MeatTracks of the Decade: the 2000s --- Revisited

Last year I made a list of my favorite tracks of the last ten years.  I didn’t get a chance to complete the list, so what better time than now to complete the list.  I’ll be doing my year in review for other stuff anyway pretty much all December.

A little analysis…if you look at the list the majority of the songs are heavily favoring the beginning part of the decade.  That’s probably because I listened and kept up with music more closely in college than I do now.  Music is always up to the preference of the listener.  If you are like me, you like catchy music from varying genres to keep you entertained.  That and it sort of chronicles the day, the way you look at things at that particular time.  Soundtrack to life.

So here are my 100 tracks you must have downloaded from 2000 to 2009.

-Incubus - “Stellar” (2000)
-Eminem - “Stan (featuring Dido)” (2000)

-Linkin Park - “My December” (2000)

-Nelly - “Country Grammar” (2000)

-Eminem - “The Way I Am” (2000)

-Outkast - “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” (2000)
-U2 - “Beautiful Day” (2000)

-Vertical Horizon - “Everything You Want” (2000)

-Alien Ant Farm - “Smooth Criminal” (2001)
-Eve 6 - “Here’s To The Night” (2001)

-Fabolous - "Young'n (Holla Back)" (2001)
-Jagged Edge - "Where the Party At? (featuring Nelly)" (2001)
-P.O.D. - “Alive” (2001)

-The Strokes - “Last Nite” (2001)

-Usher - “U Got It Bad” (2001)
-Weezer - “Hash Pipe” (2001)

-Blink 182 - “Stay Together For the Kids” (2002)
-Clipse - "Grindin'" (2002)
-Coldplay - “The Scientist” (2002)

-Eminem - “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” (2002)

-Eminem - “8 Mile” (2002)

-50 Cent - “In Da Club” (2002)

-Jimmy Eat World - “A Praise Chorus” (2002)

-Jimmy Eat World - “Sweetness” (2002)

-Justin Timberlake - “Cry Me a River” (2002)

-Linkin Park - “Pushing Me Away (Remix)” (2002)

-Nelly - “Air Force Ones (featuring Kyjuan, Ali, & Murphy Lee)” (2002)
-Thursday - “Standing on the Edge of Summer” (2002)
-Weezer - “Keep Fishin’” (2002)

-The White Stripes - “Fell In Love With a Girl” (2002)

-Finch - “What It Is to Burn” (2003)

-Mae - “Summertime” (2003)

-Linkin Park - “Somewhere I Belong” (2003)

-The Postal Service - “Such Great Heights” (2003)

-R. Kelly - “Ignition (Remix)” (2003)
-Snoop Dogg - “Beautiful (featuring Pharrell) (2003)

-Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Maps” (2003)

-Alicia Keys - “If I Ain’t Got You” (2004)

-Blink 182 - “Miss You” (2004)

-Finley Quaye and William Orbit - “Dice” (2004)

-Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out” (2004)

-Fat Joe - “Lean Back (Remix featuring Lil Jon,  Eminem, & Mase) (2004)

-Green Day - “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” (2004)

-Jay-Z - “Dirt Off Your Shoulder” (2004)

-Jay-Z & Linkin Park - “Numb/Encore” (2004)

-Jimmy Eat World - “23” (2004)

-Linkin Park - “Breaking the Habit” (2004)

-Modest Mouse - “Float On” (2004)

-My Chemical Romance - “I’m Not Okay (I Promise)” (2004)

-Snoop Dogg - “Drop It Like It’s Hot (featuring Pharrell)” (2004)

-Taking Back Sunday - “New American Classic” (2004)

-Thrice - “Stare at the Sun” (2004)

-Acceptance - “So Contagious” (2005)
-The All-American Rejects - “Dance Inside” (2005)

-The All-American Rejects - “Move Along” (2005)
-The Dandy Warhols - “We Used to Be Friends” (2005)
-Fall Out Boy - “Sugar, We’re Going Down” (2005)

-The Foo Fighters - “Best of You” (2005)

-The Game - “Hate It or Love It (featuring 50 Cent)” (2005)

-Gwen Stefani - “Cool” (2005)

