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#1

This’ll be a tough one, I really wanted to do this though…

  1. MGMT - Siberian Breaks
  2. Yes - Close to the Edge
  3. King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind
  4. The Mars Volta - L’Via L’Viaquez
  5. Swans - Helpless Child
  6. Can - Paperhouse
  7. Les Rallizes Dénudés - 夜、暗殺者の夜
  8. The Velvet Underground - Venus in Furs
  9. Sigur Ros - Svefn-G-Englar
  10. Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing
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#2

Major major kudos to you with that Robert Ashley pick. i’d probably pick that too if it wasn’t an album itself. Seriously though, listing all time favourite songs is hard enough, but listing them in order of preference is just downright impossible for me.

Here are some tunes that are very important to me:

  • Leonard Cohen - Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye
  • The Velvet Underground - I’m Set Free
  • The Beach Boys - Surf’s Up
  • John Fahey - In Christ There Is No East or West
  • The Paris Sisters - Can’t Help Falling in Love
  • Belle & Sebastian - The State I Am In
  • Swans - The Sound
  • DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
  • The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
  • Francoise Hardy - Ou va la chance
  • Felt - Evergreen Dazed
  • Girls - Solitude
  • Beach House - Heart of Chambers
  • Angel Olsen - Lonely Universe
  • Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing
  • MGMT - Siberian Breaks (duh)
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#3

I originally started with songs but that was too hard. Here are artists I think I can enjoy at any age, which over the years I find to be very rare in an artist. Some I may even enjoy and appreciate more when I’m old, which I’m excited for

10 Artists I think I’ll enjoy at all ages: Included are the songs of each artist that made me realise they will always be listen-ready, no matter my age

Joanna Newsom - Sawdust & Diamonds, Baby Birch, Sadie, Kingfisher, Go Long, Jackrabbits, In California
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Nude, Reckoner, Videotape, Separator, Give Up the Ghost, Daydreaming, Gagging Order, Life in a Glasshouse, Motion Picture Soundtrack
Bob Dylan - Restless Farwell, Boots of Spanish Leather, One Too Many Mornings, Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, With God On Our Side, Girl from the North Country, House of the Risin’ Sun
Van Morrison - Slim Slow Slider, Linden Arden Stole the Highlights, Tupelo Honey
Tom Waits - Tango Till They’re Sore, Clap Hands, Good Man is Hard to Find, Fawn, Innocent When You Dream, I’m Still Here, Come on Up to the House
Bon Iver - Heavenly Father (Live Sidney a Capella version), Beth/Rest (Jagjaguwar AIR Live session version), Holocene, Re: Stacks, Wisconsin, Babys (Jagjaguwar AIR Live session version), Wash. (Jagjaguwar AIR Live session version), I Can’t Make You Love Me (Jagjaguwar AIR Live session version)
Nick Drake - Which Will, Place to Be, From the Morning
Swans
Charles Mingus
Phil Elverum

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#4

Here’s a quick list:

Radiohead’s songs have a special place in my life and it is so hard to pick just one of them for this list.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (the song and all of the songs in that album, really)

The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Herbie Hancock - Chameleon

Swans - A Little God In My Hands / Mother Of The World

Björk - Bachelorette

Sleep - Dopesmoker

Arcade Fire - the second song in Funeral and I guess Sprawl II

Madvillain - Meat Grinder

Destroyer - Kaputt

Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)

Danny Brown - Really Doe

Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d City

Tim Hecker - Chimeras

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

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#5

Barely a single human could create a decent top pleasing everyone, without generating some kind of polemic. That’s why I´ll list my favorite ones:

  1. Have a Nice Life - Earthmover
  2. Animal Collective - La Rapet
  3. Swans - Kirsten Supine
  4. The Flaming Lips - Try to Explain/See the Leaves
  5. Sun City Girls - I Knew a Jew Named Frankenstein
  6. Deakin - Footy
  7. The Microphones - The Sun
  8. The Beatles - I Want You (She’s so Heavy)
  9. Radiohead - Dollars & Cents
  10. King Crimson - Sailor’s Tale

Honorable mentions (maybe 11 to 15):

  1. MGMT - Lady Dada’s Nightmare
  2. Muse - Space Dementia/Exogenesis Symphony Part 2
  3. Spiritualized - No God Only Religion
  4. Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
  5. Blur - Battle
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#8

I’m gonna try:

  1. Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (Unplugged Version)
  2. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
  3. Elvis Presley - Return to Sender
  4. The Beatles - Hey Jude
  5. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should’ve Come Over
  6. D’Angelo - One Mo’ Gin
  7. Buddy Holly - Everyday
  8. Bob Dylan - The Ballad of a Thin Man
  9. Led Zeppelin - What Is and What Should Never Be
  10. The Doors - Riders of the Storm

btw - I wonder if we can make an AOTY’s Readers Greatest Songs/Albums of All Time list. What do you think guys?

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