Lists 3
These are rankings of my favourite music.
Songs of Renewed Focus — 2020s
- 2020: 極限は刹那 — SOKO NI NARU (そこに鳴る)
- 2020: 未來 再見 — RAY SHAO
- 2020: Will of the People — TIMCAST
- 2020: Valhalla Calling | Lilac and Violet — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2020: Ken Copeland’s Wind of God — THE REMIX BROS
- 2020: Violin Is Better than Bass — TWOSET VIOLIN
- 2020: We’re All Doomed — SCHMOYOHO + WEIRD AL
- 2021: A Million Miles Away — BELLE + TAISEI IWASAKI
- 2021: Hevel | Lotus | Ruah | Colder — BLOODLINES
- 2021: Tja Umaq Formosa | Qemaljup | Spyang Palis — YAHDDY
- 2021: Gang Gang — NOVA ROCKAFELLER + TOM MACDONALD
- 2021: The Fire Itself | Thorns | Eternally Apart | The Storm in Me — PHINEHAS
- 2021: John Wick vs. John Rambo vs. John McClane — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2022: Psalm of the Depths — BLOODLINES
- 2022: Make Me Famous — KIM DRACULA
- 2022: Teens | Unambiguous True Love — KYLE DIXON + MICHAEL STEIN
- 2022: How Lin-Manuel Miranda Orders a Pizza — DANIEL THRASHER
- 2023: No Way Out — NOT ENOUGH SPACE
- 2023: Forgotten | Left Behind — THE PLOT IN YOU
- 2023: Amen! — BRING ME THE HORIZON + LIL UZI VERT
- 2023: Rich Men North of Richmond | I Want to Go Home — OLIVER ANTHONY
- 2023: Jusant | Estran | Finisterre | Mouvements | Contre-Jour — GUILLAUME FERRAN
- 2023: Waterslide | Lipstick Lover — JANELLE MONÁE
- 2023: Change My Ways — JENNIFER JEFFRIES
- 2023: In Limbo — REVNOIR
- 2023: Igowallah — DANIEL THRASHER
- 2023: Automotivo Bibi Fogosa — BIBI BABYDOLL
- 2024: Closure | Don’t Look Away — THE PLOT IN YOU
- 2024: The Machine — TOM MACDONALD
Songs of Lingering Influence — 2010s
- 2010: Just the Way You Are — BRUNO MARS
- 2010: The Illusive Man | New Worlds — JACK WALL
- 2010: Krav Maga — ZACH SHERWIN
- 2011: Somebody That I Used to Know — GOTYE + KIMBRA
- 2011: Commander Shepard | Normandy | Wasteland Soul | Beauty Bleak | Trip to Vegas | The New Black Gold | Sovngarde Song | Sweet L.A. | Little Sister — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2011: The Blossoming Beelzebub | 流転の塔 | 獣慾 | Lotus — DIR EN GREY
- 2011: The Confusion of Simon Peter | Goodbye, for Now — COOL HAND LUKE
- 2011: Crystals | Paris — M.O.O.N.
