The Age of Consent

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Top 250 Songs of 2000-2009: 50-1...

Not necessarily my favorite 250 songs of 00-09, but the 250 best of the decade...

(50-25 in no particular order, 25-1 are in order)

50. Broken Social Scene - "Lover's Spit"
49. Radiohead - "Pyramid Song"
48. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticsm"
47. Silver Jews - "Slow Education"
46. Fire Show - "Designing a Steeper Cliff"
45. Broken Social Scene - "Stars and Sons"
44. Hot Chip - "Crap Kraft Dinner"
43. Animal Collective - "Banshee Beat"
42. The Walkmen - "The Rat"
41. Thursday - "Understanding in a Car Crash"
40. Death Cab for Cutie - "Brothers on a Hotel Bed"
39. My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
38. Strokes -"Is This It"
37. Lil' Wayne - "Gossip"
36. Sufjan Stevens - "Jacksonville"
35. Hot Chip - "So Glad to See You"
34. Wilco - "I am Trying to Break Your Heart"
33. Death Cab for Cutie - "Technicolor Girls"
32. Bright Eyes - "A Song to Pass the Time"
31. Ugly Casanova - "Hotcha Girls"
30. Joanna Newsom - "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie"
29. Kanye West - "Can't Tell Me Nothing"
28. Coldplay - "The Scientist"
27. Death Cab for Cutie - "Summer Skin"
26. Wolf Parade - "You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son"
25. Peter, Bjorn and John - "Young Folks"
24. Björk - "Unison"
23. Broken Social Scene - "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl"
22. The Arcade Fire - "My Body is a Cage"
21. Young Jeezy - "My President (Feat. Nas)"
20. Deerhunter - "Hazel St."
19. TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
18. The Knife - "Heartbeats"
17. Panda Bear - "Good Girl/Carrots"
16. T.I. - "What You Know"
15. Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks"
14. M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"
13. The Game - "Hate It or Love It (Feat. 50 Cent)"
12. Interpol - "Untitled"
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"

10. The Killers - "Read My Mind"

9. The Postal Service - "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight"

8. Eminem - "White America"

7. The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize??"

6. The Arcade Fire - "Wake Up"

5. Animal Collective - "My Girls"

4. Radiohead - "Idioteque"

3. Johnny Cash - "Hurt"

2. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"

1. Bright Eyes - "Land Locked Blues"

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Top 250 Songs of 2000-2009: 150-51...

Not necessarily my favorite 250 songs of 00-09, but the 250 best of the decade...

(in no particular order)

