Some songs I dug this decade...

Oh, poor neglected blog. I was going to do a 90s countdown, and I will, but it seemed more appropriate to make another aughts list before the decade ended. So I present to you 64 songs I dug this decade. Why 64? Oh, who knows. The list is in alphabetical order by song, and I tried to limit it to one song per artist, with some leeway for different projects. Enjoy.

1. “All of Your Might” – Jay Farrar

2. “Banquet” – Bloc Party

3. “Be Here Now” – Mason Jennings

4. “Being Alive” – Raul Esparza (Yes, this choice is a bit of a cheat.)

5. “Black Postcards” – Luna

6. “Breathe” – Anna Nalick

7. “Carol Brown” / “Fashion is Danger” – Flight of the Conchords (Yep, cheating again. J)

8. “Chicago” – Sufjan Stevens

9. “Children of December” – The Slip

10. “Dick in a Box” – Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake

11. “Don’t Ask Why” – Ron Sexsmith

12. “Evil” – Interpol

13. “Fake” – The Frames (Glen Hansard, pre-Oscar)

14. “Feeling A Moment” – Feeder

15. “Feeling of Gaze” – The Twilight Singers

16. “Friends of Mine” – Hugh Dillon

17. “Funny Little Frog” – Belle and Sebastian

18. “Gideon” – My Morning Jacket

19. “Going Missing” – Maximo Park (too lazy to type the silly umlaut)

20. “Heavy Metal Drummer” – Wilco

21. “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing” – Scissor Sisters

22. “I Should Get Up” – Teddy Thompson

23. “If Looks Could Kill” – Camera Obscura

24. “Keys” – from Passing Strange

25. “Landed” – Ben Folds

26. “Last Parade” – Matthew Good

27. “Let It Blow” – Richard Thompson

28. “Luckiest Man Alive” – Finn Brothers

29. “Man on the Verge” – Lloyd Cole and the Negatives

30. “Murder Me Rachael” – The National

31. “Must Be The Moon” – !!!

32. “Nights Are Cold” – Richard Hawley

33. “Officer” – Kate Earl

34. “Old Enough to Know Better” – Lloyd Cole

35. “One by One” – Billy Bragg/Wilco

36. “One X One” – Paul Weller

37. “Please Stand Up” – British Sea Power

38. “Putting Down” – The Hip

39. “Rest of the Day Off” – Neil Finn

40. “Riverside” – Steve Wynn

41. “Sadness Soot” – Grant Lee Phillips

42. “Sixteen Military Wives” – The Decemberists

43. “So Come Back, I Am Waiting” – Okkervil River

44. “Sovay” – Andrew Bird

45. “Sparrows Over Birmingham” – Josh Rouse

46. “Splitting Up” – Edwyn Collins

47. “Summer Turns to Fall” – Mark Gardener with Goldrush

48. “Sun Was High (So Was I)” – Best Coast

49. “Surfing Magazines” – The Go-Betweens

50. “The Bleeding Heart Show” – The New Pornographers

51. “The Dark of the Matinee” – Franz Ferdinand

52. “The Death of Girl Number Two” – Say Hi to Your Mom

53. “The Lovers Are Losing” – Keane

54. “The Rescue Blues” – Ryan Adams

55. “The Resolution” – Jack’s Mannequin

56. “The Same Deep Water As Me” – I Am Kloot

57. “There She Goes, My Beautiful World” – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

58. “Twee” – Tullycraft

59. “When Your Mind’s Made Up” – Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

60. “Wolf Like Me” – TV on the Radio

61. “Wolves” – Josh Ritter

62. “Wonderful World” – James Morrison

63. “You Cheated Me” – Martha Wainwright

64. “You Let Me Down” – Joel Plaskett