SYG's top 500 songs of the decade voting thread
 

OK, so since most of us though the Pitchfork one was utter shit, lets make our own list.

Here's how it is going to work for now:

Post in this thread your favorite songs of the decade.

Post your picks here (any number of picks, it doesn't matter how many you choose.)

You can make more picks later, but don't edit your original post- just post a new reply. I'm not tallying anything til the end of the year, because there's still a few months of songs left.

After we're done making picks, we'll have a list of 500, but they'll probably be a bunch of ties, so we'll sort that out in a second thread.

So make some picks!

my first batch of picks:

The Streets- Fit But You Know It
Polysics- Rocket
Polysics- Catch on Everywhere
The Ex- 3:45 AM
Sonic Youth- Sympathy For the Strawberry
Sonic Youth- Karenology
Sonic Youth- Anti-Orgasm
Sonic Youth- Massage the History
Sonic Youth- Renegade Princess
Sonic Youth- Jams Run Free
Sonic Youth- Do You Believe in Rapture?
Sonic Youth- Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
LIARS- It Fit When I Was a Kid
FUGAZI- Nightshop
Don Caballero- The Peter Criss Jazz
The(e) Speaking Canaries- Life Like Homes
Deerhoof- Forty Fours
Deerhoof- Giga Dance
Deerhoof- Halfbird
Deerhoof- Matchbook Seeks Maniac
Mission of Burma- Careening With Conviction
Mission of Burma- Nancy Reagan's Head
Against Me!- Sink, Florida, Sink
Hella- Biblical Violence
Hot Snakes- Suicide Invoice
William Shatner- Common People
Tom Waits- Hoist that Rag
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Me and Mia
Beastie Boys- Ch-Check It Out
Gary Wilson- Gary Saw Linda Last Night
DEVO- Don't Shoot, I'm a Man
Boris- Flood
Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles
Gogol Bordello- Start Wearing Purple
Stars of the Lid- Another Ballad for Heavy Lids
Fuck Buttons- Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant- Electric Circus
Mass of the Fermenting Dregs- Highlight
Unwound- Radio Gra
Outkast- Hey Ya
Big Business- Focus Pocus
Kool Keith- I'm a Tell-U
No Age- Teen Creeps
Sic Alps- Gelly Roll Gum Drop
Wavves- So Bored
Skull Defekts- Waving
Shellac- Prayer To God
Shellac- Mama Gina
TV on the Radio- I Was a Lover
TV on the Radio- Staring at the Sun
Liars- This Dust Makes That Mud
Hot Snakes- Plenty For All
Tom Waits- Day After Tomorrow
Gogol Bordello- Think Globally, Fuck Locally
M.I.A.- Paper Planes
Kayo Dot- Gemini Becoming the Tripod
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282- Sno Cone
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282- He Keeps Himself Fed

I'll think of more later

Sweet idea my friend!

Quasimoto- Return of the Loop Digga
Quasimoto- Greenery
Madvillian- Accordian
Aesop Rock- Daylight
Aesop Rock- No Regrets
El-p- Smithereens (Stop Cryin')
Cat Power- I Don't Blame You
Cat Power- Living Proof
DOOM- That's That
DOOM- Angelz
MF DOOM- One Beer
J Dilla- Nothing Like This
J Dilla- Wild
Del tha funky homosapien- Offspring
Del tha funky homosapien- pet peeves
Deltron 3030- Madness
Deltron 3030- Virus
Deltron 3030- Memory Loss
Sonic Youth- Rain On Tin
Sonic Youth- I love you Golden Blue
Sonic Youth- Anti- Orgasm
Radiohead- Everythings In It's Right Place
Radiohead- National Anthem
Ghostface Killah- It's Over
Johnny Cash- God's Gonna Cut You Down
Animal Collective- People
Animal Collective- Did You See The World?
Animal Collective- Leaf House
Animal Collective- Girls
White Stripes- Death Letter
White Stripes- Truth Doesn't Make A noise
Jurrasic 5- Quality Control
Jurrasic 5- Lausd
Bob Dylan- Mississippi
Bob Dylan- High Water (For Charley Patton)
Glassjaw- Siberian Kiss
Glassjaw- Ape Dos Mil
Glassjaw- Mu Empire
Beck- Guess I'm Doin Fine
Beck- End of The Day
Beck- Missing
Beck- Emergency Exit


Didn't expect to come up with that many the first time around.. More to come!

I like this thread:

Pattern Against User-At The Drive-In
Big Swan-Blood Brothers
More Light-J Macis+Fog
Been There All the Time-Dinosaur JR
Prayer To God-Shellac
Cashout-Fugazi
The Black Crow-Songs Ohia
I Want Wind To Blow-The Microphones

Pphh, not feeling to much to go through my libary now.

Excellent list
I don't listen to a great deal of music from this decade so I'll just rattle off some electronic music given finding nobody listed most of the hip-hop tracks I'd pick.

