10 best songs of the 2000s

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hey, another ranking thread!
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Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Get Right
Ole
Big Wave
The Fixer
Supersonic
Bushleaguer
Breakerfall
Gone
You Are
Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
What in the goddamn hell?
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Tass Man wrote:hey, another ranking thread!
It'll be at least a few reads until I can rank this ranking thread against the other, classic, ranking threads.
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Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Get Right
Ole
Big Wave
The Fixer
Supersonic
Bushleaguer
Breakerfall
Gone
You Are
Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
So you're saying Sweet Lew is better than You Are?
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Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Get Right
Ole
Big Wave
The Fixer
Supersonic
Bushleaguer
Breakerfall
Gone
You Are

Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
So you're saying Sweet Lew is better than You Are?
None of these should be anywhere near this list.
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Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Breakerfall
Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
Grrr, I am mad about your opinion!
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LAMB CHOPS AND AFRO-DO.


MILWAUKEE BUCKS AND A BARBECUE.


33.


JUST LIKE YOU.
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Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Get Right
Ole
Big Wave
The Fixer
Supersonic
Bushleaguer
Breakerfall
Gone
You Are
Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
So you're saying Sweet Lew is better than You Are?
Sweet Lew is better than me. I think You Are just starts and stays in the same boring place once the singing starts, and the vocal melody and chorus are just bland. The intro music is pretty cool though, same with B-leaguer.
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Dugg wrote: Sweet Lew is better than me.
C'mon, guy - self-confidence.
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Pre-LB

1. Nothing As It Seems
2. The End
3. Love Reign O'er Me
4. Sad
5. Insignificance
6. Man of the Hour
7. Light Years
8. Thumbing My Way
9. Parting Ways
10. Sleight of Hand

Good chance that Cold Confession, Infallible & Pendulum eventually crack this list.
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Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
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harmless wrote:
Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Fuck it, here's my list of the 10 worst songs from the 2000s:

Get Right
Ole
Big Wave
The Fixer
Supersonic
Bushleaguer
Breakerfall
Gone
You Are

Johnny Guitar

All of these are at least 18,000 Dicks on the 20,000 Bags of Dicks scale.
So you're saying Sweet Lew is better than You Are?
None of these should be anywhere near this list.
It's hard to pick 10 without stepping on a few toes....
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Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
:thumbsup: When did they record that masterpiece? Was it in the 2000s?
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Dugg wrote:
Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
:thumbsup: When did they record that masterpiece? Was it in the 2000s?
It's a Riot Act outtake, right?
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Dugg wrote:
Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
:thumbsup: When did they record that masterpiece? Was it in the 2000s?
No. It was recorded during the Yield sessions.
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EJ wrote:
Dugg wrote:
Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
:thumbsup: When did they record that masterpiece? Was it in the 2000s?
No. It was recorded during the Yield sessions.
According to wikipedia it's from Binaural. I don't have the liner notes near me to double check.
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Lament wrote:
EJ wrote:
Dugg wrote:
Lament wrote:
Dugg wrote:Sweet Lew is better than me.
WILT THE STILT HAD NOTHING ON DUGG.
:thumbsup: When did they record that masterpiece? Was it in the 2000s?
No. It was recorded during the Yield sessions.
According to wikipedia it's from Binaural. I don't have the liner notes near me to double check.
Yeah, it was Binaural sessions actually.

Settembre/Ottobre 1999 , Novembre 1999, Gennaio 2000 - Studio Litho - Seattle, WA
Ed Vedder - vocals, guitar, background vocals, harmonica on 'Drifting,' ukulele on 'Soon Forget,' typewriter on 'Writer's Block'; Stone Gossard - guitar, background vocals; Mike McCready - guitar; Jeff Ament - bass, background vocals; Matt Cameron - drum kit, background vocals; April Cameron - viola on 'Parting Ways'; Justine Foy - cello on 'Parting Ways'; Mitchell Froom - keyboard, harmonium; Pete Thomas - percussion; Wendy Melvoin - percussion; Dakota - canine vocals on 'Rival'

Breakerfall
Driftin'
Education
Evacuation
Fatal
Gods' Dice
Grievance
Insignificance
In The Moonlight
Letter To The Dead (a.k.a. Sad)
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Of The Girl
Rival
Parting Ways
Sleight Of Hand
Soon Forget
Strangest Tribe
Sweet Lew
Thin Air
Writer's Block

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World Wide Suicide
Unemployable
Sad
Insignificance
I Am Mine
The Fixer
Light Years
Undone
Sleight Of Hand
All Or None

All 3.5 - 4 star songs for me. Don't have any 5 star songs post 2000.
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Severed Hand is awesome. 4 stars.
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The best songs on S/T are the following:

WWS
Severed Hand
Unemployable
Parachutes
Marker
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