slop101

Well, here's a thought - I (and most others) have heard Fergie's songs, along with Daughtry's, and we didn't pick them because we've heard all these other songs you haven't.

If you would expand your horizons a bit beyond what Clear Channel shoves down your gullet, maybe you'd like some of this stuff better than the things you've already been exposed to.

Imail724

Can't do songs, there's just way to many, I'll try to do albums instead;
Cannibal Ox The Cold Vein (2001)
Tenacious D Tenacious D (2001)
Tool Lateralus (2001)
Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Viktor Vaughn (AKA MF DOOM) Vaudeville Villain (2003)
Black Light Burns Cruel Melody (2007)
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead (2007)
Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (2007)
Nine Inch Nails The Slip (2008)
Slightly Stoopid Slightly Not Stoned Enough To Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid (2008)

Rypro 525

hell in both artists mentioned, the album tracks are better then hte singles anyways.

The Bus

Sorry. Didn't realize you were being sarcastic.

madcougar

Buttmunker

Rocky Raccoon didn't peak on the Billboard Hot 100 in the 21st Century, and Broadway did. That's the difference.

But if it is an issue, I'll substitute it for The Only Difference by Panic! At The Disco. Happy?

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People - these songs you're listing seem pretty obscure to me. I mean, did these songs make a lot of money? Did they get heavy rotation on contemporary radio? Will these songs be remembered in 30 years as "representative of the decade?"

Songs should be significant - much like Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners was in 1983. Just sayin'....

Nesbit

Anytime I'm on the fence over whether I like a song or not I check Billboard 100 and whether or not it has been on a NOW That's Music! collection before deciding.

CreatureX

1. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
2. Sleater-Kinney - Sympathy
3. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
5. Beck - Lost Cause

6. Radiohead - All I Need
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cheated Hearts
8. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
9. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 3 (Power Out)
10. Beck - Gamma Ray

Cosmic Bus

Is this not a thread for our top ten songs? If it were all about which ones were on the charts longest or are the most recognizable, one could just go peruse Billboard or whatever. I've barely heard anything on the radio this decade... it's just not something I'm interested in listening to, so searching out music that does appeal to me, obscure or not, takes priority. Hearing songs that really, really click for me doesn't make them any less significant than something played on the radio.

Perhaps "Top ten radio singles of the 2000s" would've been a more appropriate title if that's what you were after.

Tarantino

In no particular order...

An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
We Used To Vacation - Cold War Kids
The Light - Common
What's The Difference - Dr. Dre
Obstacle 1 - Interpol
Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers
My Own Worst Enemy - Lit
Selfish - Slum Village
Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
Trouble - Coldplay

= J

Rockmjd23

I thought it was the "Look how eclectic my tastes are" thread.

Michael Corvin

That's the way all these threads go. I assumed Buttmunker meant mainstream so that's how I responded.

wendersfan

I listen to what I listen to, and I don't think my choices were very eclectic or obscure. They were mainly garage rock songs I heard on the radio a lot.

Buttmunker

This is what the original poster said. Nothing within mentioned "personal favorites," instead mentioned "best of the best." How anything else got interpeted is beyond me.

jdodd

Considering "best" and even "best of the best" are purely subjective terms, there's no way these lists could be anything but personal favorites. At least, any meaningful lists.

I personally wouldn't include "Down Under" in my list of best of the best songs of the 80's; I fucking hate that song.

Buttmunker

you may not have liked Down Under, but nobody could refute that it was huge. I mean, of course lists will be subjective, but only to a point. If you look at a Best-of list of the 60's or the 70's, you're going to recognize the songs - whether you liked them or not, well-fine, but you'll still know them.

These songs are utterly foreign to me. I admit I'm out of touch this decade, but am I that out of touch?

Rypro 525

not really. granted i dont listen to alot of indie rock, so i haven't heard of alot of these songs either. although, if i were to type them into youtube, i probably have.
gotta get to work on my revised list.

Aegean2007

Here are both of my lists (I did one for songs and one for albums):

SONGS
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Maps”
Radiohead – “Knives Out”
Spoon – “I Summon You”
Arcade Fire – “No Cars Go”
Coldplay – “A Rush of Blood to the Head”
The National - “Mistaken for Strangers”
TV On the Radio – “Wolf Like Me”
LCD Soundsystem – “Someone Great”
The White Stripes – “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”
Nine Inch Nails – “Right Where It Belongs”

ALBUMS
Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
The Delgados - Hate
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Joanna Newsom – Ys
The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us

Quake1028

1999. I know because it would have made my list.

Quake1028

I think this is what the OP wanted, for whatever reason:

Oops!....I did it again - Britney Spears
Fallin' - Alicia Keys
Lady Marmalade - Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink
Without Me - Eminem
Bring Me to Life - Evanescence
Crazy in Love - Beyonce & Jay-Z
This Love - Maroon 5
Toxic - Britney Spears
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Promiscuous, Nelly Furtado f/ Timbaland

Maybe?

Tscott

You forgot Milkshake and Hey There Delilah.

When I made my list, I looked at my CD collection program, sorted it by year and scrolled until I saw an album with a song really stuck out for me. I listed it, then pared the list down to 10(20). Sure there's songs many haven't heard of, but I don't care about radio airplay unless it's on NPR's All Songs Considered.

Rockmjd23

What about Who Let the Dogs Out?

Perkinsun Dzees

Here is my Top Ten list (tried to stay as mainstream as possible):

1. Obscurus Nervosa by Neverheardof Youvoshka
2. Poking Pimples and Smoking Cellophane by The Flaming Collective of Russian Aeronautic Ambience
3. Fax Me Your Brain Cells on Speed Dial by The Sufjanic Bright Eyed Oberbeckians
4. Obsessed With a Skinny Girl Named Tchaikovsky by Franz Futureneck Fratellius
5. Umbrella by Rihanna
6. The Axis of Ashton Kutcher's Cranial Misfires by The Deerhoofic Oasian Penelope Cruisers
7. Pubic Misencounters of a Bruised Thyroid Symphony by The Ipod Commercial Whores
8. Fallng All Over My Amnesia by Siggur's Exploding Lid of P Glass
9. I Am the Eclectic Chihuahua of Your Cinematic Piss by Sarah Palin's Glasses
10. Feed Me Your Hissing Foul Aftermath by Black Vampires on a Weekend in Nerd City

Rypro 525

you sure those aren't Anal C*nt song titles?

The Bus

Yes, yes you are.

BTW, here's a song that, according to your rules, is more representative of 1983: