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kiribakuhappiness · 2 years

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Hey! I hope you are doing well. Do you have any music recommendations?

This Ask was so important to me for seemingly no reason at all that I literally dropped everything I was doing just to put together this music rec for you ahaha.

Thank you so much for asking, I love talking about music! :)

Music Rec for Anon:

Okay, since the request was sort of vague, I decided to take some creative liberty and do a bunch of different things. Some varying genres/moods and even a cheeky little Anime list at the end. All of these songs came from my own library and can be found on Spotify!

I totally went overboard with this (*pretends to be shocked*)... hope you can find some new favs to enjoy! <3

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Intense Work Out Vibes (Sweat Out The Bullshit): 1. Dou - Tinyghost 2. Bored - Rasti 3. Start a Riot - Duckwrth, Shaboozey 4. Bangarang (feat. Sirah) - Skrillex 5. MAKEMEFEELALIVE - You Me At Six 6. Raised By Wolves - Falling In Reverse 7. The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson 8. Run Boy Run - Woodkid 9. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse 10. Run - AWOLNATION 11. Seize the Power - YONAKA 12. Fight Back - NEFFEX 13. What You’re Made Of - Arrested Youth 14. Ready Set Let’s Go - Sam Tinnesz 15. Only One King - Tommee Profitt, Jung Youth 16. Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy 17. Come with Me Now - KONGOS 18. Paint It Black (Epic Trailer Version) - Hidden Citizens, Ranya 19. Street Fight - Adam Jensen 20. The State of Massachusetts - Dropkick Murphys 21. The Difference - Packy 22. Shakedown - The Score 23. For the Glory - All Good Things 24. Remember the Name (feat. Styles Of Beyond) - Fort Minor 25. When I Grow Up - NF 26. ‘Till I Collapse - Eminem, Nate Dogg 27. Glitter & Gold - Barns Courtney 28. Fell Invincible (Noise Revolution Remix) - Skillet, Scott Skrzynski 29. This Is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars

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Uplifting/Something Worth Living For/Never Fucking Giving Up: 1. Walk - Saint Chaos, Sam Tinnesz 2. Can't Hold Us - Ryan Lewis, Macklemore (feat. Ryan Dalton) 3. I Love It - Icona Pop (feat. Charli XCX) 4. Try Everything - Shakira 5. Have It - Chanel West Coast 6. Stronger - TheFatRat, Slaydit, Anjulie 7. Good Life - OneRepublic 8. Wow. - Post Malone 9. The Greatest - Sia, Kendrick Lamar 10. Young Dumb & Broke - Khalid 11. All Night Longer REMIX - Sammy Adams (feat. B.o.B) 12. Victorious - Panic! At The Disco 13. Roll Up - Fitz and The Tantrums 14. On Top Of The World - Imagine Dragons 15. One Foot - WALK THE MOON 16. You Do You - Zayde Wolf 17. Memories - David Guetta (feat. Kid Cudi) 18. Loca People (Original Mix) - Sak Noel 19. Never Going Back - Hoodie Allen 20. Feel It Still - Portugal. The Man 21. The Boys Are Back - Dropkick Murphys 22. My House - Flo Rida 23. Young, Wild & Free - Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Bruno Mars 24. Just Got Paid - Sigala, Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor, French Montana 25. Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros 26. I’m Ready - AJR 27. We Are Young - fun. (feat. Janelle Monae) 28. Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine 29. Human Right - The Strike 30. Knock Knock - Mac Miller 31. S.L.U.T - Bea Miller 32. No Money - Galantis 33. Wake Me Up - Avicii 34. Magic In The Hamptons - Social House, Lil Yachty 35. Good Feeling - Flo Rida 36. Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti & Spearhead, Cherine Tanya Anderson 37. All Around The World (La La La) - R3HAB, A Touch of Class 38. Geronimo - Sheppard 39. Fun - Little Sis Nora 40. Castle on the Hill - Ed Sheeran 41. Good Old Days - Macklemore, Kesha 42. Final Song - MO

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The Chill Zone: 1. Cocoa Butter Kisses - Chance the Rapper 2. Sunday Best - Surfaces 3. Body - Loud Luxury, Brando 4. Float On - Modest Mouse 5. The Crazy Rap - Afroman (feat. Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags) 6. Stunnin' - Curtis Waters 7. Kids in the Summer - Kid Quill 8. White Shoes - Kid Quill, Nappy Roots 9. Come Along - Cosmo Sheldrake 10. Sunday Candy - Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment 11. Partly Sunny - Joey Pecoraro 12. Flashed Junk Mind - Milky Chance 13. RNP - Cordae (feat. Anderson .Paak) 14. OTW - DJ Luke Nasty 15. Stolen Dance - Milky Chance 16. Sour Patch Kids - Bryce Vine

