I’ve been away for a while and unsurprisingly, I return to more losses!
Ghosts are one of my favourite acts of the 00s, even if no one cares or remembers them. Unfortunately calling the final track on their only album ‘Temporary’ turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, seeing as that’s exactly how their career turned out. The song itself obviously takes cues from Sigur Ros (who also happen to be on my list), but it’s such a stunning, epic track. It clocks in at 6 minutes and 44 second, but not a single second of it is wasted.
It’s one of the great tragedies in pop that we never got to hear their semi-finished second album. I still think they gave up way too easily. Oh well, I believe the singer is a financial analyst nowadays, it’s not like releasing some of the best songs of the 00s can compare to that!
Inner Smile is one of THE songs of the decade. It’s the sound of springtime, the sound of pure joy. It’s easy to forget how big a classic it truly is until you hear it. That “Wowowowowowow-YEEEAAAHH!!!” bit is something else!
Overpowered - Strict Machine - Destroy Everything You Touch is one iconic 00s PJ hattrick! More songs I definitely expected to place higher.
A Sorta Fairytale might be the best thing Tori Amos released in the 00s.
And finally, I’d Wait For Life is honestly the last thing I ever expected to see here (it even came dead last in the Take That rate I hosted back in 2011 - time flies!), but I’m screaming at this beating Umbrella, The Promise, Something Kinda Oooh, Overload, Hole In The Head etc.!