20 songs that bring me joy

[adevyish]

From heathensquirrel:

Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the ‘best’ songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul.

I also made myself include only one song per anime series.

• Sakamoto Maaya / Platinum
  • Starting off with one of my favourite artists and anime!
• Kokia / tell tell Bouzu
  • I barely remember the soccer anime that this was from, but love this song still.
• Yonekura Chihiro / Yakusoku no Basho e
  • This is partly down to nostalgia, but it is a great song.
• Koizumi Kouhei / Chance
  • Nipponsei’s rotation introduced me to this one.
• Round Table feat. Nino / Let Me Be With You
  • If it’s been on the same CLAMP compilation but it’s a different artist and anime I’m safe. Shh.
• Sakanoue Yousuke / Super Drive
  • This is 100% down to nostalgia.
• Oishi Shuichiro & Kikumaru Eiji / Type wa D!
  • The intro brings me instant shippy joy! And then Oishi and Eiji sing to each other! The best song.
• Perfume / Electro World
  • Loved this song and then didn’t get into Perfume until years later, haha.
• Gabrielle / Nattergal
  • Another ship song :)))
• kors k / smooooch・∀・
  • A Beatmania classic.
• Hikita Tomoko with Babbit-tai / Daijo-bu
  • The anime ending.
• chicochair / tonight/midnight
  • Another one I’m blaming on Nipponsei.
• Weiß kreuz / I Do (Remix)
  • (Turn your audio down, this one’s a bit loud.)
• Said the Whale / I Love You
  • Sometimes you fall in love at concerts. With songs.
• Simon & Garfunkel / Late in the Evening
  • A classic concert and a classic song.
• Kinoko Teikoku / You outside my window
  • The j-indie shoegaze gateway song.
• Stars / What I’m Trying to Say
  • *picks a random song from the definitive Stars album*
• One Direction / No Control
  • Harry is about to break his neck bopping to this, and so am I!
• Shimokawa Mikuni / tomorrow
  • Funny story about this song: I also was introduced to it by the Nipponsei rotation, and didn’t like it at all! Several months later I caught Full Metal Panic on TV and my mind was changed.
• Luna Sea / Wish
  • I’m wishing for, kon’ya yoru ni wa!

Conclusion: I get more joy from songs I’ve been listening to for decades more than recent songs — Piplup Step and NELN both were cut from this. And also I get less joy from great joke songs than I thought (Bullet Train, Akamaru Dash’s udon song).

Comments

[superborb]

I feel like if it's going to be 'stirs your soul' level, it has to be something that's stood the test of time! So it makes sense that it would skew older...

[adevyish]

It does! I thought my recency bias for music would take over but it did not.