The 100 best songs of the first decade of the 2000s (80-71)

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80. Imogen Heap — "Headlock"

I had one semester in law school where I had no morning classes on most weekdays, so I had time to have breakfast at home, and I'd always play this, the first song on her great album Speak for Yourself, to get the day started.




79. The Killers — "Read My Mind"




78. Lenka — "Bring Me Down"




77. Amy Winehouse — "You Know I'm No Good"




76. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros — "Home"




75. Nerina Pallot — "Everything's Illuminated!"




74. Rilo Kiley — "The Good That Won’t Come Out"

Starts unassumingly, ends gloriously.




73. Arcade Fire — "Wake Up"

David Bowie joins the band in this performance. A great melisma: the joyously drawn-out "adjuuuuuuust" (starting at 3:08 in the video).




72. Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Zero"




71. Youth Group — "Someone Else's Dream"