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There are pretty much three genres of music that are in my wheelhouse: '90s to early 2000s east coast hip hop (or hip hop that has that sound), movie score style classical/orchestral, and... weird stuff that's original but hard to define. Pull out an electric guitar and step on the distortion pedal, and I'm probably out. That being said, and thinking of songs over the last two decades that I've played on repeat all the way to work, I'll start with the song I've probably listened to the most in the target time frame (with a bit of recency bias). I want to burst through a fucking wall like Kool Aid every I hear this:

 

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I'm going to struggle for this thread to not become a Sigur Ros lovefest, as I fucking love this band. Trying to think of just their best songs post-2000 (which only excludes the first album), I'll start with the song that got me into them, heard during the final scene of Vanilla Sky:

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Tough choice, but probably the most played song off their next album:

 

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Then off the next album, easy choice is this song. I heard this for the first time while sitting in the balcony at this very show, and I was blown away:

 

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When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:

 

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Since a lot of my free time the last five years was spent building my shop, and a LOT of music was listened to late in the process, after there were working outlets and, eventually, a stereo, this list is going to be biased toward stuff that I discovered relatively recently. Here's one that I've probably listened to hundreds of times while working:

 

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This is definitely a "sing in the shower" song. If you're not me and can sing:

 

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Very recent acquisition, but it's absolutely perfect:

 

[biak1]

Since a lot of my free time the last five years was spent building my shop, and a LOT of music was listened to late in the process, after there were working outlets and, eventually, a stereo, this list is going to be biased toward stuff that I discovered relatively recently. Here's one that I've probably listened to hundreds of times while working:

Saw them live in Marymoor a couple years ago and they were awesome live.

 

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Edit: Party foul, too early.

 

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Okay, back to Sigur Ros:

 

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Another oft-repeated song if I wanted a dramatic score while doing mundane shop finishing tasks:

 

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Gotta get back to work. I'll get to the hip hop side of things when I get to it.

 

[YellowSnow]

TYFYS

 

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When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:

Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim

 

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When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:

Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim

Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:

Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim

Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.

I know it from the movie, nay film, Arrival. Hits my triggers.

 

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When I was building my shop, things got a lot more enjoyable once I had wired up a few outlets and could plug in some speakers and play some tunes while working. More than once, I played a version of this song that is extended to an hour long by repeating parts and looping:

Song damn near reduces me to tear everytim

Bending conduit, pulling and terminating wire, nailing and painting trim, plumbing, building shelves: didn't matter; just play On the Nature of Daylight on a loop, and tim flies by until I'm done.

I know it from the movie, nay film, Arrival. Hits my triggers.

Also where I first saw it.

You familiar with this one?

 

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Hip hop time. Goddamn, this was hard. FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE!

2000, I was still on automatic insta-buy for anything Wu-Tang or solo work. There are at least a hundred songs from the early 2000s that would be worthy of my top 20 list, but it would make for a boring list. I will say this: Early on in my Wu-Tang appreciation, I was mostly into Method Man and ODB. They had a unique voice, and their solo work was great. With the benefit of hindsight, Ghostface Killah has the deepest collection of fucking amazing solo work. Supreme Clientele released in 2000, and I won't post anything from that album because their was so much top tier shit on it that I can't choose. For the post-millennial Ghostface injection, I'll go with this one:

 

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Method Man's first album was by far his best, but damn if this track from Tical 0 isn't perfect:

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