100 Songs From The Last Decade That Should Be On Your MP3 Player

Continuing our trip down the memory lane that was the last decade, here's an essential list of 100 songs you should have on your MP3 player. The staff at Idiot Ballroom compiled their favorites, poured that data into the main frame computer at the home office and out spouted this hodpodge list.

1. #27 -Dave Matthews Band

2. 99 Problems -Jay-Z

3. A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The Stripper Is Crying -The Bloodhound Gang

4. A Wolf At The Door -Radiohead

5. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked -Cage The Elephant

6. Air Force Ones - Nelly

7. All These Things That I’ve Done - The Killers

8. Are You Gonna Be My Girl? - Jet

9. Are You In? - Incubus

10. Ashes Of An American Flag -Wilco

11. Awnaw - Nappy Roots

12. B.O.B. -Outkast

13. Bandit -Neil Young

14. Bartender -Hed Pe

15. Better Trends -Japanese Motors

16. Bleed It Out - Linkin Park

17. Blood On The Ground - Incubus

18. Bodysnatchers -Radiohead

19. Borderline (cover) -The Flaming Lips

20. Boyz In The Hood -Dynamite Hack

21. Chicago -Sufjan Stevens

22. Chinese Translation -M. Ward

23. Clint Eastwood -Gorillaz

24. Commerce, TX -Ben Kweller

25. Continuous Hit Music -The American Analog Set

26. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

27. Danger (High Voltage) -Electric Six

28. Do You Realize -The Flaming Lips

29. Down The Line -Jose Gonzalez

30. Duality -Slipknot

31. Epic Problem -Fugazi

32. Feel Good Inc. -Gorillaz

33. Fight Test -The Flaming Lips

34. Fitz And Dizzyspells -Andrew Bird

35. Float On -Modest Mouse

36. Free Radicals -The Flaming Lips

37. Furr - Blitzen Trapper

38. Gangsters And Thugs -The Transplants

39. God And Money -The Ike Reilly Assassination

40. Gold Digger -Kanye West

41. Gone Daddy Gone (cover) -Gnarls Barkley

42. Heart Songs -Weezer

43. Hipopopotamus Vs. Rhymenocerous –Flight of The Conchords

44. Home -Breaking Benjamin

45. Hurt (cover) -Johnny Cash

46. I'm Shipping Up To Boston -Dropkick Murphys

47. I’m On Standby -Grandaddy

48. I’m Raw -Lyrics Born

49. Icky Thump - The White Stripes

50. In The Ayer -Flo Rida

51. Is This It? - The Strokes

52. Jesus, Etc - Wilco

53. Judith -A Perfect Circle

54. Kara Dean -The Ike Reilly Assassination

55. Keep Your Eyes Ahead - The Helio Sequence

56. Kissing The Lipless -The Shins

57. Last Night -The Strokes

58. Lazy Sunday -The Lonely Island

59. Light & Day -The Polyphonic Spree

60. Lose Yourself -Eminem

61. Love Addict -Family Force 5

62. Marching Bands Of Manhattan - Death Cab For Cutie

63. Midwest Swing -St. Lunatics

64. Ms. Jackson -Outkast

65. Myriad Harbour -The New Pornographers

66. Never Had Nobody Like You - M. Ward

67. NYC Ghosts and Flowers -Sonic Youth

68. On The Radio -Regina Spektor

69. Orchid -The White Stripes

70. Polyamorous -Breaking Benjamin

71. Ride Wit Me -Nelly

72. Robots –Flight of The Conchords

73. Rockin' The Beer Gut -Trailer Choir

74. Rockin’ The Suburbs -Ben Folds

75. Schism - Tool

76. Seven Nation Army -The White Stripes

77. Sex On Fire -Kings of Leon

78. Silver Lining -Beulah

79. Smile Like You Mean It - The Killers

80. Somebody Told Me -The Killers

81. Still Not A Player -Incubus/Big Pun

82. Stronger -Kanye West

83. Such Great Heights - Postal Service

84. Such Great Heights (cover) -Iron & Wine

85. Take Me Out -Franz Ferdinand

86. The National Anthem -Radiohead

87. The Seven Deadly Sins -Flogging Molly

88. The W.A.N.D. - The Flaming Lips

89. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song -The Flaming Lips

90. Through The Roof N’ Underground -Gogol Bordello

91. Tribute - Tenacious D

92. Troublemaker - Weezer

93. Waste (cover) - Dave Matthews Band

94. We Will Become Silhouettes -Postal Service

95. Why I Am -Dave Matthews Band

96. Worldwide Suicide -Pearl Jam

97. Yo Mama -The Butterfingers

98. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

99. You! Me! Dancing! -Los Campesinos

100. Young Folks -Peter Bjorn and John

Next up is our look at the television landscape! Stay tuned.

My brain is overloaded by the douchbaggery

You can imagine my surprise when my douchebag radar reading went off the charts when I saw the trailer for From Paris With Love. First, I've said in the past that any clown who shaves his head to resemble Mr. Clean but still sports a goatee is straight up a DOUCHEBAG. Second, we all know that Pulp Fiction was a fluke in reviving the mediocre douchebaggery career of John Travolta (see Wild Hogs, Old Dogs, Swordfish, etc). So put those two facts together and you have a cornucopia of douchebag stew.