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Reminiscing Over The Classics: 1. Smooth - Santana (feat. Rob Thomas) 2. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd 3. Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers 4. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses 5. You Really Got Me - Van Halen 6. Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles 7. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 8. Runnin' Down A Dream - Tom Petty 9. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways 10. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 11. Cold as Ice - Foreigner 12. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin 13. Dream On - Aerosmith 14. No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper 15. Black Betty - Ram Jam 16. Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers 17. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf 18. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy - Rod Stewart 19. Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds 20. What I Got - Sublime 21. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers 22. More Than a Feeling - Boston 23. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart 24. Fight For You Right - Beastie Boys 25. Closing Time - Semisonic 26. Jump - Van Halen 27. Takin’ Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 28. Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughan 29. I’m Eighteen - Alice Cooper 30. Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane 31. Highway to Hell - AC/DC 32. Come As You Are - Nirvana 33. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi 34. You Wreck Me - Tom Petty

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Take a Breather (Relax): 1. Light Beams - Guustavv 2. drip - wush 3. Jacaranda - Lofi Coffee, Karavelo 4. Lofi Smoke and Pass Out - Single Friend 5. 5:32pm - The Deli 6. Perspective - Barnes Blvd. 7. Snakez - Alistair 8. .suede - junyii., Chill Children 9. anything in the world - loftii 10. White Blood - Oh Wonder 11. If I Don��t Go to Hell - Janice, Mr. green (feat. Jus Allah) 12. g o o d b y e - sleepee. 13. let’s run away and never look back. - Essence 14. Now That You’re Gone - Kavv 15. Sinkerator - weird inside, Dilip, quickly, quickly 16. Morning - Hyperparadise 17. Rose Garden - Kupla 18. Time Flies. (Withluv’) - Luv.Ly 19. The Dream - SwuM 20. I Have Love for Everyone Besides Myself - Barnes Blvd. 21. _away - MARTIN $KY, Toonorth

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That Friends-to-Lovers Type Beat <3: 1. Stuck In The Middle - Tai Verdes 2. All Summer Long - Kid Rock 3. Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran 4. He Said She Said - Ashley Tisdale 5. Senorita - Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello 6. Friend Zone - Danielle Bradbery 7. Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs 8. Forever Young - Alphaville 9. I Like Me Better - Lauv 10. Scotty Doesn't Know - Lustra 11. Never Forget You - Noisettes 12. We Get On - Kate Nash 13. Toxins - Carlie Hanson 14. Wasted - Tiesto, Matthew Koma 15. Call You Mine (Parker Remix) - The Chainsmokers (feat. Bebe Rexha) 16. YOUTH - Troye Sivan 17. Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel 18. Sunkissed - khai dreams 19. What I Like About You - The Romantics 20. This Side of Paradise - Coyote Theory 21. Sucker - Jonas Brothers 22. Figure It Out - Blue DeTiger 23. Meant to Be - Bebe Rexha (feat. Florida Georgia Line) 24. Here With Me - Marshmello, CHVRCHES 25. One Kiss - Calvin Harris (with Dua Lipa) 26. FRIENDS - Marshmello, Anne-Maries (Unrequited Love) 27. North$ide - Destiny Rogers 28. Almost Love - Sabrina Carpenter 29. broken - lovelytheband 30. Shut Up and Dance - WALK THE MOON 31. Animal - Neon Trees 32. Kilby Girl - The Backseat Lovers 33. Electric Love - BORNS 34. The Feels - TWICE 35. Your Man - Joji 36. Backyard Boy - Claire Rosinkranz 37. Caroline - Amine 38. Howlin’ for You - The Black Keys 39. Shape of You - Ed Sheeran 40. Fuck Up the Friendship - Leah Kate 41. In Too Deep - Sum 41 42. Playinwitme - KYLE, Kehlani 43. Take This Ride - Vigiland 44. Tongue Tied - Grouplove 45. Your Man - Down With Webster

