2008: #5 - "Pork and Beans"

Another guilty pleasure here, as we'd officially written Weezer off about 6 years earlier, "Pork and Beans" delivered some of the best pop-rock hooks this side of Fall Out Boy, making it one of the few "modern rock" (whatever that means) songs to make any of our lists this decade. It's annoying, effortlessly catchy, tossed-off, half-rapped trifle, but it totally works.

And although "Pork and Beans" was hailed by critics as a "return to form" - the form being the radio-ready post-Nirvana power pop of their debut - we found it to be more of a combination of three things: their cheesy but delicious 2001 self-titled album (aka The Green Album, another guilty pleasure of ours); "Buddy Holly", which was sort of atypical to everything else on The Blue Album anyway; and "El Scorcho", from Pinkerton, which was annoying and tossed-off, and kind of stunk.

But this mostly ruled.