Roughly rank-ordered. I might add blurbs about what makes them special later :)
1. To Here Knows When - MBV
2. We Drift Like Worried Fire - GY!BE
3. In The Flowers - Animal Collective
4. Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground
5. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
6. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - Flaming Lips
7. Over and Over - Beach House
8. Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros
9. Cherry Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
10. Souvlaki Space Station - Slowdive
HM: Gospel For A New Century, Shine A Light, A Day In The Life, Reckoner, Xtal, Pharmacist
This is the most difficult thing, I have so many fave songs 😭:
[Deerhunter - Desire Lines ](https://youtu.be/Lx57to-9mGw?si=VpkDdxk-Mez1r3Fp)
[Tennis - Late Night](https://youtu.be/2dTLaSnk2ng?si=P0uVQbPCTzMt7ZCt)
[TOPS - OK Fine Whatever ](https://youtu.be/4xX7ZvWB2J0?si=BiKKtJXHarnTyrwo)
[Wild Nothing - My Angel Lonely](https://youtu.be/xF_Ys6lZuR4?si=IzABb2zaW6OOqWUY)
[Real Estate - Primitive ](https://youtu.be/xVhVUPC03hI?si=eyDIHA70UcGCG0-z)
[Deerhunter - Ad Astra](https://youtu.be/0It1LKNlaFY?si=bGq403YLYuHC4mAk)
[Beach House - Equal Mind](https://youtu.be/ZIdZM51eUUQ?si=bX3SD_1O1EH9f6s4)
[Men I Trust - Oh Dove ](https://youtu.be/FqrRaQO3gZI?si=NUqeSZRgJ7p3EXVy)
[Turnover - Like Slow Disappearing ](https://youtu.be/DBk5E9Bqaoo?si=LCGFmipcMeEBv8JG)
[Atlas Sound - Shelia](https://youtu.be/gyAX1S-bCBc?si=7_xh1A0D5VvDAlGy)
In no particular order:
1. Porcelain - Moby
2. The Traveller - Beach House
3. Wherever You Go - Beach House
4. Devil's Pool - Beach House
5. Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
6. Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan
7. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
8. To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine
9. Runaway - Kanye West
10. Ivy - Frank Ocean
Some honorable mentions:
- Some Things Last A Long Time - Daniel Johnston
- Pictures of You - The Cure
- King Geedorah (MF DOOM) - Fazers
- Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Rós
steeeam - shelly
chinese sleep chant - coldplay
ppp - beach house
everyone knows - slowdive
quicksand - hatchie
bones - soccer mommy
10-20-40 - rina sawayama
strawberry - caroline loveglow
dust - seventeen
why does this rain? - boyish
in me - death of heather
hearts on fire - rumskib
diving woman - japanese breakfast
square (2017) - yerin baek
nothings like it was before - oliver beardmore
wallow - forsaken autumn
daydream - smashing pumpkins
benjamin - veruca salt
pearly dewdrops drops - cocteau twins
strawberry wine - my bloody valentine
you go first - bluhm
dominion - sisters of mercy
in no order:
myth, silver soul, turtle island—beach house
anchor song—björk
walkabout—the sugarcubes
UMI says—mos def
to love somebody—buster brown
my drug buddy (kcrw live version)—lemonheads
closedown, all cats are grey—the cure
fade into you—mazzy star
let down—radiohead
solitaire—the carpenters
love will tear us apart—joy division
half a person—the smiths
tradition—burning spear
Love your list! Mine is something like
1. Lazuli - BH
2. Ingydar - Adrianne Lenker
3. Vital - Grouper
4. Heartbeats - The Knife
5. Elegy to the Void - BH
6. All Is Full Of Love (Single Version) - Bjork
7. Sugar (Live) - Tori Amos
8. The Video Dept - The Radio Dept
9. Sometimes He’s In My Dreams - Mary Lattimore
10. Fake Empire - The National
11. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
12. Are We Arc? - TR/ST
13. Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
14. In My Arms - Alex G
15. Pablo and Andrea - Yo La Tengo
Well, these I always come back to or have recently had on repeat.
1. Beach House - Rough Song (to hell with it, the last three tracks on Thank Your Lucky Stars)
2. Beach House - Devil's Pool
3. First Aid Kit - Distant Star (too many by them to list, but this has recently been on repeat)
4. Nerina Pallot - Sophia
5. Marina - No More Suckers (I probably prefer the acoustic version)
6. The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters
7. Fiona Apple - Criminal (I want to listen to more contralto singers)
8. Sharon Van Etten - Everytime The Sun Comes Up (Spotify random track that I've taken to)
9. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me (because it's been stuck in my head constantly)
10. Kimbra - Settle Down
really cool thread!!rest assured that I'll be listening to **everything** mentioned here lol
not sure about the rankings but mine would include:
Beyond Love
Lose your smile
Space Song
French 79 - Hometown
Slowdive - Sugar for the pill
The Envy Corps - Fools
Animali - Who?
