Top 10 Songs of the 2000s (according to Pitchfork)

[Relaxer]

Since You Been Gone was there, kind of high too, wasn't it?
Was Toxic on there? It wasn't high and I always thought that was agreed-upon Best Britney Jam
God I hate LCD SS. Losing My Edge is in the top 20? Jesus Christ.
BOB is a good song but the best song of the last 10 years? Nah. I figured they'd go for some kind of reprazent track like Hey Ya.
Get Ur Freak On could've even been higher.
Crazy In Love is a great song, I have no problem with where it ended up.
Maps placing so high was surprising. I have really no other thoughts other than that.
There really is no song they could've put at #1 that wouldn't have sparked outrage.
Here are some leaves out I found outside somewhere

[HoyaSaxa03]

some songs that I was really happy to see in the top 20:

The Walkmen: "The Rat"  -- I played the hell out of this song 5 years ago.  Actually got sick of it for a while.

Radiohead: "Idioteque" -- I listened to this about once a day in college when it was on pretty much every mix CD I made.

MIA: "Paper Planes" -- yes please.

LCD Soundsystem:  "All My Friends" -- what a great fucking song.  Deserves every accolade.  Franz Ferdinand couldn't pull it off, but some rock band will do a great cover of it one day.

[runwhiteyrun06]

LCD Soundsystem:  "All My Friends" -- what a great fucking song.  Deserves every accolade.  Franz Ferdinand couldn't pull it off, but some rock band will do a great cover of it one day.

http://www.hippiesaredead.com/2009/08/john-cale-all-my-friends.html

John Cale did a cover on the same single as Franz Ferdinand. I really really like Cale's version, but then again Cale is one of my favorite artists.

[vansmack]

MIA: "Paper Planes" -- yes please.

You mean "The Clash - Straight to Hell?"

[azaghal1981]

Didn't Baby One More Time come out in the late 90's?

[bearman🐻]

Interesting. That being said, if I had no knowledge of any other music in the 2000's, I would say "wow, what a crappy decade of music".  I realize they had to gravitate towards singles and such, but I am not surprised by some of the mediocre selections. It looks like a list of what Pitchfork would pick. Of COURSE the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Animal Collective and Arcade Fire would be included in the top 10. Now if Magnet (the magazine) put out a list, I think it would probably be more suited towards my tastes.

So that being said, if I had to pick my top 10 songs of the decade, it would gravitate towards the stuff that I never, ever get sick of:

Queens of the Stone Age -- In the Fade
Elliott Smith -- Everything Reminds Me of Her
Death Cab For Cutie -- Transatlanticism
Yo La Tengo -- Our Way To Fall
Belle & Sebastian -- Jonathan David
Interpol -- Leif Erikson
Fischerspooner -- Emerge
Sleater-Kinney -- One Beat
Eagles of Death Metal -- Speaking in Tongues
PJ Harvey -- A Place Called Home

[godsshoeshine]

Since You Been Gone was there, kind of high too, wasn't it?

#21 in fact

[chaz]

Of all those songs Idioteque is the only one I can hum in my head.  The rest I may have heard but didn't even know it.

[sweetcell]

Of all those songs Idioteque is the only one I can hum in my head.  The rest I may have heard but didn't even know it.

weird, since idioteque is arguably the least hum-mable

wait, you can't recall the melody to DP's "one more time"?!?