Best 10 songs of 2000-2009
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midwinterspring. This is a really hard list for me to compile. About 95% of the music I listen to is either classical, classic jazz, or classic rock. Also other reasons. But whatever, lemme try.
1. Joanna Newsom: Emily (Ys, 2006)
2. Radiohead: 15 Step (In Rainbows, 2007)
3. Oceansize: Long Forgotten (Effloresce, 2003). This not-well-known British band released this album, which is an absolute masterpiece, and two subsequent albums which are more or less worthless. Also check out the short instrumental opener, I Am the Morning.
4. Iron and Wine: Cinder and Smoke (Our Endless Numbered Days, 2004)
5. Elbow: Starlings (The Seldom Seen Kid, 2008)
6. Ana Gog: Doves and Fishes (album in progress, 2009). I shouldn't plug my friend's band, but this is genuinely one of the best songs I've ever heard.
7. Steve Reich: Cello Counterpoint (2003)
8. Julian Ribot: Super Aaah (Vega, 2008). I got this album in Nice. It is quite silly, but also good fun.
9. Bruce Mathiske: B's Boogie (On the Edge, 2001). This is an Australian jazz/folk guitar virtuoso who is so unknown that he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. But somehow, I run into people every so often and find they know and love him.
10. Uhh... I have no tenth. Maybe Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae (2002, rev. 2003)
This is really, really difficult. I can think of lots of great albums (by José Gonzales, Lostprophets, Slipknot, Steve Vai, Metallica, The Mars Volta...), and these albums have great songs on them. Also, I could easily list many more wonderful songs from these artists, but that seems disingenious. Finding ten songs by different artists which are really special on their own, and which have really captured me and still capture me, is very challenging. But here you go.
The songs without YouTube links either don't have them or are too long for YouTube links.
midwinterspring. This is a really hard list for me to compile. About 95% of the music I listen to is either classical, classic jazz, or classic rock. Also other reasons. But whatever, lemme try.1. Joanna Newsom: Emily (Ys, 2006)
2. Radiohead: 15 Step (In Rainbows, 2007)
3. Oceansize: Long Forgotten (Effloresce, 2003). This not-well-known British band released this album, which is an absolute masterpiece, and two subsequent albums which are more or less worthless. Also check out the short instrumental opener, I Am the Morning.
4. Iron and Wine: Cinder and Smoke (Our Endless Numbered Days, 2004)
5. Elbow: Starlings (The Seldom Seen Kid, 2008)
6. Ana Gog: Doves and Fishes (album in progress, 2009). I shouldn't plug my friend's band, but this is genuinely one of the best songs I've ever heard.
7. Steve Reich: Cello Counterpoint (2003)
8. Julian Ribot: Super Aaah (Vega, 2008). I got this album in Nice. It is quite silly, but also good fun.
9. Bruce Mathiske: B's Boogie (On the Edge, 2001). This is an Australian jazz/folk guitar virtuoso who is so unknown that he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. But somehow, I run into people every so often and find they know and love him.
10. Uhh... I have no tenth. Maybe Osvaldo Golijov: Tenebrae (2002, rev. 2003)
This is really, really difficult. I can think of lots of great albums (by José Gonzales, Lostprophets, Slipknot, Steve Vai, Metallica, The Mars Volta...), and these albums have great songs on them. Also, I could easily list many more wonderful songs from these artists, but that seems disingenious. Finding ten songs by different artists which are really special on their own, and which have really captured me and still capture me, is very challenging. But here you go.
The songs without YouTube links either don't have them or are too long for YouTube links.