favorite songs ever.

Ever since you cannot add individual songs to lists, so.

1. Silver Mt. Zion - BlindBlindBlind
2. Silver Mt. Zion - Black Waters Blowed / Engine Broke Blues
3. Los Jaivas - Mira Niñita
4. Yndi Halda - Illuminate My Heart, My Darling!
5. The Caretaker - Place in the World fades away
6. Áine O'Dwyer - The Little Lord of Misrule
7. Björk - All Is Full of Love (Strings)
8. Have a Nice Life - Earthmover
9. Death Grips - On GP
10. Godspeed You, Black Emperor! - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
11. Silver Mt. Zion - What We Loved Was Not Enough
12. Leyland Kirby - And at dawn armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory (orchestral)
13. Mitski - Drunk Walk Home
14. The Caretaker - Synapse retrogenesis
15. Mitski - First Love / Late Spring
16. Áine O'Dwyer - The Little Lord Of Misrule
17. TAKA - THREE.
18. Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man
19. Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda
20. The Caretaker - H1
21. Swans - Mother of the World
22. The Microphones - The Moon
23. Mitski - Your Best American Girl
24. Luis Miguel - Sueña
25. Kendrick Lamar - For Sale? (Interlude)
26. Mitski - Crack Baby
27. The Caretaker - Friends Past Re-United
28. Silver Mt. Zion - Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs
29. Luis Miguel - Culpable o No (Miénteme Como Siempre)
30. Death Grips - Thru the Walls
31. Have a Nice Life - I Don't Love
32. Death Grips - The Cage
33. The Microphones - My Warm Blood
34. 네스티요나 - 요단강
35. Noëtra - Le voyageur égaré se noie incognito
36. Mitski - Once More to See You
37. Luis Miguel - La Mentira
38. vowl. - pain
39. Death Grips - Beware
40. Childish Gambino - Me and Your Mama
41. Have a Nice Life - Deep, Deep
42. Scarlxrd - destrxy sxmething beautiful
43. Kendrick Lamar - good kid
44. grvce - morning desire
45. Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)
46. Swans - I Love You This Much
47. The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape

In the past, I had this one list, titled "ranked list containing what i believe are the best songs of the 20th and 21st century", in which I intended to include my all-time favourite songs. The thing is, I ended up adding songs that I felt were important, essential, even if I didn't necessarily love them (as in really love them, if that even makes sense), because of some kind of pressure to appeal to, well, you. You feel me?

I've no one to talk to (as in truly, truly no one), so I'll leave any (music) thoughts I have right here just because. Creating a straw page is too confusing for me.

I. I genuinely used to sleep on The Seer for way too long. Thank goodness that, after my fourth listen, I finally got it. God, what an album. Best tracks are pretty much every single one of them, but if you forced me to pick three, I'd pick "Mother of the World", "The Seer Returns" and "A Piece of the Sky". I'll never forgive myself for not paying attention during my first listen. I swear, this can become a 100.

II. I don't think I'll ever get How Welcome Is Death To I Who Have Nothing More To Do But Die. It was terrible. I found it highly immoral. Why would you record your own mother's suffering, when she is at her most vulnerable, for your album? Why take several photos of her for the album cover and inserts? This is your mother we're talking about here. Did she even give her consent? The end result isn't even admirable from a musical standpoint. I don't even care about the motivation; it does not excuse of this.

III. Maybe I'm being a pedantic asshole, but I don't think the term "lo-fi hip-hop" actually makes sense for most of the music within the genre. When you actually listen to it, most of these tracks are just regular instrumental hip-hop with a gentle, chill vibe. Like just call it instrumental hip-hop, dude. Maybe I am taking the "low fidelity" thing too literally, but these songs don't even sound cheap or poorly recorded, at least based on what I've listened to over the years. In fact, most of these songs are incredibly polished and professionally produced. The audio quality is clean, and the mix is on point. A much more accurate and fitting descriptor would be "chillhop" or "ambient hip-hop", or something, I don't know. These terms actually describe the mood without falsely claiming that the production quality is poor.