What was I listening to on the commute in 2005/6?!
Posted by Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 207 comments
I (mid-forties, former Indie type) lived in north London in the mid 2000s. Currently feeling nostalgic about my bus commute and the music I used to listen to on my Creative Zen. Happy bloody days! Unfortunately I no longer have the WMP library I used for stocking up that player and I can only remember a few songs from my playlists. Can anyone suggest what the heck else I might have been listening to in that period, based on my vague memories below?!
Stephen Fretwell - Run, Emily
José Gonzalez - Heartbeats
The Brazilian guy who did the Steve Zizou soundtrack
Guillemots - Get Over It
The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
Kanyé West - Golddigger
Pigeon Detectives (??) - Moving to New York
That song that went "What's that coming over the hill is it a MONSTER"
The warbly woman who did the song for the Orange advert with the balloons (Joanna Newsome?)
Röyksopp, Zero 7, Air etc
(My musical background prior to this was broadly Massive Attack, 90s Britpop etc, but I remember in the mid-2000s I was pretty proud of myself for listening to more current music 😁)
Any suggestions welcome!
Consistent-Pirate-23@reddit
Moving to New York was the wombats, the kind of daft band we don’t have anymore
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Ohh you're right, thank you! I deffo had a Pigeo Detectives track on there but looking up their listings I can't see anything familiar. It was also something daft IYKWIM.
StardustOasis@reddit
Must have been I Found Out, that's the only single they released prior to 2007.
Blobfishery@reddit
Surely romantic type was out?
StardustOasis@reddit
February 2007.
Severe_Beginning2633@reddit
Is that too much of a difference
PingvinPanda@reddit
Would recommend looking up The Non Stick Pans parody band on Instagram - absolutely nails that era of indie bands with skinny jeans and daft lyrics
Oggabobba@reddit
The Wombats are one of the worst artists I’ve ever listened to properly
REC_updated@reddit
Their joy division song is up there as one of my most hated songs of all time. Definition of indie landfill along with the kaiserchiefs
BoopSquad@reddit
Wombats are bigger now then in 2007. They headlined the o2 a couple of years ago.
Consistent-Pirate-23@reddit
Lead me not into temptation, I can find my own way there. I might have to go if they play round here
Spirited_Opposite@reddit
The Wombats are very much still around, they released a new album last year
peppermint_aero@reddit
I Found Out was the Pigeon Detectives which is also a banger
Nandor1262@reddit
I saw them in Sefton Park last summer
SockPuppetOrSth@reddit
“The kind of daft band we don’t have anymore” yet the Wombats are still active and playing the festival circuits every year
spongey1865@reddit
Glastonbury 2009 their debut album just released and went big but they were clearly booked before and were doing a small stage which was packed out.
Lead singer was fucked and asked everyone to dance like giving birth to a zebra.
There was also a mosh pit for the wombats. I dropped my phone in it and the whole pit stopped until someone found it.
What a brilliantly daft band.
combine_harvester_84@reddit
I used to run an alcohol free band night for teens in a small town where most of them had never experienced live music. The Wombats headlined one of the shows around 2008 and got everyone to find a partner and do a waltz around the venue. They were absolutely smashing lads and the kids went nuts for them.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
This is BRILLIANT, on all levels
combine_harvester_84@reddit
As it happens, The Pigeon Detectives also headlined a few months earlier. My main memory of that one is Matt, the singer, shouting to me that he was getting electric shocks as he continued to fire water out of his mouth all over things that were quite obviously powered by electricity. And then there was a stage invasion. More innocent times. Thanks for sparking a trip down memory lane!
eatyourgreenbeanspls@reddit
Hey I went to see them in December! We still have them haha
Comfortable_Love7967@reddit
My dad interviewed them at Skegness big weekend, was 2 of us and the band in a tiny changing room and the lead singer just walked off and pissed in the shower.
About 3 hours later we found one of them in a bush absolutely hammered, random band
IDKBear25@reddit
Pink, pink lemonade. Does he kiss you till your lips explode?
Pink, pink lemonade. And does he take you places I can't afford to go?
I discovered that song through a Joe Fazer video.