- 2012: Ghosts | Fall — THE PRESETS
- 2012: Fatty Boom Boom | U Make a Ninja Wanna Fuck — DIE ANTWOORD
- 2012: Shadows in the Moonlight | Legends of the Frost | Nord Mead | Crucible | Kalros | Distant Honor | Rise — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2012: Leaving Earth | An End, Once and for All | I Was Lost Without You | Das Malefitz | I’m Proud of You — SAM HULICK + CLINT MANSELL + FAUNTS
- 2012: 千本桜 | 天樂 — HATSUNE MIKU (初音ミク) + KAGAMINE RIN (鏡音リン)
- 2012: Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2012: Miami | Miami Disco — JASPER BYRNE + PERTURBATOR
- 2012: Bullet Train — STEPHEN SWARTZ + JONI FATORA
- 2012: Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That — THE PARODY FACTORY + SWEET BROWN
- 2012: Gingers Have Souls — SCHMOYOHO + COPPERCAB
- 2013: Can You Feel My Heart? — BRING ME THE HORIZON
- 2013: Dream of the Sky | Forever Blue | The Best of Us | City of Night | His Father’s Son | Beneath the Black Flag | Hard Cash | Kickback — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2013: Mahatma Gandhi vs. Martin Luther King Jr. | Michael Jordan vs. Muhammad Ali | Miley Cyrus vs. Joan of Arc — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2013: Get Lucky — DAFT PUNK + PHARRELL WILLIAMS + NILE RODGERS
- 2013: おちゃんせんすぅす — Tricot
- 2013: Dead Giveaway! — SCHMOYOHO + CHARLES RAMSEY
- 2014: Ugly Boy — DIE ANTWOORD
- 2014: Chandelier — SIA
- 2014: My Revolution | Every Time You Look Around | Dream of Goodbye | All as One | Welcome Home | Fistful of Concrete | Resistance | Fires Far — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2014: Alibi | Speed of Light | Second Son — BRAIN + MARC CANHAM
- 2014: Steven Spielberg vs. Alfred Hitchcock | Romeo and Juliet vs. Bonnie and Clyde | Walter White vs. Rick Grimes | Goku vs. Superman — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2014: Never Come Down — BRAVE SHORES
- 2014: Day One | Cornfield Chase — HANS ZIMMER
- 2015: Through the Cellar Door — LANTERNS ON THE LAKE
- 2015: This Is Living | Energy — HILLSONG YOUNG & FREE
- 2015: Sirona | London Town | Don’t Say a Word | Friends | Lady of Worlds | Road Rage | Gráinne Mhaol, Queen of Pirates — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2015: Eastern Philosophers vs. Western Philosophers | Jim Henson vs. Stan Lee | Terminator vs. RoboCop — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2015: 7 Years — LUKAS GRAHAM
- 2015: Cheap Thrills — SIA
- 2016: Bonbon — ERA ISTREFI
- 2016: We Have Candy | Daddy | Rats Rule — DIE ANTWOORD
- 2016: Some Things Never Change | Forever Flame | The Natural Heart | The Lucky Ones | Get the Gang Back | Here We Go Again — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2016: Kids | Kids 2 | Stranger Things Theme — KYLE DIXON + MICHAEL STEIN
- 2016: No E | Letter C | Drop Bars — ZACH SHERWIN + GEORGE WATSKY
- 2016: Bruce Banner vs. Bruce Jenner — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2016: Bad Hombres, Nasty Women — SCHMOYOHO + WEIRD AL
- 2016: Make America Great Again — ANGLOSAXOPHONE
- 2017: Not Just Breathing | Feel Nothing | One Last Time | The Sound — THE PLOT IN YOU
- 2017: Upside Down | Force of Nature | Hallowed Land — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2017: Hansha — OCEANS ATE ALASKA
- 2017: Love Drug — DIE ANTWOORD
- 2017: Live to Die Another Day — MIYAVI
- 2017: Sthlm Sunset | Palm Trees — EHRLING
- 2017: The First Lie | Eight Fifteen — KYLE DIXON + MICHAEL STEIN
- 2018: Underwater — ELEPHANT GYM (大象體操)
- 2018: 掌で踊る — SOKO NI NARU (そこに鳴る)
- 2018: This Is America — CHILDISH GAMBINO
- 2018: My Odyssey | Savior’s Seed — MIRACLE OF SOUND
- 2018: Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
- 2018: Tokyo — LEAT’EQ
- 2019: Deep | The First I Love You — PETER SANDBERG + KYLE DIXON + MICHAEL STEIN
