9. Battles: 'Atlas' (2007) - 'Atlas' is the calling card of math-rock band Battles, the wildly experimental troupe from from New York. Containing demented and distorted lyrics that are as creepy as they are nonsensical, the song wriggles and writhes for its life barely sitting still for a moment and at over seven minutes long feels like it's pulling you into a parallel universe. Relentless and innovative 'Atlas' has inspired a whole host of bands to embrace the progressive and technically demanding disciplines they practise including, most notably, Foals.
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- What about Stronger by Kanye West?
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- That was a Daft Punk song with some crappy lyrics over it.
- F#ck off with all your Radiohead!!!
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- Well deserved Idioteque first place. That song never gets old, truly fantastic and inovative, even almost ten years later. Reckoner - from In Rainbows - deserved to be in the top 10 IMO. And great to see Seven Nation Army on the list, great song.
- Yay for Midlake's Roscoe!! SUCH a great song.
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