Say

1. The Kills - Baby Says
2. The Velvet Underground - Candy Says
3. Yo La Tengo - Don't Say a Word
4. Scott Walker - Just Say Goodbye
5. Smog - Say Valley Maker
6. Anja Garbarek- The Telescope Man Says
7. The Cure - Just Say Yes
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - There is something I have to say
9. Cat Power - Say
10. Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye

Make

1. Air - You Make It Easy
2. Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
3. Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
4. Devendra Banhart - Dogs They Make Up The Dark
5. Tom Waits - Make It Rain
6. R.E.M. - Make It All Okay
7. Gomez - Make No Sound
8. Frank Zappa - Let's make the water turn black
9. Eels - Theme for a pretty girl that makes you believe God exists
10. Thee Silver Mt. Zion - 1000000 Died to Make This Sound 

Do

1. TV On The Radio - Will Do
2. The White Stripes - Do
3. Cher - All I really Want to Do
4. Air - Do The Joy
5. Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do
6. The Doors - Do It
7. David Byrne - Like Humans Do
8. Eels - Whats A Fella Gotta Do
9. Jónsi - Go Do
10. James Blake - Don't You Think I Do

All Around You

1. Tortoise - It's All Around You
2. Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship
3. B. Fleischmann - Grunt
4. Set Fire to Flames - Steal Compass
5. Broken Social Scene - Superconnected
6. Lullabye Arkestra - We Fuck The Night
7. Valley Of The Giants - Westworld
8. Years - The Major Lift
9. HṚṢṬA - Swallow's Tail
10. Charles Spearin - Mrs. Morris

Carousels

1. Iron and Wine - Carousel
2. Beirut - Carousels
3. Led Zeppelin - Carouselambra
4. Mr. Bungle - Carousel
5. The Hollies - On a Carousel
6. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Carousel
7. Townes Van Zandt - Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel
8. Death In June - Carousel
9. Rodrigo Leão & Beth Gibbons - Lonely Carousel
10. John Prine - Carousel of Love

Spiritual 2

1. Ben Harper - I Shall Not Walk Alone
2. Marvin Gaye - God is love
3. The Vaselines - jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam
4. Violent Femmes – Jesus Walking On The Water
5. Sun Kil Moon - Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
6. The Byrds - Jesus Is Just Alright
7. Roberta Flack – I Told Jesus
8. David Bowie - God knows I'm good
9. Bob Dylan - With God On Our Side
10. Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood never failed me yet

Spiritual

1. Spain - Spiritual
2. The Velvet Underground - Jesus
3. John Lennon - Imagine
4. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
5. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
6. Low – If You Were Born Today
7. Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing
8. Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
9. Leonard Cohen - Waiting for the Miracle
10. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Shoegazing

1. Ride - Vapour Trail
2. Slowdive - Crazy for You
3. The Boo Radleys - Memory Babe
4. Pale Saints - Sight of You
5. My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
6. Lush - Light from a Dead Star
7. Mahogany - the mystique of the locomotive
8. Curve - Horror Head
9. Chapterhouse - Breather
10. A Place To Bury Strangers - Keep Slipping Away

Waiting For The Man

1. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
2. The Doors - Back Door Man
3. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
5. Bob Dylan - Ballad Of A Thin Man
6. Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
7. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
8. Massive Attack – Man Next Door
9. Mark Lanegan - Man in the Long Black Coat
10. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

Roundup

1. Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way To Fall
2. Moonface - Headed For The Door
3. Yo La Tengo - Before We Run
4. Beach House - Wild
5. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Driftin' Back
6. Pinkunoizu - Time Is Like A Melody
7. Led Zeppelin-Celebration Day
8. The Flaming Lips - I Can Be A Frog
9. Sharon Van Etten - Magic Chords
10. Do Make Say Think - Classic Noodlanding

Boots

1. Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
2. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Vacuum Boots
3. Eels - Lick Your Boots
4. Bob Dylan - Boots of Spanish Leather
5. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
6. Jens Lekman - I Want a Pair Of Cowboy Boots
7. Radiohead - Big Boots
8. Melvins - Nude With Boots
9. Múm - Boots Of Fog
10. King Creosote - Bootprints

Boats

1. Silver Mt Zion- Sisters! Brothers! Small Boats...!
2. Mum - Oh How the Boat Drifts
3. The Magnetic Fields - From A Sinking Boat
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ohio River Boat Song
5. Mice Parade - The Boat Room
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Little Empty Boat
7. Electrelane - The Boat
8. Elvis Costello - Last boat leaving
9. CURRENT 93 - The Dissolution Of 'The Boat Millions Of Years'
10. Benny Goodman - Slow Boat To China

God

1. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
2. Lamb - God Bless
3. Cults - Oh My God
4. John Lennon - God
5. Bob Dylan - With God On Our Side
6. Morrissey - Dear God Please Help Me
7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House
8. Tom Waits - God's Away On Business
9. Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - God Bless Our Dead Marines
10. Spiritualized - No God Only Religion

