favorite songs of the 2010s
2010-2019. loosely ranked. |
| 101 |  | Lee Noble
No Becoming
'Fantasy Hair' - damn i totally blanked on this one, this is actually like #37 or something |
| 100 |  | Koala Bear
Splash!!!
'Grow Up' |
| 99 |  | Esbe
Bloomsday
'Blossom' |
| 98 |  | Lebanon Hanover
Tomb for Two
'Hall of Ice'
'If it's not possible to change people's minds, we might as well just spin on ice/Spin around until we die' |
| 97 |  | Slingshot Dakota
Break
'Stay'
'I know I said I would stay..' |
| 96 |  | Maybeshewill
I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone
'Red Paper Lanterns' |
| 95 |  | The Drones
Feelin Kinda Free
'Private Execution'
'I want a private execution - for free' |
| 94 |  | Laurel Halo
Dust
'Do U Ever Happen' |
| 93 |  | Thao And The Get Down Stay Down
A Man Alive
'Endless Love'
'I got an endless love no one can starve, I got an endless love/I don't want it, I don't want it, carve it on out of me |
| 92 |  | Joyce Manor
Joyce Manor
'Constant Headache'
'But I just lay there in protest, entirely fucked/It's such a stubborn reminder one perfect night's not enough' |
| 91 |  | Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
YT//ST
'Queens' |
| 90 |  | Elizabeth Rose
Intra
'Shoulda Coulda Woulda'
'Ever notice it's the ones who worry that don't make it out?' |
| 89 |  | Angel Olsen
Burn Your Fire For No Witness
'White Fire'
'If you've still got some light in you, then go before it's gone/Burn your fire for no witness, it's the only way it's done' |
| 88 |  | Uli K
Elusivo
'Fix Up' |
| 87 |  | Nozinja
Nozinja Lodge
'Xihukwani' |
| 86 |  | Young Magic
Still Life
'Lucien' |
| 85 |  | Thaiboy Digital
Tiger
'Yr so beautiful'
'Baby you're so beautiful, what you want a marriage for?' |
| 84 |  | A. G. Cook
Radio Tank Mix
'Nightspeeder' (by Dux Kidz) |
| 82 |  | Swarms
Old Raves End
'Flikr of Ur Eye' |
| 81 |  | Hop Along
Get Disowned
'No Good Al Joad'
'Everybody is a little hard to love sometimes..' |
| 80 |  | Bladee and Thaiboy Digital
AvP
'Painkillers'
'Drain Gang CEO never miss/I don't give a fuck what you think' |
| 79 |  | Autolux
Pussy's Dead
'Soft Scene'
'Stop with that soft scene/We don't need you anymore' |
| 78 |  | The National
Sleep Well Beast
'Day I Die'
'The day I die, where will we be?' |
| 77 |  | Tim Hecker
Virgins
'Live Room' |
| 76 |  | The Body
No One Deserves Happiness
'The Myth Arc'
'I will find you..' |
| 75 |  | Sightings
Terribly Well
'Yellow' |
| 74 |  | Black Kray
Thug Angel
'UZI KISS'
'No more lie, no more cry..' |
| 73 | | The National
Sleep Well Beast
'I'll Still Destroy You'
'It's just the lights coming on..' |
| 72 |  | Anne Guthrie
Codiaeum variegatum
'Long Pendulous' |
| 71 |  | Hawk House
A Handshake to the Brain
'The Nervous System (Topic 4)' |
| 70 |  | Stimming
Alpe Lusia
'For My Better Half' |
| 69 |  | Linea Aspera
Linea Aspera
'Lamanai'
'Do you really need to go home/I'm a soul as lost as your own/We were born of the undertow' |
| 68 |  | Anna Högberg Attack
Anna Högberg Attack
'Familjen' |
| 67 |  | Toshimaru Nakamura / Ken Ikeda / Tomoyoshi Date
Green Heights
'Balcony II' |
| 66 |  | Blue Water White Death
Blue Water White Death
'Grunt Tube'
'Look around/Absolute unpleasantness/Twiddling its thumbs' |
| 65 |  | Glassjaw
Our Color Green (The Singles)
'(You Think You're) John Fucking Lennon'
'I've got a handle on the fiction, I'm losing my grip 'cause I'm losing my fingers' |
| 64 |  | Suuns
Hold/Still
'Resistance' |
| 63 |  | Bladee
GLUEE
'Safehouse'
