What do you think the 10 greatest songs of the last decade are?

[Alt_Rocker77]

The first decade of the 21st Century has only six more months to go, and (like it or not) music went in a lot of new directions. Out of all the music in the last decade, which 10 songs are the best for whatever reason you choose. This list doesn't have to be in order, though mine will be.

1. Lose Yourself- Eminem
2. The National Anthem- Radiohead
3. Beautiful Day- U2
4. Seven Nation Army- The White Stripes
5. Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams- Green Day
6. Jesus, Etc.- Wilco
7. Stan- Eminem
8. Jigsaw Falling Into Place- Radiohead
9. Clocks- Coldplay
10. Paper Planes- M.I.A.

[cherokeesam]

more than 10, no particular order:

Beautiful Day -- U2
Clint Eastwood -- Gorillaz
Clocks -- Coldplay
Lose Yourself --- Eminem
The Middle -- Jimmy Eat World
The Rising -- Springsteen
Steve McQueen -- Sheryl Crow
Are You Gonna Be My Girl -- Jet
Bring Me To Life -- Evanescence
Hey Ya! --- Outkast
Numb -- Linkin Park
Seven Nation Army -- The White Stripes
American Idiot -- Green Day
Mr. Brightside -- The Killers
Take Me Out -- Franz Ferdinand
BYOB -- SoAD
Best of You -- Foo Fighters
Knights of Cydonia -- Muse

[Teh_Jakester]

I'll try to keep to different artists.

"Long Road to Ruin" by Foo Fighters
"Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" by JET
"I am the Night, Colour Me Black" by Priestess
"Shape of My Heart" by Backstreet Boys
"You Know You're Right" by Nirvana
"Whipped" by Axium
"Light On" by David Cook
"Keep Fishin'" by Weezer
"Trogdor" by Strong Bad
"Because, It's Midnite" by Limozeen

[afterstasis]

disallowing multiple songs from single artists...

mountain goats - old college try
carissa's wierd - sofisticated **** princess please leave me alone
dinosaur jr - almost ready
amesoeurs - les ruches malades
xiu xiu - suha
bright eyes - something vague
andrew wk - you will remember tonight
godspeed you black emperor! - sleep
the magnetic fields - i don't love you anymore
wolves in the throne room - behold the vastness and sorrow

[Soror_YZBL]

I'm going to be even trickier by making all of the artists primarily known for their work this decade. In other words, no U2, no Marillion.

1. 7 Nation Army - White Stripes
2. Nevers - Fiery Furnaces
3. You Know I'm no Good - Amy Winehouse
4. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Cry to the Moon - Epica
6. M4 - Faunts
7. Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
8. L'via L'viaquez - Mars Volta
9. Arials - SOTD
10. Little Sister - QOTSA

That's my opinion, if I added bands that hit it big earlier, I couldn't limit it to 10. :)

[back_blows]

Hard to say, but if I had to pick 10:

1. Dance of Death - Iron Maiden
2. Judas Priest - Pestilence and Plague
3. Cobalt - Gin
4. Lifelover - Mental Central Dialog
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - The Cleansing
6. Septic Flesh - Anubis
7. Municipal Waste -Unleash the Bastards
8. Blut aus Nord - Procession of the Dead Clowns
9. Jex Thoth - Nothing left to die
10. Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families

[afterstasis]

3. Cobalt - Gin
4. Lifelover - Mental Central Dialog
8. Blut aus Nord - Procession of the Dead Clowns
9. Jex Thoth - Nothing left to die
10. Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families

all runners-up for me... i almost included "sweet illness of mine" from lifelover, but decided on the magnetic fields tune instead.

[willdabeast21]

no particular order -
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
Can't Change Me - Audioslave
Bat Country - Avenged Sevenfold
Tick Tick Boom - The Hives
Only for the Weak - In Flames
The Wicker Man - Iron Maiden
Cold Hard ***** - Jet
No One Knows - Queen's of the Stone Age
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Fall to Pieces - Velvet Revolver

[thrillhouse987]

well, this is tough... these aren't necessarily my favourite songs, but ones I think are the most well done.. in no particular order:

Coldplay - The Scientist
OutKast - B.O.B.
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Keane - Is It Any Wonder?
Moby - We Are All Made of Stars
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Snow Patrol - Run
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
The Coral - Dreaming of You

[back_blows]

all runners-up for me... i almost included "sweet illness of mine" from lifelover, but decided on the magnetic fields tune instead.

It's pretty hard to narrow it down to 10. I left out quite a few bands that on another day could have easily cracked the list (Amesoeurs, Paysage d'hiver, Watain, Wolf).

[JukeBoxHero]

I definitely haven't listen to enough albums from this decade to have a decent opinion about it, but...

1.Vanity Theft-Excavating
2.The Breeders-Regalame esta noche
3.Silversun Pickups-Common Reactor
4.Foo Fighters-Ballad of Beaconsfield Miners
5.Yo La Tengo-Black Flowers
6.Rush-The Way the Wind Blows
7.Muse-Invincible
8.Mute Math-Obsolete
9.Mastodon-Iron Tusk
10.Epica-Sensorium

Edit:Among the runner ups was Hunted Horse and the Blackberry Blues(afterstasis essentially)'s We Have Shot Our Horses and Sank Our Ships.

