Artist	Song
Coldplay	Clocks
from Clocks - Single (2009)
Gnarls Barkley	Crazy
from St. Elsewhere (2006)
U2	Beautiful Day
from U218 Singles (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Train	Hey, Soul Sister
from Save Me, San Francisco (Bonus Track Version) (2009)
Green Day	Wake Me Up When September Ends
from American Idiot (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Dani California
from Dani California - EP (2006)
Maroon 5	This Love
from Songs About Jane (2007)
David Gray	Babylon
from Greatest Hits (2007)
The Fray	How to Save a Life
from How to Save a Life (2005)
Jason Mraz	I'm Yours
from We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things (2008)
Dido	Thank You
from No Angel (1999)
Kings of Leon	Sex On Fire
from Only By the Night (Deluxe Version) (2008)
Staind	It's Been Awhile
from The Singles Collection (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Spoon	The Underdog
from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Lifehouse	Hanging By a Moment
from No Name Face (2011)
John Mayer	Waiting On the World to Change
from Continuum (2006)
Vertical Horizon	Everything You Want
from Everything You Want (1999)
Plain White T's	Hey There Delilah
from All That We Needed (2005)
Feist	1234
from The Reminder (2007)
Snow Patrol	Chasing Cars
from Eyes Open (2006)
Modest Mouse	Float On
from Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004)
Nickelback	Photograph
from All the Right Reasons (2007)
The Shins	New Slang
from Oh, Inverted World (2001)
Matchbox Twenty	Unwell
from Exile On Mainstream (2007)
Hoobastank	The Reason
from The Reason (2003)
Incubus	Drive
from Make Yourself (1999)
3 Doors Down	Kryptonite
from The Better Life (2000)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Maps
from Fever to Tell (2003)
The Calling	Wherever You Will Go
from Camino Palmero (2001)
Fall Out Boy	Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
from Infinity On High (2007)
James Blunt	You're Beautiful
from Back to Bedlam (2005)
Jack Johnson	Better Together
from In Between Dreams (Bonus Track Version) (2005)
Jimmy Eat World	The Middle
from Jimmy Eat World (2001)
Death Cab for Cutie	I Will Possess Your Heart
from Narrow Stairs (2008)
Neon Trees	Animal
from Habits (Bonus Track Version) (2010)
Shinedown	Second Chance
from The Sound of Madness (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Colbie Caillat	Bubbly
from Coco (2007)
Five for Fighting	100 Years
from The Battle for Everything (2004)
Phoenix	1901
from Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (2009)
Dave Matthews Band	The Space Between
from Everyday (2001)
The All-American Rejects	Gives You Hell
from When the World Comes Down (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks
from Writer's Block (2007)
Guster	Satellite
from Ganging Up On the Sun (2006)
Dashboard Confessional	Stolen
from Dusk and Summer (2007)
KT Tunstall	Black Horse and the Cherry Tree (Radio Version)
from Eye to the Telescope (2006)
Daughtry	It's Not Over
from Daughtry (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Gavin DeGraw	I Don't Want to Be
from Chariot (2003)
Liz Phair	Why Can't I?
from Liz Phair (2003)
Creed	With Arms Wide Open
from Creed: Greatest Hits (2004)
Lily Allen	Smile
from Alright, Still (2007)
Sheryl Crow	Soak Up the Sun
from C'Mon C'Mon (2002)
Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton	Big Yellow Taxi
from Films About Ghosts: The Best of Counting Crows (2004)
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk
from Vampire Weekend (2008)
Moby	South Side
from Play & Play: B Sides (2008)
Uncle Kracker	Follow Me
from Double Wide (2007)
Nelly Furtado	I'm Like a Bird
from Whoa, Nelly! (2000)
O.A.R.	Shattered (Turn the Car Around)
from All Sides (Deluxe Version) (2008)
Aqualung	Brighter Than Sunshine
from Strange & Beautiful (2006)
Regina Spektor	Fidelity
from Begin to Hope (Bonus Track Version) (2006)
Sugar Ray	When It's Over
from The Best of Sugar Ray (2005)
Evanescence	Bring Me to Life
from Fallen (2003)
Pete Yorn	Strange Condition
from Musicforthemorningafter (2001)
The Goo Goo Dolls	Give a Little Bit
from Let Love In (2006)
Third Eye Blind	Never Let You Go
from Third Eye Blind: A Collection (2006)
Imogen Heap	Hide and Seek
from Speak for Yourself (2005)
Staind	So Far Away
from The Singles Collection (Deluxe Version) (2006)
NEEDTOBREATHE	More Time
from The Heat (2007)
Yael Naïm	New Soul
from Yael Naïm (2007)
The Killers	Human
from Day & Age (Deluxe Version) (2008)
Augustana	Sweet and Low
from Can't Love, Can't Hurt (Deluxe Version) (2008)
Nine Days	Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
from The Madding Crowd (2000)
Ray LaMontagne	Trouble
from Trouble (2004)

Comment:

Decades from now, if your offspring come scooting up on their airboards and ask, “What did you listen to in the ’00s?” you can proudly pull up this playlist and let them know there was more to the era than teen pop and screamo. It was a time when all was fair in rock and pop, whether it was the arms-in-the-air, post-Britpop power balladry of Coldplay’s “Clocks,” the impassioned techno-folk flair of David Gray’s “Babylon,” or the joyful Graceland-goes-to-Williamsburg Afro/ska/indie-rock collision of Vampire Weekend’s “A-Punk.” In the ’00s, if you wanted tunes that gave your brain something to chew on without ignoring your minimum daily requirement of head-bobbing, these were your go-to guys and gals, and now they’re all in one place — this is what a brand-spanking-new millennium sounds like.

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