Vanilla Twilight
2010
Written in 2007 about a girl who moved away for college, and every synth in it aches accordingly.
★ 1.2
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Ass Back Home
2011
Number one in Australia, top ten in Britain, and Neon Hitch trading verses with McCoy over Benny Blanco's beat.
★ 1.2
Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)
1986
A shuffle borrowed from Tears for Fears, cut on day one, with Bryan Adams singing near the end.
★ 1.8
Blurry
2001
Alone in a Hollywood hotel room missing his son, Scantlin turned the ache into ten weeks atop Mainstream Rock.
★ 2.5
When I'm Gone
2002
Brad Arnold and the band shot the video aboard the USS George Washington, then held Mainstream Rock seventeen weeks.
★ 2.6
Amsterdam (Peter, Bjorn and John)
2006
Track four on Writer's Block, self-produced by the trio, and its plainest study of being left behind.
★ 2.8
Here Without You
2003
Rick Parashar cut it across three studios, and Arnold's ballad about missing someone became an unofficial anthem in Iraq.
★ 2.9
No Air
2008
Sparks became the first American Idol alum past three million US sales, and the duet earned a Grammy nomination.
★ 3.2
Right Here Waiting
1989
Written for Cynthia Rhodes while she filmed in South Africa, turned down by Streisand, then three weeks at number one.
★ 3.2
If You're Gone
2000
Thomas wrote it after meeting his future wife, then it spent thirteen weeks atop the Adult Top 40.
★ 3.3
How Do I Live
1997
Diane Warren wrote it for Con Air, the studio thought Rimes too pop, and her version charted 69 weeks.
★ 4.0
Hey There Delilah
2006
Higgenson told a steeplechase runner he had written a song about her, then spent a year making it true.
★ 4.5
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
1982 · From Too Low for Zero
Cut at AIR Montserrat with the classic band reunited, and Stevie Wonder's harmonica lifting it clean off the ground.
★ 4.5
Tough Love
2014
Recorded low at first until BenZel pushed her up an octave, and the falsetto turned touring loneliness into something weightless.
★ 4.6
Gone Till November
1998
A hustler's goodbye scored by the New York Philharmonic, Sonny Kompanek conducting, with Bob Dylan cameoing in the video.
★ 5.1
Transatlanticism
2003 · From Transatlanticism
Gibbard watched goodbyes at Heathrow; the band used Weezer's Only in Dreams as the map for that closing climb.
★ 5.8