Top 100 Songs of the 2010s

ah hi every one almost the knee done tan oh here the Internet's busiest music nerd and it is time for another edition of list week going over my favorite and least favorite music of the 2010s I've done my worst singles my worst albums like a good boy and now I'm doing my top 100 songs and singles of the decade partially doing a list like this makes me sad because there's so many other tracks that I loved now how are good that would be lovely on a list like this but hey I had to cut it to 100 for my own sanity which is hanging by a thread and the point of a list like this is to cut it down to the cream of the crop anyway having said that given there are 100 songs on this list I cannot speak at length on every single song on this list this video would be like an hour long so like my other list videos I am going to speak the most about the songs that land closest to the top and for the sake of convenience as well as directness I'm gonna have the bottom fifty of my top 100 scroll by right now the bottom 50 in my top 100 list go and buy lots of cool stuff in this part of the movie is going from 100 to knock 51 that's the best half of the list yeah so with that being done let's get into the upper half at number 50 is king gizzard and the lizard wizard with their thrash anthem for a dying planet planet B at number 49 we have the incredible V iconic the talented Janelle Monae with the funky jazzy peppy and catchy tightrope featuring big boy 48 it is a punk anthem of cross-cultural understanding and friendship idols dan Enid elko 47 satanic metal gets its mojo back with ghost cerise number 46 it is Natalia for COD a with done Sade gardenias lovely beautiful ballad with gorgeous vocal harmonies an irresistible Latin Flair and at 45 we have the tragic and depressing soul-crushing heart-wrenching hood from perfume genius number 44 a dreamy ballad of love and affection from the duo beach house take care number 43 1539 North Calvert from JPEG mafia easily one of the boldest and most impactful rapper producers to break this decade at number 42 it is the hushed and a chilling acoustic number from Sufjan Stevens should have known better and the even more chilling and actually harrowing in terms of storytelling King Park from La Dispute sits at number 41 experimental pop absurdists 100 gex sit at number 40 with money machine and Frank Ocean goes progressive with R&B and art pop with his lengthy multi-phased and epic pyramids from channel orange with number 38 we get crushing and bold bold bold post-punk on shut up from savages and on number 37 we get a banger an anthem of big braggadocious energy and female unity formation from Beyonce the bubbling and bustling battles with ice cream lands at number 36 number 35 on our list is a wonderful expression of digital love Hannah diamond hi I really admire the way this track portrays love infatuation crushes through I guess just a digital space and medium it's very modern and at number 34 we have one of the bravest and most thorough takedowns of racist police brutality from clipping with knees on the ground number 33 one of the most insane and off-the-wall creative and bold bangers of the decade it's it's got to be tonight with a higher ground and at 32 we keep a gold chain on our neck with Brock Hampton on gold oh god yes I love it pop rap bliss bring be home bring me to heaven it's godlike number 31 we have Karen J Kalinin one of the most expressive eccentric and thought-provoking as well as provocative songwriters to hit this decade the title track bravado off of his record of the same title is a wonderful self reflection on a lot of things including one's understanding of one's self masculinity it is a wonderful synth backed anthem that is incredibly powerful gray vocals great production number 30 one of the most irresistible groovy songs of the decade with also I guess a semi woke message parquet courts wide awake though really it's it's the bassline and the drums alone that truly make the track and make it worth placing so high on this list at number 29 we have the epic and ambitious collective on the TRO pika with punk arrow Sony Darrow one of many many many tracks that makes onda tropica one of the most inventive and exciting mixes of musicians in Latin music as this track is an incredibly fun and strange psychedelic mix of punk music and a whole host of different Latin flavors next at 28 we have Danny Brown with the harrowing and eye widening disturbing ain't it funny which is actually not about anything funny at all it's quite sad and I think Danny with his rapping how manic it is how hurried and expressive it is combined with the bombastic horn backbeat which sounds like something out of a horror movie soundtrack he really brings home the fear as well as the feeling of impending doom when you are just making the loudest cry for help that you can possibly imagine on number 27 from our list Kayne West himself is on an epic power trip on the song power a song that really needs no explanation and with 26 we have one of the most compelling subtle and hypnotic micro house jams of the decade for Tet with love cry number 25 on our list here is graced by YG's FD because f dt and with 24 we have linguae egg nota with do you doubt me traitor a song that the more I listened to it the more deeply disturbed by its vocals its sound it's everything I am also disturbing in many respects is the daughter song Satan in the wait an amazing dark expansive track from their latest comeback record which you you RT must know at this point I think is amazing also amazing at number 22 is the lyrically and instrumentally inventive numbers on the boards from Pusha T only a rapper of T's caliber could even begin to approach a song and an instrumental like this and pass with flying colors on number 21 here one of my favorite bands of the decade Algiers with their unique fusion of rock and soul and punk music comes together to speak truth to power on the underside of power yonder SATA power and shout-out to the singing songwriting legend PJ Harvey at number 20 with the words that maketh murder an incredibly chilling song from her wonderful and amazing let England shake record Charli XCX and Christine and the queens at number 19 come together for a pop anthem for the ages on gone and at number 18 Tyler the Creator expands his creative repertoire with earthquake with number 17 on our list we go post pop post electronic post-industrial post everything with Sophie on the incredibly dark heavy crushing and kinky Ponyboy and at number 16 it is the throbbing throttling visceral and sort of dystopian mess on a mission from liars