Top Songs — 2007
▶ Spotify PlaylistIn September 2013, Stereogum published an article making a compelling case to name "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem the Song of the Millennium. The author's argument largely stems from the song's ability to capture the mood of the era and the essence of the Millennial experience. But the part that really resonates with me is the author's acknowledgment of the song's profound paradox. As the article notes, "It's hard to say whether it's supposed to be happy or sad, naïve or disillusioned. Whether it's supposed to make you feel twenty again or forty before your time. Maybe both."
Reaching middle age often brings the realization that you're on the downward slope of life. If this melancholy is what you feel when listening to lines like, "You spent the first five years trying to get with the plan / And the next five years trying to be with your friends again," the song is ready to meet you there. But I prefer the other interpretation. For me, this song is a moment of positive introspection and a defense of the life led. "I wouldn't trade one stupid decision for another five years of life." It doesn't leave you wallowing in the past; it kicks you in the ass and sends you back out for more.
This duality -- reflection and affirmation -- makes "All My Friends" deeply personal. When the song was released, my family was entering a transformative time. That year, we welcomed our third daughter, Romy, into the world, and our lives expanded in ways we couldn't yet imagine. It marked the beginning of what would become the next great phase of our lives.
Now, years later, this song still turns lost youth into a rallying cry to look forward. It inspires me to keep striving for new peaks. It's why I attend more live music events now than at any point in my life. It's why I pour energy into planning vacations and creating memories with my family. It's why I love my job but never let it consume me.
"All My Friends" is not just the Song of the Millennium. It's the greatest song of all time.
1.⭐ LCD Soundsystem — All My Friends
2.⭐ M.I.A. — Paper Planes
3.⭐ Los Campesinos! — You! Me! Dancing!
4.⭐ The National — Fake Empire
5.⭐ Spoon — The Underdog
6.⭐ Iron & Wine — Flightless Bird, American Mouth
7.⭐ The National — Apartment Story
8.⭐ Against Me! — Thrash Unreal
9.⭐ LCD Soundsystem — Someone Great
10.⭐ Paramore — Misery Business
11.⭐ Public Enemy — Harder Than You Think
12.Spoon — You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
13.Okkervil River — Unless It's Kicks
14.Glasvegas — Daddy's Gone
15.The New Pornographers — Challengers
16.The Polyphonic Spree — Running Away
17.The Cribs — Men's Needs
18.Modest Mouse — Dashboard
19.Arcade Fire — Keep the Car Running
20.Iron & Wine — Resurrection Fern
21.Bruce Springsteen — Radio Nowhere
22.Modest Mouse — Missed the Boat
23.Cassie — Is It You
24.of Montreal — Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
25.Okkervil River — Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
26.Bright Eyes — Four Winds
27.The National — Squalor Victoria
28.Bad Religion — New Dark Ages
29.Paramore — That's What You Get
30.The Ting Tings — That's Not My Name
31.Kate Nash — Foundations
32.Prince — Guitar
33.Kanye West — Stronger
34.LCD Soundsystem — Get Innocuous!
35.Rihanna,JAY-Z — Umbrella
36.Kevin Drew — Backed Out On The...
37.Bad Religion — Dearly Beloved
38.The National — Slow Show
39.The New Pornographers — Adventures In Solitude
40.Jarvis Cocker — Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
41.The Enemy — It's Not OK
42.The Shins — Australia
43.Bruce Springsteen — You'll Be Comin' Down
44.Gregory Alan Isakov — The Stable Song
45.Animal Collective — Fireworks
46.Dinosaur Jr. — Almost ready
47.Against Me! — White People for Peace
48.Arcade Fire — Intervention
49.The Apples In Stereo — Energy
50.The New Pornographers — All The Old Showstoppers
51.The Coral — Put the Sun Back
52.Iron & Wine — Boy With a Coin
53.Klaxons — Golden Skans
54.The National — Mistaken For Strangers
55.Those Dancing Days — Those Dancing Days
56.Kate Nash — Mouthwash
57.The View — Same Jeans
58.LCD Soundsystem — North American Scum
59.LCD Soundsystem — Us V Them
60.Bad Religion — Requiem for Dissent