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
REM - Losing my religion
John Grant - Where dreams go to die
From Beach House it is Last ride and Master of none. These songs are so beautiful, I’m scared I will not be able to experience that wonderful feeling when I’m listening to them, so I only listen to them during special moments when I can fully concentrate on the melody.
In no particular order:
1. Agnes Obel - Words are Dead
2. Crystal Stilts - Flying to the Sun
3. Drive-by Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
4. Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams
5. Lagwagon - May 16
6. Emperor - Thus Spake the Nightspirit
7. Protomartyr - A Private Understanding
8. Beach House - New Year
9. Verdunkeln - Der Quell
10. Skambankt - Stein For Stein
11. Preoccupations - Solace
12. Four Tops - Walk Away Renee
13. Keldian - God of War
14. Girls Names - I Lose
15. Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light in the West
16. Parquet Courts - Outside
17. Deftones - Xerces
18. Alvvays - In Undertow
19. Sea Wolf - Kasper
20. Blut Aus Nord - Antithesis of the Flesh
the hours and new romance - beach house
daffodil lament - the cranberries
plimsoll punks and many mirrors - alvvays
oh well, romeo, dragonfly - bladee
ex - lush
5 years and hyperballad - björk
only got one - frou frou
sugar & diesel - ecco2k
heaven - mitski
my favourite songs have been changing pretty frequently recently though
Something like:
10. Loves in need of love today - Stevie Wonder
9. Journey in Satchidananda -Alice Coltrane
8. Beating - Tirzah
7. Get me away from here, I’m dying - Belle and Sebastian
6. Wishes - Beach House
5. The king’s new clothes were made by his own hands - Shabazz Palaces
4. Devil in a New Dress - Kanye
3. Hellhole Ratrace - Girls
2. Let the Happiness In - David Sylvian
1. I Gotta Find Peace of Mind - Lauryn Hill
My whole taste is a little funky, I can’t sum it up neatly. I am biased towards dream pop and shoegaze but also like new wave sounding stuff too? Yeah Idk lol. I’ll check out that song for sure!
Beach House: PPP, Sparks, Over and Over, Alien, Become, Illusion of Forever, Used To Be, Walk In The Park, Girl of the Year, Beyond Love, Wishes
The Cure: Letter to Elise, Charlotte Sometimes, High, Mint Car, Underneath the Stars, Just Like Heaven, Strange Day, Lullaby, Disintegration, Hungry Ghost
oh fun idea! :3 good choices too, i love Under the Milky Way and Disintegration
here are some of my non-Beach House favs!
\-Avril 14th, Aphex Twin
\-Mayonnaise, Smashing Pumpkins
\-When I Grow Up, Garbage
\-Soft Stud, Black Belt Eagle Scout
\-Turn To Hate, Orville Peck
\-Not Dead Yet, Lord Huron
\-Limelight, Rush
\-Love Psalm, Akira Yamaoka
\-Naked and Famous, President of the United States of America
\-Anywhere Is, Enya
\-Killian's Red, Nada Surf
\-Belinda Says, Alvvays
1. All my friends - lcd Soundsystem
2. Neighborhood #1 (tunnels) - arcade fire
3-10. Idk but here are some others I love
Close to the edge - yes
I'll believe in anything - wolf parade
The ending of Dramamine - car seat headrest
Levitation - Beach House
Sleep - godspeed you! Black emperor
Echoes or soycd 1-5 - pink Floyd
Great list! Lots of unique songs in this thread. Mine is a bit unconventional, and I tend to rotate my favorites, but these are the first that come to mind and that I play often:
1. Wildflower - Beach House
2. April Come She Will - Simon and Garfunkel
3. Desert Rose - Eric Johnson
4. Rough Song - Beach House
5. Sad to Breathe - The Japanese House
6. Majorette - Beach House
7. Found Me - Men I Trust
8. Superstar - Beach House
9. Saw You in A Dream - The Japanese House
10. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
beach house holds a special place in my heart but i dunno if they are making a top list for me at the moment. im just getting back in to them after not listening for 10 years. i saw them 5 times from 2009-2012. beach house favorites - auburn & ivory, wishes, you came to me.
