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10 Songs a Year

10 Songs a year for the whole of your life. A musical time machine.

 

The concept is simple: list your top 10 songs each year for the whole of your life.

 

The criteria is simple: you need to like each song.

 

Top 10 songs a year between 1983 and 2022 for this one individual is:

10 Songs A Year 1983 - 2022 

400 Songs!

1983

 Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics

Our Lips Are Seal - Fun Boy Three 

Pale Shelter - Tears for Fears 

Down Under - Men at Work 

Blue Monday - New Order 

This is Not a Love Song - Public Image Limited 

 The Cutter - Echo and The Bunneymen

Hand in Glove - The Smiths 

Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes

 The Walk - The Cure

1984

What Difference Does It Make - The Smiths 

William It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths 

Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat 

The Killing Moon - Echo and The Bunneymen 

 Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

The Caterpillar - The Cure 

Why - Bronski Beat 

 Love and Pride - King

 Country Death Song - Violent Femmes

it's my life - talk talk 

1985

 

 That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore - The Smiths

How Soon is Now? - The Smiths 

Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush 

She Sells Sanctury - The Cult 

Green - Throwing Muses 

Driver 8 - REM 

 Hit That Perfect Beat - Bronski Beat

 Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer

You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive 

The Headmasters Ritual - The Smiths 

 

1986

The Voice - John Farnham 

Big Mouth Strikes Again - The Smiths 

Don't Leave Me This Way - Communards 

Rock me amadus - Falco 

Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles 

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon 

 Life's What You Make It  - Talk Talk

Panic - The Smiths 

Mr Pharmacist - The Fall 

Queen is Dead - The Smiths 

 

1987

The One I Love - REM 

Hit the North - The Fall 

Pump up the volume - M/A/R/R/S 

 Never Can Say Goodbye - Communards

 Need You Tonight - INXS

 It's the end of the world as we know it - Rem

New Mind - Swans 

 Just Like Heaven - The Cure

whats the point-- fuzzbox

 Strangelove - depeche mode

1988

 

 Orange Crush - REM

Where is My Mind - Pixies

Pop Song 89 - REM

 Crash - The Primatives

Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry 

 The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave

 Theme from s-express - s express

 Orinico Flow - Enya

Push It - Salt N Peppa 

Hot Hot HOt!!! - The Cure 

 

1989

Debaser - Pixies 

Back to Life - Soul II Soul 

Pure - Lightening Seeds 

 Personel Jesus - Depeche Mode

Love Shack- B52s  

Love Buzz  - Nirvana

 Monkeys Gone To Heaven - Pixies

 No Prachutes - throwing Muses

Lovesong - The Cure 

About a girl - Nirvana 

1990

 

Step On - Happy Mondays

Kool Thing  - Sonic Youth

Been Caught Steeling - Jane's Addiction

Groove is in the Heart - Dee lite

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode 

Epic - Faith No More 

 Never Enough - The Cure

Killer - Adamski 

Unbelievable - EMF

What Time is Love - KLF

 

1991

 

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 

Counnting Backwards - Throwing Muses 

 Losing My Religion - REM

3am Eternal - KLF 

Dress - PJ Harvey 

Satan - Orbital 

 Polly - Nirvana

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack 

Siva - smashing pumpkins 

 Safe from Harm - Massive attack

1992

Creep - Radiohead 

100% - Sonic Youth 

Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth 

The Drowners - Suede 

Sheela-Na-Gig - PJ Harvey 

Weirdo -Charlatans

Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine 

 Popscene - Blur 

 Lazarus - The Boo Radleys

hit - the sugarcubes 

1993

Chemical World - Blur

Cannonball - Breeders 

Animal Nitrate - Suede 

Killing in The Name - Rage Against The Machine 

 In A Room - Dodgy

50ft Queenie - Pj Harvey 

 Rid of me - PJ Harvey

French Disco - Sterolab 

you - Rafiohead 

All that she wants - ace of base 

 

1994

 Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and the Badseeds

Do You Love Me - Nick Cave and the Bandseeds 

Line Up - Elastica 

Sour Times - Portishead 

Grace - Jeff Buckley 

Lenny Valentino - Auteurs 

 Suds and Soda - Deus

Love Spreads - Stone Roses  

Whatever - Oasis 

zombie - the cranberries 

 

1995

Where The WIild Roses Grow - Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue 

You Oughta Know -  Alanis Morissette

Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe - Whale

The Last Song - Sleeter Kinny

Just - Radiohead 

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins 

 Kiss From A Rose - Seal

Glory Box - Portishead 

 Da Funk - Daft Punk

Bruise Pristine - Placebo 

1996

 

 Kandy Pop- Bis

Your Woman - White Town 

A Nanny in Manhattan- Lilys 

Stagger Lee - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 

 Roses - Deus

The Man Don't Give a F**k - Super Fury Animals 

Going The Distance - Cake

 Govinda - Kula Shaker

Setting Sun - Chemical Brothers 

 The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene

 

