Moka's 250 Favorite Songs of the 10's - A selection.

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Compiling 250 favorite songs of every decade since the 50's. I'm clicking shuffle and choosing the first 50 songs that appear for this poll.

Note: This is poll 6 out of 7. I know this decade is not even over so this is technically some of my favorites from 2010-2017. The shortlist I have somewhere is of 500+ songs so this might be the most incomplete and subject to change of the 7 lists.

Only one song per artist but covers/collabs/ghostwriting/sideprojects get a free pass.

Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/user/moteldemoka/playlist/7kspaCswzwBM6opo6xEhMX

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Grimes - REALiTi (Demo) 20
Pachanga Boys - Time 7
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill 4
Chromatics - Cherry 4
KING - The Greatest 4
Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Detail) 3
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill 3
FKA twigs - Two Weeks 2
Caribou - Silver 2
EMA - California 2
Andrés - New For U 2
John Maus - Hey Moon 2
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me 2
Shamir - On The Regular 2
Sevyn Streeter - It Won't Stop (feat. Chris Brown) 1
Shura - Touch 1
DRAM - CHA CHA 1
Domenique Dumont - L'esprit de l'escalier 1
Clams Casino - I'm God 1
Shabazz Palaces - Shine a Light 1
Chance The Rapper - Summer Friends (feat. Jeremih & Francis & The Lights) 1
Natalie Prass - Bird of Prey 0
Noname - Diddy Bop (feat. Cam O'bi & Raury) 0
YACHT - Psychic City (Classixx Remix) 0
When Saints Go Machine - Jets 0
Still Corners - Cuckoo 0
Purity Ring - Lofticries 0
St. Vincent - Cruel 0
Rozi Plain - Actually 0
Sandro Perri - Changes 0
Quantic - Sol Clap 0
Maggie Rogers - Alaska 0
Gonjasufi - Duet 0
Andrew Ashong - Flowers (feat. Theo Parrish) 0
Balam Acab - Big Boy 0
Cassius - Sound Of Violence (Aeroplane Remix) 0
Chrome Sparks - All There Is (feat. Steffaloo) 0
Allo Darlin' - Kiss Your Lips 0
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love (Erol Alkan Rework) 0
Cults - Abducted 0
Darkside - Paper Trails 0
Escort - Cocaine Blues 0
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night 0
Gigi - The Hundredth Time 0
Girls - Carolina 0
Big Thief - Haley 0
Jack J - Thirstin' 0
Kiiara - Gold 0
Kindness - House 0
Anderson .Paak - Parking Lot 0


✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link

Only 94 of 250 so far still working through it and the decade isn't even over. Here's what I've got so far:

Alex G - Sportstar
Allo Darlin' - Kiss Your Lips
Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
Anderson .Paak - Parking Lot
Andrés - New For U
Andrew Ashong - Flowers (feat. Theo Parrish)
Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Ariel Pink - Round And Round
Balam Acab - Big Boy
Big Thief - Haley
Boom Clap Bachelors - Løb Stop Stå (feat. Coco O.)
Caribou - Silver
Carla dal Forno - Fast Moving Cars
Cassius - Sound Of Violence (Aeroplane Remix)
Chance The Rapper - Summer Friends (feat. Jeremih & Francis & The Lights)
Chela - Romanticise
CHINAH - Away From Me
Chromatics - Cherry
Chrome Sparks - All There Is (feat. Steffaloo)
Clams Casino - I'm God
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love (Erol Alkan Rework)
Cross Record - High Rise
Cults - Abducted
Daft Punk - Doin' it Right
Darkside - Paper Trails
Destroyer - Bay of Pigs (Detail)
DJ Koze - Das Wort (feat. Dirk von Lowtzow)
Domenique Dumont - L'esprit de l'escalier
Don't Ask - Nah Not Never
DRAM - CHA CHA
EMA - California
Escort - Cocaine Blues
Evan Voytas - Tomorrow Night We’ll Go Anywhere
Everything Is Recorded;Sampha - Close But Not Quite
Fatima Yamaha - What’s a Girl to Do
Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
FKA twigs - Two Weeks
Gigi - The Hundredth Time (Duffy Driediger & Ryan Peters)
Girls - Carolina
Gonjasufi - Duet
Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
Grimes - REALiTi (Demo)
Grouper - I'm Clean Now
Jack J - Thirstin'
Jamie xx - Loud Places
Jessie Ware - 110%
John Maus - Hey Moon
Kenton Slash Demon - Sun
Kiiara - Gold
Kindness - House
KING - The Greatest
Laurel Halo - Moontalk
Los Colognes - Working Together
M83 - Midnight City
Mac Demarco - Another One
Maggie Rogers - Alaska
Major Lazer - Get Free
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Miguel;Kacey Musgraves - waves - Remix
Mock & Toof - Farewell To Wendo
Natalie Prass - Bird of Prey
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Dream Baby Dream
Nicolas Jaar - And I Say (Xinobi Edit)
Noname - Diddy Bop (feat. Cam O'bi & Raury)
Pachanga Boys - Time
Purity Ring - Lofticries
Quantic - Sol Clap
Radiohead - Staircase
Richard Walters - July Bones
Robag Wruhme - Pnom Gobal
Rozi Plain - Actually
Sandro Perri - Changes
Selena Gomez - Bad Liar
Sevyn Streeter - It Won't Stop (feat. Chris Brown)
Shabazz Palaces;Quazarz;Thaddillac - Shine a Light
Shamir - On The Regular
Shura - Touch
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
Spoon - Inside Out
St. Vincent - Cruel
Still Corners - Cuckoo
The Avalanches - If I Was A Folkstar
The Weather Station - Seemed True
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - How Can You Luv Me
When Saints Go Machine - Jets
White Denim - Street Joy
Whitney - No Woman
Willow - Untitled A2
YACHT - Psychic City - Classixx Remix
Yumi Zouma - It Feels Good To Be Around You (Feat. Air France)
Zammuto - It Can Feel So Good

