uk

Scotland

List

The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
Son Of A Gun - The Vaselines
There's Got To Be Something - Ivor Cutler
Coming in from the Cold - The Delgados
Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
When I Argue I See Shapes - Idlewild
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops (7" Version) - Cocteau Twins
Inhale Exhale - Anna Meredith
The Conversation - SACRED PAWS
I Heard - Young Fathers
The Knight & the Shepherd's Daughter - Various Artists
Ashokan Farewell - Aly Bain, Jay Ungar
The Angel's Share - Calum Stewart
Morven Psalm 103: 13-14 - Live - Gaelic Psalm Singers, Calum Martin
Join Our Lusty Chorus - Alasdair Roberts
John Taylor's Month Away - King Creosote, Jon Hopkins
Fisherman's Blues - 2006 Remaster - The Waterboys
Week Off - Malcolm Middleton
Cocain - John Martyn
Jersey Thursday - Donovan
Theme For An Imaginary Western - Jack Bruce
Needle of Death - 2015 Remaster - Bert Jansch
Koeeoaddi There - 2010 Remaster - The Incredible String Band
Salters Road - Karine Polwart
Sailing - The Sutherland Brothers
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbit
This Is The Life - Amy Macdonald
Paper House - 2016 Remastered Version - The Associates
Consolation Prize - Orange Juice
As A Matter Of Fact - 7 Version - Spare Snare
Gilt Complex - Sons And Daughters
Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand
Just Like Honey - The Jesus and Mary Chain
Dry the Rain - The Beta Band
Push off My Wire (Bliss) - Lockah
Lost In Tokyo - Koreless
Flickering Debris - Lanark Artefax
Caramel - Konx-Om-Pax
Music Is Math - Boards of Canada
Ultra Thizz - Rustie
In My Arms - Mylo
£ - Proc Fiskal
Uh - Gasp
The Rumour - Andy Stewart
Òran an t-Saighdeir Ghàidhealaich - Kathleen MacInnes
Suspended From Class - Camera Obscura
The Leanover - Life Without Buildings
I Want You, But I Don't Need You - Momus
Dress Up in You - Belle & Sebastian
Where We've Left Our Love - Arab Strap
Christmas Steps - Mogwai

Resources

Hogg's "All that Ever Mattered"
Simon Reynold's "Rip it Up and Start Again".
jockrock.org
SAY Award

Also did a spillover playlist to catch the many characteristic but less loveable cuts.

England

Bristol

List

Hide U - Kosheen
Hellebore - Safetyword
Sour Times - Portishead
Holding On - Julio Bashmore, Sam Dew
Hi-Potent - Roni Size, Reprazent
We Are Time - BBC John Peel Session 1978 - The Pop Group
Shitkicker - Malachai
You're so Kool-Aid - Oliver Wilde
Hymn Of The Big Wheel - 2012 Mix/Master - Massive Attack
Juvenile Delinquent - Black Roots
Fire (Spotie) [feat. Busy Signal] - Jus Now, Dismantle, Busy Signal
Psychedelic Runway - Joker
Overcome - Tricky
An Even Harder Shade Of Dark - The Third Eye Foundation
My Evil Is Strong - Tricky
So Hot (Wash Away All Of My Tears) - Amp
My Dreaming Hill - Flying Saucer Attack
Katang - Zun Zun Egui
Brainfreeze - Fuck Buttons
Never Fight A Man With A Perm - IDLES
The Greatest Show on Earth - Strangelove
Rain Check - Sleeping States
Nicole - Gravenhurst
Without Permission - Caroline Martin
Summer Set - Mr. Acker Bilk & His Paramount Jazz Band

Resources

"Hit Factories", Karl Whitney

Leeds

List

Kennedy - The Wedding Present
Where Were You - Mekons
Space Is the Place - Spacehog
A Friend For Life - Boyracer
Not Great Men - Gang Of Four
Asylums In Jerusalem - 2001 Digital Remaster - Scritti Politti
Something Good '08 - Radio Edit - Utah Saints
Femme Retrospectif - Original Mix - Riley & Durrant
Second Shot - The Cassandra Complex
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - 7" Single Version - Soft Cell
Marian - Version - Sisters of Mercy
Wasteland - The Mission
A Steady Hand - I LIKE TRAINS
English White Boy Engineer - 1982-87 All The Singles And B-Sides - The Three Johns
My Favourite Dress - The Wedding Present
Bombay Stores Disco - Vibracathedral Orchestra

