As promised, I'm going to list the 100 greatest songs of the 2000s. But first, here are 100 runners-up, in no particular order…
(Click here for the whole list.)
Goldfrapp — "Caravan Girl"
The New Pornographers — "My Rights Versus Yours" — WATCH
Grizzly Bear — "Southern Point" — LISTEN
The Weepies — "Nobody Knows Me at All" — WATCH
Solange — "I Decided" — WATCH
MGMT — "The Youth"— WATCH
Regina Spektor — "Better" — WATCH
Death Cab for Cutie — "Title and Registration" – WATCH
Esperanza Spalding — "I Adore You" — LISTEN
Dirty Projectors — "Cannibal Resource" — LISTEN
Radiohead — "Everything in Its Right Place"
The Thrills — "One Horse Town" — WATCH
Rilo Kiley — "I Never" — LISTEN
Lady Gaga — "Paparazzi" — WATCH
The Postal Service — "Such Great Heights" — WATCH (cover by Iron & Wine)
Rufus Wainwright — "Shadows" — LISTEN
The Apples in Stereo — "Energy" — WATCH
Phoenix — "Lisztomania" — WATCH
of Montreal — "The Repudiated Immortals" — LISTEN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Runaway" — WATCH
Hot Hot Heat — "Talk to Me, Dance with Me"
Elliott Smith — "Son of Sam" — WATCH
The Notwist — "One with the Freaks" — LISTEN
Black Eyed Peas — "Boom Boom Pow" — WATCH
Alicia Keys — "Karma" — WATCH
Dido — "White Flag" — WATCH
The Dodos — "God?" — LISTEN
Spoon — "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine" — WATCH
Death Cab for Cutie — "Tiny Vessels" — LISTEN
Lali Puna — "Small Things" — LISTEN
The Bird and the Bee — "Love Letter from Japan"
St. Vincent — "Your Lips are Red" — WATCH
Radiohead — "2 + 2 = 5 (The Lukewarm.)" — WATCH
Iron & Wine — "Boy with a Coin" — WATCH
Clue to Kalo — "Seconds When It’s Minutes" — LISTEN
Herbert (feat. Dani Siciliano & Shingai Shoniwa) — "The Audience" — WATCH
Sufjan Stevens — "All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!" — LISTEN
Christina Aguilera — "Beautiful" — WATCH
Bosque Brown — "White Dove" — LISTEN
Yeasayer — "2080" — LISTEN
The Dresden Dolls — "Good Day"
Modest Mouse — "Float On" — WATCH
Arcade Fire — "My Body Is a Cage" — LISTEN
Hanne Hukkelberg — "Ease" — LISTEN
Styrofoam (feat. Ben Gibbard) — "Couches in Alleys" — LISTEN
The Go! Team — "Ladyflash" — WATCH
Monsters Are Waiting — "Crazy Love" — LISTEN
1990s — "See You at the Lights" — LISTEN
Wilco — "I'm the Man Who Loves You" — WATCH
John Mayer — "Daughters" — WATCH
Camera Obscura — "Let’s Get Out of This Country"
The Shins — "New Slang" — WATCH
Psapp — "Hi" — WATCH
Cut Copy — "Feel the Love" — LISTEN
Amerie — "1 Thing" — WATCH
David Byrne & Brian Eno — "Strange Overtones" — WATCH
Lenka — "Trouble Is a Friend" — WATCH
Decoder Ring — "Traffic" — LISTEN
Foo Fighters — "The Pretender" — WATCH
Beck — "Lonesome Tears" — WATCH
Andrew Bird — "A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left"
of Montreal — "The Party’s Crashing Us"— LISTEN
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings — "100 Days, 100 Nights" — WATCH
Spoon — "The Way We Get By" — WATCH
Goldfrapp — "Ride a White Horse" — WATCH
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah — "Is This Love?" — LISTEN
Estelle (feat. Kanye West) — "American Boy" — WATCH
Jason Mraz — "I'm Yours" — LISTEN
The Strokes — "Someday" — WATCH
Death Cab for Cutie — "Transatlanticism" — LISTEN
Norah Jones — "Sinkin’ Soon"
St. Vincent — "Actor out of Work" — WATCH
The Sea and Cake — "Left Side Clouded" — WATCH
OutKast — "B.O.B. — Bombs over Baghdad" — WATCH
Animal Collective — "Peacebone" — LISTEN
Sara Bareilles — "Bottle It Up" — WATCH
Jenny Lewis — "Black Sand" — LISTEN
nine inch nails — "all the love in the world" — LISTEN
The Postal Service — "We Will Become Silhouettes" — WATCH
Goldfrapp — "Monster Love" — LISTEN
TV on the Radio — "Dreams"
Ms. John Soda — "Hands" — LISTEN
The Temper Trap — "Sweet Disposition" — WATCH
Arcade Fire — "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" — WATCH
M. Ward (feat. Zooey Deschanel) — "Never Had Nobody Like You" — LISTEN
The Strokes — "Hard to Explain" — WATCH
of Montreal — "Forecast Fascist Future" — LISTEN
Rihanna — "Disturbia" — WATCH
Radiohead — "Optimistic" — WATCH
Death Cab for Cutie — "Soul Meets Body" — WATCH
Bruce Springsteen — "The Rising"
MGMT — "Electric Feel" — WATCH
Sophie Ellis-Bextor — "Murder on the Dance Floor" — LISTEN
Amy Winehouse — "Rehab" — WATCH
Franz Ferdinand — "Jacqueline" — LISTEN
My Brightest Diamond — "Golden Star" — LISTEN
Green Day — "Wake Me Up When September Ends" — LISTEN
Broken Social Scene — "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl" — WATCH
St. Vincent — "Black Rainbow" — LISTEN
The Postal Service — "Brand New Colony" — LISTEN
Friday, September 25, 2009
Runners-up for the best songs of the first decade of the 2000s
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2 comments:
Thanks for collecting all this stuff. I like presenting the also-rans first like this.
Many fine songs here. Thanks for my latest update in contemporary music!
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