The Best 2000s Songs: Toucher & Hardy Don’t Know the Hits
A new list of the best 2000s songs had Fred Toucher, Hardy, and Jon Wallach scratching their heads and stretching their ears, if that’s even a thing. We’re all music…
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A new list of the best 2000s songs had Fred Toucher, Hardy, and Jon Wallach scratching their heads and stretching their ears, if that's even a thing.
We're all music fans on the Toucher & Hardy Show, weekdays from 6-10 a.m. on the Sports Hub. Fred digs hardcore and hip hop, Hardy's an alt rock and alt country guy, and Wallach loves New Jack Swing and funk.
I try to work all those sounds and more into the music we play in and out of segments on the show. In fact, a lot of you have picked up on that and asked for some playlists. Watch this space; they're coming. In the meantime, let's pop on some pop.
The Best 2000s Songs: The Winners
Popular pop culture website UPROXX recently released a list called The 100 Best Songs of the Century So Far. As they noted, we're now one fourth of the way into the 2000s. So it's high time for a look back at a quarter century of hit songs.
To make their list of 25 years of hits, a song had to have been released in 2000 or later (of course) and to have charted in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Check out the full list here, then listen to what we did with it below.
The Best 2000s Songs: The Losers
Spoiler alert: the losers here are Fred, Hardy, and Wallach. I gave them clips from 7 of the songs on the UPROXX list. They got 2 right between the 3 of them, technically. And Wallach's was the first one to score a point, so chalk one up for the hawk.
Scroll on for the songs they were quizzed on. How many do you know?
Chappell Roan "Good Luck, Babe!"
31 on the list. The best part? Both Hardy AND Fred had seen Chappell Roan perform this song live. Bad look, guys
Future "Mask Off"
23 feels a bit high for this one, but seeing as every damn Soundcloud rapper decided to bust rhymes over the instrumental when it dropped, I guess it makes sense.
Lorde "Team"
I love Lorde. I love that she writes pop hits without being a proper pop star, if that's even a thing that makes sense any more. 13 makes sense for this one.
Lil Uzi Vert "XO Tour Llif3"
Give it up for Jon Wallach, nailing the artist for the song that landed at No. 6 on the list!
Lil Wayne "A Milli"
The Carter III is one of the biggest hip hop albums of the last 25 years. Somehow, no one actually got this No. 4 song. Fred came close, though!
Kanye West "All Falls Down" ft. Syleena Johnson
Kanye at No. 2. Back before he turned heel, to put it lightly.
