Noughties By Nature - the wake

"Don’t rely on other people: In my experience group blog projects suffer way more delays and hiatuses than solo ones. If anyone could potentially write the next entry, anyone could also potentially not write it. If you’ve got a way of making group blog projects work well I would love to hear it – this is very much a nut I’ve not cracked."
(Tom Ewing, Freaky Trigger, less than a month before Noughties By Nature started)

Ah well, we gave it a shot. That doesn't mean we're not hugely thankful for everyone who did take part, so thanks to Oliver Billenness, Thomas Blatchford, Mark Bowen, Jay Breitling, Penny Broadhurst, Dave Bryant, James Edwards, Adam Elmahdi, Iain Forrester, Matt Gaynor, Ben Hall, Paul Hawkins, Simon HB, John Helps, Mark Jones, Rhian Jones, Simon Lawson, Fraser McAlpine, Trev McCabe, Jamie Milton, Tim Murray, Chris Nichol, Ryan O'Grady, Nick Olsen, Dom Passantino, Seb Patrick, Ian Pointer, Jack Pop, David Pott-Negrine, Mark Price, Andy Robertson, Doug Robertson, Robin Seamer, Joe Skrebels, Joe Sparrow, Matt Sullivan, Dunc Vernon, Alex Wisgard, Jamie Woods, TJ Worthington and Peter Wyeth, as well as everyone else who expressed an interest.

As is the nature of this style of crowdsourced list, it's been interesting to see what didn't make the cut. Among the 111 were three unreleased songs, a B-side and one unreleasable (in its original form) track, such being the nature of the beast. And yet no Radiohead, Strokes, Arctics, Kanye, White Stripes, Winehouse, Franz, Elbow, Coldplay, Outkast... What did make it, so that we have all the links in one safe place, were the following:

Spotify playlist

Aaliyah, Adam Green, Airport Girl, Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, Amanda Palmer, And So I Watch You From Afar, Arcade Fire, Ash, Art Brut, At The Drive-In, The Avalanches, Ballboy, Battles, Bearsuit, Billie The Vision And The Dancers, Blakfish, The Bobby McGees, Brakes, Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, Broadcast, BrokeNCYDE, Burial, Chris T-T, Clock Opera, Colour, Comet Gain, The Concretes, The Coral, Dan Deacon, Darren Hayman, David Cronenberg's Wife, The Delgados, Deerhunter, Dizzee Rascal, Eastern Lane, Eels, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Euros Childs, Felix da Housecat, Girls Aloud, Girls On Top, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hefner, Helen Love, The Hold Steady, The Horrors, Hot Hot Heat, The Indelicates, Jarvis Cocker, Johnny Boy, Johnny Flynn, Johnny Foreigner, Justice vs Simian, Kat Flint, Kate Nash, Klaxons, The Knife, Kylie Minogue, Lambchop, The Libertines, The Long Blondes, Los Campesinos!, The Lucksmiths, Lupen Crook, The Manhattan Love Suicides, Maps, Mclusky, Minnaars, Mint Royale, Missy Elliott, Misty's Big Adventure, Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi, Moldy Peaches, Monkey Swallows The Universe, The National, Neon Neon, New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Patrick Wolf, Pelle Carlberg, The Pipettes, Primal Scream, Pulp, Rachel Stevens, The Research, Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue, Ryan Adams, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Saul Williams, Saves The Day, Sebastian Tellier, Sergeant Buzfuz, Snow White, Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Stars, The Streets, Sufjan Stevens, Sugababes, Sunset Rubdown, Super Furry Animals, Tim Ten Yen, The Ting Tings, Town Bike, The Unicorns, Von Sudenfed, The Wave Pictures, Why?, Wyclef Jean, XX Teens and You Slut!.