The Chorus.Fm Users Definitive Albums List • Page 21

"Amsterdam" is still so good! One of those early 2000s minor radio hits that really holds up.

 

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”)

 

I know it didn't make the 50, but great call on Live at Carnegie Hall. So good.

 

Nice list @Matt Chylak

 

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")

 

Glad to see Mew on another list. :)

 

I wanted it to! Haha damned bias sorter.

 

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 love the inclusion of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

 

Ah damn, looks like they took The Students off Apple Music too. This song fucking rules!

 

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)

 

Did you enter each of them individually?

 

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.

 

Yeah, but in quick short hand, like...

transit
rumors
stranger
emotion

 

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.

1. MGMT- Congratulations
2. Frank Ocean- Blonde
3. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Radiohead- Kid A
5. The 1975- I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
6. Charli XCX- Pop 2
7. The Weeknd- House of Balloons
8. Lorde- Melodrama
9. Kanye West- Yeezus
10. Radiohead- OK Computer
11. Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence
12. Vampire Weekend- Modern Vampires of the City
13. The 1975- A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
14. Julian Casablancas + The Voidz- Tyranny
15. Bon Iver- 22, A Million
16. My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade
17. Tyler the Creator- IGOR
18. Vince Staples- Big Fish Theory
19. Brockhampton- Iridescence
20. FKA Twigs- Magdalene
21. Arctic Monkeys- Humbug
22. Weezer- Pinkerton
23. Father John Misty- I Love You, Honeybear
24. Haim- Days Are Gone
25. Grimes- Art Angels
26. Sufjan Stevens- Age of Adz
27. Foster the People- Supermodel
28. Charli XCX- Charli
29. Carly Rae Jepsen- Emotion
30. Ariana Grande- Thank u, next
31. Kendrick Lamar- good kid, m.A.A.d city
32. The Strokes- Comedown Machine
33. Paramore- After Laughter
34. Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism
35. Daft Punk- Random Access Memories
36. The Killers- Sam’s Town
37. Taylor Swift- 1989
38. Caroline Polachek- Pang
39. Beyonce- Beyonce
40. Weyes Blood- Titanic Rising
41. Jamie xx- In Colour
42. The Format- Dog Problems
43. Kero Kero Bonito- Time ’n’ Place
44. Janelle Monae- Dirty Computer
45. Dua Lipa- Future Nostalgia
46. Phoebe Bridgers- Punisher
47. Danny Brown- Atrocity Exhibition
48. Fall Out Boy- Folie a Deux
49. Halsey- Manic
50. Portugal. The Man- Evil Friends

 

@ComedownMachine splendid, fantastic, beautiful

 

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.

 

left and leaving is great

 

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)")