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With so many genres I listened to these past 10 years it's pretty hard for me to come up with 20+ songs although I'll try my best (if you ask me my fav songs from the 90's or any other decade I could make a playlist in an instant, the 00's... well, that's something else)

Lemon Jelly - The Staunton Lick
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Fair to Midland - Dance of the Manatee (original version)
The Roots - The Seed 2.0
The Honorary Title - Bridge and Tunnel
Incubus - Wish You Were Here
Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
Pearl Jam - Inside Job
The Butterfly Effect - One Second Of Insanity
32 Leaves - Way Beyond (original version)
Atmosphere - Trying To Find A Balance
The Streets - Don't Mug Yourself
Thrice - Circles
John Frusciante - Ramparts
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
Eels - Hey Man (Now I'm Really Living)
At The Drive In - Invalid Little Dept.
Kings Of Leon - Red Morning Light
The New Deal - Gone Gone Gone
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Deftones - Digital Bath
Oceansize - A Homage To A Shame

I excluded Metal and Prog Rock because it wouldn't fit my playlist, I'm pretty sure that if I sit one more hour to think about more songs, I would end up with a lot more and a complete mess... it already is though....

That's a great mix. I'm still cutting mine down. This has proven to be difficult.

Wow ... this does sound tough. I'll get to work on mine.

Wow, I might actually do this.  Problem is to remember shit back in 2000.

This would have to be a double disc due to the length of the songs. 2 hours and 6 mins.

1. dredg - Whoa is Me
2. Life In Your Way - Behind Unseen Walls
3. Deftones - Digital Bath
4. ISIS - So Did We
5. Kaddisfly - Via Rail
6. BTBAM - Mordecai
7. Envy - A Warm Room
8. Logh - Weather Island
9. Hopesfall - End of an Era
10. Meshuggah - Straws Pulled at Random
11. In Pieces - Your Switch to the Sun
12. Rosetta - Red in Tooth and Claw
13. Novembre - Deorbit
14. Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
15. Misery Signals - Five Years
16. A Perfect Circle - Orestes
17. Sigur Ros - Glosoli
18. Taken - Eternity Was on Our Lips
19. Tool - Lateralus
20. Jakob - Saint

I feel immediately dissatisfied with this list, and yet, am posting it anyways. 

Of Montreal - "The Past is a Grotesque Animal"
Brand New - "Jesus Christ"
Spoon - "Everything Hits at Once"
Regina Spektor - "Us"
Ampop - "Clown"
Radiohead - "Idioteque"
Dirty Projectors - "Stillness is the Move"
Vampire Weekend - "Walcott"
mewithoutYou - "Nice and Blue"
The National - "Racing Like a Pro"
At the Drive-in - "Pattern Against User"
Paulson - "Window Frames"
Shearwater - "Nobody"
Blonde Redhead - "23"
LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great"
Wax on Radio - "Today I Became a Realist"
Animal Collective - "Bluish"
Lovedrug - "Blackout"
The Decemberists - "We Both Go Down Together"
Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"
Muse - "Stockholme Syndrome"
Sufjan Stevens - "Casimir Pulaski Day"
Frightened Rabbit - "Keep Yourself Warm"
Mutemath - "Typical" 
Dikta - "Breaking the Waves"
Bon Iver - Skinny Love

...and yeah, this is much longer than 79 minutes.  Suck it!

i'm gonna have to think about this for a few days, but i know track #1 right away... The Mars Volta - Goliath

