These are a few of my favorite things
I have been working on this list for almost a year now. This is so incredibly difficult for me, as my taste shifts drastically, but I have tried to compile my 100 favorite songs while taking into account songs that meant a lot to me in the past.
But here we go, here is minushuman's favorite songs ranked from Least Favorite to Favorite. |
101 | | Boris Flood
Some honorable mentions because this was so hard:
Flood, Motorbreah, Raining Blood, Ante Up, dammit, The Heart is a Muscle the Size of your Fist, So What, Landslide, Territorial Pissings, Best I Ever Had, Filler, Show Me on the Doll Where the Music Touched You, Love Let Me go, No Love, chill Out Tent, DEADRAMONES, East Hastings, After Hours, Nomad by Fate, Losers, Angeles, Daedalus, Roots Radical, MCDF, and You Won't Know |
100 | | Manchester Orchestra I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
I Can Barely Breathe
Indie Rock // 2006
"Everybody has their reasons, that's the reason we're all gonna die" |
99 | | Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys
Fortunate Son
Southern Rock // 1969
"When the band plays Hail to the Chief, they point the cannon at you" |
98 | | Titus Andronicus The Monitor
A More Perfect Union
Folk Punk // 2010
"Tramps like us, baby, we were born to die" |
97 | | The Cramps ...Off the Bone
Human Fly
Psychobilly // 1983
"I say buzz buzz buzz" |
96 | | Taking Back Sunday Tidal Wave
Tidal Wave
Americana Punk // 2016
"You can beg, you can plead, you can try, you can pray, nothing's gonna save you from the tidal wave" |
95 | | Color TV Color TV
Meat Wagon
Garage Punk // 2016
"I'm trapped in the basement of my mind" |
94 | | Hot Water Music Caution
Trusty Chords
Punk Rock // 2002
"I hate this place, but I love these chords, an empty fate just means an even score" |
93 | | Alcoa Parlour Tricks
It Won't Get Better
Folk // 2015
"Just look at the way she dances, the way her eyes bend the light" |
92 | | Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
POWER
Hip-Hop // 2010
"I got the power to make your life so excitin (suicide)" |
91 | | The Zombies Odessey and Oracle
Time of the Season
Psychedelic Rock // 1968
"It's the time of the season, when love runs high" |
90 | | Robbie Basho Visions of The Country
Rocky Mountain Raga
American Primitive Folk // 1978
"Rise up forever, rise up in praise" |
89 | | Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties
Astronomy
Hard Rock // 1974
"It's the nexus of the crisis, and the origin of storms" |
88 | | Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Bring Da Ruckus
Hip-Hop // 1993
"GHOSTFACE, CATCH THE BLAST OF A HYPE VERSE, MY GLOCK BURSTS, LEAVE IN A HEARSE. I DID WORSE." |
87 | | Bauhaus Dark Entries
Dark Entries
Goth Rock // 1980
"Don't go waving your pretentious love" |
86 | | Red Fang Red Fang
Prehistoric Dog
Stoner Metal // 2009
"They will erase the human race, time to kiss your ass goodbye" |
85 | | Converge Petitioning the Empty Sky
The Saddest Day
Metalcore // 1996
"Everytime you justify, another good in you dies" |
84 | | The Pillows FLCL No.1: Addict
Ride on Shooting Star
Indie Rock // 2000
"Iro no tsuita yumemitai na" |
83 | | Soundgarden Superunknown
4th of July
Grunge // 1994
"I heard it in the wind, I saw it in the sky, I thought it was the end" |
82 | | Dillinger Four Situationist Comedy
Noble Stabbings!!!
Punk Rock // 2002
"I don't care if yesterday burns, stoke up the fire" |
81 | | D'Angelo Black Messiah
Really Love
R&B // 2014
"I'm in really love with you" |
80 | | Viagra Boys Street Worms
Sports
Post-Punk // 2018
"BarbequuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUE" |
79 | | American Football American Football
Never Meant
Emo // 1999
"Let's just forget everything we said and everything we did" |
78 | | Jimmy Eat World Clarity
Just Watch The Fireworks
Emo // 1999
"I promised I would see it again, I promised I would see this with you now" |
77 | | Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding
Folk // 1965
"You lose yourself, you reappear, you suddenly find you got nothing to fear" |
76 | | William Onyeabor Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb
Psychedelic Funk // 1978
"I want to realize, man, the way I feel in me" |
75 | | John Coltrane Blue Train
Blue Train
Jazz // 1958
"......" |
74 | | Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
NWOBHM // 1982
"Tears flow, but why am I crying? After all I'm not afraid of dying" |
73 | | Billy Bragg Workers Playtime
Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
Anti-Folk // 1988
"Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman" |
72 | | Sam Cooke Ain't That Good News
A Change is Gonna Come
Soul // 1964
"It's been too hard livin', but I'm afraid to die, cause I don't know what's up there above the sky" |
71 | | Fugazi End Hits
Five Corporations
Post-Hardcore // 1998
"This one's ours, let's take another, this one's ours let's take another" |
70 | | Squid Houseplants
Houseplants
Art Punk // 2019
"Kids are getting smarter, but the brain ain't getting cheaper" |
69 | | Bad Brains Bad Brains
Banned in D.C.