CriticalBrickery@reddit
Monster - Automatic
Worried About Ray - The Hoosiers
Velocity - Maximo Park
popsand@reddit
What happened to Maximo Park. Loved them
CriticalBrickery@reddit
they still tour outside London!
Severe_Beginning2633@reddit
The Gossip - standing in the way of control
N.E.R.D - she wants to move
tenacious D - wonder boy ?
claireauriga@reddit
I used to have an album called Established 1967 where Radio 1 got a bunch of bands to do covers of songs from the 60s to the 00s. The Gossip did an amazing cover of Careless Whisper. I still have the mp3, but I can't find it (or any of that album) on Spotify to integrate with my regular music listening.
starsandshards@reddit
I loved this album!
claireauriga@reddit
It was so good and it seems like it just disappeared. I also really liked the Pigeon Detectives' cover of Power of Love, the Feeling's cover of You're So Vain, Lullaby by the Editors, and You Sexy Thing by Stereophonics.
starsandshards@reddit
I adore Lily Allen's cover of Oh My God. The album was full of these gems!
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
Also N.E.R.D. - Almost Over Now
YchYFi@reddit
Rock Star is the song.
ReallySmallFeet@reddit
THANK you. I always forget!
VioletRosely22@reddit
What about Heavy Cross by Gossip as well. I rediscovered that a few months ago, great song.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Beth Ditto!!
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Hmm Worried About Ray wasn't in my playlists back then but that's actually a great song. And has also reminded me of It's A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads.
EvilerEmu18@reddit
I'm seriously, worried, about Ray! That brought a wave of nostalgia for me!
I liked Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) by Young Knives, and (not British, but still in a similar scene I feel, on E4 Music a lot) CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above
ThePeake@reddit
Two great choices.
Nandor1262@reddit
Our Velocity came out in 2007
Typical_Efficiency_3@reddit
The View - Same Jeans
(“The View, The View, The View are on fire!”)
amyeaedgeworth@reddit
This is honestly one of my most hated songs of all time 😂😂
amyeaedgeworth@reddit
So I was around 14/15 around this time and I honestly hated all this music with a passion, reminds me of when I used to listen to Kerrang but all they would play was UK indie stuff whereas I wanted my emo and pop punk 😂
saddest-song@reddit
The Sunshine Underground - Put you in your place
PingvinPanda@reddit
We Are Scientists were one of my favourite bands of that era - then 10 years ago they randomly did a secret gig in the courtyard of a hipster hotel I was at in Berlin, was delighted
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I loved a bit of Fiona Apple when I was younger, and she was angsty enough to still be on my playlists by then
Sixforsilver7for@reddit
Art brut are regularly unfairly forgotten. Larriken love were excellent Mystery jets Noah and the whale Tilly and the wall Future heads Maximo park Interpol Bloc party The killers Los campesinos The maccabees The libertines (and their follow ups baby shambles and dirty pretty things) Franz ferdinand
Urgh so many incredible bands and they’re all touring atm because they know their fans finally have money to pay for gigs and merch
starsandshards@reddit
I miss Larrikin Love a lot.
Lana_bb@reddit
I could afford the gigs and occasionally merch then. I absolutely can’t now!
Fweetheart@reddit
Yeah i used to go to gigs on a weekly basis when I was a teenager, now its a financial commitment
Nandor1262@reddit
I saw Art Brut supporting Razorlight like two months ago!
ButtweyBiscuitBass@reddit
That is not the way round I would have guessed that
LeftSaidTed@reddit
Formed a BAND we formed a band LOOK AT US!
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Of these I only remember knowing at the time Mystery Jets and The Killers. I'm realising I was a bigger fan of one-hit wonders in the 2000s than I thought 😂
I loathed Pete Doherty so avoided The Libertines and subsequent incarnations.
Sixforsilver7for@reddit
Also: lady fuzz, ladytron, robots in disguise, Elle Milano, blood red shoes, Emmy the great, the chalets
stooduptoofast@reddit
Why oh why didn't you have a last.fm account, at it's height, so you could just look up your scrobbles? Argh the not-so-youth of today!
