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 #1413: The Divided Sky. The fan-fave from Phish's early days is an extended, mostly instrumental suite that's downright proggy, more in line with early Genesis or maybe Zappa than what one thinks of as "jam band" music. Truly majestic.
2000 Great Songs #1413: The Divided Sky
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2000 Great Songs #1412: I Apologize. Textbook Hüsker Dü--an utterly unhinged Bob Mould and window-shattering guitar thrash over a crash & burn amphetamine rhythm, all in service of what's at heart a sugary-sweet bubblegum pop hook.
2000 Great Songs #1412: I Apologize
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2000 Great Songs #1411: Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home. Bit of a guilty pleasure, but actress Keira Knightley delivers a wonderfully charming gem with this lovely tune from the surprisingly sweet film Begin Again.
2000 Great Songs #1411: Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home
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2000 Great Songs #1410: And I Moved. In which one of history's greatest guitarists, Pete Townshend, forgoes the guitars, instead enlisting a wash of pianos and keyboards--and a riveting bass hook--to back his most brazenly homoerotic track.
2000 Great Songs #1410: And I Moved
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2000 Great Songs #1409: The Conqueror. The first Genesis album was deeply flawed and shared few signs of the majestic prog beast they'd become--but there were some catchy (albeit kinda twee) tunes. Would've been fascinating if they'd revisited this live.
2000 Great Songs #1409: The Conqueror
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2000 Great Songs #1408: Better Things. Lesser-known Elephant 6 act The Minders meld British Invasion pop with XTC, arriving at a ridiculously catchy lo-fi earworm.
2000 Great Songs #1408: Better Things
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Here’s Buffy & Willow checking out the brand new release from the reunited Darling Buds, one of my favorite pop bands of the 80s/90s.
2000 Great Songs #1407: The Ghost In You. The Psychedelic Furs at their most radio-friendly, a perfect pop song that seemed a staple of every college party playlist back in the day.
2000 Great Songs #1407: The Ghost In You
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2000 Great Songs #1406: Third Stone From The Sun. For those of us who prefer Jimi Hendrix, Psychedelic Explorer to Jimi Hendrix, Guitar God. Six and a half minutes of wigged-out trippiness.
2000 Great Songs #1406: Third Stone From The Sun
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2000 Great Songs #1405: Six Different Ways. Deep cut from The Cure that should've been a hit single, strange and slinky yet still an earworm, also deployed to great effect in an otherwise meh movie.
2000 Great Songs #1405: Six Different Ways
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2000 Great Songs #1404: Shilo. One sign of impending old age is no longer being embarrassed about liking a Neil Diamond song about his childhood imaginary friend. Oh well.
2000 Great Songs #1404: Shilo
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2000 Great Songs #1403: Veronica. Elvis Costello pays tribute to his aging grandmother--not exactly your standard rock & roll fare--and magically pulls off a winning pop song that's both achingly sad and ultimately triumphant.
2000 Great Songs #1403: Veronica
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2000 Great Songs #1402: Donimo. Cocteau Twins take some breathing room and deliver a sweeping dream pop symphony, about as close as humans can come to replicating the imagined sound of angels swooping down from on high.
2000 Great Songs #1402: Donimo
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2000 Great Songs #1401: I'm In Trouble. Heading back to the earliest days of The Replacements, still firmly in punk mode but Paul Westerberg's lyrical cleverness and willingness to throw in concessions to pop hooks already shining through.
2000 Great Songs #1401: I'm In Trouble
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And that's a wrap on the 1300s! Here's a playlist for songs #1301-1400 on my Top 2000, should help you through the coming weekend.
My Top 2000 Songs (#1301-1400)
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Marc Fagel@marcfagel.bsky.social · 2w ago2000 Great Songs #1400: Oh Well. Rollicking blues romp from the tail end of Fleetwood Mac's original Peter Green era, epic call-and-response attack with soothing Spaghetti Western cool-down. Later "borrowed" by Zeppelin.
2000 Great Songs #1400: Oh Well. Rollicking blues romp from the tail end of Fleetwood Mac's original Peter Green era, epic call-and-response attack with soothing Spaghetti Western cool-down. Later "borrowed" by Zeppelin.
2000 Great Songs #1400: Oh Well
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2000 Great Songs #1399: That's Just The Way That I Feel. Pretty tough to listen to Purple Mountains' incredible album of apocalyptic Americana objectively following David Berman's tragic passing, but take a deep breath and hot damn.
2000 Great Songs #1399: That's Just The Way That I Feel
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2000 Great Songs #1398: By The Time My Head Gets To Phoenix. Mary Lou Lord's lovely cover introduced me to this jangly late 90s folk-rock gem by Peter Bruntnell, a song that demands to be thrown on all your mixtapes.
2000 Great Songs #1398: By The Time My Head Gets To Phoenix
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2000 Great Songs #1397: Family Curse. Singer-songwriter Kevin Tihista gets a little more baroque and intricate than on his more typical acoustic folkie tunes, a moody, overlooked gem from the 00s.
2000 Great Songs #1397: Family Curse
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2000 Great Songs #1396: Punk Rock Girl. I didn't pay much attention to Dead Milkmen after their debut became a college radio fave, but it was fun seeing them get a moment in the sun, a goofy novelty song perfect for the tail-end of MTV's glory days.
2000 Great Songs #1396: Punk Rock Girl
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I've long maintained that I don't mind when my favorite indie bands are discovered by the masses and get some well-deserved attention. The more the merrier! Thousands of millennials/zoomers singing along to Pavement last night changed my mind.
2000 Great Songs #1395: Happiness Is A Warm Gun. Splurging on the White Album as a young kid showed me that the Beatles didn't just make pop hits; they got into some half-assed bizarre studio weirdness, yet still somehow sounded brilliant & magical.
2000 Great Songs #1395: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
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2000 Great Songs #1394: One Step Beyond. A cover of an old reggae chestnut, it'll always be a Madness song to me, a reminder of the early high school/new wave years when I was searching peripatetically for new musical vibes.
2000 Great Songs #1394: One Step Beyond
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Deep in the dog days of summer, realized I hadn't yet shared my running playlist of 2026 new music to date. Fixed that, just shy of 50 songs; pretty solid, but not sure we've got any all-timers here yet.
2026: The Running Playlist
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2000 Great Songs #1393: Time In Common. Australia's Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever refurbish early NZ bands like the Clean & the Bats for some frenetically-paced jangle that's over way too soon.
2000 Great Songs #1393: Time In Common
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2000 Great Songs #1392: Start Choppin'. For a brief shining moment, even a song like this could feel like a pop hit. Dinosaur Jr. at their most 90s alt.rock, very of the moment, but the riff endures.
2000 Great Songs #1392: Start Choppin'
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New Releases: Really enjoying the latest from Mo Troper, a DIY mid-fi collection of jangly retro-pop and Brian Wilson hymns; reminds me of the heyday of the Elephant 6 scene.
New Releases: Mo Troper
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2000 Great Songs #1391: Stained Glass. I have no great insights on this Real Estate track; sometimes you just want some pleasant jangle to wash away the stresses of the day, and this one has been effectively handling that job for about a decade.
2000 Great Songs #1391: Stained Glass
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2000 Great Songs #1390: Never Learn Not To Love. Arguably the closest the Beach Boys ever came to psychedelia; weirdly cool tune even without the Charles Manson associations.
2000 Great Songs #1390: Never Learn Not To Love
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