Did my best to pull a list together that best reflected my favorite albums from over the years and used the bias sorter to go from there. Kudos to whoever thought of the pick-one-song thing. My Top 50: 1 Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks ("Buckets of Rain") 2 The Blue Nile - Hats ("The Downtown Lights") 3 Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning ("Poison Oak") 4 Bon Iver - 22, A Million ("29 #Strafford APTS") 5 Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run ("Backstreets") 6 Elliott Smith - Either/Or ("Between The Bars") 7 The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships ("Sincerity Is Scary") 8 The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready To Die ("Everyday Struggle") 9 Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York ("Lake Of Fire") 10 Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas ("Christmastime Is Here - Vocal") 11 Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher ("Chinese Satellite") 12 Jimmy Eat World - Futures ("Night Drive") 13 Jens Lekman - Life Will See You Now ("Hotwire The Ferris Wheel") 14 Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle ("Go Home") 15 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home ("It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)") 16 Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly ("u") 17 Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours ("I Get Along Without You Very Well") 18 Taylor Swift - Red ("Treacherous") 18 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ("Heavy Metal Drummer") 20 Japandroids - Celebration Rock ("The House That Heaven Built") 21 Kanye West - Late Registration ("Touch The Sky") 22 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love ("One Step Up") 23 Joni Mitchell - Hejira ("Blue Motel Room") 24 The Horrible Crowes - Elsie ("Cherry Blossoms") 25 Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy ("Every Man Has A Molly") 26 Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ("Blame Game") 27 The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt ("You're Going Back") 28 Thursday - War All The Time ("Signals Over The Air") 29 Frank Ocean - Blonde ("Nights") 30 Destroyer - Kaputt ("Savage Night at the Opera") 31 The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it ("If I Believe You") 32 The Hotelier - Home Like Noplace Is There ("Among The Wildflowers") 33 Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit ("Into The Airwaves") 34 Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt ("Feelin' It") 35 Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury ("Chinese New Year") 36 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs ("Half A Person") 37 Tom Petty - Wildflowers ("Time To Move On") 38 Jason Isbell - Southeastern ("Cover Me Up") 39 The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang ("Boxer") 40 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend ("No Woman, No Cry - Live At The Lyceum") 41 John Mayer - Continuum ("Slow Dancing In A Burning Room") 42 Erykah Badu - Baduizm ("Appletree") 43 Damian Rice - My Favourite Faded Fantasy ("The Greatest Bastard") 44 Van Morrison - Moondance ("Glad Tidings") 45 Nas - Illmatic ("Life's A Bitch") 46 Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City ("Step") 47 Katie Pruitt - Expectations ("Loving Her") 48 Lorde - Melodrama ("Supercut") 49 Noah Gundersen - Ledges ("Cigarettes") 50 Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler ("In Too Deep") Honorable Mentions: 51 Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap ("Chain Smoker") 52 Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea ("Ghost") 53 D'Angelo - Black Messiah ("Really Love") 54 The Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About ("Valentine") 55 John Mayer - Born and Raised ("Whiskey, Whiskey, Whiskey") 56 Strand of Oaks - HEAL ("JM") 57 Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica ("Gravity Rides Everything") 58 Rhye - Woman ("The Fall") 59 Neil Young - On A Beach ("Motion Pictures (For Carrie)") 60 The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits ("I Won't Spend Another Night Alone") 61 Bill Withers - Live At Carnegie Hall ("Ain't No Sunshine") 62 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ ("Rocket") 63 Less Than Jake - Anthem ("Look What Happened") 64 The Staves - If I Was ("Sadness Don't Own Me") 65 Northstar - Pollyanna (“American Living”)
