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  1. 1.Flobots – Handlebars★ favorite

    747K Likes

    3:29

    Best comments

    1.“Guys... I'm starting to think this song isn't about bicycles.”

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    1. 2.“That went from 1 to 1984 real quick...”

  2. 2.Psychedelia! Visual Drug (LSD) Cartoon★ favorite

    122 Likes

    1:58

    A two-minute psychedelic cartoon posted in 2015 by the Portuguese-language channel Dke, with narration about a trip on an indigenous tea and an endless universe. The creator of the animation and music isn't credited.

  3. 3.Ladyhawke – My Delirium★ favorite

    11K Likes

    4:20

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    1.“Doc: Stop playing with my DeLorean!”

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    1. 2.“If I shut my eyes, it's like I go back in time to when I was a teenager and didn't have a care in the world.”
    2. 3.“I shudder to imagine how *long* it took to get all the watercolor frames ready.”

  4. 4.BigBonobo – Call 911★ favorite

    2.7K Likes

    2:13

    Best comments

    1.“Cool. Everything started shrinking after I watched this video.”

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    1. 2.“When I went back to the main screen, it looked like it was getting bigger... non-stop.”
    2. 3.“This is what happens when you get too close to the murals at the Denver airport.”

  5. 5.Diane Coffee – Soon To Be, Won't To Be★ favorite

    1.5K Likes

    3:15

    Best comments

    1.“Tame Impala mixed with Unknown Mortal Orchestra.”

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    1. 2.“Most hidden 14/8 time signature ever. Love this song.”
    2. 3.“I'll check this out next time I'm trippin'.”

  6. 6.Caravan Palace – Miracle★ favorite

    275K Likes

    3:25

    Best comments

    1.“I don't remember this part of The Road to El Dorado.”

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    1. 2.“Me: Why is this age-restricted? Caravan Palace: *V A G I N A P L A N T* Me: Ah, yes. Of course.”
    2. 3.“The real miracle here is that this is still on YouTube.”

  7. 7.Pogo – Homarge★ favorite

    94K Likes

    3:33

    Best comments

    1.“Depression: *exists*. Pogo: Imma ruin this man's whole career.”

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    1. 2.“Cute fact: the French voices of Homer and Marge are married. They met dubbing this show.”
    2. 3.“My wedding is tomorrow, and listening to this made me cry. We've been together 9 years, since high school... I'll gladly listen to this song again when we have our first kid. UPDATE: My baby has been born!”

  8. 8.мультипликационная психоделика – psychedelic cartoon

    3.7K Likes

    6:50

    Best comments

    1.“I think I just saw every Disney and Nickelodeon cartoon character.”Translated from Russian

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    1. 2.“Unique video – usually you see on screen whatever you're thinking about! And for some reason, it's genitals everywhere.”Translated from Russian
    2. 3.“I found porn on YouTube.”Translated from Russian

  9. 9.Plants and Animals – H.C.

    470 Likes

    1:28

    Best comments

    1.“I meant to type 'h&m' into Google because I was looking for faux leather boots, but accidentally typed 'hc' and this came up... and I'm not disappointed at all. Now back to my boot search, haha.”

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    1. 2.“My phone fell on my keyboard and it typed 'hc,' and I randomly clicked this, lol.”
    2. 3.“This is amazing – we were all brought here because of a typo.”

  10. 10.Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears – Mustang Ranch

    2.4K Likes

    3:46

    Best comments

    1.“I saw this video and lost it. Then I actually lost this video and spent about half an hour scouring Google: 'music video brothel animated band van bouncer.' Then I found it, and I was like, OOOOOHHHH!!”

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    1. 2.“I work security at the Mustang Ranch, and this was fucking hilarious, guys.”
    2. 3.“Got mine glazed at the Kit Kat (just outside Virginia City, NV)... Christmas Eve, 1978.”

  11. 11.Shpongle – Divine Moments of Truth

    3.4K Likes

    10:22

    Best comments

    1.“A round of applause for all the graphic designers who took psychedelics and made this visualizer experience possible.”

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    1. 2.“Timeless. You can laugh to it, dance to it, trip on it, cry on it, eat on it... the every-situation song.”
    2. 3.“The 7 people who disliked this video must've had bunk shit.”

