100 Favorite Songs Ever (50-1)
top 20 are definitive top 20 |
| 50 |  | Death Grips
The Powers That B - Part II: Jenny Death
Centuries Of Damn
I never been so yawn
can't believe that i'm still standin'
can't believe life takes this long |
| 49 |  | Pet Shop Boys
Introspective
Always On My Mind |
| 48 |  | Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks: Music From Season 2 And More
Half Heart |
| 47 |  | Bastille
All This Bad Blood
Poet |
| 46 |  | Talking Heads
Little Creatures
Road To Nowhere |
| 45 |  | Clarence Clarity
THINK: PEACE
Naysayer, Magick Obeyer |
| 44 |  | JPEGMAFIA
All My Heroes Are Cornballs
Free The Frail
Don't rely on the strength of my image, if it's good then it's good break it down this shit is out of my hands |
| 43 |  | Cardiacs
Sing To God
Fiery Gun Hand |
| 42 |  | Tyler, The Creator
IGOR
A Boy Is A Gun |
| 41 |  | Yes
Close To The Edge
Close To The Edge |
| 40 |  | The Seatbelts
Future Blues
Gotta Knock A Little Harder |
| 39 |  | Lupe Fiasco
Tetsuo and Youth
Dots and Lines
Any love less than unconditional is so
Under-Christian, it's unrepentant
The physical part of my church
Emits the invisible arts of my work
To make gold from garbage
Is not the alchemical point of this math
But truth be told it's the pursuit of gold
That turns the goal of men into trash |
| 38 |  | Defiance, Ohio
The Great Depression
Oh, Susquehanna
and I wonder, what did they do with the bodies? |
| 37 |  | The Magnetic Fields
69 Love Songs
When My Boy Walks Down The Street |
| 36 |  | Chairlift
Something
I Belong In Your Arms |
| 35 |  | fun.
Aim and Ignite
Take Your Time (Coming Home) |
| 34 |  | Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Burnt (feat. Hieroglyphics)
last two verses are CLASSICCCC
Bob your head to this, mischievous, soul societal
Idle chatter never slips off the lips of this writer
Might not be the greater innovator of the rhyme scheme
My style is the Visine to get your eyes opening |
| 33 |  | The Killers
Sam's Town
When You Were Young
we're burning down the highway skyline!!! on the!! back of a hurricane! that started turning when you!!! WERE YOUUUUNG |
| 32 |  | Big Country
Steeltown
Belief In The Small Man |
| 31 |  | David Bowie
Hunky Dory
Kooks
associate this with being a funny animal person online meeting funny animal people in real life |
| 30 |  | Sleigh Bells
Jessica Rabbit
Rule Number One |
| 29 |  | Big Country
The Crossing
Close Action
I WILL CARRRRY YOU HOME, WITH THE GODDDS IN MY EYES |
| 28 |  | Bjork
Vulnicura
Family
no triangle of love |
| 27 |  | Shiny Toy Guns
We Are Pilots
Don't Cry Out
don't cry ouuuuuuuuut
cease fiiireeeeeeEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH |
| 26 |  | R.E.M.
Automatic for the People
Nightswimming |
| 25 |  | Streetlight Manifesto
Everything Goes Numb
Point/Counterpoint
I'VE GOT A GUN IN MY HAND BUT THE GUN WON'T COCK AND MY FINGERS ON THE TRIGGER BUT THE TRIGGER SEEMS LOCKED AND I CAN'T STOP STARIN' AT THE TICK TOCK CLOCK AND EVEN IF I COULD I WOULD NEVER GIVE UP, WITH A VEST ON MY CHEST A BULLET IN MY LUNG I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M DYING WITH MY SONG UNSUNG AND IF AND WHEN I DIE WON'T YOU BURY ME ALONE CAUSE I'LL NEVER GET TO HEAVEN IF I'M SINGING THIS SONG |
| 24 |  | Lil Ugly Mane
Uneven Compromise
Uneven Compromise |
| 23 |  | Steven Wilson
The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Drive Home |
| 22 |  | Cities Aviv
Come To Life
URL IRL
banger |
| 21 |  | Boards Of Canada
The Campfire Headphase
Peacock Tail
big chiller music tune |
| 20 |  | Capsule (JPN)
Fruits Clipper
5ive Star
My introduction to Yasutaka Nakata. I played it on Stepmania, this DDR clone for your computer, probably in like…2010? Maybe a little earlier. It’s so catchy, synthpop perfection. Helps that it’s half in English so I can feel like I’m singing along |
| 19 |  | Charli XCX
Charli
Gone
Literally the best pop song to come out past the year 2000 |
| 18 |  | The Middle East
The Recordings of the Middle East
Blood
VERY RARE effective use of childrens choir in song about uhhh aging divorce and death told through one family i think. i like at the end where they clearly intended for the children to stop being a choir but a couple kept going on accident and committed to the measure or whatever |
| 17 |  | Courtney Barnett
The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Avant Gardener
We say thank you Bojack Horseman for the song about life being a struggle but putting up with it because what the fuck else is it supposed to be. I LOVE her dry tone, it ironically feels like a breath of fresh air to hear someone singing about mundane things so…mundanely / The paramedic thinks I'm clever 'cause I play guitar, I think she's clever cause she stops people dying |
| 16 |  | Indigo Girls
Indigo Girls
Closer To Fine
The best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously, /it's only life after all |
| 15 |  | Cardiacs
The Seaside
Jibber and Twitch
Song about having adhd |
| 14 |  | Car Seat Headrest
How To Leave Town
Kimochi Warui (When...?)
