January 19, 20205 yr Author It would be lovely to get new music if they're back together, but if not, like I said, Don't You Worry Child is the perfect swan song! Top 5 time! http://www.lightsandmotion.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cb8tgafow38-larm-rmah-559x373.jpg The second entry from Lights & Motion here and one that continued the epic, emotional, post rock sounds that The Spectacular Quiet started, except this one took things to truly stratospheric levels and has one of the most emotional and beautiful builds and climaxes I've heard this (well, last) decade, and I loved it so much I sent it myself to Unknown Pleasures where it was a pleasingly big hit. Starting out as a looping piano, it gradually unravels as the drums kick in before fading into the twilight and bursting back into life with screeching guitars, choirs and frantic drums creating a truly vibrant and bright atmosphere in the darkness just like the titular insects do. Every time those drums and guitars kick in, I still get massive goosebumps and it's just one of those songs that just really makes you feel better about life for those five minutes, and it came at a time in my life that I really needed that. Listen, look up at the sky and get ready for the feels <3
January 19, 20205 yr a big yes for Don't You Worry Child, we'll never get another dance song quite like it with the lyrics so obviously relating to their own break-up. I still think new music from them may be a possibility but we will have to wait a while still.
January 19, 20205 yr Author And now possibly the song that really got me into Arcade Fire in the first place and to this date, it remains possibly my favourite song of theirs, maybe give or take between Keep The Car Running and Rebellion (Lies). The real selling point here is the vocals, I'd never really heard Regine take the lead vocal in their songs before and I was blown away how beautiful her voice was, it's so seething and almost Blondie-like and I love it. It is really in full power mode here and it's accompanied by an always excellent Arcade Fire symphonic backing consisting of guitars, siren synths and a whole host of other instruments that allows you to truly get swept away in the song's urgency. They make the song that corresponds with The Suburb's trouble in the changing hometown themes at it's most urgent and that is conveyed in the lyrics meaning as well. A beautiful composition and the song that made me a belated but nonetheless fully on board fan of their work.
January 19, 20205 yr Author So I was wrong about Don't You Worry Child being my only big UK hit in my top 10, I forgot about this, guess I'm not as indie as I want to be yet, but nonetheless, Faded being such a big hit relatively recently does give me hope that sometimes a great dance track can break through, and what a great dance track this is. Taking more influence from older dance styles like trance than bloody, overused tropical house/future bass and all the better for it, Faded has an incredible breakdown that would be wonderful on its own but it is nonetheless elevated by the addition of...whatsherface who sounds a lot like Ellie Goulding, but her vocals are beautiful and add a real sense of longing and emotional breakdown to the track that makes it all the more emotionally resonant, it really gets me particularly when she says 'Atlantis' as it's almost grave acceptance that the protagonist's lover is gone forever, although we might be getting into 'reading too much into it territory' here xx Nonetheless, a wonderful song and deserved title of my favourite chart hit of the decade or is it? :o
January 19, 20205 yr Author ...well kinda, if you count #38 as a hit, I guess this counts instead. This charting still remains one of my favourite chart moments of the decade and I'm relishing it as it's not like it will ever happen again. CHVRCHES have been one of the absolute best finds of the decade pour moi, they're excellent brand of electronic indie synth pop has always been a treat and this was the song that really introduced me to them (well, I guess Lies came first, but I actually never got into that as much) and still contains everything that I really love about them with it's distorted sounds fitted with shimmering electric keyboards fitted with Laura's simple but effective vocals always gives me the shivers and much like Arcade Fire, turned them into an artist whom I will always check out albums from, and I don't usually listen to them xx This was initially 3rd in my 2013 EOY, but it has risen now as its appeal has only got better over the years and they have stayed with some top quality music which has allowed me to just keep coming back to it.
January 19, 20205 yr Wow, never expected to see Alan Walker so high here!! :wub: Faded is definitely one of my favourite songs of the decade as well (the vocals are from Iselin Solheim by the way!) so it's amazing to see that in your top three! I really enjoyed Don't You Worry Child, Luna and The Mother We Share too so a really good top ten here!
January 19, 20205 yr great to see Faded so high, certainly is one of the most inspired dance hits we've had in the past few years. won't be quite so high for me though. I enjoyed The Mother We Share too, it's one of their better songs.