  12. 12.Tame Impala – The Less I Know the Better

    1.9M Likes

    5:43

    Best comments

    1.“Director: How trippy do you want this video to be? Tame Impala: The less I know the better.”

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    1. 2.“Everybody's gangsta till a gorilla steals your girlfriend.”
    2. 3.“Me, casually watching this. Sex scene comes on. My dad, who I haven't seen in 18 years: 'Whatcha looking at there, buddy?'”

  13. 13.Butthole Surfers – Who Was in My Room Last Night?

    62K Likes

    3:16

    Best comments

    1.“I played this on a jukebox in a small bar. The bartender heard the slow, quiet fade-in of the intro and thought he needed to turn the volume up to 100. I remember thinking 'uh oh'... within seconds, I was berated by an enraged gentleman and his wife. I couldn't hear a word they were saying. They stormed out. I still think about it all the time.”

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    1. 2.“My Gibby Haynes story: he played at a venue I worked at around 2004, and before the show he was just silently standing in the employee elevator, riding it up and down, for no reason, stopping on every floor... for like an hour.”
    2. 3.“Going in for my first colonoscopy in a few days, and I'm gonna wear an old Butthole Surfers T-shirt to my procedure. Hope the doctor and staff appreciate my sense of humor.”

  14. 14.Lorn – Anvil

    667K Likes

    3:41

    Best comments

    1.“Lyrics, for anyone wondering: H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M... H M M M M (chorus) H M M M M (ending verse) H M M M M.”

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    1. 2.“All she did was choose the nachos :/”
    2. 3.“Something I find terrifying: dying and realizing I should have paid a few bucks more for the commercial-free version of the afterlife.”

  15. 15.The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby

    1.1M Likes

    2:12

    Best comments

    1.“Song: lonely woman dies. Video: flying submarine.”

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    1. 2.“This video has more personality than my ex.”
    2. 3.“'Dad, why is my sister named Eleanor?' 'Because your mother loves Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles.' 'Thank you, Dad.' 'No problem, You Never Give Me Your Money (Remastered 2009).'”

  16. 16.Blockhead – The Music Scene

    345K Likes

    5:22

    Best comments

    1.“No LSD was filmed in the harming of this video.”

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    1. 2.“When you take one too many gummy vitamins.”
    2. 3.“Just took 3 Flintstones gummies – I'm heccin' cruising.”

  17. 17.Murder by Death – Lost River

    7K Likes

    4:28

    Best comments

    1.“When I saw the band name 'Murder by Death,' I was expecting some metal... but I like it.”

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    1. 2.“I punched my tears in the face, and they still came out. God damn you, Murder by Death. Stop (not) being so good.”
    2. 3.“I met a girl at a Subway on my lunch break – one of the rare times I had it in me to talk to a stranger. I picked her up later that night on my motorcycle and took her to a bridge by a little peninsula in a river. We talked by the water for four or five hours. She showed me this beautiful song. Nothing came of it after that night, but it's such a fond memory.”

  18. 18.The Avalanches – Subways

    47K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“That station's on the corner of Lysergic Avenue and Sesame Street!”

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    1. 2.“This reminds me of that time I accidentally took the subway in NYC while I was on acid.”
    2. 3.“Yes, Mr. Avalanches, I too have tripped on a train – and it's exactly like the two-minute mark of this documentary.”

  19. 19.Caravan Palace – Supersonics (Out Come the Freaks Edit)

    104K Likes

    3:01

    Best comments

    1.“Hold on – he's got spray paint on his nose. Did he just huff a ton of spray paint until he got so high he imagined all of this and painted this masterpiece? Because I don't really care – that's my interpretation now.”

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    1. 2.“My takeaway from this: 'Man, I need to stop huffing paint.'”
    2. 3.“And that, kids, is why huffing paint is a fun pastime.”

  20. 20.Breakbot – Baby I'm Yours

    3.4M Likes

    2:36

    Best comments

    1.“Little brother: *takes Dad's 'special' brownies to school* His classmates:”

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    1. 2.“Whoever animated this is an absolute hero.”
    2. 3.“I don't understand how songs like this came out in 2010 and I never heard them until 2022. Makes me wonder how many other gems are out there.”

  21. 21.Major Lazer – Light It Up (Remix)

    4.4M Likes

    2:50

    Best comments

    1.“This is what the monsters under our beds do when nobody's home.”