Boards of Canada - Julie and Candy
The Tuss - Synthacon 9
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
Tortoise - Monica
AFX - PWSteal.Ldpinch.D
Clark - Ted
Clark - Herr Bar
Autechre - Xylin Room
Boards of Canada - Sunshine Recorder
AFX - Lisbon Acid
Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn
Kettel - Twinkle Twinkle That is You
Autechre - Pen Expers
Aphex Twin - Meltphace 6
Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Autechre -Gantz Graf
Venetian Snares - Öngyilkos Vasárnap
Richard Devine - Arc Acid
Richard Devine - Sigstop
Autechre - Lentic Catachresis
Battles - Snare Hanger
Venetian Snares - Suffocate
Xanopticon - Drunxpla

and of course some Radiohead
Kid A, Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, There There, Life In A Glass House, Videotape

boredoms-circle
richard youngs-the valley in light
six organs of admittance-maria
a frames-u boat
ghostface killah-shakey dog
acid mothers temple-loved and confused
sir richard bishop-taqasim for omar

the hospitals-animals act natural
blues control-always on time
pink reason-storming heaven
warmer milks-in the fields

I'll just keep it to one per artist

The Verlaines - Sunday in Sevastopol
Sigh - Corpsecry-Angelfall
Boris - ... (final track on Smile)
Malice Mizer - Shiroi Hada ni Kuruu ai to Kanashimi no Rondo
Ed Kuepper - Hang Jean Lee
Sonic Youth - What We Know

I've made a top 100 tracks of the decade if someone is interested

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheFox...ade__2000_2009

ok here are a few

At The Drive In - One Armed Scissor
At The Drive In - Mannequin Republic
Beck - Volcano
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - How to Dissapear Completely
Ghostface Killah - The Champ

I have no idea what songs I love came out this decad, or last decade or the decade before that one.

Mastodon: "Oblivion", "March of the Fire Ants"
Daft Punk: "Aerodynamic", "Around The World"
Transplants: "Diamonds and Guns", "Quick Death", "D.R.E.A.M.", "Down In Oakland"
Gorillaz: "Feel Good Inc.", "Rock It", "Clint Eastwood"
The Avalanches: "Frontier Psychiatrist"
The Vines: "Outtathaway", "Country Yard", "1969", "In The Jungle", "Ride", "Animal Machine", "Amnesia", "FTW", "Nothin's Comin'", "Dope Train", "Spaceship"
Massive Attack: "Future Proof", "Butterfly Caught"
Deftones: "Elite", "Knife Prty", "Passenger", "Minerva", "Needles and Pins", "Beware", "Mein", "Pink Cellphone", "Combat", "Riverie"
The Cure: "Lost", "Alt.End"
Minus The Bear: "Drilling", "El Torrente", "Knights", "White Mystery", "Dr. Lling/Part 2", "Lotus"
Sonic Youth: "Disconnection Notice", "Karen Revisited", "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style", "Pattern Recognition", "Unmade Bed", "Stones", "I Love You Golden Blue", "Rats", "Turquoise Boy", "Pink Steam", "Sacred Trickster", "Antenna", "What We Know", "Malibu Gas Station", "Walkin' Blue", "Massage The History"
Radiohead: "Everything In Its Right Place", "The National Anthem", "Optimistic", "Idioteque", "Morning Bell", "Packt Like Sardines in a Tin Box", "Pyramid Song", "I Might Be Wrong", "Knives Out", "2+2=5", "Where I End and You Begin", "There There", "The Gloaming", "15 Step", "Bodysnatchers"
Lamb Of God: "As The Palaces Burn", "Laid To Rest", "Hourglass", "Ashes of the Wake", "Remorse Is For The Dead"
Damageplan: "Breathing New Life", "Pride", "Reborn", "Save Me", "Crawl", "Moment of Truth"
Porcupine Tree: "Blackest Eyes", "Gravity Eyelids", "Wedding Nails", "3", "The Creator Has A Mastertape", "Strip The Soul", "Deadwing", "Shallow", "Halo", "Mellotron Scratch", "Open Car", "Glass Arm Shattering", "Fear of a Blank Planet", "Anesthetize", "Sleep Together"
TV On The Radio: "Staring at the Sun", "Dreams", "Bomb Yourself", "I Was A Lover", "Hours", "Providence", "Wolf Like Me", "Dirtywhirl", "Tonight", "The DLZ", "Heroic Dose"

I'll give another vote to Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style

if you see something on someone else's list that you think deserves to be in the top 500, give it another vote!

Remember, we want to try to get 500 songs voted on multiple times

Then just vote for your favorite songs mentioned in this thread maybe?

yes! a work of pure genius!

Comet Gain - "The Fists in the Pockets"
Morrissey - "First of the Gang to Die"

i'm about to list a whole bunch of ariel pink songs

yup!

Yeah

The Walkmen - "The Rat"

I'm seconding all the Doom, Del and Quas tracks that finding nobody listed

you should add boom music and astro black though

bump

<3.