Gulp, here we go 1. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs ("Busby Berkeley Dreams") 2. Bruce Springsteen - The River ("The River") 3. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing ("Stem/Long Stem") 4. R.E.M - Automatic for the People ("Try Not to Breathe") 5. Soundgarden - Superunknown ("4th of July") 6. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible ("Archives of Pain") 7. Alice in Chains - Dirt ("Junkhead") 8. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity ("For Me This is Heaven") 9. Counting Crows - August and Everything After ("Anna Begins") 10. Peter Gabriel - So ("Don't Give Up") 11. Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion ("Run Away With Me") 12. Deftones - Around the Fur ("Lotion") 13. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans ("What Sarah Said") 14. Blind Melon - Soup ("St Andrew's Fall") 15. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire ("Your Ex-Lover is Dead") 16. The National - High Violet ("Bloodbuzz Ohio") 17. Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger in the Alps ("Smoke Signals") 18. Faith No More - Angel Dust ("Caffeine") 19. Pearl Jam - Vs ("Rearviewmirror") 20. Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary ("I Typed For Miles") 21. The Posies - Frosting On The Beater ("Burn and Shine") 22. Satchel - EDC ("Suffering") 23. Elliott Smith - Either/Or ("Between The Bars") 24. Lady Gaga - Born This Way ("Hair") 25. Pedro The Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend ("Secret of the Easy Yoke") 26. Helmet - Betty ("Milquetoast") 27. Taylor Swift - Red ("All Too Well") 28. Kevin Devine - Bubblegum ("Redbird") 29. Elliott - False Cathedrals ("Superstitions in Travel") 30. The Cure - Disintegration ("Lovesong") 31. Mew - Frengers ("Snow Brigade") 32. Lydia - Illuminate ("Hospital") 33. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site ("The Reasons") 34. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois ("Casimir Pulaski Day") 35. Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun ("Freedom Run") 36. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour ("Space Cowboy") 37. The Format - Dog Problems ("Dog Problems") 38. Cursive - The Ugly Organ ("Driftwood: A Fairy Tale") 39. The Hold Steady - Boys in Girls in America ("Massive Nights") 40. Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me ("Seaweed") 41. Muna - About U ("Crying on the Bathroom Floor") 42. Park - It Won't Snow Where You're Going ("Pomona For Empusa") 43. Portishead - Dummy ("Roads") 44. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come ("Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull") 45. Shearwater - Animal Joy ("You As You Were") 46. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall ("She's Out of My Life") 47. Sparklehorse - Vivadixiedubmarinetransmissionplot ("Heart of Darkness") 48. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailors Guide To Earth ("Keep It Between The Lines") 49. Wilco - Summerteeth ("Via Chicago") 50. Thursday - No Devolucion ("Magnets Caught In A Metal Heart")
A bunch on here that I had thought about. Tunnel of Love, The Wild Hunt, Wildflowers, and American Slang were all definitely in the conversation. Biggest surprise for me is A Brief Inquiry is above I like it when you sleep. I thought the latter was your album of the 2010s.
Haha I feel like for the most part my list is pretty boring tbh. There are a lot of pre-2000 albums that I absolutely love (e.g. Graceland, Rubber Soul, Can't Buy A Thrill), but at the end of the day my listening habits are so intrinsically tied to discovering and categorizing newer music that outside of my absolute all-timers (Dylan, Springsteen, etc) I'm just not revisiting those older albums very frequently. It's hard for me to justify Tusk or Tapestry when I've listened to them like one time this year. A Brief Inquiry surpassed I like it when you sleep for me by the beginning of 2019. Every song on that album clicks into place in a way that is impossible for me to disconnect from where I was and how exciting of a time it was to be a fan of that band. I love how it sonically represents the conflicted, refracting prism of Matty's life philosophies. The lyrical and musical swings that they took paid off across the board without coming off as costuming or experiments, because there's this momentous, intangible insistence at the album's core that everything is going to Cohere and Mean Something. I like it when you sleep has a few of my absolute favorite 1975 songs ("If I Believe You", "Paris", "A Change of Heart") and it's a world that I'm happy to live in for 80 minutes at a time if my fiancé wants to put it on. Ultimately I reach for ABI ~70% of the time when I want to listen to the band, and the other 30% these days is Notes. Here's my top 100 albums of the 2010s list that I pulled together kind of haphazardly at the top of the year. I didn't do as much with it as I wanted to, and I should've used the bias sorter to rank because looking now there are clear inconsistencies between that and the above list. For example, The Wild Hunt definitely got a bump because it's October.