Hardcore Punk // 1982
"My oh my, I lay you down upon the ground, so soon no more" |
68 | | Electric Wizard Dopethrone
Funeralopolis
Stoner Metal // 2000
"Funeral planet, dead black asteroid" |
67 | | Siouxsie and the Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Cascade
Goth Rock // 1982
"The heartbeats were echoing, echoing the revolver, emptying into my mouth..." |
66 | | Black Sabbath Master of Reality
Children of the Grave
Heavy Metal // 1971
"Children of Tomorrow live in the tears that fall today" |
65 | | AJJ People Who Can Eat People are the Luckiest People
People II
Folk Punk // 2007
"Your bi-polar illness, it comes and it goes" |
64 | | Defeater Lost Ground
Red, White, and Blues
Melodic Hardcore // 2009
"The sun is up, it's all I see, cause I got the blues and they still got me" |
63 | | Beach Slang The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel
Noisy Heaven
Emo Punk // 2015
"The night is alive, it's loud, and I'm drunk" |
62 | | The Weakerthans Left and Leaving
Left and Leaving
Indie Rock // 2005
"A blanket, some matches, this pain in my chest, the best parts of lonely" |
61 | | Massive Attack Heligoland
Paradise Circus
Trip-Hop // 2010
"Look at her, with her eyes like a flame" |
60 | | Richard Hell and The Voidoids Blank Generation
Blank Generation
Punk Rock // 1977
"I belong to the blank generation and I can take it or leave it each time" |
59 | | Green Day Dookie
Basket Case
Pop Punk // 1994
"I am one of those melodramatic fools, neurotic to the bone" |
58 | | The Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Wouldn't it Be Nice
Psychedelic Rock // 1966
"I wish every kiss was never ending" |
57 | | Hum You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Stars
Alternative Rock // 1995
"She's not at work, she's not at school, she's not in bed; I think I finally broke her" |
56 | | The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation
I Just Want To Sell Out My Funeral
Pop Punk // 2013
"I'll blame the way I was brought up, the flaws I was born with, or the mistakes I made: They're all just fucking excuses" |
55 | | Brian Fallon Painkillers
Smoke
Folk Rock // 2016
"Nobody else can see it, but there's something underneath my skin and I wish I could tell you" |
54 | | Laura Stevenson Sit Resist
Master of Art
Folk // 2011
"I could lie and say I knew I would be waking up tomorrow" |
53 | | The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
Cherub Rock
Alternative Rock // 1993
"Freak out, Give in." |
52 | | Amigo the Devil Decompositions
Hell and You
Bluegrass // 2015
"'Cause I'd rot in hell with you, if you'd just ask me to" |
51 | | Television Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon
Art Punk // 1977
"I remember how the darkness doubled" |
50 | | Gallows Orchestra Of Wolves
Abandon Ship
Hardcore // 2006
"So baby baby, hold me tight while I drown myself in you tonight" |
49 | | Choking Victim No Gods, No Managers
500 Channels
Hardcore // 1999
"And when there is no hope, I'll smoke some crack and I'll shoot some dope" |
48 | | The Smith Street Band Throw Me in the River
The Arrogance of the Drunk Pedestrian
Folk Punk // 2014
"When you said that I had destroyed you, I knew that part of you was trying to destroy me too" |
47 | | Weezer Pinkerton
Tired of Sex
Emo // 1996
"I'm beat beet red, ashamed of what I said" |
46 | | Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell United
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Soul // 1967
"Remember the day I set you free, I told you you could always count on me darling" |
45 | | Patti Smith Horses
Gloria
Art Punk // 1975
"Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine..." |
44 | | Nine Inch Nails Still
And All That Could Have Been
Industrial // 2002
"Tracks will fade in the snow, you won't find me here" |
43 | | LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening
Home
Dance Punk // 2010
"You're afraid of what you need, if you weren't.... if you weren't I don't know what we'd talk about" |
42 | | Foxing The Albatross
The Medic
Emo // 2013
"If you want me to slow down, just tell me to slow down, because I want to be loved" |
41 | | Iron Chic Not Like This
Time Keeps Slipping into the (Cosmic) Future
Pop Punk // 2010
"If I could ask one thing when I am dead, would you lay me down by the riverbed and just let me wash away" |
40 | | Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution A Call To Arms
It's a Wonderful Life
Folk Punk // 2001
"As I pass away I feel her kiss, and I sigh, what a wonderful life" |
39 | | Off With Their Heads Home
Nightlife
Emo Punk // 2013
"I hope this explains my problem to you, cause I feel like this every night" |
38 | | The Clash London Calling
London Calling
Punk Rock // 1979
"A nuclear era, but I have no fear" |
37 | | Captain, We're Sinking The Future Is Cancelled
A Bitter Divorce
Pop Punk // 2013
"I made a list of everything that I despise, and I wrote your name down several times." |
36 | | Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly
These Walls
Hip-Hop // 2015
"If these walls could talk, I can feel your reign when it cries" |
35 | | The Slits Cut
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Post-Punk // 1979
"I heard it through the grapevine, ooo and I'm just about to lose my mind" |
34 | | The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Moonlight Mile
Blues // 1971
"I'm riding down your moonlight mile" |
33 | | The Beatles Abbey Road
Here Comes The Sun
Psychedelic Rock // 1969
"Little darling, it seems like years since its been clear" |
32 | | Trampled By Turtles Palomino
Wait So Long
Bluegrass // 2010
"I could never place the stars at night above ya" |
31 | | Frank Turner England Keep My Bones
Redemption
Alternative Rock // 2011
"I don't think I can do this" |
30 | | Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight
The Modern Leper
Indie Folk // 2008
"You see, I've got this disease I can't shake and I'm just rattling through life" |
29 | | Earth, Wind and Fire The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1
September
R&B // 1978
"Remember how the stars stole the night away" |
28 | | Radiohead Kid A
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Alternative Rock // 2000
"I think you're crazy, maybe..." |
27 | | Against Me! Against Me!
