{"id":16427,"date":"2025-07-10T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=16427"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:35:47","slug":"greatest-songs-of-the-century-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/greatest-songs-of-the-century-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Songs Of The Century (So Far)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been 12 years since I\u2019ve updated my Favorite Songs of All Time<\/a> list. Which seems like a crime for someone like me: a music freak with lots of free time and a blog. I\u2019ve thought about it a lot, trust me. I\u2019ve reached the point in my life, though, where the return on that process doesn\u2019t seem to justify the effort that would go into it. Streaming has messed with my head too, and I just don\u2019t listen to the old songs as often as I used to, so I think I\u2019m worried I would need to scrap big parts of the 2013 list if I ever jumped back into it.<\/p>\n

However, last week The Bridge, 90.9 FM in Kansas City, which I stream often, played their top 909 songs of the century<\/a> (so far), based on listener voting. I streamed off-and-on all week, but really locked in Friday evening, somewhere around #50, after all our holiday guests had left. It\u2019s amazing how fast you can go through a countdown when there aren\u2019t commercials!<\/p>\n

That experience inspired me to crank out my own Best of the 2000s list. Which, again, seemed daunting. I gave myself a couple rules to simplify the task. First, I would only select songs from my annual Best Of lists. Second, for the years I did not make a Favorites list, I would only do a quick glance at my Apple Music catalog, The Bridge\u2019s list, and a brief search of the Internet to make sure I was including anything important for those years. I wasn\u2019t going to spend hours on 2000\u201303. Finally, I would try to keep the descriptions of each song brief.<\/p>\n

(Several of these appeared on The Bridge\u2019s countdown, so I\u2019ll put that number in parenthesis.)<\/p>\n

25 – \u201cWreckage” – Pearl Jam
\nI\u2019ll sneak this in at 25, as recency bias is still in play, but after spending most of this century making good but rarely great music, Pearl Jam found a new path in 2024 and it paid off with one of the best songs of their entire careers. I still listen to it often.<\/p>\n