Okay, this was challenging so I reserve the right to add, substitute and rearrange. But off the top of my head, here are my Top 20 favorite songs of the decade:
20. Rush - "Far Cry" from Snakes & Arrows (2006)
19. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" from ONCE (2007)
18. The Dead Weather - "Treat Me Like Your Mother" from Horehound (2009)
17. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Zephyr Song" from By the Way (2002)
16. The New Pornographers - "Challengers" from Challengers (2007)
The rest of the list after the jump...
15. U2 - "Beautiful Day" from All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000)14. Foo Fighters - "Summer's End" from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)13. Broken Social Scene - "7/4 (Shoreline)" from Broken Social Scene (2005)12. Camera - "Out on the Water" from Ashes And Dim Light (2007)11. Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Possess Your Heart" from Narrow Stairs (2008)10. The Liquid Now - "See You on the Other Side" from Nightlife (2008)9. Eddie Vedder - "Hard Sun" from Into the Wild (2007)8. The Flaming Lips - "Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung" from At War with the Mystics (2006)7. U2 - "City of Blinding Lights" from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004)6. The New Pornographers - "The Bleeding Heart Show" from Twin Cinema (2005)5. Foo Fighters - "Times Like These" from One By One (2003)4. Iron Maiden - "Different World" from A Matter of Life and Death (2006)3. The Flaming Lips - "Sunship Balloons" from Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (EP-2003)2. Rush - "Ghost Rider" from Vapor Trails (2005)1. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" from Transatlanticism (2003)