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    1. 2.“When you're at the car wash and the brushes come alive.”
    2. 3.“I'm glad to see the music industry finally using people of color in their videos... Color. No? No one else? Okay, I'll leave.”

  22. 22.Al Jarreau – Mornin'

    109K Likes

    4:22

    Best comments

    1.“During the '80s, every dentist's office in America had this playing!”

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    1. 2.“Wow, this really does sound like a four-minute hug.”
    2. 3.“My son was singing this at age 3, his little voice rising on the big high note. Next month he turns 44, and I'm going to send him this video – it will mean so much to him, as it does to me.”

  23. 23.The Shins – The Great Divide

    5.7K Likes

    4:03

    Best comments

    1.“New music from Tame Impala, The Strokes and now The Shins? This is keeping 2020 together at the seams.”

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    1. 2.“This kind of song convinced me we've reached the Blade Runner timeline.”
    2. 3.“This song started playing on Spotify, and when 3:02 came up, I legit thought I was listening to a Shins x Donkey Kong Country mashup.”

  24. 24.Matthew A. Cherry – Hair Love

    2.3M Likes

    6:48

    Best comments

    1.“You can tell he's a dad, 'cause he's got the socks with sandals.”

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    1. 2.“Me: *shows my dad this video*. My dad: 'That's sick – could I try doing your hair?' Me: Wow, 18 years and all it took was a short film?”
    2. 3.“Crying quietly at my desk at school. The really awkward part is I'm the teacher.”

  25. 25.Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution

    926K Likes

    3:59

    Best comments

    1.“'Why won't aliens visit us?' The calmest human disagreement:”

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    1. 2.“There were two things consistent throughout humanity's evolution: the cruelty... and the omnipotent goth GF.”
    2. 3.“Millions of years of evolution... to buy a gamer girl's bath water. Edit: It got worse. Now they subscribe to OnlyFans.”

  26. 26.Ghostemane – Mercury: Retrograde

    7.9M Likes

    2:06

    Best comments

    1.“Step 1: Buy headphones. Step 2: Listen to Ghostemane. Step 3: Buy ears.”

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    1. 2.“That ghost waited almost 90 years to find his soundtrack.”
    2. 3.“Bass hit so hard my grandpa thought the Germans were back.”

  27. 27.Flairs – Truckers Delight

    94K Likes

    3:20

    Best comments

    1.“This was deeply confusing... and then I saw the French names in the credits, and it all made sense.”

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    1. 2.“So many things got deleted, censored and banned from YouTube over the years. And yet this titan still stands.”
    2. 3.“I'm a trucker IRL and can confirm this is an accurate representation of what happens on a daily basis.”

  28. 28.Caravan Palace – Lone Digger

    4.2M Likes

    2:51

    Best comments

    1.“Ever since Jerry died, Tom was never the same.”

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    1. 2.“Gotta respect the work ethic of the gazelle – never stopped dancing.”
    2. 3.“'And she just... kept dancing...' – Judy Hopps, in therapy for PTSD”

  29. 29.Bob Marley & The Wailers – Three Little Birds

    1.6M Likes

    3:13

    Best comments

    1.“Producer: 'You guys almost done drawing for the Three Little Birds video?' Artists who've been drawing Three Little Pigs for 18 months: 'Birds?'”

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    1. 2.“Who knew a piggy and a wolf smoking a joint would be so wholesome?”
    2. 3.“Remember: there is no 'I' in weed, but there is 'we'... so share that shit. – Karl Marx, probably”

  30. 30.Tyler Childers – Country Squire

    44K Likes

    3:23

    Best comments

    1.“Animated Tyler looks like young Nigel Thornberry.”

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    1. 2.“He must have gotten that jack stand from Harbor Freight.”
    2. 3.“Can't help but smile, even while lying back in a motel room buzzing on Jim Beam, recently separated from my wife... you're a hell of an artist, Tyler Childers!”

  31. 31.Bahamas – Bitter Memories

    1.6K Likes

    2:29

    Best comments

    1.“This reminded me of 'Take On Me'... look at it and you'll say the same thing.”

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    1. 2.“I have to hit the X button on my browser, because I've listened to this like 15 times already.”

