Marc Fagel
@marcfagel.bsky.social
Obsessive music fan, retired securities lawyer, and author of the love letter to rock & roll 𝙅𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙂𝙪𝙮 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, available on Amazon (http://bit.ly/Jittery).
2000 Great Songs #1448: Autobahn. I've never spent much time with Kraftwerk, but something about this eerie electronic journey feels so strangely familiar, like the song has always been lingering there even if I don't recall when it first crossed my path.
2000 Great Songs #1448: Autobahn
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2000 Great Songs #1447: Past Lives. Brooklyn indie rockers DIIV conjure something between the Cure's goth-pop and a more psychedelic version of jangle acts like Real estate, a cosmic wash of reverb-soaked dream pop.
2000 Great Songs #1447: Past Lives
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2000 Great Songs #1446: Ray Of Light. Madonna makes her first (and last) appearance on the list with an electro-pop tune that's much cooler than those 80s hits I remember from high school. Though I only heard it due to a Sex Pistols mash-up.
2000 Great Songs #1446: Ray Of Light
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2000 Great Songs #1445: Almost Crimes. Canada's Broken Social Scene (feat. Feist) borrow a bit from the emerging early 2000s NY alt.rock scene, helping to usher in an edgy yet arty post-millennium vibe.
2000 Great Songs #1445: Almost Crimes
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2000 Great Songs #1444: Me In Honey. An insistent riff, soaring guest vocals from the B-52's' Kate Pierson, and some stark relationship-trouble lyrics make this a highlight of R.E.M.'s post-IRS years.
2000 Great Songs #1444: Me In Honey
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2000 Great Songs #1443: 1-2-3. So many digits! The Professionals (i.e. the non-Rotten half of the Sex Pistols) turn in a respectable fist-pumping pop-punk anthem.
2000 Great Songs #1443: 1-2-3
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2000 Great Songs #1442: 1234. Feist's charming pop tune seems deliberately designed to be played at a coffee shop or on some Netflix streamer--that's ok!--or as a can't-miss addition to a mixtape you're making for a romantic prospect back in the day.
2000 Great Songs #1442: 1234
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2000 Great Songs #1441: Away From Home. Police drummer Stewart Copeland follows his muse as Klark Kent, a bit of a goofball lark as his other band grew increasingly serious, merging the offbeat new wave experimentation of Devo & the B-52's with perky ska.
2000 Great Songs #1441: Away From Home
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Midweek sunrise over the SF Bay, as Willow enjoys a little Olivia Tremor Control (home remake version).
2000 Great Songs #1440: Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine. A littler perkier (and dopier) than the more standard Simon & Garfunkel folk rock, a Dylan-goes-electric-styled hoot that was instantly dated, which is a big part of the charm.
2000 Great Songs #1440: The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
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2000 Great Songs #1439: Miss Lonelyhearts. A deep cut from Seattle's long-running Young Fresh Fellows, crunchy power pop given Scott McCaughey's usual dose of humor and pathos.
2000 Great Songs #1439: Miss Lonelyhearts
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Buffy kicking off a sunny Sunday morning with a little Floyd.
2000 Great Songs #1438: About Me. Alicia Witt, the rare actor whose pivot to music is based on musical talent rather than misplaced ego, delivers some rollicking piano and an edgy post-feminist break-up anthem (with a Ben Folds production assist).
2000 Great Songs #1438: About Me
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2000 Great Songs #1437: Seven Seas Of Rhye. One of Queen's earlier efforts at tethering bombastic hard rock/glam/prog to a catchy pop song, without the baggage of decades of radio overplay.
2000 Great Songs #1437: Seven Seas Of Rhye
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2000 Great Songs #1436: Run. @neworder were one of my definitive college bands, and I have less attachment to the music they released after my mid-80s college years; but something about this one has always captivated me, one of their sweetest pop songs.
2000 Great Songs #1436: Run
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2000 Great Songs #1435: Teen Angst. Rising from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker carve out a more straightforward alt.rock sound, a snarky yet driving early 90s anthem that stands respectably alongside that other Teen-themed song of the era.
