The listies: songs.
Submitted by Jeandré on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 05:50
- Listies' favorite/best songs per year, based on the year it was first released (not composed): AfterHours, AlacritMusic, but_imacreep, Denny90, JBones, Jeandré, lbangs, lukeprog, mightysparks, staup2005, and Wezzo - more welcome.
2012
- "Ho hey" - The lumineers (Jeandré)
- "Rocky ground" - Bruce Springsteen (Wezzo)
2011
- "E.T." - Katy Perry (staup2005)
- "Every beat of my heart" - Danny and the champions of the world (Wezzo)
- "Somebody that I used to know" - Gotye, Kimbra (Jeandré, mightysparks)
2010
- "Backseat" - Staygold, Spank Rock, Damien Adore & Robyn (JBones)
- "Change of seasons" - Sweet thing (Jeandré)
- "Écailles de Lune (part 1)" - Alcest (Denny90)
- "Lemonworld" - The national (mightysparks)
- "Over joy" - Steven Page (Wezzo)
- "Teenage dream" - Katy Perry (staup2005)
2009
- "Flavor" - Tori Amos (staup2005)
- "Daylight" - Matt & Kim (mightysparks)
- "Memories (someone we'll never know)" - Clint Mansell (Jeandré)
- "My girls" - Animal collective (JBones)
- "Summertime clothes" - Animal collective (lbangs)
- "Tonight the streets are ours" - Richard Hawley (Wezzo)
2008
- "Diamond ring" - Sheryl Crow (Jeandré)
- "DotA" - Basshunter (mightysparks)
- "I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" - Black kids (lbangs)
- "Life is long" - Brian Eno and David Byrne (Wezzo)
- "The modern leper" - Frightened rabbit (Denny90)
- "Paris (aeroplane mix)" - Friendly fires (JBones)
- "Time to pretend" - MGMT (AlacritMusic)
2007
- "Ciel errant" - Alcest (Denny90)
- "Electric feel" - MGMT (mightysparks)
- "Farsi prayer" - Lisbeth Scott (Jeandré)
- "Lovers who uncover" - Crystal castles (JBones)
- "Slideshow" - Rufus Wainwright (staup2005)
- "Someone great" - LCD soundsystem (lbangs)
- "West coast" - Coconut records (Wezzo)
2006
- "I was a lover" - TV on the radio (lbangs)
- "Only skin" - Joanna Newsom (AfterHours)
- "This will make you love again" - IAMX (AlacritMusic)
- "Together we will live forever" - Clint Mansell (Denny90)
- "What he means" - Just jinjer (Jeandré)
- "What you know" - T.I. (JBones)
- "When you were young" - The killers (mightysparks)
2005
- "Avenue of hope" - I am Kloot (staup2005)
- "Before kings" - Geoff Byrd (Wezzo)
- "Bullets" (version 1) - Editors (lbangs)
- "Cassandra Gemini" - The Mars Volta (AfterHours)
- "The coffin ships" - Primordial (Denny90)
- "Do you want to" - Franz Ferdinand (mightysparks)
- "Helena" - My chemical romance (JBones)
- "Hide and seek" - Imogen Heap (AlacritMusic, Jeandré)
- "Xmd5a" - Aphex twin (lukeprog)
2004
- "Aftermath" - R.E.M. (Wezzo)
- "Boulevard of broken dreams" - Green day (mightysparks)
- "Breathe me" - Sia (Jeandré)
- "Galang" - M.I.A. (JBones)
- "Rebellion (lies)" - Arcade fire (lbangs)
- "Take me out" - Franz Ferdinand (lukeprog)
- "Wiederhall der leere" - Kaeltetod (Denny90)
- "Your ex-lover is dead" - Stars (AlacritMusic)
2003
- "Amie" - Damien Rice (AlacritMusic)
- "Butterflies & hurricanes" - Muse (lukeprog)
- "Chosen (long version)" - unknown [Robert Duncan] (Jeandré)
- "Crackle & drag" (original take) - Paul Westerberg (lbangs)
- "Dinner at eight" - Rufus Wainwright (staup2005)
- "Fresh feeling" - Eels (mightysparks)
- "So says I" - The shins (Wezzo)
- "Violence" - Anathema (Denny90)
2002
