Friday, September 26, 2014

The 100 Greatest IDM Tracks (Fact)

Source: Fact
Wikipedia says "Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a form of electronic music that emerged in the early 1990s. It was originally influenced by developments in underground dance music such as Detroit techno and various breakbeat styles that were emerging in the UK at that time. Stylistically, IDM tended to rely upon individualistic experimentation rather than adhering to musical characteristics associated with specific genres of dance music".

Who are the most important IDM artists? And which are the most representative songs?  Fact men John Twells and Joe Muggs compiled a gorgeous Top 100, that I just translated on Spotify. Unfortunately, many tracks are not available on the service, especially in the 51-100 section of the chart. You can find all of them (via YouTube) on Fact, where you can also read some notes each song.

Enjoy!

Previously on the (not necessarily intelligent) dance side of Spotirama:


THE 100 GREATEST IDM TRACKS
(Fact, 2014, from #1 to #100)




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Strikethrough songs (38/100) are not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Autechre - Flutter
2. Aphex Twin - On
3. Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon
4. Squarepusher - A Journey To Reedham (7.AM Mix)
5. u-Ziq - Brace Yourself Jason
6. Plaid - Object Orient
7. Arovane - Thaem Nu
8. Jega - Geometry
9. Speedy J - De-Orbit
10. Bola - Vespers
11. The Black Dog - Further Harm
12. Oval - Aero Deck
13. Phoenecia - Ruff Harmonizer
14. Pole - Stadt
15. Metamatics - Solange Jimenez
16. Hrvatski - Vatstep Dsp
17. Phonem - Currents (220v Offshore)
18. Pub - Overcome
19. MDK - Sound of Saturday
20. Machine Drum - Jewlea
21. Push Button Objects - Striffle
22. Brothomstates - Viimo
23. Venetian Snares - Fuck a Stranger in the Ass
24. Ad Vanz vs. Gescom - Viral
25. Dos Tracks - Waiting for the Host
26. Future Sound of London - You're Creeping Me Out
27. Solar X - Shoot My Heart
28. Casino Versus Japan - Local Forecast
29. Bogdan Raczynski - Samurai Math Beats
30. Isan - Paintchart
31. Leila - Sodastream
32. Yee-King - Goodnight Toby
33. Mouse on Mars - Bib
34. B12 - Telefone 529
35. Jan Jelinek - Tendency
36. Cristian Vogel - You and I
37. Beaumont Hannant - Heavenly
38. Gimmik - Wavefiles
39. Spinform - Nattflykt Genom C
40. Two Lone Swordsmen - As Wordly Pleasures Wave Goodbye
41. Wishmountain - Crisps
42. Monolake - Macau
43. Kid606 - Don't Sweat the Technics (Lexaunculpt Style)
44. Neuropolitique - Lost in the Supermarket
45. Link & E261 - Antacid
46. Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere - Midpoint
47. Richard Devine - Untitled 3
48. Cabbageboy - Donkey Kong
49. Baby Ford - Monolense
50. Prefuse 73 - Point To B
51. Matmos - California Rhinoplasty
52. Cocteau Twins - Seekers Who Are Lovers (Re-cycled by Mark Clifford)
53. Blectum for Blechdom - Right Time Right Place
54. Frog Pocket - Zippy Dressnga
55. Orlando Voorn - Armchair Education
56. Neotropic - Vacetious Blooms
57. Murcof - Memoria
58. Cylob - Rewind
59. Team Doyobi - Pigeon Man
60. Clatterbox - Bad Means Good
61. John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
62. Stunt Rock - If I'm Not Sincere Enough, Please Let Me Now
63. Leafcutter John - Woktech
64. Nobukazu Takemura - Bright Time To Come
65. Kettel - Centercourt
66. Super Collider - It Won't Be Long
67. Apparat - Pressure
68. Geiom - Isene
69. Proem - Skylup
70. Herrmann & Kleine - Transalpin
71. Bedouin Ascent - Treading the Earth
72. Slowdive - In Mind (The 147 Take)
73. Bauri - Lakonia
74. Christ - Perlandine Friday
75. Alva Noto + Opiate - Opto File 1
76. Mr. Projectile - I Am Back
77. Eu - Somn
78. Cim - Reference
79. L'Usine Icl - Freak
80. Michael Fakesch - Rand (Version A)
81. Fizzarum - Phut of Plex
82. Quinoline Yellow - Eythyl Maltol
83. Lesser - Markus Popp Can Kiss My Redneck Ass (live)
84. Drome - Hoax! What Did You Got?
85. Aemic - ATM
86. Ulrich Schnauss - Nobody's Home
87. Mira Calix - Sparrow
88. Twerk - Geeky Minimal Sausage Party
89. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa - S.O.S. (Surfing On Steam) (Bad Du Lunar Mix)
90. Telefon Tel Aviv - Farenheit Fair Enough 
91. Funckarma - Lawk
92. Himuro - Tonoma Shock (We Found a Flying Saucer Mix)
93. Adam Johnson - Anex
94. Freescha - Boyrgurl
95. Kit Clayton - Material Problem
96. Crunch - Grama
97. E.O.G. - Solid Liquid
98. The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Sometimes My Arms Bend Back
99. Bisk - Experience
100. Jetone - Fukfunk