Resources

Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds

Sheffield

List

Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys
Do You Remember The First Time? - Pulp
Weekend Without Makeup - The Long Blondes
She Said - Longpigs
Goodnight - Babybird
The Time Is Now - Moloko
Poison Arrow - ABC
Seconds - Remaster 2002 - The Human League
Carnival Love - Toddla T, Miraa May
Vasto - Cabaret Voltaire
Hot on Heels of Love - Throbbing Gristle
Missing In Action - Comsat Angels
Photograph - Def Leppard
Run for Me - Richard Hawley
When I Go - Slow Club
This Forest - The Rheingans Sisters
Walk On Stalks Of Shattered Glass (Version) - Hula
Beep Street - Squarepusher
Third Stream Boogaloo - Derek Bailey

Resources

"Beats Working for a Living: The Story of Popular Music in Sheffield 1973-1984", Martin Lilleker
"Hit Factories", Karl Whitney

London

List

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
One Way Glass - Manfred Mann Chapter Three
Sweetness - Yes
Substitute - Single Version - The Who
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Mono Version - Status Quo
Tom Dooley - Lonnie Donegan
Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Noel Coward
Wonderful Land - The Shadows
Lazy Sunday - Small Faces
Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Breakthru - Queen
Stay - 2016 Remaster - David Bowie
Every 1's a Winner - Single Version - Hot Chocolate
Oh L'Amour - Erasure
It's a Sin - Pet Shop Boys
Fuck You - Lily Allen
Scandalous - U.S. Radio Edit - Mis-Teeq
Push The Button - Sugababes
Stronger Than You - Estelle
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx, Lisa Kekaula
Losing Haringey - The Clientele
Boy From School - Hot Chip
Streatham - Dave
I Luv U - Dizzee Rascal
6 In The Morning - Wiley
Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva
Back To Africa - Aswad
Shimmy Shimmy Ya - Prince Fatty, Horseman
Incredible - M-Beat, General Levy
Original Nuttah 25 - Uk Apache, SHY FX
Korals - Call Super
Summer Dreams - Skream
Kindred - Burial
SW9 9SL - Four Tet
VCR - The xx
A&E - Inga Copeland
Salvador - Jamie T
Take Me I'm Yours - Squeeze
Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 - Ian Dury, The Blockheads
Another Girl, Another Planet - 2008 re-mastered version - The Only Ones
King Of Pain - The Police
14 Hour Technicolour Dream - The Syn
Cat Black - Marc Bolan
The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To The Neo-Stalinist Regime) - Scott Walker
Are 'Friends' Electric? - Gary Numan, Tubeway Army
Two Doors Down - Mystery Jets
Helicopter - Bloc Party
Connection - Elastica
Animal Nitrate - Suede
French Disko - Stereolab
Garageland - Remastered - The Clash
Get Bent - Fresh
Love And Romance - The Slits
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Asteroid - Killing Joke
Motorhead - Live In England 1981 - Motörhead
Asylum - Crass
At the Tree I Shall Sufferr - Johann Christoph Pepusch
Retire My Soul - William Byrd, Stile Antico
Abdelazer: Rondeau - Henry Purcell
No. 3, Larghetto "Van Dieman's Land" - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Il Pleure (At The Turn Of The Century) - The Art Of Noise
I Talk To The Wind - King Crimson
Anji - Davy Graham
The Origin of the World - Blowzabella
Between the Wars - Billy Bragg
Change Our Destiny - Maxi Jazz & The E-Type Boys
Abusey Junction - Kokoroko
Silk - Wolf Alice
20 Seconds to Comply - Silver Bullet
London Life - Meatraffle
Back Side Of The Moon - The Orb
To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra, Patrick Watson

Resources

Manchester

List

Psycle Sluts - 48 Chairs
Autonomy - Buzzcocks
First of the Gang to Die - Morrissey
Mathematics - Cherry Ghost
A Song For The Lovers - Richard Ashcroft
Baiser - Chris Sievey
To You - Remastered - I Am Kloot
Cloudy Lemonade - Alfie
Stone on the Water - Badly Drawn Boy
Cause a Rockslide - Badly Drawn Boy
A Song From Under The Floorboards - Magazine
Who Works The Weather - The Great leap Forward
Made of Stone - Remastered - The Stone Roses
Reverend Black Grape - Black Grape
Laid - James
This Is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
5 8 6 - 2020 Digital Master - New Order
Pacific 202 - 808 State
Bike - Autechre
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald
Feel Something - Holy Other
No Reptiles - Everything Everything
I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it - The 1975
Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) [feat. Melanie Williams] - Sub Sub, Melanie Williams
Dus' - Brassy
Hit the North Part 1 - The Fall
Working And Shopping - Tools You Can Trust
Suspended Sentence - John Cooper Clarke
I Believe - Buzzcocks
Warsaw - 2010 Remaster - Joy Division
Blindness - The Fall
rat poison - Superqueens
Fireplace - Kiran Leonard
Childlike Faith In Childhood's End - Van Der Graaf Generator
Winter Hill - A Certain Ratio
Debra - Big Flame
Down in Outer Space - Spaceheads
Numb - Andy Stott
Cichli - Autechre