Fweetheart@reddit
I LOVED the original lastfm and nothing has compared to it since
Fweetheart@reddit
Possibly The Holloways, The Cribs, La Roux, Jamie T, Jack Penate, The Maccabees, Mystery Jets etc
Rude_Trouble_4075@reddit
Let Go - Frou Frou
Summer Rain - Turin Brakes
Last Nite - The Strokes
Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine
Electric Feel - MGMT
Kick Push - Lupe Fiasco
I can’t remember a lot right now but that’s what stood out in my mind. Them plus songs from Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Bloc Party, Garden State soundtrack, etc
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I was massively into whatever MGMT album had Electric Feel on it but not until a couple of years later, they were too upbeat for the commute
Rude_Trouble_4075@reddit
Haha yes they were upbeat and dance-y. Always had them on before wake boarding or the gym to prep (those were the days!!!)
claireauriga@reddit
I used to have a compilation album called Festival that someone has made a Spotify playlist equivalent of.
slicineyeballs@reddit
British indie bands that might fit (early 2000s to ~2006):
From outside UK - Kings of Convenience, Interpol, Sufjan Stevens, Phoenix, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou
More like Royksopp, Zero 7, Air: - Mogwai - Boards of Canada - Four Tet - M83 - Bonobo
earlyeveningsunset@reddit
Yeah came here to say- The Coral- Dreaming of You perhaps?
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Lottery Winners on Acid was indeed a perfect pop song ❣️
Also loved Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
slicineyeballs@reddit
I just had a look at an iPod that I last used in 2009 - some random tracks from that era that might jog a memory:
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I loved Erykah Badu and Regina Spektor 😍 and I think The Knife's Heartbeats is the original of the José Gonzalez version that characterised this era for me - both great tracks
slicineyeballs@reddit
Saw some of Spektor's set at Sercret Garden Paty in 2005 - she was great!
random-londoner@reddit
Dare I say The Libertines
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I maintain a long held grudge against them and I can't even remember why (the best kind of grudge)
random-londoner@reddit
Still disappointed they split? #metoo The Enemy Hard-fi
Nandor1262@reddit
Razorlight - America
Nizlopi - JCB
Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good Zin The Dancefloor
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Oh my days, JCB!!! My boyfriend at the time was obsessed with that song but I'll admit I found it a tad creepy.
Nandor1262@reddit
Creepy? It’s sung from a little boys perspective of spending the day with Dad! You should listen again
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I listened to it loads but it's fine that I have a different perspective on it from you 😃 I wonder what happened to Nizlopi?
Nandor1262@reddit
I’m not sure! Think we a bit of a one hit wonder
Srddrs@reddit
So this was absolutely the golden age of the poppy indie music in the UK that you’re talking about (DISCLAIMER I am specifically saying for these bands, I am in no way dissing our lords Noel and Damon).
On the poppier side, The JCB song and You’re Beautiful were everywhere. McFly released wonderland. Bad Day by Daniel Powter was around. Audio bullys sampled Nancy Sinatra. I like the way by bodyrockers was released in 2005 and became one of the best selling singles of the year. The summer of 2005 was summery. Foo fighters headlined Reading main stage on Saturday. Bloc Party headlined NME stage on the Sunday.
On the more indie side, Oasis’s last album came out. Arctic Monkeys debuted IBYLGOTDF in 2005, and the debut album came out in 2006. Coldplay released X&Y. Dakota was released, and followed up by Superman. We are Scientists’ first album came out in 2005. So did Maximo Park’s.
Klaxons’ first EP came out in 2006 and they released Atlantis to Interzone. Hadouken were starting to play some shows. Jamie T released his first EP in 2006 too.
I’ve probably forgotten a bunch of bands but those are the ones that spring to mind from that era.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Poppy indie golden age indeed!
cosmonaut2017@reddit
The Twang - Two Lovers
JarJarBinksSucks@reddit
The Rat - The Walkman
Apocalypse_Miaow@reddit
Used to request this every Friday at The Borderline. Good times!
Erikore@reddit
The drumming in this is elite! 👌🏻
Lana_bb@reddit
What a tune
JarJarBinksSucks@reddit
Doesn’t get the recognition it deserves
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I want this played at my funeral (first heard it on a mix tape that my now-husband did for me!!)
Apocalypse_Miaow@reddit
Good Shoes, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Walkmen, Le Tigre, The National
tomsayshello@reddit
I’m gonna dig out my creative zen and see what’s on it when I get home! Hopefully still powers on.
