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The 10 Best Echo And The Bunnymen Songs
The Beatles didn't live there anymore. Liverpool at the end of the '70s was hardscrabble and hardly swinging, but from its post-punk bohemia came a music scene tye-dyed by psychedelia and other '60s...
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The 10 Best Cranberries Songs
The Cranberries were one of the alt-rock era's biggest successes. That's true in numerical terms: The Irish band's first two albums, 1993's Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? and 1994's No...
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The 10 Best War On Drugs Songs
Ten years ago this June, the War On Drugs released their debut album Wagonwheel Blues. At that point, nobody could’ve expected what would eventually happen for this project and its mastermind, a...
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The 10 Best Simple Minds Songs
There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the '80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the '70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given...
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The 10 Best Hot Chip Songs
For nearly 15 years now, Hot Chip have been releasing effervescent, wildly infectious synthpop albums like clockwork. Up until recently, you got a Hot Chip album every two years, and you could always...
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The 10 Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs
Throughout the long and tumultuous history of the Smashing Pumpkins, there's never really been a prolonged period of anything resembling tranquility. There's never been a moment where they could...
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The 10 Best Wye Oak Songs
We often perceive indie rock of the early 21st century through two defining lenses: the era of New York's early '00s retro-revival and the rise of Brooklyn and mainstream indie that supplanted it by...
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The 10 Best The Weeknd Songs
"I just wanna take you there." These were the first words we ever heard from Abel Tesfaye, uttered in a sinful, irresistible whisper over a warped-out fairytale score backed by lurching 808s. This was...
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The 10 Best Elbow Songs
After the collapse of Britpop's '90s heyday, there was a period of fragmentation. By the middle of the next decade, there would be a new generation of bratty, punk-inflected British rock bands of...
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The 10 Best My Morning Jacket Songs
Every band of note has fans. That's a given, that's how art-as-commerce works. But there are some bands that go beyond that. They become ecosystems in and of themselves. There are codes and references...
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The 10 Best Yeah Yeah Yeahs Songs
The notion that every city or time period has a signature sound is more or less lost to laptops. Online communities foster genres and styles regardless of physical geography. New sonic ideas are being...
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The 10 Best Imogen Heap Songs
Imogen Heap is a mystical force that has loomed over pop music for nearly two decades, delivering elaborate pop and fiery rock imbued with whimsy and enigmatic curiosity. The British innovator’s...
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The 10 Best Chromatics Songs
It’s almost a cliché to call something the "new Chinese Democracy" when referring to an oft-delayed album, but if we have one in 2018, it’s Chromatics’ long-awaited Dear Tommy. First announced in 2014,...
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The 10 Best Doves Songs
By the end of the '90s, Britpop had collapsed. Its primary and ancillary artists alike had taken the ideas and sounds of that dizzying moment as far as they could go. Some of the biggest names were...
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The 10 Best Rapture Songs
Do you remember what the early aughts felt like? The smell of leather jackets and canvas shoes pressed into vinyl booths, stage dives at dive bars, alternate cover art and lost tracks internalized into...
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The 10 Best Mark Ronson Songs
You may not recognize Mark Ronson, but you'd definitely recognize at least one of the countless hits he's worked on in the past 10 years. He began as a socialite DJ back in the '90s, a New York cool...
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The 10 Best My Chemical Romance Songs
When Gerard Way watched the Twin Towers go down from Hudson River Pier, he, like many people at the time, had a revelation: Life is fragile, and its ending seems arbitrary. A few months later, he...
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The 10 Best Perfume Genius Songs
Mike Hadreas had already lived a lot of life before he became Perfume Genius. Growing up, he struggled with Crohn's disease, and the cruelty of homophobic bullies in high school. He witnessed domestic...
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The 10 Best Run The Jewels Songs
Run The Jewels always made it easy to root for them. Two artists with very different backgrounds and milieus, joining together in their late 30s and, instead of functioning like a one-off or a...
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The 10 Best Waxahatchee Songs
Katie Crutchfield decamped to her parents' home in the dead of winter to record an album. It was 2011 and Crutchfield was nearing the end of P.S. Eliot, the band she had started with her twin sister...
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The 10 Best Krill Songs
Krill, Krill, Krill forever! If someone you know was super into the Boston strain of indie rock that came up in the 2010s, you have probably had this refrain shouted at you, most likely brought on by a...
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The 10 Best Chris Stapleton Songs
For years, Chris Stapleton had been an unstoppable force in Nashville — but one working mostly behind the scenes as a songwriter and member of his bluegrass group the Steeldrivers, letting others take...
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The 10 Best Grandaddy Songs
Music wasn’t the plan for Jason Lytle. In fact, for most of his adolescence it wasn’t even the dream. Lytle began his young adult life as a professional skateboarder, a logical hobby given his suburban...
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The 10 Best Steely Dan Songs
Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but throughout their catalog, seem to be...
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The 10 Best Genesis Songs
Abacab, the 11th studio album by UK prog/pop legends Genesis, turns 40 tomorrow. Nursery Cryme, the band’s first album with drummer Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett, turns 50 in November....
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The 10 Best Paul Simon Songs
Fifty years ago, Paul Simon wondered how terribly strange he’d feel at 70. Today, after becoming one of the 20th century’s greatest songwriters, he turns 80. Happy birthday, Paul.
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The 10 Best Mac Miller Songs
People will take you for granted until you’re gone, a truth hip-hop is intimately familiar with. If an artist is “lucky,” they will live long enough to have their contributions simply forgotten, as...
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The 10 Best One Direction Songs
Simon Cowell pulled One Direction together in 2010 after Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne had each auditioned as solo artists on The X Factor UK. Better together,...
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The 10 Best Kate Bush Songs
It’s shaping up to be the summer of Kate Bush. After Stranger Things used 1985’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” in the first part of its new season, the song became an instant viral hit,...
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The 10 Best Paul McCartney Songs Post-Beatles
In the days of mixtapes and CD burning, Paul McCartney was one of those acts like the Fall and Wu-Tang Clan whose immense catalog concealed overlooked corners and underused trails the former Beatle...
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The 10 Best King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Songs
In their first decade of existence, Melbourne ensemble King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have already produced enough music to last several lifetimes. And it seems like any obstacle that gets thrown...
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The 10 Best Ghost Songs
Last month, the Swedish pop-metal outfit Ghost had their first-ever Billboard Hot 100 hit with “Mary On A Cross,” a previously obscure B-side from a 2019 7-inch. As you might have guessed, both TikTok...
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The 10 Best Cramps Songs
Everyone always talks about the death of rock ‘n’ roll, but in retrospect, the Cramps were the only artists doing anything to resurrect it. Filth. Sleaze. Shock. Flesh. Fetish. These were the quartet’s...
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The 10 Best Flaming Lips Songs (That Even Flaming Lips Fans Might Not Know)
Forty years ago today, on February 22, 1983, the Flaming Lips performed their very first show at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge. But if you could take a time machine back to that moment, chances are,...
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The 10 Best De La Soul Songs
It’s become a risible cliche to state that a recently-passed artist “taught me that it’s OK to be weird.” But what if it’s still true, not just from the perspective of an individual’s experience, but...
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The 10 Best Sleaford Mods Songs
In the early months of 2014, a viral video transformed an obscure act into indie icons seemingly overnight — and no, I’m not talking about Future Islands on Letterman. In April of that year, on Record...
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