“There’s no good music anymore”
After hearing too many people say that the heyday of good music is over, I had the obvious response: I created a playlist:
- 219 songs from 219 artists, all released in the last 10 years
- Note that this does include older artists that have made new songs
- Spotify says 237 genres are represented, but there really is not THAT much variety
So, if you feel like there’s no good music anymore, I hope you find something new to like. I believe great music has always been created, but it was never as easy to find as it is today. But it’s also easy to get into a rut and finding new music takes time!
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A searchable and sortable list of all songs:
| Artist | Track |
|---|---|
| Maggie Rogers | Light On |
| Milky Chance | Stolen Dance |
| Quinn XCII | Stay Next To Me (with Chelsea Cutler) |
| P!nk | Cover Me In Sunshine |
| Ten Fé | Coasting |
| José González | Leaf Off / The Cave |
| Green Day | Oh Love – Otis Big Guitar Mix |
| Kodaline | Everyone Changes |
| Rita Ora | Your Song |
| Phosphorescent | Song for Zula |
| DISPATCH | Curse + Crush |
| Jordy Searcy | Dark in the City |
| Math and Physics Club | Thank God I Met You |
| Sofi Tukker | Best Friend (feat. NERVO, The Knocks & ALISA UENO) |
| Massive Attack | Ritual Spirit |
| Becca Mancari | Hunter |
| Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | Ohio |
| Ratatat | Cream On Chrome |
| BANKS | Beggin For Thread |
| Charlie Puth | Mother |
| TOLEDO | Sunday Funday |
| Boys Noize | Affection |
| Skott | Evergreen |
| lovelytheband | broken |
| Phil Good | Sleeping In |
| Nathan Micay | Conga Album |
| Sarah McLachlan | In Your Shoes |
| BROODS | Peach |
| iamamiwhoami | fountain |
| Andrew Belle | Many Lives |
| Telekinesis | Sleep In |
| Collective Soul | Smile |
| Dzihan & Kamien | 99 – Instrumental |
| Very Nice Person | When the Sun Explodes |
| Vampire Weekend | Harmony Hall |
| Four Tet | Dreamer |
| Noga Erez | Off the Radar |
| Katy Perry | Roar |
| First Aid Kit | It’s a Shame |
| Sia | The Greatest |
| Matt Lange | Ordinary Love – The Crystal Method Remix |
| Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs | The Distance |
| Brett Dennen | Kumbaya, Life Rolls On |
| A Great Big World | Hold Each Other |
| Sara Bareilles | Brave |
| Charlie Cunningham | Minimum |
| blink-182 | Happy Days |
| Parachute | Without You |
| Weezer | Feels Like Summer |
| OneRepublic | Sunshine |
| Tycho | Awake |
| The Crystal Method | Moment Of Truth |
| Royal Teeth | Wild |
| Benjamin Gibbard | Proxima B |
| Anna Straker | Good Days Bad Days – Golden Days Remix |
| The Struts | Kiss This |
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 |
| Foals | Mountain at My Gates |
| Stand Atlantic | hair out |
| Frou Frou | Close Up |
| Måneskin | SUPERMODEL |
| Train | Lost and Found |
| Danny Black | Cascade |
| Lewis Del Mar | Painting (Masterpiece) |
| Kesha | Learn To Let Go |
| Bush | More Than Machines |
| Grouplove | Ways to Go |
| CHVRCHES | Graffiti |
| Nothing But Thieves | Trip Switch |
| The Head And The Heart | Missed Connection |