Untitled
Folk Punk // 2001
"And for the four year old girl found dead in a dumpster, shot by her mother, her eulogy is the sound of construction through head to head traffic; today is just another day" |
26 | | Run The Jewels Run the Jewels
Run The Jewels
Hip-Hop // 2013
"The Goblins are awakened" |
25 | | Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man
Theme for the Eulipions
Jazz // 1976
"Desolation is a railroad station round about 2 am on a week night" |
24 | | Motorhead Overkill
Overkill
Speed Metal // 1979
"Only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud" |
23 | | Echo and The Bunnymen Ocean Rain
The Killing Moon
Post-Punk // 1984
"In starlit nights I saw you, so cruelly you kissed me" |
22 | | Streetlight Manifesto Everything Goes Numb
The Big Sleep
Ska // 2003
"Me and Mr. Dylan on the ride home had a heart to heart about life, and neither him or me could decide for ourselves if we wanted to outlive that night" |
21 | | The Horrible Crowes Elsie
Cherry Blossoms
Blues // 2011
"If I drove straight off this bridge, only my God and my baby would know" |
20 | | Bob Seger Night Moves
Night Moves
Heartland Rock // 1976
"I woke last night to the sound of thunder, how far off I sat and wondered... Started hummin' a song from 1962, ain't it funny how the night moves" |
19 | | Built to Spill Keep It Like a Secret
Carry The Zero
Indie Rock // 1999
"You're so occupied with what other persons are occupied with and vice versa" |
18 | | Misfits Static Age
Hybrid Moments
Punk Rock // 1985
"If you're gonna scream, scream with me" |
17 | | Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
New Dawn Fades
Post-Punk // 1979
"A loaded gun won't set you free, so you say..." |
16 | | Wingnut Dishwashers Burn the Earth, Leave it Behind
Urine Speaks Louder Than Words
Folk Punk // 2010
"I don't gotta tell ya, crackers are great with amnesia when they wanna forget something like centuries of racism" |
15 | | Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Holiday in Cambodia
Hardcore Punk // 1980
"It's time to taste what you most fear" |
14 | | Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
"Alternative Ulster
Punk Rock // 1979
"They say they've got control of you and that's a lie, you know" |
13 | | Bad Religion No Control
"I Want To Conquer the World"
Punk Rock // 1989
"I want to conquer the world, give all the idiots a brand new religion" |
12 | | Jawbreaker Dear You
Sluttering (May 4th)
Emo Punk // 1995
"If you hear this song a hundred times, it still won't be enough" |
11 | | The National Alligator
Daughters of the Soho Riots
Indie Rock // 2005
"How can anybody know how they got to be this way.... You must have known I'd do this someday" |
10 | | The Menzingers On the Impossible Past
Gates
Americana Punk // 2012
"You'll carve your names into the Paupack cliffs, just to read them when you're old enough to know that happiness is just a moment" |
9 | | The Mountain Goats Zopilote Machine
Going to Georgia
Folk // 1994
"The most remarkable thing about you standing in the door way, is that it's you.... And that you are standing in the doorway" |
8 | | The Replacements Let It Be
Unsatisfied
Indie Rock // 1984
"Look me in the eye, then tell me I'm satisfied" |
7 | | David Bowie The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Moonage Daydream
Glam Rock // 1972
"The church of man, love, is such a holy place to be" |
6 | | Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog
How Simple
Indie Pop // 2018
"How simple my heart can be frightens me" |
5 | | Big Star #1 Record
Thirteen
Folk // 1972
"Would you be an outlaw for my love?" |
4 | | Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Born to Run
Heartland Rock // 1975
"I want to know if love is wild babe, I want to know if love is real" |
3 | | Pixies Doolittle
Hey
Indie Rock // 1989
"If you go, I will surely die... We're chained" |
2 | | Mazzy Star She Hangs Brightly
Halah
Dream Pop // 1990
"I want you to hold onto the things that you said, baby I wish I was dead..." |
1 | | The Gaslight Anthem The '59 Sound
The '59 Sound
Americana Punk // 2008
"I wonder which song they'll play when we go" |
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