January 19, 20205 yr Author I mean really, you could've seen this coming, especially with how much they've featured here as well as the influx of classical/electronic hybrids from post 2015 have featured, it only makes sense that the song that largely introduced me to all of that is my number 1 of the decade. I do feel in many ways this song has been responsible for big changes in my music taste over the years, it was the most wonderful late night YouTube find I've pretty much ever found and to this day, it still makes me feel all kinds of emotions and tranquillity in it's five minute runtime. It manages to be both epic and relaxing at the same time, which was I gather largely the point of the album it came from as a break from their epic, soundtrack trailer music, as the strings are peaceful rather than dramatic and a light choir and some electronic influences that accompany the rising symphony as the track goes. It is dream-like and ethereal in quality and from the moment it starts, you feel like you're being transported to a higher, more beautiful place and that only increases as the track builds to it's stunning conclusion that still makes me well up. But outside the music, this track was responsible for a lot of things - it cemented my interest in modern day classical music, came at a time when I was generally disconnecting from the charts as it was, shaped my BJSC nation's general sound, encouraged me to look around these lovely corners of YouTube for similar beautifully underlooked songs like this and much like Fireflies from the same year, it came at a time in my life when I really needed positive, ethereal music to remind me to look forward to the good stuff in life. All things considered, I still consider this to be the most important track to me of the decade and the fact it still sounds just as good today as it did back then has concluded that it is the best fit to be number 1 here, I mean I've wrote two paragraphs about it when I've already written about it before so you know it's good :kink: if there's a track that will keep me looking forward and believing in miracles, it's certainly this one~ Thanks for following everyone! I will post a full list as well as some other considerations a bit later on today. Your scroll bars may go small~
January 19, 20205 yr Author And here it is, the full list, in case anyone else wants to catch up x 1. Two Steps from Hell - Miracles 2. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share 3. Alan Walker - Faded 4. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 5. Lights & Motion - Fireflies 6. Wintergatan – Sommarfagel 7. Thomas Bergersen – One Million Voices 8. Bombay Bicycle Club – Luna 9. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child 10. M83 – Un Nouveau Soleil 11. Of Monsters & Men – Dirty Paws 12. Films - clone 13. Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey – Blind Faith 14. Coldplay - Hypnotised 15. Fractal Dreamers – Clarum Somnium 16. Fractal Dreamers – Fortuna Redux 17. Marcus Warner – If Elephants Could Fly 18. Steven Wilson feat. Ninet Tayab - Pariah 19. David Guetta feat. Sia – Titanium 20. Lindsey Stirling – Crystallize 21. Woodkid – Run Boy Run 22. M83 – Outro 23. Arcade Fire - Reflektor 24. Coldplay – Paradise 25. Trentemoller - Moan 26. Kavinsky – Nightcall 27. Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods 28. Zedd feat. Foxes - Clarity 29. Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds – AKA…What a Life 30. Lights & Motion – The Spectacular Quiet 31. FM-84 feat. Ollie Wilde – Running in the Night 32. The Vaccines – If You Wanna 33. The Naked & Famous – Young Blood 34. Lana Del Rey – Video Games 35. CHVRCHES vs Eric Prydz – Tether 36. Natural Animal – Who You Are 37. Marcus Warner - Africa 38. Clean Bandit – Mozart’s House 39. Swedish House Mafia – Greyhound 40. Max Richter – Spring 1 (Ade Laugee remix) 41. Films – I’m Sleeping Under the Dead Tree 42. Ellie Goulding – My Blood 43. NONONO – Pumpin’ Blood 44. Christine & The Queens – Tilted/Christine 45. First Aid Kit – Emmylou 46. Henry Saiz – All the Evil of This World 47. M83 feat. Haim – Holes in the Sky 48. The Midnight - Gloria 49. