# Which song from the last 10 years rocks the most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314 "2014-07-16T23:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/61 "2014-07-22T19:19:26Z")
When you ask which song from the last ten years rocks the most, there is only one factual, correct and legitimate answer. [Electric Eel shock: Rock and Roll Can Rescue the World!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eQjLrgmdI) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/62 "2014-07-23T20:54:59Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > How about Katy Perry’s Hot n’ Cold? > > No no no! Just kidding! 😃 James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” from 2005 just makes the cut. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/63 "2014-07-23T21:10:02Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Any song with the word “steel” in it rocks by definition. [Nope.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DAHi_Cks8) ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/64 "2014-07-23T21:51:38Z")
For a Sabbath vibe, try Witchcraft: [It’s Not Because Of You.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJN0fP-uCt8) The Sword have been mentioned; I’m fond of [Astraea’s Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdfYVfHK3HQ) with its gigantic riff and old-school soloing. For your inner fifteen year old: [Indestructible](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSF2i0rU_Q8) by Disturbed makes me want to draw robots fighting jet planes on the back of my exercise book. For an Iron Maiden vibe with African rhythms, try Skinflint, a bunch of leather-clad black guys from from Botswana: [Iklawa](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLoUGLFynf8&list=PLSOuBCjLwpxUEygLciQktQ20nUYLj_J-G&index=4) is a slow-burner with more old-school guitarism. [Profit-Making Funeral](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuu7R4RsAY&list=PLSOuBCjLwpxUEygLciQktQ20nUYLj_J-G&index=5) is pretty damn good, too: nine minutes of slow-mounting glory. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/65 "2014-07-23T22:26:51Z")
“Hey Ya” Outkast or “Somebody Told Me” by the Killers. Perhaps “Float On” by Modest Mouse. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/66 "2014-07-23T23:52:05Z")
I have a couple more nominations: Vicious Firs - [Voices](http://dreamysoundz.bandcamp.com/track/voices) - OK, I might be biased, we’re on the same comp, but it rocks. Officially released last Sunday! Electric Six - [Gay Bar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTN6Du3MCgI) - Released in 2006, but I didn’t find out about it till 2009. I hold it personally against everyone who knew about this song before I did, but didn’t tell me about it. You know who you are. (Warning: video contains gratuitous Gaybraham Lincoln.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/67 "2014-07-24T00:01:55Z")
[Answer to Yourself](http://youtu.be/6QCYOK8vAWE?list=FLJQ-M1aYzRB0lUQgnSWnGTQ) - The Soft Pack [Coquette Coquette](http://youtu.be/hx01UXtjuFg) - Of Montreal ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/68 "2014-07-24T04:02:47Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > “Somebody Told Me” by the Killers. Perhaps “Float On” by Modest Mouse. Catchy indie-pop-with-stadium-aspirations, but I wouldn’t say either one rocks. ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/69 "2014-07-28T19:25:24Z")
The ones that would best qualify for me would be: “Double the Pain” by Heaven and Hell (or Black Sabbath 2.1 if you wish) from “The Devil you Know”, 2009; and “Breath on a Window” by Alice in Chains from “The Devil put Dinosaurs Here”, 2013 ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/70 "2014-07-28T21:18:33Z")
> [@Jamicat](#): > > The Pretender - Foo Fighters > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ) > > Reminds me of old Cheap Trick. I was going to mention this song, and there are several from the last album Wasting Light…someone mentioned Rope, and Bridge Burning and Arlandria are good as well. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/71 "2014-07-29T01:08:47Z")
This is easy. Japandroids - Nights of Wine and Roses [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Icop-TdTOm4/maxresdefault.jpg "The Nights of Wine and Roses - Japandroids (Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icop-TdTOm4) ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/72 "2014-07-29T02:27:56Z")
Another **Avenged Sevenfold** nomination – [**Shepherd of Fire**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT8FEOJEFcI) ---
**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/73 "2014-07-29T02:38:39Z")
Missed the edit window. Another one that rocks hard: **Slash – [Anastasia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu_sMqZyOTg)** ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/74 "2014-07-30T02:59:26Z")
> [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](#): > > This is easy. > > Japandroids - Nights of Wine and Roses > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icop-TdTOm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icop-TdTOm4) Interesting. I also have that in my iPod mix of songs that rocked in the past decade. Also (in no particular order): Lit Up - The National Banquet - Bloc Party Runaways - The Killers SING - My Chemical Romance New Divide - Linkin Park Radioactive - Imagine Dragons ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/75 "2014-07-30T05:23:45Z")
Amon Amarth - [War of the Gods](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVAQQujgSxQ) (2011). Might be too heavy/death for a lot of folks, but hey… that just means it rocks even more! More jokingly: Steel Panther - [Death to All But Metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfB7vF7nCdA) ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/76 "2014-07-30T05:27:27Z")
Death to All But Metal is so rocking! Even if it isn’t meant to be serious. Don’t know why they gotta pick on Blink 182 though. They may not be their kind of rock, but they do at least rock in their own way. ---
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314/77 "2014-07-30T05:38:15Z")
HOLD ON TO YOUR PANTS Riff Raff - Kokayne [RiFF RAFF - KOKAYNE (PROD. BY DiPLO) [LYRiC ViDEO] [Official Full Stream] - YouTube](http://youtu.be/rHDs9YdjigM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-song-from-the-last-10-years-rocks-the-most/693314.md?page=3)