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There are pretty much three genres of music that are in my wheelhouse: '90s to early 2000s east coast hip hop (or hip hop that has that sound), movie score style classical/orchestral, and... weird stuff that's original but hard to define. Pull out an electric guitar and step on the distortion pedal, and I'm probably out. That being said, and thinking of songs over the last two decades that I've played on repeat all the way to work, I'll start with the song I've probably listened to the most in the target time frame (with a bit of recency bias). I want to burst through a fucking wall like Kool Aid every I hear this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cEy4UyYHI0
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I'm going to struggle for this thread to not become a Sigur Ros lovefest, as I fucking love this band. Trying to think of just their best songs post-2000 (which only excludes the first album), I'll start with the song that got me into them, heard during the final scene of Vanilla Sky:
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Tough choice, but probably the most played song off their next album:
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Then off the next album, easy choice is this song. I heard this for the first time while sitting in the balcony at this very show, and I was blown away:
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When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:
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Since a lot of my free time the last five years was spent building my shop, and a LOT of music was listened to late in the process, after there were working outlets and, eventually, a stereo, this list is going to be biased toward stuff that I discovered relatively recently. Here's one that I've probably listened to hundreds of times while working:
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This is definitely a "sing in the shower" song. If you're not me and can sing:
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Saw them live in Marymoor a couple years ago and they were awesome live.1to392831weretaken said:Since a lot of my free time the last five years was spent building my shop, and a LOT of music was listened to late in the process, after there were working outlets and, eventually, a stereo, this list is going to be biased toward stuff that I discovered relatively recently. Here's one that I've probably listened to hundreds of times while working:
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Edit: Party foul, too early.
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Another oft-repeated song if I wanted a dramatic score while doing mundane shop finishing tasks:
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Gotta get back to work. I'll get to the hip hop side of things when I get to it.
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TYFYS
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Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim1to392831weretaken said:When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:
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Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim1to392831weretaken said:When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:
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I know it from the movie, nay film, Arrival. Hits my triggers.1to392831weretaken said:
Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim1to392831weretaken said:When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN1B-tUpgs -
Also where I first saw it.GrundleStiltzkin said:
I know it from the movie, nay film, Arrival. Hits my triggers.1to392831weretaken said:
Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim1to392831weretaken said:When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN1B-tUpgs
You familiar with this one?
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Hip hop time. Goddamn, this was hard. FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE!
2000, I was still on automatic insta-buy for anything Wu-Tang or solo work. There are at least a hundred songs from the early 2000s that would be worthy of my top 20 list, but it would make for a boring list. I will say this: Early on in my Wu-Tang appreciation, I was mostly into Method Man and ODB. They had a unique voice, and their solo work was great. With the benefit of hindsight, Ghostface Killah has the deepest collection of fucking amazing solo work. Supreme Clientele released in 2000, and I won't post anything from that album because their was so much top tier shit on it that I can't choose. For the post-millennial Ghostface injection, I'll go with this one:
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Method Man's first album was by far his best, but damn if this track from Tical 0 isn't perfect:
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Busta Rhymes. It took me a decade to realize that the longest sentence that's appeared in one of his songs and makes sense is probably three words. It's all gibberish, and I don't care at all. Greatest rap voice of all time. Once again, I like his earliest work the best. He still put out two amazing albums after 2000 and then another one that was pretty good. Let us never speak of anything Busta Rhymes did after It Ain't Safe No More again...
I'm gonna cheat. One song from each of his first two albums of the millennium:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ4Xh_C4uZE&list=PL1rbGi5bgBEGg50JphpIFocI83w1_NTaK&index=17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZIHXO8_bc&list=PLLksEZZPnSeqGk6lAD1CiI771xBvISupH&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K67_Vhl8RRc&list=PLrbFUdbfepXW9Cil1dgZlMXkxwnQOHOSX&index=7 -
After college, I got into Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Atmosphere, and Brother Ali. Too much to choose from there, so I'm going to cop out:
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Also got into MF Doom in those years after college. Hard to choose a favorite, but whatever:
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MF Doom and Danger Mouse? Yes, please. Bonus Talib Kweli:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNK7WO7_lDA
Speaking of bonus Talib Kweli, he's done several songs like this that have beats that are just impossible to not bob your head to. A couple bonus favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRp34Uol7Y
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I was kind of late to the game with The Roots, but I used to have an awesome set of Shure e2c in-ear monitors that I'd wear while motorcycle riding. I used to have a playlist of The Roots songs that would last exactly a 20 minute track session, and I'd play that while trying to put down fast laps. Try not to go faster on a bike while something like this is in your ear:
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Alright, I'm going to put this one on here even though it's not really a song. At only a minute long, it's more like an exhibition. But I can't think of anything that embodies the Wu-Tang sound more than this. Also, RZA is an underrated emcee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFf6SiG2oE
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I only learned of this song's existence in the last year even though it came out in 2006 or something. Maybe it's just recency bias (for me), but--unfortunate homophobic lyrics aside (sadly, a staple of much of my favorite hip hop)--this may be the best hip hop song ever recorded:
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I've only gotten back into listen to hip hop again in the last couple of years, being able to hide in the shop with no kids and listen to whatever I want. Run The Jewels may just have been the catalyst for that walk down memory lane, and I still think their first hit is their best:
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I think I'm up to about 16 or 17 now, but I'll end it early with this one... Lil Dicky's Ex Boyfriend is funny as hell, but the surprising thing is the dude can actually flow pretty well. This one's my favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTTC_C9rI8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssdgFoHLwnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4s75Srcos