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky 50. Protohype & Kezwik – Hold Your Breath 51. Bastille – Overjoyed 52. Hiatus – Precious Little 53. Haim – The Wire 54. James Vincent McMorrow – Higher Love 55. Lana Del Rey – Born to Die 56. Joe Goddard feat. Valentina – Gabriel 57. Coldplay – Midnight 58. Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones – I Got U 59. Matrix & Futurebound feat. Baby Blue – Magnetic Eyes 60. Avicii – Penguin 61. Anna Meredith – RedBlueGreen 62. We Are All Astronauts feat. Ellena Soule - Wolves 63. Jessie Ware – 110% (If You’re Never Gonna Move) 64. Haim – If I Could Change Your Mind 65. Glass Animals – Life Itself 66. Rhye – Open 67. Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter 68. Ellie Goulding – Figure 8 69. Tom Day – Going Home 70. The Enigma TNG – The Glass Alice 71. Apparat feat. Soap&Skin – Goodbye 72. Disclosure feat. Sam Smith – Latch 73. Faul & Wad-Ad & PNAU - Changes 74. Xan Griffin - Utopia 75. Crywolf feat. Meghan Kennedy – Home We Made Part II (Skrux remix) 76. London Grammar – Wasting My Young Years 77. Ellie Goulding – Under the Sheets 78. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive 79. Jay Dabhi & Moises Modesto – Cry for Freedom 80. Chase & Status feat. Mali – Let You Go 81. Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel the Love 82. Sleeping at Last – Hearing 83. Grimes – We Appreciate Power 84. Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - Easy 85. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know? 86. Haerts – Wings 87. Anna Meredith - Nautilus 88. Robin Schulz feat Lilly Wood & The Prick – Prayer in C 89. Justin Timberlake – Mirrors 90. Pendulum – Watercolour 91. Glass Candy – Warm in the Winter 92. Coldplay – Every Teardrop is a Waterfall 93. Kids of the Apocalypse – Masters of the Sun 94. FM-84 – Arcade Summer 95. Skrillex – Bangarang 96. Olafur Arnalds feat. S O H N – Unfold 97. Nayo Hiiragi - Requiem 98. Saor - Hearth 99. Illenium feat. King Deco - Reverie 100. Kishi Bashi – I Am The Anti-Christ to You 101. Underworld – Caliban’s Dream 102. Emmelie De Forrest – Only Teardrops 103. Daydreamer – Skyscrapers 104. Vermont - Majestat 105. The Midnight feat. Nikki Flores - Jason 106. U.S. Girls – Woman’s Work 107. Sigma – Nobody to Love 108. Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds – Ballad of the Mighty I 109. Arcade Fire – Everything Now 110. DVBBS & Borgeous - Tsunami 111. Hang the DJ – Dark Dark in the Night 112. Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge – White Noise 113. Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime 114. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk – I Feel It Coming 115. Prides – Out of the Blue 116. Porter Robinson – Language 117. Anoice et al. – Nothing There 118. Merely – Backdraft 119. Tame Impala – ‘Cause I’m a Man 120. Nick Mulvey – Cucurucu 121. Tom Walker – Leave a Light On 122. Two Steps From Hell feat. Merethe Solvedt - Compass 123. Owsey, Jernalism & Resotone – I’ve Been Secretly Falling Apart 124. Take That – The Flood 125. Coldplay - Daddy 126. The 1975 – The Sound 127. Overhead, The Albatross – Big River Man 128. Lorde – Royals 129. The Birthday Massacre – Under Your Spell 130. Danny L Harle – Broken Flowers 131. Marsheaux – Safe Tonight 132. Skrillex & The Doors – Breakin’ a Sweat 133. Billie Eilish – bad guy 134. Alex Clare – Too Close 135. Machineheart – snow (Myles Travitz remix) 136. Ella Henderson – Ghost 137. 99 Souls – The Girl is Mine 138. The xx – On Hold 139. Taylor Swift – Shake it Off 140. Avicii – Levels 141. Florence & The Machine – Shake It Out 142. LSDREAM – OBLIVION 143. Daydreamer – Travelling Light 144. Thomas Azier – Ghostcity 145. Foxes – Youth 146. CHVRCHES & WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA – Out of my Head 147. Kitten – Fall on Me 148. Dua Lipa – Be The One 149. Seven Lions, Illenium & Said The Sky feat. HAILENE – Rush Over Me 150. Vance Joy – Riptide 151. Major Lazer feat. DJ Snake & MO – Lean On 152. Crywolf – Akureyri 153. AlunaGeorge – Attracting Flies 154. Headphone Activist – Ocean Floors 155. The Neighbourhood – Female Robbery 156. Frozen Night – Movement V: The Magic of Nature 157. Kyla la Grange – Cut Your Teeth (Kygo remix) 158. Stellar Dreams – Infinity 159. Agy - Arvedavgi 160. Ramin Djawadi – Paint it Black 161. Years & Years - King 162. