As maddening as compiling this list turned out to be, it reinforced much of what I know and love about music. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder then a great song to one person is a load of crap to another (or something like that). When I finally finished this thing I immediately wanted to start making changes. But it's only a list and not a final testament carved into stone on the side of a mountain somewhere so why screw with it too much? In the end it's just for fun so tell me what you think and by all means let me know what your top 10,25,50 or 100 songs of the decade list looks like. 

51. Obstacle #1 - Interpol (2002)

52. Buried Myself Alive - The Used (2002)

53. 100 Days, 100 Nights - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings (2007)

54. Off the Record - My Morning Jacket (2005)

55. Hey Ya - Outkast (2003)

56. Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah (2003)

57. Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene (2003)

58. Whatever Happened to my Rock and Roll - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (2001)

59. Change in the House of Flies - Deftones (2000)

60. Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady (2008)

61. Renegades of Funk - Rage Against the Machine (2000)

62. Time is Running Out - Muse (2003)

63. Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2007)

64. Bleed - Meshuggah (2008)

65. A Favor House Atlantic - Coheed and Cambria (2003)

66. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend (2008)

67. Get Ur Freak on - Missy Elliot (2002)

68. Special K - Placebo (2001)

69. Hang You from the Heavens - The Dead Weather (2009)

70. Sugar We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy (2003)

71. Nice to Know You - Incubus (2001)

72. Diabolic Scheme - The Hives (2004)

73. My Girls - Animal Collective (2009)

74. Cochise - Audioslave (2002)

75. Is There a Ghost - Band of Horses (2007)

76. Big Pimpin - Jay Z (200)

77. Love Song - Sara Bareilles (2008)

78. No Key, No Pain - Okkerville River (2005)

79. 99 - The Haunted (2004)

80. Club Foot - Kasabian (2005)

81. Wolves at Night - Manchester Orchestra (2006)

82. Belief - John Mayer (2006)

83. Foundations - Kate Nash (2007)

84. Country Grammar - Nelly (2000)

85. Chop Suey - System of a Down (2001)

86. Fell in Love with a Girl - White Stripes (2002)

87. Babylon - David Gray (2000)

88. Paper Airplanes - M.I.A. (2007)

89. Life on a Chain - Pete Yorn (2000)

90. The Rat - Dead Confederate (2008)

91. What Would Wolves Do? - Les Savy Fav (2007)

92. Impossible Germany - Wilco (2007)

93. My Mistakes were Made for You - Last Shadow Puppets (2008)

94. Turn Cold - Cut Off your Hands (2009)

95. Still Tippin - Mike Jones (2005)

96. Cape Canaveral - Conor Oberst (2008)

97. Geraldine - Glasvegas (2009)

98. Saved - Electric Touch (2008)

99. Helena - My Chemical Romance (2004)

100. Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5 (2002)