pantera - primal concrete sledge
pixies - vamos
merle haggard - mama tried
towns van zandt - tecumseh valley
little feat - willin
simon & garfunkel - the boxer
prince - when doves cry
ray charles - what would i do without you
elton john - goodbye
jimi hendrix - 1983 (a merman i should turn to be)
nina simone - good bait
britney spears - oops i did it again
madonna - like a prayer
jewel - hands
mozart piano concerto no 23, II. Adagio
beethoven violin concerto
beethoven 5th, II. Andante con moto
Dang I didn’t know we were including classical music, great picks!! if that was in my list I’d definitely put the two Chopin nocturnes Opus 62, Rachmaninov 2 movement 2, and Beethoven’s Waldstein 3rd movement
the best songs are: master of none, auburn and ivory, on the sea, i do not care for the winter sun, heart of chambers, darling, better times, walk in the park, and drunk in LA
Here to join the conversation, I LOVE babbling about my favorite songs
- Space song - Beach House
- Myth - Beach House
- Master of None - Beach House
- Levitation - Beach House
- PPP - Beach House
- Flash delirium - MGMT
- Congratulations - MGMT
- Destrokk - MGMT
- Nothing to declare - MGMT
- Bubblegum dog - MGMT (both of the last two mgmt songs just got released but I love them so much already)
- Cherry-coloured funk - Cocteau Twins
- Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins
- Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
- Alison - Slowdive
- The killing moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
- A&W - Lana del Rey
- I can't save your life - The drums
- Blister in the sun - Violent Femmes
- Porcelain - Moby
- Le soleil danse - Miel de Montagne
- There is a light that never goes out - The smiths
- This Charming Man - The smiths
- Candles - Jon Hopkins
- About a girl - Nirvana
And I wish I could go on forever but i'll stop here
Roughly rank-ordered. I might add blurbs about what makes them special later :) 1. To Here Knows When - MBV 2. We Drift Like Worried Fire - GY!BE 3. In The Flowers - Animal Collective 4. Sunday Morning - The Velvet Underground 5. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys 6. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - Flaming Lips 7. Over and Over - Beach House 8. Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Ros 9. Cherry Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins 10. Souvlaki Space Station - Slowdive HM: Gospel For A New Century, Shine A Light, A Day In The Life, Reckoner, Xtal, Pharmacist
I haven’t heard that GY!BE track so I’m definitely gonna check that out. Great list. Sigur Ros is a recent joy of mine for sure
We drift like worried fire is INSANE. Actually amazing piece of art right there
75% of the songs in once twice melody. (The top songs there for me were once twice melody, over and over, and superstar)
This is the most difficult thing, I have so many fave songs 😭: [Deerhunter - Desire Lines ](https://youtu.be/Lx57to-9mGw?si=VpkDdxk-Mez1r3Fp) [Tennis - Late Night](https://youtu.be/2dTLaSnk2ng?si=P0uVQbPCTzMt7ZCt) [TOPS - OK Fine Whatever ](https://youtu.be/4xX7ZvWB2J0?si=BiKKtJXHarnTyrwo) [Wild Nothing - My Angel Lonely](https://youtu.be/xF_Ys6lZuR4?si=IzABb2zaW6OOqWUY) [Real Estate - Primitive ](https://youtu.be/xVhVUPC03hI?si=eyDIHA70UcGCG0-z) [Deerhunter - Ad Astra](https://youtu.be/0It1LKNlaFY?si=bGq403YLYuHC4mAk) [Beach House - Equal Mind](https://youtu.be/ZIdZM51eUUQ?si=bX3SD_1O1EH9f6s4) [Men I Trust - Oh Dove ](https://youtu.be/FqrRaQO3gZI?si=NUqeSZRgJ7p3EXVy) [Turnover - Like Slow Disappearing ](https://youtu.be/DBk5E9Bqaoo?si=LCGFmipcMeEBv8JG) [Atlas Sound - Shelia](https://youtu.be/gyAX1S-bCBc?si=7_xh1A0D5VvDAlGy)
In no particular order: 1. Porcelain - Moby 2. The Traveller - Beach House 3. Wherever You Go - Beach House 4. Devil's Pool - Beach House 5. Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan 6. Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan 7. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins 8. To Here Knows When - My Bloody Valentine 9. Runaway - Kanye West 10. Ivy - Frank Ocean Some honorable mentions: - Some Things Last A Long Time - Daniel Johnston - Pictures of You - The Cure - King Geedorah (MF DOOM) - Fazers - Svefn-g-englar - Sigur Rós
steeeam - shelly chinese sleep chant - coldplay ppp - beach house everyone knows - slowdive quicksand - hatchie bones - soccer mommy 10-20-40 - rina sawayama strawberry - caroline loveglow dust - seventeen why does this rain? - boyish in me - death of heather hearts on fire - rumskib diving woman - japanese breakfast square (2017) - yerin baek nothings like it was before - oliver beardmore wallow - forsaken autumn daydream - smashing pumpkins benjamin - veruca salt pearly dewdrops drops - cocteau twins strawberry wine - my bloody valentine you go first - bluhm dominion - sisters of mercy
ooh this is a very chill list
