What are your favorite singles of the decade?

[xJesusFreakx]

While these decade in retrospect threads are still cool, what are some of your favorite singles to have been released this decade?

[oddwithoutend]

Battles' 'Atlas' immediately comes to mind, though I'm generally not sure which of my favourite songs have been released as singles.

[IntoTheSun]

Too many to count. I first thought of Paranoid Android but then remember that was 1997 -.-;

[oddwithoutend]

Yeah, I'm going to go with Battles on this one. Good stuff, Braxton and co.

[xJesusFreakx]

Battles' 'Atlas' immediately comes to mind, though I'm generally not sure which of my favourite songs have been released as singles.

I feel like I've heard this band mentioned a lot but have never checked them out. RIYL?

[kearn1tm]

While these decade in retrospect threads are still cool, what are some of your favorite singles to have been released this decade?

See, these are cool, because it promotes throwing out tracks that can turn to recs without the affectation of the other thread in which we pretend that we're able to definitively name one artist/act as "the best of the decade." This is purely opinion without the pretense that it isn't, and it covers a few artists (not just one).

There isn't anything wrong with this. I like this. I don't like the "artist of the decade" thread. Fuck that thread, but wear a rubber first. Many people have been inside that bitch (just look at the long line of lame in that thread).

[kearn1tm]

Oh, and Tim, when you say singles, do you mean tracks released as singles, or just our favorite single songs from the decade? I hope it's the later.

[oddwithoutend]

I feel like I've heard this band mentioned a lot but have never checked them out. RIYL?

Yeah, you probably have. They're an experimental, eccentric math-rocky band. They write some of the most powerful songs I know.

[xJesusFreakx]

Oh, and Tim, when you say singles, do you mean tracks released as singles, or just our favorite single songs from the decade? I hope it's the later.

My original intentions were for songs that were released as singles, but you can take that as loosely as you'd like.

[theguy77]

"there there"
"2+2=5"
"go to sleep"
"knives out"
"jigsaw falling into place"
"nude"
"reckoner"

and if i lived in britain, "pyramid song"

/predictable

[theguy77]

See, these are cool, because it promotes throwing out tracks that can turn to recs without the affectation of the other thread in which we pretend that we're able to definitively name one artist/act as "the best of the decade." This is purely opinion without the pretense that it isn't, and it covers a few artists (not just one).

There isn't anything wrong with this. I like this. I don't like the "artist of the decade" thread. Fuck that thread, but wear a rubber first. Many people have been inside that bitch (just look at the long line of lame in that thread).

i agree 100% i hate those "best of" threads.

[kearn1tm]

My original intentions were for songs that were released as singles, but you can take that as loosely as you'd like.

I have no idea which tracks were released as singles for most of my favorite LP/EPs, so you'll have to excuse my list (I'm currently thinking of some of my favorites. I'll post them soon).

[oddwithoutend]

the people won't be people when they hear this sound that's been glowing in the dark at the edge of town

[xJesusFreakx]

Yeah, you probably have. They're an experimental, eccentric math-rocky band. They write some of the most powerful songs I know.

I liked "Atlas" until the vocals came in. :shrug:

[oddwithoutend]

I liked "Atlas" until the vocals came in. :shrug:

A lot of people's reactions. Try 'Tonto', and if you're not intrigued, I'll let it go. ha

[xJesusFreakx]

For my first contribution, I'll try to mostly think of singles that have been played on the radio.

Coldplay - "Viva la Vida"
Coldplay - "The Scientist"
Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"
The Fray - "You Found Me"
The Fray - "How to Save a Life" (I really like these two singles but can't get into much else they've done.)
Avril Lavigne - "My Happy Ending"
Anberlin - "Feel Good Drag"
Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"
Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Kanye West - "Heartless"
Fall Out Boy - "Dance Dance"
Kelly Clarkson - "Breakaway"
Kelly Clarkson - "My Life Would Suck Without You"
3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"
Linkin Park - "In the End"
Linkin Park - "Bleed It Out"
Cascada - "Everytime We Touch"

[oddwithoutend]

'The Scientist' and 'How to Save a Life' are pre sick.

'Kryptonite' was this decade? Seems like 3000 years ago.

[xJesusFreakx]

A lot of people's reactions. Try 'Tonto', and if you're not intrigued, I'll let it go. ha

Psh, "let it go"? That's lame. If I don't like them, I'm clearly wrong. Duh.

I like it more, but I'm still not crazy about it. I'l check 'em out again some other time and see if they grow on me.

