A Decade of Rowan
that's right fuckos, a whole decade of me on my bullshit. it's been pretty fun I guess idk let's do this again sometime. list is digs |
1 | | George Harrison All Things Must Pass
All Things Must Pass |
2 | | The Beach Boys Surf's Up
Surf's Up - columnated ruins DOOOOMIIINOOOOOOO |
3 | | Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Wish You Were Here |
4 | | Bob Dylan Blood on the Tracks
Tangled Up in Blue |
5 | | Nick Drake Pink Moon
Which Will - :c |
6 | | Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate
Famous Blue Raincoat |
7 | | Jeff Buckley Grace
Lover You Should've Come Over - “it's never over” bridge is perhaps as good as music's ever been |
8 | | The Cure Disintegration
Plainsong |
9 | | Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town
Racing in the Street |
10 | | Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - Stop Making Sense version of this is THE masterclass in taking a good song flatly recorded and shooting life into its veins. the warmest performance I know of |
11 | | Crowded House Temple Of Low Men
Better Be Home Soon |
12 | | David Bowie Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Ashes to Ashes |
13 | | Alice in Chains Jar of Flies
No Excuses/Don't Follow |
14 | | R.E.M. Automatic for the People
Nightswimming/Find the River - most powerful two-song combo in the game |
15 | | The Weakerthans Left and Leaving
My Favourite Chords - one time i walked up a very tall hill in my hometown not knowing if i'd come down again. this song talked me back off the ledge and i don't mean it metaphorically. consequently perhaps the most important song to me on this list, if not the best |
16 | | Elliott Smith Figure 8
Can't Make a Sound - why should you want any other when you're a world within a world? |
17 | | Damien Rice O
Delicate |
18 | | Lydia Illuminate
Now the One You Once Loved is Leaving |
19 | | Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness
Deep, Deep - jesus christ why is love so lonely
I Don't Love - jesus christ why is love so gone |
20 | | Women Public Strain
Can't You See |
21 | | Sufjan Stevens The Age of Adz
Vesuvius. an exorcism, incantation, just a fucking banger |
22 | | Manchester Orchestra Mean Everything to Nothing
I Can Feel A Hot One |
23 | | Karnivool Sound Awake
Deadman - if you ranked this entire scene's best moments like half of them would be from this single song. insane fucking piece of work |
24 | | Sharon Van Etten Epic
Love More |
25 | | Cave In White Silence
Sing My Loves |
26 | | M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Midnight City - i know this band has better songs but frankly this is everybody's favourite |
27 | | Baths Cerulean
You're My Excuse to Travel |
28 | | Alvvays Alvvays
Archie, Marry Me - all-time high bar for debut singles from indie acts, surely |
29 | | Kanye West Yeezus
Blood on the Leaves - ah ye, we coulda been somebody |
30 | | Frightened Rabbit Pedestrian Verse
Late March, Death March |
31 | | Kendrick Lamar good kid, m.A.A.d city
Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst |
32 | | Japandroids Celebration Rock
The House That Heaven Built - am i still allowed to like this song |
33 | | A Great Big Pile of Leaves You're Always on My Mind
Ambiversion - thanks yoyo for this one, new to me but already feels timeless |
34 | | CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
The Mother We Share |
35 | | There Will Be Fireworks The Dark, Dark Bright
Lay Me Down |
36 | | The War On Drugs Lost in the Dream
Under the Pressure |
37 | | St. Vincent Strange Mercy
Strange Mercy |
38 | | Cymbals Eat Guitars LOSE
Jackson - an interstate fever dream that will rip out your ribcage and replace it with rusted Americana and guitar licks |
39 | | Flying Lotus You're Dead!
Coronus, the Terminator |
40 | | Ben Howard I Forget Where We Were
Time is Dancing |
41 | | Earl Sweatshirt Solace
Solace - i got my grandmamma hands, i start to cry when i see 'em |
42 | | Tenement Predatory Headlights
Hive of Hives |
43 | | The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness
January 10th, 2014 - well yeah |
44 | | All Human Teenagers, You Don't Have to Die
And So Peter Dances |
45 | | Weezer The White Album
LA Girlz - best song in their discog frankly |
46 | | The Hotelier Goodness
Soft Animal - MAKE ME FEEL ALIIIIVE MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A GOD SOMETIMES |
47 | | Frank Ocean Blonde
White Ferrari - saddest minute of someone impersonating James Blake of all time |
48 | | Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
I Need You |
49 | | John K. Samson Winter Wheat
Requests - I want you to dream in all the languages we couldn't learn. I want you to write my name under your name, with the year I was born and you began to disappear |
50 | | Jimmy Eat World Integrity Blues
Integrity Blues - aging punk gives you tough love life advice over ambient classical backing track. somehow the greatest song of all time |
51 | | A Tribe Called Quest We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
Dis Generation |
52 | | bedwetter Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth...
