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1. The Clash - Train in Vain
Because Joe Strummer is a perfect person and this is a perfect song.
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Top 100 songs
1. The Clash - Train in Vain
Because Joe Strummer is a perfect person and this is a perfect song.
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2. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely
I’m not here. This isn’t happening.
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3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
Listening to this album has the same profound effect on me as listening to Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech. I feel insignificant and connected to the universe at the same time.
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4. Brian Eno - The Big Ship
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5. New Order - Temptation
Up, down, turn around
Please don’t let me hit the ground
Tonight I think I’ll walk alone
I’ll find my soul as I go home
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6. Nas - NY State of Mind
It drops deep as it does in my breath
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death
Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined
I think of crime when I’m in a New York state of mind
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7. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
The best use of a vocal sample I’ve ever heard.
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8. INXS - What You Need
Saxophone solo!
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9. The Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
I am in love with this song’s honesty and simplicity.
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10. Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend
So Sign O’ The Times is just a staggering album. This is 1987 and the album starts with the lyric: “In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name.” Holy. Fuck.
And then this song, besides being just gorgeous, has such amazing lyrics: “If I was your girlfriend, would you let me dress you? I mean, help you pick out your clothes before we go out. Not that you’re helpless. But sometimes, sometimes, those are the things that being in love’s about.”
More killer opening lines: “I guess you know me well, I don’t like winter. But I seem to get a kick out of doing you cold.”
There are so many amazing songs on this album that it blows my mind. It’s perfect.
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11. Pavement - Loretta’s Scars
I’ve gone through phases of listening to Slanted and Enchanted on repeat for weeks. No regrets.
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12. The Cure - Pictures of You
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13. Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
I listened to Daydream Nation so many times that I completely wore out the CD. I just heard Rob Tannenbaum talking about how people unfairly dismiss the 80s as a decade of terrible music. This album alone proves that’s not true.
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14. De La Soul - Eye Know
And from the soul I bring you
The Daisy of your choice
May it be filled with the pleasure principle
In circumference to my voice
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15. Tool - Prison Sex
I listened to Tool when I was a bitter, angry teenager and I spent many years poring over their lyrics on toolshed.down.net and collecting all of their songs and videos over a dial-up connection. While I wouldn’t put on a Tool album now, there is one song that I should recognize because it was very important to me and helped me come to terms with my abuse. This song, to me, is about fantasies people have to inflict abuse on their abusers as revenge. I would lie in bed and listen to this song and dream about what I wanted to do to him. It’s also about someone continuing the cycle of abuse, directing it not just at their abuser but also at an innocent victim. I would worry about that constantly after hearing people say that those who get abused are most likely to abuse others. I’d listen to this and think about the lyrics, almost like a mantra in meditation until I had convinced myself that I would never do something like that to anyone.