Tuesday, September 23, 2014

100 Greatest Bruce Springsteen Songs (Rolling Stone)

Bruce just got our cute little Spotirama birthday present!
Today Bruce Springsteen turns 65. In order of celebrating him, I took a little help from my Rolling Stone friends and I spotified their recent "100 Greatest Bruce Springsteen Songs" chart, compiled by a panel of writers and artists (including Steven Van Zandt from E Street Band and Win Butler from Arcade Fire). Go to Rolling Stone for the full panel list and for some words each song. And listen to all the tunes in the playlist below. 

Enjoy... and happy birthday, Boss!

Some stats:

Studio albums distribution in the Top 100
The River (1980): 12 tracks, 60% of The River tracks are in the Top100
Born in the USA (1984): 9 songs, 75%
Born To Run (1975): 8 tracks, 100%
Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978): 8 tracks, 80%
Tunnel of Love (1987): 7 tracks, 58,3%
Wrecking Ball (2012): 7 tracks, 53,8%
Nebraska (1982): 6 tracks, 60%
The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (1973): 5 tracks, 71,4%
Greetings From Asbury Park. N.J. (1973): 5 tracks, 55,5%
Magic (2007): 5 tracks, 41,6%
The Rising (2002): 4 tracks, 26,6%
Lucky Town (1992): 3 tracks, 30%
The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995): 2 tracks, 16,6%
Devils & Dust (2005): 1 track, 8,3%
High Hopes (2014): 1 track, 8,3% (American Skin is actually a song from 2001, never recorded in studio before High Hopes)
Human Touch (1992): 0 tracks, 0%
Working on a Dream (2009): 0 tracks, 0%

Extra
10 songs are from Tracks (1998 compilation album), 3 from The Promise (2010 compilation album), 1 from Live 1975-1985 (1986 live album), 1 from The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2003 compilation album), 1 from Philadelphia (1994 movie soundtrack)

1 unreleased song (the only one of the Top100 not available on Spotify): If I Was the Priest.


Previously on the greatest hits side of Spotirama:


