Artist	Song
Dandy Warhols	Bohemian Like You
The Hives	Main Offender
The Makers	Open Your Eyes
Clinic	Internal Wrangler
Belle and Sebastian	Legal Man
Modest Mouse	Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
New Wet Kojak	Sticky 2 Me
Roni Size	Who Told You
Infesticons	Hero Theme
Outkast	Red Velvet
Jurassic 5	Twelve
Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek	Move Somethin'
Kid Koala	Fender Bender
Plastilina Mosh	Boombox Baby
Jimi Tenor	Spell
Badly Drawn Boy	Say It Again
12 Rods	Repeat
Grandaddy	The Crystal Lake
Broadcast	Come On Let's Go
Calexico	Sonic Wind

Comment:

The beginning/end of a new/old century is given a soundtrack both apropos and surprising: who woulda guessed in 1973 that we'd usher in the 20th century with bands that sound not unlike like stuff done by Big Star (Dandy Warhols) and the Kinks (Badly Drawn Boy) back then? Probably more people than would anticipate turntablism (Kid Koala), jungle (Roni Size), electro (Ladytron) and Motown-gone-noir (Broadcast). Hell, I'll take Outkast over flying cars and robot maids any day.

UPDATE 12-19-02: There's still no room on '98 for one of those other 12 Rods songs, as much as I lurve "Faster Than You". But I managed to cram in a whole mess of things, including songs that weren't caught onto by most (myself included) until a year or two later - "Main Offender" and "Internal Wrangler" are both from 2000. (Ladytron is moving to '02.)

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