I don’t know about you but I had “this is it” by the strokes on repeat in that era. Also arctic monkeys first album. I liked the streets, Jamie T, Lilly Allen and white stripes
Probs4PintsDeep@reddit
Franz Ferdinand would have been a staple
EhAhKen@reddit
Jamie T
Loud-Welder1947@reddit
Hard-Fi
JonBarghestTheAuthor@reddit
The Eels - Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)
Something by the Doves, maybe.
Devil In Me by the 22-20s.
Choice_Growth_6346@reddit
I was listening to that supergroup made from Hard Fi and the Kaiser Chiefs
heyitsed2@reddit
Live and die in these towns by the enemy
Kasabian, bloc party,
TylerDarkness@reddit
Something by train? Probably Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) as the rest of their bigger hits came a bit later
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Hah what a song!!
MrTurleWrangler@reddit
Probably something by The Hives?
Though I must admit I only suggest them so I can shamelessly plug the time I was in a lock in with them in a Manchester bar in November last year and I picked up a bag of gear for their bassist and did lines with the whole band from it. It's my one and only rock and roll experience and I'll probably never do anything like it again lmao
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Make sure this goes on your gravestone!
beseeingyou18@reddit
Hard Fi - Stars of CCTV
Hippadoppaloppa@reddit
Hard To Beat is still a banger
paisleydarling@reddit
I worked at topshop during this time and fuck me they didn’t change the music video tapes very often at ALL, nearly all these songs mentioned have been drilled into my head. There was a shit band called Louis VI (or something) who came and went very quickly and also I quite liked the young knives, they were quirky and funny in that nerdy art punk way.
TheRebelPercy@reddit
Hard to Beat!
Hippadoppaloppa@reddit
The Twang? Although I think they possibly came slightly later. Their album Love It When I Feel Like This is worth a listen.
Same Jeans by The View
Munich by Editors
Tumble and Fall by Feeder
Every Day I Love You Less and Less by The Kaiser Chiefs
Naive by The Kooks
Sheila by Jamie T
Standing In The Way Of Control by The Gossip
You had to have listened to Arctic Monkeys!
L-J-Styrsacre@reddit
One of the most underrated bands from that era - Hard-Fi. Class.
Also Maximo Park, Kasabian, Embrace, Editors, Athlete, Bloc Party, Travis, Keane, Razorlight, (Early) Coldplay, (Early) Arctic Monkeys, Snow Patrol, The Boxer Rebellion,
Witty_Professional_2@reddit
Any death cab for cutie or postal service?
AprilBelle08@reddit
The Wombats, Plain White Ts, Flamboyant Bella, Shiny Toy Guns, The Kooks, Razorlight, The Killers, Scouting For Girls etc were all on my indie playlist
flodomite@reddit
Scouting for girls for sure, was looking to see if anyone mentioned them
Jeffina78@reddit
Bloc Party was my thing in 2005.
urangelyourslave@reddit
Do you know what the orange advert one was yet? I’m trying to find it now as I’m convinced I know which song you mean?
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
It's just come to me, reading your comment - This Side of The Blue! It was a great song (couldn't listen to a whole album of it though)
ta2558@reddit
I was thinking it was Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan! Phone companies loved a warble in the mid 2000s
urangelyourslave@reddit
I am a Joanna Newsom fan but I do get that much of her early music is not to everyone’s taste, I was thinking about little yellow spider by devandrah banhart as soon as you said warbly even though I’m aware he’s not a woman, that one always stuck with me!
justmoochin@reddit
Friendly fires - jump in the pool
Ladyhawke - my delirium
The big pink - dominoes
Jack penate - second, minute or hour
indiegirl1980@reddit
Omg ladyhawke - her album was a banger then and still is now!
Smooth-Captain-6151@reddit
Ladyhawke!
Had Paris is Burning and Dusk Till Dawn on my iPod as well.
yellow_hairbrush@reddit
Jack Penate - I remembered him the other day and he had a couple of good uns. I wish I’d kept my iPod so I had the playlists still…
indiegirl1980@reddit
Any franz ferdinand in there?
Stereophonics
Editors
Killers
Travis
Bloc Party
Libertines
Pigeon detectives were class!
