Friday, January 1, 2010

Best songs of the decade


Here are my picks for the best songs of the decade.
Note: I limited myself to only one song per artist.

1. Dead leaves and the dirty ground - The White Stripes
2. The District sleeps alone tonight - The Postal Service
3. Jesus, etc - Wilco
4. Fill me with your light - Clem Snide
5. Black like me - Spoon
6. Can you feel it? - The Apples in Stereo
7. Caring is creepy - The Shins
8. Chemicals collide - Cloud Cult
9. 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
10. The chills - Peter Bjorn & John
11. A sentence of sorts in Kongsvinger - Of Montreal
12. Broken boy soldier - Raconteurs
13. Kids - MGMT
14. Soldier's grin - Wolf Parade
15. I was a lover - TV On The Radio
16. Chips Ahoy - The Hold Steady
17. Float on - Modest Mouse
18. It's gonna be a long night - Ween
19. Ragged wood - The Fleet Foxes
20. The man who loved beer - David Byrne
21. I like giants - Kimya Dawson
22. Our love will change the world - Outrageous Cherry
23. Sly - The Cat Empire
24. New English - Ambulance LTD
25. Untrust us - Crystal Castles
26. Is this love? - Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
27. The ark - Dr Dog
28. Dig! Lazurus, dig! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
29. Inner peace- Nellie McKay
30. The Golden Age - Beck
31. The Iliad - Tapes 'n Tapes
32. Bohemian like me - The Dandy Warhols
33. Crazy - Gnarls Barkely
34. Crescendolls - Daft Punk
35. Ten years ahead - Soundtrack of our Lives
36. Are you gonna be my girl? - Jet
37. I'll bet you look good on the dance floor - Arctic Monkeys
38. Skinny love - Bon Iver
39. My Girls - Animal Collective
40. The greatest - Cat Power
41. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
42. Mirrorball - Elbow
43. Another lost summer - Blanche
44. Panic open string - Calexico
45. Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper
46. The Modern Age - The Strokes
47. Art is hard - Cursive
48. Photobooth - Death Cab for Cutie
49. 99 - Black Bottom Collective
50. Hey man (now you're really living) - Eels
51. Elevate myself - Grandaddy
52. Two weeks - Grizzly Bear
53. The yeah yeah song - Flaming Lips
54. Formed a band - Art Brut
55. Up the bracket - The Libertines
56. Extraordinary machine - Fiona Apple
57. Spit it out - Brendan Benson
58. Worlds apart - ...And you will know us by the trail of dead
59. Imitosis - Andrew Bird
60. Now, now - St Vincent
61. I changed my mind - Lyrics Born
62. Get it while you can - The Dirtbombs
63. We are rock stars - Does It Offend You, Yeah?
64. Cherry blossom girl -Air
65. Never stops - Deerhunter
66. The light - Common
67. My heart is breaking down - Caesars
68. Karen - The National
69. Jenny & the ess-dog - Stephen Malkmus
70. Get in or get out - Hot Hot Heat
71. Highly evolved - The Vines
72. Smokers outside the hospital doors - The Editors
73. Hate to say I told you so - The Hives
74. Our life is not a movie or maybe - Okkervil River
75. Gold digger - Supreme Beings of Leisure
76. The shinning- Badly Drawn Boy
77. Notice of Eviction - Saul Williams
78. My superman - Santogold
79. Sweet talk - Spiritualized
80. Where's your head at? - Basement Jaxx
81. Sidewalk serfer girl - Super Furry Animals
82. No one knows - Queens of the Stone Age
83. Life is long - David Byrne & Brian Eno
84. Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
85. Sunrise - Yeasayer
86. Cobrastyle - Robyn
87. Brothers & sisters - Blur
88. Maps - Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
89. Careful - Hot Chip
90. Soldier girl - The Polyphonic Spree
91. Out of my system - Jamie Lidell
92. We're from Barcelona - I'm from Barcelona
93. Gay Bar - Electric Six
94. Idle ties - Vetiver
95. To go home - M. Ward
96. Crack the skye - Mastodon
97. Ghosts under rocks - Ra Ra Riot
98. Amen - Jolie Holland
99. Doorman - Stereophonics
100. Geraldine - Glasvegas


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