Will Toledo writing his silly little soul-bearing songs reaches its peak for me right here. Having killed your heroes, feeling lost and alone, what do you do? How do you grow?
The people that I’ve talked to
And the books that I’ve read
And the TV shows and movies that I’ve seen
Are all I have to turn to to learn how to live
But when? When? When? When? When? When? When will I ever learn? |
| 13 |  | illuminati hotties
Kiss Yr Frenemies
For Cheez (My friend, not the food)
Keep in mind…everything is temporary
You’ll be fine
Hey, let's grab a donut sometime |
| 12 |  | Holly Herndon
Proto
Frontier
Folk music from another world. Conjures up Images that are Fun to me. Also I love her approach to choir vocals |
| 11 |  | Yoko Kanno
Wolf's Rain
Gravity
Song from anime with a bunch of wolfs and god DAMN it it makes me cry everytime…SOMETHING IS PULLING ME…*SOB* I FEEL THE GRAVITY…OF IT ALLLL |
| 10 |  | Yellow Magic Orchestra
BGM
Cue
Love the repeating melody on this
I’m sick and tired of the same old chaos / must be a way out of this…cul-de-sac |
| 9 |  | Sweet Trip
You Will Never Know Why
Milk
This is probably the saddest song i have ever heard in my life |
| 8 |  | Bon Iver
22, A Million
8 (circle)
There’s a part where Boney Ver is saying like three cryptic things at once and I just think that’s really fun and exciting |
| 7 |  | Blind Guardian
A Night At The Opera
And Then There Was Silence
This is the best power metal song ever |
| 6 |  | Phoebe Bridgers
Punisher
I Know The End
It wasn't the loss itself, it was the lead up and the aftermath. But the acknowledgement that I had missed out on so much and any potential for a relationship was over, that felt like its own beginning. I know what the end looks like. It's always close - but I'm not there yet. |
| 5 |  | The Go! Team
Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Everyone's A VIP To Someone (either version they both get the idea across)
This one is nostalgia to me, i don’t know why. But The Go! Team is a band i’ve listened to since I was a kid, and even way back then I could feel the wistfulness and longing in this track. |
| 4 |  | Swans
The Seer
The Apostate
Earth shattering, soul shaking, this whole record is Swans at their finest and this is its epic finale. It’s placement at the end of the seer is important - that sprawling two hour record sends you down so many feelings, so many emotions - to hear The Apostate after hearing various forms of fear, madness and tranquility, it feels like ascending to a plane where the final boss resides. This is probably the intention. WE’RE ON A LADDER TO GODDDDD |
| 3 |  | Gang of Youths
Go Farther in Lightness
Perservere
Couple days this tune was the reason I got up in the morning |
| 2 |  | Fiona Apple
The Idler Wheel...
Every Single Night
I was thirteen and like yeah this song about being riddled with anxiety and not being able to sleep at night is relatable. Interesting |
| 1 |  | Kate Bush
Hounds Of Love
Cloudbusting
Perfect pop song. Kate made some real magic here - a few simple melodies, a little bittle of yodeling, lyrics that imply daddy issues but are really about some dude in Maine that claimed he could change the weather with sexual energy or some shit…Cloudbusting has it all |
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