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Feeding Into Your God Complex (Because I Am A Proud Enabler): 1. You Don't Know Me - Jax Jones, RAYE 2. Applause - Lady Gaga 4. Truth Hurts - Lizzo 5. Me Too - Meghan Trainor 6. Love Like Mine - Stela Cole 7. Like I Ain't - Tech N9ne 8. How I'm Living - Jerome The Prince, Jdam 9. 'Cuz I Can - P!nk 10. Royals - Lorde 11. Be Gone Thot! - LIL MAYO 12. CITY OF ANGELS - 24kGoldn 13. Go Hard (La.La.La) - Kreayshawn 14. Butter - Snow Tha Product 15. I Like It - Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin 16. Handsomer - Molly Moore, Maty Noyes 17. Pretty Boy Swag - Soulja Boy 18. Started - Iggy Azalea 19. mememe - bbno$, lentra 20. fast - sueco 21. Maneater - Nelly Furtado 22. New Bae - Chanel West Coast (feat. Safaree) 23. Golden Touch - JAXSON GAMBLE 24. Diamonds - Megan Thee Stallion, Normani 25. Lick - Just Juice 26. Bad Girls - M.I.A 27. Goddess - Jaira Burns 28. Fuck It Up - Ocho Drippin 29. So Pretty - Reyanna Maria 30. How to Be a Heartbreaker - MARINA 31. Looking at Me - Sabrina Carpenter 32. What A Shame - Leyla Blue 33. 7 Rings - Ariana Grande 34. Me & My Girls - Selena Gomez 35. Boys Like U - ZAND 36. Drinks - Cyn 37. Do My Thang - Miley Cyrus 38. You’re a Jerk - New Boyz 39. High Heels. - JoJo 40. Murder Party - NOT THE MAIN CHARACTERS 41. Focus - Ariana Grande 42. Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish 43. Take a Hint - Nightcore Reality 44. Oh No - Kreepa 45. Bad Girl - Avril Lavigne, Marilyn Manson 46. Whip It - BIA 47. All Eyes on Me - Pigeon John 48. Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T) - Princess Nokia

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Your Life is an Angsty Drama Thriller and You Are the Badass Main Character Ready to Risk It All: 1. Beautiful Crime - Tamer 2. Psycho Killer - The Wrecks 3. Strange Love - Simple Creatures 4. Insomniac - Timeflies 5. Call Me Devil - Friends in Tokyo 6. Dangerous - Royal Deluxe 7. Twisted - MISSIO 8. COPYCAT - Billie Eilish 9. Hit and Run - LOLO 10. My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Fall Out Boy 11. Black Sea - Natasha Blume 12. Riot - Hollywood Undead 13. My Favourite Game - The Cardigans 14. The Kid I Used to Know - Arrested Youth 15. Devil's Playground - The Rigs 16. Freaks Like Us - Sleeping Wolf 17. Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 18. Fake - The Tech Thieves 19. Dig the Crazy - Faith Marie 20. Don't Sing the Blues - Bohnes 21. Game of Survival - Ruelle 22. Darkside - grandson 23. Revenge, And a Little More - Unlike Pluto 24. Sociopath - StayLoose, Bryce Fox 25. Wreak Havoc - Skylar Grey 26. Devilish - The Phantoms 27. Look What You Made Me Do - Taylor Swift 28. Blood In The Cut - K.Flay 29. Little Poor Me - Layto 30. Somethin’ Bad - Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood 31. Choke - Royal & the Serpent 32. The Time of Our Lives - The Venice Connection 33. Mind brand - Maretu 34. Me And The Devil - Soap&Skin 35. Грустная Сука - IC3PEAK 36. The Devil You Know - X Ambassadors 37. Halloweenie IV: Innards - Ashnikko

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Existential Crisis Hour: 1. I Need Control - Will Jay 2. 100 Bad Days - AJR 3. Handlebars - Flobots 4. chateau - blackbear 5. Mockingbird - Eminem 6. Moral of the Story - Ashe 7. Sign - Jeremy Renner, Eric Zayne 8. Thumbs - Sabrina Carpenter 9. Trampoline - SHAED 10. Prom Queen - Molly Kate Kestner 11. It Gets Better - salem ilese 12. We Must Be Killers - Mikky Ekko 13. I Believe You - FLETCHER 14. Terrified - Terror Jr 15. Happy Face - Jagwar Twin 16. Wishful Drinking - Tessa Violet 17. Nevermind - Dennis Lloyd 18. Mr. Sandman - SYML 19. Honor Roll - Bulow 20. All Time Low - Jon Bellion 21. Let You Down - NF 22. Mad World - Riverdale Cast (the only good thing to ever come from the CW’s Riverdale...) 23. Maniac - Conan Gray 24. Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo 25. Cool Kids - Echosmith 26. We Don’t Need ‘Em - Ryan Caraveo 27. I Miss Having Sex But At Least I Don’t Wanna Die Anymore - Waterparks