100 GREATEST BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SONGS
(Rolling Stone, 2013, from #1 to #100)



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Strikethrough song (1/100) is not available on Spotify. Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Born to Run
2. Badlands
3. Thunder Road
4. Racing in the Street
5. The River
6. Backstreets
7. Atlantic City
8. Darkness on the Edge of Town
9. Born in the U.S.A.
10. The Promised Land
11. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
12. The Ghost of Tom Joad
13. Jungleland
14. Nebraska
15. 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
16. Prove It All Night
17. Incident on 57th Street
18. State Trooper
19. The Promise
20. Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
21. I'm on Fire
22. Dancing in the Dark
23. Land of Hope and Dreams
24. Streets of Philadelphia
25. Stolen Car
26. Tunnel of Love
27. Highway Patrolman
28. The Rising
29. Brilliant Disguise
30. Wreck on the Highway
31. New York City Serenade
32. Because the Night
33. Spirit in the Night
34. Adam Raised a Cain
35. Tougher Than the Rest
36. Shut Out the Light
37. No Surrender
38. For You
39. My City of Ruins
40. Youngstown
41. If I Should Fall Behind
42. Meeting Across the River
43. Wrecking Ball
44. Downbound Train
45. Candy's Room
46. This Hard Land
47. Lost in the Flood
48. Growin' Up
49. Johnny 99
50. Death to My Hometown
51. One Step Up
52. I'm Goin' Down
53. Hungry Heart
54. Streets of Fire
55. Independence Day
56. Lucky Town
57. Girls in Their Summer Clothes
58. Loose Ends
59. Reason to Believe
60. You're Missing
61. Point Blank
62. Radio Nowhere
63. She's the One
64. American Skin (41 Shots)
65. Walk Like a Man
66. Glory Days
67. Seeds
68. Your Own Worst Enemy
69. Cadillac Ranch
70. Better Days
71. Jack of All Trades
72. Gypsy Biker
73. Rocky Ground
74. Johnny Bye Bye
75. We Are Alive
76. Roulette
77. Two Faces
78. My Hometown
79. The Ties That Bind
80. Out in the Street
81. Night
82. Drive All Night
83. Lonesome Day
84. Pink Cadillac
85. Fade Away
86. Restless Nights
87. Bobby Jean
88. Devils & Dust
89. Blinded by the Light
90. Back in Your Arms
91. Ramrod
92. Sad Eyes
93. The E Street Shuffle
94. If I Was the Priest
95. All That Heaven Will Allow
96. Long Walk Home
97. County Fair
98. Brothers Under the Bridge
99. American Land
100. Fire

Thursday, September 18, 2014

100 Best Scottish Albums (The Scotsman)


Today Scotland decides. And today Spotirama has decided to listen to Scotland. This 100 Best Scottish Albums has been compiled by The Scotsman in 2012 and updated in 2013. I don't agree with everything - no Franz Ferdinand at all? - but I'm happy I found some old friends I haven't heard for a while (The Beta Band, The Delgados) and some even older ones I just met for the first time (The Incredible String Band, Orange Juice). Go to The Scotsman website for some notes about each album (1-25, 26-50, 51-75, 76-100) and listen to the playlist below, in the usual double version: full albums or 3-tracks-each-album.

Enjoy!

Previously on the nationalist side of Spotirama:



100 BEST SCOTTISH ALBUMS
(The Scotsman, 2013, full albums, from #1 to #100)



100 BEST SCOTTISH ALBUMS
(The Scotsman, 2013, 3-tracks each album, from #1 to #100)

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Strikethrough albums (19/100) have voted for their independence from Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

1. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
2. The Proclaimers - This Is the Story
3. Average White Band - AWB (aka The White Album)
4. Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
5. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
6. John Martyn - Solid Air
7. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
8. Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
9. The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
10. The Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits of the Layers of the Onion
11. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
12. Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
13. The Associates - Sulk
14. Texas - White on Blonde
15. Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
16. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
17. Deacon Blue - Raintown
18. The Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
19. Travis - The Man Who
20. Simple Minds - New Gold Dreams
21. Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
22. The Blue Nile - Hats
23. Orange Juice - The Orange Juice
24. The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
25. The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
26. The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos
27. The Eurythmics - Touch
28. Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
29. Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out
30. Love and Money - Dogs in the Traffic
31. Donovan - Sunshine Superman
32. The Beta Band - The Three EPs
33. Danny Wilson - Be Bop Mop Top
34. Roddy Frame - Surf
35. The Shamen - En-Tact
36. Michael Marra - Posted Sober
37. The Pastels - Up for a Bit With The Pastels
38. Garbage - Garbage
39. John Martyn - Grace & Danger
40. Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
41. Gerry Rafferty - City To City
42. The Bathers - Kelvingrove Baby
43. Lonnie Donnegan - Skiffle
44. Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
45. The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down
46. The Waterboys - A Pagan Place
47. Texas - Southside
48. Del Amitri - Change Everything
49. Idlewild - The Remote Part
50. Altered Images - Happy Birthday
51. Win - Uh! Tears a Baby (A Trash Icon)
52. The Delgados - The Great Eastern
53. Big Country - The Crossing
54. Frankie Miller - The Rock
55. Aztec Camera - Love
56. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
57. Annie Lennox - Diva
58. Runrig - The Cutter and the Clan
59. Cocteau Twins - Garlands
60. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
61. Alex Harvey and His Soul Band - Alex Harvey and His Soul Band
62. The Associates - The Affectionate Punch
63. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Mainstream
64. Eddi Reader - Mirmama
65. Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room
66. The KLF - The White Room
67. Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
68. The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
69. The Vaselines - Dum-Dum
70. Hipsway - Hipsway 
71. Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here
72. Karen Matheson - The Dreaming Sea
73. One Dove - Morning Dove White
74. Jack Bruce - Songs For a Tailor
75. The Scars - Author! Author!
76. The Mull Historical Society - Loss
77. Billy Mackenzie - Outernational
78. Hue & Cry - Remote
79. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children
80. Josef K - The Only Fun In Town
81. Mogwai - Rock Action
82. Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson
83. Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
84. Shop Assistants - Shop Assistants
85. The Bluebells - Sisters
86. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces
87. The Skids - Scared To Dance
88. Blue - Blue
89. Trashcan Sinatras - Cake
90. Edwyn Collins - Georgous George
91. Bay City Rollers - Once Upon a Star
92. Strawberry Switchblade - Strawberry Switchblade
93. The Proclaimers - Persevere
94. Teenage Fanclub - Howdy!
95. Nazareth - Razamanaz
96. Lulu - Something To Shot About
97. Deacon Blue - When the World Knows Your Name
98. The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead
99. Stone the Crows - Teenage Licks
100. Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Mercury Prize Shortlist 2014 (plus all-time Spotify collection of winning and shortlisted albums, 1992-2014)

Shortlisted covers (AltaFidelidad)

Let's fly to Mercury, again. We have the 2014 shortlist of the annual music prize for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. Nominated albums are:

Anna Calvi – One Breath
Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
FKA twigs – LP1
GoGo Penguin – v2.0
Jungle – Jungle
Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
Nick Mulvey – First Mind
Polar Bear – In Each and Every One
Royal Blood – Royal Blood
Young Fathers – Dead

My heart says Damon Albarn. My mind suggests FKA twigs. Or is it the other way round? Anyway, all albums are available on Spotify: you can taste them and decide which is your loved one in the first playlist below. The other playlists are two mammoth I'm keeping updated for some years: a collection of all Mercury Prize winning albums in history (1992-2013) and an even bigger archive of all shortlisted albums (1992-2014). If you wanna make a real UK&Ireland sonic indigestion, be my guest!

(mammoth's complete lists are after the playlists)

Previously on the awards side of Spotirama:


MERCURY PRIZE SHORTLIST 2014




MERCURY PRIZE WINNERS 1992-2013
(complete! 22 albums / 269 tracks)



MERCURY PRIZE SHORTLISTED ALBUMS 1992-2014
(2940 tracks)




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Bold albums are winning albums. Strikethrough albums (19/268) are not available on Spotify. Some albums may be not available in all countries.

