Mon 04 Jan
2010
Hit Me With Your Best Aught
Here’s a fun one: Top 5 songs of the Aughts. Not 2009 – but the whole decade. Try and distill your last 10 years of music down to 5 songs. Best 5 songs…for you. Some of our very favorites didn’t make it to make room for others. Some might end up on your list that don’t get played much now, but were too important at the time. Five songs isn’t many, and 2000 was a long time ago.
Our 5 best’s respectively:
Keith
(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan – Dntel
Out Of The Races And Onto The Tracks – The Rapture
Let It Die – Feist
If I Ever Feel Better – Phoenix
Romulus – Sufjan Stevens
Leslie
Clouds Parting (8:14 A. M.) – The Elected
(She says this an intro to her 5. A palate cleanser, if you will.)
Kissing The Lipless – The Shins
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – The Arcade Fire
Surfing On A Rocket - Air
Lovestain – Jose Gonzalez
Monument – Mirah With The Black Cat Orchestra
Karl
Recycled Air – Postal Service
Thursday - Asobi Seksu
Hardwood Pews – Horse Feathers
Go DJ – Lil Wayne
Basement Party – The Cool Kids
We’d love to see your lists. Send them in to the comments below.
Honorable Mentions:
Tribulations – LCD Soundsystem
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Needy Girl – Chromeo
Turnstile Blues – Autolux
Part One – Band Of Horses
Light & Day – Yann Tiersen
Aerodynamic – Daft Punk
Heartbreakin’ Man – My Morning Jacket
Tonight – TV on the Radio
Bit Rate Variations (Girl) – Beck
Air Aid – Menomena
Woods – Bon Iver
Blue Would Still Be Blue – The Guillemots
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Honorable Mentions:
Extraordinary Machine – Fiona Apple
Blue Ridge Mountains – Fleet Foxes
Backwards Walk – Frightened Rabbit
Requiem – M. Ward
Ada – The National
Long Hot Summer Days – Sara Watkins
Darkmatter – Andrew Bird
Intervention – Arcade Fire
Cello Song – Jose Gonzalez & The Books
Home – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
How We Operate – Gomez
Feeling Good – My Brightest Diamond
top 5 songs of decade (off top o’ head..so be kind)
skinny love – bon iver
what a day for a night – paul westerberg
bar lights – whiskeytown
elevator love letter – stars
jesus, etc – wilco
I had to rip these off like a band-aid but here they are.
Universal Traveler- Air
He War- Cat Power
There There- Radiohead
Ms. Jackson- OutKast
Don’t Panic- Coldplay
I wont tell you which ones just barely didn’t make the cut but we are going to have a crying/listening party together right now.
I hate making lists like this. I always have regrets. Whatever. In no particular order:
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 – The Flaming Lips
In The Morning – Junior Boys
Slow Show – The National
Heartbeats – The Knife
In Da Club – 50 Cent
Mine are these
1. Jesus Etc-Wilco
2. Skinny Love-Bon Iver
3. Bird Stealing Bread-Iron and Wine
4. Dear Chicago-Ryan Adams
5. Cry Me a River-Justin Timberlake
1. Comptine d’un autre été : L’après midi – Yann Tiersen
2. Untitled – Interpol
3. Forever – Chris Brown
4. Friday Night – The Darkness
5. The Scientist – Coldplay
Honorable Mentions:
Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens
The Garden – Mirah
Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis (inspired many a karaoke session)
new slang – the shins
flume – bon iver
sodom, south georgia – iron and wine
bitter boy – kate rusby
john wayne gacy, jr. – sufjan stevens
so hard to narrow great songs down to 5. this list is missing about 30 songs.
dang, i forgot:
everything evil – coheed and cambria
and
nineteen – tegan and sara
and others.
lists are stressful.
3rd planet – modest mouse
neighborhood #1 (tunnels) – arcade fire
september please come take this heart away – carissas weird
ara batur – sigur ros
second best – pedro the lion