What's your favourite singlefrom 6 Music's lifetime?

At 7am on 11 March 2002 BBC Radio 6 Music was born. Since then we reckon we've played over one million songs! As our 10th anniversary year drew to a close, we compiled our Top 100 Greatest Hits and now we're asking YOU to choose the greatest song released in 6 Music's lifetime.

The 100 tracks in our shortlist were selected by 6 Music staff and presenters Steve Lamacq, Cerys Matthews, Don Letts, Lauren Laverne, Tom Ravenscroft, Liz Kershaw, Shaun Keaveny, Tom Robinson, Nemone, Chris Hawkins, Marc Riley, Mark Radcliffe, Gideon Coe and Stuart Maconie (read more about the selection process on the BBC Music blog).

Every song was released between March 2002 and the end of 2012. Now it's over to you to vote for the one you believe to be the pinnacle of musical achievement in this period. To help you decide, we've made a YouTube video playlist of all 100 songs. Or you can listen to the tracks in our Spotify or Deezer playlists.

Voting opens at 5pm on Monday 7 January and you have until until 7pm on Friday 25 January to vote. Let battle commence!

Tune in to 6 Music on Friday 1st February to find out the results of the vote as we countdown the Top 100.


Full voting list:




I did vote for Beastie Boys, Blur, Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp, Sigur Ros & Underworld

Chems, Nick Cave and White Stripes!

Galvanize ? Seriously ? Damn...

I love galvanize but would've pictured that one to be more of a radio 1 classic hit than a radio 6 one. Surely other ones? (Voted)

Galvanise isn't my fave Chems track. I was looking at this list before the thread was started on this forum. My shortlist of "nominations" is:

Animal Collective: My Girls
Doves: There Goes the Fear
Franz Ferdinand: Take Me out
Gossip: Standing In the way Of Control
LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
The National: Bloodbuzz Ohio
Queens of The Stoneage: No One knows
White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps.

I don't know how to narrow that down to one though!

Sufjan Stevens got my vote. If it was Galvanize Live...

I chose this, it blew me away when it came out

100. Okkervil River - Calling And Not Calling My Ex
99. Lower Dens - Brains
98. Joan As Policewoman - The Ride
97. Kelis - Milkshake
96. Feist - 1, 2, 3, 4
95. Friendly Fires - Paris
94. Noah And The Whale - Five Years Time
93. Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks
92. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp
91. Metronomy - Heartbreaker
90. Paul Weller - From The Floorboards Up
89. Daft Punk - Robot Rock
88. Kanye West - Jesus Walks
87. Janelle Monae - Tightrope
86. Primal Scream - Country Girl
85. Phoenix - 1901
84. Klaxons - Golden Skans
83. Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
82. Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
81. Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock
80. Cat Power - The Greatest
79. Goldfrapp - Strict Machine
78. Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt
77. Underworld - Two Months Off
76. Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
75. The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers
74. The Shins - Phantom Limb
73. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
72. Beastie Boys - Ch-Check It Out
71. Super Fury Animals - Golden Retriever
70. Kings Of Potatorock - Molly's Chamber
69. Vampire Weekend - A Punk
68. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
67. Bat For Lashes - Laura
66. McClusky - The Man Will Not Hang
65. Laura Marling - Sophia
64. Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Is Not Enough
63. The Streets - Weak Become Heroes
62. The Roots - The Seed (2.0)
61. Animal Collective - My Girls
60. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
59. Hot Chip - Over & Over
58. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
57. Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
56. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
55. The Strokes - Juicebox
54. Kaiser Chefs - Oh My God
53. Gorillaz - Dare
52. The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love
51. The XX - Islands
50. The Cribs - Men's Needs
49. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
48. Interpol - Obstacle 1
47. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
46. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
45. Alt-J - Tessellate
44. Kasabian - Fire
43. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
42. Foals - Spanish Sahara
41. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - There She Goes My Beautiful World
40. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kids
39. MGMT - Time To Pretend
38. Mumford And Sons - The Cave
37. Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle
36. Alabama Shakes - Hold On
35. La Roux - In For The Kill
34. OutKast - Hey Ya!
33. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
32. The Maccabees - Love You Better
31. Bloc Party - Banquet
30. Blur - Out Of Time
29. Foo Fighters - All My Life
28. Adele - Hometown Glory
27. Doves - There Goes The Fear
26. Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
25. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
24. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
23. The Walkmen - The Rat
22. The Libertines - Time For Heroes
21. Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours
20. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
18. Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
17. Sigur Ros - Hoppipola
16. Queens Of The Stone Age - No One Knows
15. Midlake - Roscoe
14. M83 - Midnight City
13. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
12. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
11. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
10. Radiohead - There There
09. British Sea Power - Remember Me
08. Johnny Cash - Hurt
07. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
06. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
05. The Killers - Mr Brightside
04. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
03. Elbow - One Day Like This
02. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
01. Coldplay - Clocks (seriously?)

82nd ? Well.... They performed pretty bad

Ben_j, on 01 February 2013 - 10:59 PM, said:

Galvanize. I expected such results.

It is kind of disappointing Galvanize didn't place too highly on that list.

At first I was wondering why Star Guitar didn't make the cut and then I realized it was released before Radio 6 was born. Time is weird and confuses me sometimes.

I think Galvanize is one of the Chems' most commercially successful tunes with its instantly recognizable and catchy hook, so it's placement amongst the top 100 is not surprising (to me anyway). But that said, do any of you think maybe a different Chemical Brothers song would have been a better fit for this particular round-up?

Salmon Dance ftw

whirlygirl, on 03 February 2013 - 7:42 PM, said:

No, I think Galvanize is the most obvious choice too. Remember it was the most played track of 2005 on Radio 1

Maybe Setting Sun or Block Rockin Beats would have performed better though. Who knows ?