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  • The Top 100 Songs of the ’00s, #98: “Clint Eastwood”

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    Not quite random thoughts:

    Show of hands: does this song remind anyone other than me of being high?

    I’m not sure if it’s the song’s musical bed-sampling music from “The Good, The Bad & The Ugly”, a movie starring (you guessed it) Clint Eastwood, or if it’s Damon Albarn’s dazed-sounding chorus. It could be the rhyming from the perpetually stoned Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Might be all three. Either way, I practically catch a contact just from *listening* to this song. Maybe that’s why I like it so much.

    Could a song like this have possibly come from anything other than a cartoon band? And what else could the line “I’ve got sunshine in a bag” be about?

    Gorillaz=best supergroup of the decade. Audioslave would be close if they hadn’t made that last sucky album.

  • The Top 100 Songs of the 00s #100: “Hate To Say I Told You So”

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    Remember all the “The” bands and the frenzy around them at the turn of the decade? There was The White Stripes (who you’ll hear from as this list winds down), The Vines (who you won’t), The Strokes (who you also won’t), and Sweden’s The Hives, who supplied us with the delightfully messy song that kicks off this latest list (and hopefully my computer lasts until I get all the way to #1 this time).

    Boasting matching black and white suits and a sound that harkened back to the garage rock bands of the Sixties,The Hives scored their one huge American hit with the insistent “Hate to Say I Told You So”. Unfortunately, the YouTube Gods won’t allow us to have the video (and for some reason, it’s not on Yahoo! music), so you guys will have to settle for just the song. Oh, use your imagination already!

    Hate To Say I Told You So – The Hives