Despite his claim that he was over in the 90s, Luke Haines has had a pretty good decade this side of the Millennium Dome, too. Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop was one of our favourite records of 2006, and still sounds good. Even done live. Leeds United at the Borderline:



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And you talk of your great lost acts. The speed things move at these days, we're probably only a few months from bands springing up namechecking The Long Blondes as their inspiration. If illness hadn't cut them short, what might they have done? Someone To Drive You Home was outstanding, and this was the most outstanding moment of all:



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Top meeowing action from the 'Drag on Hearts And Unicorns track Kevin Is Gay:



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Excitingly off that there Vevo service, Metric's Poster Of A Girl from Live It Out:



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What happened to them, then? "Wine then bed then more then again" would clearly take you over your units for the week, but presumably CSS haven't crashed into the gutter? CSS-derived Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above:



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"LA told me, you'll be a pop star, all you have to change is everything you are". I've always liked Pink. Proper pop star. Although not so good when she's in love, unfortunately. Anyone who doesn't have a least one track from Missundaztood that they love probably doesn't really like music.

Don't Let Me Get Me, filling Wembley in 2006:



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Yes, it turns out the first years of this millennium were as rubbish as you're remembering. These were the best-selling albums:

1. James Blunt - Back to Bedlam (2005)
2. Dido - No Angels (2000)
3. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black (2006)
4. Leona Lewis - Spirit (2007)
5. David Gray - White Ladder (2000)

Roll on 2010. Or the day when they switch off gravity and we all float out into space.