'I got 60 locks, it's a safe house' |
| 62 |  | Extra Life
Made Flesh
'Easter'
'Pull up my body to fill the empty sky/No father watching down, no heaven but this secret flame/Breathe deep the smoke from my burnt offering/Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, increase my heart's own MOTHERFUCKING SILENT NAMEEEEEE!!!" |
| 61 |  | Ulcerate
Shrines of Paralysis
'Yield to Naught' |
| 60 |  | Yellow Swans
Going Places
'Opt Out' |
| 59 |  | Ad Nauseam
Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
'La Maison Diev' |
| 58 |  | Mary Lattimore
At the Dam
'The Quiet at Night' |
| 57 |  | Charlie Hilton
Palana
'Snow'
'Why do they say/I'm not the same/What do they know?' |
| 56 |  | Taylor McFerrin
Early Riser
'Already There' |
| 55 |  | Gorgeous Children
Gorgeous Children
'Frozen Affairs' |
| 54 |  | Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon
'Shaolin Monk Motherfunk'
'Drop into this or I'll be swingin' it solo' |
| 53 |  | Dodheimsgard
A Umbra Omega
'Aphelion Void' |
| 52 |  | Suuns
Images Du Futur
'Music Won't Save You'
'And now I'm talkin' to the old god/About rock n' roll/But the old god don't listen/To rock n' roll no more' |
| 51 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel...
'Every Single Night'
'Every single night's alight, every single night's a fight, and every single fight's alright, with my brain' |
| 50 | | Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon
'Breathing Underwater'
'The word hurts/In water' |
| 49 |  | The National
Trouble Will Find Me
'Sea of Love'
'Hey Joe, I'm sorry I hurt you but/They say/that love is a virtue, don't they?' |
| 48 |  | The Knife
Shaking the Habitual
'Full of Fire'
'When you're full of fire, what's the object of your desire?' |
| 47 |  | Ragk
Escape
'Listen' |
| 46 |  | Graham Lambkin
Community
'The Personality' |
| 45 |  | Banks
Goddess
'Brain'
'I can see you struggling, boy don't hurt your brain/Thinkin' what you're gonna say' |
| 44 |  | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Nandacollection
'Invader Invader' |
| 43 |  | Jenny Hval
Apocalypse, girl
'That Battle is Over'
'You say "I'm free now, that battle is over/And feminism's over/And socialism's over, yeah! Say "I can consume what I want now!"' |
| 42 |  | The National
High Violet
'Afraid of Everyone'
'With my kid on my shoulders, I'll try/Not to hurt anybody I like' |
| 41 |  | Emma Ruth Rundle
Some Heavy Ocean
'Shadows of My Name'
'I won't speak at all, just to sing again' |
| 40 |  | Machismo
Severe Disconnect
'Bullshit Activism/Oath of the Ghost' (i think? that really mysterious, more ambient-type part lol) |
| 39 |  | Ought
Room Inside The World
'Disaffectation'
'Disaffectation is holy, it makes me feel alive and I'll do it again/I don't know why' |
| 38 |  | Radiohead
A Moon Shaped Pool
'Desert Island Disk'
'Different types of love are possible..' |
| 37 |  | Lapalux
Ruinism
'Essex is Burning' |
| 36 | | Jenny Hval
Apocalypse, girl
'Heaven'
'I want to sing religiously, you know, airy, more than necessary..' |
| 35 |  | Bladee
Exile
'SENTENCE'
'You can't be like me/What do you even mean?/Trash Star clean the street, so I can creep, gotta clean my feet/I don't even feel like me' |
| 34 |  | Forces
Plastisphere
'Symbionts' |
| 33 |  | Ought
More Than Any Other Day
'Habit'
'It's not that I need it, it's that I need it' |
| 32 |  | Deafheaven
Sunbather
'Sunbather' |
| 31 |  | Women
Public Strain
'Eyesore' |
| 30 |  | Jenny Hval
Viscera
'Black Morning/Viscera' |
| 29 |  | Kitty
Miami Garden Club
