From David Bowie and Radiohead to Curly Ray Jepsen & Robin: The 20 Best Songs of the Decade

More than ever the music flooded us, more than ever we lost musical legends. Ahead of the Decade of the End in collaboration with Walla! Culture, Ido Isaiah and Avner Shavit each choose the ten songs they loved in their teens on a special end-radio show. Listen

It's really close: On December 29, 2019, the Edge's Decade will be broadcast throughout the day in collaboration with Walla! culture. As part of the engine warming we are in Walla too! Culture counts our favorite songs. We picked and rated our ten favorite songs from the teens and listened to each other as part of a special program for the parade. We can only hope that it will open up your appetite for all the songs we loved and also of course choose your songs for the decade parade. Get in on the pick right here and maybe win a ticket to the Primavera 2020 Festival in Barcelona, ​​including a flight and hotel's "Flying Carpet" gift, or a second prize: a double ticket to a Nick Kiev show in Bloomfield Gift Market. And the most important prize, which every voter wins - to influence the decade-long parade in collaboration with Walla Culture.

Welcome to listen to the program above and read our selections here.

Parade 100 Teenage Series: The Big 20

Disclosure feat. London Grammar - Help Me Lose My Mind

The simpler the lyrics of this song, the more it consists of a layer cake, with heavenly musical transitions that cause listeners and listeners to lose themselves. In 2013, Discloser seemed to be the gift of the future and the hottest thing to do, and here they blended in wonderful harmony with the voice of Hannah Reed, the London Grammer soloist, whose angelic voice here rises high and high, threatening to shatter windows as if they were a broken heart.

David Bowie - Love Is Lost - Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy

David Bowie surprised us several times during this decade. The most awful surprise, of course, was his death in 2016, a particularly damn year when it comes to the death of musical legends. Three years ago, after a decade's silence, he returned with "The Next Day" a beautiful, moving album that had a sober back and detailed look at nostalgic strings. Musically he wasn't very innovative or special, but then later that year a deluxe version that included this amazing James Murphy Murphy remix turned "Love Is Lost" into a mesmerizing and amazing Minimal House, built and sweeping as the minutes progressed its.

Fakear - La Lune Rousse

The only French representative in the march, but he is not French and in fact, as far as is known, not in any language. The e-artist known as Pakir has created a magnetizing and mesmerizing piece here, with each additional listening making the mystery of it even more enigmatic. Originally this song was called "The Red Moon" (La Lune Rousse), and like the celestial phenomenon, it is also beautiful, rare and elusive.

Little Dragon - Wonderful

It's hard to pick one song from Little Dragon's fourth album, released in 2014, but eventually "Underbart," floating up. A sad and so beautiful farewell song, with the vulnerable and soulful voice of Yukimi Nagano. The emotion in her voice is one of the most beautiful things about Little Dragon in general.

Solange - Don't Touch My Hair

In an age characterized by the politics of personal identity, Solange scored a pony here as she explained that a cigar is sometimes not just a cigar and hair is sometimes not just a hair. Touching it, making a face in front of it and commenting on it or any other external trait of yours, is the most fundamental right, and it is your right to define yourself. Over the past decade, the world has begun to understand this, and if this conscious upheaval has a soundtrack, Solange is his voice and face.

The War On Drugs - Holding On

There is a longing for the music of De Ver-On Dragas in general, and part of that, it is presumed, is from their all-important musical reliance on Springsteen and Dylan and Dyer Straights of yesteryear. In this song, the yearning seems to be even stronger than ever, until it is hard to resist. A song so beautiful.

Azealia Banks - 212

The perfect self-aviation anthem for a generation that has been flying itself. If self-confidence could sing, that's how it would sound. Azilia Banks sounds so determined here when she sings that she can be the answer, that you can't answer that question. A cheeky, unusually defiant and effective song that was an essential part of the soundtrack to "Bling Ring," a Sofia Coppola movie that was perceived as negligible in real time, but in retrospect looks like a time capsule.

Radiohead - Bloom

Throughout this decade, Radiohead's "Bloom" has hit all sorts of versions - one as Tom York's solo live, one in a spectacular bow version with Hans Zimmer in "Blue Star 2" soundtrack, and also a Radiohead performance here in Israel in 2017. Each time this song makes it clear just how beautiful it is at its base. And in the end the original version is the most perfect - the contrast between the hard production shell and the melody is quite perfect.

FKA twigs - Two Weeks

As a musician, dancer, performer, video star and recently a film actress (in Alma Harel's "Honey Boy"), FKA twigs is one of the decade's most exciting cultural phenomena. In "Two Weeks," her voice hovers as listeners and listeners fly with him, all the way to the amazing line of crushing a girl who tries to forget the ex of her dear loved one's consciousness - "Give me two weeks and you don't recognize her." As befits a section that mentions oral sex, the feeling is that this song has teeth, and they bite.

Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know

One of the most fun songs of the decade, from one of the most fun albums of the decade, "Tourist History" from 2010. Also bounces and rejoices almost ten years later, whenever the first sounds of this song are played.