1997

 Kowolski - Primal Scream

Song 2 - Blur 

 Nancy Boy - Placebo

 She Makes My Nose Bleed - Mansun

All Mine - Portishead 

Mindfields - Prodigy 

Remembe me - Blue Boy

Lucky - Radiohead 

A reminder - Radiohead

 Naxalite - Asian Dub Foundation

 

1998

Providence - God Speed You Black Emperor 

Teadrop - Massive Attack

Rabbit in Your Headlights - Unkle 

All I Need - Air 

Pull the Wires from the Wall - The Delgados 

Let's Shake Hands - The White Stripes 

 Celebrity Skin- Hole

Part of the Process - Morcheeba 

Come Together - Spiritualized

​A perfect day Elise - P

 

1999

Sunburn - Muse 

 Red Eyes and Tears - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

 Swastika Eyes - Primal Scream

The All Seeing I - Walk Like A Panther

Goddess On A Hiway- Mercury Rev 

To Earth With Love- Gay Dad 

I'm so tired - Fugazi 

 No Distance Left To Run - Blur

 The Second Line - Clinic

 Dirge - Death in Vegas

 

2000

Kill All Hippies - Primal Scream 

Once Around the Block - Badly Drawn Boy 

 Feel Good Hit of The Summer - Queens of The Stoneage

Everything in its right place -  Radiohead

 Dr Buck's Letter - The Fall

 Aisha - Death in Vegas

 Son of Sam - Elliot Smith

 Crystal Frontier - Calexico

Get offr - dandy Warhols

Return of Evil Bill - Clinic 

 

2001

 The Wisp - Simian

Devil Walks in The Sand - Cooper Temple Clause 

Nenada - Desert Sessions

Mr Your on Fire Mr - Liars 

 In the Waiting Line - Zero 7

Pyramid Song - Radiohead 

 This is Love - PJ Harvey

Fell In Love With A Girl - White Stripes 

The Vanishing American Family - Scuba z

Cloaking - Seafood

 

2002 (Foxhoski)

There is an End - Greenhorns

I Get Along - Libertines 

Blue Jeans - Ladytron 

Been Training Dogs - Cooper Temple Clause 

 No One Knows - Queens of the Stoneage

To hell with good intentions - McLusky

 May B 1 Day - Ikara Colt

Joy butcher - Foxholski 

Black Rooster - The Kills 

 Celebrate Your Mother - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

2003

 Echoes - Rapture

Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky 

 AIM - Cooper Temple Clause

Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand 

 Field Day - Psychid

Bang - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 

Danger! High Voltage - Electric Six  

Harmonic Generator - The Datsuns 

 Psychosis Safari - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Agenda Suicide - The Faint 

 

2004

Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 

Formed a Band - Art Brut 

Cuts Accross The Land - Duke Spirit

The Letter - PJ Harvey 

 Giddy Stratospheres - Long Blondes

The Valleys - Electrelane 

Freakin Out - Grahame Coxon 

Devil in Me - 22-20s

LCD Soundsystem - Movement 

Psycho Vision - The Others 

 

2005

(PIH)

Rebellion (Lies) - Arcade Fire 

 LCD Soyndsystem - Daft Punk is Playing in My house

Cc You Set The Fire in Me - Tom Vek 

Honest mistake - The Bravery

Blue Orchid - White Stripes 

 Love is an Unfamiliar Name - Duke Spirit

 Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem

Outsiders - Franz Ferdinand 

 Dance Me In - Sons and Daughters

 Galvanise - Chemical Brothers

2006

Standing in the Way of Control - The Gossip 

Dog House Boogie - Seasick Steve 

God's Gonna Cut You Down - Johnny Cash 

You Could Have Both - Long Blondes

 Alala - CSS

Listen Up! - The Gossip 

 Pirates Gospel - Alela Dianne (reissue)

 All Sparks - Editors

All Night Disco Party - Breaks 

Fraunhofer - Party in Hiroshima

 

2007

Golden Skans - Klaxons

North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem 

No Pussy Blues - Grinderman 

Bathroom Gurgle - Late Of The Pier

Seahorse - Devendra Banhart  

 Us V Them - LCD Soundsytem

 Atlantis to Interzone - Klaxons

 Horse and I - Bat for Lashes

Sho z-pod duba - DakhaBrakha

Its getting boring by the sea - blood red soes 

 

2008

Machine Gun - Portishead 

The Rip - Portishead 

 Cassius - Foals

Two Steps, Twice - Foals 

 Gilt Complex - Sons and Daughters

Dounia - Rokia Traore 

Heartbeat - Late of the Pier 

Cheap and Cheerful - The Kills 

 i got mine - the black keys

hideaway - mystery jets 

 