[kearn1tm]

For my first contribution, I'll try to mostly think of singles that have been played on the radio.

Avril Lavigne - "My Happy Ending"

Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"

Fall Out Boy - "Dance Dance"


Fuck yeah!

[xJesusFreakx]

'The Scientist' and 'How to Save a Life' are pre sick.

'Kryptonite' was this decade? Seems like 3000 years ago.

I was thinking the same thing. It was 2000, but it totally feels like a 90s single.

[oddwithoutend]

Psh, "let it go"? That's lame. If I don't like them, I'm clearly wrong. Duh.

ha Yeah, sorry for leaving out the pretention. That's so uncharacteristic of me.

[oddwithoutend]

I was thinking the same thing. It was 2000, but it totally feels like a 90s single.

I see the album was released in February. At least we can deduce the song was created in the nineties. haha

[xJesusFreakx]

Fuck yeah!

I don't like Avril Lavigne nearly as much as I used to, but she was the first pop singer I got into, so I'll always have a soft spot for her. She has some fun songs for sure. "My Happy Ending" is still a favorite of mine for sure; I love everything about it.

I saw her on her "Best Damn Tour." It was fun, but I felt creepy being a random bearded man with my random goateed friend amongst all the little girls.

[xJesusFreakx]

I see the album was released in February. At least we can deduce the song was created in the nineties. haha

I think they had a self-released self-titled album before The Better Life that had "Kryptonite" on it, so maybe it's technically a 90s single. The version we all know and love was released in 2000, though.

[oddwithoutend]

Avril Lavigne is sexy.

[xJesusFreakx]

http://lh3.ggpht.com/elaing.zhang/SNxxYxT7YwI/AAAAAAAAUzM/CZ832w22_Go/s800/avril-lavigne80926004.jpg

Yeah, I dig the whole faux-punk look.

[oddwithoutend]

Yeah, how can you not?

[xJesusFreakx]

This is actually a potentially good discussion thread. Must... resist... urge... to... make... it... an... Avril... thread...

[kearn1tm]

AIDS Wolf -- Ch-ch-ch-chatter
Arcade Fire -- No Cars Go
The Avalanches -- Since I Left You
Bajofondo Tango Club -- Vacío
Bark Psychosis -- Burning the City
Bill Callahan -- All Thoughts are Prey to Some Beast
Black Lips -- It Feels Alright
The Blood Brothers -- Fucking's Greatest Hits
Bright Eyes -- The Calendar Hung Itself
Cannibal Ox -- Iron Galaxy
Chromatics -- Night Drive
City of Caterpillar -- And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven
Cursive -- Some Red-Handed Sleight of Hand
The Decemberists -- Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
Fall Out Boy -- Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today
Fionn Regan -- The Underwood Typewritter
Handsome Boy Modeling School (Featuring AG, RZA and the Mars Volta) -- A Day in the Life
I Would Set Myself on Fire for You -- Six
Ivan Ives (featuring Cannibal Ox) -- Victory
James Blackshaw -- Echo and Abyss
Joanna Newsom -- Cosmia
John Zorn featuring the Moonchild Trio-- Act Three: A Barren Plain at Midnight; An Unnamed Location
Jolie Holland -- Springtime Can Kill You
The Kills -- Last Days of Magic
King Khan & the Shrines -- (How Can I Keep You) Outta Harms Way
Kurt Vile -- Beach on the Moon (Recycled Lyrics)
Kylie Minogue -- Can't Get You Out of My Head
Manuel Guajiro Mirabel -- El Reloj De Pastora
The Mars Volta -- Drunkship of Lanterns
McLusky -- Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
MURS -- The Pain
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds -- Cannibal's Hymn
NOMO -- Fourth Ward
Paik -- Spanning Time
Pandatone -- The Last to Remain
The Phoenix Foundation -- Blue Summer
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
Radiohead -- 2 + 2 = 5
Red Sparrowes -- A Brief Moment of Clarity Broke Through the Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late
Seun Kuti -- Don't Give That Shit to Me
The Shins -- Young Pilgrims
A Silver Mt. Zion -- Broken Chords Can Sing a Little
16 Horsepower -- Flutter
Some Girls -- Deathface
Spoon – The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Supermachiner -- By the Roadside
The Tallest Man on Earth -- Where Do My Bluebird Fly
Tom Waits -- Fish in the Jailhouse
Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Manhanthappa -- Remembrance
The War on Drugs -- Arms Like BouldersThese are from a list I made for Sun on the Sand/my campus paper. They're probably (I composed this from memory) my fifty favorites. If anyone has some recs, throw 'em based on this.