150. Cold Cave - "Love Comes Close"
149. Young Jeezy - "Get Allot"
148. The Black Heart Procession - "On Ships of Gold"
147. Hot Chip - "Colours"
146. Japandroids - "I Quit Girls"
145. Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"
144. Beyoncé - "Halo"
143. The Fresh & Onlys - "Peacock and Wing"
142. The Arcade Fire - "Haiti"
141. Justin Timberlake - "Cry Me a River"
140. Bat For Lashes - "Daniel"
139. Modest Mouse - "Float On"
138. Wolf Parade - "An Animal in Your Care"
137. The Flaming Lips - "Fight Test"
136. Pearl Harbor - "Lost at Sea"
135. Animal Collective - "What Would I Want? Sky"
134. Fever Ray - "If I Had a Heart"
133. Broken Social Scene - "Shampoo Suicide"
132. Grandaddy - "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot"
131. Kanye West - "Everything I Am"
130. Interpol - "NYC"
129. Death Cab for Cutie - "Tiny Vessels"
128. The Arcade Fire - "Windowsill"
127. Sufjan Stevens - "The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades..."
126. Hot Chip - "The Warning"
125. Feist - "I Feel It All"
124. Passion Pit - "Smile Upon Me"
123. High Places - "From Stardust to Sentience"
122. Built to Spill - "Goin' Against Your Mind"
121. Radiohead - "Motion Picture Soundtrack"
120. Kleerup - "With Every Heartbeat (Feat. Robyn)"
119. Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"
118. Panda Bear - "Ponytail"
117. Death in Vegas - "Help Yourself"
116. Bloc Party - "So Here We Are"
115. Radiohead - All I Need"
114. Damien Jurado - "Abilene"
113. Modest Mouse - "The World at Large"
112. Burial - "Etched Headplate"
111. Junior Boys - "In the Morning (Hot Chip Remix)"
110. Santogold - "I'm a Lady"
109. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Over & Over Again"
108. Interpol - "Obstacle 1"
107. The Arcade Fire - "My Heart is an Apple"
106. Small Black - "Weird Machines"
105. The Avalanches - "Since I Left You"
104. Memory Tapes - "Bicycle"
103. System of a Down - "Aerials"
102. The Moldy Peaches - "Anyone Else But You"
101. Radiohead - "How to Disappear Completely"
100. Aphex Twin - "Avril 14th"
99. The Shins - "New Slang"
98. Animal Collective - "No More Runnin"
97. Jay-Z - "Blueprint 2"
96. Chromatics - "Running Up that Hill"
95. Bat For Lashes - "Bat's Mouth"
94. The National - "Mr. November"
93. Grizzly Bear - "While We Wait For the Others"
92. OutKast - "So Fresh, So Clean"
91. The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)"
90. Pictureplane - "Goth Star"
89. Young Jeezy - "I Luv It"
88. Radiohead - "The National Anthem"
87. Animal Collective - "Guy's Eyes"
86. Rihanna - "Umbrella (Feat. Jay-Z)"
85. Dirty Projectors - "Rise Above"
84. Lil' Wayne - "A Milli"
83. Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos"
82. LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great"
81. MGMT - "Electric Feel"
80. The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #4 (Kettles)"
79. Death Cab for Cutie - "Title and Registration"
78. Grizzly Bear - "Foreground"
77. Ludacris - "Growing Pains"
76. Handsome Furs - "All We Want, Baby, Is Everything"
75. Electrelane - "Cut and Run"
74. Jay-Z - "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"
73. Animal Collective - "Taste"
72. Desaparecidos - "Mall of America"
71. Modest Mouse - "3rd Planet"
70. Deerhunter - "Heatherwood"
69. Bright Eyes - "No Lies, Just Love"
68. Nas - "One Mic"
67. Beirut - "Nantes"
66. Death Cab for Cutie - "Blacking Out the Friction"
65. Radiohead - "Everything in It's Right Place"
64. Atlas Sound - "Winter Vacation"
63. MGMT - "Time to Pretend"
62. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth"
61. Jay-Z - "Empire State of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keys)"
60. Stephen Malkmus - "Jenny and the Ess-Dog"
59. Bright Eyes - "Gold Mine Gutted"
58. The Game - "Start From Scratch"
57. Xiu Xiu - "I Luv the Valley, OH!"
56. Modest Mouse - "Blame It on the Tetons"
55. Animal Collective - "Fireworks"
54. UGK - "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You)"
53. Gui Boratto - "Beautiful Life"
52. Eminem - "Mockingbird"
51. Bright Eyes - "When the President Talks to God"

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Top 250 Songs of 2000-2009: 250-151...

Not necessarily my favorite 250 songs of 00-09, but the 250 best of the decade...

(in no particular order)