1992
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
Barry Adamson – Soul Murder
Erasure – Chorus
Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart – Rising Above Bedlam
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey's Dead
Bheki Mseleku – Celebration
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
Simply Red – Stars
U2 – Achtung Baby
John Tavener & Steven Isserlis – The Protecting Veil
Young Disciples – Road to Freedom

1993
Suede – Suede
Apache Indian – No Reservations
The Auteurs – New Wave
Gavin Bryars – Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Dina Carroll – So Close
East 17 – Walthamstow
PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
New Order – Republic
Stereo MCs – Connected
Sting – Ten Summoner's Tales
Stan Tracey – Portraits Plus

1994
M People – Elegant Slumming
Blur – Parklife
Ian McNabb – Head Like A Rock
Shara Nelson – What Silence Knows
Michael Nyman – The Piano Concerto/MGV
Primal Scream – Give Out But Don't Give Up
The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
Pulp – His 'n' Hers
Take That – Everything Changes
Therapy? – Troublegum
Paul Weller – Wild Wood

1995
Portishead – Dummy
Guy Barker – Into the Blue
The Boo Radleys – Wake Up!
Elastica – Elastica
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
Leftfield – Leftism
James MacMillan – Seven Last Words from the Cross (Paul Carr, Chorus Angelorum, Bath Philarmonia version)
Van Morrison – Days Like This
Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Supergrass – I Should Coco
Tricky – Maxinquaye

1996
Pulp – Different Class
Artists for War Child – Help
Black Grape – It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
Peter Maxwell Davies/BBC Philharmonic – The Beltane Fire / Caroline Mathilde
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Courtney Pine – Modern Day Jazz Stories
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Norma Waterson – Norma Waterson

1997
Roni Size/Reprazent – New Forms
The Chemical Brothers – Dig Your Own Hole
Beth Orton – Trailer Park
Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
The Prodigy – The Fat of the Land
Radiohead – OK Computer
Spice Girls – Spice
Suede – Coming Up
John Tavener – Svyati
Mark-Anthony Turnage – Your Rockaby

1998
Gomez – Bring It On
4hero – Two Pages
Asian Dub Foundation – Rafi's Revenge
Eliza Carthy – Red Rice
Catatonia – International Velvet
Cornershop – When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Massive Attack – Mezzanine
Propellerheads – Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
John Surman – Proverbs & Songs
The Verve – Urban Hymns
Robbie Williams – Life thru a Lens

1999
Talvin Singh – Ok
Thomas Ad̬s РAsyla
Denys Baptiste – Be Where You Are
Black Star Liner – Bengali Bantam Youth Experience!
Blur – 13
The Chemical Brothers – Surrender
Faithless – Sunday 8PM
Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Beth Orton – Central Reservation
Kate Rusby – Sleepless
Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish

2000
Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour of Bewilderbeast
Richard Ashcroft – Alone with Everybody
Coldplay – Parachutes
M. J. Cole – Sincere
Death in Vegas – The Contino Sessions
The Delgados – The Great Eastern
Doves – Lost Souls
Helicopter Girl – How to Steal the World
Leftfield – Rhythm and Stealth
Nicholas Maw – Violin Concerto
Nitin Sawhney – Beyond Skin
Kathryn Williams – Little Black Numbers

2001
PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Basement Jaxx – Rooty
Elbow – Asleep in the Back
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Gorillaz – Gorillaz (nomination withdrawn at the request of the band: withdrawn from the prize, not from the playlist...)
Ed Harcourt – Here Be Monsters
Tom McRae – Tom McRae
Radiohead – Amnesiac
Susheela Raman – Salt Rain
Super Furry Animals – Rings Around the World
Turin Brakes – The Optimist LP
Zero 7 – Simple Things

2002
Ms. Dynamite – A Little Deeper
Guy Barker – Soundtrack
The Bees – Sunshine Hit Me
David Bowie – Heathen
The Coral – The Coral
Doves – The Last Broadcast
The Electric Soft Parade – Holes in the Wall
Gemma Hayes – Night on My Side
Beverley Knight – Who I Am
Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me
Joanna MacGregor – Play
The Streets – Original Pirate Material

2003
Dizzee Rascal – Boy in da Corner
Athlete – Vehicles and Animals
Eliza Carthy – Anglicana
Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
The Darkness – Permission to Land
Floetry – Floetic
Soweto Kinch – Conversations with the Unseen
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
The Thrills – So Much for the City
Martina Topley-Bird – Quixotic
Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
Terri Walker – Untitled

2004
Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
Belle & Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Jamelia – Thank You
Keane – Hopes and Fears
Snow Patrol – Final Straw
Joss Stone – The Soul Sessions
The Streets – A Grand Don't Come for Free
Ty – Upwards
Amy Winehouse – Frank
Robert Wyatt – Cuckooland
The Zutons – Who Killed...... The Zutons?

