Music That Matters, Vol. 704 - The 2010s in Review
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
KEXP DJs Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards pick their favorite songs of the decade, from Arcade Fire to Lizzo, Deerhunter to A Tribe Called Quest, and discuss the personal and cultural impact of music in the 2010s.
1. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
2. LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
3. Sharon Van Etten - Don’t Do It
4. The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness and the Scream
6. Phantogram - When I’m Small
7. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
8. M83 - Midnight City
9. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
10. Grimes - Genesis
11. Alt-J - Fitzpleasure
12. Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
13. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Same Love
14. The Lumineers - Ho Hey
15. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
16. Courtney Barnett - History Eraser
17. Foals - Bad Habit
18. Empire of the Sun - Alive
19. ODESZA - All We Need
20. The War on Drugs - An Ocean In Between the Waves
21. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane
22. Ty Segall - The Hand
23. Strand of Oaks - Shut In
24. TV On The Radio - Trouble
25. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry
26. FIDLAR - West Coast
27. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People….
28. Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay
29. Car Seat Headrest - Vincent
30. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
31. Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks
32. Ghostpoet - Immigrant Boogie
33. IDLES - Television
34. Childish Gambino - This Is America
35. Fontaines D.C. - Big
36. Lizzo - Juice
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Richards. Welcome to the Music That Matters podcast, and I am here with Kevin Cole, our afternoon show host. |
| 0:07.3 | That's right. Excited to be here with you as we are going to try and encapsulate the whatever, 2010s. |
| 0:13.4 | 2010s. You said it right. That's right. How do you want to start? |
| 0:16.1 | We literally, a little behind the scenes information here about this podcast. Kevin and I have been sitting in this room for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to start this podcast |
| 0:24.3 | because it's a little different. |
| 0:26.0 | And God is my witness, I'm staring at a list of our songs of the best of the decade. |
| 0:30.4 | And the very first song is what, Kevin? |
| 0:33.3 | It is Arcade Fire. |
| 0:34.9 | Ready to start. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm going to talk my blood. What the kids are know. It is Arcade Fire. Ready to start. you say you could still be friends if I was yours But I'm not |
| 1:11.2 | KXP's Music Matters |
| 1:13.4 | Covering the best of the 2010s |
| 1:16.0 | Arcade Fire there ready to start |
| 1:17.7 | That is from the suburbs |
| 1:19.3 | Man, that was a great record |
| 1:20.6 | Well, they only put out great records, I think |
| 1:23.0 | And to have them be our 2010 |
| 1:25.4 | representative of a very strong year 2010, yeah big time uh that album won a |
| 1:31.2 | grammy for album of the year it won a brit award it won uh the polaris prize for best canadian |
| 1:36.0 | album we finally saw what happens when the grammies get it gets it right uh most of the world freaked |
| 1:42.6 | out and said who is is Arcade Fire? |
| 2:02.8 | So the Grammys never let that happen again. Oh, oh, never mind. But it was for us, music geeks, it was like our buddies winning a big award. It was. It was cool. It was cool to see, especially a band like that, that we were involved with right at the beginning. We did that broadcast from CMJ. We did. The last time I think we were invited back to our location where we did remote arcade fire were in there in a room |
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