The music after the music stopped.
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe - 2012
Todd Terje - De Lorean Dynamite - 2014
The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure - 2014
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Hands down, no question, track of the century. Astonishing piece of music and a video to go with it.
Lankum - Go Dig My Grave
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Become Ocean by the American composer John Luther Adams. A meditation on climate change and the oceans. 42 minutes of your life well spent.
Pale Waves - There’s A Honey - 2017
A perfect mixture of The Cure, Joy Division and Cyndi Lauper.
The Killers - All These Things That I’ve Done - 2004
Their best song by a mile. The song of the 2008 Olympics because of the Nike ad featuring Lance Armstrong that ran at the time. It was a brilliant ad featuring a fraud.
New Order - Crystal - 2001
Featuring the fictional band “The Killers”. Big immediate pre-September 11th vibes.
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This is some groove. Like a better version of Steal My Sunshine by Len.
The Knocks - Classic feat. Powers (Official Video) - 2014
The long outro on this is so fucking good.
The War On Drugs - It’s Your Destiny - 2011
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Three absolute bangers.
Chase & Status - Blind Faith (Official Music Video) ft. Liam Bailey - 2010
SebastiAn - Love in Motion (feat Mayer Hawthorne) - 2012
Dua Lipa - Hallucinate (12" Extended Mix) - 2020
This song owes a debt to Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall. The backing singers are amazing, one of the most devastating placements of backing vocals in a song I can think of. I think I want this song played at my funeral.
The War On Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore (feat. Lucius) [Official Music Video] - 2021
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The xx - Intro
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Forever to be associated with GAA qualifier draws.
Oh my God, it’s Longford versus Derry yet again!
I don’t know what the RTE outro to Kellie Harrington winning last year was but I really hope it was this banger.
Girls Gotta by Danger Twins (Official Music Video) - 2018
This band don’t have a Wikipedia page which baffles me because they’re very good.
That album came out when I started my accounting career as a trainee.
There were about four songs from it that were everywhere and were what would be categorised as bangers now.
Keane had a few decent tunes then too.
Show Patrol were also around but they were always shit.
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I’ve grown to despise Mr. Brightside by The Killers not because it’s a terrible song - it isn’t - but because of how it has become utterly played out by drunk idiots singing it in pubs. I was in the Dew Drop in Galway the night of the Galway v Dublin game a few weeks ago. It was about half 11 and I was trying to follow the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest on the telly in the corner. A large group of drunk southern English men younger than me came in and this song came on and these English men were all belting it out with their arms in the air in a manner reminiscent of how the thugs of Combat 18 were belting out Rule Britannia at Lansdowne Road in 1995.
It’s an alright song - no more than that - but I don’t understand how it has become this “anthem”.
I have good memories of this Snow Patrol song because of this ad. Psychological associations matter.
I think there is a great energy behind it.
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I think this is the best rap track ever made. Like singing, women are just generally better at rapping than men.
Azealia Banks - 212 - 2011
This runs it close.
Doja Cat - Boss Bitch - 2020
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What a cracking tune
Robyn - Dancing on My Own
