Random Songs from the Past Ten Years

If you're anything like me, you're only marginally employed and have filled your free time by reading all the "Best of the Decade" lists. After going through the critics' best and worsts, I was motivated to come up with one of my own. But when I thought about how much work that would entail. So instead I've decided to create a list of randomly selected songs that were produced in the past ten years. My Itunes shuffled through my music library (at least half of it downloaded during Napster's heyday) and came up with the following songs. I've listed them in ascending order, from least embarrassing to the most. Feel free to judge me.

1. Green Day, Wake Me When September Ends

2. Beth Orton, Sweetest Decline

3. Beth Hart, Hiding Under Water

4. Girl Talk, Give Me a Beat

5. Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows

6. Kim Richey, If You Don't Mind

7. Coldplay, Amsterdam

8. Britney Spears, Oops I Did It Again

9. Saliva, Always

10. James Blunt, Beautiful


Honorable Mentions (These are songs that came up after I had filled in ten slots): Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (I was Emo for like a minute in college); Pink, Numb (A deep cut from Miz Understood); Madcon, Beggin

Obviously, my Itunes wasn't able to know which songs were released when so I had to skip through a bunch of tunes. Here are the songs that were passed over because they were made before this century.

No Doubt, Excuse Me Mr.; Bush, Swallowed (this actually followed the Gwen Stefani. I guess my Itunes is romantic, placing husband and wife side by side); Morcheeba, The Sea; Foo Fighters, Big Me; Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone.

I hope that at least some of this list redeems me for still having that James Blunt song in my music library.