Resources

Too many

Liverpool

List

Call Me Mr Demolition Ball - Hot Club De Paris
Come Back - The Mighty Wah!
Fault Lines - SPQR
Lazarus - The Boo Radleys
Little Black Numbers - Remastered - Kathryn Williams
A Country Practice - Half Man Half Biscuit
Two To Birkenhead - Bill Ryder-Jones
Enola Gay (Peel Session 2) - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Playgirl - Ladytron
Jokin' Me - Stealing Sheep
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub - Apollo 440
Come Into Our Room - Clinic
Blossoms Falling - Ooberman
The Ballad of Tom Jones - Space
Love of the Loved - Cilla Black
Wondrous Place - Billy Fury
What a Way to End It All - Deaf School
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Gerry & The Pacemakers
Cavern Stomp - The Big Three
Arty's Wife - Mike Hart
Something - The Beatles
Jealous Guy - John Lennon
What Is Life - George Harrison
Coming Up - Live At Glasgow - Paul McCartney
Dreaming of You - The Coral
Nothing's Real but Love - Rebecca Ferguson
The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
Shorley Wall - Ooberman
Went to Town - Rooney
Yes...That's Positive - a.P.A.t.T.
Sunburnt Impedance Machine - Mugstar
Blow My Mind - International Pony Rmx - Deejay Punk-Roc, International Pony
Liverpool Medley - The Real Thing
I Wish I Could Talk in Technicolor - Wired to Follow
Tsintskaro - Capac
For What Is Chatteris... - Half Man Half Biscuit
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train) - Half Man Half Biscuit
Twenty Four Hour Garage People - Half Man Half Biscuit
Floreat Inertia - Half Man Half Biscuit
Surging Out Of Convalescence - Half Man Half Biscuit

Resources


Brighton

List

I’m On Fire - Electrelane
Get It Together - The Go! Team
Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
I Wish I Was Someone Better - Blood Red Shoes
7 Seconds - Porridge Radio
The Bay - Metronomy
Humble - Ren, Eden Nash
Love On My Mind (feat. Amanda Wilson) - Freemasons, Amanda Wilson
Get So ill - Krafty Kuts
Weapon Of Choice - Fatboy Slim, Olodum
Weapon Of Choice (feat. Bootsy Collins) - Remastered Version - Fatboy Slim, Bootsy Collins
Days To Come - Bonobo, Bajka
September '99 - Phats & Small Remix - Earth, Wind & Fire, Phats & Small
When I Was A Youngster - Rizzle Kicks
Impossible Objects of Desire (Radio Edit) - Fujiya & Miyagi
Mannie - 12mind, TME
Post Punk Progression - Cut La Roc
Infinite Wave - Slugabed
C'est la Vie - Magicofficialtmc
Ideologically Unsound - Poison Girls
The Jinx - Peter and the Test Tube Babies
Waiting For The Winter - The Popguns
English Girls - Animal House
Skepticism - Dove House
What a Beautiful Day - Remastered Version - Levellers
Island - Fear of Men
Two Wooden Spoons - Emma Gatrill
That Certain Feeling - Percival Mackey
Lights Out - NEON SAINTS Brass Band
Brighton "Symphony of A City" I — Ed Hughes

Resources


Wales

List

Are You with Me Now? - Cate le Bon
The Taxi - Young Marble Giants
Throwing Bricks At Trains - Future Of The Left
Mulder and Scully - Catatonia
La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh) - Manic Street Preachers
Fire in My Heart - Super Furry Animals
Just a Day - Edit - Feeder
You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos!
Hanky Panky Nohow - John Cale
Jêl Caerdydd - Calan
Ym Pontypridd mae 'nghariad - Yr Hwntws
Without You - Remastered 2010 - Badfinger
98.6 - The Bystanders
Back into the Future - Man
Break the Chain - Gene Loves Jezebel
Finished Symphony - Deadmau5 Remix - Hybrid, deadmau5
Jumbo - Underworld
She Will Only Bring You Happiness - Mclusky
Diamonds Are Forever - Shirley Bassey
Blerwytirhwng? - Super Furry Animals

Resources

The Roots of Rock, from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back, Peter Finch