challenges to our gender norms as well as work culture are set at number 15 on durian Electra's career boy nah nah it's our number 14 single sounds Ariel Pink's Haunted graffiti with round and round a fantastically strange and anachronistic approach to vintage pop music and disco at number 13 we have the lovely wondrous and enchanting good intentions paving company from none other than joanna newsom and number 12 marks I guess what I think is my favorite synth pop anthem of the decade LCD Soundsystem I can change on number 11 one of the smartest and in my opinion most entertaining songwriters of this decade comes through and with an amazing song gives sex workers their due on far from born-again and now we are here in the 10 spots the top 10 spots I'm so psyched here we go let's do it starting off on number 10 with rest and peace to David Bowie with the title track to his final album Blackstar not only does this track stand as one of the darkest and most surreal singles of the decade but also goes to show just how much of a rarity David Bowie was for him to be approaching these ideas and concepts at this point so late in his career is pretty amazing not to mention how chilling it was on Black Star generally for him to be facing down death so directly in the way that he did I'm number 9 I really had to sit and think about whether or not this was the track I wanted to pick because obviously I limited my tracks to one per artist in this list and I had to sit and think whether or not this track was really my favorite from this group or whether or not I wanted to have it on this list because I thought it was more representative of the time the era the decade the sound of what this past 10 years has meant to me which is why in this place I ended up putting some kind of nature from gorillas featuring none other than Lou Reed which is a super catchy creative amazingly produced and colorful dystopian take on our very grim environmental future with again some amazing vocal work from Lou Reed number 8 on our list is a song whose emotional pain really and truly needs no in depth explanation not only because of the story behind the album it's from but also it's it's really just err on the face of it once you listen of course I am talking about mount Airy's real death at number seven not only for its creative instrumental its energy but also its messaging I have placed the knife with their strangely tribal fusion of house and art pop on tooth four and I number six on our list I guess you could say is my rock song of the decade swans oxygen one of the most crushing apocalyptic and I guess I I don't know how else to explain the rage of this track outside of it feeling like a fight-or-flight reflex going off and you're just aa everything is just disintegrating like a cool anime at number five we have the hard-hitting we have the socially aware we have the colorful expressive multi-phased and very apt for the time period that we are in this is America from childish gambino a song that somehow says a whole whole whole whole whole lot without really trying to say a whole whole whole whole whole lot and with our number four spot I think father John misty gets to the heart of many of our current day societal ills as well as just issues of the human condition on the title track to his pure comedy record pure comedy a track that I love but simultaneously I have a difficult relationship with it because it's description of so many of our issues seems just so accurate it almost makes me feel like damn it's it's it's like it's like there's nothing we can really do we're just [ __ ] however I don't truly want to feel that way and I fight that feeling every day and honestly I don't think that's the the take that mr. Tillman would want one to have from the song anyway but still powerful tune amazing tune great lyrics great everything I also feel much the same way about our number three track here Kendrick Lamar the blacker the berry a bold hard-hitting fantastic in-your-face crown jewel of a track from Kendrick Lamar's amazing to pimp a butterfly a track that really gets down to many of the key themes more broadly on to pimp a butterfly self-realization and actualization race racial hatred as well as self-hatred to the number two spot on this list is going to go to the title track from the Fleet Foxes album helplessness blues helplessness blues not only is this one of the sweetest and most memorable ballads in the Fleet Foxes discography just based on sound and melody alone but also the song is actually an amazing expression of I think a lot of the key issues of being lost not having purpose this feeling of yearning to be a part of something greater just as previous generations were allowed to that the millennial generation has just had robbed from them essentially and and younger generations coming post the millennial generation to as I think economically socially there has been quite a shift that this song in a weird way reflects on without having fully experienced the brunt of it yet in a way this track is actually quite predictive as these very real and unaddressed feelings of generational doubt fear also this need to fulfill a purpose I think are stated on this track and ended up going into or evolving into much uglier things down the road this decade in a way I guess you could say this track is a marker for a point of transition into something a very negative and grim which leads me to my number one spot which is where I place death grips with the song hacker a track that the more I think about it is maybe the most representative inventive exciting when it comes to I guess being a reflection of the digital dystopia that we currently exist in the totally off-the-wall lyrics on this track I think are inaccurate display of the pandemonium the disarray that we experience mentally and emotionally again in this digital social media internet intensive age yeah yeah it's my song of the decade and I think I will leave it at that thank you so much for watching not only this video but for all of you who have been watching me over the past ten years it's been quite an amazing ride and I'm looking forward to doing this for ten years more and I guess I'll see you in a decade list video when we get to that point as well transition that's the list you can see all the tracks in this list down in the description box so you can check them out for yourself and you're the best you're the best you're the best you're the best anthony Fantino best songs of the decade forever

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Length: 16min 26sec (986 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020