-Kanye West - “Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix featuring Jay-Z)” (2005)

-Kanye West - “Gold Digger (featuring Jamie Foxx)” (2005)

-The Killer - “Smile Like You Mean It” (2005)

-Mariah Carey - “We Belong Together” (2005)

-Stars - “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” (2005)
-Youngbloodz - "Presidential (featuring Lil Jon)" (2005)

-Augustana - “Boston” (2006)

-Fort Minor - “Where’d You Go?” (2006)

-Justin Timberlake - "My Love (featuring T.I.)" (2006)
-The Killers - “When You Were Young” (2006)

-Lupe Fiasco - “Kick, Push” (2006)

-Missy Elliott - “We Run This” (2006)

-Nelly Furtado - “Say It Right” (2006)

-Ne-Yo - “Sexy Love” (2006)
-OK Go - “Here It Goes Again” (2006)

-Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - “Face Down” (2006)
-Taking Back Sunday - “MakeDamnSure” (2006)

-30 Seconds To Mars - “From Yesterday” (2006)

-T.I. - "What You Know" (2006)

-Anberlin - “Godspeed” (2007)

-Chris Brown - “Kiss Kiss (featuring T-Pain)” (2007)

-Good Charlotte - “Dance Floor Anthem (I Don’t Want To Be In Love)” (2007)

-Kanye West - “Stronger” (2007)

-One Republic - “Apologize” (2007)
-Paramore - “Misery Business” (2007)

-Rihanna - “Umbrella (Remix featuring Jay-Z and Chris Brown)” (2007)

-Shop Boyz - "Party Like a Rockstar" (2007)
-The Starting Line - “Island” (2007)

-Three Days Grace - “Never Too Late” (2007)

-David Banner - “Get Like Me (featuring Chris Brown and Yung Joc” (2008)

-Kanye West - “Homecoming (featuring Chris Martin)” (2008)

-Lady Gaga - "Just Dance" (2008)
-Lil Wayne - “Got Money (featuring T-Pain)” (2008)
-Rick Ross - "The Boss (featuring T-Pain)" (2008)

-All Time Low - “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t)” (2009)
-Black Eyed Peas - “I Gotta Feeling” (2009)
-Drake - “Best I Ever Had” (2009)
-Jamie Foxx - “Blame It (featuring T-Pain)” (2009)
-Muse – Uprising (2009)
-Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (2009)

If you don’t have any of these tracks yet, download them now!

In the month of December we will look back at the year that was 2010 in sports, movies, music, TV, and tech.  Till then, I hope you all had an awesome Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday.

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The Meat Life College Football Two-Thirds Review

Alright, so I’ve been slacking on this blog lately.  Life happens, and since I don’t get paid for this well I can afford to slack a bit.  That and reviewing my must see games every week was getting a little old.  I was going to do a half way point review of the season, but this way with two months gone and a month to go in the regular season we get a great look at all the teams and all the goings on.  So for my Two-Thirds Review, we will go over nine areas of college football goings on this year.

2/3s: Best Team – Oregon Ducks
No huddle, hurry-up, spread offenses are all the rage of college football.  The Ducks or as some call them “Nike U,” are described (probably in hyperbole) as running the “blur offense.”  Taking the best of no huddle, combine with a spread option look and some fairly good passing and you have Oregon’s offense.  According to SoonerStats.com, Oregon is 277 points away from tying the Sooners’ points record from 2008 (716).  If they continue to hit their average points per game of about 56, they’ll beat that record.  Their defense has been suspect, but they turn it on as they are second in the nation in turnover margin.

2/3s: Biggest Surprise Team – 7-2 Baylor Bears leading the Big 12 South
We could have also put the Syracuse Orange or maybe even the Michigan State Spartans, but Baylor has never been this good.  They haven’t been to a bowl game in 15 years.  They have never at any point lead the ultra-competitive South Division of the Big 12.  Their QB Robert Griffin III is the best talent the school has had in the last couple of decades and is complimented by a talented RB Jay Finley and a decent receiving corp.  Now Bears fans can ask not only what bowl game they’ll go to but if they can win the Big 12 South.