| Lael Neale | Every Star Shivers in the Dark |
| Yasmin Williams | Restless Heart |
| Sons Of Maria | Sweet Madness |
| Ray Laurél | MANIC PIXIE DREAM BOY |
| The Naked And Famous | Higher |
| HEALTH | STONEFIST – BOYS NOIZE x HEALTH x EMPRESS OF :: STONEFIST RMX |
| Dave Matthews Band | Do You Remember |
| Fleet Foxes | Can I Believe You |
| Matilda Mann | Paper Mache World |
| El Ten Eleven | Reverie |
| Tara George | No More |
| SACHI | Lift Off |
| Foster The People | Sit Next to Me |
| Imagine Dragons | Rise Up |
| Of Monsters and Men | Wolves Without Teeth |
| The Revivalists | Wish I Knew You |
| Phoebe Ryan | Mine |
| Jade Bird | Headstart |
| Rachel Platten | Fight Song |
| Young the Giant | Superposition |
| Kygo | Born To Be Yours |
| Gabrielle Aplin | Kintsugi |
| MS MR | Hurricane |
| Glass Animals | Life Itself |
| Alanis Morissette | Reasons I Drink |
| Vance Joy | Georgia |
| Jai Wolf | Lost (feat. Chelsea Jade) |
| Clams Casino | I’m God |
| The Black Keys | Wild Child |
| Isla Noon | I Need to Go Home |
| Tori Amos | Speaking With Trees |
| Ross Copperman | Stars Are on Your Side |
| Hailee Steinfeld | Afterlife |
| Astrid S | Hurts So Good |
| The Weather Station | Atlantic |
| Yaima | Citadella |
| The Cranberries | In the End |
| HAIM | 3 AM – Toro y Moi Remix |
| Foreign Air | Free Animal |
| Big Thief | Simulation Swarm |
| Marshmello | Here With Me |
| Jake Bugg | Simple Pleasures |
| Sum 41 | Never There |
| Mumford & Sons | Woman |
| The National | Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver) |
| Ra Ra Riot | Bad To Worse |
| Madonna | Ghosttown |
| Runnner | Eggshell |
| Dua Lipa | IDGAF |
| Calexico | Father Mountain |
| flor | unsaid |
| William Tyler | Alpine Star |
| Radical Face | Hard of Hearing |
| Old Sea Brigade | Man Made by Delusion |
| Bear’s Den | Shadows |
| Sharon Van Etten | Our Love |
| Riley Pearce | Windmill |
| Sam Smith | I’m Not The Only One |
| Whitley | TV |
| Coldplay | Magic |
| Taylor Mecca | Empty Promises |
| Lorde | 400 Lux |
| Tunng | Death Is the New Sex |
| Jon Bryant | Headphones |
| Chris Staples | Dark Side of the Moon |
| Harrison Storm | Be Slow |
| RITUAL | Josephine |
| Kacey Musgraves | Slow Burn |
| The Paper Kites | Bloom – Bonus Track |
| Ella Vos | You Don’t Know About Me |
| Selena Gomez | My Mind & Me |
| Rosa Linn | SNAP – Acoustic |
| Beck | Morning |
| Sasha Alex Sloan | Is It Just Me? (feat. Charlie Puth) |
| Taylor Swift | the 1 |
| Sun June | Everything I had |
| Novo Amor | Opaline |
| Laura Stevenson | Living Room, NY |
| The National Parks | Wind & Anchor |
| James Bay | Let It Go |
| Floraleda Sacchi | Primavera |
| Skullcrusher | Song for Nick Drake |
| Axel Flóvent | Quiet Eyes |
| Roo Panes | Little Giant |
| Phoebe Bridgers | Funeral |
| City of the Sun | Everything |
| Richard Walters | Unconditional |
| Etaoin | Pale Damp Cheeks |
| Laura Zocca | The Art Of Getting By |
| Fenne Lily | Bud |
| Sam Fender | Little Bull Of Blithe |
| Greta Isaac | FU |
| Joy Oladokun | Who Do I Turn To? |
| Pieter de Graaf | Dew Drops |
| Hania Rani | Tomorrow |