stoop lights - sit and watch 'em flicker |
53 | | Lorde Melodrama
Supercut - imagine if 'doo doo dooo dooo' could rip your heart out with a fadeout lol |
54 | | Tyler, the Creator Flower Boy
911 / Mr. Lonely |
55 | | Trophy Scars Holy Vacants
Everything Disappearing |
56 | | Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness
The Deepest Sighs, The Frankest Shadows |
57 | | Enter Shikari The Spark
An Ode to Lost Jigsaw Pieces |
58 | | Spillage Village Spilligion
Baptize |
59 | | Saba Care For Me
PROM / KING - the exorcism. nearly eight minutes of unbridled emotion that eclipses any questions of subjectivity or perspective. a modern classic
HEAVEN ALL AROUND ME - the comedown, in its way even harder-hitting and saddening. if the line "chalk outline look like the shape of my shadow" doesn't shoot you through with existential dread you don't do music right |
60 | | The Wonder Years Sister Cities
Flowers Where Your Face Should Be |
61 | | Pusha T DAYTONA
Santeria |
62 | | Nine Inch Nails Bad Witch
God Break Down the Door |
63 | | Foxing Nearer My God
Nearer My God - aaashin CIGARETTES ON GRAVESTONES PIN PHOTOGRAPHS ON CORKBOARDS |
64 | | mewithoutYou [untitled] e.p.
Bethlehem, WV |
65 | | Noname Room 25
Ace - Smino's hook on this one is absolutely insane, liquid gold |
66 | | Lupe Fiasco DROGAS Wave
WAV Files |
67 | | Mac Miller Swimming
2009 |
68 | | Black Thought Streams Of Thought, Vol. 2
Streets |
69 | | Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs
December 24 |
70 | | clipping. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Blood of the Fang |
71 | | Sharon Van Etten Remind Me Tomorrow
Seventeen - amazing it took us 2019 years to make the best song of all time |
72 | | The Twilight Sad It Won/t Be Like This All the Time
VTr - amazing it took us 2019 years to make the best song of all time [2] |
73 | | Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center
Service Road |
74 | | Copeland Blushing
Pope |
75 | | Secret Band LP2
MOON - MOON, MOON, MOON, MOOOOOON |
76 | | The National I Am Easy to Find
So Far So Fast |
77 | | Flying Lotus Flamagra
Black Balloons Reprise |
78 | | Purple Mountains Purple Mountains
Nights That Won't Happen - pain |
79 | | Strange Ranger Remembering the Rockets
Nothing Else to Think About - DOWNSTAAAAIRS YOU'RE DOWN THERE
Living Free - the same but sadder |
80 | | Big Thief Two Hands
Not |
81 | | Empty Country Empty Country
Marian - hasn't been a better song since this came out and I'm not mad about it |
82 | | Mac Miller Circles
Good News |
83 | | James Blake Before
I Keep Calling - imagine if he stayed this good for an album haha right guys |
84 | | Nothing The Great Dismal
Famine Asylum - whole album rips but somethin bout these drums sends me to the shadow realm in the best way |
85 | | Jeff Rosenstock NO DREAM
Ohio Tpke - a shimmering coiled beast of a song that retracts every time you think it will extend and vice versa. all of Rosenstock's best tricks compacted into a near-perfect cut |
86 | | Moses Sumney grae
Virile |
87 | | Taylor Swift Evermore
tolerate it |
88 | | Big Red Machine How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?
Brycie |
89 | | Middle Kids Today We're the Greatest
Cellophane (Brain) |
90 | | Bright Eyes Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
To Death's Heart (In Three Parts) |
91 | | Genesis Owusu Smiling with No Teeth
A Song About Fishing |
92 | | Indigo De Souza Any Shape You Take
Kill Me |
93 | | The Killers Pressure Machine
In the Car Outside |
94 | | Kanye West Donda
Moon - shit album badly conceived and at times genuinely disgusting but there's a "don't leave so soon" midway through this song that breaks me every single time |
95 | | Little Simz Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
Introvert |
96 | | CHVRCHES Screen Violence
Violent Delights |
97 | | Every Time I Die Radical
All This and War - AAAAAAAHHHHHH |
98 | | Circa Survive A Dream About Love
Sleep Well |
99 | | Lil Ugly Mane Volcanic Bird Enemy...
headboard |
100 | | Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Top Picks For You – doomscroll darkgaze intense uncomf tune – johnny probably
Bye Storm – the only acceptable post-mortem for this hellscape we now live in. a banger. |
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