Genevieve - Aaron Sprinkle
SOS - Ace Enders
Gold Rush Fever - Alaska & Me
Car Crash Love - Ambry
Alcohol & Oxygen - Anadivine
A Day Late - Anberlin
Dear Child - Anthony Green
Pressure Suit - Aqualung
Detlef Schrempf - Band of Horses
A Synonym For Acquiesce - Bayside
I Was The Devil For One Afternoon - Boys Night Out
Not The Sun - Brand New
I Must Belong Somewhere - Bright Eyes
The Greatest Lie - Circa Survive
Feathers - Coheed & Cambria
In Light Of Silver And Black - Conditions
Choose The One Who Loves You More - Copeland
Small Skeletal - Crime In Stereo
Keep Your Voices Down - Days Away
Creature - Dead & Divine
Run In The Front - Dear & The Headlights
Red Hand - The Dear Hunter
Transatlanticism - Death Cab For Cutie
Catch Without Arms - Dredg
Baby Blue - The Early November
Heads or Tails? Real or Not - Emarosa
Rock & Roll - Eric Hutchinson
The Missing Piece - Forgive Durden
Substitute - Frank Turner
All The Pretty Girls - Fun
Swan Song - The Frozen Ocean
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale - Gatsby's American Dream
Looking For Shelter - Good Old War
Fancy - He Is Legend
Histrionics - The Higher
Lord, I'm Discouraged - The Hold Steady
Save Your Wishes - I Was A Cub Scout
Bruised - Jack's Mannequin
The Choreographer - Lower Definition
Nights Like These - Lucero
This Is Twice Now - Lydia
If I Only Had The Heart - The Maine
I Can Feel A Hot One - Manchester Orchestra
Ocean And Atlantic - Mayday Parade
Step Up - Maylene & The Sons of Disaster
In A Sweater Poorly Knit - mewithoutYou
Thumbelina - Nightmare of You
In The Morning Before Work - Owen
Dental Care - Owl City
Bluebird - Paper Rival
Careful - Paramore
Meeting Again For The First Time - Poison The Well
Supporting Caste - Propagandhi
We're So Beyond This - The Reason
This Armistice - The Receiving End of Sirens
Sticks And Stones - Ride Your Bike
Short Comings Can Be Incomplete - The Rise of Science
Mascara - Secret Lives of The Freemasons
Truth of Transition - Small Leaks Sink Ships
Gypsy Melodies - The Snake The Cross The Crown
Personal - Stars
Surprise Surprise - The Starting Line
Hot/Cold Darling Don't... - Strata
Burn The Fleet - Thrice
Plea From A Cat Named Virtue (or) Sun In An Empty Room - The Weakerthans
In Love - William Shatner and Ben Folds

just in the order i pulled them off itunes. definitely a double disk.

well you didn't really abide by the rules :)

every time I attempt this, I have an aneurysm and then I have to start the level over, PLUS I lose all my power ups & coins...  I dunno about this...

PS - I just realized this thing made me old already, I don't turn 30 until 10/1!!!   Eat a bag of dicks message board!

A Whisper in the Noise - Silence
Okkervil River - Westfall
Clann Zu - From Bethlehem To Jenin
Codeseven - Alt.Wav
Murder By Death -  A Masters In Reverse Psychology
Cursive - Some Red Handed Sleight Of Hand
Dikta - Breaking The Waves (Acoustic)
Kenna - Hellbent
The Grand Silent System - Did
Wintersleep - Orca
Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son
Shearwater - La Dame et La Licorne
Blitzen Trapper - Black River Killer
Bloc Party - Signs
Band Of Horses - Cigarettes Wedding Bands
Oceansize - Music For a Nurse
The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
Annuals - Always do
Shun - Michael In Reign
Blonde Redhead - Messenger
Aereogramme - Finding a Light
Kid Dakota - Ten Thousand Lakes
Aireline - Killers
Amandine - For All The Marbles
Placebo - Blue America

This was incredibly difficult. I cut 20 songs that I will never tire of.

All right...here we go...this was hard as fuck...note, this isn't necessarily my favorite tracks of the decade, just a collection of songs that I quite enjoyed over and from the last ten years that I would potentially put on a mix tape (tried to keep length of tracks relatively short).  Early on the cd is more electronic music and it transitions into alternative and indie stuff...

Ellen Allien & Apparat - Way Out
Royksopp - Eple
Mylo - Drop the Pressure
Digitalism - Home Zone
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
Spank Rock - Coke & Wet
The Presets - Talk Like That
Bjork - Hidden Place
The Mercury Program - Gently Turned On Your Head
Band of Horses - The Funeral
The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
+/- - Ventriloquist
Wintersleep - Jaws of Life
Menomena - Wet and Rusting
Mute Math - Obsolete
Radiohead - The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
Minus the Bear - The Game Needed Me
Mason Proper - Life's Cornucopia
Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales of San Francisco
Circa Survive - Act Appalled
Gatsby's American Dream - Cut the Strings
Fear Before the March of Flames - On the Brightside, She Could Choke

1 hr., 19 mins

Well this was freakin' hard. Had to cut so many great songs, but I think I actually managed to follow the rules. Ended up around 1.3 hours according to Itunes, which should be between 75-80 minutes? Most of my picks from beloved artists came down to songs with sentimental value, heh.

