[Reeces]

ZOMG! Katy Perry top 10

You know how I feel about Never Ever

Diva shouldn't be so high, but I'm gonna let it go for now.

[Ace Reject]

Originally posted by Reeces

ZOMG! Katy Perry top 10

You know how I feel about Never Ever

Diva shouldn't be so high, but I'm gonna let it go for now.

You ain't no diva.

UP NEXT: The last single from the decade's defining pop act. AND THE TOP FIVE!!!!

[XplicitNG]

Diva, Waking Up in Vegas, and The Girl and the Robot are all GREAT songs. No doubt about that. I don't know about Ciara - Never Ever (going to reach number one on any charts) though.

[JM4ever]

Waking Up In Vegas baby!

[V3$$3L.]

Songs ten-seven are all on TAKE THAT D! Your top ten is looking to be better than most dick.

MOST dick, Bart. Don't get GASSED.

[Dr. Spaceman]

Lots of great songs over your past few sets. Favorites including The Hold Steady (shame they couldn't make it on!), the wonderful Miranda Lambert, and the almighty MMJ.

Good stuff, Bart!

[Ace Reject]

6. Girls Aloud - Untouchable (album version)

Ignore the ****** radio edit, a mix of good ideas and terrible execution. Concentrate on the 6:57 long version on Out of Control - notice it's epic highs and devastating lows. It would be easy to see Untouchable as a standard "making it through the odds" Ibiza-lite song, but that would be doing the track a grave disservice. There's too much tension - too much frailty in each titular Girl's vocal and too much uncertainty in the lyric. The opening lyric gives it all away - "It's only real, when you're not around." Untouchable's production is noticeably simple for a Xenomania track, but that one recurrent theme - the Balsaric guitar - strums as if to suggest a beating, breaking heartbeat. Much like love of all kinds, Untouchable refuses to live in black and white, which is fitting for the most courageous mainstream pop act of the last decade. If they never get back together, Untouchable is the epic note they deserve to go out on.

P.S. This is the SEVENTH year Girls Aloud has landed in my top ten. No one else comes close.

UP NEXT: THE TOP 5. HINT!!! 4 of my top five singles appear in Pitchfork's Top 5 - but not in the same order! START GUESSING.

[bobbymfw]

Oh dear oh dear...so many peaks and valleys.

I want to take a moment and tell you how much I hate you for #'s 70, 45, and 7. ESPECIALLY 45 . And I'm not too fond of the Taylor Swift inclusion either. Clarkson's version of IDNHU ruined the song for me altogether, unfortunately.

Now let's move on to the highlights for me--"Did It Again," "Waking Up In Vegas," "H.A.T.E.U.," "She Wolf," "Hard," "Paparazzi," and "The Fear" make my panties go ping! You know I'm a total Top 40 rube (hence why I haven't heard of 25% of the artists in your countdown)!! I'm no Miley fan but I'm pleased to see you've acknowledged two of her better songs and aside from the aforementioned "Diva," the Beyoncé selections and write-ups were spot-on. I'm glad to see some love for PJ although I don't really like her Parish collabs...she just goes way off the deep-end whenever she works with him. Peaches was the true indie queen that ruled my radio this year.

I hope Katy delivers on the promise set forth with "...Vegas" too because I'm starting to have my doubts. :-/

Alright, alright, that's a wrap for now. I'm bracing myself for the top five.

[Anthony K.]

Although I love Never Ever, H.A.T.E.U. and Waking Up In vegas, THE FEAR is surely the best! .worship:

Diva THAT high? I mean, DIVA? Ban please?

[Ace Reject]

5. Phoenix - 1901

I've loved this song since May (?), and I've just know understood what Thomas Mars was saying. Since its release, 1901 has been at the center of debate for Phoenix fans - did it really deserve to become their breakout single? Was it pushing things forward or just maintaining the status quo set forth on their last album? I understand the questions; cynicism is our generation's default setting (it is mine!). But nothing really matters when a song is as groovy, cool, and pop as 1901 is. To paraphrase a famous Dolly Parton quote: "It takes a lot of effort to sound this easy."

[sumthintoxic82]

Just startin to get into this song, but a great song....


and btw #6. Girls Aloud "Untouchable"...i LOVE the album version

[Anthony K.]

Sorry, haven't heard this one and I'm lazy now.

[Ace Reject]

4. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Chronicling a fractured relationship, Two Weeks manages to do the impossible: make pristine harmonies and pastoral arrangements thrilling, captivating, and cool. It also makes something precise to the point of science sound utterly human. The perfect breakthrough single - it speaks to where Grizzly Bear's been, and where they're going.

UP NEXT: THE TOP THREE. WHO MAKES IT??!??! GUESSES WELCOME.

[JDM]

[mathuss]

Beyoncé and Katy Perry way too high!
but.. WOW! Top 5 look great up to now! "1901" #5
and "Two Weeks"!! I didn't expect to see it that high in any countdown! (even in my countdown was too low, lol). But anyway I'm happy too see it at #4!

Have no idea what's next, bring it on now!!

[Jeiboy]

Untouchable is

[Calvin McHobbes]

Thank You Too Was released? What a shocking revelation.

Almost as shocking as finding out Barts darkest secret, which I will reveal .. right after these commercials.

[Ace Reject]

And now I begin with a song that, up until two weeks ago, was my number one single of the year ...



3. Animal Collective - My Girls

The year's most defining track, My Girls has also been one of the most controversial. Some have labeled it as Animal Collective's opus - their undisputed masterpiece; while others have condemned it for it's seemingly oblivious sense of privilege (only to three/four upper middle class straight white men would "social status" be a "material thing." To everyone else, it's a part of life!). My Girls does have it's faults - as a single, it's overlong; as a lyrical statement, it has a few woeful bits (the aforementioned 'material as social status) - but to outright dismiss it would be foolhardy, because it does so many things right. No other song this year made growing up and settling down so joyous, so utterly right. And in a year where the indie and mainstream worlds were colliding more than ever before, the hip-hop influences (those handclaps?!??!?!) signified a feeling that went beyond any classist restrictions the songs lyrics proscribed - I can't think of another song about commitment that could have a dancefloor packed.

[mathuss]

I used to like "My Girls" a lot, but it became very annoying for me the last months.
Anyway, I cannot wait to see what's next!

[V3$$3L.]

Flabbergasted.

UM. ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT I NOW HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE SONG IN YOUR TOP TWO IS BESIDES MY #11 SONG ON MY LIST IS, I'M JUST.

But yeah, wonderful song from a great band. If there is one song to at least get you to veer into "head-up-uour-ass-Williamsburg-smelly-assed-sense-of-entitlement" music, this is it. BOW