Tunes Of The Decade

By no means a definitive list, but each one of these is a stone-cold classic. Limited to one per artist. These tracks are not in any order whatsoever.

Check back for a Spotify playlist, will post it pretty soon.

Grouper - 'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping'

Yo La Tengo - 'Our Way To Fall'

LCD Soundsystem - 'Someone Great'

M.I.A. - 'Paper Planes'

Arcade Fire - 'Haiti'

The Knife/ - 'Heartbeats'
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Basement Jaax - 'Romeo'

Hot Chip - 'The Warning'

Sigur Ros - 'Hoppipolla'

Franz Ferdinand - 'Take Me Out'

Beyonce feat. Jay Z - 'Crazy In Love'

Beirut - 'Postcards From Italy'

The White Stripes - 'Fell In Love With A Girl'

Sonic Youth - 'Rain On Tin'

Interpol - 'PDA'

Kanye West - 'Jesus Walks'

The Killers - 'Mr. Brightside'

The Streets - 'Let's Push Things Forward'

MGMT - 'Time To Pretend'

Feist - '1234'

Grinderman - 'No Pussy Blues'

Kelis - 'Milkshake'

Dirty Projectors - 'Stillness Is The Move'

The Strokes - 'Last Nite'

Broken Social Scene - 'Shampoo Suicide'

The Libertines - 'Don't Look Back Into The Sun'

The Go! Team - 'Ladyflash'

Doves - 'The Sulphur Man'

Bon Iver - 'Re: Stacks'

No Age - 'Escarpments'

Mogwai - 'My Father My King'

PJ Harvey - 'Horses In My Dreams'

Elbow - 'Scattered Black and Whites'

Florence and the Machine - 'Dog Days Are Over'

David Kitt - 'Song From Hope Street (Brooklyn, NY)'

Bloc Party - 'This Modern Love'

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - 'In This Home On Ice'

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - 'The Rising'

Gemma Hayes - 'Back of My Hand'

Fountains of Wayne - 'Valley Winter Song'

Super Furry Animals - 'Run! Christian, Run!'

Foals - 'Ballooons'

Kevin Drew - 'Backed Out On The...'

Jape - 'Floating'

Stars - 'Sleep Tonight'

Maximo Park - 'Going Missing'

Buck 65 - 'Wicked & Weird'

Burial / Four Tet - 'Moth'

THE BIGGEST DOUCHE IN THE UNIVERSE

Kanye West has been acting like a Class A gimp for quite some time now, but the self-styled 'voice of his generation' sunk to new lows last night at the MTV Video Music Awards. As 19-year-old Taylor Swift accepted her award for Best Female Video, West stormed the stage, grabbed the microphone from a bewildered Swift and told her “Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!” (Swift's video for 'You Belong With Me' had beaten Beyonce's 'Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)' to the prize). The audience were reduced to a stunned silence, Beyonce looked mortified in the crowd, while poor Swift was close to tears.

West has previous in this respect, of course: at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, he interrupted an acceptance speech to protest that the video for Justice VS Simian's 'We Are Your Friends' had beaten his promo for 'Touch The Sky' to Best Video, despite the fact that his one cost loads of money and featured Pamela Anderson (reliable indicators of creative genius).

Fair play to Beyonce, who later invited Swift up on stage while accepting her own award - it seems that you can be a multi-million selling superstar and retain some dignity at the same time. Kanye, take some notes. Gimp.