Courtney Barnett - Depreston

Courtney Barnett has cemented her position as the greatest songwriter of the decade, and one might even venture to say that she is one of the best in the field in the last half-century. A true poet, capable of taking the most basic human condition and creating from it a social and / or philosophical parable. Her ability culminates in "Depreston", named after the Melbourne Florentine. On paper it is a simple poem about a simple real estate sitemap, but under its hands it emerges as the most beautiful musical work to date written on the issue of gentrification, and more importantly, as a poem about so much more. People and places, apartment exchanges and generations exchanges About life itself and not just about them.

Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People

With the next epic song opens the epic "All Delighted People" by Sophian Stevens, who for two decades has been responsible for some of the most amazing and creative and musical songs that wash us. Creating a grandeur that is largely the embodiment of Sophian Stevens in one spectacular song that ranges from touching intimacy to exciting bombasticity, and despite its length it keeps it fresh and sweeping all the time.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

Unpolitical, not social, not speaking in a generation's voice and not necessarily related to what made the decade - but it is simply one of the sweetest and most uplifting pieces ever written, from the saxophone solo to the repetitive chorus in which the Canadian singer repeatedly offers her cherished heart to "run with her" . But even though it is apparently a song about escape, it is actually a perfect anthem to march to the beach with.

Bombay Bicycle Club - Lights Out, Words Gone

What a beautiful song. Such a song of the end of the day, the end of the party, while the lights go out and the words go away, when the car is traveling back home and need not say much. And the amazing thing is that it has this funky guitar line, which, in addition to the tranquility the song sings, also manages to move at the same time, which blends in great with the clip.

Grimes - Oblivion

The most important process with which the current decade ended was of course the MeToo, and the Canadian musician's song known as Grimes was probably the strongest expression given to him. On the basis of her personal trauma and the post-trauma she still suffers from, she sings here about her fear of darkness and toxic masculinity, in a section that sounds like a dark children's legend, but despite all the distress that comes from it also has a lot of power and empowerment.

(Arcade Fire - It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus

As with David Bowie, so did this case - James Murphy came and did his wonders, Grove put into this Canadian band - and although it is a very controversial claim - completely upgraded them and made this album, "Reflector" from 2013, for the best Their most so far and also since. The combination of this groove with the beautiful tunes and complexity we used to know from Arcade Fire created a hybrid creature that enjoys all worlds. This song is the perfect example of this, a beautiful piece in itself, but also has an even greater value because it opens a sequence of the four most beautiful songs in "Reflector," the ones that close the album.

Mashrou 'Leila - Lil Watan

So close and so far. The Lebanese band from Shiloh Lila works for only a few hours, but for obvious reasons it is hard to imagine that it will be performing in the near future. And yet, this song is not only the soundtrack to the contemporary uprising in Lebanon, but also a universal, cross-border anthem: not only because of the bouncing music and the wonderful use of violins, but the way his words speak about how states use nationalism and bread and amusement to enslave and silence citizens. In the next decade, this will probably not happen anymore, but maybe in the next century our grandchildren will all dance it together on the streets of Beirut.

iamamiwhoami - Kill

iamamiwhoami was the pseudonym of Swedish pigeon Lee early in the decade, until in 2017 she returned to her original name, only with a different spelling - ionnalee. This is one of the most obscure female artists. In a repaired world, she was Kate Bush of our generation. Album after album throughout this decade, she just never stopped delivering beautiful, poignant, crooked yet focused songs, and even ones that could easily make the crossover to the masses if only they played enough, or at all.

Robyn - Dancing On My Own

An obvious and obvious choice - but what to do, sometimes the answer is really under the lamp. A song that was able to illustrate the power of music and connect people, as illustrated by the famous New York audience's return from the performance of the Swedish singer, then burst together in collective and spontaneous singing and dance of this hit, a perfect blend of sounds and drums, melancholy and joy of life. "Dancing On My Own" was not about becoming a anthem, but rather organically, which is the secret of his power. This is also the power of art: one woman who danced alone wanted to tell her story, and found herself speaking in the voices of people from around the world she had never met and, at least for one evening, would no longer dance.

School of Seven Bells - The Night

In December 2013, just six years ago, he passed away from Benjamin Curtis, a school of guitarist from Saban Blass. Almost two years before, in February 2012, "Ghostory," the third album of this composition, came out of Brooklyn. Originally they were a threesome, on this album they were already a duo, and then in 2016 the last album was released under the name of Skull of Saban Blass, but there was only one left - Alejandra Deheza, Eli, who in the past was also Curtis' couple and they managed to break up and continue Work as friends. The 2016 album was a recent memorial to Curtis under his band name, including the latest materials he and Eli have created together.

Always when someone dies the things he did and wrote look like Gilad to go. "The Night" also makes such an impression. It's a song about a painful breakup, but the lyrics are almost like the lament of someone left behind, and when she sings "I'm in the same place you left me, honey," the heart is a little torn. Haunted by memories like ghosts, and hauntingly powerful with this beautiful song.

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