The Syndicate

Ricochet wrote:Arrrgh RIP my evening tonight.

This actually makes me want to pedantically split the concept into two. What you're proposing would be the sort of Favourite Single or Song from each year during my lifetime. But that would not really reflect my actual lifespan of music listening. I mean, I was broomguitaring to Metallica on MTV when I was 2. Then I was listening to Chopin played by Rubinstein, Mussorgsky and Vivaldi on vinyls and Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds on tape. Only around 11 or 12 did I slowly start discovering artists and genres. I probably didn't pay attention to each year's batch of new music (except if prog) until 2008 or so.

Anyway, I'll probably see about that Yearly Fave Song list, later. I won't help much that I was born in 1929, though.

Yeah, if I tried to build the list based on what my favorites were during each year, it'd be a rather barren list. I didn't even listen to music until the turn of the millennium.

I got bored and made this for Facebook (as if anyone gives a crap there). I figured I'd bring it here too in case anyone else is bored enough to do it. I limited my list to only one song per artist just so it wouldn't be repetitive, but whatever man.

1987: U2 - "Where the Streets Have No Name"
1988: Eric B. & Rakim - "Follow the Leader"
1989: Pixies - "Debaser"
1990: Queensrÿche - "Silent Lucidity"
1991: A Tribe Called Quest - "Show Business"
1992: XTC - "Then She Appeared"
1993: Crowded House - "Distant Sun"
1994: Guided By Voices - "I Am a Scientist"
1995: Pulp - "Disco 2000"
1996: Belle and Sebastian - "The State I Am In"
1997: Björk - "Bachelorette"
1998: Massive Attack - "Teardrop"
1999: Sigur Rós - "Viðrar vel til loftárása"
2000: Radiohead - "Optimistic"
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: Camel - "For Today"
2003: The National - "Lucky You"
2004: Joanna Newsom - "En Gallop"
2005: Porcupine Tree - "Lazarus"
2006: David Gilmour - "Where We Start"
2007: Arcade Fire - "Intervention"
2008: Emilíana Torrini - "Bleeder"
2009: Lady Gaga - "Bad Romance"
2010: Kanye West - "Monster"
2011: Bic Runga - "Hello Hello"
2012: Death Grips - "Hacker"
2013: Lorde - "Team"
2014: Taylor Swift - "Style"
2015: Marina and the Diamonds - "Savages"