- 2019: Spiritual Warfare | End of Days — BLOODLINES
- 2019: Mother Teresa vs. Sigmund Freud — EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
Songs of Promising Growth — 2000s
- 2000: 鶺鴒: Seki-Ray — GACKT
- 2000: Come Back to Me | Been So Long — M-FLO
- 2000: 蛇蠍 ≠ 毒鬼 | [VI]×2 Section | 画鋲・釘・針 | 「’」 | Dear【 】— PHOBIA
- 2000: Sit in the Middle of Three Galloping Dogs — A SILVER MT. ZION
- 2000: Finale — L’ARC~EN~CIEL
- 2000: The Soul Love | Speed of Rise — LAREINE
- 2000: Californication | Otherside — RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
- 2000: 理由 | 蛍火 | ザクロ — DIR EN GREY
- 2000: Shape — LAPUTA
- 2000: Night of Fire — DREAM
- 2001: Pagan Poetry — BJÖRK
- 2001: Ain’t Afraid to Die — DIR EN GREY
- 2001: Toxicity | Chop Suey! — SYSTEM OF A DOWN
- 2001: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger — DAFT PUNK
- 2001: ディストーション | Metamorphose — BLAST
- 2001: 嘘ノ真 — JAKURA (雀羅)
- 2002: Sad Girls Por Vida | If You Hate Your Friends, You’re Not Alone | By the Throat | Speakers Push the Air | The Getaway | Ghosts in the Radio — PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
- 2002: Synchronicity | Misa’s Other Half | Ice Cream Man — SUGIZO
- 2002: 侵蝕 | 嗚呼！所詮、嗚呼！無情 | 顔のない月 — BLAST
- 2002: Bottom of the Death Valley | Ugly — DIR EN GREY
- 2003: Numb | Breaking the Habit — LINKIN PARK
- 2003: Miss You — M-FLO + MELODY + RYOHEI
- 2003: One Time | Heroes Will Be Heroes | Dreams for Sale — COOL HAND LUKE
- 2003: All Medicated Geniuses | The Teeth Collector — PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES
- 2003: Bloody Angel | Chinese Destroy — PINK HALLELUJAH
- 2003: In Loving Kindness | Resistance | Growing in Grace — ZAO
- 2003: Can’t Stop — RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
- 2003: Dragostea Din Tei — O-ZONE
- 2003: Obscure — DIR EN GREY
- 2003: Rise — SAFRI DUO
- 2004: Rest for the Weary | Friendly Jas | Sequence #3 | The Zombie Song | The Foster | I’m Not Running | Rats in the Cellar | Cinematic — COOL HAND LUKE
- 2004: 愁 | 徒然謌 | 冬幻境 — KAGRRA (神樂)
- 2004: Lightning | 踊る鳥と金の雨 — UA
- 2005: God Bless Our Dead Marines | Hang On to Each Other | Mountains Made of Steam | Horses in the Sky — A SILVER MT. ZION
- 2005: 絶望にサヨナラ — KAGEROU (蜉蝣)
- 2005: 鼓動 | The Final | Merciless Cult | C | 朔 | 愛しさは腐敗につき — DIR EN GREY
- 2005: This Dream Called Life | Second Chance | The Risk — LOVE HATE HERO
- 2005: ビバ★ビバ★ビバップ • 人生、泣き笑い — MIYAVI
- 2005: Passion — UTADA HIKARU (宇多田ヒカル)
- 2005: I My Me Mine — POLYSICS
- 2006: Heart’s a Mess — GOTYE
- 2006: Voices | I Never Wanted To | It’s Far Better to Learn | Sleepers — SAOSIN
- 2006: Are You Ready to Rock? | 自己愛、自画自賛、自意識過剰 — MIYAVI
- 2007: Dozing Green | 凌辱の雨 | Clever Sleazoid | 艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み | Grief | Conceived Sorrow | The Pledge | Agitated Screams of Maggots — DIR EN GREY
- 2007: Uncharted Worlds | Mass Effect Theme — SAM HULICK + JACK WALL
- 2007: 絶望ビリー | ぶっ生き返す — MAXIMUM THE HORMONE
- 2007: 事切れ手鞠歌 | とある魔法 | クワイエットが呼んでいる — KAMOME KAMOME
- 2007: What I’ve Done | Bleed It Out — LINKIN PARK
- 2008: Mirror’s Edge Theme | Kate | Shard | Still Alive — SOLAR FIELDS + LISA MISKOVSKY
- 2008: The Best Mistake I’ve Ever Made | Now | Let’s Start From Here | Lost in Paradise | Bada Bada | As Love Begins to Mend — JOANNA WANG
- 2008: 1,000,000 Died to Make This Sound — A SILVER MT. ZION
- 2009: Kissing Cousins | Sweet#hart — CLOSURE IN MOSCOW
- 2009: Are You Receiving? | Two Weeks & Counting | We’re Going Home — CLINT MANSELL
- 2009: Again — YUI
Songs of Sweet Nostalgia — 1990s
- 1990: おどるポンポコリン — B. B. QUEENS
- 1993: Lodi Dodi — SNOOP DOGG
- 1994: True Blue — LUNA SEA
- 1994: Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) — SCATMAN JOHN
- 1995: Don’t Speak | Sunday Morning — NO DOUBT
- 1995: Gangsta’s Paradise — COOLIO + L.V.