[kearn1tm]

I don't like Avril Lavigne nearly as much as I used to, but she was the first pop singer I got into, so I'll always have a soft spot for her. She has some fun songs for sure. "My Happy Ending" is still a favorite of mine for sure; I love everything about it.

I've not cared for any of her singles (which is all I've ever heard) save for this song. This is just fucking boss.

I saw her on her "Best Damn Tour." It was fun, but I felt creepy being a random bearded man with my random goateed friend amongst all the little girls.
OMG UR SO MATURE DATE ME LUL!

[brrice182]

ill follow you into the dark- death cab for cutie

the song is just pure genious

[xJesusFreakx]

There are a lot of bands in that list I've been meaning to check out but haven't yet, along with more that I'm not familiar with at all and too few I actually know.

[xJesusFreakx]

I've not cared for any of her singles (which is all I've ever heard) save for this song. This is just fucking boss.


OMG UR SO MATURE DATE ME LUL!

Are you a Butch Walker fan? He wrote the song. I think it's a really well written pop hit, and I love how her layered vocals sound.

[AlinA82688]

shittiest thread of the decade

[oddwithoutend]

shittiest thread of the decade

Worst taste in threads of the decade.

[xJesusFreakx]

shittiest thread of the decade

Really? Come on. It's a light-hearted discussion that closes out the decade rather nicely, and it's open to a wide variety of bands. We've already had some good discussion about recommendations and nostalgia. What more do you want from a thread?

[kbi the crowing]

Hilltop Hoods - "The Nosebleed Section"
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" and "Panic Switch"
Minus The Bear - "Knights"
Brand New - "At The Bottom" and "Jesus"
Every Time I Die - "Werewolf"
Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)", "Feel Good Inc.", and "El Mañana"
Linkin Park - "Faint"
She Wants Revenge - "These Things" and "Tear You Apart"
Talib Kweli - "Get By"

[xJesusFreakx]

Hilltop Hoods - "The Nosebleed Section"
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" and "Panic Switch"
Minus The Bear - "Knights"
Brand New - "At The Bottom"
Every Time I Die - "Werewolf"
Gorillaz - "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)", "Feel Good Inc.", and "El Mañana"
Linkin Park - "Faint"
She Wants Revenge - "These Things" and "Tear You Apart"
Talib Kweli - "Get By"

Ha, of the songs you have to choose from by Brand New, you picked "At the Bottom"? Any particular reason(s)?

I agree with "Feel Good Inc.," though. I forgot about that one.

[11:11]

Hmm...singles? For a second I thought this was just songs.

Coldplay- "Talk"
Arcade Fire- "Neighborhood #1" (I think this was a single)
Third Eye Blind- "Don't Believe a Word"
John Mayer- "Clarity"
Jason Mraz- "The Remedy"
blink-182- "I Miss You"
Arctic Monkeys- "Fluorescent Adolescent"
The Starting Line- "The Best of Me"
Kanye West- "Heartless"
American Hi-Fi- "Flavor of the Weak"
Alanis Morissette- "Head Over Feet"
City and Colour- "Waiting..."
The Black Keys- "Girl Is On My Mind"
The Format- "The First Single (You Know Me)"
Jimmy Eat World- "Work"

I'm probably gonna edit more in after I search through my iPod/memory more.

[SpyKi]

Helena.

[kbi the crowing]

Ha, of the songs you have to choose from by Brand New, you picked "At the Bottom"? Any particular reason(s)?

I agree with "Feel Good Inc.," though. I forgot about that one.

not a fan of either of the two from deja, sowing season is good but not a favorite, I'm going to edit it and add jesus cuz i dunno why I left that out.

but iunno just really fucking love at the bottom, the bridge still make me smile every time I hear it.

[iheartmusic043]

Alot of mine were included already but here are a few more:

Jimmy Eat World - "The Middle"
Beyonce - "Crazy in Love"
Maroon 5- "This Love"
Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"

[ruffian]

Joanna Newsom -- Cosmia
McLusky -- Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
Pretty Girls Make Graves -- If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
The War on Drugs -- Arms Like BouldersThese are from a list I made for Sun on the Sand/my campus paper. They're probably (I composed this from memory) my fifty favorites. If anyone has some recs, throw 'em based on this.

These are four amazing songs. Just wanted to say.