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18+ Club (ID Check at the Door): 1. Daddy AF - Slayyter 2. Right Thurr - Chingy 3. Kream - Iggy Azalea (feat. Tyga) 4. Seduce - Russ (feat. Capella Grey & Tamae) 5. Gas Pedal - Sage The Gemini, Iamsu! 6. Grove St. Party - Waka Flocka Flame (feat. Kebo Gotti) 7. Side To Side - Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj 8. Summer Love - Justin Timberlake 9. MMM - TREASURE 10. Come & Get It - Selena Gomez 11. STARSTRUKK - 3OH!3 12. FM$ - New Boyz 13. I Like Him - Princess Nokia 14. My Humps - Black Eyed Peas 15. Freak - Doja Cat 16. She Wolf - Shakira 17. Shake That - Eminem, Nate Dogg 18. Paralyzer - Finger Eleven 19. Candy Shop - 50 Cent, Olivia 20. Superman - Eminem, Dina Rae 21. Keep It Down - Migrant Motel 22. Beggin’ - Maneskin 23. I Fink U Freeky - Die Antwoord 24. Swalla - Jason Derulo, Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign 25. Cyclone - Baby Bash (feat. T-Pain) 26. Closer - Nine Inch Nails 27. Laffy Taffy - D4L 28. E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE! - CORPSE, Savage Ga$p 29. Animals - Nickelback 30. Guys My Age - Hey Violet 31. Show Me How You Burlesque - Christina Aguilera 32. Cannibal - Kesha 33. Ignition - R. Kelly 34. Dumb - KOPPS 35. Break Ya Back - Lucas Coly 36. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado, Timbaland 37. Get Stoned - Hinder 38. Cupid’s Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes 39. So Thick - WHIPPED CREAM (feat. Baby Goth) 40. Work Out - J. Cole 41. Get Down Low - Snow Tha Product (feat. Ohana Bam)

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Personal Favs (The Soundtrack to My Pathetic, Messy Little Life): 1. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz 2. Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash 3. Lost My Mind - inverness, William Bolton 4. Ashes - Stellar 5. On My Way! - Snow Tha Product, Daddie Juju 6. Windows (feat. Prof) - Atmosphere 7. People I Don't Like - UPSAHL 8. DARKSIDE - Neoni 9. White America - Eminem 10. My Resort - Yellow Bucks 11. Chillthefuckout. - ROMES 12. nuh uh - Jades Goudreault 13. Hoodie On - Matt and Kim 14. Rob A Bank - Confetti 15. Cool Kids - Justus Bennetts 16. Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva 17. Dead! - My Chemical Romance 18. DRUGS - Tai Verdes 19. bad guy - Billie Eilish 20. Paradise - Rude-a 21. Ur So F**kInG cOoL - Tones and I 22. Misfit - NCT U 23. They Call Me Tiago (Her Name Is Margo) - Tiagz 24. Bad Before Good - Day One 25. New Friends - Maty Noyes 26. Girls In Bikinis - Poppy 27. Pitbull Terrier - Die Antwoord 28. Boss Bitch - Doja Cat 29. Boy In The Bubble - Alec Benjamin 30. Everybody Loves Me - OneRepublic 31. Why Do You Love Me - Charlotte Lawrence 32. parents - YUNGBLUD 33. Runaway - Ed Sheeran 34. Who’s Laughing Now - Jessie J 35. No Diggity - Blackstreet, Dr. Dre, Queen Pen 36. Just Lose It - Eminem 37. Butterfly - Crazy Town 38. Kill Em With Kindness - Selena Gomez 39. The Search - NF 40. Same Drugs - Chance the Rapper 41. The Middle - Chancel West Coast 42. Small Talk - Kid Quill 43. Swerve - Arizona Zervas 44. Best Friends - grandson 45. Politically Incorrect - Tom MacDonald 46. Alaska - Little Hurt 47. Speedline Miracle Masterpiece - Tunde Adebimpe, Sal P, Sinkane 48. Marijuana Breath - Adam Jensen 49. Girls Like Girls - Hayley Kiyoko 50. Sweet Talk - Saint Motel 51. R U Crazy - Conor Maynard 52. GOODMORNINGTOKYO! - TOKYO’S REVENGE 53. SAD (Clap Your Hands) - Young Rising Sons 54. Wonderland - Natalia Kills 55. You Need Me, I Don’t Need You - Ed Sheeran 56. Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz 57. Older - Sasha Alex Sloan 58. Bad Vibes - K.Flay 59. But I Like It - Lauren Sanderson 60. yes & no - XYLO 61. Elastic - Joey Purp 62. Airpods - Astrid S 63. Slumber Party - Rain Paris 64. IHATEMETOO - LIL PHAG, Danny Gonzalez, Felony Steve, Kellen Schneider 65. Lane Boy - Twenty One Pilots 66. Walking On Air - Kerli 67. Grow Up - Paramore 68. 7 Figures - Nate Good 69. Vertigo - Glades 70. Playlist - Kid Quill 71. IV. Sweatpants - Childish Gambino

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Anime Inspired: 1. Uraraka (My Hero Academia Rap) - GameboyJones (feat. Fabvl) 2. Bakugo! - KVMIL

#I spent entirely far too long on this #please appreciate it ahaha #music recommendation #music recs #playlists #personal #asks

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johannesviii · 4 years

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Top 12 Personal Favorite Hit Songs from 2014

The “least good” of the three best years of the 2010s. This is still a top 12. Because I can, and I will.