  32. 32.Ozzy Osbourne & Lemmy – Hellraiser (30th Anniversary Edition)

    842K Likes

    4:54

    Best comments

    1.“Ozzy's like, 'That's exactly how I don't remember it, mate.'”

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    1. 2.“Oh god, I'm crying. This is beautiful. The lesson is: don't steal Lemmy's bass.”
    2. 3.“Lemmy and Ozzy are not gone. They've just been called to battle. Elvis is driving.”

  33. 33.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Hymn for a Droid

    85K Likes

    3:31

    Best comments

    1.“I really need to clear my search history.”

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    1. 2.“This is the kinda band that gets asked to open for an act like Tame Impala, and they just smoke them out of the water.”
    2. 3.“True story: I bumped into this band in a cafe in Hull, UK. Two things struck me – how friendly they were, and the fact that the guitarist had ordered two Bloody Marys and a jar of pickles. It was 10 a.m.!”

  34. 34.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Dezi's Adventure

    2.5K Likes

    4:08

    Best comments

    1.“I have no idea what I'm looking at, but it's awesome.”

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    1. 2.“Someone in the chat replay said 'free trial drugs,' and I agree.”
    2. 3.“Alright, someone in Australia is handing out research chemicals, and I need to know who... for, uh... personal research.”

  35. 35.Grateful Dead – Ripple

    67K Likes

    4:25

    Best comments

    1.“During my first LSD trip, I listened to this and posted 'I finally understand Grateful Dead' on Facebook – and my grandpa liked it. I still wonder to this day if he knew what I was talking about... lol”

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    1. 2.“This was my gateway song to get my youngest daughter into the Grateful Dead. She was halfway to being a hippie anyway, so I feel I have succeeded as a parent.”
    2. 3.“I used to softly sing this song to my first daughter after the 2 a.m. feeding. At her wedding, 22 years later, this is the song she chose for the father-daughter dance. When it started, the table of my old college friends in the back cheered and began to sing along... the rest of the room was mystified. My daughter and I shared huge smiles and tears as we danced in the middle of the floor.”

  36. 36.Stromae – Carmen

    1.7M Likes

    3:38

    Best comments

    1.“I don't think Stromae likes Twitter very much.”

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    1. 2.“If Stromae thinks Twitter is bad, just wait until he finds out about TikTok.”
    2. 3.“Moral of the story: close your window.”

  37. 37.Dan Reeder – Born a Worm

    3.1K Likes

    2:26

    Best comments

    1.“This is my 2-year-old's favorite song. Says 'heck,' so it's OK, I guess.”

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    1. 2.“There's a lady on TikTok who gave me a false sense of hope that this was a kids' song.”
    2. 3.“I raise butterflies, and this is so accurate, lol.”

  38. 38.Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Keen For Kick Ons?

    4.4K Likes

    3:56

    Best comments

    1.“Those looking for promiscuous breakfast foods on hallucinogens: unfortunately, you have been gravely misled. For the uninitiated, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are in fact a four-piece rock outfit from Western Australia.”

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    1. 2.“Will this be available for Nintendo Switch?”
    2. 3.“My daughter smiles every time I play this song at home... and she's 3 months old.”

  39. 39.The Koreatown Oddity – Breastmilk

    4.5K Likes

    2:26

    Best comments

    1.“Parents: 'The internet is dangerous, kids.' The internet:”

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    1. 2.“An absurd, crass song, but with actual bars and a message about being a good dad and getting along with your baby mama? I think I love this.”
    2. 3.“Reminds me of my wife and her husband.”

  40. 40.Outkast – Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)

    66K Likes

    2:46

    Best comments

    1.“Big Boi's verse: his avatar rapping, lip-syncing the bars. André's verse: *LSD hallucination dance sequence*”

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    1. 2.“Song so good, they named a rap news website after it.”
    2. 3.“My son is 13, and this is one of his favorite albums... sooo proud!”

  41. 41.Steve Mason – Planet Sizes

    2.1K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“So so so so so so so good. (Apologies if I under-so'ed that.)”

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    1. 2.“This is pretty much a massage for my ear and eye things.”

  42. 42.Billy Strings – Catch and Release

    17K Likes

    2:15

    Best comments

    1.“My dad is the cop that stopped him – the one he's talking about in this song. Our whole town went crazy about it when it came out.”