'Blerwytirhwng?' the place of Welsh pop music, Sarah Hill

Welshnot blog

Music Blog Wales blog


Northern Ireland

List

Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
This Is a Test - Oppenheimer
If It's Not You - Language of Flowers
Bring On the Sunshine - The Moondogs
Gay - StoneFish
Shining Light - Ash
Rock Club - The Dangerfields
Screamager - Therapy?
Needle In The Groove - Pat McManus
Honeychild - Ghost Of An American Airman
Beside You - 1999 Remaster - Van Morrison
Here Comes the Night - Them
Revolving Doors - Meilana Gillard
Hey Lisa - David Holmes
Neo-Geocities - The Host
the belll - the olllam
The Summerhouse - The Divine Comedy

Resources


americas

Brazil

List

Irene - Caetano Veloso
Off And On - Moacir Santos
A Minha Menina - Os Mutantes
Mistério do Planeta - Novos Baianos
Glória - Tom Zé, Os Brazoes
Quero Sambar Meu Bem - Tom Zé
Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes
Preta Pretinha - Novos Baianos
Cravo E Canela - Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges
Águas De Março - Elis Regina, Antônio Carlos Jobim
Choro #1 - Bola Sete
Canto de Ossanha - Baden Powell
Ratamahatta - Sepultura
Inner Self - 2020 Remaster - Sepultura
Endangered Species - Sepultura
Não Vá Se Perder Por Aí - Os Mutantes
O Estrangeiro - Caetano Veloso

Resources

Canada

List

Myriad Harbour - The New Pornographers
You Oughta Know - 2015 Remaster - Alanis Morissette
Critics - Gay
Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene
Jealous Of Your Cigarette - Hawksley Workman
No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
This Lamb Sells Condos - Owen Pallett
Alcohol - Barenaked Ladies
Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
California - Joni Mitchell
Miss Chatelaine - k.d. lang
Mushaboom - Feist
I Was A Daughter - Basia Bulat
Light Of Loving - Faith Healer
Freewill - Rush
Dear Coach's Corner - Propagandhi
Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black) - Neil Young
Running On Nothing - Fucked Up
Fuck the Pain Away - Peaches
Feel Infinite - Jacques Greene
Es-so - Tune-Yards
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Kid Koala, Money Mark
In Red - Azeda Booth
Idlewild - Julia Kent
Duration Part One - Sixtoo
Duration Part Two - Sixtoo
Duration Part Three - Sixtoo
The righteous wrath of an honorable man - Colin Stetson
Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Resources


America

One per state could be cool.

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France

List

Ça me vexe - Mademoiselle K.
D.A.N.C.E - Justice
Rectangle - Jacno
Pipornithology, Pt. II - Chassol
Run Into Flowers - M83
Cut Dick - Mr. Oizo
Les Professionnels - Air
End of the World - Stanley Brinks
La foule - Édith Piaf
Le déserteur - Boris Vian
Tous les garçons et les filles - Françoise Hardy
Agathe ou Christie - Christie Laume
Et maintenant - Gilbert Bécaud
Mr Patrick - Philippe Katerine
Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille - Jacques Dutronc
La Seine - Extrait de la bande originale un monstre à Paris - Vanessa Paradis, -M-
Crebe de chet - André Ricros, Louis Sclavis Quartet, Alain Gibert
Marions les roses (chant de quête) - Malicorne
Les cigognes nénuphars - Forever Pavot
The Drowned Girl - Yann Tiersen
New-York avec toi - Remasterisé en 2015 - Téléphone
Poney Pt. I - Vitalic
Rough Sex - Lords Of Acid
Tour Du Monde - Aquaserge
Pump - Jackson And His Computer Band
Arcades - C2C
Daniel Darc - Abd Al Malik
Pinacle - Lucio Bukowski, Oster Lapwass, Anton Serra
Karaté - Yelle
I Love Ma Guitare - Rinôçérôse
Tot und Hoch - Heimat
Antisocial - Trust
Back to Heldon - Heldon
The Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child
Ork alarm - Magma
Lumière Blanche Schneeturm - Ulan Bator
Flying Whales - Gojira
De Motu Pendulorum - Lightwave
Dopees - Dorine Muraille
Short Circuit - Daft Punk
Veridis Quo - Daft Punk

Resources

Query "albums de la décennie" was my way in.

