Sunday, December 20, 2009

Songs of the decade challenge

Allison and I often e-mail back and forth about new music discoveries and musical guilty pleasures. I saw Supergrass with her, Placebo, Travis, Coldplay. Blur, even, if you count standing outside the Musique Plus studios while the band was inside, playing and being interviewed. We've shared a lot through music.

As 2009 winds down, she has challenged me, and I have challenged her in turn, to come up with our top 100 tracks of the decade. Tough job to do. If I look at the music I played most, well, Kate Bush's Aerial and Patricia Barber's Mythologies would eat up a quarter of the list between them. And that, friends, is unacceptable – there are just too many fun one-off singles to accommodate as well as terrific album tracks. Funnily enough, however, there are two Kate Bush cover versions on the list.

A painful process. I cut out many many many songs I liked a lot then a still like a lot now. Heck, the "short list" was 303 songs, so you can imagine the difficulty I had to get to 100.

I think I counted right. We'll see. I've divided them up year by year (according to iTunes/Wikipedia – yes, I know that Moving by Supergrass came out in 1999 in the UK, but not until 2000 in North America). Within each year, they are alphabetical. Enjoy, and if you will, I hope you find something new.

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

at 12/20/2009 02:56:00 p.m.
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