01.03.10
best of the aughts in music [songs]
the top 4 songs of each year from 2000 to 2009
00
- Radiohead – “Idioteque”
- Modest Mouse – “3rd Planet”
- New Found Glory – “Hit or Miss”
- Eminem – “Stan”
01
- System of a Down – “Chop Suey”
- Saves the Day – “Freakish”
- Abandoned Pools – “The Remedy”
- Gorillaz – “Clint Eastwood”
02
- Our Lady Peace – “Innocent”
- All-American Rejects – “Swing, Swing”
- The Flaming Lips – “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part I”
- Sigur Rós – “Untitled 4″
03
- Outkast – “Hey Ya”
- E-Town Concrete – “So Many Nights”
- The Postal Service – “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
- Something Corporate – “Konstantine”
04
- Green Day – “Whatsername”
- The Killers – “Mr Brightside”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Since U Been Gone”
- Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers – “¡Americano!”
05
- Saves the Day – “Ups & Downs”
- Death Cab For Cutie – “Summer Skin”
- Mars Volta – “The Widow”
- Jack’s Mannequin – “Dark Blue”
06
- Less Than Jake – “The Rest of My Life”
- Muse – “Starlight”
- John Mayer – “Slow Dancing in A Burning Room”
- Gnarles Barkley – “Crazy”
07
- Rihanna – “Umbrella”
- M.I.A. – “Paper Planes”
- Mika – “Grace Kelly”
- Radiohead – “Reckoner”
08
- The Airborne Toxic Event – “Sometime Around Midnight”
- Pink – “So What”
- Okkervil River – “Lost Coastlines”
- Ten Feet – “I’m Yours”
09
- Jay-Z – “Empire State of Mind”
- Third Eye Blind – “Bonfire”
- Kings of Leon – “Use Somebody”
- Black Eyed Peas – “I Gotta Feeling”
some honorable mentions (in no particular order):
- Third Eye Blind – “Forget Myself”, “Water Landing”
- Wilco – “Jesus, etc”
- Our Lady Peace – “Paper Moon”, “In Repair”
- Regina Spektor – “On The Radio”, “Fidelity”
- Dashboard Confessional – “Again I Go Unnoticed”, “Remember to Breathe”
- Big Pun – “It’s So Hard”
- Blink 182 – “Feeling This”
- Brand New – “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”
- Coheed and Cambria – “33″
- Fountains of Wayne – “Mexican Wine”
- Linkin Park – “The End”
- Damian Rice – “Delicate”
- Matchbox Twenty – “How Far We’ve Come”
- Bedouin Soundclash – “When The Night Feels My Song”, “12:59 Lullabye”
- MGMT – “Time To Pretend”
- Phantom Planet – “Anthem”, “Always On My Mind”
- Smashing Pumpkins – “With Every Light”, “Starz”
- The Streets – “Dry Your Eyes”, “Blinded By The Lights”, “All Goes Out the Window”
- Sugarcult – “Pretty Girl (The Way)”
- Toby Keith – “I Love This Bar”
- Down AKA Kilo – “Lean Like a Cholo”
- The Tragically Hip – “The Darkest One”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Already Gone”
- Ratatat – “Seventeen Years”
- Telepopmusik – “Breathe”
- Miley Cyrus – “Party in the USA”
- Matisyahu – “Jeruselem”
- Takagi Masakatsu – “J.F.P.”
- Vampire Weekend – “Walcott”
- Elliott Smith – “Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud”
- Coldplay – “Yellow”
- Cypress Hill – “Rap Superstar”
- New Found Glory – “Eyesore”
- American Hi-Fi – “Flavor of the Week”
- Nine Inch Nails – “The Great Destroyer”
- The Killers – “When You Were Young”
- Rick Barry – “Stupid American Song”
- Foo Fighters – “Best of You”
- Taking Back Sunday – “You’re So Last Summer”
- Outkast – “The Whole World”







