Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumWXPN Best songs of the last 25 years began yesterday - as voted by their listeners
You can stream it live between 9-6 eastern most days - some variation in each day.
It is well worth a listen
Playlist is here - they are in the upper 700s.
https://xpn.org/countdown/the-885-greatest-songs-of-the-21st-century/
Listen live link is on their website - https://xpn.org/
I voted these in my top 10 - #1 - Johnny Cash, Hurt - others in my top 10 - Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator), Gillian Welch - The Way it Would Be - Patty Griffin - Rain, Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive, The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio, Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi, Beck - The Golden Age, Arcade Fire - Ready to Start, Lucinda Williams - Essence.
Last year they did the listener voted top 885 songs by women. These are such fun to vote in and listen to!
bronxiteforever
(9,554 posts)highplainsdem
(52,834 posts)Medical_Mom
(43 posts)"Top 100 Guesses
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (Top 10)
Johnny Cash - Hurt (Top 10)
The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army (Top 20)
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (Top 25)
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean (Top 25)
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? and I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
Florence + The Machine - The Dog Days are Over
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs and Wake Up
Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness, Video Games
Beck - Lost Cause
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry (721 - got this one but way wrong ranking)
The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt
Phoenix - 1901
Alabama Shakes - Hold On
MGMT - Time to Pretend, Electric Feel
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
The Strokes - Last Night, The Adults are Talking
Perfume Genius - Queen
Guessing Will Make The List:
The War on Drugs - Red Eyes, Ocean Between the Waves
M83 - Midnight City
Houndmouth - Sedona
Gregory Alan Isakov - Big Black Car
The National - I Need My Girl
NIN - The Hand That Feeds
Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights (cover)
Cold War Kids - First
The Shins - New Slang
Jason Isbell - Cover Me Up, If We Were Vampires
Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Beach House - Space Song
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Part 1)
CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace
The 1975 - If You're Too Shy Let Me Know
Vampire Weekend - Step
Beck - The Golden Age, Debra
Muse - Uprising
Wilco - Impossible Germany
Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End, Motion Sickness, Scott Street
boygenius - Not Strong Enough
Big Thief - Shark Smile
Grimes - Oblivion
The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
Phosphorescent - Song for Zula
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
Father John Misty - Real Love Baby
Lucinda - Fruits of My Labor
Longer Shots:
Dr Dog - Where'd all the Time Go, Heart It Races
Patti Griffin - Go Wherever You Wanna Go, Ohio
TV On The Radio - DMZ
Ra Ra Riot - Water
Amos Lee - Windows are Rolled Down
The New Pornographers - The Bleeding Heart Show
Goo Goo Dolls - Come To Me
Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
The Decemberists - Carry It All
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (Part 4 - The Drowning)
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath (722)
Spoon - The Underdog, Inside Out
boygenius - Me & My Dog
Iron & Wine - Call it Dreaming
Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Detail)
Josh Ritter - Kathleen
Soccer Mommy - Your Dog, Circle the Drain
Better Oblivion Community Theater - Dylan Thomas
Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
Hiss Golden Messenger - Highland Grace
Halsey - Beautiful Stranger
Barr Brothers - You Would Have to Lose Your Mind
Greg Holden - The Lost Boy
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
JTE - Far Away in Another Town"
NewHendoLib
(60,567 posts)Fun isn't it!
Medical_Mom
(43 posts)with the benefit of listening for awhile 🙂
Additions made around 625-610 in the countdown mark:
Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Top 25)
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place (Top 25)
Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (Top 50)
Bon Iver - Holocene (Top 100)
Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Top 200)
The Killers - When You Were Young (Top 200)
Tame Impala - Less I Know The Better (Top 200)
Perfume Genius - Queen (Top 250)
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight (Top 250)
Bon Iver & St. Vincent - Roslyn
St. Vincent - Fast Slow Disco
St. Vincent - Los Ageless
The xx - Islands
Real Estate - Beach Comber
Real Estate - Darling
Houndmouth - Darlin'
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Twin Shadow - Saturdays
Avett Brothers - I And Love And You
Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
QOTSA - I Sat By The Ocean
Maggie Rogers - Alaska
Waxahatchee - Fire
Parquet Courts - Tenderness
Fruit Bats - Humbug Mountain Song
Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
Wilco - Jesus, Etc
Wilco - Art of Almost
Wilco - Handshake Drugs
Drive-by Truckers - Goddamn Lonely Love
Drive-by Truckers - Decoration Day
Jason Isbell - King of Oklahoma
The Decemberists - The Mariners Revenge Song
The Decemberists - Down By The Water
Ray Lamontagne - Jolene
Ray Lamontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Ray Lamontagne - Such a Simple Thing
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Cults - Go Outside
Camera Obscura - French Navy or Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
TV On The Radio - Crying
TV On The Radio - Dancing Choose
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
Bjork - Pagan Poetry
The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You
James McMurtry - We Can't Make It Here
Jenny Lewis - One of the Guys
Dawes - A Little Bit of Everything
Belle & Sebastian - Piazza New York Catcher"