

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “Don’t Pull Me Over” 3. Artists for Haiti, “We Are The World 25 For Haiti” 4. Aaron Lewis featuring George Jones, Charlie Daniels, and Chris Young, “Country Boy” 6. Ludacris featuring Nicki Minaj, “My Chick Bad” 7.

Santana featuring Scott Stapp, “Fortunate Son” 8. Die Antwoord, “Orinoco Ninja Flow (Wedding DJ’s Remix)” 9. NeverShoutNever, “cheatercheaterbestfriendeater” 10. Jackyl Featuring DMC, “Just Like A Negro” 11. Christina Aguilera, “The Beautiful People (From Burlesque)” 12. Trade Martin, “We’ve Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero” 16. Ringo Starr featuring Joss Stone, “Who’s Your Daddy?” 18. Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder, “Rocketeer” 19. In honor of the year that was, we’ll list the 20 worst songs of 2010 until the holidays roll around-or at least until we all know how to Dougie.Ģ0. Also: we’re just going to say the words “Neon Trees” here so Google has a record of them existing in two years time. Pitchfork continues to push Wild Nothing and Cloud Nothings and other bands that could also feasibly have the word “nothing” in their title, or at least in the description of their musical aesthetic. Rap is like A Night At The Roxbury, only somehow less funny. Taylor Swift is fake-surprised-acting her way through her “difficult third album that doubles as a TMZ slambook” phase. (Emphasis on “embarrassment” there.) Pop has embarked on a never-ending race to find the bits of actual food in Ke$ha’s glitter-puke. The 9/11 tie-ins, the mawkish charity singles, the wan covers, Owl City, the continued existence of Nicole Scherzinger … the ’00s were a bounty for dollar bins at the ever-dwindling number of record stores out there.Īnd the new decade, so far, has provided an equal embarrassment of riches. Last December, our F2K series counted down the 50 lousiest songs from the morass of mediocrity that accumulated between 20-and it was no easy task.
