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 The 50 greatest songs of the past 15 years, Absolute Radio list |
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 1st October 2023, 11:23 AM
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 A dead mouse (from my cat)
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To mark their anniversary, Absolute Radio held a fan poll to find the best songs of the past 15 years... do you agree with the list?
50. Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks 49. Adele - Skyfall 48. The Vaccines - If You Wanna 47. Snow Patrol - Just Say Yes 46. Michael Kiwanuka - Cold Little Heart 45. George Ezra - Shotgun 44. Doves - Kingdom of Rust 43. Paramore - Still Into You 42. Manic Street Preachers - International Blue 41. Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt 40. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive 39. Green Day - Know Your Enemy 38. Stereophonics - C'est La Vie 37. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody 36. Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know 35. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy 34. Adele - Rolling in the Deep 33. Royal Blood - Figure It Out 32. Lana Del Rey - Video Games 31. Biffy Clyro - Mountaines 30. The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition 29. MGMT - Kids 28. Arcade Fire - Everything Now 27. Stereophonics - Indian Summer 26. Foo Fighters - Under You 25. Wet Leg - Wet Dream 24. Rag'n'Bone Man - Human 23. Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky 22. The Killers - The Man 21. Bastille - Pompeii 20. Liam Gallagher - Once 19. Keane - Sovereign Light Café 18. Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine? 17. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA... What A Life! 16. Coldplay - Viva La Vida 15. Disturbed - The Sound of Silence 14. Kasabian - Fire 13. Biffy Clyro - Many of Horror 12. The Killers - Human 11. Blur - The Narcissist 10. Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses 9. Hozier - Take Me to Church 8. Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 7. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 6. Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever 5. Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire 4. Foo Fighters - Walk 3. Muse - Uprising 2. Elbow - One Day Like This 1. Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under |
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1st October 2023, 11:30 AM
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Not really. I think Take Me To Church and Viva La Vida might be the only 2 that have a chance of appearing in my top 50 of the last 15 Years.
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1st October 2023, 11:36 AM
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Nice to see Disturbed in that list. Fab cover.
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1st October 2023, 01:13 PM
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Some great songs, Gotye, Hozier
but they ruined the list trying to fit in the average songs from Foo Fighters, the Gallaghers etc |
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1st October 2023, 01:30 PM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Oct 1 2023, 02:13 PM)  Some great songs, Gotye, Hozier but they ruined the list trying to fit in the average songs from Foo Fighters, the Gallaghers etc It was fan voted! Not a lot they could do. |
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1st October 2023, 01:41 PM
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former insolent era FM11
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Really? 'Seventeen Going Under'?
I'd rather have 'One Day Like This'. |
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2nd October 2023, 06:17 PM
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‘One Day Like This’ is certainly an epic! And I heard Hozier on R2 this morning and thought that it must be one of the best debuts of the past decade. Also nice to see Wolf Alice in there!
Also isn’t the Blur song from the current album lol |
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2nd October 2023, 07:47 PM
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Crying of laughter
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2nd October 2023, 09:28 PM
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The top 10 is fairly respectable tbf, the winner aside. Even putting aside my own feelings, it needs to be given time to grow a legacy. Don't think Not Nineteen Forever and Walk are worthy of being that high either, especially not over Viva la Vida and Human!
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2nd October 2023, 11:15 PM
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Personally, I think this is the kind of list you get when you live in a world without people like John Peel. It's a perfectly safe and unimaginative list of 'mainstream alternative' (an oxymoron I know) and it lacks anything really interesting or creative.
I don't mind listening to Absolute, it's rare I'd hear a song I object to but as a rule it's playlist are remarkably unadventurous |
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2nd October 2023, 11:36 PM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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Seeing the Manics’ International Blue here was a really pleasant surprise - one of their best for me!
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3rd October 2023, 10:35 PM
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I mean, lists like this are always so subjective that I never really pay attention to them. There's a few really good songs in there, but what the hell is Keane's 'Sovereign Light Café'? I think that's the only one in the list I'm not familiar with.
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3rd October 2023, 10:58 PM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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I hadn’t heard of it either… but it’s got 75m streams on Spotify! And is really good too, having checked it out earlier.
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3rd October 2023, 11:00 PM
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Do like some of these songs but this list is very male heavy (especially the top half).
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4th October 2023, 12:39 AM
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Although I do like most of these songs, it's far too homogeneous to take seriously as a 'greatest songs of the last 15 years' list. Greatest 'alternative' radio hits, sure, maybe.
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4th October 2023, 06:30 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ Oct 3 2023, 11:58 PM) I hadn’t heard of it either… but it’s got 75m streams on Spotify! And is really good too, having checked it out earlier. Think it’s just an album track of theirs! |
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5th October 2023, 09:52 AM
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A dead mouse (from my cat)
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QUOTE(steve201 @ Oct 4 2023, 07:30 PM) Think it’s just an album track of theirs! Nope, it was the third single from 2012's 'Strangeland'. It charted at #74! |
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5th October 2023, 08:15 PM
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Shakin Stevens
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Ah my mistake sorry!
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