| Favourite Songs (one per album) |
| 1 |  | Can
Future Days
Bel Air -
Utterly ahead of its time and a mammoth amount of music and noisy chaos. It all works though, one of the most thrilling rides you can have. |
| 2 |  | Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces of a Man
When You Are Who You Are -
A sentiment that should be more universal. Rings true, like all good music. |
| 3 |  | Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
Daydreaming -
...This song brought me back into making music. Reminded me there's still magic in it, it's that good. |
| 4 |  | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Push The Sky Away
Push The Sky Away -
This one explains itself better than I can. |
| 5 |  | Dirty Three
Ocean Songs
The Restless Waves -
This song captures what's it's like to be out at sea. That careening movement. |
| 6 |  | The National
Alligator
Secret Meeting -
I think this is my favourite album opener. There's something triumphant about it that I really dig.. It amps me up, maybe that's weird but whatever it's an amazing song. |
| 7 |  | Einsturzende Neubauten
Alles in Allem
Alles In Allem -
I do think I'm probably a bit biased towards this one. But still, the simplicity of it and the wonderful bass coupled with the wordplay makes for a brilliant song. |
| 8 |  | David Bowie
Blackstar
Lazarus -
A beautiful swan song of an album. The music video for Lazarus is still one of the greatest videos I've ever seen and the song is incredible. |
| 9 |  | Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Xtal/Heliosphan -
I'm going to cheat on this one, my rationale is that these two songs have completely different moods but are equally as effective at showcasing them. Xtal is a beautiful calm symphony of soft pulses that ease while Heliosphan is a tinny but not unpleasant jittery showcase of mild triumph. I love them both equally and can't make my mind up. |
| 10 |  | Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Stone In Focus -
While Rhubarb and Lichen are beautiful calm tracks that exude great warmth, there's something about this frequency that shatters right through the core of your soul that I find incredible to experience. This is an amazing song. |
| 11 |  | Ichiko Aoba
Windswept Adan
Dawn Over The Adan -
There's something about the way this song wanders that is captivating. You're very present in a special sunrise, the kind of sunrise you rarely see yet if you're lucky on a particularly beautiful day in pure nature you can still experience. It's a grand song. |
| 12 |  | PJ Harvey
Let England Shake
Let England Shake -
I think PJ Harvey's strongest and most important quality as a musician is her confidence. There's a boldness in everything she does. Even though she shifts like a chameleon album to album and sometimes she doesn't pull off what she's doing, songs and albums like this are exceptional examples of how this quality can create great work. It's a really strange song that's my favourite by her. |
| 13 |  | Burial
Untrue
Archangel -
I think this one speaks for itself. A masterwork in sampling. |
| 14 |  | DJ Shadow
Endtroducing.....
What Does Your Soul Look Like (Pt. 1 / Blue Sky Revisit) -
It's difficult to pick a favourite from this one. There are so many great tracks on here, I'm going with this one. Even though it's not the most technical that he's done, I love the way it grooves along. |
| 15 |  | Leonard Cohen
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Suzanne -
Melancholic, I rarely listen to this one. But when I do it's definitely special. |
| 16 |  | The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches
Jorge Regula -
: ) |
| 17 |  | Battles
Mirrored
Tonto -
There's something that happens at the 2:47 point that still astounds me. The guitars and drums reach this perfect driven moment. Atlas is a very close 2nd. |
| 18 |  | Bob Marley and The Wailers
Legend
Three Little Birds -
Albums and songs like this bring people together. Tobacco, coffee, humid jungle and good vibes. Life is good. |
| 19 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
How To Disappear Completely -
This was and still is the greatest song I've ever heard. I don't play it a lot because it's a very particular mood & in a way, very personal as well. Everyone has that one song that changes their life & this is mine. While Daydreaming helped bring me back into music & start my career, this was the first song that really took me on that journey & seeing that music could go beyond anything you could ever imagine. |
| 20 |  | The Doors
The Doors
The End -
This song took me on a wild wild journey, involving a giant golden Pharaoh's eye replacing the sun. |
| 21 |  | Brian Eno
Another Green World
Sombre Reptiles -
Eno's made a lot of great tracks, this one's always stood out for me though. It's like you're in some kind of gallery filled with reptiles. |
| 22 |  | Koji Kondo
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST
Song of Healing -
This song is one of those ones that stays with you long after you've heard it, that's when you know it's a good song. This was one of the first ones I worked out how to play on piano decades ago now... I can't read music, but if I love a song I'll discover how to play it. I didn't really play any of the musical instruments available until something about this song struck a chord. It's got a powerful message within it & it's incredible. |
| 23 |  | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
White Lunar
Sorya Market -
There are a lot of really incredible pieces created by this duo, wonderful cinematic masterpieces. I stumbled across this song for White Lunar and it's always stuck with me. It's just one of the handful of masterpieces these two have created. |
| 24 |  | Nina Simone
Live at Montreux - 1976
Stars/Feelings -
People often like to label artists, calling them 'raw' or something. Nina Simone is truly transcendent of those kinds of titles. She understands much about the world, the unfair struggles of oppression, the tough strength you need to hold. It's hard to find someone that matches Nina Simone in that respect. She was brilliant & a mighty source of inspiration. |
| 25 |  | AFX
Orphans
28 organ -
While this LP is really good as well, this song is one of his best. Yet there's nowhere you can find it, it kind've just appeared on soundcloud & is now on youtube. It's annoying in a way because it is such a good track, there's some seriously good melodic work happening here, if you can find the track check it out, it's called 28 organ. |
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