01.03.10

best of the aughts in music [songs]

Posted in words about non-words at 9:13 pm by electricvishnu

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”

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