Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

Poor Benja and Coki, they don't even have an official wikipedia entry so I couldn't confirm the release date, oh well. There in lies the fleeting fame that accompanies UK grime and dub step success, but lets face it this was as big as club bangers come and spawned a million remixes, wikipedia be damned...it's time to drop it like it's hot (sorry I couldn't resist).

This is what Rock band was made for, where else would you get to shout at the top of your voice the lines; "I'm The Badest Of The Bad, I'm The Best That You've Ever Had...I'm The Meanest In The Place, Step Up And I'll Mess With Your Face...I Am The Greatest Man That Ever Lived, I Was Born To Give". The ultimate in nerdy ironic-indie-rap-opera-magnus opus!

From the most overblown of tongue in cheek anthems to the most simple and earnest of punk sentiments. Fuck Authority really does what it says on the tin, no ballsing around, no punches pulled, this track maybe one dimensional but it perfectly encapsulates the spirit of '79 that seems to have been lost in recent years. Proof that slick musical aesthetics and punk energy can co-exists.

Ah now I'm sure I'm gonna regret this one, it's naive and simplistic but it does have a sense of charming honesty, it genuinely feels like the voice of the people, it's reactionary and one dimensional but it encapsulates the political outrage and angst bubbling under the surface in the "war on terror" era.

Okay now some may be wondering about the release date I'm going by the UK release date which is listed as 2000, this maybe on the reissued double album, but regardless, Less Than Jake on the whole are forgettable at best but they did give us this one fond memory as they lambasted musically close mindedness.

So 2005 wasn't the greatest time to be a Weezer fan it looked as though they were in full decline, and many fans rolled their eyes at this monster singalong, sure it had the ironic wink but it was still pretty one dimensional, but for most it was just a hell of a fun brain dead sing along.

Hmmn...remember when Green Day used to be cool? Well neither do I so don't worry, but I'm pretty sure they used to be a little edgier than this. Regardless with singles as sweet and powerful as 21 Guns Green Day have assumed the territory U2 used to occupy back when they were cool, so I guess that makes Green Day cool, wait U2 were cool? Ugh...I give up, who cares, it's a nice little single. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCLKH4Xm8T0

The prospect of Gwen Stefani as a solo artist had everyone licking their lips, if a little confused as to what to expect, luckily there was no need to worry as she quickly conquered the world on the back of infectious singles like Rich Girl, she would implode on the second album but it was a hella good time watching it happen.

The 2000s would not be kind to Moby, he'd go from fashionable cool to a running joke. Lift Me Up came at the height of his decline as he switched to the full band naturally sung approach, it didn't go to well to say the least, but it did give us this one ray of light in a hideous sea of mediocrity.

Could that title be anymore emo? Of course not, but then Fall Out Boy never really were emo anyway, they were just a band who were comfortable in their own skin that made great pop music, and of course in the morose world of metal that makes you emo. A Little Less... was a lesser remember gem from their mainstream breakthrough Under The Cork Tree.

Most people felt let down by NERD's Seeing Sounds album, in reality it was a inconsistent scatterbrained riot and no track was whackier or more fun that Everyone Nose, who doesn't like shouting "100 Dollar Bills, Atchoo, Atchoo". Don't take it too seriously and you might just have a good time.

UK Garage was so huge in the early 2000s the idea that a goofy remix of the theme from TV's casualty wouldn't go to number seemed improbable, now it seems like madness. A rare fond memory of a dark time in the history of pop music.

When Pink emerged as an R'n'B lite superstar in the early 2000s it seemed improbably that looking how she looked, and sing how she sung that she'd end up being one of the decades biggest pop superstars, but low and behold it happened. A true refreshing success story from someone whose always managed to stand out from the occasionally bland pop crowd. Funhouse pretty much sums up here sheer essence perfectly.

Now my quest to create a fair and diverse listing brings another much despised band into the fold, now while I'd certainly be classed as a "hater" it's hard to deny the unstoppably catchy thrills of the rock and roll excess that is Almost Easy, I thought the Strokes were supposed to have killed this stuff?

We Be Burning is another "classic" Sean Paul club banger, he can make these tracks in his sleep, I remember this track dominating the dance floor in my first year of university, after stiffly resisting at first it was ultimately hard to deny this tracks winding hook.

Oh Paramore you make the most simple of simple music with your big choruses and "Woah-ho-oh-ah-oh"s, it's hardly Dylan but it is pretty effective, teens eat this stuff up and it's damn good fodder for indie discos, so who could really blame them.

I suppose most of you figured it was only a matter of time until Lily featured on the list and she gets in early with this wonderfully low key collaboration with Common and Kanye. It's still seems baffling seeing Lily and Common on screen together, their sounds merged together beautifully to forge a laid back haunting vibe. How on earth did this end up so low on my list?

2001 was the year that Garage blew up in the UK and So Solid Crew were the public face of the movement, looking back it all seems rather cringe worthy especially compared to Dizzee Rascal's Boy In Da Corner but back in the day They Don't Know was thrilling futuristic record, I know, I can't believe it either.

In 2008 AC/DC proved two things: first that they were still as big as ever, and two that they would never, and I mean ever, change there sound. Thank God they didn't because we wouldn't want it any other way, and unsurprisingly there's no need to explain how ...Train sounds.

From AC/DC to Dido well that's a hell of transition, but this is a rare Dido track that really stood out above the others, sure it was mild, soft and aimed squarely at supermarket shoppers, but it did have a real tender power, and it remains her best single, if not her best selling.

Trivium are a funny bunch, in the ever deuchy metal circle they are chronically uncool and yet have amassed a very respectable following, and are one of the modern leaders of metal. Anthem... is about as lame as it gets lyrically but it does fulfil a certain fist pumping desire deep within.

Now nothing can send a song into the stratosphere like a spot on a TV ad, especially an apple ad, and the commercial rub help launch this charming track into the charts. It's soft, it's fuzzy but it's pretty hard to dislike like, especially now it's not on the TV ever other minute.

Lad rock is one of the easy markets to enter but one of the hardest to master, but if you suceed you can create anthems that will live forever, and as long as there are sports and live crowds, Chelsea Dagger will simply refuse to die.

You just know from the first note of your first listen that Welcome Home was going to become the Coheed & Cambria's anthem. It's big monstrous overblown prog at it's best, and we wouldn't wanted it any other way, this song rides a wall of almighty pompous crunching guitar lines that just make you want to shout "fuck yes".

Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses is a beast of mythical proportions, it feels like all the skipping rage of Kid A and The Eraser thrown together into one haunting ghostly epic, with a mammoth beat that refuses to be contain until that slick jazz funk bassline comes in. It feels like Thom's most open ended solo work to date.