"Black" by Pearl Jam

He wanted her so badly. They were great friends and might have been great lovers, those gentle, poetic, funny, out-of-place souls. But she didn't want him, for whatever reason a woman doesn't want a man who would be perfect for her. No, looking back, it was probably for the best, they were probably too much alike for it to work. But he was hurt bad.

"Turn Your Lights Down Low" by Bob Marley & The Wailers

She didn't want to dance. She didn't go to nightclubs very often, and the hip hop R&B reggae the band here was playing was definitely not her thing. It looked as though we were going to spend the entire evening sitting awkwardly on a sofa. But her friends finally managed to coax her, convince her, drag her by the arms onto the dance floor and get her moving.

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.)