Built this monster 27hr+ playlist for my best friend’s 30th with all the tracks we grew up downloading and dancing together to. Covers the MySpace era to Limewire shutdown (end of 2010).
Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Q2e8Lhh3898WaVvfQqEvJ?si=FDr8VymbTkapBLqtup4FWQ&pi=ch2YbOW5Q5W5U
It covers a few genres plus the odd misfit track that floated around:
Indie rock/indie sleaze (e.g., Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Bloc Party, Interpol, The Bravery, Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Killers, The Rapture)
Emo/alternative rock (e.g., Alexisonfire, Taking Back Sunday, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, 30 Seconds to Mars, My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, End of Fashion)
Indie dance/electro (bloghouse era) e.g., Cut Copy, The Presets, Crystal Castles, Justice, Hot Chip, Peaches, Digitalism, Simian Mobile Disco)
Trip-hop / downtempo OGs (e.g., Massive Attack, Portishead, Moby, Air, Zero 7, Thievery Corporation, Tricky, UNKLE)
Dream pop/shoegaze & indie folk (e.g., Mazzy Star, Beach House, M83, Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Iron & Wine, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens)
Britpop / 2000s alt classics (e.g., Oasis, Blur, Radiohead, The Verve, Pulp, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Supergrass)
I tried not to double up on artists too much, so it plays like a proper time-capsule journey rather than just a discography dump.
Worth every virus!