The strokes
Two door cinema club
Honestly 2005-2007 were my favourite years for music and still are, so many of these artists I still listen to now.
Frankfusion@reddit
King without a crown by Matisyahu Pod U2 how to dismantle an atomic bomb
siliconsandwich@reddit
I'm gonna take any excuse to mention Morning Runner. Burning Benches was permanently on my MP3 playlist.
damage_stink@reddit
I bet you were also listening to at least some of:
Jack Penate
Jamie T
Let's Wrestle
The Maccabbees
Interpol
The Walkmen
White Lies
Frank Turner
And if you want some random unrelated recommendations from a stranger (you probably dont)
Warning - watching from a distance
The Menzingers- after the party
Drive by Truckers - the dirty south
The weakerthans- reconstruction site
And finally a criminally misunderstood album
Third eye blind - self titled (seriously, give it a go, its so so so much better than you are imagining)
thisriveriswild57@reddit
The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So Hoobastank - The Reason Incubus - Drive The Libertines - Can’t Stand Me Now Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can’t Stop Foo Fighters - All My Life Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Content_sky4190@reddit
I was a teenager back then and would always moan about how "music these days is crap" born in the wrong generation blah blah blah. Now I am in my mid 30s, going through these comments feeling so much nostalgia, wishing we could go back!! What a time that was!
Also, can't believe I haven't seen anyone suggest The Libertines yet?!
Key-Opportunity766@reddit
The yeah yeah yeahs, metric, peaches
JarJarBinksSucks@reddit
Lady flash - The Go Team
gray_fox_jaeger@reddit
The Silent Alarm album by Bloc Party
EvilerEmu18@reddit
This was one that always felt kind of obscure, but Panic Attack - The Paddingtons
JarJarBinksSucks@reddit
Love like Semtex - The Infadels
Active-Strawberry-37@reddit
Dream Catch Me by Newton Faulkner.
DontCallMeLen1876@reddit
Boy Kill Boy - Suzie.
EvilerEmu18@reddit
Excellent shout, hadn't thought about them for ages but they were definitely that era of British indie! Someone else said Futureheads, they're in the same category in my mind
magnumpearl10@reddit
Jamie T 1 - if you got the money?
EvilerEmu18@reddit
Great shout, Jamie T was everywhere in the places British indie kids listened to music then.
I went to a gig/CD signing of his in HMV Glasgow at the time and he was so sweet, and grateful that anyone showed up. He hadn't even released the first album yet
Cheezelover99@reddit
Shins. Lots of Shins
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
They passed me by I'm afraid! Oh God I've just remembered Razorlight though.
EvilerEmu18@reddit
Razorlight's first album was great, I think they get a bad rep cos the singer was a wanker, but I stand by Up All Night!
Cheezelover99@reddit
I'm sorry for your loss
paisleydarling@reddit
I was obsessed with a band called “do me bad things” and literally no one seems to remember them, I bought their cd at Heathrow HMV on the way to NYC, I was 18 at the time and I thought I was so fucking cool listening to that on my Walkman in a yellow taxi 💀💀💀
reginafilangestwin@reddit
The twang
Reverend and the makers
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I was a big Green Day fan since school days but during this timeline I was much more into winsome weedy guitarists...just remembered Damien Rice, Cannonball!
reginafilangestwin@reddit
Haha. Yes, loved cannonball
TheRebelPercy@reddit
Hard Fi - Living For The Weekend Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Artic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Bodyrockers - I Like The Way You Move Oasis - Lyla
CodeBeginning6548@reddit
No specific songs, but Jamie T, The Others, Libertines, Mystery Jets, Sunshine Underground, The Twang (guilty pleasure), The Music, Paddingtons, Larrikin Love, Nine Black Alps, Tapes N Tapes, Tokyo Police Club to name but a few.
What a time to be alive!
Lana_bb@reddit
Trying to think of bands that haven’t been mentioned yet.