I know. People also call it a bad year. And I think they’re wrong.

Disclaimers:

Keep in mind I’m using both the year-end top 100 lists from the US and from France while making these top 10 things. There’s songs in English that charted in my country way higher than they did in their home countries, or even earlier or later, so that might get surprising at times.

Of course there will be stuff in French. We suck. I know. It’s my list. Deal with it.

My musical tastes have always been terrible and I’m not a critic, just a listener and an idiot.

I have sound to color synesthesia which justifies nothing but might explain why I have trouble describing some songs in other terms than visual ones.

New job, which is the one I still have currently. Also, I discovered Doctor Who in December 2013 and you know exactly what happened in 2014 because I dived head first into the extended universe as soon as I finished New Who and I’ve never really recovered since then. The end of the year was highly stressful, with my cat being sick, my father needing a very dangerous surgical intervention, and me being so stressed out I was basically unable to sleep for days. Might explain why there’s a lot of cute songs on this list, I needed cute stuff.

That year wasn’t very generous in good albums from bands I liked. Epica released The Quantum Enigma, and it was okay, Within Temptation had Hydra, and it was also okay, and Coldplay had the very underrated (in my opinion at least) Ghost Stories, a mostly melancholic album full of bittersweet post-breakup songs. So I’m left with no choice but to declare The Birthday Massacre’s album Superstition my album of the year for 2014. They had stayed at a consistent level since Pins And Needles so I wasn’t expecting anything better from them, but boy do they delivered. Here is Divide, it’s about a subterranean world and it might be a metaphor but as you know I’m very literal-minded! Here’s Beyond, about a lady falling in love with a strange woman who might be some sort of fae or supernatural entity!! I love most of the album and there’s only one subpar song on it. I know they’ll never get a crossover hit but they’d deserve it so much. Look at the state of the world. We’re so ready for a new mainstream wave of energetic, angsty, weird music. Just bring it on.

There’s only one non-elligible song that truely pisses me off this time, and it’s Traffic Girl by Indochine, another single from their Black City Parade album. It’s about a policewoman in North Korea who has to wave and smile at non existant traffic all day long and the song presents her as a modern hero. It’s one of my favorite songs on the album and I’m so mad it didn’t make the French year-end list.

Here’s a list of honorable menti-holy shit why is this list so long

Albatraoz (AronChupa) - Riiiiiight at the limit between catchy and annoying. But it’s blissfully short.

Chandelier (Sia) - I would like this more if it wasn’t that painful to listen to, I swear.

Magic in the Air (Magic System) - Insert my usual comment about these guys and their fun & happy songs.

Un Jour Au Mauvais Endroit (Calogero) - Great music, good lyrics. It’s still Calogero and I tend to dislike how overdramatic he usually is. Not enough to ruin that one song for me though.

Je Garde le Sourire (Black M) - This isn’t the last time he’s gonna appear in this post.

Prayer In C (Lilly Wood & The Prick) - A bit repetitive but in a good way.

Budapest (Georges Ezra) - A bit repetitive but in a good way 2, the return but in a completely different genre.

The Monster (Eminem & Rihanna) - We’ve now entered the songs which I considered putting on the list, and yeah, there’s a lot of them even if this is a top 12. “Bad year for pop music”. Yeah. Right.

Addicted To You (Avicii) - This is good, and the music video is great, and I want to stop feeling emotional about Avicii. Please.

Don’t Tell Em (Jeremih) - I. Uh. What the f█ck. Okay. There’s no way I can justify this. I simply adore this beat even if the lyrics are really, really bad. It’s just visually stunning and I really wish the song itself was better.

Photomaton (Jabberwocky) - I don’t think this would have charted without the success of Kavinsky the previous year. But still. Wonderful stuff. Well deserved.

Madame Pavoshko (Black M) - This was on the first version of the list but in the end I really had no room left for it. It’s a song about a guy telling his old teacher he made it in life despite the fact she labelled him a hopeless case at school. With such a premise, it could be an angry song, but no, it’s upbeat, sarcastic and fun. Wonderful stuff.