I tried not to repeat artists, but I cheated a little if it was a completely seperate project or under a different name so Will Oldham, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli show up more than once. I also inlcuded Ryan Adams because Heartbreaker was a huge album for me even though I know Adams is the absolute worst. 1. John Prine - S/T 2. Tom Waits - Mule Variations 3. Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator) 4. Bonnie Prince Billy - I See A Darkness 5. Silver Jews - American Water 6. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 7. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde 8. Smog - Knock Knock 9. Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road 10. Songs Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co. 11. D'angelo - Voodoo 12. Neil Young - Harvest 13. Black Star - Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star 14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call 15. Palace Music - Viva Last Blues 16. Paul Simon - Graceland 17. Joni Mitchell - Blue 18. Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain 19. Eels - Electro-Shock Blues 20. Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon 21. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 22. Lal & Mike Waterson - Bright Phoebus 23. The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave 24. Townes Van Zandt - S/T 25. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate 26. Pharoah Monch - Internal Affairs 27. Son Volt - Trace 28. Digable Planets - Blowout Comb 29. Warren Zevon - S/T 30. Lee Morgan - Cornbread 31. Erykah Baduh - Mama's Gun 32. The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray 33. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy 34. Guy Clark - Old No. 1 35. Blitzen Trapper - Furr 36. Cass McCombs - Catacombs 37. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years 38. Outkast - Aquemini 39. Jason Isbell - Southeastern 40. Mos Def - Black On Both Sides 41. The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2 42. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters 43. Reflectin Eternal - Train Of Thought 44. The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site 45. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash 46. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 47. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain 48. Why? - Alopecia 49. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin 50. Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker HM Joanna Newsom - The Milk Eyed Mender Rocky Votolato - Makers The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree Fugees - The Score Lyle Lovett - Pontiac Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda Patti Smith - Horses Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? Link Wray - S/T James Mcmurtry - Childish Things Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica John Fullbright - Songs Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston Blaze Foley - Live at the Austin Outhouse William Bell - The Soul of a Bell The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose Nas - Illmatic Arthur Russel - Love Is Overtaking Me Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago Mobb Deep - The Infamous Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight Sufjan Stevens - Illinois Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues Kevin Morby - Singing Saw Destroyer - Kaputt Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Jennifer Castle - Angels of Death The Radio Dept - Clinging to a Scheme Kathleen Edwards - Failer Purple Moutains - S/T Ben Webster - Soulville Deer Tick - War Elephant Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Nancy & Lee Common - Like Water For Chocolate
I decided to do this differently. Normally on a list like this id take time and carefully consider what went where, but given the nature of the list I went off pure impulse to see what my heart came up with as I went. Top 50 1. blink-182- self titled 2. Hawthorne Heights- If Only You Were Lonely 3. My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade 4. Jack’s Mannequin- Everything In Transit 5. Taking Back Sunday- Where You Want To Be 6. Story Of The Year- The Black Swan 7. Silverstein- Discovering The Waterfront 8. Alkaline Trio- Crimson 9. Senses Fail- Still Searching 10. Jimmy Eat World- Futures 11. blink-182- Take Off Your Pants And Jacket 12. Linkin Park- Meteora 13. The All American Rejects- Move Along 14. Sum41- Chuck 15. AFI- decemberunderground 16. Hawthorne Heights- Bad Frequencies 17.Coheed And Cambria- Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV Vol 1 18. Matchbook Romance- Stories & Aibis 19. Story Of The Year- Wolves 20. Starset- Vessels 21. Yellowcard- Lights And Sounds 22. Unwritten Law- Elva 23. Cartel- Chroma 24. Taking Back Sunday- Tidal Wave 25. blink-182- Enema Of The State 26. Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run 27. Silverstein- Dead Reflection 28. Jacks Mannequin- The Glass Passenger 29. No Doubt- Tragic Kingdom 30. My Chemical Romance- Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge 31. Armor For Sleep- What To Do When You Are Dead 32. Hidden In Plain View- Life In Dreaming 33. System Of A Down- Toxicity 34. Senses Fail- Let It Enfold You 35. Creeper- Sex, Death & The Infinite Void 36. Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory 37. fun.- Some Nights 38. Green Day- Dookie 39. Fall Out Boy- From Infinity On High 40. Alkaline Trio- Good Mourning 41. Straylight Run- Straylight Run 42. Taking Back Sunday- Louder Now 43. Yellowcard- Ocean Avenue 44. +44- When Your Heart Stops Beating 45. Boxcar Racer- Boxcar Racer 46. blink-182- Nine 47. Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American 48. Kid Cudi- Man On The Moon: The End Of Day 49. The Killers- Hot Fuss 50. Less Than Jake- Anthem