2009

Sea Within a Sea - The Horrors 

Crystalized - The XX  

Heavy Cross - The Gossip 

Anemone - The Bria jonestown Masacre

Fire - Kasabian

Intro - The XX 

 Treat me like your mother - Dead Weather

 I know What I am - Band of Skulls

 ulysses - franz ferdinand

whirring - the joy formidable 

 

2010

Cadets - Trash Kit 

Scissor - Liars 

Devil's Spoke - Laura Marling 

Rambling Man - Laura Marling 

 Undertow - Warpaint

Amidinine - Bombino 

 Be Brave - The Strange Boys

 Spanish Sahara - Foals

 Blue Blood - Foals

Bambi - Tokyo Police Club 

 

2011

The Words That Maketh Murder - PJ Harvey 

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey 

Lonely Boy - Black Keys 

 Suzanne and I - Anna Calvi

 The Bay - Metronomy

 Forget - Lianne La Havas

Future Starts Now - The Kills 

Two against one - Danger Mouse feat Jack White 

Lotus Flower - Radiohead

 Codex - Radiohead

 

2012

Husbands - Savages 

City's Full - Savages 

 Gold on the Ceiling - Black Keys

Run to Your Mama - Goat 

default - django django 

lifes a beach - djang django 

 angels - The XX

grimes - genisis 

 the house that heaven build - japandroids

Elephant - Tame Impala 

 

2013

Reflektor - Arcade Fire 

Backwaters - Drenge 

In Other Words - Shopping 

Klaus - Traams 

 Retrograde - James Blake

Bloodsports - Drenge

My God is The Sun - Queens of the Stoneage 

 I sat by the Ocean - QUeens of the stoneage

 She Will - Savages

 Shut Up - Savages

 

2014

Touch The Leather - Fat White Family 

Medicine - Trash Kit 

 Come on Over - Royal Blood

Figure it Out - Royal Blood 

Debbie Where's Your Car - Slaves

The Hunter - Slaves 

F**kers - Savages 

I am Dust - Gary Newman 

Gravedweller - The Wytches 

 Feel - Ty Segall

 

2015

 Adore Life - Savages

Restless Year - Ezra Furman 

Soubour - Songhoy Blues 

Al Hassidi Terei  - Songhoy Blues 

Pedestrian at Best - Courtney Barnett 

What Went Down - Foals 

Mountain at the Gates - Foals

Cheer Up London - Slaves 

The Answer - Savages 

King - Years and Years 

 

2016

Harbour the Feeling - Yak

Burn the Witch - Radiohead 

Decks dark - Radiohead 

Monakh - DakhaBrakha

 Wardrobe - Jambinai

I don't want u - Blonde Redhead 

 The Wheel - PJ Harvey

 Voodoo in my Blood - Massive Attack, Young Fathers

I have been to the mountain - Kevin Morby 

 Blackstar - David Bowie

2017

 

Well Done - Idles 

 Play God - Sam Fender

 Goatfuzz - Goat

The Static God - Thee Oh Sees 

 Tea House Music - The Myrrors

 Organ Mantra - The Myrrors

 Currency - The Black Angels

 Press Enter to Exit - The Horrors

The Way You  Used To Do - Queens of The Stoneage

 My name is ruin - Gary Numan

 

2018

Never Fight a Man with a Perm - Idles 

Collosus - Idles 

Fall Asleep - Big Joanie 

Used to be Friends - Big Joanie 

 The Hype - Shopping

Fried - Yak 

 The Man - Goat Girl

Throw Me a Bone - Goat Girl 

 Wait in The Car - The Breeders

 Up all Night - Viagra Boys

2019

 Sun. Tears Red. - Jambinai

Horizon - Trash Kit 

Stimulus for Living - Drahla 

Fever Night - Moon Duo

Boys in the Better Land - Fountains DC 

Broken boy - cage the elephant iggy pop 

 I got you - Amyl and the sniffes

 Big - Fountains DC

 ONDA - Jambinai

Give / Take - Porridge radio

 

2020

Grounds - Idles 

Sweet - Porridge Radio 

A Hymn - Idles 

Cut Your Hair - Walt Disco 

Landing - Collectress 

 Initiative - Shopping

 Fit for Work - Deadletter

Good for You - Porridge Radio 

Alambari - DakhaBrakha 

Drones - Sprints 

2021

 

Opus - Black Country New Road 

 Borderline - Italia 90

Pest - Goat Girl 

Sad Cowboy - Goat Girl 

 Shum - Go A

 Freaks to the front - Amyl and the Sniffers

 Swimming - Sprints

 Chaise Longue - Wet Leg

Hell  In Texas - Night Beats

 Pamphlets - Squid

 

2022

This Is Why - Paramore 

Deadletter – Pop Culture Connoisseur 

Bowevil - Bill Callahan

Angelica - Wet Leg 

Wild Flowers - Warmducher 

You'll Never Work in Television Again - The Smile 

Burning - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 

Delia Smith - Sprints 

Little Fix - Sprints

 Ghost - Anna b Savage

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