Ghostface__Mighty Healthy
Ghostface__Buck 50
Dirty Projectors__Rise Above
Dirty Projectors__Depression
Dirty Projectors__Not Having Found
Emeralds__Alive In The Sea Of Information
Emeralds__The Quaking Mess
Eric Copeland__Auto Dimmer
Eric Copeland__Green Burrito
Excepter__Any and Every
Fennesz__Glide
Clipse__Keys Open Doors
Clark__Totem Crackerjack
Clark__Future Daniel
Circulatory System__Blasting Through
Circulatory System__Signal Morning
Burial__Ghost Hardware
Boredoms__Tilde
The Books__Tokyo
Black Dice__Kokomo
Black Dice__Snarly Yow
Black Dice__Street Dude
Black Dice__Night Flight
Battles__Tonto
Bardo Pond__Isle
Arthur Russell__Love Is Overtaking Me
Arthur Russell__Planted a Thought

James Blackshaw__Cross
James Blackshaw__Arc
Joanna Newsom__Swansea
Joanna Newsom__Sawdust & Diamonds
Jaylib__The Heist
J Dilla__Mash
J Dilla__Time: The Donuts of the Heart
The Hospitals__Sour Hawaii
Hercules and Love Affair__Iris
GZA/Genius__7 Pounds
Grouper__Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Grouper__Traveling Through a Sea
Grizzly Bear__Central and Remote
Grizzly Bear__Colorado
Grizzly Bear__Knife
Grizzly Bear__Two Weeks
Grails__Predestination Blues
The Goslings__Croatan
The Goslings__Own A Car
The Goslings__Brohm Bramin
The Goslings__Brindle
The Goslings__Flowerpot
Ghostface__The Grain
Ghostface__Ghost Deini
Ghostface__The Champ
Gang Gang Dance__Princes
The Field__The Little Heart Beats So Fast
Flying Lotus__GNG BNG
Flying Lotus__SexSlaveShip
Flying Lotus__Camel
Flying Lotus__Parisian Goldfish
Flying Lotus__Spicy Sammich
Bjork__I See Who You Are

I wonder why ASP hasn't posted in here yet. Watch him hit us with a list of like 10,000 songs

The whole Boredoms discography, even the ones that aren't from the 2000's.

bump

bump (pt. 2)

Haha, he will, and like 9.5/10 of it will be songs I haven't heard of, but most of it would probably be pretty cool. Also, he will post his list on January 1, 2010 at 12:00 am

Nobody mentioned The Mars Volta yet! I officially nominate them.
"Drunkship of Laterns," "Goliath," "Wax Simulacra," "L'Via L'Viaquez"

*ducks to avoid thrown shoes

*aims high so the shoes arc and hit behind the barrier

That's part why I haven't posted.

Decade ain't over.

But...

....really, only about 10 songs stick out when I think of "best songs of the past decade" (I'm more of an "Album man", not a "song man" and really half my list would be songs from albums released by Erstwhile that are 60 minutes of high pitched noises or some nonsense, or some ridiculous drone or noise albums where song titles like "sun drug" or "scum puke", respectively, don't really stick out to me):

10. cerberus shoal - ding
9. tful # 282 - snowcone
8. stars of the lid - fucked up (3:57 am)
7. sleeping people - johnny depp
6. autechre - augmatic disport
5. zazen boys - hentai terminated
4. omoide hatoba - sugar clip
3. alvarius b - colonel faucet
2. toddle - colonnade

and my favorite song, fire on fire - hangman (which I've uploaded here: http://www.mediafire.com/?7tztgmgbwgx for you to enjoy)

I love sno cone.

Sonic Youth - "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" (2000 is this decade, right?)
"Pattern Recognition", "Or", "Karenology", "SYR 6", "Poison Arrow"

Thurston Moore - "Flipped Out Bride"

Legendary Pink Dots - "The Warden", "The Equaliser", "The Poppy Variations Pts. 1 & 2", "The Hot Breath on Your Neck", "Your Number Is Up", "An Arm and a Leg"

Edward Ka-Spel - "The Writing on the Wall", "The Comedown", "Harvester"

Einsturzende Neubauten - "Silence Is Sexy", "Redukt"

Black Dice - "Endless Hapiness"

Autechre - "Drone", "Cfern", "IO"

Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues"

Unwound - "Demons Sing Love Songs", "Behold the Salt", "Summer Freeze", "October All Over"

Anakrid - "Limited Liability Processing Plant"

Green Milk from the Planet Orange - "Sweet 5 AM", "Concrete City Breakdown", "Demagog"

Acid Mothers Temple - "Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga", "Atomic Rotary Grinding God", "Interplanetary Love"

Black Happy Day - "In the Garden of Ghost Flowers"

Bauhaus - "Black Stone Heart"

Bardo Pond - "Moonshine"

Sunn O))) - "Death Becomes You", "Aghartha"

Sunn O))) with Boris - "N.L.T."

I move to have these votes stricken from the record on account of the fact that we should all pretend that The Mars Volta don't exist for the sake of human kind.