10 Bands From The 2000s You've Definitely Forgotten

Like Yeah Yeah Yeahs or TV on the Radio, The Walkmen were a band that encapsulated New York City in every aspect of their sound, from the deli meat and bagels up to the leader of the free world. They started making music at a time when it seemed that everybody who was cool was in a band, whilst The Walkmen were never as cool or as hip as The Strokes, they did have some songs to match.

Well, one song in particular. ‘The Rat’. It’s just one of those songs that’s a staple of university pre-drinks similar to ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’ or ‘Last Nite’. And it has the best drumming this side of the twenty first century, just a flat out frantic shredding of drum kit. It’s biblical.

These great liquid whips of maniacal drumming like they’ve put an octopus in a V neck sweater and taped drum sticks to his tentacles. It’s a song that travels at the speed of sound from bar one and the only reason they haven’t been remembered as emphatically as they should is because, well, because not everyone gets to be remembered equally.

That's just a fatally painful lesson life is willing to repeatedly teach.