Thursday, July 9, 2009

My top 200 songs

This has been updated on Facebook for years now, but here's a more detailed version of my favorite 200 songs. This gets updated whenever a song deserves to go there. It's always 100 rock and 100 electronic songs. I've listed them here in alphabetical order of genre (I have 10 genres into which I break my favorite music).

ALTERNATIVE (26) - Primarily early '90s college rock, the stuff that Nirvana stepped on.

Charlatans - Tremelo Song
- Weirdo
Crowded House - Kare Kare
- Distant Sun
Depeche Mode - In Your Room
Doves - Catch the Sun
- Crunch
- Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
- There Goes the Fear
- Kingdom of Rust
Flaming Lips - One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Jars of Clay - Flood
Matthew Sweet - Don't Go
- Devil with the Green Eyes (Remix)
- Thunderstorm
- Sunlight
Modern English - Face of Wood
- Dawn Chorus
New Order - Someone Like You
Peter Gabriel - Steam
Sarah McLachlan - Possession
Smashing Pumpkins - Untitled
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again
Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fly From Heaven
Tori Amos - Bliss
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days

AMBIENT/CHILLOUT (24) - Moody soundscapes intended for contemplation. Hard to find sort through the genre, but the good stuff is great.

Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
- Hexagon
Bassic - Seduction
- Any Minute Now
bLiNd - Blue Vision (arrangement from Donkey Kong Country)
Blu Mar Ten - Black Water
- Brother
- The Feeling (Remix)
Dead Can Dance - Anywhere Out of the World
- Cantara
- How Fortunate the Man with None
Future Sound of London - Dead Skin Cells
Hybrid - Blackout
Mystical Sun - Blue Magnetic Ocean
Opus III - Stars in My Pocket
- Cozyland
Orb - Star 6 & 7 8 9
- Oxbow Lakes
Ozric Tentacles - Crackerblocks
- Spyroid
Spooky - Belong
Underworld - Winjer
VNV Nation - Distant (Rubicon II)
Xerxes - Angelina

BREAKS/D'N'B (17) - Complexity of beat makes for some heady mixes.

Blu Mar Ten - Starting Over
- By the Time My Light Reaches You I'll Be Gone
- If I Could Tell You
- Nobody Here
BT - Orbitus Teranium
- Running Down the Way Up
- Love in the Time of Thieves
Cardamar - Tears of a Man Who Never Cried
Hybrid - If I Survive
- Snyper
- Just for Today
- Can You Hear Me
Susumu Yokota - The Scream of a Sage Who Lost Freedom and Love Taken for Granted Before
Underworld - Pearls Girl
Way Out West - The Gift
- Anything but You
- Spaceman

ELECTRONIC (20) - A catchall genre, or leftover bin for songs that relative to my collection are ungenred.
As One - Contours
Banco de Gaia - Creme Egg
- How Much Reality Can You Take?
Bassic - Instigator
BT - Suddenly
Craig David - Fill Me In
Culprit 1 - Hollow
- Tell Me It Isn't True
David Gray - Please Forgive Me
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Easily Embarrassed - Little Trees and Mysteries
Hybrid - Until Tomorrow
- Break My Soul
Massive Attack - Angel
Orbital - The Girl with the Sun in Her Head
Ozric Tentacles - Ghedengi
- Wob Glass
Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
Primal Scream - Don't Fight It, Feel It
Underworld - Cups

EXPERIMENTAL (27) - IDM, post-rock, etc. fall here. Sounds like a catchall, but it's one of my favorite genre listings.

Autechre - Foil
- Eutow
B12 - Interim
The Black Dog - Virtual
- Seers and Sages
- Squelch
- 4.7.8.
- UV Sine
Cardamar - Capacity (How Much Can You Take?)
Clark - Growls Garden
Durutti Column - Lisboa
- Otis
- Meschugana
- No More Hurt
Eltro - Storm Cloud of the Century
Eskmo - Moving Glowstream
Jaga Jazzist - Animal Chin
- All I Know Is Tonight
- One-Armed Bandit
- Toccata
- Music! Dance! Drama!
Plaid - Squance
Susumu Yokota - A Slowly Fainting Memory of Love and Respect, and Hatred
Tortoise - Djed
- In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men
- Monica
Underworld - Banstyle/Sappys Curry

FUNK/JAZZ (12) - Largely fusions of all sorts.

Brand X - Nuclear Burn
Deadly Avenger - Day One
Jazzanova - The One-Tet
- Hanazono
- Another New Day
- Soon
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - Battleflag
Massive Attack - Safe from Harm
Orbital - Know Where to Run
Phil Collins - The West Side
Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle
Soulstice - Lovely

HOUSE (16) - The midtempo dance genre. Not pursued at large anymore, but some gems still come out every once and again.

Ashley MacIsaac - Sleepy Maggie
As One - Theme from Op-Art
BT - Rose of Jericho
Everything but the Girl - Wrong
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Jamiroquai - Supersonic
Leftfield - Song of Life
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Samantha James - Waves of Change
Susumu Yokota - Soft Tone
Underworld - Dirty Epic
- M.E.
- Luetin
- Beautiful Burnout
Way Out West - Activity

PROGRESSIVE ROCK (31) - The most complex rock in the universe, but prone to pointless jams. Not on this list.

Animals as Leaders - The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
Dream Theater - Stream of Consciousness
- Panic Attack
Frost* - Hyperventilate
- Black Light Machine
- Welcome to Nowhere
- Pocket Sun
- Dear Dead Days
Genesis - Firth of Fifth
- Dance on a Volcano
- Entangled
- Ripples
- Blood on the Rooftops
- Down and Out
- Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea
- Fading Lights
Neal Morse - Author of Confusion
Ozric Tentacles - Oakum
- San Pedro
Porcupine Tree - Signify
- Don't Hate Me
- Where We Would Be
- Lips of Ashes
- Gravity Eyelids
- The Creator Has a Mastertape
- Anesthetize
- Way Out of Here
- Cheating the Polygraph
Riverside - 02 Panic Room
Spock's Beard - In the Mouth of Madness
- The Great Nothing

ROCK (16) - The catchall counterpart to Electronic.

Genesis - Man of Our Times
- Turn It On Again
- No Reply at All
- Mama
- Taking It All Too Hard
- On the Shoreline
Peter Gabriel - No Self-Control
- The Rhythm of the Heat
- Red Rain
Phil Collins - I Cannot Believe It's True
Robbie Robertson - Fallen Angel
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
- Hora Zero
Squeeze - Another Nail in My Heart
Sting - Russians
Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl

TRANCE (11) - The difference between bad and good in this genre is huge. Never enter this genre without a guide.

BT - Flaming June
- Remember
- Godspeed
Sasha - Boileroom
- Wavy Gravy
Underworld - Pearls Girl (Tin There)
- Two Months Off
VNV Nation - Rubicon
Way Out West - Domination
- Hypnotise
Xq28 - Wake Up

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