- 1996: To the Moon and Back — SAVAGE GARDEN
- 1996: 太陽手に月は心の両手に | 情熱 | Rhythm — UA
- 1996: Hyperballad — BJÖRK
- 1996: Twisted — KEITH SWEAT
- 1996: Don’t Let Go — EN VOGUE
- 1996: Pony — GINUWINE
- 1997: Bel Air — MALICE MIZER
- 1997: Barbie Girl — AQUA
- 1997: Torn — NATALIE IMBRUGLIA
- 1997: Around the World — DAFT PUNK
- 1998: Frozen — MADONNA
- 1998: Forbidden Lover | 花葬 — L’ARC~EN~CIEL
- 1998: The Boy Is Mine — BRANDY + MONICA
- 1998: さまよえる蒼い弾丸 — B’Z
- 1998: Automatic — UTADA HIKARU (宇多田ヒカル)
- 1998: Gimme Some More — BUSTA RHYMES
- 1998: Perfume of Love — GLOBE
- 1998: Do for Love — 2PAC
- 1998: Iris — GOO GOO DOLLS
- 1998: 白い翼 | 桜花乱舞 — MISSALINA REI
- 1998: Jester | 死美人 / Delicate | 華 / Deflower — NÉIL
- 1998: Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) — THE OFFSPRING
- 1998: Dreams Come True — S.E.S.
- 1999: Mizerable — GACKT
- 1999: All Is Full of Love — BJÖRK
- 1999: 仮面舞踏会 | 紫 | La Rouge Fil | 月の影・太陽の光 — PHOBIA
- 1999: LOVE マシーン — MORNING MUSUME (モーニング娘)
- 1999: ゆらめき | 予感 | Cage | 残 | Mazohyst of Decadence — DIR EN GREY
- 1999: Addicted to You — UTADA HIKARU (宇多田ヒカル)
- 1999: Grateful Days — DRAGON ASH + ACO + ZEEBRA
- 1999: 花咲く命ある限り — RAPHAEL
- 1999: No Scrubs — TLC
Songs of Old Renown
- 1877: Swan Lake — PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
- 1956: Heartbreak Hotel — ELVIS PRESLEY
- 1957: Jailhouse Rock — ELVIS PRESLEY
- 1970: Where Do the Children Play? | Wild World | Moonshadow — CAT STEVENS
- 1977: Stayin’ Alive — BEE GEES
- 1978: Rasputin — BONEY M
- 1978: What You Won’t Do for Love — BOBBY CALDWELL
- 1978: September — EARTH, WIND & FIRE
- 1981: Let’s Groove — EARTH, WIND & FIRE
- 1982: Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ — MICHAEL JACKSON
- 1982: Eye of the Tiger — SURVIVOR
- 1982: Africa — TOTO
- 1984: Smooth Operator — SADE
- 1984: Can’t Stop the Music — EMU’S PINK WINDMILL KIDS
- 1985: Running Up That Hill — KATE BUSH
- 1987: Never Gonna Give You Up — RICK ASTLEY
- 1989: New York Minute — DON HENLEY / THE EAGLES
My Top Western Rock Bands
- PRETTY GIRLS MAKE GRAVES [2001-2007]
- THE PLOT IN YOU [2010-present]
- LINKIN PARK [1996-2017]
- SAOSIN [2003-present]
- COOL HAND LUKE [1998-present]
- BLOODLINES [2014-present]
- IMAGINE DRAGONS [2008-present]
- BRING ME THE HORIZON [2004-present]
- CLOSURE IN MOSCOW [2006-present]
