100 Favourite 00s Non-Hit Singles

1. The Knife – Heartbeats
2. OutKast – B.O.B.
3. The Knife – We Share Our Mother’s Health
4. Feist – Mushaboom*
5. Roots Manuva – Witness (One Hope)
6. MIA – Galang
7. The Juan Maclean – One Day**
8. Saint Etienne – Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
9. Phoenix – If I Ever Feel Better*
10. The Shortwave Set – Is It Any Wonder?
11. Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
12. Photek ft. Robert Owens – Mine To Give
13. Cassius – The Sound Of Violence
14. Seeed – Ding!*
15. The Wu-Tang Clan ft. IsaacHayes – I Can’t Go To Sleep
16. DMX – Party Up*
17. Nicole Scherzinger – Supervillain**
18. MIA – Boyz
19. OutKast – Ghetto Musik
20. Hercules & Love Affair – You Belong
21. Goldfrapp – Pilots (On A Star)
22. Santigold – Creator
23. Annie – Heartbeat
24. Bent – Swollen
25. Gus Gus – David
26. Lacquer – Behind
27. The Wu-Tang Clan – Uzi (Pinky Ring)
28. Anti-Pop Consortium – Ghostlawns
29. Space Cowboy – Just Put Your Hand In Mine
30. FC/Kahuna – Machine Says Yes
31. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat
32. Wiley – Pies
33. Midnight Juggernauts – Road To Recovery
34. Kelis – Get Along With You
35. Portishead – Machine Gun
36. Teddybears STHLM – Yours To Keep**
37. The Presets – This Boy’s In Love
38. House Of House – Rushing To Paradise**
39. Bikstok Rogsystem – Cigar*
40. Nivea – Run Away (I Wanna Be With U)
41. Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
42. Colder – Crazy Love
43. Rex The Dog – I Look Into Mid-Air**
44. Herbert – Suddenly*
45. SYD ft. Nancy Fortune – Discomanic**
46. Medicine8 – Rock Music Pays Off
47. Kano – Boys Love Girls
48. Gene Serene – I Can Do Anything
49. T.I. – Bring ‘Em Out
50. Bjork – It’s In Our Hands
51. Hanayo – Joe Le Taxi*
52. Roisin Murphy – Sow Into You
53. Red Snapper – Some Kind Of Kink
54. Golden Boy & Miss Kittin – Rippin Kittin
55. Broadcast – Papercuts
56. Toddla T ft. Serocee – Soundtape Killin’
57. Audio Club – Sumthin’ Serious
58. Crystal Castles – Air War
59. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
60. Codec & Flexor – Crazy Girls**
61. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
62. Human League – All I Ever Wanted
63. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
64. T.I. – What You Know*
65. Stush – Dollar Sign
66. Surkin – Next Of Kin**
67. Roy Davis Jr. – About Love
68. Tegan & Sara – Back In Your Head*
69. TV On The Radio – Staring At The Sun
70. Gamma – Killer Apps
71. Product 01 – Heart Ov Glass
72. Richgirl – He Ain’t Wit Me Now (Tho)*
73. Addictive ft. T2 – Gonna Be Mine
74. King Biscuit Time – I Walk The Earth
75. Out Hud – It’s For You*
76. Roisin Murphy – Overpowered
77. Telepopmusik – Breathe
78. Ciara – Promise*
79. Underground Resistance – Transition**
80. Cooler Kids – All Around The World (Punk Debutante)*
81. LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
82. So Solid Crew – Oh No (Sentimental Things)
83. Barbara Morgenstern – The Operator*
84. The Rapture – Sister Saviour
85. Doves – Here It Comes
86. !!! – Pardon My Freedom
87. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Y Control
88. Junkie XL – Zerotonine
89. The Juan Maclean – Give Me Every Little Thing
90. Mobb Deep – Got It Twisted
91. Estelle – Wait A Minute (Just A Touch)
92. Frankie Valentine – Zumbi**
93. Gerling – Dust Me Selecta
94. MC Pitman – Phone Pitman 2
95. Slum Village – Players**
96. Imogen Heap – Hide And Seek
97. Scooter – The Question Is What Is The Question
98. Royksopp – This Must Be It
99. Karl Bartos – I’m The Message
100. John B – Blandwagon Poos

List does not include Instrumentals although Rex The Dog’s ‘I Look Into Mid-Air’ should probably have been on that list due to it’s minimal repetetive vocal hook. And again, only one track per album – otherwise e.g. all of the singles from The Knife’s ‘Silent Shout’ LP would be here.

* May not have been released in the UK but has an official promo video
** Was available on 12” in the UK

So it was a bit difficult to work out whether a few tracks qualified here or not but the main aim of this list was to honour the singles I thought deserved better as far as chart performance goes. Many of these songs did break into the Top 75 (and nearly the 40 including perennial near-missers Ladytron) but others were way off. I would put the chart positions in brackets beside each entry but…no. I was surprised when checking chart positions that a few I’d misremembered going Top 40 hadn’t e.g. Roots Manuva’s ‘Witness’ and So Solid Crew’s Oh No’.

This is the fifth and penultimate 00s tracks list. The final one is just a top 100 combining the top 20 from each of the five lists, ranking them into a definitive order of excellence. I might actually write a bit about each song in the final hundred and post them in order, one by one, here over the next few weeks.

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