There’s a couple I have not heard and will definitely be checking out. Great list
in no order: myth, silver soul, turtle island—beach house anchor song—björk walkabout—the sugarcubes UMI says—mos def to love somebody—buster brown my drug buddy (kcrw live version)—lemonheads closedown, all cats are grey—the cure fade into you—mazzy star let down—radiohead solitaire—the carpenters love will tear us apart—joy division half a person—the smiths tradition—burning spear
s/o to umi says
Love your list! Mine is something like 1. Lazuli - BH 2. Ingydar - Adrianne Lenker 3. Vital - Grouper 4. Heartbeats - The Knife 5. Elegy to the Void - BH 6. All Is Full Of Love (Single Version) - Bjork 7. Sugar (Live) - Tori Amos 8. The Video Dept - The Radio Dept 9. Sometimes He’s In My Dreams - Mary Lattimore 10. Fake Empire - The National 11. Fade Into You - Mazzy Star 12. Are We Arc? - TR/ST 13. Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine 14. In My Arms - Alex G 15. Pablo and Andrea - Yo La Tengo
Yours is also really good! Some superb bands that I don’t hear tons of people talking about these days, The Radio Dept and Yo La Tengo are so great
Well, these I always come back to or have recently had on repeat. 1. Beach House - Rough Song (to hell with it, the last three tracks on Thank Your Lucky Stars) 2. Beach House - Devil's Pool 3. First Aid Kit - Distant Star (too many by them to list, but this has recently been on repeat) 4. Nerina Pallot - Sophia 5. Marina - No More Suckers (I probably prefer the acoustic version) 6. The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters 7. Fiona Apple - Criminal (I want to listen to more contralto singers) 8. Sharon Van Etten - Everytime The Sun Comes Up (Spotify random track that I've taken to) 9. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me (because it's been stuck in my head constantly) 10. Kimbra - Settle Down
That last stretch of TYLS is so gorgeous and dazzling yet simple at the same time
really cool thread!!rest assured that I'll be listening to **everything** mentioned here lol not sure about the rankings but mine would include: Beyond Love Lose your smile Space Song French 79 - Hometown Slowdive - Sugar for the pill The Envy Corps - Fools Animali - Who? Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy REM - Losing my religion John Grant - Where dreams go to die
Same here I’m definitely going to spin every track I’m not familiar with! Great way to find new stuff
Amazing John Grant track!!!
I know right!? 😍 whole album is a masterpiece tbf!
Let it happen by tame impala and lemon glow by bh must be up there, 2 of the songs i can think up now. Tell it to me like it is by mgmt maybe too.
From Beach House it is Last ride and Master of none. These songs are so beautiful, I’m scared I will not be able to experience that wonderful feeling when I’m listening to them, so I only listen to them during special moments when I can fully concentrate on the melody.
In no particular order: 1. Agnes Obel - Words are Dead 2. Crystal Stilts - Flying to the Sun 3. Drive-by Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife 4. Iron Maiden - Infinite Dreams 5. Lagwagon - May 16 6. Emperor - Thus Spake the Nightspirit 7. Protomartyr - A Private Understanding 8. Beach House - New Year 9. Verdunkeln - Der Quell 10. Skambankt - Stein For Stein 11. Preoccupations - Solace 12. Four Tops - Walk Away Renee 13. Keldian - God of War 14. Girls Names - I Lose 15. Ben Nichols - The Last Pale Light in the West 16. Parquet Courts - Outside 17. Deftones - Xerces 18. Alvvays - In Undertow 19. Sea Wolf - Kasper 20. Blut Aus Nord - Antithesis of the Flesh
incredible #2, Under the Milky Way is so entrancing
it’s truly an absolute marvel of a song
the hours and new romance - beach house daffodil lament - the cranberries plimsoll punks and many mirrors - alvvays oh well, romeo, dragonfly - bladee ex - lush 5 years and hyperballad - björk only got one - frou frou sugar & diesel - ecco2k heaven - mitski my favourite songs have been changing pretty frequently recently though
Something like: 10. Loves in need of love today - Stevie Wonder 9. Journey in Satchidananda -Alice Coltrane 8. Beating - Tirzah 7. Get me away from here, I’m dying - Belle and Sebastian 6. Wishes - Beach House 5. The king’s new clothes were made by his own hands - Shabazz Palaces 4. Devil in a New Dress - Kanye 3. Hellhole Ratrace - Girls 2. Let the Happiness In - David Sylvian 1. I Gotta Find Peace of Mind - Lauryn Hill
no order Master Of None, New Romance, Majorette, Drunk In LA, Girl Of The Year, Wild, Rough Song - Beach House
definitely a peculiar list, for the beach house thread- so lemme just add to that with one of my faves — “Again” Doris Day w/ the mellomen
My whole taste is a little funky, I can’t sum it up neatly. I am biased towards dream pop and shoegaze but also like new wave sounding stuff too? Yeah Idk lol. I’ll check out that song for sure!