Le Graal (Kyo) - Kyo? Wait, you mean the embarrassing emo guys from my 2002 and 2003 lists? These guys?? They were back on the charts after ten years?? And suddenly everyone thought it was cool to like them again?? Including me??? Sounds fake but okay

Turn Down For What (DJ Snake) - The last cut. Stim music at its finest, sharp, aggressive and colorful. Everything I ever wanted from a hit song.

Well, that was long. Here’s the actual list.

12 - Wake Me Up (Avicii)

US: #22 / FR: Not on the list

“So wake me up when it’s all over, when I’m wiser and I’m older” should make no sense. You can’t get wiser if you’re asleep. At least that’s what I would probably say if I didn’t feel this. There’s a lot of times in my life I wished I could be switched off and woken up a couple of years later and be like “hello I’m back, I feel better now, what did I miss”. I totally get it.

The only reason this song is so low on the list is the drop. I don’t like it very much. The rest is damn good.

11 - Boom Clap (Charlie XCX)

US: #34 / FR: #84

Boom! Boom! Boom! CLAP. That song got me after its first seconds. Love its atmosphere, very cotton candy-like, very fluffy, with a sharp voice. Doesn’t work well if you listen to it on a loop, though, and that’s the only negative thing I can say against it.

10 - Stay The Night (Zedd)

US: #94 / FR: Not on the list

This on the other hand works very well on repeat and that drop is golden. I’m afraid I don’t have anything very interesting to say about it. It stayed on my playlist from 2014 to summer 2019, though, so that’s an impressive feat.

9 - Rather Be (Clean Bandit)

US: #41 / FR: #18

Several critics I follow have commented this song is 1) mostly meaningless 2) too perfect to say anything about it and I agree. It’s also too perfect to be really passionate about it, unfortunately, but still, very, very good stuff.

8 - Magic (Coldplay)

US: Not on the list / FR: #66

You already know I don’t really like lowkey emotional songs and I also hate the first act of Coldplay’s career, so why on earth did I like Ghost Stories so much and why is Magic making me feel so emotional, you ask? Well it’s because the music itself isn’t bland. It’s lowkey but rich, dense and colourful, and it works much better than whatever they were doing before with their slow boring songs. Also, I really struggle with dramatic vocal performances on quiet emotional songs (which is why I tend to have issues with Adele’s voice on some of her stuff), and here the balance is just ideal. Soft colors, soft textures, soft voice, this is like a colorful plushie you’ve lost for years and just found in the attic and it brings you to tears. I adore it.

Also the part of the lyrics that goes “And if you were to ask me / After all that we've been through / Still believe in magic? / Oh yes I do”, that makes me want to hug someone and never let go.

7 - Waves (Mr Probz)

US: Not on the list / FR: #15

This is completely hypnotic. It’s perfect to drive, to walk, to draw. to sit on a bench and look at the trees. It’s just wave after wave of pastel colors with a good beat and it washes away your anxiety slowly but surely. Therapeutic and beautiful without ever feeling bland. Wonderful stuff.

6 - Uptown Funk (Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson)

US: Not on the list (#1 on the 2015 year-end list) / FR: #3

Everyone loved it and I wasn’t an exception. You all know it and I’ve got nothing new or interesting to say about it. A ton of fun. Love the lyrics.

5 - Sur Ma Route (Black M)

US: Not on the list / FR: #7

If you’re wondering what’s going on in this picture, the guy is parodying a lot of famous movies or series in the music video. It’s a simple but super energetic song about trying to trace your own road in life and all the problems you encounter and how you can’t always count on people you thought were your friends. It’s very propulsive and motivating and it’s my favorite song from that guy even though he made a lot of good songs. Just great stuff. Check it out if you’ve never heard it.

Speaking of being on your own...

4 - Ain’t It Fun (Paramore)

US: #47 / FR: Not on the list

I miss hearing that kind of thing on the radio and yes, I’m aware that makes me sound like an old idiot. Oh how I wish this had been released in 2010 when I just started to work, that would have been perfect. I know the song is supposed to be sarcastic with the whole “ain’t it fun being on your own” angle, but yeah, when your life wasn’t great before, it’s actually liberating to “live in the real world”, even if it sucks at times, even if it’s difficult and you have responsibilities and all.

Also the music video is super cute. Love it.

3 - Pompeii (Bastille)

US: #12 / FR: Not on the list

I’m honestly surprised this is only #3 on this list considering how much I loved this one back when it came out, and don’t get me wrong, it’s still a song I love to this day, just... a bit less. Maybe it’s because of overplay? I’m not exactly sure considering #1 was also played very often and I never ever got tired of it. And it’s well written, and it’s not every day that you hear a song about two dead people talking about the wrath of the gods after their city was engulfed in ash.

