Top 10 individual songs of the past decade thus far. Go!

"Copper Canteen" James McMurtry


"Birthday Boy" Drive By Truckers


"The Bird Hunters" Turnpike Troubadours


"Elephant" Jason Isbell


"You Can Have the Crown" Sturgill Simpson


"Shake the Frost" Tyler Childers


"I Felt Like Jesus" Chuck Prophet


"Ain't Gonna Stop" Natural Child


"Mile High" Lydia Loveless


"Constantine" Dexateens

damn... this is gonna take some time. but i think i am up for the challenge. in no particular order:


Dungen - En Gång Om Året


Kvelertak - Åpenbaring


Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press


Grails - Deep Snow II


Elder - III


Yob - Marrow


Ty Segall Band - I Bought My Eyes


Beach House - Norway


Warpaint - Set Your Arms Down


Neko Case - Oracle of the Maritimes

Afraid of Everyone/The National (2010)
Down in the Bowery/Alejandro Escovedo (2010)
John the Dwarf Wants to Become an Angel/Boston Spaceships (2010)
Derek's Blues/Natural Child (2012)
Lariat/Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (2014)
Halloween/Wussy (2014)
Laughing on the Inside/Chuck Prophet (2014)
Guns of Umpqua/Drive-By Truckers (2016)
Fellowship of the Saturday Night Brotherhood/Dexateens (2016)
Away/Bed Wettin' Bad Boys (2017)

tinnitus photography wrote:damn... this is gonna take some time. but i think i am up for the challenge. in no particular order:
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press

Pained me to leave that one off my list. Great song!

Good call embedding links, tinnitus. Edited to match.

cortez the killer wrote:Afraid of Everyone/The National (2010)
Down in the Bowery/Alejandro Escovedo (2010)
John the Dwarf Wants to Become an Angel/Boston Spaceships (2010)
Derek's Blues/Natural Child (2012)
Lariat/Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (2014)
Halloween/Wussy (2014)
Laughing on the Inside/Chuck Prophet (2014)
Guns of Umpqua/Drive-By Truckers (2016)
Fellowship of the Saturday Night Brotherhood/Dexateens (2016)
Away/Bed Wettin' Bad Boys (2017)

Massive cuts, and I considered each.

since this is an impossibly hard task to pin just 10, here's an alternate list with no overlap:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street (this might be the best song of the decade so far - the band and the song just fucking EXPLODE at the 4:40 mark... i still get chills thinking about seeing them play this live and this video delivers on what it felt like)


Golden Gunn - From A Lincoln Continental


Stephen Malkmus - Freeze The Saints


Om - State On Non-Return


Shellac - Dude Incredible


QOTSA - I Sat By The Ocean


Rangda - Night Porter


Kurt Vile and the Violators - Pretty Pimpin'


Sharon Van Etten - Serpents


Grouper - Alien Observer

My alternate Top 10
Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires "The Company Man"


Tyler Childers "Whitehouse Road"


The Yawpers "Tied"


Turnpike Troubadours "Pay No Rent"


Queens of the Stone Age "Feet Don't Fail Me Now"


Wussy "Teenage Wasteland"


Heartless Bastards "Down in the Canyon"


Deer Tick "Jump Starting"


Dead Man Winter "Red Wing, Blue Wing"


Charlie Parr "Over the Red Cedar"

I'll post 'em as I think of 'em. But this one's definitely near the top of my list...

So, it’s your top 20 songs from 2010 - 2018?

cortez the killer wrote:So, it’s your top 20 songs from 2010 - 2018?

I guess we took it down that road.


Will be fun to see how many I swap out in 2020

Iowan wrote:

cortez the killer wrote:So, it’s your top 20 songs from 2010 - 2018?

I guess we took it down that road.


Will be fun to see how many I swap out in 2020

Taking it down that road is a 3DD tradition. To properly passively-aggressively bust my balls, the year should be 2026.

cortez the killer wrote:

Iowan wrote:

cortez the killer wrote:So, it’s your top 20 songs from 2010 - 2018?

I guess we took it down that road.


Will be fun to see how many I swap out in 2020

Taking it down that road is a 3DD tradition. To properly passively-aggressively bust my balls, the year should be 2026.

While passive aggression is a Midwestern staple, I was being serious. Once you get to the years where I actually submitted 6 Packs, I expect a significant amount of revision on my end. Especially in the 90's.

I'm giving this some thought.

Yeah, this is nearly impossible. So many great albums

Zip City wrote:Yeah, this is nearly impossible. So many great albums

Yeah, but it's songs.

cortez the killer wrote:

Zip City wrote:Yeah, this is nearly impossible. So many great albums

Yeah, but it's songs.

That are on albums, that there are many great ones, so there are many many great songs

I don't know about best, but these are my favorites:


This song is vast. It contains multitudes.


I'm a sucker for a local hook.


It's hard to pick just one of hers. If there's one new artist that stands out from the decade so far for me, it's her.


There's probably better on this record, but this one is hard to get past.


This song is magic or crack or something. There are days I can't not sing it.


I just couldn't believe these guys.


Good call, Iowan!


This one is devastating in its simplicity.

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I see scotto's been reading my mail.


I sing this one a lot, too. I also pretend the lame rap in the middle is in some foreign language I don't understand.


I just wish I could sing this one, but I'm too damn old to even do it ironically. The placement is a little unfair to the previous song.


Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft.


Let's close this out with a real raver.

Here's one:



Doesn't get more personal and raw than that song

tinnitus photography wrote:Stephen Malkmus - Freeze The Saints

'05

cortez the killer wrote:

tinnitus photography wrote:Stephen Malkmus - Freeze The Saints

'05

i was rounding up?

Clams wrote:

Great submission. One of the best riffs of the decade for sure.

I doubt that these two tracks from Cracker's Berkeley to Bakersfield record would make many people's Best of the 10's, but they definitely make mine.

Impossible task. So many I am leaving out.

Hop Along - Waitress


Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels


The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio


Bonnie Prince Billy - Troublesome Houses


Father John Misty - When You're Smiling And Astride Me


Sturgill Simpson - Life of Sin


Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts


John Murry - Little Colored Balloons


Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles In the Distance


Earthless - Godspeed

TW_2.0 wrote:John Murry

He's an interesting cat. This is the one I'd've gone with for him:



You don't expect a Gang of Four riff to break out during a Fleetwood Mac song.

good thread.

tinnitus photography wrote: Kurt Vile and the Violators - Pretty Pimpin'

Yes!!