Top 10 Pop Songs of the Decade for the 2000's

In the last decade, remember, just before the decade began we had the ridiculous Y2K scam? The aluminum foil hat bunch, the black helicopter crowd and other assorted crackpots were speculating on seas boiling, food shortages, UFOs, dogs and cats living together and all other manner of catastrophes.

One local nimrod who writes letters to the editor of the local paper that are unintentionally hilarious even predicted that Bill and Hillary Clinton would use the Y2K scare to declare martial law and appoint themselves King and Queen for life. Seriously.

We had the hanging chads of Florida, the Supreme Court playing Kingmaker, 9/11, same sex marriage, countless politicians of both parties caught in infidelity, Al Gore winning practically every award except the Heisman Trophy, and the barack Obama phenomenon. What a decade of change it was!

My criterion for the top ten pop songs for the decade was simple. Are the songs remembered today and do they still hold up to repeared listening? Do they have social relevance or any redeeming value at all? Do you hum these songs after hearing then again or reach for the tuner?

Here are my top ten pop songs for the decade of the 2000s which is nearing it's end:

Follow Me/ Uncle Kracker
This song early in the decade was featured in an untold number of movie soundtracks and is just as catchy today as it was years ago, making it one of the top 10 pop songs of the decade. Follow me everything is alright, I'll be the one to tuck you in at night, and if you want to leave I can guarantee, you won't find nobody else like me...

Hanging By A Moment/Lifehouse
What made this one of the top 10 pop songs of the 2000's? The most played song on radio of 2001, I believe it was. I'm desperate for changing, starving for truth, closer to where I started, chasing after you...

Clocks/ Coldplay
HBO featured this song on their promos for the longest with its' catchy beat and irrestible melody. Troubles that can't be named, Tiger's waiting to be tamed... could Coldplay be prophetically playing Nostradamus and predicting the recent problems of Tiger Woods? Just a thought... Anyway, it's one of the top 10 pop songs of the last decade.

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams/ Green Day
I'm walking down the line, that divides me somewhere in my mind, on the border line of the edge is where I walk alone.. This decade was huge for Green Day as the Oakland trio grew from just another punk band into artists with something to say and a flair for the way they said it.

Unwritten/ Natasha Bedingfield
Some might accuse Ms. Bedingfield of "selling out" since this song was everywhere including ads for beauty products a couple of years ago. I think the world needs to hear this message, read the lyrics and take them to heart. definitely one of the top 10 songs of the decade.

I break tradition, sometimes my tries are outside the lines, we've been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can't live that way, staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty windows, let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find, reaching for something in the distance...

How To Save A Life/The Fray
This song was everywhere a couple of years back from Grey's Anatomy to other TV shows. Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend along in the bitterness, I would have stayed up with you all night, had I known how to save a life...

Chasing Cars/Snow Patrol
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads, if I lay here, if I just lay here, would you lie with me and just forget the world. Who hasn't felt that way at one time or another? Don't dismiss this song as just a depressing drone. It's about life, and it was one of the top 10 songs of the decade.

Suddenly I See/ K.T. Tunstall
This irresistible song jumped out of the radio about three years ago by the then unknown Tunstall. With it's catchy beat, the tune quickly gets you hooked. Her face is a map of the world, is a map of the world, you can see she's a beautiful girl, she''s a beautiful girl, everything around her is a silver pool of light...suddenly I see (suddenly I see) why the hell it means so much to me

Shadow Of The Day/Linkin Park
Some might not consider this song pop, but it has strings, for goshsakes...Some might consider it depressing, but for everything that ends, something else begins. It's on my list as one of the top 10 songs of the 2000's.

I close both locks below the window, I close both blinds and turn away, sometimes solutions aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way, and the sun will set for you, the sun will set for you, and the shadow of the day will embrace the world in gray, and the sun will set for you...

The song is obviously about a broken relationship. It reminds me of my beloved Husky dog who died as the song was moving up the charts, at sundown on Easter Sunday 2008. As sad as I was at Kramer's passing, I knew his time was coming, he didn't have to suffer any more as age had begun to ravage his health, and I was relieved I didn't have to make the decision to "put him down." Goodbye was the only way.

Love Remains The Same/Gavin Rossdale
I never thought that I, had any more to give, pushing me so far, here I am without you, drink to all that we have lost, mistakes we have made, everything will change, love remains the same.

Far from being Mr. Gwen Stefani, Rossdale, who I saw in concert in Little Rock, AR last spring, wrote this deep song about the murky waters of marital relationships which stands on it's own quite well. it's the last of the top 10 songs of the decade. Thank you for reading and have a safe and happy New Year as a new decade begins!