Germany

List

These Days - Nico Creole Love Call - Comedian Harmonists Sunny - Boney M. Hier kommt Alex - Die Toten Hosen Männer - Remastered 2016 - Herbert Grönemeyer Hallogallo - NEU! You're so Cool (Main Title) - Hans Zimmer Burning - The Whitest Boy Alive Blaue Augen - Ideal Radioactivity - 2009 Remaster - Kraftwerk Major Tom - Coming Home - Peter Schilling Forever Young - 2019 Remaster - Alphaville The Power - SNAP! Pogo - Digitalism Hearts - L.S.G. Fertilized - Mouse On Mars, Cavern of Anti-Matter Dickes B (feat. Black Kappa) - Seeed, Black Kappa Iris/Retinal Scanning - Der Zyklus Freeze - Klaus Schulze The Light 3000 - Schneider TM, KPT.Michi.Gan Masimbabele - The Unknown Cases Pius in Tacet - Pantha Du Prince Dawn - Deuter Flowers For Yulia - Max Richter The Garden - Einstürzende Neubauten Schön von Hinten - Stereo Total TV-GLOTZER (WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE) - Nina Hagen Eine Eigene Geschichte - Blumfeld Mack the Knife - Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Roger Bean Love On A Real Train - Tangerine Dream Return To Innocence - Enigma She Brings the Rain - CAN The Sad Skinhead - Faust Ah! - Popol Vuh Knifflige Fragen - Air Liquide Revolution Action - Atari Teenage Riot Soap Shop Rock - Live - Amon Düül II

Resources


Italy

List

Pelle Di Luna - Piero Umiliani
Se telefonando - Mina
Maracaibo - Lu Colombo
Luglio, agosto, settembre (nero) - Area
O Cessate Di Piagarmi - Alessandro Scarlatti, Nora Fischer
Corale - Leggenda Del Re Infelice - Fabrizio De André
Tu vuo' fa l'americano - Renato Carosone
Via con me - Paolo Conte
Stormi - Radio Edit - Iosonouncane
Fiore mio - Andrea Laszlo De Simone
Girlfriend - Mind Enterprises
The Shape Of Trance To Come - Lorenzo Senni
Faces - Prod. Roberto Ferrante - Clio
Knights in White Satin - Remastered - Giorgio Moroder
Tina, Are You Ready? - Valentine
Imago - Daniele Baldelli
Komodo - Mauro Picotto
Beta - Franco Battiato
Bologna Rock - Confusional Quartet
Madhouse - Jennifer Gentle
Io Sto Bene - CCCP – Fedeli Alla Linea
Start a Fight - Raw Power
Stomp - Uzeda
Jone - Banda Ionica
Ballate a ballu tundu - Tenores Di Bitti
Tarantella calabrese - Daniele Sepe
Impressioni di Settembre - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Sospesi nell'oblio - Squadra Omega
La mente vola - Alphataurus
Fantas - Caterina Barbieri
Ostia - Zu
Stigma - Ufomammut
Iniziare - Alessandro Cortini
Ecstasy of Gold - Ennio Morricone, Yo-Yo Ma, Roma Sinfonietta
"Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Anvil Chorus) - Giuseppe Verdi
Le Ultime Parole Di Brandimante - Le Stelle Di Mario Schifano

Resources


Netherlands

List

Valse De La Bourgeoisie - Willem Breuker
Kid's Allright - Bettie Serveert
Always Share - Daryll-Ann
Pick Up - Solex
Prayer for My Demo - Urban Dance Squad
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! - Vengaboys
Better Off Alone - Alice DJ
Magik Journey - Radio Edit - Tiësto
War Chant (Marcel Dettmann Edit) - mixed - Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia, Marcel Dettmann
We Are You in the Future - Martyn
Chrono - Remastered Version - DJ Hidden
J'espere Ca - Machinefabriek
If the Hat Fits the Suit - The Ex
Once I Was a Lady - Lucky Fonz III
It's Time - Dog Faced Hermans
For All Slaves A Song Of False Hope II - Gnaw Their Tongues
Ursonate (1986): Erster Teil - Jaap Blonk