- "All the things she said" - t.A.T.u. (mightysparks)
- "Dryad of the woods" - Pain of salvation (Denny90)
- "I can't see New York" - Tori Amos (staup2005)
- "Mad world" - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules (Jeandré)
- "PDA" - Interpol (lbangs)
- "Section 9: light & day" - The polyphonic spree (Wezzo)
- "Samson" (Songs version) - Regina Spektor (AlacritMusic)
- "Untitled 4" - Sigur rós (lukeprog)
2001
- "Aurora" - Björk (staup2005)
- "Imitation of life" - R.E.M. (Wezzo)
- "Miles Away" - Yeah yeah yeahs (lbangs)
- "Movies" - Alien ant farm (mightysparks)
- "Smooth criminal" - Alien ant farm (Jeandré)
- "Yasmin the light" - Explosions in the sky (Denny90)
2000
- "Brave new world" - Iron maiden (Denny90)
- "Hanging by a moment" - Lifehouse (Jeandré)
- "Hold on hope" - Guided by voices (Wezzo)
- "I offered it up to the stars & the night sky" - Dirty 3 (AfterHours)
- "I've seen it all" - Björk (AlacritMusic)
- "Nas ne dogonyat" - t.A.T.u. (mightysparks)
- "Paradise (not for me)" - Madonna (staup2005)
- "The real you" - Joseph Arthur (lbangs)
1999
- "Asleep from day" - The chemical brothers (staup2005)
- "Avalon" - Sigur rós (Denny90)
- "Colorblind" - Counting crows (Jeandré)
- "The pop singer's fear of the pollen count" - The divine comedy (Wezzo)
- "Red dragon tattoo" - Fountains of Wayne (mightysparks)
- "Praise you" - Fatboy slim (but_imacreep)
1998
- "Adia" - Sarah Mclaughlin (but_imacreep)
- "April ethereal" - Opeth (Denny90)
- "At my most beautiful" - R.E.M. (Wezzo)
- "Every you every me" - Placebo (mightysparks)
- "Ex-factor" - Lauryn Hill (staup2005)
- "Oh comely" - Neutral milk hotel (AfterHours)
- "Rose K." - Rasputina (AlacritMusic)
- "Whiskey in the jar" - Metallica (Jeandré)
1997
- "Barbie girl" - Aqua (mightysparks)
- "Exit music (for a film)" - Radiohead (Jeandré)
- "Joga" - Björk (AlacritMusic)
- "Love fool" - Cardigans (but_imacreep)
- "My heart will go on" - Celine Dion (Denny90)
- "Say yes" - Elliott Smith (Wezzo)
- "Well oiled" - Hash jar tempo (AfterHours)
1996
- "1979" - The smashing pumpkins (staup2005)
- "Angels of the silences" - Counting crows (Jeandré)
- "Bitter sweet symphony" - The verve (mightysparks)
- "Djed" - Tortoise (AfterHours)
- "Father Lucifer" - Tori Amos (AlacritMusic)
- "Funeral in Carpathia" - Cradle of filth (Denny90)
- "New York City" - They might be giants (Wezzo)
- "No diggity" - Blackstreet (but_imacreep)
1995
- "Army of me" - Björk (staup2005)
- "Don't speak"- No doubt (Jeandré)
- "Sonnensturme" - Lightwave (AfterHours)
- "Walking on the milky way" - Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark (mightysparks)
- "Waterfalls" - TLC (but_imacreep)
- "Zero" - The smashing pumpkins (Denny90)
1994
- "Bells for her" - Tori Amos (staup2005)
- "Cornflake girl" - Tori Amos (Jeandré)
- "Crazy" - Aerosmith (but_imacreep)
- "Half the world away" - Oasis (AlacritMusic)
- "Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley (Denny90)
- "Lemon tree" - Fools garden (mightysparks)
- "Life, in a nutshell" - Barenaked ladies (Wezzo)
- "...a psychopath" - Lisa Germano (AfterHours)
1993
- "500 miles" - The proclaimers (but_imacreep)
- "Asshole" - Denis Leary (mightysparks)
- "Heart-shaped box" - Nirvana (staup2005)
- "Into dust" - Mazzy star (Jeandré)
- "Runaway train" - Soul asylum (Wezzo)
