2006: #5 - "SexyBack"

What a year this was. Though songs 11 through 20 are kind of iffy, we just ran through a bunch from nos. 6 through 10 that would be legitimate Top 5 contenders in any other year this decade, and we still have five more to go.

This one may be a surprise to some, however. One of the more polarizing megahits of the decade, "SexyBack" actually turned some long-time fans totally off of J.T., while spawning a new legion of hipsters and hip-hoppers who finally, reluctantly, were forced to take notice.

Timberlake himself described this one as "David Byrne or David Bowie covering 'Sex Machine'", and while we'd be hard-pressed to find any of the grit or sex of the James Brown classic in here, there is a certain swagger to it, not to mention a fascinating mix of odd, mechanical electronic-dance-funk and Eno-esque sound effects we heard in late-70's music from the aforementioned hipster touchstones.