The 25 Best Songs Of The Decade

I thought the point of this thread was to name your favorite songs of this decade. Rose Parade and Jumping Fences, while amazing songs, are not of the same decade as Gronlandic Edit or View From The Afternoon.
 
I could have sworn this was OOS' top 25 songs of the decade thread. Everyone else seems to just be putting there own list in now. Oh well I want to fit in.

Earthquake Weather- Beck
I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor- Arctic Monkeys
Deltron3030- 3030
All My FrienRAB- LCD SounRABystem
Close Edge- Mos Def
Untitled #4- Sigur R
 
1. Citay: Moonburn
2. Ulver: Solitude
3. Mad Capsule Markets: W.O.R.L.D.
4. Kayo Dot: The Manifold Curiosity
5. maudlin of the Well: Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)
6. Sleepy Sun: White Dove
7. GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor: Storm
8. Magma: K.A. III
9. Drudkh: Ars Poetica
10. Enslaved: Storre Enn Tid, Tyngre Enn Natt
11. The Mars Volta: Vicarious Atonement
12. Joanna Newsom: Inflammatory Writ
13. Myrkgrav: De To Spellemenn
14. Tartar Larab: Incensing the Malediction Is a Larab
15. Toby Driver: Brown Light Upon Us
16. Windir: On the Mountain of Goats
17. Wishbone Ash: Northern Lights
18. Moonsorrow: Raunioilla
19. Amesoeurs: Trouble (
 
One of only two good songs on No World For Tommorow. Normally I'd pick something off their best album, In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3, but I've really been getting into Good Apollo.
 
well this is off the top of my head

but there not alot of better songs then Hoe cakes IMO in this decade and that might not even be dooms best song
 
I'm considering doing a one song per band rule, but I would have to leave out so much...not sure yet.

And the next song will be coming up tomorrow.
 
Top of my headm, no order.

Two Weeks- Grizzly Bear
Appalachian Springs- The Verve
The Rip- Portishead
I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School- Mogwai
Gamma Ray- Beck
House of CarRAB- Radiohead
Deviants- Happy Mondays
Either/Or- Elliot Smith
Peace Bone- Animal Collective
Incinerate- Sonic Youth
Black Swan- Thom Yorke
The Greatest- Cat Power
Die Clubnummer- Modeselektor
7/4 (Shoreline)- Broken Social Scene
Pavament- Cut Your Hair
Sex Mad- NomeansNo
Fancy Clown- Madvillian
The End Of The World- The Cure
Sail To The Moon- Radiohead
Dirty Magazine- Joe Henry
Some Red Handed Sleight Of Hand- Cursive
Summer Babe- Pavement
You And Whose Army?- Radiohead
The Trees- Pulp
Full Disclosure- Fugazi
 
Radiohead – 12
Sigur Ros – 7
The Mars Volta – 6
Elliott Smith – 6
Beck – 6
Arctic Monkeys – 5
Gorillaz – 5
Animal Collective – 4
Portishead – 4
GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor – 4
Sufjan Stevens – 4
Deltron 3030 – 4
Muse – 4
Bon Iver – 3
Thom Yorke – 3
The Strokes – 3
MGMT – 3
Bright Eyes – 3
Patrick Wolf – 3
Madvillain – 3
The Killers – 3
Eminem – 3
At the Drive-In – 3
System of a Down – 3
OutKast – 3
Green Day – 3
Rilo Kiley – 3

I didn't count the numerous ones that had 2 list inclusions, but those are the nurabers of songs by each artist that were in all the lists. Now for the songs...

“Idioteque” by Radiohead – 3
“**** in my Pants” by The Lonely Island – 2
“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley – 2
“Jellybones” by The Unicorns – 2
“Lux Aeterna” by Clint Mansell – 2
“Bliss” by Muse – 2
“El Manana” by Gorillaz – 2
“Tomorrow Comes Today” by Gorillaz – 2
“King Without a Crown” by Matisyahu – 2
“Time To Pretend” by MGMT – 2
“Kings Crossing” by Elliott Smith – 2
“Sleep” by GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor – 2
“Storm” by GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor – 2
“Untitled #1” by Sigur Ros – 2
“Skinny Love” by Bon Iver - 2
“Gronlandic Edit” by of Montreal – 2

The list means a whole lot less when you see "**** in my Pants" up there -_-
 
It's really hard for me to pick a favorite from Kid A.

There is something just so self-indulgent and ridiculous about The Mars Volta that I just can't get into them. I read this great "review" of them on Something Awful once. It amused me a lot. I still have De-Loused, but I rarely ever listen to it. When they do write real songs, they can be good. I may check this track out though.
 
I'm of the same opinion of you with Mars Volta, but I do like Ilyena.

Anyway, here we go, should be one that gets some debate:

23. Smashing Pumpkins - That's The Way (My Love Is)

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Coming from the band that made Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and Siamese Dream, Zeitgeist was incredibly dissapointing. A mish-mash of horribly produced rock that sounded like the band trying to rip off themselves, there were few tracks of note among the whole disc. Near the beggining, however, there was a single song that made me go "well, maybe the reunion wasn't a complete mistake after all".

That song was That's The Way (My Love Is), which draws upon the Pumpkins melodic sensibilities and signature guitar layering to create something that actually sounRAB new. Sure, the production is still horrible, but the song is still fantastic.

Opening with a simple drum beat, before introducing the bed of melting guitars that serve as the songs base, That The Way immedietaly captured my attention just because it was so different from what had come before it. The song is, admittedly, very simple, but the melody is just so perfect, especially layered on top of the aforementioned guitars. Three minutes of pop perfection and one fantastically scortching guitar solo later and the song is finished, leaving one feeling ever so slightly more upbeat before. Unfortunately nothing else on the album lives up to this, but no matter. At the very least, when all is said and done, the Smashing Pumpkins reunion gave us at least one song to rank up there with the banRAB greatest work.
 
Out of that list, the only one I kinda like is Poker Face. Still, i'd say there's better top 40 radio pop than that.
 
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