Friday, October 16, 2009

The 100 best songs of the first decade of the 2000s (90-81)

(Click here for the whole list.)

90. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks




89. Yeasayer - 2080




88. Hanne Hukkelberg - A Cheater's Armory




87. The Notwist - Pilot

I wish this song had a better video that didn't include distracting overdubbed voices and sounds ... but I tried not to take into account the quality of the videos in choosing the songs.



86. Norah Jones - Don't Know Why




85. Styrofoam - Couches in Alleys

Ben Gibbard (of the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie) does guest vocals for this one-melody masterpiece. It's initially disconcerting to hear Auto-Tune applied to the vocals of an indie rock star, but it's ultimately more effective than the average dance club track. The insistent syncopation of the drum-machine beat is oddly affecting.




84. Thom Yorke - The Clock




83. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Counting Down the Hours

(Listen to track 4 here.)


82. The Flaming Lips / Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You out of My Head

The Flaming Lips' cover is pretty much the antithesis of Kylie Minogue's original. The latter, by the way, reached #1 in the charts in 40 countries.






81. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is the Move

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