So yeah. Not sure what happened there. I hope this band is eventually gonna have another hit like this one. Bastille, more of Pompeii and less of Happier, please.

2 - Dangerous (David Guetta)

US: Not on the list / FR: #8

A few months ago I heard Memories by Maroon 5 and I was instantly filled with a truely disproportionate amount of rage for such a bland pop song. See, I love it when music uses well-known classical tunes and completely changes their context and tone, but Memories doesn’t do any of that, it’s just the Pachelbel canon with some bad lyrics on top. So yeah, it’s a pet peeve.

Dangerous, on the other hand, is a song mixing a small loop of Toccata & Fugue in D minor and it basically uses it as an ominous pseudo-police siren in a song about illegally cruising a car with your possibly criminal, possibly gangster crush and not knowing if you’re scared, in love or feeling the thrill of adventure, or all of that at once. I. Love this damn song.

When the only bad thing I have to say about a song talking about driving at night way too fast is “eh this isn’t as good as Kavinsky”, you know you’ve found gold.

1 - A Sky Full of Stars (Coldplay & Avicii)

US: #51 / FR: #9

As much as I love Dangerous, there wasn’t any doubt about what would top this list. I’ve spent about ten lists explaining how my appreciation of Coldplay kept growing over time and four lists explaining how much I loved Avicii, and this song is the best of both worlds. The first time I heard it, I was driving and, no joke, I was so overwhelmed I had to park my car to properly concentrate on the song.

One day I will have to paint this song to explain how fantastic it looks and I’d have to use purple, china blue and pink watercolor inks and basically paint a psychedelic night sky full of little lights and yeah, this is basically another of these songs that are deeply satisfying on a synesthetic level, and it joins this very select club with the blue song called “Blue”, the song full of bright flashes called “Lights” and the song that looks like gentle pulsing lights called “Fireflies”. I’m trying (and failing) to learn how to play it on the piano. I know the chords, and I suck, but I’m very determined.

On top of that deeply satisfying visual, there’s the soft vocals so specific of the Ghost Stories album, and the very simple, very cute lyrics, and I simply hear “'Cause you're a sky, 'cause you're a sky full of stars, I'm gonna give you my heart” and I die instantly. This is high quality musical fluff. Come to think of it, this list is full of it, and this is the Ultimate Fluffy Song. One fluff to rule them all.

Sidenote, considering I fell into the DW audios right when this song came out, that’s one of my theme songs for Eight and Charley. Because of course it is.

Next up: The beginning of a progressive drop in quality but you wouldn’t be able to tell considering how long this list of honorable mentions is

#Johannes’ bad not good pretty terrible music lists #music #long post #eye contact tw

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i got tagged by the lovely @missbelgium to do this ask meme. Thank you so much!! this was a nice distraction for the evening! i promise to do the rest very soon.

LAST

1. Drink: just a glass of water

2. Phone call: my dad

3. Text message: “third wheeling intensifies” that or “YOU HAVE ALL MY LOVE”.

4. Song you listened to: Addicted To You by Avicii

5. Time you cried: Monday. you would think it was bc i had to go to work but no. it was “A Dog’s Purpose”. watched it late afternoon. made me cry like a baby.

HAVE YOU

6. Dated someone twice: nah cuz i never dated before.

7. Kissed someone and regretted it: i … dont think so…

8. Been cheated on: nah fam.

9. Lost someone special: yes, i have. more than i’d like to admit. sometimes it was my fault, sometimes it wasnt, but it all hurt the same.

10. Been depressed: i fall in and out of bad episodes. some days are more bearable than others.

11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: i dont drink lol.

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS

12-14: uhhh thats a tough one. red and blue are my colors, but purple strikes a chord with me too.

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU

15. Made new friends: yesss, many!! here and irl.

16. Fallen out of love: hhhh in a way i did. not with people but with ideas, concepts, and dreams.

17. Laughed until you cried: ye s tahnk god

18. Found out someone was talking about you: um yeah for sure, but its nothing im not used. it happens y’know.

19. Met someone who changed you: i did actually. in the most subtle and discreet way. the thing is, i got close to so many people in the past year and just started picking up on their little quirks and mannerisms. and suddenly im swearing in spanish. puta madre i outta be ashamed

20. Found out who your friends are: sadly yah. wasnt too thrilled.

21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: my parents?????

GENERAL

22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: all of them. thats why i semi-ditched fb.

