The 101 Best Songs Of The Decade

So I made this list. I slaved over it for a few days. I even wrote out an entry about what makes a good song and what makes a bad song. After writing like two or three pages, my faithful editor told me to try again or scrap it. I scrapped it. You may notice that 2009 songs on this list don't appear in the same order as the 2009 list. I can't explain why. I guess after a few nights rest, my opinions change.

Enjoy. Feel free to discuss.

-Garreth

1. Outkast - “Hey Ya!”
2. Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
3. Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys - “Empire State of Mind”
4. Arcade Fire - “Wake Up”
5. *NSYNC - “Pop”
6. Outkast - “B.O.B.”
7. The Swell Season/The Frames/Glen & Mar - “Falling Slowly”
8. Wilco - “Impossible Germany”
9. Nelly - “Country Grammar (Hot Shit)”
10. Kelly Clarkson - “Since U Been Gone”
11. The Killers - “All These Things That I Have Done”
12. Justin Timberlake - “Like I Love You”
13. Queens of The Stone Age - “No One Knows”
14. The Walkmen - “The Rat”
15. The Strokes - “Last Night”
16. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - “Umbrella”
17. The White Stripes - “Fell In Love With A Girl”
18. Brittany Spears - “Womanizer”
19. Norah Jones - “Don’t Know Why”
20. Gorillaz - “19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)”
21. Beyonce - “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)”
22. Black Eyed Peas - “Pump it”
23. Amy Winehouse - “You Know I’m No Good”
24. Bob Dylan - “Mississippi”
25. The Raconteurs - “Salute Your Solution”
26. Ben Kweller - “Fight”
27. JET - “Are You Gunna Be My Girl”
28. Animal Collective - “My Girls”
29. Broken Social Scene - “7/4 (Shoreline)
30. Modest Mouse - “Float On”
31. David Bazan - “Bless This Mess”
32. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - “Magick”
33. Dr. Manhattan - “Misses Steward”
34. Natasha Beddingfield - “Unwritten”
35. MGMT - “Time To Pretend”
36. Nine Inch Nails - “The Hand That Feeds”
37. Sufjan Stevens - “The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders”
38. Ebu Gogo - “H.U.G.S.”
39. John Mayer - “Neon”
40. The Flaming Lips - “Do you Realize???”
41. OK Go - “You’re So Damn Hot”
42. Jay-Z feat. The Roots - “Can I Get A…/Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)/Ain’t No N**** (Live)”
43. Alicia Keys - “Fallin’”
44. Eminem - “Real Slim Shady”
45. Christina Auguilera - “Ain’t No Other Man”
46. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - “Let It Ride”
47. Basement Jaxx - “Where’s Your Head At?”
48. Brittney Spears - “Toxic”
49. The Hives - “Main Offender”
50. R. Kelly - “Ignition (Remix)”
51. Maroon 5 - “This Love”
52. Wilco - “Jesus ect.”
53. Alkaline Trio - “Take Lots With Alcohol”
54. Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
55. Paul Simon - “Father & Daughter”
56. Iron & Wine - “Woman King”
57. Kanye West - “The New Workout Plan”
58. Coldplay - “Yellow”
59. Arctic Monkeys - “Fake Tales of San Francisco”
60. The Caesars - “Jerk It Out”
61. Jay-Z - “Big Pimpin’”
62. Johnny Cash - “Hurt”
63. Foo Fighters - “The Pretender”
64. John Mayer - “Vultures”
65. The Killers - “Change Your Mind”
66. Franz Ferdinan - “Take Me Out”
67. Jay-Z & Linkin Park - “Numb/Encore”
68. Against Me! - “Walking is Still Honest”
69. Matt Costa - “Mr. Pitiful”
70. Coheed & Cambria - “Three Evils (Embodied In Love and Shadows)”
71. The Fall of Troy - “F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X”
72. Andrew Bird - “Fake Palindromes”
73. The Postal Service - “Sleeping In”
74. Ryan Adams - “Firecracker”
75. Bright Eyes - “Waste Of Paint”
76. Flo Rida - “Low”
77. Green Day - “Minority”
78. The Raconteurs - “Level”
79. The Roots - “The Seed (2.0)”
80. Blink-182 - “Stockholm Syndrome”
81. Brand New - “Sic Transit Gloria … Glory Fades”
82. Josh Rouse - “It’s The Nighttime”
83. Cursive - “Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand”
84. Jay-Z - “99 Problems”
85. NOFX - “Separation of Church and Skate”
86. Ray Lamontange - “Jolene”
87. Sufjan Stevens - “Romulus”
88. John Mayer Trio - “Who Did You Think I Was?”
89. The Faint - “Paranoiattack”
90. Green Day - “Jesus of Suburbia”
91. The Hives - “Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones”
92. Kings of Leon - “King of The Rodeo”
93. Wilco - “Handshake Drugs”
94. Of Montreal - “Dis-connect The Dots”
95. All-American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
96. Halfpenny Marvel - “Spectacle & Show”
97. Beck - “E-Pro”
98. Bright Eyes - “Lua”
99. Gorillaz - “Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head”
100. Alkaline Trio - “Old School Reasons”
101. Band Of Horses - “Is There A Ghost”