| Dawes | Things Happen – Celeste Version |
| Samia | Is There Something in the Movies? |
| Haux | Ricochet |
| Lucy Wainwright Roche | Little Beast |
| The Japanese House | Chewing Cotton Wool |
| Ludovico Einaudi | Night |
| The Black Dog | Cup Noodle |
| Passenger | Sword from the Stone (Patchwork Version) |
| Jay Brannan | Burn Into the Son |
| Oh Wonder | Lonely Star |
| S. Carey | Rose Petals |
| Daisy Clark | Hope It Hurts You |
| Bon Iver | Holocene |
| Johnny Flynn | Detectorists (Full Studio Version) |
| Bob Evans | Don’t You Think It’s Time |
| Tall Tree 6ft Man | The Way It Shapes You |
| SYML | Girl |
| LAUREL | Fire Breather |
| Christine and the Queens | Tilted |
| machineheart | Stonecold |
| Dustin Tebbutt | Resin |
| Christine and the Queens | People, I’ve been sad |
| Billie Eilish | bury a friend |
| Calum Graham | In Lak’ech |
| London Grammar | Strong |
| Khruangbin | So We Won’t Forget |
| Good Old War | Part of Me |
| Death Cab for Cutie | Flirted With You All My Life |
| Ruston Kelly | Asshole – Demo |
| Cigarettes After Sex | Heavenly |
| Amy Shark | Adore |
| flora cash | You’re Somebody Else |
| Sylvan Esso | Coffee |
| Billie Marten | Blue Sea, Red Sea |
| Trevor Hall | Moon / Sun – Instrumental |
| Tyrone Wells | Days I Will Remember |
| Caroline Polachek | Breathless |
| Iron & Wine | Call It Dreaming |
| Lady Gaga | The Cure |
| MØØNWATER | Darkside |
| Guster | Overexcited |
| Wilco | Love Is Everywhere (Beware) |
| Noah Kahan | Someone Like You (feat. Joy Oladokun) |
| Porter Robinson | Unfold |
| The Passersby | I Know You |
| Kevin Johansen | Last Night I Was Dreaming With You |
| Imogen Heap | Last Night Of An Empire |
| WILD | Silver & Gold |
| Uffie | Drugs |
| Tall Heights | River Wider |
| Noah Gundersen | Atlantis |
| Mick Flannery | Fool |
| benny blanco | You (with Marshmello & Vance Joy) |
| Tomberlin | Wasted |
Genres
For comedy value, here’s the full list of genres associated with the 219 songs in my playlist.
| Genre |
|---|
| Acoustic Pop |
| Alt Z |
| Alternative Americana |
| Alternative Country |
| Alternative Dance |
| Alternative Metal |
| Alternative Pop Rock |
| Alternative Rock |
| Alternative Roots Rock |
| Ambient |
| Ambient Folk |
| Ambient Pop |
| Ambient Techno |
| American Post-rock |
| American Primitive |
| Anthem Emo |
| Anti-folk |
| Argentine Rock |
| Art Pop |
| Art Rock |
| Auckland Indie |
| Austin Americana |
| Australian Alternative Rock |
| Australian Dance |
| Australian Indie |
| Australian Indie Folk |
| Australian Pop |
| Australian Singer-songwriter |
| Baroque Pop |
| Baton Rouge Indie |
| Big Beat |
| Black Americana |
| Blues Rock |
| Boston Folk |
| Boston Rock |
| Bow Pop |
| Breakbeat |
| Bristol Indie |
| British Singer-songwriter |
| Brooklyn Indie |
| Brostep |
| Bubblegrunge |
| C86 |
| Calming Instrumental |
| Canadian House |
| Canadian Pop |
| Canadian Pop Punk |
| Canadian Punk |
| Canadian Singer-songwriter |
| Cantautor |
| Chamber Pop |
| Chamber Psych |
| Channel Pop |
| Charlotte Nc Indie |
| Charlottesville Indie |
| Chicago Indie |
| Chicha |
| Chillwave |
| Classical Harp |