[anamericangod]

The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love

[theguy77]

The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love

ahahahahhaa i forgot about this song. best cock-rock ever.

[Cliff Diver]

http://blog.roodo.com/sixtale/2866b620.jpg

[DonnerParty666]

http://blog.roodo.com/sixtale/2866b620.jpg


i see what you did there.

edit: nvm, it was blank originally, haha.
but this song was fuckin sick

[Chrisj182]

Blink-182 - Feeling This
Linkin Park - Faint
Bowling For Soup - 1985
Alexisonfire - This could be anywhere in the World
Blink-182 - Stay Together For the Kids
Boxcar Racer - I Feel So
The Devil Wears Prada - Dogs can grow beards all over
Limp Bizkit - Behind blue eyes
The Streets - Blinded by the lights

They're the ones that stand out for me anyway.

[gjpinizz]

heroes get remembered, legends never die- four year strong ftw

[Fullblast]

heroes get remembered, legends never die- four year strong ftw
No, no, and no. Never, ever, and ever.

[gjpinizz]

No, no, and no. Never, ever, and ever.

hm...

[cubine]

I was never into their brand of alternative rock but "Sometime around Midnight" by the Airborne Toxic Event grabbed me the first time I heard it and has never let me go.

[CalRahhh]

First ones that spring to mind are (in no order):

System of a Down - Chop Suey!
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
Brand New - The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
New Found Glory - All Downhill From Here
Panic at the Disco - Nine In The Afternoon
The Blood Brothers - Set Fire To The Face On Fire
The Blood Brothers - Laser Life
Paramore - Misery Business
Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Alexisonfire - Accidents
Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
All Time Low - Coffee Shop Soundtrack
At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor
Minus The Bear - Knights
Converge - No Heroes

[SophGod]

30 Second To Mars - From Yesterday

not a fan of a lot their other stuff but that song is fucking awesome.

[FeynmanWannabe]

I doubt anyone else mentioned this one, but Belle & Sebastian - You're Cover's Blown would be up there for me, for sure.

[Pat k]

R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt
Usher - Yeah
Animal Collective - My Girls
Eno/ Byrne - Strange Overtones
MGMT - Kids
The Knife - Heartbeats
Brand New - jesus
Beastie Boys - Ch-Check it Out
Birdman & Lil Wayne - Stuntin' Like My Daddy
Clipse - Wamp Wamp
Common - The Light
Ghostface - Shakey Dog
Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood 1
Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You

[xJesusFreakx]

I doubt anyone else mentioned this one, but Belle & Sebastian - You're Cover's Blown would be up there for me, for sure.

Crap, I keep forgetting to start listening to them. What would be a good album to start with?

[ruffian]

Crap, I keep forgetting to start listening to them. What would be a good album to start with?

Tigermilk or If You're Feeling Sinister . Their first two and their best two.

[xJesusFreakx]

Tigermilk or If You're Feeling Sinister . Their first two and their best two.

Downloading If You're Feeling Sinister right now. I seem to recall seeing this album mentioned somewhere before as a great album. If I like it, I'll eventually pick up some more stuff of theirs. Thank you.

[IntoTheSun]

30 Second To Mars - From Yesterday

not a fan of a lot their other stuff but that song is fucking awesome.

I'll have to admit...I thought that music video was pretty sick awhile back :blush:

[lonelysuperstar]

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
Boys Like Girls - The Great Escape
Kanye West - Jesus Walks
Justin Timberlake - Love Stoned
Pink - Leave Me Alone
Miley Cyrus - See You Again
Jimmy Eat World - Work
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance
Lady Gaga - Just Dance

[Jake Denning]

Nookie

[cshadows2887]

Fall Out Boy -- Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today



Amen. Their best song.

[Charles777]

Taking Back Sunday - A Decade Under The Influence is my favorite. There are so many others that I love though

[atticus18244fss]

Blink Not Now and Feeling This

[pennie]

http://1.music.bigpond-images.com/images/AlbumCoverArt/341/XXL/My-Friends-Over-You.jpg

[IWasaCamera]

Nookie
Dookie

[MADSTA]

Downloading If You're Feeling Sinister right now. I seem to recall seeing this album mentioned somewhere before as a great album. If I like it, I'll eventually pick up some more stuff of theirs. Thank you.
Definitely my favourite of theirs. Hope you enjoy.

[TheRxBandit]

Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance
Mute Math -Typical
definitely rep the love for Radiohead - 2+2=5, amazing song