1. Explosions in the Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day
2. Decibully - Notes to Our Leaders
3. Oceansize - A Homage to Shame
4. Invincible - Sledgehammer
5. RX Bandits - Mastering the List
6. Shearwater - Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
7. Silencio - 11leven
8. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain
9. Aereogramme - The Running Man
10. Illogic - 1000 Whispers
11. Ramona Falls - I Say Fever
12. A Whisper in the Noise - Through Wounds We Soon Will Stitch
13. Dikta - Remember Me
14. The Dear Hunter - Black Sandy Beaches
15. Clann Zu - One Bedroom Apartment
16. Thrice - Deadbolt

I'm still debating that last one ... so many great Thrice songs to choose from.

And you will know us by the trail of dead - Homage
Circle Takes the Square - Kill the Switch
At the Drive in - Quarantined
Balmorhea - Dream of Thaw
Battles - Tonto
Bedouin Soundclash - Shadow of a Man
Between the Buried and Me - Selkies
Brand New -Sic Transit Gloria...Glory
Caspian - Moshka
Converge - Concubine
CunninLynguists - The Light
Cursive - Driftwood: A Fairy Tale
Damiera - M(us)ic
Dillinger Escape Plan - Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants
Dredg - Lechium
A Wilhelm Scream - Anchor End
Thrice - Deadbolt
Thursday - Paris in Flames
Wilco - Jesus etc.
Rx Bandits - Overcome
Regina Spektor - Us
Oceansize - Music for a Nurse
The National - Fake Empire
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday
Murder by Death - Desert's on Fire
mewithoutyou - Bullet to Binary
Moneen -The last song i will ever want to sing
Mars Volta - Cicatrez E.S.P
Jaga Jazzist - day
The Flaming Lips - The Spark
This is probably too many songs but this is as short a list i could do. These are not my my favorite songs by each artist but songs that i felt stood out.

DAMMIT, Circle Takes the Square.

Delicious list, Chris.... figuratively speaking.  

Here's Mine - 

1. Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
2. Dredg - Same Ol' Road
3. Oceansize - Massive Bereavement 
4. BTBAM - Selkies: The Endless Obsession
5. Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe
6. Opeth - Bleak
7. The Mars Volta - Vicarious Atonement 
8. Ayreon - Beneath the Waves
9. Mute Math - Chaos
10. Radiohead - Optomistic
11. Meshuggah - Bleed
12. Karnivool - New Day

These songs are not my top of the decade just some random (and extremely awesome) songs that I thought would surmise some of my favorites. I'm thinking that this would fit on one CD so you should definitely try them out Adam. All of my favorite songs are usually over 5 minutes in length, so it's hard to have over 10-12 songs. 

So I typically get around 20-22 songs on a mix, so I figured this list was safe.... hard work there!(no particular order)

Thrice – “The Earth Will Shake”Mute Math – “Break the Same”

NIN – “Right Where It Belongs”Travis – “Happy Hang Around”At the Drive In – “Non Zero Possibility”Mars Volta – “The Widow” (radio edit w/out the ridiculous extra part at the end)Coheed & Cambria – “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3”Metronomy – “Back on the Motorway”Muse – “Apocalypse Please”Rise Against – “Tip the Scales”Emery – “Studying Politics”Aireline – “Two Voices”RX Bandits – “Taking Chase as the Serpent Slithers”

Dear Hunter – “Blood of the Rose”Gogol Bordello – “When the Trickster Starts a Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy)”

Devotchka – “Charlotte Mittnacht”Cloud Cult – “May Your Hearts Stay Strong”Belaire – “Madison”Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s – “Skeleton Key”Decemberists – “Summersong”Winterpills – “A Benediction”Republic Tigers – “Fight Song”

Didn’t make the cut, but deserved mention (so I didn’t break rules, but they’d so make it if I did a double-album mix):

System of a Down – “Old School Hollywood”

AmPop – “Clown”

Devotchka – “How it Ends”

Bowerbirds – “In Our Talons Now”

Arcade Fire – “Black Wave/Bad Vibrations”Jason Mraz – “Plane”

Beirut – “Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)”