This was my ballot, following my rules of one album per artist and focus more on personal musical journey rather than stuff I know in the back of my mind is a "classic" 1) Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (2003) 2) blink-182 - blink-182 (2003) 3) A Day to Remember - Homesick (2009) 4) Nas - Illmatic (1994) 5) The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (1993) 6) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (2015) 7) My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004) 8) Jimmy Eat World - Clarity (1999) 9) The Notorious B.I.G - Ready to Die (1994) 10) Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be (2004) 11) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010) 12) Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007) 13) Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory (2005) 14) Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995) 15) Lil Wayne - The Dedication 2 (2006) 16) 2pac - All Eyez On Me (1996) 17) Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights (1998) 18) Mobb Deep - The Infamous (1995) 19) Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994) 20) The Beatles - Rubber Soul (1965) 21) My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991) 22) Between the Buried & Me - Colors (2007) 23) The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation (2013) 24) Daft Punk - Discovery (2001) 25) Jack's Mannequin - Everything In Transit (2005) 26) Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy (2004) 27) Madvillian - Madvillainy (2004) 28) Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love (1966) 29) Dr. Dre - 2001 (1999) 30) Green Day - Dookie (1994) 31) Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between (2007) 32) Straylight Run - Straylight Run (2004) 33) Deftones - White Pony (2000) 34) Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind (1997) 35) Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous (1995) 36) Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle (1993) 37) Sublime - Sublime (1996) 38) Gorillaz - Gorillaz (2001) 39) The Gaslight Anthem - The 59' Sound (2008) 40) Bomb the Music Industry! - SCRAMBLES (2009) 41) Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon: The End of Days (2009) 42) The Menzingers - After the Party (2017) 43) Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994) 44) System of a Down - Toxicity (2001) 45) Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts - (2018) 46) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999) 47) Death Grips - The Money Store (2012) 48) New Found Glory - Coming Home (2006) 49) Tame Impala - Lonerism (2012) 50) Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Of course I had to ruin their chances of even being on the list by listing Fear instead of The Blind Hole.
Awesome list. So much exploring I need to do. Love seeing Richard and Linda Thompson. Right on the bubble for my 50 with Shoot Out the Lights.
i...don't haha. I haven't seen a list (not that that's what I'm specifically looking for) in a bit that is all white.
Something like this. Tried to limit repeats so I wouldn't have like 5 Radiohead albums on here. MGMT- Congratulations Frank Ocean- Blonde Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Radiohead- Kid A The 1975- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it Charli XCX- Pop 2 The Weeknd- House of Balloons Lorde- Melodrama Kanye West- Yeezus Radiohead- OK Computer Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships Julian Casablancas + The Voidz- Tyranny Bon Iver- 22, A Million My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade Tyler the Creator- IGOR Vince Staples- Big Fish Theory Brockhampton- Iridescence FKA Twigs- Magdalene Arctic Monkeys- Humbug Weezer- Pinkerton Father John Misty- I Love You, Honeybear Haim- Days Are Gone Grimes- Art Angels Sufjan Stevens- Age of Adz Foster the People- Supermodel Charli XCX- Charli Carly Rae Jepsen- Emotion Ariana Grande- Thank u, next Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d city The Strokes- Comedown Machine Paramore- After Laughter Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism Daft Punk- Random Access Memories The Killers- Sam’s Town Taylor Swift- 1989 Caroline Polachek- Pang Beyonce- Beyonce Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising Jamie xx- In Colour The Format- Dog Problems Kero Kero Bonito- Time ’n’ Place Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher Danny Brown- Atrocity Exhibition Fall Out Boy- Folie a Deux Halsey- Manic Portugal. The Man- Evil Friends
I've definitely made a point of trying to revisit older albums more frequently--not just the stuff I'm not as familiar with, but also the albums I've loved from over the years that maybe fell out of rotation after I made a year-end list. It's so easy just to be like "There's so much new music, I could just listen to albums from this year and nothing else," which I definitely was guilty of back around 2015-17. Pulling back from that a bit has helped me delve more into catalogs of artists I really respect who I maybe don't have a clear favorite album from for a list like this (Tom Petty is a great example). I go back and forth on my favorite 1975 record. I think there's a reasonable case for any of the first three. You know my opinion on Notes, haha And I don't think I ever saw your decade list! Looking forward to looking through and pulling out some stuff I may have missed.