Rilo Kiley
Bat For Lashes
Jarvis Cocker
CSS (Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above)
Biffy Clyro
Placebo
The Long Blondes
The Gossip (Standing in the Way of Control)
Soulwax/2 Many DJs
The View - New Jeans
The Horrors
LCD Soundsystem
Gym Class Heroes
Crystal Castles
mannyrerobate@reddit
Idk if this wasa but later but moving to New York triggered me on the Hooziers for some reason 😭😭
I was much younger so sorry if this was too cool for you at the time but I remember really liking
Goodbye Mr A
Worried about Ray
Cops and Robbers
Similar sort of inside pop vibe but maybe too corny
LittleMissFodla@reddit
The white stripes Blur Oasis Ash The Bluetones Florence and the Machine
nospellingerorrs@reddit
Men's needs - the cribs Second minute or hour - jack penate Mouthwash - Kate Nash Perfect (exceeder) - Mason ft princess superstar
Jpmoz999@reddit
Puressence- This feeling Turin brakes - pain killer
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Deffo Turin Brakes!! Long Distance ❤️
Jpmoz999@reddit
Doves, The Man who told everything.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I still listen to The Last Broadcast now, WHAT an album. Also remembered I had a fierce love for Ian Brown back then...this has waned somewhat.
Jpmoz999@reddit
Doves are an amazing band. I wouldn’t even say underrated as when you mention them to people who express an interest in Music beyond the current, their eyes widen.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I just think that's one of the perfect albums, as in, it works SO well as a whole. It's weird how that used to be a sort of priority for the way I viewed music, and now I hardly ever think about the album context of stuff.
Jpmoz999@reddit
Try it again? I was never a mix tape/playlist maker or enjoyer tbh I like listening front to back on a record when I have time.
And you’re right. It is one of the perfect albums
Capital-Database-993@reddit
Definitely my era and genre. No good with song names, but hopefully some of these were on your playlists, in no particular order.
Arcade Fire White Lies Bloc Party Arctic Monkeys Kaiser Chiefs Fratellis Killers
Couple of wild cards could've been Funeral for a Friend, Crazy Town or Hoobastank
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
THE FRATELLIS!! Was that album called Chelsea Dagger? God I loved that
AClockworkLaurenge@reddit
Their debut album with Chelsea Dagger on it was Costello Music
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Oh God yes! Ole Black n Blue Eyes is an amazing song
chwadandireidus@reddit
i think the advert youre referring to had "diamond day" by vashti bunyan in it, not joanna newsom. similar vibe though
Lana_bb@reddit
This is exactly what I thought when I read it. I remember getting into it via an advert
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
No it was definitely This Side of The Blue although I've just listened to the song you mention above and I remember an ad with that too - it was a good era for warbly, whimsical adverts
LAcasper@reddit
I bet you look good on the dancefloor - arctic monkeys came out in 05 I think
There was Hounds of Love by The Future heads
Oh My God by Kaiser Chiefs came out in 05 as well I think.
Chelsea Dagger was out not long after this as well
Skysurfer69@reddit
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
Smooth-Captain-6151@reddit
I thought about something similar the other day - bands I was "friends" with on Myspace. Hot Chip, Guillemots, The Young Knives and Captain were on there, then a few others which I've not given a second thought to in twenty years...
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
"Bands I was friends with on MySpace" is such a brilliant, evocative, bananas sentence
AssociateDefiant9757@reddit
The wombats
Current-Wasabi9975@reddit
A few more that haven’t been mentioned much…
Death Cab for Cutie
Dirty Pretty Things
Little Man Tate
The enemy
Bloc Party
Editors
Fratellis
Franz Ferdinand
The Cribs
roma79@reddit
You definitely had Pete and the Pirates with Mr Understanding on there
combine_harvester_84@reddit
Loved that band so much. If Mr Understanding had been released in 1997 it would have gone top 10
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
New to me but will look them up, ta!
DueEmotion6640@reddit
Love Fretters, as my friend and I would refer to him. Guillemots- Made up Lovesing. One of my great memories.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Lolz at Fretters 😁
Ok_Quarter_6648@reddit
Interpol, The Strokes, Modest Mouse, The Postal Service
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Float On remains a classic for me to this day
shamblesoftheold@reddit
It was around then that I first heard Float On by Modest Mouse and became a huge fan, with their older stuff being among my very very favourite music of all time
FootOfDavros@reddit
Franz Ferdinand
ResplendentBear@reddit
Scissor Sisters? The Maccabees? Jet?
> That song that went "What's that coming over the hill is it a MONSTER"
That's by The Automatic. Fair to say somewhat one hit wonders.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
The Automatic, that's the badger!! It's a tune though.
