Songs of the Decade 2001-2010

Songs of the Decade. Wait, you say, aren't you a year late? Shouldn't this list have been published last year? Well, no, because technically the decade only ends on December 31, 2010. So everybody else who published similar lists last year did so a year early. I win again.

(Either way, you will notice that no songs from 2010 made the cut.)

Songs of the Year 2010

Here it is. Logwood Burning's first annual list of the best sounds of the year (the word "best" being used, as always, in a purely subjective sense).

Compiling this list was hard work, but it became a lot easier as I ruled out songs that were not actually released this year, songs that I could not find for download, and songs that, upon repeat listening, turned out to actually not be that good.

"Murder She Wrote" by Chaka Demus & Pliers

I don't remember much from my first trip to Jamaica. I was only 8 years old. The year was 1992.

One thing I recall, though vaguely, is the ascent up the slippery rocks of the tourist trap known as Dunns River Falls, hand-in-hand in a chain with my family and the other tourists.