100 TRACKS OF THE DECADE
We've already shared our Albums Of The Decade. Now it's time to list the 100 best tracks of the noughties, as compiled by a jury made up of NME critics.
Disagree with our choices? You can vote your own favourite tracks to the top in our Tracks Of The Decade Readers' List - and let us know what you think by piling into the debate over on the NME office blog.
NME's 100 Tracks Of The Decade was written by Tim Chester, Jamie Fullerton, Luke Lewis, David Moynihan, Hamish MacBain, James McMahon, Emily Mackay, Ash Dosanjh, Ben Patashnik, Alan Woodhouse, Martin Robinson, Matt Wilkinson.
The Killers’ ultimate anthemic hug-along
The best The Killers single by some distance, a stirring, huge-hooked, last-song-of-the-night monster which is the only time the band have truly touched greatness. The final refrain of “I got soul but I’m not a soldier” is a meaningless phrase when you think about it, but when you’re yelling it in a field along with thousands of people while your seventh pill of the night is threatening to change your sex, it can feel pretty powerful. It manages to pull off that early U2 trick of being both a misty-eyed call of romantic defiance, and a song you can bounce around to with your mates. MR
Get more of the very best tracks on the new NME double-CD, packed with Passion Pit, Wild Beasts, Kasabian, The Big Pink, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Biffy Clyro and more. Out now!
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
The Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Coldplay
Kings of Leon
The Kooks
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