Daveportivo's Cultural Evaluation Facility

So having started at the bottom and made it to the top, Dizzee Rascal soften his sound slightly and rather detailing lifes obstacles and heart aches Dizzee decided it was time to spread the love around and start sending out a hopefully and aspirational message. Of course Dizzee was still yelping he was fair from the smiley Dizzee we know today and he was still dropping punch lines left right and centre "You Can't Marathon Without Training, Or Stretch The Arsehole without Straining". Hear It Here

The Kings were transformed into headliners in 2007 with the break through album Because Of The Times it perfectly married stadium ambitious with dirty gritty rock and roll. On Call would serve as the fore runner for the likes of Sex On Fire, a huge bellowing anthem rife with emotional tense and the strength of devotion. This track took the Kings within touching distance of the summit. Hear It Here

So with a little help from Soft Cell a little lady called Rihanna started to make a splash. It was funny, back in 2006, no one really took Rihanna seriously yet she kept churning out the hits at a relentless pace, at the time I don't think anyone expected her to surpass this then masterpiece but looking back now it almost feels passée. Of course it's anything back, infact the bassline and effects were years ahead of the time, and it was create to hear someone making relentess pummelling groovey pop music. Hear It Here

Roll Deep have undoubtable been one of the most important creative and revolutionary force in underground music this decade, they've spawned some of the UK's biggest artists but more importantly they've sound a root out of poverty and a escape from the streets. Roll Deep put there powers too good use on the scathing Badman perhaps the most powerful statement made on the war on knives and against gang violence. This track was real, honest and raw and it's message is more powerful than a million fake plastic celebrity voice overs. Hear It Here

The Cool Kids truly were a little bit cooler in 2007 positioning themselves as the new black Beastie Boys they brought back a sense of carefree fun that had been missing since the days of De La Soul and Tribe Called Quest. However, Cool Kids never sounded retrospective, Gold And A Pager had a monster hook and some seriously stripped down post-Neptunes production this beat could have easily fallen off the back of a Clipse LP. Hear It Here

Behind Timbaland's ultra slick hip hop beats laid the middle eastern flourishes of Baligh Hamdi, from a production point of view this track is beyond smooth and remarkably creative. Ten years later this track still sounds as fresh as ever, if anything, it's the rhymes that sound dated, but while flows may have evolved this tracks ability to combine the divinely laid back with the remarkable intense remains a unqualified success. Hear It Here

How exactly do I position Emily in a list of 1000 great singles, it was too good to be low down, but it's hard to argue it case as a pop single so it couldn't reach the upper echelons, as a result the 500s seem about right. Emily is a beautiful crafted track, with a glorious constantly evolving and continuously effecting arrangement to a dramatic and impassioned vocal performance. Joana Newsom created one of the most daring and captivating narratives in modern pop history, this knocks spots off most audio books let alone pop songs. A work of pure genius, and I for one will never forget that "That The Meteorite Is The Sources Of The Light, And The Metoer Is Just What We See, And A Meteorite Is A Stone Devoid Of The Fire That Propelled It To Thee". Here It Here

Oh yes my friends it's time for that riff and that bassline, some while probably consider this a shockingly low placement for one of the decades most recognizable and defining rock tracks. And while they could certainly make their case, I always found it a rather laboured affair, but there is no doubt but when this little track is unleashed on a death disco you better watch out because shit is about to get royally fucked up, and yes those are the technical terms. Hear It Here

In 2008 the coolest track of the year was undoubtedly release by Little Boots Stuck On Repeat was an absolute revelation, it was ice water running through it's rains, it was built on pulsating wall of electro noise and Boots beautiful let her voice ride arthymically against the beat only to suddenly and unexpectedly merge tone mid sentence, to create a beautiful hidden melody. Unfortunately the follow up album was so great, and it seemed without Hot Chip genius Joe Goddard at the helm Little Boots didn't have much to offer, but for a brief moment she was the toast of the critical town. Hear It Here

Did Interpol just out Wilco Wilco? Well maybe but any boorish comparisons to any number of ice cool US or Manchuian bands robs Interpol of their just deserts for some of the most painstakingly beautiful songwriting of the 21st Century. NYC was like a death march, richly laden and incredibly powerful, Interpol took their bare and raw elements and brought them together into one of the biggest and most tragically powerful walls of noise imaginable. Proof that Interpol were no mere imitators they were the real deal Hear It Here.