Below is my top ten list of favorite songs from 2021 as I have lived through it. Each entry lists the song's title, artist, and year of release. It shouldn't take long to notice that nine of them are from earlier years...I just don't listen to broadcast radio with their present-day song rotations except for Gainesville's alternative rock station WHHZ/100.5 (which accounts for #6). Five of the ten songs on the list I heard listening to the Music Choice Soundscapes channel on my Cox Cable TV service...they're all instrumental pieces, including the piano masterpiece standing at #1. As for The New Pornographers, I wish they'd named themselves differently...it's tough telling folks that this is one of my favorite bands. Regarding Twenty One Pilots, I think The Outside is my current favorite song and predict it will feature prominently on my list of 2022's favorites. But for 2021, Lady's Grace is a spectacular piano piece with an enchanting flute accompaniment. Whiteout Conditions is a brilliant description of someone struggling daily with depression...I've experienced it as well. Palomatronics is an Eastern, Indian-sounding mood piece that reminded me both of some of George Harrison's sitar-based Beatles works and the eerie beginning and conclusion to the Doors' monumentally disturbing-but-beautiful 1967 song The End. You can hear all these songs on YouTube...why not give them a listen? As I usually do when suggesting this, I recommend you listen to the original studio recordings and not concert renditions....
1 LADY'S GRACE...Kerani (2015)
2 WHITEOUT CONDITIONS...The New Pornographers (2017)
3 PALOMATRONICS...Green Isac (2014)
4 PLAY MONEY...The New Pornographers (2017)
5 LADY LABYRINTH...Ludovico Einaudi (2009)
6 THE OUTSIDE...Twenty One Pilots (2021)
7 PILLS...St. Vincent (2017)
8 NIGHT...Ludovico Einaudi (2015)
9 SVANIRE...Angèle Dubeau (2015)
10 ILLEGAL FIREWORKS AND HIDING BOTTLES IN THE SAND...Jeff Rosenstock (2020)
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