Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.03: Röyksopp - The Inevitable End

This will be my monument

This will be a beacon when I'm gone

So that when the moment comes,

I can say I did it all with love

Lyrics from Monument, by Röyksopp, from the album The Inevitable End

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.04: Dead Can Dance - Dionysus

Listen to The Mountain

by Dead Can Dance

from their album Dionysus

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.05: David Bowie - Blackstar

Something happened on the day he died

Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside

Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried:

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)

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How many times does an angel fall?

How many people lie instead of talking tall?

He trod on sacred ground, he cried aloud into the crowd

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar)

Lyrics from Blackstar by David Bowie from his album Blackstar

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.06: Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

Come on Joe, just 22 to go,
come on Joe, just 22 to go.
Come on Joe, just you and the Eskimos,
Come on now, just 22 to go.
Come on now, just 22 to go,
Let me hear your 50 words for snow.
29 creaky-creaky
30 psychohail
31 whippoccino
32 shimmerglisten
33 Zhivagodamarbletash
34 sorbetdeluge
35 sleetspoot'n

Lyrics from 50 Words For Snow by Kate Bush, from her album 50 Words For Snow

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.07: The Irrepressibles - Nude

If I asked you now
Will you be my prince
Will you lay down your armour
And be with me forever
When you open me
All the power in me moves
How you want to see
All the depths of me real
When you open me
All the power in me moves
I feel real

Lyrics from Two Men In Love by The Irrepressibles, from their album Nude

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.08: The National - High Violet

And I won't follow you

Into the rabbit hole

I said I would, but then I saw your shivered bones

They didn't want me to

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It takes an ocean not to break

Lyrics from Terrible Love by The National, from their album High Violet

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.09: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Everybody dancing on the floor

Can't do any more anymore

Everybody on the floor

Yeah, come on

Lose yourself to dance

Lyrics from Lose Yourself To Dance by Daft Punk, from their album Random Access Memories

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.10: Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

With every generation comes
Another memory lapse
See the demonstrations of
Failing to learn from our past
We live in the dreamtime
Nothing seems to last
Can you really plan a future
When you no longer have a past

Memories fall from the trees
Amnesia

Lyrics from Amnesia by Dead Can Dance, from their album Anastasis 

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.11: John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

But I am the greatest motherfucker that you're ever gonna meet

From the top of my head, down to the tips of the toes on my feet

So go ahead and love me while it's still a crime

And don't forget, you could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

You could be laughing sixty-five percent more of the time

Lyrics from GMF by John Grant, from his album Pale Green Ghosts

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.12: Tame Impala - Currents

Once again, as it takes a hold
I am aware I'm not in control
You see, I have a conscience and it's never fooled
But it's prone to be overruled
You wanna know what I always think I'm bind by
You never accept defeat or let it slide
But I have no voice if I don't speak my mind
My weakness is the source of all my pride, I'll tell you why

Lyrics from Cause I'm A Man by Tame Impala, from the album Currents

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.13: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream

Standing on the shore, facing east

I can't feel you

Standing on the shore, facing east

Your impermanence

You're taking water

Listing lazily out of view

I remember when we were friends

I remember calling you friend

Lyrics from How Do You Sleep? by LCD Soundsystem

from their album American Dream

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.14: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

Cause the night calls me
When the wind, leads, behind the world
But we hold, hold, hold it down
Oh we hold, hold, hold it down
Cause the night calls for
Suzanne and I
We will rise

Lyrics from Suzanne And I by Anna Calvi, from her album Anna Calvi

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.15: Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting

I've acquired a taste for silence
Darkness fills my heart with calmness
And each thought like a thief is driven
To steal the night air from the heavens

Lyrics from Night Air by Jamie Woon, from his album Mirrorwriting 

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.16: SOHN - Tremors

I died a week ago

There's nothing left

It's caught on video

The very last breath

In time an avalanche

Will cave in on mines

Covering all evidence

The very last time

All this fuss over nothing

Reinventing the wheel

All this searching for something that's not real

Lyrics from The Wheel by SOHN, from his album Tremors

Blogovision 2019, top-20 albums of the decade, no.17: ANOHNI - Hopelessness

Crisis

If I killed your father

With a drone bomb

How would hher

With a drone bomb

How would you feel?

Father

If I killed your children

With a drone bomb

How would you feel?

Crisis

If I tortured your brother

In Guantanamo

I’m sorry

Lyrics from Crisis by Anohni from her album Hopelessness

Blogovision 2019, Top-20 albums of the decade, no.18: James Blake - James Blake

I don’t know about my love
I don’t know about my loving anymore
All that I know is
I’m loving, falling, loving, loving
Might as well love you

Lyrics from The Wilhelm Scream by James Blake, from his album James Blake

Blogovision 2019, top-20 albums of the decade, no.19: Caribou - Swim

You got to make the change

I can't take you no more

These things you know

Lyrics from Jamelia by Caribou, from his album Swim 

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.20: Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister - Planetarium

And I am sorry

And all that I've known to be at peace

And I am desperate

You ran off with it all

And I am restless

And all that I've known to be of love

And I am gentle

You ran off with it all

And I am desperate

And all that I dream

Where do you run, where do you run to?

Lyrics from Mercury by

Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner, James McAlister

from their album Planetarium