2005
Antony and the Johnsons – I Am a Bird Now
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Coldplay – X&Y
Hard-Fi – Stars of CCTV
Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
M.I.A. – Arular
Maxïmo Park – A Certain Trigger
Polar Bear – Held on the Tips of Fingers
Seth Lakeman – Kitty Jay
The Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Magic Numbers – The Magic Numbers

2006
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Ballad of the Broken Seas
Editors – The Back Room
Guillemots – Through the Windowpane
Richard Hawley – Coles Corner
Hot Chip – The Warning
Muse – Black Holes & Revelations
Zoe Rahman – Melting Pot
Lou Rhodes – Beloved One
Scritti Politti – White Bread Black Beer
Sway – This Is My Demo
Thom Yorke – The Eraser

2007
Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford – Basquiat Strings
Bat for Lashes – Fur and Gold
Dizzee Rascal – Maths + English
Maps – We Can Create
New Young Pony Club – Fantastic Playroom
Fionn Regan – The End of History
Jamie T – Panic Prevention
The View – Hats Off to the Buskers
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black
Young Knives – Voices of Animals and Men

2008
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Adele – 19
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Burial – Untrue
Estelle – Shine
The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement
Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
Neon Neon – Stainless Style
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
Portico Quartet – Knee Deep in the North Sea
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Rachel Unthank and the Winterset – The Bairns

2009
Speech Debelle – Speech Therapy
Bat for Lashes – Two Suns
Florence and the Machine – Lungs
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew
The Horrors – Primary Colours
The Invisible – The Invisible
Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
La Roux – La Roux
Led Bib – Sensible Shoes
Sweet Billy Pilgrim – Twice Born Men

2010
The xx – xx
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue n' Cheek
Foals – Total Life Forever
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night
Kit Downes Trio – Golden
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers

2011
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Adele – 21
Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
Everything Everything – Man Alive
Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
Gwilym Simcock – Good Days At Schloss Elmau
James Blake – James Blake
Katy B – On a Mission
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Metronomy – The English Riviera
Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy

2012
Alt-J – An Awesome Wave
Ben Howard – Every Kingdom
Django Django – Django Django
Field Music – Plumb
Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky's Edge
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough?
Sam Lee – Ground of its Own
The Maccabees – Given to the Wild
Plan B – ill Manors
Roller Trio – Roller Trio
Jessie Ware – Devotion

2013
James Blake – Overgrown
Arctic Monkeys – AM
David Bowie – The Next Day
Disclosure – Settle
Foals – Holy Fire
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Laura Marling – Once I Was an Eagle
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
Rudimental – Home
Savages – Silence Yourself
Villagers – {Awayland}

2014
Young Fathers – Dead

Anna Calvi – One Breath
Bombay Bicycle Club – So Long, See You Tomorrow
Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
East India Youth – Total Strife Forever
FKA twigs – LP1
GoGo Penguin – v2.0
Jungle – Jungle
Kate Tempest – Everybody Down
Nick Mulvey – First Mind
Polar Bear – In Each and Every One
Royal Blood – Royal Blood
Young Fathers – Dead

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Arcade Fire Reflektor Tour Complete Setlist


This evening, Arcade Fire wrapped up their extensive Reflektor world tour at the place where it all began: their hometown of Montreal, Quebec. Appearing at the city’s Parc Jean-Drapeau, the band performed a 21-song setlist that epitomized the entire tour: in addition to greatest hits and tracks from Reflektor, Arcade Fire reworked material on the spot (a slowed down version of “Empty Room”), unveiled unique medleys (“My Body is a Cage” into “Keep the Car Running)”, and covered a song regional to the city (Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything”). As a whole, the Reflektor tour featured 68 different songs over the course of its 74-date run.
Consequence of Sound listed all the songs. I spotified them, covers included (original versions). The result is a bizarre Arcade Fire Meets The World's Flying Circus. Hint: amazingly good to be shuffled.

