favorite songs ever.

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

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 personally love them (as in really love them and listen to regularly, if that even makes sense), because of some kind of pressure to appeal to, well, people. Songs like "The Heart Part 5" and "Runaway" are great ones, but they just don't fit here... you feel me?

Now, this is what the list was actually meant to look like, fr fr this time.

The closer the songs are to number one, the warmer my chest gets, the harder I fall to my knees, the more I fantasise about singing them to someone, the more proudly I pronounce their titles, the more proudly I explain them to others, the more firmly I realise how much I love music, the heavier my voice trembles, the deeper my lungs fill, the louder my heart beats, the more exposed I feel, the more alive I become.

Silver Mt. Zion - BlindBlindBlind
Silver Mt. Zion - Black Waters Blowed / Engine Broke Blues
Los Jaivas - Mira Niñita
The Caretaker - Place in the World fades away
Silver Mt. Zion - What We Loved Was Not Enough
Yndi Halda - Illuminate My Heart, My Darling!
Björk - All Is Full of Love (Strings)
Silver Mt. Zion - Fuck Off Get Free (For The Island Of Montreal)
Have a Nice Life - Earthmover
Swans - The Seer
Death Grips - On GP
Godspeed You, Black Emperor! - Blaise Bailey Finnegan III
Leyland Kirby - And at dawn armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory (orchestral)
Mitski - Drunk Walk Home
The Caretaker - Synapse retrogenesis
The Microphones - I'll Be in The Air
Mitski - First Love / Late Spring
Áine O'Dwyer - The Little Lord Of Misrule
TAKA - THREE.
Kendrick Lamar - Mortal Man
Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda
The Caretaker - H1
Swans - Mother of the World
The Microphones - The Moon
Mitski - Your Best American Girl
Luis Miguel - Sueña
Kendrick Lamar - For Sale? (Interlude)
Mitski - Crack Baby
The Caretaker - Friends Past Re-United
Silver Mt. Zion - Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs
Luis Miguel - Culpable o No (Miénteme Como Siempre)
Death Grips - Thru the Walls
Have a Nice Life - I Don't Love
Death Grips - The Cage
Janko Nilovic - Xenos Cosmos
The Microphones - My Warm Blood
네스티요나 - 요단강
Noëtra - Le voyageur égaré se noie incognito
Mitski - Once More to See You
Luis Miguel - La Mentira
vowl. - pain
Death Grips - Beware
Childish Gambino - Me and Your Mama
Have a Nice Life - Deep, Deep
Scarlxrd - destrxy sxmething beautiful
Kendrick Lamar - good kid
grvce - morning desire
Swans - I Love You This Much
The Microphones - I Felt Your Shape

Still, though, the list is a mess. It's always changing. At times, for example, I feel like songs such as "Sueña" and "I'll Be in the Air" should be higher up, orrr, sometimes I feel like some songs don't deserve a spot here. 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 (2012) 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" 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 (2005). The album strips a dying woman of her privacy and dignity to serve an artistic statement. That's just not. It was terrible, truly. 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 would you take several photos of her for the album cover and inserts? To prove a point? 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 any 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.

IV. It's not a 100. Great album, still. Really, really... really great album, still.

V. ... Shouldn't be trap metal me called metal trap instead? I mean, trap is the main thing, so it should be the noun; metal is the influence, so it should be the adjective - not the other way around. This led metal listeners to argue that it isn't a metal subgenre. And they're right - it literally isn't. It's a trap subgenre... The name sounds kinda awkward, though.

VI. Look, I really hate the word “overrated” and despise how it’s often thrown around whenever someone just happens to dislike a critically acclaimed release. But when people give Minecraft – Volume Alpha (2011) absurdly inflated ratings and specifically bring up nostalgia… dude. I genuinely feel like they’re rating the game and/or their memories of playing it rather than the music itself, you feel me? And trust, I listen to ambient, so I’m not saying this just to shit on it or be contrarian for the sake of it. I just don’t think it’s anywhere near the best ambient album of all time like MANY people claim. Important and culturally significant? Absolutely. Innovative? Sure. One of the greatest ambient albums ever made? ... I don’t really know about that. Could be a stretch, though. In all honesty, I feel like this is the one instance where one can actually justify calling an album “overrated”. However, though, I am not saying that every single last one of those 4.5k 100s are invalid. If the album genuinely means that much to someone, then hey, that's their 100. That's completely valid. So yeah.

VII. I'd trade a second Godspeed hiatus for a final Silver Mt. Zion album. I'm that desperate.

VIII. Some truly take user scores way too seriously, man. Someone actually commented, "if this gets 84 or 83 i am leaving this site fuck it" in the comment section for Phoebe Bridgers' Lost Weekend (2026). Like dude, you know you can still enjoy the music, right? Regardless of how others see it, what ultimately matters is your own enjoyment. Not everyone is going to like an album the way you do, and that's totally fine. As someone else precisely put it: "decide what the album means to you and stick with that without getting upset if other people don't agree". Everything else is irrelevant. For context, the album currently has a user score of 85.2 as I write this, and it's dropping, which happens to literally every highly anticipated release. The big fans always rate it first, and everyone else (casual listeners, people who dislike indie folk, contrarians) comes later. Plus, finishing with an 83 or 84 would still be amazing anyway, considering the current top 5 albums for 2026 are all hovering around those exact scores. The number one spot is literally sitting at an 83.9! If it doesn't make it to the top 500 or break the "83 curse", none of that matters. Make your opinion and cling to it. If it's a 100, it's a 100. For instance, one of my fav albums ever has a 77.5 user score, and another one has a 78.9. I don't give a shit, man! I only care about my love for them! No one will ever see me whining about the score. Some may not fw them and may point out flaws, and that's completely fine! Someone giving your 100 album a 60 or a 40 or a 10 doesn't invalidate your 100. Someone giving an album a 95 doesn't make your 77 feel worse. Don't let anyone tell you what to do!

Anyways, artists I keep/kept mistaking for the other and vice versa for zero reason:

Natural Snow Buildings and Boards of Canada
Portishead and Boris
Machine Girl and TV Girl
Bon Iver and Mos Def
Bon Iver and Don Toliver
Lil Nas X and Lil Uzi Vert
SpaceGhostPurrp and Denzel Curry
Animal Collective and Car Seat Headrest
Dean Blunt and Dave Blunts

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