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  1. 1.Wild Child – Rillo Talk★ favorite

    25K Likes

    3:51

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    1.“Thanks to acid, I found this song.”

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    1. 2.“Why is everybody here on drugs?”
    2. 3.“Earlier I was laughing at all the 'getting high' jokes, but now... dammit, I'm high too!”

  2. 2.Jim Croce – Time in a Bottle★ favorite

    908K Likes

    2:49

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    1.“I like how he's so insanely fast that he had time to think, 'Is that everything...? OH RIGHT, the bullets!'”

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    1. 2.“Logan – the only one who wouldn't have died there, thanks to his healing – is also the only one who bothers to thank him.”
    2. 3.“Quicksilver could be one of the most dangerous mutants... but he plays Pac-Man in his mom's basement.”

  3. 3.Escondido – Try★ favorite

    855 Likes

    3:58

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    1.“You just gained a fan in Escondido, CA, thanks to a referral from Tanita Tikaram.”

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    1. 2.“This is incredible. Beautifully shot, and a next-level song!”
    2. 3.“Rad video, guys – liked the underwater part.”

  4. 4.Otava Yo – Oy, Dusya, oy, Marusya (Cossack lezginka)★ favorite

    274K Likes

    5:41

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    1.“My son is 22 months old and he's your fan. He constantly asks us to play 'Masyusya'... honestly, our eyes are twitching – but it beats the kids' cartoons.”Translated from Russian

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    1. 2.“We should all come together and sing in peace. Love from your cold neighbor, Greenland.”
    2. 3.“The little bridge where the three girls sing, and the chapel in the background? My husband built them – it's a movie set on an island in Lake Ladoga.”Translated from Russian

  5. 5.Bahamas – Stronger Than That

    2.9K Likes

    3:12

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    1.“'For millennia, audiences have been completely dazzled and captivated by these larger-than-life characters, their pronounced packages, and their superhuman feats of strength.' LMFAO.”

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    1. 2.“Is it just me, or does that one man look like Danny DeVito on steroids?”
    2. 3.“Shooting this video was one of the most fun shoots I've done, except for the hundred-degree heat! Afie is a really sweet guy and a real trooper in some of the shots the director asked him to do – that bucket of water was ice cold!”

  6. 6.Bahamas – I Got You Babe

    6.9K Likes

    3:04

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    1.“I really thought this was gonna be a Sonny and Cher cover. I was pleasantly delighted.”

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    1. 2.“I'm in this video at 1:58. I'm so famous.”
    2. 3.“My dad's been listening to this on repeat. He busted through my door to go 'Bahamas, eh?' when I was listening to it.”

  7. 7.Wintergatan – Marble Machine

    5M Likes

    4:33

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    1.“Teacher: Look, playing with marbles in class won't get you anywhere in life. Him, 10 years later...”

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    1. 2.“Takes a lot of balls to play this instrument...”
    2. 3.“People: 'What instrument do you play?' Him: 'A whole band.'”

  8. 8.Walk off the Earth – Little Boxes

    130K Likes

    2:26

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    1.“My sister was singing this at breakfast: 'There's a pink one, and a green one, and a gay one, and a yellow one.' I swear I choked on my juice.”

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    1. 2.“Beard guy is like: 'Step away from my dollhouse.'”
    2. 3.“This song was written by Malvina Reynolds, a musician and political activist born in 1900. She wrote it at 62, in response to the striking sight of the little boxes of Daly City, outside San Francisco.”

  9. 9.Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks

    2.5M Likes

    4:15

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    1.“This is one of those songs most people have heard in their life, but never knew the name of.”

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    1. 2.“This song makes me want to curl my mustache, wear a flannel shirt and suspenders, smoke a pipe, quit my job and become an artisanal cheesemaker.”
    2. 3.“2012: Nice song. 2016: Oh, I didn't know this song was actually really tragic. 2020: I'm feeling so nostalgic for this song. 2026: $25 burger with $8 truffle Parmesan fries theme song.”

  10. 10.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.”

  11. 11.The Waterboys – Postcard From The Celtic Dreamtime

    746 Likes

    4:12

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    1.“I just turned 40, and up until a month ago the only Waterboys song I knew was 'This Is the Sea.' I started listening to their other songs and can't get enough. Feels like I've been missing out my whole life.”

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    1. 2.“As ever, the Waterboys never disappoint. This is in a similar vein to Van Morrison's 'Coney Island.'”

  12. 12.Nathaniel Rateliff – And It's Still Alright

    48K Likes

    3:58

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    1.“This is a Folgers-in-your-cup-while-you're-staring-out-from-your-back-porch-in-the-morning kind of song. I love it.”

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    1. 2.“This song is great for breaking up that stuck emotion. Can't listen to it when I drive, though – gotta be able to see the road.”
    2. 3.“34 days clean today, and this song speaks so loudly to the journey to get here. The road ahead seems impossibly long, and the road behind is paved with regret and embarrassment... but I'm hoping I can make some of it right.”

  13. 13.Grateful Dead – Ripple

    67K Likes

    4:25

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    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.”

  14. 14.Of Monsters and Men – King and Lionheart

    386K Likes

    4:36

    Best comments

    1.“Jesus, reading the comments, you'd think this song is the soundtrack to every tragedy that ever was.”

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    1. 2.“People say they cry when this song plays, but it always makes me feel brave. Like I'm ready to draw my sword and face whatever comes.”

  15. 15.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.”

  16. 16.Otava Yo – Pro Ivana (The Tale of Ivan Groove)

    354K Likes

    4:55

    Best comments

    1.“From Finland, I need to transmit this message to our eastern brothers and sisters: our planet needs more wonderful Slavic insanity. Shine your potato and keep playing. Please.”