| Complextro |
| Compositional Ambient |
| Cork Indie |
| Cornwall Indie |
| Country Dawn |
| Dance Pop |
| Dark Pop |
| Deep Idm |
| Deep New Americana |
| Deep Tropical House |
| Downtempo |
| Dream Pop |
| Drill And Bass |
| Drone Folk |
| Dub Techno |
| Eau Claire Indie |
| Ectofolk |
| Edm |
| El Paso Indie |
| Electro |
| Electro House |
| Electro Jazz |
| Electro-pop Francais |
| Electroclash |
| Electronica |
| Electropop |
| Escape Room |
| Etherpop |
| Experimental Guitar |
| Experimental Hip Hop |
| Experimental House |
| Filter House |
| Fingerstyle |
| Folk |
| Folk Punk |
| Folk-pop |
| Folktronica |
| Future Bass |
| Garage Rock |
| Gauze Pop |
| German Dance |
| German Pop |
| German Techno |
| Glam Rock |
| Gothenburg Indie |
| Grave Wave |
| Grunge |
| High Vibe |
| Hollywood |
| Hopebeat |
| Icelandic Folk |
| Icelandic Indie |
| Indie Anthem-folk |
| Indie Electropop |
| Indie Folk |
| Indie Pop |
| Indie Pop Rap |
| Indie Poptimism |
| Indie Punk |
| Indie Rock |
| Indie Rock Italiano |
| Indiecoustica |
| Indietronica |
| Instrumental Post-rock |
| Intelligent Dance Music |
| Irish Pop |
| Irish Rock |
| Irish Singer-songwriter |
| Israeli Hip Hop |
| Israeli Indie |
| Italian Pop |
| Jacksonville Indie |
| Jam Band |
| Jazztronica |
| Kiwi Rock |
| La Indie |
| La Pop |
| Lafayette Indie |
| Latin Alternative |
| Latin Rock |
| Lilith |
| Louisville Indie |
| Melancholia |
| Melodic Dubstep |
| Metropopolis |
| Microhouse |
| Minimal Techno |
| Modern Alternative Rock |
| Modern Blues Rock |
| Modern Dream Pop |
| Modern Folk Rock |
| Modern Power Pop |
| Modern Rock |
| Nashville Indie |
| Nashville Singer-songwriter |
| Neo Mellow |
| Neo-classical |
| Neo-psychedelic |
| Neo-singer-songwriter |
| Neo-synthpop |
| Neon Pop Punk |
| New Americana |
| New Jersey Indie |
| New Rave |
| New Wave Pop |
| Noise Pop |
| Noise Rock |
| North East England Indie |
| Norwegian Pop |
| Nottingham Indie |
| Nu Jazz |
| Nu Metal |
| Nu-cumbia |
| Nyc Pop |
| Nz Electronic |
| Nz Pop |
| Okc Indie |
| Oxford Indie |
| Pastoral |
| Permanent Wave |
| Perth Indie |
| Piano Rock |
| Pixie |
| Pop |
| Pop Dance |
| Pop Folk |
| Pop Punk |
| Pop Rap |
| Pop Rock |
| Post-grunge |
| Post-rock |
| Post-teen Pop |
| Progressive Electro House |
| Progressive House |
| Progressive Jazz Fusion |
| Progressive Trance House |
| Psychedelic Hip Hop |
| Punk |
| Punk Blues |
| Rock |
| Rock En Espanol |
| Rock Nacional |
| Roots Rock |
| Scandipop |
| Seattle Indie |
| Shamanic |
| Shimmer Pop |
| Shiver Pop |
| Shoegaze |
| Singer-songwriter |
| Small Room |
| Socal Pop Punk |
| South Carolina Indie |
| Stomp And Flutter |
| Stomp And Holler |
| Stomp And Whittle |
| Swedish Americana |
| Swedish Country |
| Swedish Electropop |
| Swedish Indie Folk |
| Swedish Indie Pop |
| Swedish Singer-songwriter |
| Swedish Synthpop |
| Techno |
| Tennessee Experimental |
| Texas Country |
| Trip Hop |
| Tropical House |
| Tucson Indie |
| Twee Pop |
| Uk Americana |
| Uk Pop |
| Utah Indie |
| Vapor Pop |
| Vapor Soul |
| Vapor Twitch |
| Viral Pop |
| Washington Indie |