250. Kevin Drew - "Untitled 2"
249. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Y Control"
248. Sufan Stevens - "For The Widows In Paradise..."
247. The Polyphonic Spree - "Section 12 (Hold Me Now)"
246. The Decemeberists - "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect"
245. Animal Collective - "Daily Routine"
244. Fever Ray - "When I Grow Up (Lissvik Remix)"
243. Mates of State - "Control Group"
242. The Killers - "Tidal Wave"
241. Eminem - "Stan (Feat. Dido)"
240. Black Kids - "Hit the Heartbrakes"
239. The Shins - "Caring is Creepy"
238. Dirty Projectors - "Temecula Sunrise"
237. Death Cab for Cutie - "405"
236. Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire"
235. The Killers - "When You Were Young"
234. Lykke Li - "Possibility"
233. Wilco - "Company in My Back"
232. Justin Timberlake - "What Goes Around...Comes Around"
231. Hot Chip - "And I was a Boy From School"
230. T.I. - "Life Your Life (Feat. Rihanna)"
229. Kings of Leon - "Day Old Blues"
228. TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun"
227. French Kicks - "All Our Weekends"
226. Beck - "Lost Cause"
225. Bloc Party - "Banquet"
224. Panda Bear - "Im Not"
223. Wolf Parade - "I'll Believe in Anything"
222. Band of Horses - "The Funeral"
221. The White Stripes - "Fell in Love with a Girl"
220. Stars - "Your Ex-Lover is Dead"
219. Phoenix - "1901"
218. The Knife - "The Captain"
217. Atlas Sound - "Quick Canal (Feat. Laetitia Sadier)"
216. The White Stripes - "We're Going to be Friends"
215. The Dismemberment Plan - "Time Bomb"
214. Badly Drawn Boy - "Once Around the Block"
213. Daft Punk - "One More Time"
212. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
211. Sunset Rubdown - "Us Ones in Between"
210. Death Cab for Cutie - "We Looked Like Giants"
209. Eminem - "Till I Collapse (Feat. Nate Dogg)"
208. Dan Deacon - "Paddling Ghost"
207. Kanye West - "Jesus Walks"
206. Radiohead - "KID A"
205. Jay-Z - "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
204. Washed Out - "Feel It All Around"
203. Beck - "The Golden Age"
202. Broken Social Scene - "Cause = Time"
201. Antony & The Johnsons - "Fistfull of Love"
200. Fuck Buttons - "Sweet Love For Planet Earth"
199. Radiohead - "Optimistic"
198. Thursday - "Running From the Rain"
197. Eminem - "Like Toy Soldiers"
196. The Anniversary - "I Believe That The End of the Reign..."
195. The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1"
194. Best Coast - "Sun Was High (So Was I)"
193. Sufjan Stevens - "John Wayne Gacy, Jr."
192. The Dismemberment Plan - "Face of the Earth"
191. Kings of Leon - "Knocked Up"
190. Crystal Castles - "Vanished"
189. The Arcade Fire - "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)"
188. Cat Power - "Lived in Bars"
187. M83- "Kim & Jessie"
186. Jay-Z - "U Don't Know"
185. The Postal Service - "Brand New Colony"
184. Broken Social Scene - "Fire Eye'd Boy"
183. Hercules and Love Affair - "Iris"
182. The Kingsbury Manx - "Piss Diary"
181. At the Drive-In - "One Armed Scissor"
180. Wilco - "Jesus, Etc."
179. No Age - "Losing Feeling"
178. Justin Timberlake - "My Love"
177. Kleerup - "Until We Bleed (Feat. Lykke Li)"
176. The Field - "A Paw in My Face"
175. M83 - "Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun"
174. OutKast - "Ms. Jackson"
173. Vampire Weekend - "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance"
172. Kings of Leon - "Arizona"
171. Desaparecidos - "Man And Wife, The Latter (Damaged Goods)"
170. Real Estate - "Fake Blues"
169. Modest Mouse - "Ocean Breathes Salty"
168. Bon Iver - "Skinny Love"
167. Wilco - "Radio Cure"
166. Califone - "Bottles and Bones (Shades And Sympathy)"
165. The Arcade Fire - "Ocean of Noise"
164. Moby - "Chord Sounds"
163. AIR - "Highschool Lover"
162. Peter, Bjorn and John - "Up Against the Wall"
161. The White Stripes - "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"
160. Lil' Wayne - "I'm Me"
159. The Dodos - "Fools"
158. Grizzly Bear - "Knife"
157. Kevin Drew - "Untitled 2"
156. High Places - "Head Spins"
155. The Killers - "All These Things That I've Done"
154. Cat Power - "Names"
153. The Arcade Fire - "Une Annee Sans Lumiere"
152. Mylo - "In My Arms"
151. Animal Collective - "In the Flowers"

Monday, February 1, 2010

Top 25 Artists: 2000-2009...

Criteria of making/placement on this list:

Played a significant role in developing the overall musical landscape
Debuted/maintained a unique quality of new/interesting/important music
Created music that challenged the collective progressive movement

(in order)

1. Radiohead

2. Modest Mouse

3. Jay-Z

4. Eminem

5. The White Stripes

6. Lil' Wayne

7. The Arcade Fire

8. Broken Social Scene

9. Conor Oberst

10. Animal Collective

11. Girl Talk

12. Death Cab For Cutie

13. Kanye West

14. Sufjan Stevens

15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

16. The Flaming Lips

17. Wolf Parade

18. Grizzly Bear

19. Interpol

20. Wilco

21. Antony & The Johnsons

22. LCD Soundsystem

23. OutKast

24. The Knife

25. M.I.A.

Honorable mention:

(in no particular order)

The Killers
Hot Chip
The Strokes
The Postal Service
Grandaddy
Ludacris
Deerhunter
The Shins
Magnolia Electric Co.
Bloc Party
The National
Diplo
Beck
M83
Dirty Projectors
Lindstrøm
No Age
Justin Timberlake
Fuck Buttons
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
TV on the Radio
My Morning Jacket
The Avalanches
Mates of State
Kings of Leon
T.I.
The Walkmen
Junior Boys
Clipse
AIR
Phoenix
Beirut
Love Is All
The Decemberists