- "Streets of Philadelphia" - Bruce Springsteen (Denny90)
1992
- "100 %" - Sonic youth (but_imacreep)
- "If I can't change your mind" - Sugar (Wezzo)
- "Medicine bottle" - Red house painters (AfterHours)
- "Poison heart" - The Ramones (Denny90)
- "Smells like teen spirit" - Tori Amos (Jeandré)
- "Two princes" - Spin doctors (mightysparks)
- "Winter" - Tori Amos (AlacritMusic, staup2005)
1991
- "Black or white" - Michael Jackson (but_imacreep)
- "Good morning captain" - Slint (AfterHours)
- "Hair like Alain Delon" - White town (mightysparks)
- "Main title from Terminator 2" - Brad Fiedel (Jeandré)
- "Near wild heaven" - R.E.M. (Wezzo)
- "This house" - Alison Moyet (staup2005)
- "Vapour trail" - Ride (AlacritMusic)
1990
- "Birdhouse in your soul" - They might be giants (Wezzo)
- "Can't touch this" - M.C. Hammer (but_imacreep)
- "I can see clearly now" - The hothouse flowers (Jeandré)
- "Losing my religion" - R.E.M. (mightysparks)
- "November spawned a monster" - Morrissey (staup2005)
- "One rode to Asa bay" - Bathory (Denny90)
- "The witness song" - Nick Cave (AfterHours)
1989
- "The downeaster 'Alexa'" - Billy Joel (Jeandré, Wezzo)
- "Enjoy the silence" - Depeche mode (mightysparks)
- "Lullaby" - The cure (staup2005)
- "Ostrobothnian symphony" - Balakauskas (AfterHours)
1988
- "Bullet the blue sky (Rattle and hum, live)" - U2 (Jeandré)
- "Dancing in the storm" - Boom crash opera (mightysparks)
- "A fairytale of New York" - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl (Wezzo)
- "Watermark" - Enya (Denny90)
1987
- "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" - U2 (Jeandré)
- "Man in the mirror" - Michael Jackson (staup2005)
- "The promise" - When in Rome (mightysparks)
1986
- "Almaz" - Randy Crawford (Jeandré)
- "Always on my mind" - Pet shop boys (mightysparks)
- "Fall on me" - R.E.M. (Wezzo)
- "Live to tell" - Madonna (staup2005)
- "Purple rain" - Prince and the revolution (Denny90)
1985
- "Asleep" - The Smiths (AlacritMusic)
- "Moon over Bourbon street" - Sting (staup2005)
- "Take on me" - a-ha (mightysparks)
- "Throne of agony" - Foetus (AfterHours)
- "Walking on sunshine" - Katrina and the waves (Jeandré)
1984
- "Downbound train" - Bruce Springsteen (Wezzo)
- "Fade to black" - Metallica (Denny90, Jeandré)
- "Repons" - Boulez (AfterHours)
- "William, it was really nothing" - The Smiths (mightysparks)
1983
- "Every breath you take" - The police (Jeandré)
- "In a big country" - Big country (mightysparks)
1982
- "Delta sleep" - Trees (mightysparks)
- "Hallowed be thy name" - Iron maiden (Denny90)
- "Jack and Diane" - John Mellencamp (Jeandré)
- "Night of the swallow" - Kate Bush (staup2005)
1981
- "Biography" - Meredith Monk (AfterHours)
- "Kids in America" - Kim Wilde (staup2005)
- "October" - U2 (Jeandré)
- "The waiting" - Tom Petty & the heartbreakers (Wezzo)
- "Wishing (if I had a photograph of you)" - A flock of seagulls (mightysparks)
1980
- "Don't stand so close to me" - The police (Jeandré)
- "Holiday in Cambodia" - Dead Kennedys (AfterHours)
- "I can't tell you why" - Eagles (staup2005)
- "The river" - Bruce Springsteen (Wezzo)
- "Vienna" - Ultravox (mightysparks)
1979
- "Enola Gay" - Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark (mightysparks)
- "London calling" - The clash (Denny90)
- "Magazine" - Heart (staup2005)
- "My Sharona" - The knack (Jeandré)
