20 Favorite Songs

[Nathan Fieldcяab]

This has making the rounds on Twitter and curious to see what other people's lists might look like

This is an impossible task so I just went with the first 20 I could think of lol, would drive myself crazy otherwise

[Crab Mech]

It's times like these I wish you could sort your Spotify library by number of plays like with iTunes.

[Nathan Fieldcяab]

1. Since I Left You - The Avalanches
2. Can't Do Without You - Caribou
3. Flutes - Hot Chip
4. Home - LCD Soundsystem
5. Operator (DJ Koze Disco Edit) - Låpsley
6. Gospel for a New Century - Yves Tumor
7. DMSR - Prince
8. Hearts on Fire - Cut Copy
9. Frontline - Kelela
10. Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
11. If I Ever Feel Better - Phoenix
12. Shutterbugg - Big Boi
13. Faster - Janelle Monáe
14. Hyberballad - Björk
15. Slide - Calvin Harris ft. Frank/Migos
16. Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
17. Losing You - Solange
18. Midnight City - M83
19. Vroom Vroom - Charli XCX
20. Another Star - Stevie Wonder

[sang_xcx]

[Crab Mech]

1. Heartbeats - The Knife
2. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
3. Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Reckoner - Radiohead
5. Upgrade - Lil Wayne
6. 21st Century Schizoid Man - King Crimson
7. Drunk Girls (Holy Ghost Remix) - LCD Soundsystem
8. One Of These Days - Pink Floyd
9. The Bronze - Queens Of the Stone Age
10. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
11. California - Grimes
12. Megalodon - Mastodon
13. Angel of Death - Slayer
14. Moar Ghosts N Stuff - deadmau5
15. You Still Believe In Me - The Beach Boys
16. Dancing On My Own - Robyn
17. We Found Love - Rihanna, Calvin Harris
18. Plays John Cassavetes 2 - Ekkehard Ehlers
19. When I Paint My Masterpiece - The Band
20. Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Bonus Track) - Kanye West

[MrPricklePants]

1. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
3. Animal Collective - Fireworks
4. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
5. Bloc Party - This Modern Love
6. Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
7. David Bowie - Life On Mars?
8. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
9. Daft Punk - Digital Love
10. Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End
11. Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
12. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
13. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
14. R.E.M. - Nightswimming
15. Frank Ocean - Nights
16. Weezer - Only in Dreams
17. Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
18. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
19. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945
20. The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out

[xfinitypass]

1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
3. The Strokes - What Ever Happened
4. Pavement - Gold Soundz
5. The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
6. Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses (single version)
7. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
8. Arcade Fire - Wake Up
9. Lorde - Green Light
10. Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
11. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
12. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
13. Saba - PROM / KING
14. Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
16. Danny Brown - Really Doe
17. Rage Against the Machine - Born of a Broken Man
18. Kanye West - Devil in A New Dress
19. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
20. Madvillain - Accordion

[jpbrez]

1. Planet Telex - Radiohead
2. Steam Engine - My Morning Jacket
3. Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
4. Bees - Animal Collective
5. Fat Lenny - Ween
6. St. Stephen - Grateful Dead
7. I Don't Wanna Grow Up - Tom Waits
8. Bad Days - The Flaming Lips
9. Lateralus - Tool
10. Down on the Street - The Stooges
11. Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones
12. Loretta's Scars - Pavement
13. AC/DC Bag - Phish
14. Making Flippy Floppy - Talking Heads
15. Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
16. Feel - Ty Segall
17. I Was Denied - Thee Oh Sees
18. Today - Smashing Pumpkins
19. Happy Hour Hero - moe.
20. Changeling - DJ Shadow

[shuck]

Aug 27, 2023 16:18:48 GMT -5 Crab Mech said:

It's times like these I wish you could sort your Spotify library by number of plays like with iTunes.

last.fm heads vindicated yet again!

[potentpotables]

Prince - Automatic
Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
Frank Ocean - Super Rich Kids
Radiohead - Optimistic
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now in the Fire
The Cure - Close to Me
The Ramones - Beat on the Brat
Justin Timberlake - Sexy Ladies
The Strokes - What Ever Happened
Janet Jackson - Runaway
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - The Tears of a Clown
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - American Girl
Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up
Bill Withers - Use Me
Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Sturgill Simpson - Call to Arms
2pac - To Live and Die in LA

[potentpotables]

Goodness gracious this was difficult. Those were some of the first 20 bands that came to mind. Also, could pick a 2nd for most and 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. I'm sure my answer will change later this week.

[Ellie]

I mean I don't think I have any repeats in the top 20

Radiohead - House of Cards
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II
Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
DARKSIDE - Paper Trails
MGMT - Electric Feel
David Bowie - Heroes
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
Kurt Vile - Wakin' On a Pretty Day
The Beach Boys - Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
Lorde - Team
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
MIA - Paper Planes
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday

To make it *slightly* more interesting, 20 random songs from my top 500, no repeat artists, nothing within the top 20, nothing from artists within the top 20

Tigers Jaw - Cool (#400)
Courtney Barnett - Charity (#256)
Queens of the Stone Age - The Vampyre of Time and Memory (#325)
Frank Ocean - Pyramids (#335)
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds (#404)
New Order - Age of Consent (#370)
Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time (#158)
Mannequin Pussy - Drunk II (#113)
Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen (#57)
Avicii - Levels (#186)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (#207)
La Roux - Bulletproof (#224)
Local Natives - Who Knows Who Cares (#232)
The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face (#432)
Prince - 1999 (#380)
Robyn - Dancing on My Own (#49)
Blur - Coffee & TV (#309)
The So So Glos - Lost Weekend (#180)
FIDLAR - Bad Habits (#233)
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence (#242)

[Jaz]

1. Outkast - Roses
2. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
3. The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby
4. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
5. Daniel Lanois - Fire
6. Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
7. Little Brother f/Elzhi - Hiding Place
8. 50 Cent - Many Men
9. Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
10. Bon Iver - Perth
11. Saul Williams - Wine
12. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
13. Frank Ocean - Nights
14. Wicked - Defying Gravity
15. Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
16. Eminem - Sing for the Moment
17. Regina Spektor - Samson
18. James Blake - Limit to Your Love
19. RENT - La Vie Boheme
20. alt-J - Taro

Oof, that was tough.