“It’s an unfamiliar song, you said you’d like to sing along”
~ Azure Ray

This list comprises my all-time favourite songs by 100 of my favourite and most-listened to musicians. Or it started that way, and then I realized that I have by far more than 100 favourite musicians, and the list grew.

• The Age of Rockets : Pétales Aiment la Saleté
• Air : Run
• The Album Leaf : Twenty Two Fourteen
• Alison Krauss & Union Station : Stars
• The All-American Rejects : My Paper Heart
• Alpha : Slim
• Aqualung : Strange & Beautiful (I’ll Put a Spell on You)
• The Arcade Fire : Rebellion (Lies)
• Atomica : Quiver
• Au Revoir Simone : Stars
• Azure Ray : Across The Ocean
• Bang Gang : Inside
• Bat for Lashes : Bat’s Mouth
• Belle & Sebastian : Step Into My Office, Baby
• Beulah : Popular Mechanics for Lovers
• The Bird and the Bee : Again & Again
• Bitter:sweet : Salty Air
• Björk : Wanderlust
• Blonde Redhead : Silently
• Blondfire : Aluminum Stars
• Broken Social Scene : Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Gir
• Cat Power : Metal Heart
• Charlotte Gainsbourg : 5:55
• Charlotte Martin : Wild Horses
• Claire Pichet : Summer 78
• CocoRosie : Terrible Angels
• Coldplay : Clocks
• Daft Punk : Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
• The Dandy Warhols : Sleep
• Death Cab for Cutie : Styrofoam Plates
• The Decemberists : July, July
• Depeche Mode : Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)
• Eberg : Inside Your Head
• Eisley : Memories
• Elsiane : Hybrid
• Embrace : Ashes
• Emiliana Torrini : Dead Things
• Emily Haines : Crowd Surf Off a Cliff
• Enya : Fallen Embers
• Evanescence : Lithium
• Explosions in the Sky : Glittering Blackness
• Fauxliage Let It Go
• Feist : Let It Die
• A Fine Frenzy : Borrowed Time
• Fiona Apple : Not About Love
• Flunk : See You
• Frou Frou : The Dumbing Down of Love
• Goldfrapp : Time Out From the World
• Great Lake Swimmers : Moving Pictures Silent Films
• Gwen Stefani : 4 in the Mornin’
• Halou : Evensong
• Hanne Hukkelburg : Lucy
• Herbert : The Last Bear
• Honeyroot : Nobody Loves You
• Hooverphonic : Battersea
• Hot Chip : Over and Over
• The Hush Sound : That’s Okay
• Husky Rescue : New Light of Tomorrow
• IAMX : Sailor
• iiO : Runaway (Original Serenity Mix)
• Imogen Heap : Hide and Seek
• Iron & Wine : Love and Some Verses
• Ivy : Ocean City Girl
• Jem : Flying High
• Jenny Lewis : You Are What You Love
• Jewel : You Were Meant for Me
• Joanna Newsom : Peach, Plum, Pear
• Johnny Hollow : Motherless Child (Abandoned Remix)
• Joni Mitchell : A Case of You
• Joseph Arthur : A Smile That Explodes
• Junior Boys : FM
• Karmacoda : Awaken
• Kate Bush : Babooshka
• Kate Havnevik : New Day
• Keane : Nothing in my Way
• Kenna : Hell Bent
• The Killers : Somebody Told Me
• Kristen Bell & Christian Campbell : Romeo & Juliet
• Lady & Bird : Suicide is Painless
• Lady GaGa : Poker Face
• Ladytron : Ladybird
• LeAnn Rimes : Probably Wouldn’t Be This Way
• Let’s Go Sailing : Come Home Safely
• Lily Allen : LDN
• Lisa Hall : Is This Real?
• Loreena McKennitt : The Mystic’s Dream
• M83 : You, Appearing
• M. Craft : Dragonfly
• M. Ward : Poison CUp
• Madonna : Love Profusion
• Magnet : Lay Lady Lay
• Massive Attack : Unfinished Sympathy
• Mazzy Star : Into Dust
• Metric : White Gold
• MGMT : Time to Pretend
• Mike Doughty : I Hear the Bells
• Milla : Clock
• Mirah : Person Person
• Moby : Lift Me Up
• Modest Mouse : The World at Large
• Morningwood : Ride the Lights
• Mum : Weeping Rock, Rock
• Muse : Hyper Chondriac Music
• Natalie Imbruglia : Beauty on the Fire
• Neko Case : Hold On, Hold On
• Neutral Milk Hotel : In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• No Doubt : Running
• Nouvelle Vague : Ever Fallen in Love
• Patrick Park : Something Pretty
• Patrick Wolf : Tristan
• Patty Griffin : Useless Desires
• The Perishers : Pills
• Pete Yorn : EZ
• Placebo : Running Up That Hill
• Poe : Wild
• Poloroid : So Damn Beautiful
• Portishead : Glory Box
• The Postal Service : Such Great Heights
• Psapp : The Counter
• Rachael Yamagata : Be Be Your Love
• Radiohead : Everything in its Right Place
• Regina Spektor : Fidelity
• Rilo Kiley : More Adventurous
• Röyksopp : Poor Leno
• Sarah MacLachlan : Adia
• Sarah Slean : Me, I’m a Thief
• The Shins : Caring is Creepy
• Sia : Insidiously
• Sigur R&oactue;s : Sé Lest
• Simon & Garfunkel : Sounds of Silence
• The Sneakerpimps : Black Sheep
• Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright : Set the Fire to the Third Bar
• Spice Girls : Too Much
Stars : Celebration Guns
• Sufjan Stevens : Chicago
• Tegan and Sara : I Know I Know I Know
• Télépopmusik : Stop Running Away
• Thom Yorke : Skip Divided
• Tori Amos : 1000 Oceans
• Trespasser’s William : Lie in the Sound
• Trevor Orchestra Horn : Sh Boom (Life Could be a Dream)
• Under the Influence of Giants : Stay Illogical
• Way Out West : Absinthe Dreams
• Worm is Green : Amazing Things
• Yann Teirsen : La Valse d’Amélie
• Youth Group : Forever Young
• Zero 7 : Distractions
• 46bliss : In a Long Time