- "Oliver's army" - Elvis Costello (Wezzo)
- "We are time" - Pop group (AfterHours)
1978
- "Anarchy in the U.K." - Sex pistols (Denny90)
- "Badlands" - Bruce Springsteen (Wezzo)
- "Don't bring me down" - Electric light orchestra (mightysparks)
- "Heartless" - Heart (staup2005)
- "Sentimental journey" - Pere Ubu (AfterHours)
- "We've got tonight" - Bob Seger (Jeandré)
1977
- "Don't stop me now" - Queen (Wezzo)
- "Dream of the archer" - Heart (staup2005)
- "Dust in the wind" - Kansas (Jeandré)
- "Sweet talkin' woman" - Electric light orchestra (mightysparks)
- "Tabula rasa" - Part (AfterHours)
1976
- "Blitzkrieg bop" - The Ramones (Denny90)
- "(Don't fear) the reaper" - Blue öyster cult (mightysparks, staup2005)
- "Hotel California" - Eagles (Jeandré)
- "Say goodbye to Hollywood" - Billy Joel (Wezzo)
- "A symphony of three orchestras" - Carter (AfterHours)
1975
- "At seventeen" - Janis Ian (Jeandré)
- "Birdland" - Patti Smith (AfterHours)
- "Bohemian rhapsody" - Queen (Denny90)
- "Born to run" - Bruce Springsteen (Wezzo)
- "Girls girls girls" - Sailor (mightysparks)
- "Landslide" - Fleetwood Mac (AlacritMusic)
1974
- "Alifib/Alife" - Robert Wyatt (AfterHours)
- "The entertainer" - Billy Joel (Wezzo)
- "A glass of champagne" - Sailor (mightysparks)
- "The grand tour" - George Jones (staup2005)
- "Seasons in the sun" - Terry Jacks (Jeandré)
1973
- "Angie" - The rolling stones (Jeandré)
- "Daniel" - Elton John (staup2005)
- "Krautrock" - Faust (AfterHours)
- "Piano man" - Billy Joel (Wezzo)
- "Sunday morning" - Lou Reed and the velvet underground (AlacritMusic)
- "Us and them" - Pink Floyd (Denny90)
- "You ain't seen nothing yet" - Bachman-Turner overdrive (mightysparks)
1972
- "Five years" - David Bowie (Denny90)
- "Heather" - The carpenters (staup2005)
- "JMK-80 CFN-7" - Anthony Braxton (AfterHours)
- "Metal guru" - T. rex (mightysparks)
- "Perfect day" - Lou Reed (Jeandré)
1971
- "Carolina in my mind" - James Taylor (Wezzo)
- "Imagine" - John Lennon (Denny90, Jeandré)
- "Mambo sun" - T. rex (mightysparks)
- "Miss Fortune" - Faust (AfterHours)
- "A song for you" - Donny Hathaway (staup2005)
1970
- "Across the universe" - The beatles (AlacritMusic, Denny90, mightysparks)
- "Lady D'Arbanville" - Cat Stevens (Jeandré)
- "Moon in June" - Soft machine (AfterHours)
- "We're gonna change the world" - Matt Monro (Wezzo)
1969
- "Fortunate son" - Creedence clearwater revival (Jeandré)
- "Here comes the sun" - The beatles (Wezzo)
- "Time has told me" - Nick Drake (Denny90)
- "Valentyne suite [themes 1-3]" - Colosseum (AfterHours)
- "Wheeling West Virginia" - Neil Sedaka (mightysparks)
1968
- "Something" - The beatles (mightysparks)
- "Sympathy for the devil" - The rolling stones (Jeandré, staup2005)
- "To composer John Cage" - Anthony Braxton (AfterHours)
1967
- "Atlantis" - Sun Ra (AfterHours)
- "Can't take my eyes off you" - Frankie Valli (Jeandré)
- "A day in the life" - The beatles (Denny90)
- "Reflections" - The supremes (staup2005)
- "There's a kind of hush" - Herman's hermits (mightysparks)
1966
- "God only knows" - The beach boys (Denny90)
- "No milk today" - Herman's hermits (mightysparks)
- "Paint it black" - The rolling stones (staup2005, Jeandré)
- "Unit structure" - Cecil Taylor (AfterHours)
- "Wouldn't it be nice" - The beach boys (Wezzo)
1965