Resources


Estonia

List

Sa Haara Kinni Mu Käest - Tõnis Mägi
Tere Perestroika - J.M.K.E.
Upa-Upa Ubinakõnõ - Tuulikki Bartosik, Ramo Teder, Mari Kalkun
Õdangule - Maarja Nuut
Kauges külas - Curly Strings
Maa Hing (The Earth Soul) - Triinu Taul
Ära koo mu käpikuisse päikest - Tallinna Tehnikaülikooli Kammerkoor
Ilus Ole/Be fair - RÜÜT
(In the End) There's Only Love - Ewert and the Two Dragons
Mets Neidude Vahel - Collage
Change (Ballad of Barbie & Ken) - Röövel Ööbik
21.04 - Lootus
Kaks vööd - Remix - Bill Wells, Imandra Lake
Piccadilly At Night - Jimmy Roqsta
Ma Tahaksin Kodus Olla - Mari Kalkun
Kaes On Aeg - Velly Joonas
Buoyant March - Ratkiller
Langeb Tähti Sülle - Hypnosaurus
Last Night - Andres Lõo
Fish Sticks Rhapsody - Estrada Orchestra
X-RAY - Tommy Cash
Hingede Öö - Maria Minerva
Don't They Know - Mart Avi
Karolini Lugu Nr 1 - Nagy Bögö
Estonian Lullaby - Veljo Tormis, Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble
Sonata for Solo Violin - Eduard Tubin, Frank Almond
Looduspildid - Veljo Tormis, musica intima
Für Alina - Arvo Pärt, Alexander Malter

Resources


Latvia

List

Lidojums Uz Sauli - Ingus Baušķenieks
Riņķa deja (Krievu rulete) - rolands če
Rock On The Ice - Zodiaks
Ārā - Bērnības milicija
Svētku Diena - Turaidas Roze
Ezers - Haralds Sīmanis
Viņi Dejoja Vienu Vasaru - Menuets
La bataille de neige - Domenique Dumont
Pie Baltas Lapas - Perkons
Baltā Haizivs - Hospitāļu iela
Es šodien jūku prātā - Imants Kalniņš, Renārs Kaupers
Nepārmet man - Ojārs Grīnbergs, Margarita Vilcāne
Jel dod man bučiņ’ - Žoržs Siksna
Piena Ceļš - Ieva Akuratere
Mīlestība skaitās - Ainars Mielavs
Ancient Prairie - Ēriks Ešenvalds, State Choir Latvija, Māris Sirmais, Ilze Zariņa
The Heavens' Flock - Ēriks Ešenvalds, Paulann Petersen, Portland State University Chamber Choir, Ethan Sperry
Jāņu Mātes Pagalmā - Laiksne
Pārāk Jauna - Singapūras Satīns
Kauguri 1998 - ansis, Oriole

Hungary

List

Gay Hussar - Agaskodo Teliverek
Gyöngyhajú lány - Omega
Muro Shavo Kiki - Ternipe
Ha Szívedben Sok A Bánat - Fonó zenekar
Dob + Basszus - hiperkarma
San Franciscan Nights - Gábor Szabó
Khade Sukar - How Beautiful - Parno Graszt
Budapest - Tamás Cseh
Szerelem, szerelem (Love, Love) - Márta Sebestyén
Hidegen fujnak a szelek (Cold Winds Are Blowing) - Muzsikás
Húsrágó Hídverő - Kispál és a Borz
Kamikaze - A.E. Bizottsag
Kereszteslovag - Mini
Garbage Pail Crocodile - Agaskodo Teliverek
Én Már Nem - Szabó Balázs Bandája
The Atheist - True Anomaly Balearic Remix - Corvin Dalek
Ohne Chanteuse - Yonderboi
Eső, Pt. 2 - From "Sátántangó" - Vig Mihály
Kabócák, Bodobácsok - Thy Catafalque
Tsitsushka - Thy Catafalque
Bilder infor drommarna och doden — Akos Rozmann
Totentanz, S. 525 - Franz Liszt
Roumanian Folk Dances For Orchestra, Sz. 68 - Béla Bartók
Babylon - Sándor Szabó, Michael Manring, Balazs Major
A csitári hegyek alatt - Anita Csóka
Lontano - György Ligeti
Kapolcs Riado (Kapolcs Alarm): No. 3. Kapolcs riado (Kapolcs Alarm) - István Márta

