Best Songs of the 2000s

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Here are Pretty Much Amazing’s Top 75 Songs of the Decade. Below you will find the entire list with three accompanying podcasts. For our reviews of the Top 25 songs, please follow this link.

75. UGK – Int’l Player’s Anthem (feat. OutKast)
74. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
73. Interpol – NYC
72. Band of Horses – The Funeral
71. Kid Cudi – Day N Nite
70. TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
69. Belle and Sebastian – Step Into My Office, Baby
68. Robyn – Be Mine
67. of Montreal – Oslo In The Summertime
66. Grizzly Bear – While You Wait For The Others
65. The Streets – Blinded By The Lights
64. Rihanna – Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z)
63. MGMT – Kids
62. Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
61. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
60. The Shins – New Slang
59. Amy Winehouse – Rehab
58. Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
57. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
56. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly
55. Joanna Newsom – Emily
54. Justin Timberlake – My Love (feat. T.I.)
53. Sigur Rós – Gobbledigook
52. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
51. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife

Click here for our Top 50 tracks of the 2000s.

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sonny downes February 11, 2010 at 9:44 am

outkast
50 cent
kelly rowland
gorillaz
fatman scoop
lilly allen
chipmunk
tinchy stryder
n – dubz

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ff March 3, 2010 at 4:36 am
Anonymous March 11, 2010 at 5:02 am

what shit is this? britney spears 4 place¡¡¡¡ why not first??? asshole… at least is vampire weekend at 57¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ place
incredible

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Natalie G. March 15, 2010 at 6:08 am

I think this is a pretty good list, to be honest :)
good job!

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DW March 17, 2010 at 6:55 pm

LOOOOVE most of these songs, I would add a few more, but very very very good list! good job!

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Anonymous April 21, 2010 at 4:58 pm

dutykl,polo

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manatease me May 16, 2010 at 6:50 pm

The National. Fake Empire.

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Anonymous June 8, 2010 at 2:38 am

HOLY SHIT. burial, this is too awesome.

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Stacy June 12, 2010 at 12:48 pm

This is a great list! New slang would be higher for me and I’d also put Kissing The Lipless on but that’s just because I’m a huge Shins fan.

And I love that you have Joanna Newsom on here :)

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ToU R June 13, 2010 at 5:18 pm

I like Rihanna most

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Yaz August 1, 2010 at 3:31 pm

omg what about Gorillaz? ._.

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jim November 19, 2010 at 12:06 pm

This is the worst list I have ever seen.

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me December 6, 2010 at 4:22 am

this is the worst list ever made… who picks these out, I don’t think anyone ever listened to 85% of these songs on the radio, what a loser song picker

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me December 6, 2010 at 4:22 am

this is the worst list ever made… who picks these out, I don’t think anyone ever listened to 85% of these songs on the radio, what a loser song picker

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Saul December 20, 2010 at 3:30 pm

Were is linkin Park?

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John S January 3, 2011 at 4:18 am

Toxic #4? Really?

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John S January 3, 2011 at 4:38 am

Some of these songs are a joke. No Viva La Vida, Kid Rock (All Summer Long), 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, no Vertigo or U2 of any kind, Jimmy Eat World? Lose Yourself way down at 40? 2 minor hits by Outkast where’s The way you move? FloRida-LOw, Nelly Furtado, Usher, Lil John where are they? Half these songs didn’t even chart nobody listens to them you must be some kind of an idiot.

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concerned reader April 2, 2011 at 3:23 am

is this an april fools joke?…someone must have swapped in the list for worst songs of the decade.

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