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    1. 2.“'What kind of music do you listen to?' 'It's complicated...'”
    2. 3.“I'm sitting here in Texas with my son Ivan. We found this video by accident, loved the tone... and suddenly I see the lyrics are about an Ivan. My son smiled. He is 7.”

  17. 17.Valerie June – Astral Plane

    9.3K Likes

    3:39

    Best comments

    1.“First weekend I spent with my girlfriend, this song played on her Pandora. We got a hotel room, and it was the first time we got to really experience each other. The hotel ended up having bedbugs, lol... but it was one of the best weekends I've ever had.”

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    1. 2.“I told my daughter to plant me a tree in my spot at the cemetery – a plaque instead of a headstone – with a motion detector that plays this song when it goes off.”

  18. 18.King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Trapdoor

    1.3K Likes

    2:41

    Best comments

    1.“I'm sorry, what kind of door was it again?”

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    1. 2.“When you and your bandmates all drop acid, then faff about in an old castle until you start scaring yourselves.”
    2. 3.“I can't believe they blew their $200 budget for this video on the witch's spell to turn Joey into a table.”

  19. 19.Heilung – Anoana

    252K Likes

    5:00

    Best comments

    1.“I don't always listen to Heilung, but when I do... SO DO THE NEIGHBOURS!”

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    1. 2.“I don't want to sit at a desk and stare at Excel spreadsheets eight hours a day for forty to fifty years. I want whatever the fuck this is.”
    2. 3.“My wife insisted on listening to this on loop during her labor. We now have our 4-day-old son, Leif. Life is good.”

  20. 20.Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction

    119K Likes

    3:41

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    1.“At the age of eleven, I got my first transistor radio, and this was the first song I heard on it. I'm now 70, and NOTHING HAS CHANGED. What is wrong with us?”

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    1. 2.“When is the worst time to have children? Eighteen years before a war.”
    2. 3.“Barry and his wife are friends of ours – we once went lobstering together off the Maine coast before his concert in Portland. He told me this song should never have had to be written, and he hated taking royalties for it... but a man has to live. You know where the money went? His children's and grandchildren's housing and education.”

  21. 21.Y La Bamba – Ojos Del Sol

    13K Likes

    4:33

    Best comments

    1.“I don't know how to accurately articulate that I would straight up die for someone who sang like this to me.”

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    1. 2.“Holy wow... I thought this was a song made in the 1940s, and I'm blown away it's from 2016.”
    2. 3.“I'm not fluent in Spanish, so learning the story in this song is a bit like unwrapping a gift – one wrapped so beautifully you almost don't want to tear the paper. Each time I listen, it blooms into another layer.”

  22. 22.Jason Mraz – I Won't Give Up

    1.3M Likes

    4:28

    Best comments

    1.“This was my song with my ex. She gave up. Lol.”

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    1. 2.“I'm going to have to sing this badly to her someday soon and make a complete fool of myself... God damn you, Jason.”
    2. 3.“I'm 61 and love this song. Army vet, and I'll love my wife till the day I die. Yes, I will dance in the kitchen late at night with her. That's the way life is.”

  23. 23.Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal

    263K Likes

    2:28

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    1.“I always thought this song was less 'Christmas song' and more 'oblique murder ballad.'”

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    1. 2.“Why is no one discussing the clay art? Fools.”
    2. 3.“A month after I first saw this video in 2009, I was at a friend's art showing in Seattle and asked a guy what he did for a living. 'Stop-motion animation,' he said. 'No way – I recently saw this video by Fleet Foxes!' I went on about how amazing it was... and he said, 'Thanks, I made it.' We've been really good friends ever since.”

  24. 24.First Aid Kit – My Silver Lining

    398K Likes

    3:51

    Best comments

    1.“How do two young women from Sweden make better country-folk music than country musicians in the U.S.? I don't care – just keep on keepin' on...”

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    1. 2.“As a multilinguist, I can't stress enough how impressive it is that not only is their English perfect, they absolutely nail a Southern U.S. accent!”
    2. 3.“My girlfriend said this song sucked. Now she's single.”

  25. 25.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.”

  26. 26.Of Monsters and Men – Phantom

    46K Likes

    4:47

    Best comments

    1.“My dog's name is Phantom. We played this for him on his birthday yesterday. He likes it.”

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    1. 2.“This is one of their old unreleased songs – so glad they're getting back to the old Icelandic folk vibe.”
    2. 3.“No matter how fearsome their creature designs look, the music makes them all seem impossibly gentle.”

  27. 27.PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old I Dying

    18K Likes

    3:11

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    1.“Music to either sadly look back upon life... or conjure up an ethereal forest creature.”

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    1. 2.“I want my life to be directed by David Lynch and soundtracked by PJ Harvey.”
    2. 3.“Watched this with my 5-year-old daughter. She asked why the fire didn't protect the man from dying. She also thought the dog peeing on the bones was hilarious.”

  28. 28.Andrew Tuttle – New Breakfast Habit

    42 Likes

    5:09

    Australian banjo player Andrew Tuttle, with Luke Schneider on pedal steel and Darren Cross on acoustic guitar, making slow sunrise music for his 2022 album Fleeting Adventure. M.C. Schmidt of Matmos made the video: a rising sun layered with a kid running and leaping and birds gliding, all glowing orange.

  29. 29.Adjágas – Mun ja Mun

    290 Likes

    3:43

    Best comments

    1.“Hauntingly beautiful.”

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    1. 2.“This track appeared on MTV2's '120 Minutes' on February 3, 2007.”

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