Resources

Spain

List

O Tren - Andrés Do Barro
Gloria - Nosoträsh
Gente De Mierda - PUTOCHINOMARICÓN
In Spain We Call It Soledad - Rigoberta Bandini
Me Voy de Casa - Tequila
Tirando Piedras al Río - Miguel Abuelo, Nada
La Zona Fantasma - Aviador Dro
Resistiré - Estela Raval
The Boys of Summer - DJ Sammy
Bailando - Alaska Y Los Pegamoides
Sunshine - John Talabot
Hay un Hombre en España - Astrud
Me Maten - C. Tangana, Antonio Carmona
Desaparecido - Manu Chao
Un Veneno - C. Tangana, Niño de Elche
¿Por Qué Me Tengo Yo Que Enamorar? - Los Fresones Rebeldes
Mejor - Los Brincos
Rock and Roll Star - 2017 Remaster - Loquillo
Mediterraneo - Joan Manuel Serrat
Algo Personal (with Calle 13) - Joan Manuel Serrat, Calle 13
Dos Días - Lucas Masciano
Bipolaridad - Señor Mostaza
Antillas - El Guincho
Alma de Cantaora - Amparo Sánchez, La Abuela Margarita
Santa Leone - Pájaro
Entre Dos Aguas - Paco de Lucía
La Facienda - Mariluz Cristóbal Caunedo, Lliberdón
Asturias (Leyenda) - Isaac Albéniz, Simon Dinnigan
Spanish Dance No. 1 - Manuel de Falla, Itzhak Perlman, David Garvey
Moscú Está Helado - Esplendor Geométrico
La Revolución Sexual - La Casa Azul
Hazme una Perdida - Tremenda Jauría
Agentina 2 - Pablo 0 - Coconot
Garden - Hinds
Sol - Guillermine
Miss Ántropa - Estrogenuinas
Dope and Love - Tokyo Sex Destruction
Two Questions - Aina
Euphoria Under water - The Unfinished Sympathy
Di No al Speed - Sin Dios, Intolerance
Máquinas de Producción - Escuela de Odio
Con Sangre de Quien te Ofenda - Orthodox
Un cercle autour du soleil - Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Bruno Duplant
Absurd Summer, No.2 - Koji Asano

Resources


Portugal

List

Dantza Con Noivos - Kepa Junkera, Julio Pereira
Ai meu amor se bastasse - Aldina Duarte
Trângulo Mângulo - Gaiteiros de Lisboa
Com Um Brilhozinho Nos Olhos - Sergio Godinho
Faro Luso - Julio Pereira
Maria Albertina - Humanos
Acordas P'la Manhã - Peste & Sida
O corpo é que paga - António Variações
Dia Mau - Ornatos Violeta
MPTS - Branko, PEDRO
Problem Number 6 - Bruno Pernadas
Coral de Recife - Montanhas Azuis
Demagogia - Lena d’Água
Ayrton Senna - Norberto Lobo
Fon-Fon-Fon - Deolinda
Mudam-se os Tempos, Mudam-se as Vontades - José Mário Branco
Rio-me de Janeiro - They're Heading West, JP Simões
Ouvi Dizer - Ornatos Violeta
Não Posso Mais - Pedro Abrunhosa
Rua Nova da Piedade - Gabriel Ferrandini
The Primal Word - Rodrigo Amado
Wave Field - Radio edit - Rafael Toral
Crimine - Nuno Canavarro

Resources


Finland

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Ukraine

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russia

asia

Japan

List

Rydeen - YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA
Only You - Hakushi Hasegawa
君じゃなきゃダメみたい - Masayoshi Oishi
veloceでまた会いましょう - New oil deals
Fire Brain - Kroi
The Micro Disneycal World Tour - Cornelius
多分、風。 - Sakanaction
Ai No Yume feat. YASUAKI SHIMIZU - FPM
うたのけはい - Ichiko Aoba
4:00A.M. - Taeko Onuki
さくらんぼ - Ai Otsuka
LITTLE BUSTERS - the pillows
ロックンロールは鳴り止まないっ - 2015remaster - Shinsei Kamattechan
Linda Linda - Japanese - Drinking Boys and Girls Choir
LOVE Zukkyun - Soutaiseiriron
Soranin - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
Haiku - The Mops
I Wanna Eat Chocobars - Shonen Knife
Melon Soda - tricot
ストラトキャスター・シーサイド - Suspended 4th
Amamizu - Masakatsu Takagi
Uruku Tumi Gushiku (Mimura Bushi) - Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman
Jing Jing - Shokichi Kina
Koza Renka - Takashi Hirayasu
島人ぬ宝 - BEGIN
月は東に日は西に - Tokyo Kid Brothers
Gloomy Reflections - Shinki Chen
Remember Love (Bonus Track) - John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Don’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow) - Yoko Ono
TEEVEE - Hiroshi Yoshimura
King Dragonfly - Susumu Yokota
獣ゆく細道 - Sheena Ringo, Hiroji Miyamoto
カリソメ乙女 - DEATH JAZZ ver. - Sheena Ringo, Soil & "Pimp" Sessions
IOA - OOIOO
Woman On The Screen - Boris
Pop Sicle - High Rise
LONG SEASON - Fishmans
Between 7:50 - 8:05 PM - Taj Mahal Travellers
Satori Part II - Flower Travellin' Band
Marrakech - Ghost
Amnesia - Sigh
Wasan - J A Caesar
A Speeding Car - MONO

Missing on Spotify: Yuka C Honda, Shiki no Uta, OORUTAICHI, Katamari, that one track from GITS, this version of 'Linne'.

