Top tracks from the last 10 years

[WarpPhoenix]

I understand that this thread title will change its guidlines throughout the years if it gets that long but hey, thats a risk I'm willing to take

(I searched around and couldnt find a thread the same as this, so forgive me if there is)

Basically as the title says, the top 5 tracks you can think of that came out from thel ast 10 years, try to make it cross genre and judge on merit of both lyric quality and melody, or judge it anyway you want really, if it means something special to you or whatever! Just a song that you thoguht was amazing that came out in the last 10 years, try and shake up these nostalgic cobwebs a bit.

My list is in no particular order, all of my 5 have equal quality in my mind.

1. Where is the love - Black eyed peas
2. Valerie - The Zutons
3. Hey ya - Outkast
4. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (just making it in at 1999)
5. Warriors - Freedom Call (power metal band)

[Madeline Merri]

Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek (I really enjoy the synth-apella sound, and it always brings up fond memories of my friends.)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (One of my favorite beats to run instrumentals on, plus a killer voice track.)
Gogol Bordello - Wonderlust King (Gypsy-Punk rockers that can bring the heat any given night of the week.)
Audioslave - Cochise (Rage Against The Machine minus Zack? Count me in! I credit them with keeping rock alive in the early 2000's)
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. (One of the best dance tracks I've heard, and it never gets old to these ears.)

[Aryel]

This top ten is pointless: it's a scientific fact that rock reached its peak of perfection in 1967 with the Moody Blues' masterpiece "Days of Future Passed"...

[WarpPhoenix]

Well you can give as many tops as you want, just good tracks from the last 10 years is all, doesnt have to be rock either just throw out some good tunes people might not have heard of and its all good.

EDIT: Completely forgot about Feel Good Inc. That'd definately one of my top songs too, great guitar mixed with the main melody makes for a great track. Thanks for reminding me about that one Madeline!

[Allerion]

This top ten is pointless: it's a scientific fact that rock reached its peak of perfection in 1967 with the Moody Blues' masterpiece "Days of Future Passed"...

amen. everything since has been... pointless.

[Paraicj]

Aryel, you are living in the past. The awesome, beautiful past.

[Prince_Asuryan]

Dear lord, the Black Eyed Peas??? You can like them, but I think it's hard to argue them as a top ten i.e. timeless classic

I agree with the RHCP though - awesome band.

[Raneth]

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Might as well include 19/2000 (and Dare).

[Paraicj]

The last 10 years is pretty tough, there haven't been a whole lot of "timeless" souding bands. I think everyone would have a very different list, and it'll come down completely to opinions. Someone will probably even think a song by My Chemical Romance deserves to be there...

My 4 runners up, in no particular order:
The Shins - New Slang - 2001 - By far their best known song, it was close between this and Pink Bullets for me. Both havew simple acoustic backgrounds with a little electric guitar for feel, nothing fancy. New Slang pulls it for the lift in the final verse, a thing of beauty. Just a lovely song.
Modest Mouse - The Good Times Are Killing Me - 2004 - I'll be honest, I could have put any of their songs here, from any of their albums, and thought it worth it. I love this band. Great range, from simple acoustics to bone-jarring electric and drums, synths, just musical bliss. This song is so mellow, and the lyrics strike a chord in me, I live pretty hard sometimes. Not Coke and Meht Amphetamine hard, but the sentiment is there.
Mogwai - Batcat - 2009 - I was torn between this and the much cheerier , mellower The Sun Smells Too Loud, both from The Hawk Is Howling by these Scottish legends, but Batcat is just a ripping, ear-shredding, full-volume guitar instrumental that sets the pulse pounding every time I hear it. awesome stuff.
REM - Supernatural Superserious - 2008 - Sounds like the band in their pomp, big vocals, great simple riff, a huge improvement on anything from Around The Sun and by far the standout track of Accelerate.

And finally, my top pick:

Arcade Fire - Intervention - 2007 - I'm not one of those people who has to pretend to know bands before they were famous, but an American friend of mine sent me Funeral when it first came out and I was blown away. Neighbourhood, Rebellion, great songs. Amazing album. I was really excited about Neon Bible, and wasn't disappointed, although some of the songs were kind of fillers. But Intervention. Holy Shit. I'm a fan of Creschendo, and the organ and electric guitar along with the piercing lyrics absolutely tear at you as the song builds. YES! Could listen to it on repeat all day. have done occasionally.