- LANTERNS ON THE LAKE [2007-present]
- PHINEHAS [2001-present]
- LOVE HATE HERO [2003-2011]
- NOT ENOUGH SPACE [2020-present]
- NO DOUBT [1986-2015]
My Top Western Artists / Groups
- DIE ANTWOORD [2008-present]
- MIRACLE OF SOUND [2007-present]
- MICHAEL JACKSON [1964-2009]
- WEIRD AL [1976-present]
- HOLLYWOOD PRINCIPLE [2013-present]
- EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY [2010-present]
- BJÖRK [1975-present]
- GOTYE [2001-present]
- TIM MINCHIN [1998-present]
- DUA LIPA [2013-present]
- KIMBRA [2005-present]
- HILLSONG COLLECTIVE [1983-present]
- JANELLE MONÁE [2003-present]
- ZACH SHERWIN [2010-present]
- SNOOP DOGG [1992-present]
- TOM MACDONALD [2008-present]
- DAFT PUNK [1993-2021]
- THE PRESETS [2003-present]
- CAT STEVENS [1965-present]
My Top Post-Rock / Experimental Bands
- A SILVER MT. ZION [1999-present]
- DIRTY THREE [1992-present]
- TORTOISE [1990-present]
- ELEPHANT GYM (大象體操) [2012-present]
My Top Japanese Rock Bands
- DIR EN GREY [1997-present]
- SOKO NI NARU (そこに鳴る) [2011-present]
- SEX MACHINEGUNS [1989-present]
- LUNA SEA [1986-present]
- L’ARC~EN~CIEL [1991-present]
- MUCC [1997-present]
- MAXIMUM THE HORMONE [1998-present]
- KAMOME KAMOME [2002-present]
- X JAPAN [1982-present]
My Top Indie Visual-Kei Bands
- KAGEROU (蜉蝣) [1999-2007]
- DEADMAN [2000-2006]
- PHOBIA [1998-2002]
- KAGRRA (神樂) [2000-2011]
- SHULLA (修羅) [2001-2005]
- BLAST [2001-2004]
My Top Japanese Artists / Groups
- M-FLO [1997-present]
- GACKT [1999-present]
- MIYAVI [2002-present]
- UTADA HIKARU (宇多田ヒカル) [1996-present]
- DRAGON ASH [1996-present]
- UA [1994-present]
My Top Acapella / Beatboxing Artists
- MAYTREE [1999-present]
- KRNFX [2007-present]
My Top Soundtracks
- MIRROR’S EDGE [2008 Game] — SOLAR FIELDS + LISA MISKOVSKY
- STRANGER THINGS [2016-20XX TV Show] — KYLE DIXON + MICHAEL STEIN
- ATTACK ON TITAN [2013-2023 Anime Series] — HIROYUKI SAWANO + KOHTA YAMAMOTO
- MASS EFFECT TRILOGY [2007-2012 Games] — SAM HULICK + JACK WALL + CLINT MANSELL
- SOUNDTRACK [2002 Film] — SUGIZO
- PERSONA 5 [2016 Game] — SHOJI MEGURO
- INFAMOUS: SECOND SON [2014 Game] — BRAIN + MARC CANHAM
- THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT [2015 Game] — MARCIN PRZYBYŁOWICZ
- HOTLINE MIAMI [2012 Game] — VARIOUS
- JUSANT [2023 Game] — GUILLAUME FERRAN
- MOON [2009 Film] — CLINT MANSELL
- Whiplash
- Squid Game