We're going to see a few stories like this as we charge towards 2010... but they're going to be fun to read anyway. The music gurus at NPR have compiled a list of The Decade's 50 Most Important Recordings – and it has, as you'd expect, some absolutely brilliant tracks. The list includes got some famous tracks and, brilliantly, some I've never heard of.
So you'll have A Milli by Lil Wayne...
... sitting next to Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson (a song that, you have to admit, kinda grows on you)...
... in between Amy Winehouse...
... and Sigur Ros...
... via Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Journeys...
... and the amazing La Pasión Segun San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov, which is absolutely incredible. A 21st century classical piece written by an Argentine Jew about the Passion of Jesus Christ, which starts out sounding like a Brazilian tribal song before moving into Afro-Cuban beats and something that Bach would've written if he'd been this good.
Here it is. My gift to you. (Until they take it down.)