As the decade we’ve dubbed The Aughts winds to a close, many magazines are celebrating with giant interactive features that attempt to encapsulate ten years of tragedy, victory, controversy and beyond. But to praise (or denounce, right Time?) the end of the decade with a magazine cover is truly a special sort of honor — and oddly enough, it’s rare. So far, not too many titles have given the early 2000s the newsstand treatment, so we figured for the final edition of Cover Wars this year (and this decade!), we would celebrate those commemorating The Aughts. See you next year, but first, click inside to see the winner!

The Aughts

Congrats are in order for our office-mates Downtown Records. Gnarls Barkley, masters of disguise and Downtown artists, are responsible for making the best song of the decade, according to Rolling Stone. “Crazy”, Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse’s wonderful pop/soul/rock/hip-hop collabo from 2006, tops the magazine’s list of the top 100 songs of the decade. “Crazy” united people in a musically-fragmented decade, “packed a career’s worth of genius ideas into three minutes”, and was loved by everyone “from your mom to your ex-girlfriend’s art professor.”