#TheN0ughtie5 34/50  The Go! Team – ‘Ladyflash’ (UK, 2004) youtu.be/ixn2RlLUr64

#TheN0ughtie5 33/50 Santigold – ‘L.E.S. Artistes’ (US, 2008) youtu.be/ciJDA0tcQfs

#TheN0ughtie5 32/50 Johnny Boy – ‘You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve’ (UK, 2004) **11/10**

 #TheN0ughtie5 31/50 Faye Wong – 將愛 / Jiāng'ài (China, 2003) youtu.be/Uj_PM2H087Y

#TheN0ughtie5 30/50 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – ‘Nature Boy’ (Australia, 2004) youtu.be/JquzYr-5bE4

#TheN0ughtie5 29/50 Annie – ‘Heartbeat’ (NORWAY!!, 2004) youtu.be/RqwuuWYNFJk

#TheN0ughtie5 28/50 Rihanna – ‘Umbrella’ (Barbados, 2007)

#TheN0ughtie5 27/50 The Mountain Goats – ‘See America Right’ (US, 2002) youtu.be/iBjKnfdtvY0

#TheN0ughtie5 26/50 The Shapeshifters – ‘Lola’s Theme’ (UK, 2004) **11/10** www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIC0...

#TheN0ughtie5 HM 5/5 Goldfrapp – ‘Utopia’ (UK, 2000) youtu.be/QUB7e3BtnvU

#TheN0ughtie5 HM 4/5 Kylie – ‘Come into My World’ (Australia, 2002) youtu.be/63vqob-MljQ

#TheN0ughtie5 HM 3/5 LCD Soundsystem – ‘Get Innocuous!’ (US, 2007) youtu.be/0GpLkFv-CKU

#TheN0ughtie5 HM 2/5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – ‘Black Tongue’ (US, 2003) youtu.be/vY6VZ7468Wg

#TheN0ughtie5 HM 1/5 The Knife – ‘We Share Our Mother’s Health’ (Sweden, 2006) youtu.be/gtdE7yMDdiA

#TheN0ughtie5 25/50 Juniper Moon – ‘El Resto De Mi Vida’ (Spain, 2002) **12/10** www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Zu...

#TheN0ughtie5 24/50 The Avalanches – ‘Since I Left You’ (Australia, 2001) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpqm...

… youtu.be/nOFrGX0836c?...

#TheN0ughtie5 23/50 Sébastien Tellier – ‘La Ritournelle’ (France, 2004) www.youtube.com/watch?v=30O9...

#TheN0ughtie5 22/50 LCD Soundsystem – ‘Someone Great’ (US, 2007) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwoL...

#TheN0ughtie5 21/50 Robyn – ‘Be Mine!’ (Sweden, 2005) youtu.be/_PDNRTCuPyQ

#TheN0ughtie5 20/50 CSS – ‘Left Behind’ (Brazil, 2008) www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzv...

#TheN0ughtie5 19/50 Poni Hoax feat. Olga Kouklaki — 'Budapest' (France/Greece, 2005) www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8eD...

#TheN0ughtie5 18/50 Britney Spears – ‘Toxic’ (US, 2004) **11/10** As I do every time, instead of the Britney video I'm posting my friend Camille's multi-track acapella arrangement - the breakdown at 2.22 is the best bit web.archive.org/web/20140324...

#TheN0ughtie5 17/50 Willis – ‘Take You High’ (UK, 2002) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DhH...

#TheN0ughtie5 16/50 Daft Punk – ‘One More Time’ (France, 2000)

#TheN0ughtie5 15/50 PJ Harvey – ‘Good Fortune’ (UK, 2000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBZ...

#TheN0ughtie5 14/50 Joseph Arthur – ‘In the Sun’ (US, 2001) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx3f...

#TheN0ughtie5 13/50 Goldfrapp – ‘Train’ (UK, 2003) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHnY...

#TheN0ughtie5 12/50 The Knife – ‘Silent Shout’ (Sweden, 2006) **11/10**

#TheN0ughtie5 11/50 Schneider TM – ‘Reality Check’ (Germany, 2003) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oVh...

#TheN0ughtie5 10/50 Girls Aloud – ‘Biology’ (UK, 2005) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBPt...

#TheN0ughtie5 9/50 Yoko Ono vs. Blow Up — 'Everyman Everywoman' (Japan/US/Italy, 2007) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hok...

#ICA26 Thanks for Cape Town! See you in my neighbourhood for Glasgow next year, where we can at least replicate the rain

#TheN0ughtie5 8/50 Outkast – ‘B.O.B’ (US, 2000)

#TheN0ughtie5 7/50 Crossover – ‘Phostographt’ (US, 2002) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnmg...

I’m in Cape Town for a conference and @jonathanbogart.net’s ace 2025 Southern Africa playlist is exactly what I wanted open.spotify.com/playlist/3sL...

#TheN0ughtie5 6/50 Kylie Minogue – ‘Can't Get You Out Of My Head’ (Australia, 2001) **11/10**

#TheN0ughtie5 5/50 Whitey – ‘Twoface’ (UK, 2003) youtu.be/7lPgYuDZ7dM

#TheN0ughtie5 4/50 Jürgen Paape – ‘So Weit Wie Noch Nie’ (Germany, 2002) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaY...

#PWC26 Top 8 and B-sides winner now added to the big Pollhalla playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/1vq...

#TheN0ughtie5 3/50 Cathal Coughlan – ‘Denial of the Right to Dream’ (Ireland, 2002, non-single) youtu.be/HyRxIeWo3IQ

#TheN0ughtie5 2/50 Kira Neris – ‘Kira Neris Theme’ (France, 2007, non-single) youtu.be/_D1gPIWsAS0

#TheN0ughtie5 1/50 2ManyDJs – ‘Smells Like Booty’ (Belgium, 2002? non-single, probably, wtf can tell) Thread over, decade nailed **11/10** youtu.be/GXGSBpMHcpA

My #TheN0ughtie5 picks, including COOL LIST DOUBLE BONUSES, are going up in no particular order. But I’m getting my 3 non-singles out of the way first, so I don’t have to keep specifying. So let’s start with a non-single bonus

I loved #TheTwen2ie5, but found #TheTenx5 a bit of a trudge. So how will things go with #TheN0ughtie5? Big decade for me – became a dad, found my career, published my first books, and moved home to Scotland after the best part of 20 years away. Can the soundtrack do justice to all that? Let’s see

PREDICTIONS for top 20 (1/2) Not overthinking this and only including things I've read (but wouldn't necessarily put in). Not ranked but I think 'Beloved' will be number 1: Beloved Middlemarch 100 Years of Solitude Gatsby Huck Pride and Prejudice Bleak House www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

I was rostered on for us to begin again like Martin Luthers in a mythology, but I kept going, ‘wait, is that word “zen”??’, until we missed the insurgency

Slightly diminish a book A Podcast of the Artist as a Young Man

‘Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree’

Amazed Microsoft still get the Nasa gig after Powerpoint was blamed for the 2003 space shuttle disaster