The 100 Best Songs of the Millenium

Rolling Stone did a list like this a second ago and I disagreed with everything about it so rather than get mad I just made my own. No order, one per artist/identity. Honorable mention: "Sports" by Tim & Eric.

1. "My body is a cage" - Arcade Fire
2. "Sky starts falling" - Doves
3. "We do not fuck around" - Viva Voce
4. "I know the law" - Wye Oak
5. "1000 deaths" - D'Angelo
6. "Grenades" - Torche
7. "Because I'm Me" - The Avalanches
8. "Love Play" - School of Seven Bells
9. "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
10. "Bluebird" - The Rapture
11. "Middle Cyclone" - Neko Case
12. "Bitches in Tokyo" - Stars
13. "Is there a ghost?" - Band of Horses
14. "Musicology" - Prince
15. "Gravel Pit" - Wu-Tang Clan
16. "Abel" - The National
17. "I’ll believe in anything" - Wolf Parade
18. "Generation why" - Weyes Blood
19. "We the people..." - Tribe Called Quest
20. "No future part 3: Escape from No Future" - Titus Andronicus
21. "Glowing Man" - Swans
22. "You are the blood" - Sufjan Stevens
23. "Piano Fire" - Sparklehorse
24. "First Wave Intact" - Secret Machines
25. "Daydreaming" - Radiohead
26. "Continental shelf" - Vietcong/Preoccupations
27. "Rodent" - Pharoah Overlord
28. "Color me badd" - Land of Talk
29. "The most beautiful fear" - Laura Jorgensen
30. "I Like That" - Janelle Monae
31. "Somebody that I used to know" - Elliott Smith
32. "Trains to Brazil" - Guillemots
33. "Maps" - Julie Fader
34. "Angel duster" - Run The Jewels
35. "Tough luck" - Eagulls
36. "Nothin' left" - Death From Above
37. "Mission creep" - Cheatahs
38.   "On the Bus Mall" - The Decemberists
39. "Young urban" - Ambulance LTD.
40. "The Fear" - Lily Allen
41. "One of us" - Wire
42. "Heartbreaker" - MSTRKRFT & John Legend
43. "Single ladies" - Beyoncé
44. "The Beast and dragon, adored" - Spoon
45. "Brain/stem" - Lower Dens
46. "Angel mom" - Jesca Hoop
47. "Bang theory" - World Leader Pretend
48. "14th Street" - Rufus Wainright
49. "Human of the Year" - Regina Spektor
50. "Stadiums and shrines II" - Sunset Rubdown
51. "Paper planes" - M.I.A.
52. "Simple" - Gauntlet Hair
53. "All these things I’ve done" - The Killers
54. "Dance in the Water" - Danny Brown
55. "Super rich kids" - Frank Ocean
56. "Fast Lane" - King Geedorah
57. "No Occasion" - J. Tillman
58. "The Mountain" - The Stills
59. ""Yeah" is what we had" - Grandaddy
60. "Burnt" - The Futureheads
61. "England Will Just Not Let You Recover" - French Kicks
62. "Fix Up, Look Sharp" - Dizzee Rascal
63. "National Disgrace" - Atmosphere
64. "All Caps" - Madvillain
65. "List of Demands" - Saul Williams
66. "One Thing" - Amerie
67. "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" - Final Fantasy
68. "Who Were We?" - Kylie Minogue
69. "Banished" - JJ Doom
70. "Epizootics!" - Scott Walker
71. "Undiscovered First" - Feist
72. "The Beat & The Pulse" - Austra
73. "Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men" - The Strokes & Regina Spektor
74. "5 Chords" - The Dears
75. "Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down" - Interpol
76. "Blackstar" - David Bowie
77. "Hoist That Rag" - Tom Waits
78. "Wait For Me" - Zola Jesus
79. "Helena" - My Chemical Romance
80. "Carry Me" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
81. "Two Weeks" - Grizzly Bear
82. "Handjobs For The Holidays" - Broken Social Scene
83. "Queen" - Perfume Genius
84. "She’s a fucking angel (From Fucking heaven)" - The Martha's Vineyard Ferries
85. "Drowning" - Mick Jenkins
86. "Cosmic Bounce" - Madlib
87. "Scapegoat" - Kylesa
88. "Sleeping Witch" - Royal Thunder
89. "Champions of Red Wine" - The New Pornographers
90. "Eyesore" - Women
91. "Down Boy" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
92. "Sick Sick Sick" - Queens of the Stone Age
93. "New brigade" - Iceage
94. "I Was A lover" - TV On The Radio
95. "Silent My Song" - Lykke Li
96. "345" - Supergrass
97. "A stone would cry out" - Sam Roberts Band
98. "Satisfaction" - Legendary Divorce
99. "Eva braun" - The A Frames
100. "The Good, The Bad, And The Queen" - The Good, The Bad, And The Queen

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