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YouTube video by Foals Foals - Total Life Forever [Official Audio]

#TheTenX5 Day 13:

Foals - Total Life Forever (2010, 🇬🇧, unranked, non-single)

Euphoric love song and a meditation on the Singularity

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YouTube video by FirstAidKitVEVO First Aid Kit - Emmylou (Official Video)

#TheTenX5 Day 12:

First Aid Kit - Emmylou (2012, 🇸🇪, unranked)

Lovely harmonies from the Söderberg sisters

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YouTube video by DurandJonesVEVO Durand Jones & The Indications - Morning in America

#TheTenX5 Day 11:

Durand Jones & The Indications - Morning in America (2019, 🇺🇸, unranked)

A retro soul lament from an earlier dark time for America

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YouTube video by Death Cab for Cutie Death Cab for Cutie - Little Wanderer

#TheTenX5 Day 10:

Death Cab for Cutie - Little Wanderer (2015, 🇺🇸, non-single, unranked)

Second appearance for Ben Gibbard

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YouTube video by Christine and the Queens Christine and the Queens - Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk) [Official Music Video]

#TheTenX5 Day 9:

Christine & The Queens ft Dam-Funk - Girlfriend (2018, 🇫🇷/🇺🇸, unranked)

It has just occurred to me that I should have rejigged my list so that this came next to “Boyfriend”

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YouTube video by Biffy Clyro Biffy Clyro - Bubbles (Official Music Video)

#TheTenX5 Day 8:

Biffy Clyro - Bubbles (2010, 🇬🇧, unranked)

Cracking pop-rock song with Josh Homme turning up at the end

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YouTube video by BOCCVEVO Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas

#TheTenX5 Day 7:

Better Oblivion Community Center - Dylan Thomas (2019, 🇺🇸, unranked)

Phoebe Bridgers (my Twenties number one) and Conor Oberst harmonise beautifully

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Hi Richard, my #5debutalbums50s60s picks are:

1. Velvet Underground and Nico - s/t (5pts)
2. Crosby Stills & Nash - s/t
3. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
4. Nick Drake - Five Years Left
5. Led Zeppelin- s/t

Thanks!

YouTube video by Mexican Summer Best Coast - Boyfriend (Official Video)

#TheTenX5 Day 6:

Best Coast - Boyfriend (2010, 🇺🇸, unranked)

A wistful meeting of 60s girl groups and garage

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YouTube video by Niklaus Mikaelson Ben Gibbard - Bigger Than Love

#TheTenX5 Day 5:

Ben Gibbard - Bigger Than Love (2013, 🇺🇸, unranked)

A duet with Aimee Mann (who I think doesn’t get a featuring credit on the single) based on the letters of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

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YouTube video by BeckVEVO Beck - Dreams (Official Audio)

#TheTenX5 Day 4:

Beck - Dreams (2015, 🇺🇸, Poppy fail, unranked)

When the People’s Pop Polls did 2015 there were quite a few tracks in the indie-pop-dance-funk continuum - Beck effortlessly stood out

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YouTube video by Official Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (Official Video)

#TheTenX5 Day 3:

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (2012, 🇬🇧, unranked)

The Monkeys at the peak of their stoner rock phase

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YouTube video by ArcadeFireVEVO Arcade Fire - Arcade Fire presents Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (Official Video)

#TheTenX5 Day 2:

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (2012, 🇺🇸, unranked)

A survivor from my Fear of Music picks

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YouTube video by Domino Recording Co. Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I (Official Video)

#TheTenX5

All entries unranked until the top 10

Day 1: Anna Calvi - Suzanne & I (2011, 🇬🇧, unranked)

What a voice!

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Hi Richard, my #5debutalbums9094 picks are:

1. Suede - Suede (5pts)
2. Jellyfish - Bellybutton
3. Aimee Mann - Whatever
4. Portishead - Dummy
5. Tindersticks - s/t

HMs: Massive Attack, The Auteurs, Jeff Buckley, Sugar, Electronic

Flowers for Algernon was originally a short story (or a novelette, I never know where the boundaries are supposed to lie) before being expanded. Of course more people may have read the longer version

I fuckin hate that museum advert. they have the label right next to the exhibit

I believe ABC Warriors (original series) was supposed to be a prequel to Ro-Busters

Songhoy Blues - Bamako 🇲🇱 (only a promo single, as far as I can tell)
Imarhan - Imarhan 🇩🇿

Hi Tom, my noms are:

Divorce - Karen (main)
Jacob Alon - Liquid Gold 25
Billy Nomates - The Test

Thanks!

In approximate chronological order:
Strontium Dog
Nemesis the Warlock
Halo Jones
Zenith
Brink

HMs: Button Man, BAD Company (the original two books/three series), Nikolai Dante, Lawless, Brass Sun, the Out

Hi Richard, my #5debutalbums7074 picks are:

1. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (5 pts)
2. David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
3. Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill
4. Big Star - #1 Record
5. Roxy Music - s/t

Thanks!

31 points for me today. Not many of my picks look likely to make the cut after this though

25 points for me today (after none yesterday)

42 points for me

Four out of six today! (This hit rate will not continue)

Ok, fair enough

I believe Phoebe Bridgers got two as well (one of them being mine)?

YouTube video by Phoebe Bridgers Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End (Official Video)

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50:

#1: Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End (2020, 🇺🇸, 12 pts)

It was my no 1 for Fear of Music and I haven’t changed my mind. What better to end this challenge than a cathartic scream?

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YouTube video by David Dean Burkhart Jessie Ware - Remember Where You Are

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49:

#2: Jessie Ware - Remember Where You Are (2020, 🇬🇧, 11 pts)

One of my two songs of the pandemic, the balm to contrast with my #1

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