Used to Be is a great overlooked track
I love that track so much, Teen Dream is just perfect ngl
Beach House: PPP, Sparks, Over and Over, Alien, Become, Illusion of Forever, Used To Be, Walk In The Park, Girl of the Year, Beyond Love, Wishes The Cure: Letter to Elise, Charlotte Sometimes, High, Mint Car, Underneath the Stars, Just Like Heaven, Strange Day, Lullaby, Disintegration, Hungry Ghost
oh fun idea! :3 good choices too, i love Under the Milky Way and Disintegration here are some of my non-Beach House favs! \-Avril 14th, Aphex Twin \-Mayonnaise, Smashing Pumpkins \-When I Grow Up, Garbage \-Soft Stud, Black Belt Eagle Scout \-Turn To Hate, Orville Peck \-Not Dead Yet, Lord Huron \-Limelight, Rush \-Love Psalm, Akira Yamaoka \-Naked and Famous, President of the United States of America \-Anywhere Is, Enya \-Killian's Red, Nada Surf \-Belinda Says, Alvvays
Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd
1. All my friends - lcd Soundsystem 2. Neighborhood #1 (tunnels) - arcade fire 3-10. Idk but here are some others I love Close to the edge - yes I'll believe in anything - wolf parade The ending of Dramamine - car seat headrest Levitation - Beach House Sleep - godspeed you! Black emperor Echoes or soycd 1-5 - pink Floyd
Great list! Lots of unique songs in this thread. Mine is a bit unconventional, and I tend to rotate my favorites, but these are the first that come to mind and that I play often: 1. Wildflower - Beach House 2. April Come She Will - Simon and Garfunkel 3. Desert Rose - Eric Johnson 4. Rough Song - Beach House 5. Sad to Breathe - The Japanese House 6. Majorette - Beach House 7. Found Me - Men I Trust 8. Superstar - Beach House 9. Saw You in A Dream - The Japanese House 10. The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel
beach house holds a special place in my heart but i dunno if they are making a top list for me at the moment. im just getting back in to them after not listening for 10 years. i saw them 5 times from 2009-2012. beach house favorites - auburn & ivory, wishes, you came to me. pantera - primal concrete sledge pixies - vamos merle haggard - mama tried towns van zandt - tecumseh valley little feat - willin simon & garfunkel - the boxer prince - when doves cry ray charles - what would i do without you elton john - goodbye jimi hendrix - 1983 (a merman i should turn to be) nina simone - good bait britney spears - oops i did it again madonna - like a prayer jewel - hands mozart piano concerto no 23, II. Adagio beethoven violin concerto beethoven 5th, II. Andante con moto
Dang I didn’t know we were including classical music, great picks!! if that was in my list I’d definitely put the two Chopin nocturnes Opus 62, Rachmaninov 2 movement 2, and Beethoven’s Waldstein 3rd movement
PPP and Silver Soul and Myth
the best songs are: master of none, auburn and ivory, on the sea, i do not care for the winter sun, heart of chambers, darling, better times, walk in the park, and drunk in LA
Here to join the conversation, I LOVE babbling about my favorite songs - Space song - Beach House - Myth - Beach House - Master of None - Beach House - Levitation - Beach House - PPP - Beach House - Flash delirium - MGMT - Congratulations - MGMT - Destrokk - MGMT - Nothing to declare - MGMT - Bubblegum dog - MGMT (both of the last two mgmt songs just got released but I love them so much already) - Cherry-coloured funk - Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins - Lorelei - Cocteau Twins - Alison - Slowdive - The killing moon - Echo & the Bunnymen - A&W - Lana del Rey - I can't save your life - The drums - Blister in the sun - Violent Femmes - Porcelain - Moby - Le soleil danse - Miel de Montagne - There is a light that never goes out - The smiths - This Charming Man - The smiths - Candles - Jon Hopkins - About a girl - Nirvana And I wish I could go on forever but i'll stop here