[Lolicat]

In no order, and slightly horrified that songs by Jet and the White Stripes are on so many lists;

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, O Children
Bjork, Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)
Melt Banana, Chain-Shot to Have Some Fun
Sleater-Kinney, Let's Call It Love/Night Light
Navicon Torture Technologies, It Gets Darkest Before Dawn
Alina Orlova, Ramuma
Regina Spektor, Somedays
ミドリ (Midori), Feedback Hell
Dangerdoom, Benzie Box
The Thermals, No Culture Icons

[Mega-Tallica]

I can't do this, I always feel like I'm going to leave some song out.

[Alright_Computer]

I like way too many songs from this decade to even consider limiting it down to ten. I might be able to do it with albums, but even that's a bit of a stretch.

[Cubecubed]

I like way too many songs from this decade to even consider limiting it down to ten. I might be able to do it with albums, but even that's a bit of a stretch.

this,like exactly.

[ffwarrior47]

Duct Tape Smile- PsyOpus
Where Strides Behemoth- Mastodon
Y Control- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ants of the Sky- Between The Buried & Me
All Nightmare Long- Metallica

i can't think right now, i'll come back and edit this post later.

[XacharyCross]

Incredibly crappy attempt, lol

In no especial order, with some additional reasoning (beyond my happening to like them) even!

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence by Dream Theater
-DT's as yet longest song, and usually referenced as their best epic. It certainly stands well on it's own, and was a semi-last gasp of their melodic or softer stuff before they went more metally.

Jesus Of Suburbia by Green Day
-Not expecting a warm reception for it here, but it definitely was a change of pace for Green Day, and as "punk" goes in general, writing 12 minute long multi-movement conceptuals was definately out of the box thinking.

Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down
-A pretty solid choice. It's a good song (IMO, vastly outdoing any other 3DD songs I happen to have stumbled across). Also did well in sales, charting, and other such.

No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age
-Sure, it was overplayed into the ground when it came out. But solid work overall, and a major breakthrough for the unorthodox group.

Amazing Flight (In Space) by Ayreon
-Honestly, I just wanted to throw an Ayreon song in here, though you really need entire albums to represent Ayreon properly. Still, my personal favorite off the best of the series (IMO, Human Equation may have had better specific songs, but Electric Castle stood better as an album).

Ain't No Easy Way by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
-BRMC chucks aside their feedback roots, and randomly busts out a folk/country rock record. This was the main single off it, and one of their more popular ones to date. And the first steps of BRMC developing their own sound instead of getting consistent labellings as Jesus And Mary Chain Jr.

Float On by Modest Mouse
-A lovely little diddy, almost inspiring. And bizarrely successful for the genre at the time.

Danger! High Voltage by Electric Six
-Because remidners that you don't need to be serious in music are always good.

Milliontown by Frost and Toys by Frost
-One of my favorite newer bands. The debate of their being prog or not bores me entirely though. I recommend their entire catalog, but the crazy epic Milliontown is the go-to point if you're into that sort of thing, while Toys is just a playful little short diddy.

[Runesmith]

No idea what the greatest songs are, but I do have my favorites. I tried to stick with singles or semi-successful songs as they undoubtedly exert a much greater impact on popular music in comparison to album tracks, with few exceptions.

1. Moby - "Porcelain"
2. Daft Punk - "One More Time"
3. M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"
4. Outkast - "Hey Ya!", "Roses", or "B.O.B."
5. Nellie McKay - "David"
6. The Dresden Dolls - "Coin-Operated Boy"
7. Black Eyed Peas - "Where Is The Love?"
8. Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
9. Regina Spektor - "Fidelity"
10. The White Stripes - "Fell In Love With A Girl"

They're not really favorite songs of mine, but I think Coldplay's Clocks or The Scientist deserve an honorable mention here, too. Also biting my tongue for not including anything by the Queens of The Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, The Strokes, Interpol, Andrew W.K., The Scissor Sisters, Radiohead, or Mastodon.

These things are so difficult for me to compose.

[neckermanncj]

Radiohead - Idioteque
Muse - Invincible
The Strokes - 12:51
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Feist - 1234
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
The Shins - New Slang
Spoon - The Underdog

[chumsicles]

Sparks - Strange Animal
The Residents - Boxes Of Armageddon
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
****ed Up - Son The Father
Negativland - Richard Nixon Died Today
Flipper - Night Falls
Bob Dylan - Someday Baby
Electric Six - *** Bar, Pt. 2
Megadeth - Kick The Chair
Bad Religion - Fields Of Mars
Fugazi - Epic Problem

[Soror_YZBL]

Milliontown by Frost

Milliontown is the best 30 minute prog-rock song about zombies ever created by a pop songwriter.

[rowtheboat]

A7X - Bat Country
Wolfmother - Woman
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Metallica - St Anger
Buckethead - Soothsayer
Megadeth - Headcrusher
Queen's of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Velvet Revolver - Slither
CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings

[KingProgdor]

Milliontown is the best 30 minute prog-rock song about zombies ever created by a pop songwriter.

Damn, if that's what the song is about then I think I should listen to the album ASAP. :eek:

[Vaultous93]

If I Could Fly - Joe Satriani
Soap On a Roap - Chickenfoot
Knights of Cydonia - Muse
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Reptilia - The Strokes
Master Exploder - Tenacious D
Woman - Wolfmother
All Nightmare Long - Metallica
Tom Sawyer - The Bad Plus

[local7bc]

when she smiles - matchbox 20 , Hero - The Foo Fighters , The Scientist - Coldplay , i hate everything about you - three days grace , Styrofoam Plates - Death Cab For Cutie , Heard Em Say - Kanye West , When Im Gone - Eminem , Cannonball - Damien Rice , I will Follow you into the dark - death cab for cutie , Taylor - Jack Johnson ,