23. Do you have any pets: YESS!! three chickens and a rooster. two lovebirds. we used to have an african gray but we gave it away to grandma to keep her company. we also have this rat who’d been living in our garage for a while now. dunno if that counts.

24. Do you want to change your name: i kinda do. but i feel like i got too attached to it at this point.

25. What did you do for your last birthday: a few of my lovely flatmates and I went out for crepes. got many happy birthday wishes that day. I was on my own most of it but thats okay.

26. What time did you wake up: fucking 5:52am.

27. What were you doing at midnight last night: probably not sleeping. why u ask?

28. Name something you can’t wait for: …………………………………. havent looked forward to anything in a very long time. maybe deadpool. no clue.

29. When was the last time you saw your mom: a few hours ago.

30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: if i could, i’d give myself a better childhood.

31. What are you listening to right now: Home We’ll Go by Walk off the Earth

32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: probably. my memory is shit at remembering stuff like that tho.

33. Something that is getting on your nerves: some of my colleagues utter inability to communicate their feelings or concerns. my utter inability to communicate my feelings or concerns.

RANDOM INFO ABOUT YOURSELF

35. Mole/s: two on my right palm. one on my left palm. another on the back of my neck. one higher in my forehead, and two others in places that shall not be named.

36. Mark/s: stretch marks around my thighs.

37. Childhood dream: a younger (and much happier) version of me wanted to become a neurosurgeon or a heart surgeon. idk about that anymore tho.

38. Hair color: ver y dark black.

39. Long or short hair: pretty long. down to my lower back. two years ago it used to not reach down to my chin. i keep changing my hair style quite a lot.

40. Do you have a crush on someone: uuhhh yeah kinda but im hopeless everything is hopeless.

41. What do you like about yourself: umm tough one. my perseverance, probably.

42. Piercings: two in one ear and one in the other. might get more.

43. Blood type: O+

44. Nickname: Raz is actually my nickname, or rather, the english equivalent of it.

45. Relationship status: orders meal for two to have leftovers for later.

46. Zodiac: Aries

47. Pronouns: she/her or they/them but really it doesnt matter to me that much. anything goes.

48. Favorite TV Show: is this a good place to say i love drake&josh

49. Tattoos: nada

50. Right or left hand: right-handed

51. Surgery: on my gums. 5 yrs ago.

52. Hair dyed in different color: i used to dye it with henna.

53. Sport: track & field all the way. i dont do it anymore but id love to.

55. Vacation: yesss i love vacations. would love to travel around some more.

56. Pair of trainers: sketchers.

MORE GENERAL

57. Eating: nothin. i should go get some melon.

58. Drinking: water

59. I’m about to: go get melons. or go out for dinner in like two hours.

61. Waiting for: a sense of purpose or fulfillment in life… that or my fave author to update.

62. Want: my sister’s blueberry muffins.

63. Get married: maybe platonically but otherwise nah.

64. Career: im hoping to become a doctor. hoping.

WHICH IS BETTER

65. Hugs or kisses: HUGS. ALL KINDS OF THEM. but cheek/head/forehead kisses are also very very pleasant.

66. Lips or eyes: …eyes.

67. Shorter or taller: shorter. i dont like looking up.

68. Older or younger: than who?? than what??

70. Nice arms or nice stomach: nice muscular arms. on ladies. yes.

71. Sensitive or loud: loud for sure. i love people with energy.

72. Hook up or relationship: umm neither? but if i hadta choose then a relationship.

73. Troublemaker or hesitant: troublemaker. life’s too short.

HAVE YOU EVER

74. Kissed a stranger: as a greeting. yes.

75. Drank hard liquor: oh, no.

76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: to this day, no I have not, thank goodness.

77. Turned someone down: admittedly, yes.

78. Broken someone’s heart: i sure hope not.

79. Had your heart broken: yea </3

80. Been arrested: heavens no. not yet.

81. Cried when someone died: yes

82. Fallen for a friend: ……………………………………………..yea

DO YOU BELIEVE IN…

83. Yourself: i try. i really do.

84. Miracles: ofc

85. Love at first sight: not really. that just doesnt happen. love needs time, patience, and hard work.

86. Santa Claus: hahaha nooooo. i dont celebrate the holidays.

87. Kiss on the first date: shrugs

OTHER:

89. Eye colour: dark brown

90. Favorite movie: for a very very long time, it was shrek, but then the memes happened so

I tag @wandschrankheld @awkwardslytherin and @snark-sniper and @of-pasta-and-potatoes. you guys dont have to do it ofc. but if you do, pls tage me!! i’d love to see it.

#i started this in two weeks ago and just now got around finishing it #im so ashamed #tage meme #long post

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