- "Ascension" - John Coltrane (AfterHours)
- "Like a rolling stone" - Bob Dylan (Denny90)
- "Strange fruit" - Nina Simone (Jeandré)
- "Yesterday" - The beatles (mightysparks, staup2005)
1964
- "Fly me to the moon (in other words)" - Frank Sinatra (Jeandré)
- "Pursuance/part 4: Psalm" - John Coltrane (AfterHours)
- "The sounds of silence" - Simon & Garfunkel (mightysparks)
1963
- "Ring of fire" - Johnny Cash (Denny90)
- "Trio & group dancers" - Charles Mingus (AfterHours)
- "Twist and shout" - The beatles (Jeandré)
- "A world without love" - Peter & Gordon (mightysparks)
1962
- "Come a little bit closer" - The delltones (mightysparks)
- "Green onions" - Booker T and the MGs (Jeandré)
- "I got it bad (and that ain't good)" - Nina Simone (staup2005)
1961
- "At last" - Etta James (Jeandré)
- "Can't help falling in love" - Elvis Presley (staup2005)
- "Spanish Harlem" - Ben E. King (mightysparks)
1960
- "Cathy's clown" - The Everly brothers (mightysparks)
- "Only the lonely (know how I feel)" - Roy Orbison (Jeandré)
- "Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima" - Penderecki (AfterHours)
1959
- "Eventually" - Ornette Coleman (AfterHours)
- "Sleep walk" - Santo and Johnny (Jeandré, mightysparks)
- "Wild is the wind" - Nina Simone (staup2005)
1958
- "All I have to do is dream" - The Everly brothers (mightysparks)
- "Rumble" - Link Wray and his ray men (Jeandré)
1957
- "Wake up little Susie" - The Everly brothers (Jeandré)
- "Bye bye love" - The Everly brothers (mightysparks)
1956
- "Blueberry hill" - Fats Domino (Jeandré)
- "Diana" - Paul Anka (mightysparks)
- "Gesang der junglinge" - Karlheinz Stockhausen (AfterHours)
1955
- "Maybellene" - Chuck Berry (mightysparks)
1954
- "Goodnight, sweetheart, goodnight" - The spaniels (Jeandré)
- "The great pretender" - The platters (mightysparks)
1953
- "Mr sandman" - The chordettes (mightysparks)
1952
- "That's amore" - Dean Martin (mightysparks)
1951
- "Singin' in the rain" - Gene Kelly (mightysparks)
1950
- "The Tennessee waltz" - Patti Page (Jeandré)
1948
- "Nature boy" - Nat King Cole (Jeandré)
1939
- "In the mood" - Glenn Miller (Jeandré)
1932
- "Brother can you spare a dime?" - Bing Crosby (staup2005)
Author Comments:
Most represented artists:
10 beatles, The (7 songs)
8 Tori Amos (7)
6 Bruce Springsteen
6 R.E.M.
5 Billy Joel (4)
5 rolling stones, The (3)
4 Björk
4 Everly brothers, The
3 Heart
3 Metallica (2)
3 Nina Simone
3 U2
See also the listies: episodes and the listies: movies.
Jeandré, I'm going to do my best to add years to my top song and updated top episode list soon. Great work!
Just added years to my song list. Episodes later. :)
And how's about an early entry for 2011: R.E.M. - Mine Smell Like Honey
Thanks Jeandré. I'm suprised I never noticed that before. I must be a real air-head
2012 - Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground
Oh, this is cool. Thanks for adding me, I saw I was on the movies list as well. Always feels good to spread the love for my favourites :) Not sure how accurate all my years are though due to WMP always changing things on me.
Also realised I had the wrong year for Across the Universe which I will now fix...
Updated "Sleep walk", "Across the Universe" (sure you prefer the 1970 Let it be version to the 1969 No one's gonna change our world version?), and "Wheeling West Virginia".