The 25 Best Songs Of The Decade

sweet_nothing said:
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.
I thought so to I really wanted to see what he had. Some of the stuff he put looked somewhat promising. By the way earthquake weather's a good song, Guero's a great album.
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Okay, here's the next track:

24. The Mars Volta - Ilyena

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The Mars Volta, like The Deceraberists, is a band I do not care for. In fact, I kind of hate them. It's not that they're bad; they're not. It's just that for every song by them that I like, they make two more that run on for 5 minutes too long or cover up any good parts with meaningless effects.

Ilyena, though, was a different story. For this single track, I understood why people liked this band so much. With Ilyena, The Mars Volta took all that arabition, creativity, and crazniess and condensed it into one normal length (!) piece of grooving rock that never goes overboard.

Granted, it comes close of times. As Cedric's effects drenched vocals swirl over the choatic intrumental backing, Ilyena at times becomes almost overwhelming. However, the band keep things in check and that's probably why the song succeeRAB in the way it does. I'm not quite sure how hardcore fans of the band feel about the song (it seems to be a depature from their usual formula), but for me, this was one track that lived up to the hype.
 
Here's a rough list from quickly scrolling throuh my itunes:

Armchairs - Andrew Bird
Did You See The WorRAB? - Animal Collective
Neighborhood #1 - The Arcade Fire
A Sunday Smile - Beirut
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
The First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
Politik - Coldplay
Different Names For The Same Thing - Death Cab For Cutie
Mastermind - Deltron 3030
Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova
Sleep - GoRABpeed You! Black Emperor
Knife - Grizzly Bear
Someday The Waves - Iron & Wine
Poison Cup - M. Ward
Time To Pretend - MGMT
Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell
Small - Portishead
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
Picture of Success - Rilo Kiley
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid) - Sufjan Stevens
Jellybones - The Unicorns
Truth Doesn't Make a Noise - The White Stripes
Ashes of American Flags - Wilco
 
:rolleyes: and I'm sure you're pretty well versed with all the music mentioned in that list, huh?

please, i'd love to see your list so i can take all this trolling of independent music seriously.
 
This is just off the top of my head, and in no order...keep that in mind.

Time To Pretend-MGMT
Televators-The Mars Volta
Skinny, Mean Man-Say anything
Sodom, South Georgia-Iron & Wine
Four WinRAB-Bright Eyes
(Fork And Knife)-Brand New
No Regrets-Aesop Rock
The General Specific-Band of Horses
Trying To Find A Balance-Atmosphere
Late-Ben FolRAB
Skinny Love-Bon Iver
You Might Go Off-Dianogah
You Have Killed Me-Morrissey
Sugarcane-Missy Higgins
One mic-Nas
Wagon Wheel-Old Crow Medicine Show
Damaris-Patrick Wolf
I Won't Be Found-The Tallest Man On Earth
Staralfur-Sigur Ros
Pitseleh-Elliot Smith
El Manana-Gorrilaz
Ten Speed(Of God's BLood and Burial)-Coheed & Carabria
Walking Is Still Honest-Against me!
Harsh Realms-Tom Gabel
Casimir Pulaski Day-Sufjan Stevens

**** that was tough[2]
 
Ilyena would make my top 25 best songs of the decade, although it would probably be one of the shortest on the list. Why the hate for long songs?
 
my 25 songs of the decade off the top of my mind LOL

1 Lady Gaga-Poker face
2 Samael- Slavocracy
3 Yeah yeah Yeahs-Maps
4 The lonely Island- Ji** in my pants
5 Les claypool-Red state Girl
6 Clipse- Mr me too
7 Psyoups- THe burning halo
8 HIM-wing of a butterfly
9 MGMT-electirc Feel
10 EODM- CHerry cola
11 Dilla Ghost Doom-Sinper elite & murder
12 Andrew WK- Party hard
13 One day as a lion- One day as a lion
14 Junior senior-Move your feet
15 Army of the pharos- Gorrlia
16 Rob dougan- Clubbed to death
17 Arniost Get all the girls- Shoneshine for neptune
18 VOn Sundenfed- Family feud
19 Mf doom-Ho Cakes
20 Meshuggah-Rational Gaze
21 MIA paper planes
22 Ladytron- Destory everything u touch
23 Justin tiraberlake- My love
24 Jay Z-show me what u got
25 Annnddd ummm Hot boyz- WE ON FYA !!!!!!!!!
 
Listening to it now, but I'm going to have to wait til later tonight before I give it a verdict. Drone rock is just not the stuff for sunny afternoons.

Anyway, this is a pretty haphazard list, but I gave it a crack.

EL-P - Poisenville KiRAB (No Wins)
My 1st Song - Jay Z (Grey Album remix)
Lupe Fiasco - Daydreamin
Aesop Rock - Citronella
Ghostface Killah - Whip You with a Strap
Madvillain - Accordion
Novel - Amazin (Remix)
K'naan - If Rap Gets Jealous (Dusty Version)
Outkast - Hurable Murable
The Herd - I was only 19 (Cover)
The Only One - Jemini
Subtle - I Love L.A
Warsawpack - Attention to Deficit
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
At the Drive In - Arc Arsenal
The Waifs - Flesh and Blood
Why? - By Torpedoes or Crohns/Fall Saddles
Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry on their Own
Beck - Walls
Nick Cave and the Bad SeeRAB - Today's Lesson/Moonland
Snowman - Daniel was a Timeborab
The Flaming Lips - The Spark that Bled
The Mars Volta - Cicitraz ESP
TV on the Radio - Blues From Down Here
 
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