Enjoy!

Previously on the Arcade Fire side of Spotirama
Reflektor: The Matrix (Reflektor songs + influences)
The Polaris Spotify Encyclopedia (Canadian indie music prize)


ARCADE FIRE REFLEKTOR TOUR COMPLETE SETLIST
(Covers included, the most played first)




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Strikethrough song (1/68) is not available on Spotify. "Cover songs" are in studio version (by original artists). Some songs may be not available in all countries.

1. Reflektor (from Reflektor), played 74 times
2. Here Comes the Night Time (Reflektor), 74
3. Afterlife (Reflektor), 74
4. The Suburbs (The Suburbs), 74
5. The Suburbs (Continued) (The Suburbs), 74
6. Ready To Start (The Suburbs), 74
7. Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (Funeral), 74
8. Rebellion (Lies) (Funeral), 74
9. Wake Up (Funeral), 74
10. Normal Person (Reflektor), 73
11. Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (The Suburbs), 73
12. It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus) (Reflektor), 68
13. Neigborhood #1 (Tunnels) (Funeral), 68
14. Joan of Arc (Reflektor), 65
15. No Cars Go (Neon Bible), 64
16. We Exist (Refklektor), 54
17. Haïti (Funeral), 52
18. Flashbulb Eyes (Reflektor), 48
19. Rococo (The Suburbs), 22
20. Keep the Car Running (Neon Bible), 21
21. Intervention (Neon Bible), 18
22. Month of May (The Suburbs), 17
23. We Used To Wait (The Suburbs), 13
24. My Body Is a Cage (Neon Bible), 12
25. Empty Room (The Suburbs), 8
26. Ocean of Noise (Funeral), 7
27. Neighborhood #3 (Laika) (Funeral), 7
28. Crown of Love (Funeral), 7
29. Controversy (Prince cover), 6
30. Supersymmetry (Reflektor), 4
31. Suburban War (The Suburbs), 4
32. Uncontrollable Urge (Devo), 4
33. Get Right (unreleased), 4
34. Heart of Glass (Blondie), 3
35. I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement (Ramones), 3
36. California Ãœber Alles (Dead Kennedys), 2
37. The Last Time (The Rolling Stones), 2
38. Devil Inside (INXS), 2
39. Who Do You Love? (Bo Diddley), 2
40. I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones), 1
41. Young Lions (Constantines), 1
42. I'll Believe In Anything (Wolf Parade), 1
43. London (The Smiths), 1
44. Alec Eiffel (Pixies), 1
45. Broad Minded (The Louvin Brothers), 1
46. Back In Time (Huey Lewis and the News), 1
47. Chiquitita (Abba), 1
48. Dream Baby Dream (Suicide), 1
49. Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry), 1
50. I Feel It All (Feist), 1
51. Hey Tonight (Creedence Clearwater Revival), 1
52. Dust in the Wind (Kansas), 1
53. Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown (Neil Young), 1
54. Been Caught Stealing (Jane's Addiction), 1
55. Hot Hot Hot (Buster Poindexter), 1
56. Radio Free Europe (R.E.M.), 1
57. Waiting Room (Fugazi), 1
58. Motownphilly (Boyz II Men), 1
59. Axel F (Harold Faltermeyer), 1
60. Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Stevie Wonder), 1
61. This May Be the Last Time (The Staple Singers), 1
62. The Cutter (Echo & The Bunnymen), 1
63. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana), 1
64. Welcome To The Jungle (Guns n'Roses), 1
65. I'm So Bored With the U.S.A. (The Clash), 1
66. Perfect Day (Lou Reed), 1
67. Satellite of Love (Lou Reed), 1
68. Headlights Look Like Diamonds (Arcade Fire EP)