'Song for Sunset Ave (Running Away)' |
| 28 | | The National
Trouble Will Find Me
'Graceless'
'Put the flowers you find in a vase..' |
| 27 | | Charlie Hilton
Palana
'Funny Anyway'
'Put your arms around me, tell me I'm okay/Even though I'm not laughing, it's funny anyway' |
| 26 |  | Bladee
Eversince
'Lovenote'
'I'm the one your god chose, I stay in the condos' |
| 25 | | The National
High Violet
'Bloodbuzz Ohio'
'Lay my head on the hood of your car/I'll take it too far' |
| 24 | | Women
Public Strain
'Untogether' |
| 23 |  | David Thomas Broughton
Crippling Lack
'Plunge of the Dagger'
'And the simplicity that is blackness reaps over all..' |
| 22 |  | Dempagumi.inc
World Wide Dempa
'VANDALISM' |
| 21 |  | Marika Hackman
We Slept at Last
'Before I Sleep'
'For we exist at night/And a silent strip of light/Unfurls against the mountainside' |
| 20 |  | Karin Park
Apocalypse Pop
'Shake With the Devil'
'I find that on every road I ever walk along, the birds sing a siren song' |
| 19 | | Emma Ruth Rundle
Some Heavy Ocean
'Run Forever'
'If we both get caught then we'll run forever/If we both go down, we go down together' |
| 18 |  | Black Thread
Meadowlark (Premonition)
'Meadowlark (Premonition)' - this might be a bit unfair since the whole album is one song, but since it's relatively short for an album and really is one of my favorites, here it is. |
| 17 |  | Anne Guthrie
Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment
'Times Center, NYC 2010' |
| 16 |  | Dempagumi.inc
WWDD
'Neo-Japonism' |
| 15 | | David Thomas Broughton
Crippling Lack
'Silent Arrow'
'There was a time when I was the only thing that didn't make you sad/Now you're sad all the time and I can't alter that' |
| 14 |  | Ought
Sun Coming Down
'Passionate Turn'
'But I have given up love.. and you have given up love.. doesn't mean that I held it right. Doesn't mean that I held it at all' |
| 13 | | Karin Park
Apocalypse Pop
'Shine'
'Let my love shine/into the darkness of your mind/you're lost in the forest and it feels like no way out/I shine so bright' |
| 12 |  | Horse Lords
Interventions
'Intervention I' |
| 11 | | Jenny Hval
Viscera
'Blood Flight'
‘I carefully rearranged my senses.. so they could have a conversation..’ |
| 10 |  | Karin Park
Highwire Poetry
'Tension'
'Dangerous and pure, real and nothing more' |
| 9 | | Ought
Sun Coming Down
'Beautiful Blue Sky'
'I am no longer afraid to die. Cuz that is all that I have left.' |
| 8 |  | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
'PONPONPON' |
| 7 |  | Sarathy Korwar
Day to Day
'Hail' |
| 6 | | Jenny Hval
Viscera
'A Portrait of the Young Girl as an Artist'
'Sometimes even you have to decide..' |
| 5 |  | Radiohead
The King of Limbs
'Lotus Flower'
'Just to see what if/Just to see what is... Listen to your heart' |
| 4 | | Bladee
Eversince
'Who Goes There'
'I'm on an airplane to London/They want something from me all of a sudden/I'll come up when I'm summoned/I heard everything was gonna change but it wasn't' - WHOGOESTHEREEE IT'S THE GHOST OF OCTOBERRR SUMMERS OVERR NOW I'M GOIN NOWHEREE YOU'RE SOBER THAT'S NOT ME I'M A STONER I PREFER WHEN THE WORLD MOVES SLOWERR |
| 3 |  | Jenny Hval
Innocence Is Kinky
'I Got No Strings'
'What do you mean you don't understand/But do you understand/Fire' |
| 2 | | Horse Lords
Interventions
'Toward the Omega Point' |
| 1 | | David Thomas Broughton
Crippling Lack
'I Close My Eyes'
'I close my eyes and it all goes wrong..' |
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