Over 1 and 1/2 years too late, here are my personal favorite songs over the past decade.
The past decade brought a lot of great music for not just everyone but for me personally. Around 2010-11 was when I truly got into albums and the world of blogged about indie, rock, pop, electronic, hip hop, and so much more. I continued to be involved in the culture since, categorizing and reviewing my favorite music each and every year since 2013 or so. Now since the decade is over (and was for 1 and 1/2 years lol) I decided to finally make a list of my favorite songs and albums over the past 10 years from 2010-2019. There are a couple of ground rules though: I decided to only choose 1 song/album per artist, meaning that each list wouldn't have duplicates of artists minus a few examples (solo Kanye West and the Kanye/Jay-Z collaboration are both included, while two Nicolas Jaar projects are both included - DARKSIDE and A.A.L.). I did this so that there would be more variety and more artists would be celebrated for their excellent work. It simply wouldn't be as interesting if there were 3 Vampire Weekend albums and a bunch of Fleet Foxes songs of the same list, right? Anyway, these lists aren't perfect and my opinions on the rankings change within each day, but I thought I did an accurate representation of what my favorite music is over the past decade. So, without further a do, here are my top 100 favorite songs over the past decade! Yay!
(I also made the list into a Spotify playlist if you want to check it out:)
Top 100 Favorite Songs of the Decade (2010 - 2019)
1 Yeasayer - “O.N.E.”
2 Fleet Foxes - “Helplessness Blues”
3 Real Estate - “Talking Backwards”
4 Battles feat. Matias Aguayo - “Ice Cream”
5 Vampire Weekend - “Cousins”
6 Gorillaz feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack - “Stylo”
7 Arcade Fire - “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)”
8 Foster the People - “Houdini”
9 Beach House - “10 Mile Stereo”
10 Parquet Courts - “Wide Awake”
11 Bleachers - “I Wanna Get Better”
12 Ra Ra Riot - “Boy”
13 Courtney Barnett - “Pedestrian at Best”
14 Deerhunter - “Helicopter”
15 Tame Impala - “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
16 Cat Power - “Ruin”
17 Spoon - “Do You”
18 Flying Lotus - “Do the Astral Plane”
19 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - “Get Lucky”
20 Todd Terje - “Inspector Norse”
21 Broken Bells - “The High Road”
22 Keane - “My Shadow”
23 Kanye West - “POWER”
24 The National - “Bloodbuzz Ohio”
25 Miike Snow - “Paddling Out”
26 Hospitality - “Friends of Friends”
27 Jamie xx feat. Romy - “Loud Places”
28 The Preatures - “Is This How You Feel?”
29 Tune-Yards - “Water Fountain”
30 DARKSIDE - “Golden Arrow”
31 Dirty Projectors - “Swing Lo Magellan”
32 A Sunny Day In Glasgow - “In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry in the Tradition of Passing)”
33 Justin Timberlake - “Mirrors”
34 LCD Soundsystem - “Dance Yrself Clean”
35 Sia - “You’ve Changed”
36 The Black Keys - “Tighten Up”
37 Cut Copy - “Take Me Over”
38 Japandroids - “The House That Heaven Built”
39 The Strokes - “Under Cover of Darkness”
40 U.S. Girls - “M.A.H.”
41 Glasser - “Home”
42 Katy Perry - “Teenage Dream”
43 Phoenix - “Drakkar Noir”
44 Jay-Z & Kanye West feat. Otis Redding - “Otis”
45 Anna Meredith - “Paramour”
46 Metronomy - “The Look”
47 Destroyer - “Kaputt”
48 Father John Misty - “Pure Comedy”
49 Angel Olsen - “Shut Up Kiss Me”
50 Grizzly Bear - “Sleeping Ute”
51 Jack Johnson - “At or With Me”
52 Maximum Balloon feat. David Byrne - “Apartment Wrestling”
53 The New Pornographers - “War On the East Coast”
54 Jack White - “Lazaretto”
55 Disclosure - “When a Fire Starts to Burn”
56 Dawes - “From a Window Seat”
57 Radiohead - “Lotus Flower”
58 She & Him - “Don’t Look Back”
59 Sleater-Kinney - “A New Wave”
60 The Shins - “Simple Song”
61 Foxygen - “No Destruction”
62 Bloc Party - “Ratchet”
63 The War On Drugs - “Holding On”
64 Beach Fossils - “Shallow”
65 Hot Chip - “How Do You Do?”
66 M83 - “Midnight City”
67 Cloud Nothings - “Stay Useless”
68 Kevin Morby - “OMG Rock n Roll”
69 St. Vincent - “Cruel”
70 Walk the Moon - “Tightrope”
71 Everything Everything - “Distant Past”
72 MGMT - “Congratulations”
73 The Voidz - “All Wordz Are Made Up”
74 DJ Koze - “Pick Up”
75 The Chemical Brothers - “Got To Keep On”
76 Dent May - “Best Friend”
77 Bombay Bicycle Club - “Leave It”
78 Yelle - “Safari Disco Club”
79 Best Coast - “When I’m With You”
80 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - “Uptown Funk”
81 Beastie Boys - “Make Some Noise”
82 Drake - “Hotline Bling”
83 Young the Giant - “My Body”
84 Weezer - “California Kids”
85 The Kills - “Doing It to Death”
86 Run the Jewels feat. Zach De La Rocha - “Close Your Eyes (And Count to F**k)”
87 Phish - “Waiting All Night”
88 Sleigh Bells - “Rill Rill”
89 Vince Staples - “Big Fish”
90 Feist - “Pleasure”
91 Tokyo Police Club - “Wait Up (Boots of Danger)”
92 The Dead Weather - “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)”
93 DIIV - “Doused”
94 Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus - “Old Town Road” (Remix)
95 TV On the Radio - “Caffeinated Consciousness”
96 Adele - “Rolling In the Deep”
97 Animal Collective - “Today’s Supernatural”
98 Franz Ferdinand & Sparks (FFS) - “Police Encounters”
99 Beyonce feat. Jay-Z - “Drunk In Love”
100 Major Lazer feat. Amber Coffman - “Get Free”
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