Helplessness Blues
2011 · From Helplessness Blues
Pecknold called it an anti-protest song, a plain opinion with no poetry, and gave it away free in January 2011.
★ 6.0
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Wake Me Up
2013
Einziger's acoustic guitar over a house drop confused the crowd at Ultra in 2013, then it became Shazam's most-searched track.
★ 5.9
Live Like You Were Dying
2004
Wiseman and Nichols built it from a friend's cancer scare, and McGraw cut it the year his father died.
★ 4.7
Some Nights
2012
Ruess wanted a hip hop producer and Paul Simon's harmonies; the sleeper took seven months to reach number three.
★ 4.3
Kyrie
1985
Page and George wrote the music touring with Adam Ant; John Lang set a Greek prayer on top.
★ 3.0
My List
2002
Five weeks atop the country chart for a song about the errands that keep pushing family aside.
★ 1.7
Place In This World
1990
Wayne Kirkpatrick co-wrote it, Dann Huff played the guitar, and Christian radio's searching ballad reached number six pop.
★ 1.3