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link

i voted for clams casino because his name is clams casino. never heard any of these, i don't think! i can listen on spotify when i go home. i know ilm loved that King song.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link

I cannot believe you haven't heard any of these? Please listen to them! Hopefully you wont hate all of them haha most of them are kind of mellow tbh... need to get in the mood for the more abrasive songs I've liked in these past years which I haven't listed yet.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link

i like mellow. i'm a very mellow fellow.

scott seward, Saturday, 18 November 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link

Between Chromatics and Grimes for me. (The Chromatics song has been burned into my brain because the local college station uses the instrumental version of it as a music bed during the times the dj has to talk.)

Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 18 November 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link

Chromatics, Grimes, Maus or FKA Twigs... Tough one this, but it's a p sweet list.

Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 18 November 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link

I love Bay of Pigs, but that is essentially a 2009 song, even though that edit came out in 2011.

MarkoP, Saturday, 18 November 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link

Chromatics - cherry

Week of Wonders (Ross), Sunday, 19 November 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link

i voted pachanga boys, altho maybe i should have voted ema :(

do you actually prefer the version of "it won't stop" with chris brown tacked on over the original solo cut?

dyl, Sunday, 19 November 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link

grimes

flappy bird, Sunday, 19 November 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link

MarkoP: yes I know I’m cheating on that technicality. But I could have chosen another one from that album easily. I also love Tinseltown from the new album but it feels like it’s too early to tell if I’ll love it over the rest in a couple of years... my pick will probably change in the end. The synth + Bejar part in Bay of Pigs is too good tho and one of my favorite things he’s done.

dyl: no I actually prefer the one without Chris Brown but it doesn’t seem to be available in my country :/ so that’s the one I put on the playlist.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 19 November 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link

REALiTi (Demo)

Bee OK, Sunday, 19 November 2017 02:54 (six years ago) link

Voted for DRAM, just cause that song makes me irrationally happy

voodoo chili, Sunday, 19 November 2017 04:44 (six years ago) link

yup, realiti demo 4 lyf

niels, Sunday, 19 November 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link

KING

Doran, Sunday, 19 November 2017 09:26 (six years ago) link

voted for the REALiTi demo

joshywinty (josh), Sunday, 19 November 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link

Sleigh Bells all the way.

Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 19 November 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link

I voted for Pachanga Boys, was kicking myself for not spotting REALiTi in the list until afterwards so I'm glad it's getting plenty of love.

Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 19 November 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link

I was going to vote Realiti as it’s probably my favorite song of the decade buuut it will get enough love so voted for Summer Friends instead which I have been obsessed this week.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link

Maybe Should’ve voted Alvvays or Big Thief. Those songs have been addictive too.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 19 November 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link

soooo many great songs here but Realiti (demo) triumphs over all

josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 19 November 2017 19:21 (six years ago) link

"Rival Dealer" by Burial destroys everything on this list.

yesca, Sunday, 19 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link

“Two Weeks” beats pretty much any song

Karl Malone, Sunday, 19 November 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link

it is astonishing how much love "realiti (specifically the demo because apparently it's so different)" gets around here

dyl, Sunday, 19 November 2017 23:13 (six years ago) link

Why? It’s an amazing song

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 19 November 2017 23:31 (six years ago) link

yeah, I agree. It's a great list, with a lot of stuff on it that I could vote for, but nothing on it has affected me as much as realiti demo

Dan S, Sunday, 19 November 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link

yeah me neither, also if you don't hear the difference between the demo and the version on Art Angels you're just not paying attention. it has everything to do with phrasing, delivery, sonics. it's a beguiling song, I love both versions, but the demo is a testament to the magic of recording and capturing something in amber forever.

flappy bird, Monday, 20 November 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link

With Realiti sufficiently and deservedly showered with votes, I'll throw my vote towards John Maus.

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 20 November 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link

Great list. Tempted to go with the St Vincent, John Maus or When Saints choices but went with Domenique Dumont

Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 20 November 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link

Still don't really get what's so special about Realiti (Demo)

Fox Mulder, FYI (dog latin), Monday, 20 November 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link

cool list

voted pachange boys time :)

nxd, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link

haha *pachanga whoops

nxd, Monday, 20 November 2017 11:44 (six years ago) link

These are the only ones I've heard:
Andrés - New For U
Balam Acab - Big Boy
Caribou – Silver
Chromatics – Cherry
Cults – Abducted
Domenique Dumont - L'esprit de l'escalier
EMA – California
KING - The Greatest
Pachanga Boys – Time
Shamir - On The Regular
Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill

Voting "Big Boy" as I assume most of the others will get a vote. I prefer both "See Birds" versions from the ep, though. Fondest memories are associated with "Time".

willem, Monday, 20 November 2017 13:07 (six years ago) link

KING, just over Andrés and Todd Terje

Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Monday, 20 November 2017 14:09 (six years ago) link

Still don't really get what's so special about Realiti (Demo)

similarly baffled tbh and I'm generally down with ilm consensus stuff

Simon H., Monday, 20 November 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link

This was me until I found myself watching the video over and over again last year

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 9 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link

nah

sleepingbag, Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:03 (six years ago) link

Nice

josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 10 December 2017 00:30 (six years ago) link


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