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris – We Found Love 163. Pale Waves - Noises 164. Idina Menzel – Let It Go 165. Lucenzo – Danza Kudoro 166. DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Waves 167. Bastille – Pompeii 168. Passion Pit – Take a Walk 169. World’s End Girlfriend – Les Enfants Du Paradis 170. Calvin Harris feat. Dua Lipa – One Kiss 171. The Disciples – They Don’t Know 172. Alex Adair – Make Me Feel Better 173. Haiku Salut – Glockelbar 174. Parachute Youth – Can’t Get Better Than This 175. The 1975 – Chocolate 176. Le Maitre - Closer 177. Tina Guo – Pokemon/Super Mario Bros. 178. Varien – Lilith 179. Emmelie De Forrest - Rainmaker 180. Otto Knows – Million Voices 181. Vanic x Machineheart - Circles 182. Kygo feat. Kodaline – Raging 183. The New Division – Kids 184. iamspamspamami- Time 185. Clean Bandit feat. Anne Marie & Sean Paul – Rockabye 186. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk – Starboy 187. How I Became The Bomb – Ulay Oh 188. Priest – Our Time Will Come 189. Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces 190. Illenium feat. Joni Fatora - Fortress 191. Saint Motel – My Type 192. Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Flaws 193. Watermat – Bullit 194. Lady Gaga – The Edge of Glory 195. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Holy Mountain 196. Kids of the Apocalypse - Empire 197. Epic Soul Factory – Everdream 198. Illenium feat. ECHOS - Afterlife 199. Oh Wonder – Technicolor Beat 200. Karmin – Brokenhearted 201. Wild at Heart - Darling 202. Family of the Year – Hero 203. Korw – Luna’s Moon Dance 204. Cusco – Orpheus & Eurydice / Oracle of Delphi 205. London Grammar – Strong 206. Ani Glass – Y Ddawns 207. Moodoid feat. WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Langage 208. Ten Walls – Walking with Elephants 209. Plaitum - Jagwa 210. Cosmonaut Grecko – Anytime 211. Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks 212. Jade Bird – Love Has All Been Done Before 213. Jai Wolf – Indian Summer 214. Ariana Grande – Thank u Next 215. A Thousand Falls – Lost 216. K’Naan – Wavin’ Flag 217. Florence & The Machine – What Kind of Man 218. Taylor Swift – Style 219. Haim – Now I’m In It 220. Wilkinson - Afterglow 221. Sigala – Easy Love 222. Chad Valley feat. Glasser – Fall 4 U 223. Efisio Cross – Can I Keep You 224. Pure Bathing Culture – Dream the Dare 225. Anathema – Untouchable 226. Mumford & Sons – The Cave 227. Muse – Panic Station 228. Tiasu - Plummet 229. Alev Lenz – Fall Into Me 230. Woodkid feat. Jennifer Connelly – On Then & Now 231. Sir Felix – Hope 232. The Midnight feat. Nikki Flores – Light Years 233. Birdy – Keeping Your Head Up 234. DIA - Egeya 235. Alesso feat. Roy English – Cool 236. Owl Eyes - Closure 237. DJ Fresh – The Feeling 238. Leon Vynehall – Blush 239. Calvin Harris feat. Haim – Pray to God 240. Jaymes Young – Dark Star (Kiely Rich remix) 241. Fae – Ruok 242. Pierce Fulton feat. Noosa – What is Gonna Make You Happy? 243. Inouwee – Danger 244. Power Glove – Crypt 245. Alessia Cara - Here 246. Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like a Heart 247. Ke$ha – Blow 248. Sia – Chandelier 249. Yoko Shimamura – The Other Promise 250. Ephera – Alaska and I did compile a much longer longlist for this, I could've gone into much more but 250 was stretching it as it was, so as a bonus and if you're curious, here are the 290 (!) other songs that were in contention for a place here: 251. Galantis – Peanut Butter Jelly (I forgot to include this until I'd started lmao, so it gets the highest place at least xx) 252. In love with a ghost - flowers 253. Elle King – Exes and Ohs 254. XYLO – America 255. Christine & The Queens – Saint Claude 256. Cold War Kids – First 257. Erkka – Plastic Flamingos 258. Think Up Anger - Mutiny 259. Coldplay – Magic 260. Billie Eilish – Bury a Friend 261. Zola Jesus - Exhumed 262. Autre Ne Vaut – Counting 263. R O Z E S - Everything 264. Tove Lo feat. Hippie Sabotage – Stay High 265. Hozier – Take Me to Church 266. M83 – Midnight City 267. Camila Cabelo feat. Young Thug – Havana 268. Calvin Harris – Summer 269. Indian Wells - Cascades 270. Paradis – Toi Et Moi 271. The Midnight – The Years (Prologue) 272. Chromatics – Camera 273. CHVRCHES – Recover 274. Mytischi – Cassiopeia 275. Fall Out Boy – Centuries 276. Sufjan Stevens – Mystery of Love 277. Nervous_testpilot – Deeper 278. Laibach – Vor Sonnen Aufgang 279. SAFIA – Paranoia, Ghosts and Other Sounds 280. Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson – Symphony 281. White Lies - Tokyo 282. NO CEREMONY – Feelsolow 283. Heilung – Othan 284. Courtney Barnett – Pedestrian at Best 285. IC3PEAK – Grustnaya Suka 286. Olly Murs – You Don’t Know Love 287. Ariana Grande – One Last Time 288. Hermitude – Hyperparadise (Flume remix) 289. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes 290. Porter Robinson – Sea of Voices 291. Crywolf feat. Charity Lane - Neverland 292. Chase & Status feat. Delilah – Time 293. Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong 294. Taylor Swift – Blank Space 295. The xx – Sunset (Jamie xx edit) 296. Momofoko – We Know 297. Olafur Arnalds – re: member 298. Tove Lo – Scream My Name 299. Milk & Bone - Pressure 300. Peter Roe – Where the Hills Are Green 301. Daniel Avery – Drone Logic 302. Ex:Re – Romance 303. MK - 17 304. OOFJ / O Future – You’re Always Good 305. Neon Indian – Annie 306. Nakhane feat. ANOHNI – New Brighton 307. The Metronomy – The Look 308. Lilyer – I Was on Your Side 309. The Flavour - Shosholoza 310. Stellar Dreams - Parallel 311. Peking Duk feat. Nicole Millar – High 312. Ninet Tayeb - Superstar 313. Charli XCX feat. Troye Sivan - 1999 314. Marina & the Diamonds – Hollywood 315. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Bombs Away 316. Summer Was Fun – Frozen in Time 317. James Newton Howard – The Hanging Tree 318. Le Youth – C O O L 319. Miles Prower – Who Needs Real Life Anyway? 320. Driftmoon – Lights Will Guide You Home 321. Paramore – Still Into You 322. The Girl & The Dreamcatcher – Make You Stay 323. Highasakite – Darth Vader 324. Otha – One of the Girls 325. Woolf and the Wondershadow - Cloaked 326. Marlon Roudette – When the Beat Drops Out 327. Pale Waves - Eighteen 328. Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars 329. Kids of the Apocalypse feat. Wes Period – Better Life 330. Tiny deaths - Ocean 331. S O H N – Artifice 332. Big Black Delta feat. Debbie Gibson – RCVR 333. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu – Harajuku Iyahoi 334. Matrix & Futurebound feat. Max Marshall – Control 335. The Birthday Massacre - One 336. Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle – You & Me 337. Disciples – On My Mind 338. Altin Gun – Supurgesi Yoncadan 339. Yumi & The Weather – All We Can 340. Grouplove – Good Morning 341. Javiera Mena – Otra Era 342. John de Sohn – Dance Our Tears Away 343. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk 344. Christina Perri – Jar of Hearts 345. K?D – Creator’s Flower 346. Let’s Eat Grandma – Falling Into Me 347. Kitten - Memphis 348. Fitz & The Tantrums – Handclap 349. Charlotte Gainsbourg – Deadly Valentine 350. Gidge – Norrland 351. OMFG – Hello/I Love You/Yeah 352. Rag’n’Bone Man – Human 353. London Grammar – Big Picture 354. Caravan Palace – Lone Digger 355. Ben Pearce – What I Might Do 356. Hellberg feat. Cozi – The Girl 357. Tame Impala – Let it Happen 358. We Are All Astronauts - Ether 359. Phoenix – Entertainment 360. That Poppy - Lowlife 361. David E. Sugar – Pushing to be First 362. Of Verona – Castles 363. Showtek feat. We Are Loud – Booyah! 364. Hugar feat. Arnor Dan - Waves 365. Autoheart – Agoraphobia 366. Coldplay – Up&Up 367. Nero – Promises 368. Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding – Outside 369. The Magician feat. Years & Years – Sunlight 370. LSDREAM feat. Sarah Hudson - GODSPEED 371. Petit Biscuit – Sunset Lover 372. U.S. Girls – Damn That Valley 373. Sampha – No One Knows Me Like the Piano 374. Avicii – Silhouettes 375. WALK THE MOON – Shut Up & Dance 376. Nero – Guilt 377. Bear’s Den – Auld Wives 378. Ariana & The Rose – In Your Bed (Oliver Nelson remix) 379. Celtic Woman – T’ir Na NoG 380. SEXWITCH – Kassidat El Hakka 381. Swedish House Mafia vs Tinie Tempah – Miami 2 Ibiza 382. Fickle Friends - SWIM 383. CHVRCHES – Dead Air 384. Mumford & Sons – Believe 385. Kygo feat. Selena Gomez – It Ain’t Me 386. The Killers – Shot at the Night 387. Sheila & The Kit – Time Again 388. ROMANS – Ballad of a Figure 8 389. Blossoms - Charlemagne 390. Delta Heavy – Ghost 391. Lorde – Perfect Places 392. Jade Cicada – Lost Again 393. Azure Blue – Time is on Our Side 394. Dreamtrak – Odyssey Part 2 395. BanYa – Beethoven’s Virus (Nightcore) 396. F(x) – 4 Walls 397. Fun. feat Janelle Monae – We Are Young 398. Harry Styles – Sign of the Times 399. Vverewolf - Murder 400. Coyote Kisses – Ferrari 401. Hilight Trible – Free Tibet (Vini Vici Remix) 402. SAVEUS – Time Can Heal a Man 403. Ella Henderson - Glow 404. WALK THE MOON – Anna Sun 405. Infinity Ink – How Do I Love You 406. Fang Island – Daisy 407. Galantis – No Money 408. Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith – La La La 409. Klingande - Jubel 410. DrugznDreamz – Higher (Is Tropical remix) 411. B>E>A>K – Kehaar 412. Digitalism – Open Waters 413. Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing 414. The Vaccines – Post Break Up Sex 415. St. Vincent - Masseduction 416. Nils Noa feat. Vinni – Fade Away 417. Mele – Aaliyah 418. Russian Red - Volare 419. Haim – Falling 420. Keiino – Spirit in the Sky 421. Coldplay – Hurts Like Heaven 422. Something Ala Mode feat. Dwntwn – On My Mind 423. Twin Shadow – Five Seconds 424. Aquilo – You There 425. Kaiser Chiefs – Coming Home 426. Soulfy – Lucid Dreaming 427. Avicii feat. Aloe Blacc – Wake me Up 428. Mirror Talk – 1/M/T 429. The Royal Concept – Goldrushed 430. Katy Perry – Wide Awake 431. Fla.mingo - die 432. Stylo G – Soundbwoy 433. Laura Mvula – Green Garden 434. Omar Souleyman – Enssa El Attab 435. Bro Safari - Bender 436. Ejecta – Afraid of the Dark 437. Uun – One Occult Vision 438. BURNS – Lies (Otto Knows remix) 439. Chase & Status feat. Louis M^tters – Lost and Not Found 440. Joywave feat. KOPPS - Tongues 441. Same Difference feat. Alcazar – Karma Karma 442. Paradis – Garde le Pour Toi 443. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne – Rather Be 444. Broken Bells – Holding on for Life 445. Armin Van Buuren – This is What it Feels Like 446. Chainsmokers feat. ROZES - Roses 447. Yeasayer – O.N.E. 448. Jax Jones feat. Ina Wroldsen - Breathe 449. Indiana – Solo Dancing 450. Francis & The Lights – Etc. 451. One Direction – Night Changes 452. Keston Cobblers Club – The Heights of Lola 453. Matrix & Futurebound – All I Know 454. Feathers – Land of the Innocent 455. VERITÉ – Strange Enough 456. Connan Mackosin – Forever Dolphin Love 457. Bibio – A’tout a l’heure 458. Kiesza - Hideaway 459. Swedish House Mafia feat. Pharrell Williams – One (Your Name) 460. The Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires and Wolves) 461. CocoRosie - Gravediggress 462. Kyla la Grange – Walk Through Walls 463. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe 464. Marina & The Diamonds – Primadonna 465. Axwell V Ingrosso – Something New 466. Sub Focus – Out the Blue 467. OVERWERK - Toccata 468. Alina Devecerski – Flytta Pa Dej 469. Lushington – Settle Down 470. Devlin feat. Yasmin – Runaway 471. July Child – Turn Me On 472. Sigma feat. Paloma Faith - Changing 473. Bok Bok feat. Kelela – Melba’s Call 474. Major Lazer feat. Ariana Grande – All My Love 475. The Vaccines – Teenage Icon 476. Owl City – Fireflies 477. Robert DeLong – Global Concepts 478. The Very Best – Yoshua Alikuti 479. Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX – I Love It 480. Miami Horror – Colours in the Sky 481. Birdy – Wings 482. Miami Horror feat. Sarah Chernoff – Real Slow 483. Justin Timberlake – Not a Bad Thing 484. Fant4stik - Reptilians 485. Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen 486. Train – Hey Soul Sister 487. Arctic Monkeys – Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? 488. Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf 489. Linkin Park – Burn it Down 490. AURORA – 5,4,3,2,1 (The Murder Song) 491. Kygo feat. Conrad Sewell - Firestone 492. American Authors – Best Day of my Life 493. Neon Trees – Animal 494. Shakira – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) 495. Manufactured Superstars – Zombies in Love 496. Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon 497. Lockah – Heartless Monster 498. Kygo feat. Maty Noyes - Stay 499. Fuse ODG - Antenna 500. Nadia Ali – Rapture (Avicii remix) 501. Dead Can Dance – Opium 502. George Ezra – Budapest 503. Coldplay feat. Rihanna – Princess of China 504. One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful 505. SHIELDS – Mezzanine 506. CHVRCHES – Gun 507. Bassnectar feat. W Darling – You & Me 508. Fun. – Some Nights 509. Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running 510. The Vaccines – Wetsuit 511. Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts – Under Control 512. Kaskade feat. Skylar Grey – Room for Happiness 513. Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman 514. James Blunt – Stay the Night 515. Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up 516. Summer Heart – U Got All I’m Looking 4 / I Wanna Go 517. Martin Garrix – Animals 518. Lady Gaga – Alejandro 519. Nero – Me & You 520. Delilah – Go 521. Wonder Villains – Zola 522. Flight Facilities feat. Elizabeth Rose – I Didn’t Believe 523. Beatrice Eli – It’s Over 524. Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 525. Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks 526. Alexis Jordan – Happiness 527. Cee Lo Green – Bright Lights, Bigger City 528. Willy Moon – Yeah Yeah 529. Olly Murs feat. Rizzle Kicks – Heart Skips a Beat 530. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Heart Attack 531. Ray Foxx – Boom Boom (Heartbeat) 532. Bloodgroup – Cut Out Your Tongue (Girl Unit remix) 533. MAGIC! - Rude 534. Biffy Clyro – Many of Horror 535. Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo – Let’s Go 536. Kelly Clarkson –Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) 537. Women E – You Stole That Summer (Bright Light Bright Light remix) 538. Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette - Hello 539. Bruno Mars – Grenade 540. Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah – Drinking From The Bottle 541. Foxes – Let Go for Tonight 542. U2 – The Troubles And that just about wraps it up. Thank you all very much for commenting and reading, I really enjoyed doing this and taking a look back at the decade as music is something that has played a big part in my maturing in this decade, I highly doubt I'll be able to compile a list as extensive for the 2020s in 2029 (I don't want to think about where I'll be then x) as I am getting to that age where newer music doesn't excite me as much and I tend to stick with what I know, but that's a later question and I certainly hope I can make some more musical memories as we go along this decade! See you all at the end of the year I guess x
January 27, 20205 yr Sprawl II is so epic, Regine's vocals :heart: Mother We Share & Don't You Worry Child obviously modern classics shoutout for some underrated tracks like HAERTS, NONONO, Henry Saiz, Glass Candy, Porter/Madeon, Anna Meredith *.* wonderful countdown as expected! also holy shit a lot of trifoski/seven entries in the lower part of the list (the fact someone else still remembers that Drugzdreamz song argh!~)
April 13, 20205 yr Hi Chez, so many great songs in your extended list! Here are my faves in your top 50: 1. Two Steps from Hell - Miracles 2. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share This sounds like a No.1 hit from a parallel world, amazing that they never had a big UK hit (apart from the Marshmello track) 3. Alan Walker - Faded <3 4. Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) 5. Lights & Motion - Fireflies 6. Wintergatan – Sommarfagel 7. Thomas Bergersen – One Million Voices 9. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child This is one of the best UK No.1s of the last decade, SO good 10. M83 – Un Nouveau Soleil 13. Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey – Blind Faith Reminds me of clubbing back in 2011, such a HUGE song 14. Coldplay - Hypnotised 18. Steven Wilson feat. Ninet Tayab - Pariah This was such a BJSC highlight, a real beauty 19. David Guetta feat. Sia – Titanium 20. Lindsey Stirling – Crystallize 21. Woodkid – Run Boy Run 22. M83 – Outro 24. Coldplay – Paradise 26. Kavinsky – Nightcall 27. Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods 28. Zedd feat. Foxes - Clarity 29. Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds – AKA…What a Life 31. FM-84 feat. Ollie Wilde – Running in the Night 33. The Naked & Famous – Young Blood For me, they've never topped this 34. Lana Del Rey – Video Games This stood out SO much in the charts of 2011, amazing that it was a hit here 35. CHVRCHES vs Eric Prydz – Tether 37. Marcus Warner - Africa 38. Clean Bandit – Mozart’s House 39. Swedish House Mafia – Greyhound 42. Ellie Goulding – My Blood Her music was so good in the first half of the decade, I don't know what happened 43. NONONO – Pumpin’ Blood Such an infectious whistle hook 44. Christine & The Queens – Tilted/Christine 45. First Aid Kit – Emmylou 47. M83 feat. Haim – Holes in the Sky 48. The Midnight - Gloria 49. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky
May 4, 20205 yr Hi Chez, what I liked from here! 1. Two Steps from Hell - Miracles 2. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share 3. Alan Walker - Faded a real beauty of a song, that piano to the girls raw emotive vocals <3 9. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin – Don’t You Worry Child my favourite by them so of course was rightfully their only number 1 18. Steven Wilson feat. Ninet Tayab - Pariah such a diverse blend of voices, I knew of Steven Wilson's band Porcupine Tree through Uni studying music. They also had some cool tunes! 19. David Guetta feat. Sia – Titanium effortless dance anthem, so pleased Sia turned into a big star from this! 20. Lindsey Stirling – Crystallize 24. Coldplay – Paradise brilliant! 26. Kavinsky – Nightcall 27. Taylor Swift – Out of the Woods 43. NONONO – Pumpin’ Blood ah remember this too, punchy production, really catchy song! 44. Christine & The Queens – Tilted/Christine :wub: 49. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – Get Lucky 57. Coldplay – Midnight 58. Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones – I Got U 59. Matrix & Futurebound feat. Baby Blue – Magnetic Eyes 62. We Are All Astronauts feat. Ellena Soule - Wolves 64. Haim – If I Could Change Your Mind 73. Faul & Wad-Ad & PNAU - Changes I recall thinking this would be number 1 for weeks when I first heard it, still did very well though! 76. London Grammar – Wasting My Young Years 78. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive 81. Rudimental feat. John Newman – Feel the Love 85. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know? 88. Robin Schulz feat Lilly Wood & The Prick – Prayer in C 89. Justin Timberlake – Mirrors 90. Pendulum – Watercolour great comeback song, shame you don't hear from them anymore much 92. Coldplay – Every Teardrop is a Waterfall 98. Saor - Hearth 102. Emmelie De Forrest – Only Teardrops I adored this 107. Sigma – Nobody to Love 109. Arcade Fire – Everything Now this should have been a top 40 hit :( 113. Coldplay – Adventure of a Lifetime 114. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk – I Feel It Coming 120. Nick Mulvey – Cucurucu 121. Tom Walker – Leave a Light On 124. Take That – The Flood 128. Lorde – Royals 133. Billie Eilish – bad guy 134. Alex Clare – Too Close 136. Ella Henderson – Ghost 138. The xx – On Hold 139. Taylor Swift – Shake it Off 140. Avicii – Levels 145. Foxes – Youth 147. Kitten – Fall on Me omg I looked at this for potentials in BJSC until I realised it had been sent years prior, very interesting track! 148. Dua Lipa – Be The One 150. Vance Joy – Riptide 151. Major Lazer feat. DJ Snake & MO – Lean On 152. Crywolf – Akureyri 161. Years & Years - King 162. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris – We Found Love 166. DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Waves Oh YES, still my favourite entry from Persephonia although they have lots of epic entries *. 167. Bastille – Pompeii :wub: 177. Tina Guo – Pokemon/Super Mario Bros. 179. Emmelie De Forrest - Rainmaker 180. Otto Knows – Million Voices 185. Clean Bandit feat. Anne Marie & Sean Paul – Rockabye 186. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk – Starboy 187. How I Became The Bomb – Ulay Oh 189. Paloma Faith – Picking Up The Pieces 190. Illenium feat. Joni Fatora - Fortress 191. Saint Motel – My Type 194. Lady Gaga – The Edge of Glory :wub: 200. Karmin – Brokenhearted 202. Family of the Year – Hero 205. London Grammar – Strong 211. Of Monsters & Men – Little Talks 216. K’Naan – Wavin’ Flag 218. Taylor Swift – Style 220. Wilkinson - Afterglow 221. Sigala – Easy Love 225. Anathema – Untouchable 233. Birdy – Keeping Your Head Up 239. Calvin Harris feat. Haim – Pray to God 246. Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like a Heart 247. Ke$ha – Blow this is a good one from Kesha, forgotten by the public.. bet no one would guess that this was a #1! 248. Sia – Chandelier Wow that's quite the LIST! Edited May 4, 20205 yr by Rob S
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