2/3s: Biggest Disappointment – 4-4 Texas Longhorns
No one has fallen more than Texas.  From a top 5 preseason pick to fifth in the Big 12 South standings, Texas fell harder than Humpty Dumpty.  The only time they looked remotely like the program they have been this past decade was their road win against Nebraska.  That game they actually looked and played like they cared.  With the exception of the Red River Rivalry and that Nebraska game, the Longhorns have largely looked uninterested in playing until they are down big.  And even more disappointing…three of the four losses have been at home.  Mack Brown has had more home losses this year than Bob Stoops has had his entire tenure at OU (only 2 losses at home for OU in the Stoops era).

2/3s: Best Player – Cameron Newton, QB, Junior, Auburn Tigers
If I did this at the halfway point, it would have been Michigan’s Denard Robinson.  But Robinson and the Wolverines have run out of gas.  Just imagine if he never left Florida how efficient he would run Urban Meyer’s offense.  Cam is third in passing efficiency and fourth in rushing.  Newton even caught a 20-yard TD pass last game against Ole Miss.  Is there anything this guy can’t do?  Well, in three weeks when they play Alabama we’ll find out.

2/3s: Best of the Rest
These are the best players/units out of the other positions on the field.

RB LaMichael James, Sophomore, Oregon
WR Justin Blackmon, Sophomore, Oklahoma State
Offensive Line Oregon Ducks
Total Defense TCU Horned Frogs
Interception Machine Domonic Cook, Senior, Buffalo
Return Game Patrick Peterson, Junior, LSU

2/3s: Biggest Surprise Player – Taylor Martinez, QB, Freshman, Nebraska Cornhuskers
Before the season he wasn’t even being mentioned in the discussion of who was going to start at quarterback for the Huskers.  Martinez goes from unknown to leading the team in passing, rushing, and TDs scored.  The quick mobile QB seems to have had a big run of more than 20 yards every game (except for the game against Texas for some reason).  Kind of reminds you of the old wishbone days the way he runs in TDs.

2/3s: Best Game – Red River Rivalry: Oklahoma Sooners vs Texas Longhorns
Okay, okay…yes a bit of homerism here.  But it was probably the most entertained I’ve been all year.  OU builds a lead.  Texas stages a comeback.  A couple of fourth quarter gaffes from the Sooners and then they escape by recovering a muffed/fumbled punt return.  It had a bit of scoring, some drama, and a highlight run from OU RB DeMarco Murray.  A little bit of everything for everyone…well except for a win for the Longhorns, haha!  Boomer Sooner win 28-20.  A close second place for best game: Alabama rallies to hold off the upset from Arkansas 24-20.

2/3s: Biggest Games Left
These are the biggest games that will impact both conference championship and national title outlooks, excluding the conference championship games themselves but including this week’s games (and no, I won’t revisit these individually like I did in the first part of the season…maybe just when the season is over)

Baylor at Oklahoma State 11/6
TCU at Utah 11/6
Alabama at LSU 11/6
Mississippi State at Alabama 11/13
Ohio State at Iowa 11/20
Oklahoma at Baylor 11/20
Auburn at Alabama 11/26
Arizona at Oregon 11/26
Boise State at Nevada 11/26
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State 11/27

2/3s: Biggest Question – Will a non-automatic qualifying team make it to the BCS Championship?
With Boise State, TCU, and Utah all in the BCS top 5, there has never been any other time we have been this close to a non-AQ making it to the national championship.  And with TCU and Utah playing this weekend, we will be down to two.  There seems to be a glass ceiling for these teams, as we see Boise State continue to drop in the standings (even getting passed by TCU in this week’s BCS standings).  We can debate it for the rest of the season, but I see these teams getting passed by a one-loss team like Alabama (assuming Oregon and/or Auburn lose in the next few weeks…and that could happen since Auburn does play Alabama).  I might not be right, but it’ll probably happen.  The team with the best chance to go would be TCU.  The computers love TCU (average #3 in computers while Boise #5 and Utah #9) and would get a boost from beating Utah this weekend.

Enjoy all the football.  From now till the end of the year it will be more or less a review of different things over the course of this year from movies, music, sports, and tech.

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