I liked SS, was vaguely aware of the Maccabees and hadn't heard of Jet.
I'd say my choices back then tended to run a bit kooky Northerner looking sad out of rainy bus windows, if that's any more help.
Kitchen-Lab-2934@reddit
If that was your vibe, then Keane somewhere only we know 😂
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Haha Keane - I didn't mind them too much but I always remember a Guardian piece at the time saying the lead singer had a face like runny cheese
Kitchen-Lab-2934@reddit
😂😂😂
ResplendentBear@reddit
I've never gone out of my way to listen to their stuff, but you've definitely heard at least *a* Jet song if you're into that music then. They did "Are you gonna be my girl".
having_an_accident@reddit
They had that one about Raoul as well
Most_Moose_2637@reddit
It's a friendly place
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Just remembered "Hope There's Someone" by Anthony and the Johnsons, warbletastic
Truv88@reddit
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I did like that Young Folks sing (catchy!), thought Fleet Foxes were a bit later?
snedgewrangle@reddit
I was listening to all this stuff at that time too (also on a Creative Zen). Some other highlights I randomly remember from around the same time: - The Zutons - Valerie - Electric Six - Gay Bar - Hard-Fi - Cash Machine
First-Lengthiness-16@reddit
I went to see Hard Fi in Brixton academy. I ended up in a crowd picture in the sleeve of their album.
I’ve recently started listening to them again, my kids loved them now
snedgewrangle@reddit
Ooh ooh ooh and Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dancefloor
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
God, the Zutons - my housemates loved them but Valerie did my head in. I didn't mind the Arctic Monkeys but they weren't on my playlists - I possibly considered them too young or cool 😂
snedgewrangle@reddit
I'm a bit younger than you so that tracks :D
cmpthepirate@reddit
You were definitely listening to The Holloways and any number of Libertines spinoffs if you were in London and in to indie at that time.
The Holloways - Generator Editors - Munich White Lies - To Lose My Life Bloc Party - Helicopter etc
To name a few :)
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Generator, what a song!!
FrankieCactus@reddit
Do you remember The Feeling?
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I remember them it they were a shade too jolly for me at the time! I was keen for a bit more misery
Glittering_Fuel_4354@reddit
Aw, I had a Zen Creative too. Good mp3 player.
beseeingyou18@reddit
Me too. An absolute brick but solid and reliable.
wardyms@reddit
Kaiser Chiefs - oh my god
The Bravery - an honest mistake
Al_Snows_Head@reddit
The Holloways - Generator
Delicious_Bet_8546@reddit
Must have had some early Kasabian on there?? Club foot?
Affectionate_Day7543@reddit
Feel good inc - Gorillaz
Dakota - Stereophonics
Galvanize - Chemical brothers
Ooh la la - Goldfrapp
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I don't think this lot were navel-gazey enough for me, but ta 😁
queljest456@reddit
Moving to New York by the Wombats??? That song and album came out in 2007 though so might be slightly too late
TimeCharacter3137@reddit
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
The Killers - When You Were Young
Editors - Munich
Snow Patrol/Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar
MCR - Welcome To The Black Parade
Gorillaz - Dare
Jay Z/Linkin Park - Numb/Encore
Added a few rogue ones because why not?
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
I'd forgotten Winehouse!! I was deffo listening to Back to Black then, and actually I saw her looking absolutely terrible outside Liverpool St station one Saturday, God love her.
That Snow Patrol/MW track is brilliant but I don't remember whether I'd discovered it by then. Oh but Muse were deffo on there!! Knights of Cydonia, all that apocalyptic blather - loved it!
boddle88@reddit
I had a Zen thanks for the throwback !
Be surprised if you didn’t have some streets and razor light in your list given big albums around that time.
Emotional-Plant-3082@reddit (OP)
Haha Razorlight came back to me as I was typing a separate response. Somewhere Else was an absolute banger!
I'd absolutely love a Zen now ❤️ and would be perfect for my kids as well. There's surely a market for nostalgic elder millennials.
bookishnatasha89@reddit
Pigeon Detectives are absolutely awful when you relisten now🤣
Bet you were listening to the Arctic Monkeys. Maybe The Feeling and The View.
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