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    1. 2.“I love it when the dog hands over the weed.”
    2. 3.“My daughter once told me it was amazing how many of my stories from my younger days ended with 'and the cops came and we all ran away.'”

  43. 43.Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill

    2.6M Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“Did I just see Snoop Dogg in a submarine?”

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    1. 2.“I just realized that everyone with a soul is animated, and everything without one is computer-generated.”

  44. 44.Gorillaz feat. De La Soul – Feel Good Inc.

    9.5M Likes

    4:15

    Best comments

    1.“Murdoc – the only bassist to ever get any.”

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    1. 2.“When my mom hears this song, she mistakes 'feel good' for 'mealtime.' I don't know how she got there, but she did it.”
    2. 3.“I used to teach ear training at a conservatorium and had my students transcribe the bassline and the rhythm of the first rap section. It was always good value watching a room full of classical violinists figure out the best way to write the rhythm for the ass-crack line.”

  45. 45.Gorillaz – DARE

    2.7M Likes

    4:50

    Best comments

    1.“I love the classic 5th Gorillaz member: Giant Fucking Decapitated Head on backing vocals.”

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    1. 2.“Fun fact: this song was originally meant to be called 'It's There,' but Shaun Ryder's Manc accent made it sound like 'It's Dare' – so they changed the name.”
    2. 3.“When Gorillaz keep a human head in their house, it's cool. But when I do it, I get arrested. Unfair.”

  46. 46.INXS – What You Need

    59K Likes

    3:39

    Best comments

    1.“Whenever anyone asks, 'Beatles or Stones?' my answer is always INXS.”

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    1. 2.“I know what I need... a time machine.”
    2. 3.“This song is tough! I pulled up to an intersection, windows down, blasting it. In the lowrider next to me were two guys in shades with tattoos on their necks. They looked mean. The driver turned, looked at me... and started nodding his head to the beat.”

  47. 47.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Iron Lung

    87K Likes

    9:05

    Best comments

    1.“King Gizzard is my favorite psychedelic heavy metal jazz fusion blues band.”

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    1. 2.“Holy fuck. I've never tripped balls sober before.”
    2. 3.“Bro, just eat the whole bag... you'll be fine.”

  48. 48.Ween – Transdermal Celebration

    23K Likes

    3:33

    Best comments

    1.“I'm here fucked up in the crib, crying at this video, and I don't even know what I'm crying at.”

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    1. 2.“That's Dean Ween soloing on Carlos Santana's guitar. Santana had a GMA show, and Ween heard his equipment was in town. He snuck in, used the guitar for this solo, and put it back like he was never there. Took 10 minutes to record.”
    2. 3.“Thank you, Mr. Santana, for the service you didn't know you contributed.”

  49. 49.Modest Mouse – Float On

    829K Likes

    3:35

    Best comments

    1.“Fun fact: this almost became the theme song for The Office!”

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    1. 2.“I love how the inspiration for this song was just that the lead singer was tired of writing depressing songs and wanted to write a happy one for a change of pace.”
    2. 3.“A few years back, I lost where I was staying, the girl I was seeing and my job in the span of two days. Got a pack on Craigslist and set off to hitchhike to Colorado. A friend dropped me off on the side of the road out in the boonies, and after the first bend this song came on my headphones. I cried my eyes out, feeling the weight of those years slide off me – and all the potential of a new adventure in front of me.”

  50. 50.Cut Worms – Castle in the Clouds

    921 Likes

    4:23

    Best comments

    1.“If John Lennon were a cowboy, he'd sound like this.”

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    1. 2.“Dwight Yoakam's been phoning it in for decades. Now I'm Team Cut Worms.”

  51. 51.Michael Kiwanuka – Light

    25K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“I'll be honest: I thought this was a 1970s, Bill Withers-ish song. I was surprised to find out this masterpiece is from 2019... it gives me hope that real music isn't dead.”

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    1. 2.“This should have been the soundtrack for the new 007.”
    2. 3.“I'm 83 years old, a classical/jazz buff, and relieved to hear something genuinely new – something kind, something not canned!”

  52. 52.Songhoy Blues ft. Iggy Pop – Sahara

    2.2K Likes

    3:07

    Best comments

    1.“I love the sound of the guitars! I'm in France – you make so much noise we hear you from here ;)”

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    1. 2.“Wow, did not expect to hear Iggy Pop here.”

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