Decade decade - part 1 of I don't know

We are entering a new decade, and in a bid to provide us with more advertisements to look at, newspaper and magazine publishers (as well as blogs, let's be fair) are publishing retrospectives and lists to go with them. So far, so ho-hum. However, The Guardian, bastion of left-wingers and a newspaper with fairly pedestrian pop music coverage, has only gone and got one of my pop music idols, Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne, to write about his experience of listening to every number one single in the UK from the year 2000 to 2009.

It's a fantastic read, full of wit and vitriol, which is what pop music should inspire. He hates the dull, he's full of deadpan wit, and he even rightly puts forth Vic Reeves 'Meals on Wheels' as one of the finest comedy songs ever.