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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