Top 25 Songs of 2010 Part 2 20-16

Today I'm continuing my top 25 songs of this year today with songs 20 through 16. I used my iTunes library to pick out these 25 songs by sorting through songs added to my computer after 1/1/2010 that had a star righting over 4 stars or greater with the highest playcounts. Some of these songs may be a year or 2 old but I'm only counting songs that were new to me this year. ON WITH THE COUNTDOWN!!!!!1

20. Power by Kanye West

I'm including the Saturday Night Live version because it's a little cleaner and it's how I first heard of this song. His performance and the visuals were just great. I think that's actually the coolest SNL performance ever since the last time he was on when he had the video wall behind him a couple of years ago. I love the song but I have no idea what's it about. I find myself repeating the first line over and over sometimes "I'm living in the 21st century..."

19. Crash Years by The New Pornographers

I've loved this band ever since I've had an iPod(6ish years or so). My first introduction to them was through A.C. Newman's solo album. I think I played Miracle Drug to death that year... Usually I find myself liking the male vocalist in this band more but this song has some of the best vocals I've heard all year. Also you gotta love the cello part.

18. Frank, AB by The Rural Alberta Advantage

I found this song on a Saddle Creek Sampler from Amazon and just fell in love with it. The vocals sound remarkably similar to Jeff Magnum of Neutral Milk Hotel fame. This is a great driving song and one of my wife's favorite songs of the year as well.

17. Bottled in Cork by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

First of all you have to watch the video. It is hillarious. One of my favorite comedians is Paul F. Tompkins and when I heard that he did a music video I had to see it. What a bonus it was that the song was just AMAZING! I love how this song has about 20 catchy parts which would be more than enough for most bands for a whole album. I haven't checked out Ted Leo's other stuff but he was on one of my favorite podcasts, Comedy Death Ray Radio, recently and he was just as funny as some of the other comedians.

16. Gimme Sympath by Metric

I have a feeling that I'll be listening to this song for many, many years to come. It has a timeless feel to it that should age like a fine wine. I think the namedrop of the Beatles and Rolling Stones helped me fall in love with this song but it stands on its own as a great example of a quality song that took me by suprise. I can't get my wife to like Metric (the band and measuring standard). I don't know why she doesn't like them, she always make me turn the song when the iPod shuffles over to any of their songs. Maybe she just doesn't like female vocalists as much as I do. Whatever she thinks it still one of my favorite songs of the year.

Tommorow we'll be covering songs 15 - 11. 2 of the songs are from Christian bands, 1 of them was featured heavily in a Nike ad and has the F-bomb in it, 1 of them is over 30 years old from somebody I never thought I would like and 1 of them makes me do hand movements while I'm driving. Be sure to check in tomorrow as the countdown gets down to the nitty gritty.