25 MOVIES YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS LAST DECADE

So, we here at Idiot Ballroom are always pointing out the worst in people. We could easily have gone through our archives to create a “Best of the Worst of 2009”, but we went for something a little different. A new year is a time for resolutions and a hope of something better than the last year. This first week of the new year we got to thinking what this new year really meant… 2010 marks the start of a new decade. 10 years flew by and with it some pretty awesome things. So we decided to look back at the past 10 years and bring you a “Best of Decade” thing.

We thought we’d start this whole decade recap with and in no particular order....

25 MOVIES YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS LAST DECADE (AND IF YOU DIDN'T, THEN DO SO!)

1. High Fidelity (2000). John Cusack’s best role since Say Anything. It’s a movie about a music lover who lives his life creating best of lists. We thought it was poignant to start this list with this flick.

2. The Dark Knight (2008). Heath Ledger as the Joker is one of the decade’s greatest displays of acting.

3. Batman Begins (2005). Yeah, Christian Bale’s voice is raspy as the Cape Crusader, but how else are you going to disguise your voice? The film brings a sense of realism to the typical superhero story.

4. Memento (2000). Another film directed by Chris Nolan (see #2 and #3 above). Guy Pearce. Carrie Ann-Moss. A film told in reverse. The main character is searching for his wife’s killer. Oh and he has short-term memory loss and forgets events after about fifteen minutes. Alfred Hitchcock would be proud.

5. Kill Bill Volume I (2003). Tarantino’s Chop Socky Kung Fu flick is destined to be classic cinema.

6. Kill Bill Volume II (2004). Tarantino continues the tale of the bride. This half is less frenetic as the first and resembles more of a spaghetti western.

7. Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Wes Anderson’s film about the dysfunction of the Tenenbaums is both tragic and comedic. Gene Hackman really outdoes himself as the patriarch. Of course like any other Anderson flick the music is great as well.

8. Lost In Translation (2003). The opening shot is Scarlett Johanssen’s butt. That should make you want to see it based on just that. But yes, Bill Murray is great as well.

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Jim Carey has done some really bad movies since… sheesh since Man on the Moon. But this Michel Gondry directed and Charlie Kaufmann written movie was a shining moment this last decade.

10. Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, and 2003) triology. Yeah, it’s three movies but you have to watch them all, people.

11. Sexy Beast (2000). Sir Ben Kingsley, who played benevolent roles like Ghandi and Itzhak Stern in Schindler’s List, creates one of the most dramatic sociopathic madmen you will ever see in modern cinema.

12. Napoleon Dynamite (2004). This flick launched Jon Heder’s career, albeit none of his films will ever live up to this quirky comedy of a nerd and his tots.

13. Stranger Than Fiction (2006). Will Ferrell is a comedic genius. There we said it. So it was a surprise to see him pull off a more subdued role in this flick about a man who’s life seems to be playing out as an unfinished novel accompanied with a narrator that only he can hear.

14. Punch Drunk Love (2002). Another film where a comedian plays against type. Paul Thomas Anderson’s flick stars Adam Sandler (yes, Adam Sandler). It’s about a lonely man searching for happiness by amassing a million frequent flyer points through a loophole he’s discovered in a food company’s promotion. He finds love along the way.

15. Science of Sleep (2006). Michel Gondry creates such quirky tales about love. Gael Garcia Bernal plays Stephane, a man whose vivid dreams and imagination sometimes hinders his ability to relate to the real world.

16. Big Fish (2003). Any guys out there with father issues will weep at this tale. Tim Burton asks the question “is it better to remember one’s life the way it happened or the way we wish it had happened?”

17. Be Kind Rewind (2008). Another Michel Gondry flick (hey, he does good films). Mos Def and Jack Black create “sweded” videos after their entire video store is erased by a magnetized Jack Black. A tale of bringing a community together through film.

18. Primer (2004). For those geeks/mathematicians out there that think time travel can exist, this is the flick for you. Warning, though… you might want to surf the web for a crib sheet to really get this flick. It’s a heady, mind scratcher for sure.

19. Anchorman:The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). Will Ferrell plays Ron Burgundy, quintessential 70’s fictional anchorman from sunny San Diego. His whole male dominated world is turned asunder when the first female co-anchor is introduced.

20. The Baxter (2005). An idiosyncratic story about that guy in those films that gets left at the altar. Michael Showalter, from The State and Michael and Michael Have Issues, directed this heartfelt indie.

21. There Will Be Blood (2007). Paul Thomas Anderson directs Daniel Day-Lewis in this epic story of an oil tycoon and his son. The story unfolds with a lesson on the early days of the oil industry.

22. Gerry (2002). Gus Van Sant’s first anti-Hollywood film after mainstream ones like Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester. This minimalist, poetic film is about “two guys who get lost in the desert”. Haunting.

23. Adaptation (2002). Spike Jonze takes another Charlie Kauffman written piece and makes great film. Nicholas Cage in all his Nicholas Cage glory plays the author and his fictional twin as he stumbles through trying to adapt a non-fiction book about flowers.

24. Revenge of the Sith (2005). Yes, there was stilted dialogue and some pretty soap opera like acting. But this film was the culmination of decades worth of waiting. The transformation of Anakin Skywalker into the feared Darth Vader. It’s like a tragic Shakesperean tale for the geek in all of us.

25. Children of Men (2006). A tale of a dystopian future where the human race can no longer bear any children and the insanity that it creates. Director Alfonso Cuaron shows what can be done with intrinsically detailed long unedited shots. This movie should be taught in film schools everywhere.

Next week we'll recap the best music the last decade had to offer... so stay tuned.