Honourable Mentions:
Battles- Atlas for the infectious Drums and squeaky guitar, Time to Pretend by MGMT for the cycling synth and clever lyrics, Work by Jimmy Eat World because it's Emo but not too worked up about it (sorry!), and I think Kings of Leon deserve a mention with Four Kicks, despite the amount of air-time they've got that makes it hard to listen to them now!

[Keith]

There doesn't need to be anything timeless about a band to have an awesome song. Plenty of people luck into such things, one hit wonders for example.

[Aryel]

Aryel, you are living in the past. The awesome, beautiful past.

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past" - Faulkner. ^^

I'd like to point that I really dislike all new artists, more importantly, the mainstream ones. Somehow, I have the feeling they don't offer anything new to me.

I prefer to listen and watch bands from the under movement. Most of the times they have more to offer than those bands that rotate the music channels and radios. For example, weeks ago I went to a rock concert played in a theatre, and next to it, in the adjacent room, they had a marvellous exposition of Salvador Dalí. Those are the things I like, and not Franz Ferdinand or that band my brother likes ("the killers"). Sounds pedantic? totally

[cidracin]

THe only two modern bands I really like are The Killers and the Black Keys. The Black Keys for those of you who don't know are a blues rock duo from Akron Ohio. Anybody who has an interest in bluesy rock shoul check them out. I am sure there are some great indie bands out there and I just haven't heard of them. But mainstream music sucks nowadays.

[Prince Elileth]

There hasn't been a good single in 30 years. Sure some of these new fangled bands you kids listen to these days might sound catchy or what not but they're not ground breaking. Everyone knows real music died in the fall of 1980. Specifically on September 25 and December 8. Everything since then has just been filler.

[EricJ]

I dunno, to me it takes atleast a decade before any sort of music passes the test of time and singles itself out as a piece of awesomeness. Music made in the last decade gets listened to ofcourse, but truth be told; there's a shitload of stuff that I'm listening to now that I won't remember in 2019.

[Madeline Merri]

I hope I never listen to nothing but 'timeless' music. I simply couldn't bear to wait an extra period of time to pass before critics, fanbase, the moons, and some unheard of Old One god come into alignment to tell me that they were a classic band. Many of these groups or artists are a circumstance of their time and situation - wouldn't it then make sense to immerse yourself in said period of music in order to more fully understand what they came from?

There's a stigma that's attached to mainstream music these days. Last I heard - many of the bands that everyone seems to place this granite-bust-in-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame mentality to... They're on Rock Band... They're on Guitar Hero... I'm just sayin'... If it came down to me listening to the same music constantly, or to get out to live shows and pick and choose from a smörgåsbord of musical works to like, by all means, throw me in the mainstream. Because most if not all of these timeless bands that are still alive? They haven't done anything to stay timeless.

-Maddo

[Raneth]

There hasn't been a good single in 30 years. Sure some of these new fangled bands you kids listen to these days might sound catchy or what not but they're not ground breaking. Everyone knows real music died in the fall of 1980. Specifically on September 25 and December 8. Everything since then has just been filler.

You're just really, really old, aren't you?

[Shandiar]

Anything with Opeth

[Paraicj]

Raneth, Elileth likes to pretend he was round when music was good, but the truth is that on the day he was born I'll be there for you by Bon Joviwas at Number 1 on the Billboard top 100. Ouch.

I think modern music gets a harsh deal. I listen to music from the 60s to today, and there is stuff I like and detest from each of those decades. It's easy to lump everything from 1990 on under Corporate Pop and leave it at that, but it's a nonsense. Just because it's on the radio more doesn't mean it's the only music out there.

[Prince Elileth]

Paraic's just jealous of my youth. That's why he likes to listen to all these new bands the kids like. It makes him forget that he's what, 25 now? Good god man, you're practically dead!

You're just really, really old, aren't you?

Unfortunately I am. I'm 20 now.

[Raneth]

26 here.... and my favourite song came out in 2004!

I'll live forever, enjoying my eternal youth. Beat that!

[Squeak]

Ten years? Hmm.

Justice - D.A.N.C.E
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Chemical Brothers - The Test
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Royskopp - What Else is There (Trentmoller Remix)

No guitars

[EricJ]

That from these twenty or so songs that you've listed so far I recognize perhaps one or two says quite a lot, doesn't it?