaron, "Crazy For This Girl"

Brian McKnight, "Back At One"

Enya, "Only Time"

PJ Harvey + Tricky "Broken Homes"

Coldplay. Yellow

Puddle of Mudd, "Blurry"

Nina Sky, "Move Ya Body"

The Fray, "Over My Head - Cable Car"

Pink, "U + Ur Hand"

Chris Brown, "Forever"

Wyclef with Mary J, "911"

Kings of Convenience, "Misread"

The Mary Onettes, "Lost"

LCD Soundsystem, "Daft Punk Is Playing At My House"

Editors, "Papillon"

Ciara - 1, 2 Step ft. Missy Elliott

Cassius - The Sound of Violence

Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean

I don't recognize many (most?) Of the songs posted in the first 150 or so replies, and I was glued to the radio and youtube for most of 2000-2009.

Here is one example of a popular track that hasn't been posted yet

And what about this??

And this...

Gurl, this!

Transatlanticism....

This song makes me yearn for a simpler time

Justin Timberlake - SexyBack

Kat DeLuna feat. Busta Rhymes - Run the Show

Anyone remember some of the 120 minute (show on Fuse or MTV or something) videos? It was usually Felix da Housecat, this guy singing a love song (but zany) while running around a track, and this other one that went “we are not a rock band, but we rock the house” and the people in the video did this funny chicken wing dance.

And there was another one with a girl singing “sail away” but it wasn’t Enya. Montage of cityscapes in video.

Another was a fast paced techno song. In the video a man and a woman were chasing someone or running away. Then, the two women pair up and double cross the man and kiss at the end on a getaway boat (lesbians) 😱 so shocking at the time, lol!

Pre-SNL fiasco, when she was being touted as the edgier alternative to Jessica.

The Britney smash that never was.

Faith Evans - "I Love You"

Usher, Ludacris, and Lil Jon, "Yeah"

Jadakiss, "Why"

Vanessa Carlton - "A Thousand Miles"

Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown, "No Air"

One Republic/Timbaland, "Apologize"

O Town, "All Or Nothing"

Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment"

3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"

Daniel Powter, "Bad Day"

Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love"

The Script - "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"

Edward Sharpe and Magnetic Zeros, "Home"

Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"

Temper Trap - "Sweet Disposition"

Kings of Leon - "Use Somebody"

The Bravery - "Believe"

Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."

Blue October - "Hate Me"

A match made in 2000's heaven, Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch welcome baby boy:

TV On The Radio - "Wolf Like Me"

Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song

R263 '1, 2 Step' was my jam and my whole damn jelly when I was a kid.

I would bump any and all Ciara back then, though. Her moves, her look, her voice...it all worked for me.

Sean Paul - Get Busy

Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

Danzel - Pump It Up

Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind