Best Songs of the Decade
Best Songs of the Decade
pollster2
Stand-by Joined: 4/25/17
#1Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/28/19 at 10:29am
I saw a few posts about the best production and best performance of the decade but I thought it would be neat to see what everyone thinks the best songs of the decade are. It looks like a few people beat me to it but I found some other people doing this on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AshCollardMusic/status/1207377259302195200
https://twitter.com/MGrossman92/status/1210767253597065218
I think Alexander Hamilton probably tops it for me. What do you think?
magictodo123
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
#2Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 7:53am
She Used To Be Mine--Waitress
Alexander Hamilton/Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down/Wait For It -Hamilton
Stay I Pray You -Anastasia
Most of the songs from Once On This Island
Welcome Home (Reprise) -Bandstand
Wait For Me (Reprise) -Hadestown
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#3Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 9:45am
None of the songs in Once On This Island belong here because they weren't written this decade. The original Broadway production of OOTI premiered in 1990.
I would add:
Omar Sharif - The Band's Visit
Not My Father's Son - Kinky Boots
Seventeen - Heathers
One Second And A Million Miles - The Bridges of Madison County
Memphis Lives In Me - Memphis
Changing My Major - Fun Home
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#4Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 9:52am
"The Room Where It Happened" (Hamilton) and "When I Grow Up" (Matilda).
#5Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 10:40am
My top choice would probably have to be "Answer Me" from The Band's Visit!
"We're actors, we're the opposite of people!"
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Ledaero
Featured Actor Joined: 11/20/14
#6Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 12:31pm
My favorites, alphabetical by show:
Answer Me - The Band's Visit
Public Life - Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Joseph Smith American Moses - The Book of Mormon
Man I Never Knew - The Burnt Part Boys
Before It's Over - Dogfight
The Time Keeps Changing - Fortress of Solitude
Ring of Keys - Fun Home
Hero - Ghost Quartet
The Desert - Giant
Why We Build The Wall - Hadestown
Right Hand Man - Hamilton
I Love Betsy - Honeymoon in Vegas
Evergreen - Light Years
The Tuba Song - Love Labour's Lost
When I Grow Up - Matilda
No One Else - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812
Actually - Octet
On the Other Side - Queen of the Mist
Commencing in Chattanooga - The Scottsboro Boys
What Baking Can Do - Waitress
GF21
Chorus Member Joined: 12/26/16
#7Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 2:35pm
I love a lot of songs from Once, but they were all from the film that came out in the previous decade. So, in no particular order...
Omar Sharif and Haled's Song About Love - The Band's Visit
It's Quiet Uptown and The Room Where It Happens - Hamilton
She Used To Be Mine - Waitress
Ring of Keys and Changing My Major - Fun Home
Asheville - Bright Star
You Will Be Found and Requiem - Dear Evan Hansen
Welcome to the Rock - Come From Away
Wait for Me - Hadestown
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#8Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 2:46pm
Great picks so far... I wholeheartedly agree with:
Answer Me - The Band's Visit
When I Grow Up - Matlida
She Used to be Mine - Waitress
Before and After You/One Second and a Million Miles - Bridges of Madison County
Hamilton - so tough to pick one or two of many... but I'm going to say One Last Time and Burn
I'll add a couple more:
For Forever - Dear Evan Hansen (the score is full of great songs... this one is my favorite. alt - In the Bedroom Down the Hall - perhaps the best song written for a musical that I may never see performed on stage...)
With You - Ghost the Musical (a stunner... whether you like the show or not)
#9Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 4:39pm
1. She Used To Be Mine (Waitress)
2. With You (Ghost)
3. Telephone Wire (Fun Home)
4. Days and Days (Fun Home)
5. Hold Me In Your Heart (Kinky Boots)
6. Always Starting Over (If/Then)
7. It’s Quiet Uptown (Hamilton)
8. At Long Last (Bright Star)
9. Theme Song (The View Upstairs)
10. One Second and A Million Miles (Bridges of Madison County)
LuPita2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/11/18
#10Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 4:53pm
"It All Fades Away" (Bridges of Madison County)
"Memphis Lives In Me" (Memphis)
"Sincerely, Me" (Dear Evan Hansen)
"Sex Is in the Heel" (Kinky Boots)
"Road To Hell (Reprise)" (Hadestown)
woeisme3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/15
#11Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 5:08pm
Agree with much of what’s been said already, I’d throw in:
Dust and Ashes- The Great Comet
One Day- Grounshog Day
ModernMillie3
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/13
#12Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 5:14pm
"Everything About You" - Groundhog Day
"Washington On Your Side" - Hamilton
"Nobody" - Bandstand
"Santa Fe" - Newsies
"Love Will Stand When All Else Falls" - Memphis
"Hard to Be the Bard" - Something Rotten!
"Me And The Sky" - Come From Away
"Go Back Home" - The Scottsboro Boys
HGR2
Swing Joined: 7/13/16
#13Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 5:37pm
I would not chose it as the best, but I have to mention:
"Michael in the Bathroom" from Be More Chill.
It wasn't alone, that show had a couple of great songs. But can any other soundtrack claim to be the whole reason the show made it to Broadway? Probably not.
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#14Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/30/19 at 8:29pm
Welcome Home and This is Life -- Bandstand
Answer Me -- The Band's Visit
Dust and Ashes -- The Great Comet
The Great Comet of 1912 -- the Great Comet (listed as former, essentially the finale)
Words Fail and So Big / So Small -- DEH
My Shot, Yorktown and Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story -- Hamilton
I've Decided to Marry You and Foolish to Think -- A Gentleman's Guide
Welcome to the Rock -- Come From Away
Ring of Keys -- Fun Home
When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground and Believe -- Finding Neverland
Not My Father's Son -- Kinky Boots
My favorite: When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground and Welcome Home
carnzee
Broadway Star Joined: 9/2/11
#15Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/31/19 at 6:57am
"For Forever"-- Dear Evan
"I've Decided to Marry You"-- Gentleman's Guide (when you include the funny staging of the song)
"Me and the Sky"-- Come from Away
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#17Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/31/19 at 5:10pm
Many of mine have already been mentioned and I was glad to see Go Back Home and It All Fades Away appear. . And it's interesting that three songs from DEH have been mentioned so far, and while I agree that they're all great songs, the one from the show I'd probably put on my list would be So Big, So Small, just for its sheer emotional power. (And the show's anthem, You Will Be Found, is not even on anyone's list as yet unless I missed it.)
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
magictodo123
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
#18Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/31/19 at 5:33pm
I'd also like to add "A Musical!" from Something Rotten!
#19Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/31/19 at 6:10pm
I don’t know if these are the best. But they’re my favorites.
—Ring of Keys (Fun Home)
—One Last Time (and it’s previous incarnation as One Last Ride) (Hamilton)
—Go Back Home (The Scottsboro Boys)
—When I Grow Up (Matilda)
—Letters (The Great Comet)
magictodo123
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/19
#20Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 12/31/19 at 6:25pm
oncemorewithfeeling2 said: "I don’t know if these are the best. But they’re my favorites.
—Ring of Keys (Fun Home)
—One Last Time (and it’s previous incarnation as One Last Ride) (Hamilton)
—Go Back Home (The Scottsboro Boys)
—When I Grow Up (Matilda)
—Letters (TheGreat Comet)
"Christopher Jacksons voice on One Last Time though.....I love him.
#21Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 1/1/20 at 4:31pm
Me and the Sky and Prayer - Come From Away (actually I may as well name every Come From Away song...)
Answer Me and Omar Sharif - The Band's Visit
You Will Be Found - Dear Evan Hansen
-Wait For Me (reprise) and Why We Build the Wall - Hadestown (also every Hadestown song)
-Letters and No One Else - The Great Comet
-She Used To Be Mine - Waitress
-Stay, I Pray You - Anastasia
-That Would Be Enough - Hamilton
-Why We Tell the Story - Once On This Island (although that's a revival so maybe it doesn't count...)
you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
#22Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 1/1/20 at 5:17pmPink - War Paint
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#23Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 1/1/20 at 10:36pm
RaisedOnMusicals said: "Many of mine have already been mentioned and I was glad to see Go Back Home and It All Fades Away appear. . And it's interesting that three songs from DEH have been mentioned so far, and while I agree that they're all great songs, the one from the show I'd probably put on my list would be So Big,So Small, just for its sheer emotional power. (And the show's anthem, You Will Be Found, is not even on anyone's list as yet unless I missed it.)
I did list So Big, So Small,so at least one other person agrees with you re its power.
#24Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 1/2/20 at 10:58am
I can only go by my own personal thoughts, so here are my 10 picks...
"She Used to Be Mine" (Waitress)
"Telephone Wire" (Fun Home)
"Welcome to Nowhere" (The Band's Visit)
"Burn" (Hamilton)
"Welcome Home" (Bandstand)
"Always Starting Over" (If/Then)
"Yellow Shoes" (The Visit)
"It's Time to Dance" (The Prom)
"All I've Ever Known" (Hadestown)
"Bikini Bottom Day" (The Spongebob Musical)
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#25Best Songs of the Decade
Posted: 1/2/20 at 11:09am
A number of my favorites have already been mentioned above, but I also loved these:
The Coney Island Waltz, Beneath a Moonless Sky, Dear Old Friend, Love Never Dies - Love Never Dies
Loud - Matilda
Behold and Wonder, Turn Off the Dark, The Boy Falls From the Sky - Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark
Charming - Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
Killing Spree - American Psycho
Too Close to the Flame - Stephen Ward
The Schuyler Sisters - Hamilton
There Will Be Sun, If I Had My Time Again, Night Will Come, Seeing You - Groundhog Day
And You Don't Even Know It - Everybody's Talking About Jamie
The Lady's Improving - The Prom
Queen of New York - King Kong
The Smartphone Hour (Rich Set a Fire) - Be More Chill
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- Craig Hepworth, What's On Stage