2000 Great Songs #1435: Teen Angst
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2000 Great Songs #1434: Breakdown. I'm no fan of the Alan Parsons Project and their often bland FM dial pop hits, but the earworm bass hook and a Hollies guest vocal make this one of those things I heard as a kid and still find myself humming.
2000 Great Songs #1434: Breakdown
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Hey, we're already 1/3 of the way through the 1400s! Here's a playlist for #1401-1433, just in time for the start of the new school year (for me at least).
My Top 2000 Songs (#1401-1500)
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Marc Fagel@marcfagel.bsky.social · 2w ago2000 Great Songs #1433: The Death Of Ferdinand de Saussure. The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt impressively enlists obscure 19th century Swiss linguists and Motown songwriters in service of a strange and slithery new wave-styled love song.
2000 Great Songs #1433: The Death Of Ferdinand de Saussure. The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt impressively enlists obscure 19th century Swiss linguists and Motown songwriters in service of a strange and slithery new wave-styled love song.
2000 Great Songs #1433: The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure
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2000 Great Songs #1432: Waldo P. Emerson Jones. Sorry, but writing off fictitious cartoon band The Archies as a one-hit-wonder novelty act means missing out on some truly sublime bubblegum pop.
2000 Great Songs #1432: Waldo P. Emerson Jones
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2000 Great Songs #1431: Down By The Sea. A epic deep-space jam session from Wooden Shjips, a blend of Krautrock, Yo La Tengo, and psychedelia to fuel your psychic explorations.
2000 Great Songs #1431: Down By The Sea
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2000 Great Songs #1430: On The Roof. Our third pick from the Feelies' indie jangle landmark The Good Earth, the opening track whose first few notes are all it takes to transport me back to a moment in time that initiated the rest of my life.
2000 Great Songs #1430: On The Roof
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2000 Great Songs #1429: Violet. Hole will forever feel like a band tied to particular 90s moment, but on the rare occasions I drag out Live Through This I'm immediately reminded of the shocking catharsis of this track.
2000 Great Songs #1429: Violet
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2000 Great Songs #1428: My Name Is Jack. A highlight of Manfred Mann's mid/late-60s pop-psych phase, some playful bubblegum with the kind of melodic chorus that you'll find yourself incessantly humming the rest of the day.
2000 Great Songs #1428: My Name Is Jack
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2000 Great Songs #1427: Temporary Beauty. As much as I enjoy Graham Parker's earlier, more biting rockers, this gorgeous ballad--still with a bit of bite--is a wondrous sing-along earworm.
2000 Great Songs #1427: Temporary Beauty
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2000 Great Songs #1426: Against Pollution. A slow, quietly insinuating psychodrama from @themountaingoats.bsky.social, pivoting from a graphic tale of a liquor store hold-up to an even more frightening religious epiphany. A stop-everything-and-listen kinda track.
2000 Great Songs #1426: Against Pollution
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We're 1/4 of the way through the 1400s on the Top 2000... So let's kick off the new week with a playlist for #1401-1425.
My Top 2000 Songs (#1401-1500)
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Marc Fagel@marcfagel.bsky.social · 3w ago2000 Great Songs #1425: You Can Call Me Al. I quickly tired of Paul Simon's omnipresent Graceland LP back in the day, but I still love the bouncy, playful single (and that goofy Chevy Chase video).
2000 Great Songs #1425: You Can Call Me Al. I quickly tired of Paul Simon's omnipresent Graceland LP back in the day, but I still love the bouncy, playful single (and that goofy Chevy Chase video).
2000 Great Songs #1425: You Can Call Me Al
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2000 Great Songs #1424: Bertha Butt Boogie. The epitome of the silly 70s novelty track, but the Jimmy Castor Bunch's supple funk makes it sound like you're missing a hell of a party.
2000 Great Songs #1424: Bertha Butt Boogie
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2000 Great Songs #1423: It's Too Bad. In which we find The Jam gleefully repurposing The Beatles, squeezing what could've been multiple British Invasion hits into two and a half minutes of glorious punk-era pop.
2000 Great Songs #1423: It's Too Bad
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