Resources

Ian Martin's blog
Kato David Hopkins' book
Japrocksampler by the mighty, unreliable Julian Cope. More likely his top 50.
Scaruffi on the weirder stuff.
Various skronk-heavy lists from Reddit
The Spotify Sound of Japanese [X] playlists are surprisingly bad. I don't think I got any cuts from any of the 10 lists.

Mainland China

List

沙漠足跡 - 劉瑞鄭
Ass Hole, I'm Not Your Baby - Hang On The Box
Wings of Light - RUI HO
Machine It (Shirobon Remix) - Sulumi
Fat Girl Slim Boy - Hard Queen
爱河 - DJ - DJ王展鹏
Arp Kicks - Gooooose
Enter the Tigerwoods - Howie Lee
三十年 - Shanren
Sunny Spring and White Snow - Red Chamber
Flower (Yi Zhi Hua) - Zhou Dongchao
落木 (Luo Mu) - Zhaoze
暢打腔 - Xiao He
哆嗦哆 - 木推瓜
钢铁是怎样没有炼成的 - 木推瓜
七次機會 - 吹萬
422189 - Zslo
我昨晚夢見你了 - 輕描淡寫
Revolution is only a sad illusion - Li Jianhong

Resources

Julian Lee's obsessive pages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXVLwNkw84Q
https://radiichina.com/2010s-best-chinese-music-record-labels/
https://outofbookmill.tumblr.com/post/106335558268/the-beastly-archives-an-anthology-of-essaysby

Not totally satisfied with this one, even though I went as deep as I think you can while not being there.

Hong Kong

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Resources


Pretty thin. I am probably missing two or three sub-scenes with more good stuff.

Taiwan

List

Resources



oceania

Australia

List

The Throne of Agony - Scraping Foetus off the Wheel
The Divine Chord - The Avalanches
Solitude Is Bliss - Tame Impala
Got It Bad - LEISURE
Clap Your Hands - Sia
I Believe in You - Kylie Minogue
Bleeding Heart - Mia Dyson
You've Lost Me There - Cardinal
Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats
From St. Kilda to Kings Cross - Paul Kelly
Marco Polo Suite - The Cannanes
Don't Leave - Ben Lee
The Ship Song - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
This One Eats Souls - The Blackeyed Susans
Country High - Ticket
Was There Anything I Could Do? - Remastered - The Go-Betweens
Lights & Music - Cut Copy
Addicted to Bass - Puretone
Talk It Out - Matt Corby, Tash Sultana
Ride - Baker Boy, Yirrmal
Never Be Like You - Flume, kai
HyperParadise - Flume Remix - Hermitude
! (The Song Formerly Known As) - Regurgitator
Metal Dance - Spk
Corporate Anthem Part 1 - Soma
God's Buzzsaw - Ya Ya Choral
I Feel a Song Coming On - Essendon Airport
Mother Who's That Man? - Clitoris
Annie Run Run Run - The Orange Humble Band
Too Hip To Stumble (& Too Straight To Fall) - James Griffin
Hold On - Darren Hanlon
The Orange Tree - Cathie O'Sullivan
Hey Rain - PENNY DAVIES & ROGER ILOTT
Waru - Apakatjah
Not Like I Was Doing Anything - The Cat's Miaow
Music Is Crap - Custard
Turnstyle - Sodastream
don't tell me - Feedtime
Amoxycillin - Magic Dirt
Tojo - Hoodoo Gurus
You Are Not My Friend - Frenzal Rhomb
Life to Go (Landsakes) - Died Pretty
Covered in Chrome - Violent Soho
Eastside Stories - Underground Lovers
Sonny's Burning - The Birthday Party
Motherless Children - The Drones
Carry Me Home - The Living End
Friends Of Mrs. S - Jackie Orszaczky, Graham Morgan, Peter Jones, John Robinson
I Offered It Up to the Stars and the Night Sky - Dirty Three

Resources

Chapter Music
Scaruffi as ever, as ever
Loads and loads of Spotify playlists to mine too.



Caveats

Alright, so it is weird to do one list for all of Brazil (pop. 210m) and one for Bristol (pop 0.6m). I welcome contributions from scholars of the music of Feira de Santana (or indeed from any place on earth).

My selection from non-Anglophone countries will be biased towards obviousness and against wit. I forgive a gifted lyricist almost anything (for instance, I love early Mountain Goats), and I mostly can’t here.

Most countries seem to have local Indie Gods: Tragically Hip (Canada), Microdisney (Ireland). Mostly don’t survive leaving their context.



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