I listened to Left and Leaving by The Weakerthans, as I'd seen them pop up in a bunch of lists, and I sort of recognised the name. I think I might have listened to it before years back, but I don't really remember it. It kind of sounds like a few other Indie Rock meets Punk Rock bands, or a classic "mature" punk album - like Jets to Brazil or something. I can definitely see that bands like the Hotelier like them, and a lot of modern emo seems like they've taken a bit from them. From a song standpoint there was nothing here that really wow-ed me, but the lyrics were good and the instrumentation was very nice. Didn't blow me away, but enjoyed it enough throughout, and would probably check out another record sometime. The lead singer's voice reminded me so much of the guy from The Dismemberment Plan that I had to Google it twice just to make sure he actually wasn't. Didn't love his voice to be honest.
Edit: Added favorite songs for each Man, the order of these probably ended up being pretty arbitrary, but these are 50 records that I think are really special. 1. The Wrens - The Meadowlands ("She Sends Kisses") 2. Joanna Newsom - Ys ("Only Skin") 3. Cursive - The Ugly Organ ("Art is Hard") 4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy ("Runaway") 5. Bright Eyes - Lifted, or the Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground ("Don't Know When But A Day is Gonna Come") 6. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... ("Anything We Want") 7. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary ("Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts") 8. David Bowie - Hunky Dory ("Life on Mars?") 9. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now ("Bird Gerhl") 10. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy ("So Come Back, I Am Waiting") 11. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? ("Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse") 12. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister ("In A Sweater Poorly Knit") 13. Eels - Electro-shock Blues ("3 Speed") 14. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math ("Virgin") 15. Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood ("Carnival") 16. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People ("The Owl And The Tanager") 17. Pedro The Lion - Control ("Indian Summer") 18. The Format - Dog Problems ("If Work Permits") 19. Lost in the Trees - All Alone in an Empty House ("Fireplace") 20. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight ("My Backwards Walk") 21. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea ("Holland, 1945") 22. Jeff Rosenstock - Worry ("Wave Goodnight to Me") 23. The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers - The Mother of Love Emulates the Shapes of Cynthia ("Ammunition For A Bolt-Action Heart") 24. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island ("Linda Ronstadt") 25. Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors ("The Calendar Hung Itself...") 26. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars ("Rock 'n' Roll Suicide") 27. Sidney Gish - No Dogs Allowed ("I Eat Salads Now") 28. Hop Along - Bark Your Head Off, Dog ("Not Abel") 29. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell ("Should Have Known Better") 30. Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial ("(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs with Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)") 31. David Bazan - Curse Your Branches ("Lost My Shape") 32. Billy Joel - The Stranger ("Scenes from an Italian Restaurant") 33. Paul Simon - Live Rhymin' ("America") 34. Laura Stevenson - The Big Freeze ("Dermatillomania") 35. Why? - Elephant Eyelash ("Yo Yo Bye Bye") 36. Mitski - Bury Me at Makeout Creek ("Townie") 37. The National - Trouble Will Find Me ("Pink Rabbits") 38. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak ("Welcome to Heartbreak") 39. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy ("Boredom") 40. Kishi Bashi - 151a ("Manchester") 41. The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There ("Dendron") 42. Tigers Jaw - Charmer ("Cool") 43. Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company ("Hold On Magnolia") 44. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange ("Pink Matter") 45. Man Man - Life Fantastic ("Oh, La Brea") 46. Tyler, The Creator - Wolf ("Domo23") 47. Lucy Dacus - Historian ("Night Shift") 48. Moonface - Julia With Blue Jeans On ("Black is Back In Style") 49. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me ("Good Intentions Paving Company") 50. Radiohead - OK Computer ("Exit Music (For a Film)")