Gira

1. Miles Davis - Black Satin
2. Kraftwerk - The Robots
3. David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
4. Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love
5. The Stooges - 1969
6. The Doors - Strange Days
7. The Mothers of Invention - Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
8. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
9. Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 2 (1/4)
10. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
11. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa, I
12. Howlin' Wolf - Don't Mess With My Baby
13. Pink Floyd - Careful with That Axe, Eugene

stolen from the quietus

Roundup

1. Bjӧrk - Mutual Core
2. Johnny Marr - The Messenger
3. Sufjan Stevens - I'll Be Home For Christmas
4. Majical Cloudz - Turns Turns Turns
5. Doldrums - She is the Wave
6. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Do It With a Rockstar
7. Lana Del Rey - Bel Air
8. JEFF The Brotherhood - Leave Me Out
9. Crystal Castles - Transgender
10. How To Destroy Angels - Keep it together

Recluse > Ambient

1. P Jørgensen - Variation One & Variation Two
2. Isnaj Dui & Karina ESP - Slow Forms
3. Isnaj Dui - It Never Really Was
4. Cos Chapman - Treatise
5. Brian Eno - LUX 1
6. Cluster and Eno - Für Luise
7. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Outside, Silence
8. Biosphere - Kobresia
9. William Basinski - Melancholia
10. Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop

Kindness

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Stranger Than Kindness
2. The National - You Were A Kindness
3. The Dears - Ballad of Human Kindness
4. The American Analog Set - The Kindness of Strangers
5. Rameses III - The Kindness In Letting Go (I Could Not Love You More)
6. The Divine Comedy - Little Acts of Kindness
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Kindness of Strangers
8. Devendra Banhart - Be Kind
9. Belle & Sebastian - The Magic Of A Kind Word
10. Vetiver - Be Kind To Me

Ladders

1. Labradford - Dulcimers Played by Peter Neff, Strings Played
2. Low - Shots and Ladders
3. Do Make Say Think - All Of This Is True
4. Current 93 - When the May Rain Comes
5. Gavin Bryars - Hymn
6. Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song Boys
7. Nils Frahm - Fa
8. Smog - River Guard
9. Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tralala Band - Blind blind blind
10. Ennio Morricone - The Carriage Of The Spirits

Together

1. Scott Walker - Little Things (That Keep Us Together)
2. The Beatles - All Together Now
3. Spiritualized - Come Together
4. Mark Lanegan - Together Again
5. The Antlers - Rolled Together
6. Pink Floyd - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
7. Chet Baker - Alone Together
8. The Rolling Stones - Sweethearts Together
9. Tricky and Neneh Cherry - Together Now
10. Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together

How?

1. Paul McCartney - Coming Up
2. Kraftwerk - Neon Lights
3. The Band Of Holy Joy - Nightjars
4. Cat Power - Bathysphere
5. John Lennon - How?
6. Pink Floyd - Fearless
7. The Sea And Cake - Weekend
8. Spiritualized - Broken Heart
9. Dead Can Dance - Ulysses
10. Jonny Greenwood - Convergence

Roundup

1. Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin - Intrusions
2. Scott Walker - Epizootics!
3. Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
4. King Krule - Rock Bottom
5. The Soft Moon - Insides
6. Andy Stott - Numb
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Their Helicopters' Sing
8. Voices From The Lake - Iyo
9. How To Destroy Angels - Keep It Together
10. Garbarek, Gismonti, Haden - Magico Carta de Amor

Palaces

1. Grinderman - Palaces Of Montezuma
2. Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace
3. Pixies - Palace of the Brine
4. Palace Music - The Mountain Choir
5. Jim O'Rourke & Christoph Heemann - Plastic Palace People
6. Scott Walker - Plastic Palace People
7. John Fahey - Dance Of The Inhabitants Of The Palace Of King Philip XIV Of Spain
8. Giants - The Palace Stands in its Proper Place
9. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Pleasure Palace
10. Terry Riley - The Hall Of Mirrors In The Palace At Versailles

Yo La La

1. Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall
2. Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
4. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & The Cairo Gang - That's What Our Love Is
5. Captain Beefheart - I'm Glad
6. Neil Young / Buffalo Springfield - Expecting To Fly
7. Karate - Airport
8. Anna Calvi - Desire
9. Glenn Jones - The Teething Necklace
10. Current 93 - Let Us Go To The Rose

Carter

1. Elliott Carter - String Quartet no. 2
2. Milton Babbitt - Philomel
3. Luigi Nono - Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima
4. Helmut Lachenmann - Salut Für Caudwell
5. Per Nørgård - Iris
6. Anton Webern - String Quartet, Op. 28
7. Luciano Berio - Epifanie
8. Arnold Schoenberg - Transfigured Night Op. 4
9. Alban Berg - Violin Concerto
10. Henri Dutilleux - Au Gré Des Ondes

Hope

1. Bauhaus - Hope
2. Björk - Hope
3. R.E.M. - Hope
4. Arab Strap - If There's No Hope for Us
5. Grails - The Burden of Hope
6. Dirty Three - Hope
7. Codes In The Clouds - We Anchor In Hope
8. Goldmund - Hope Avenue
9. Mercury Rev - Sudden Ray of Hope
10. Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Cause of Labour is the Hope of the World

Sleep Hope

1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep
2. The Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof
3. Mogwai - Boring Machines Disturb Sleep
4. Mùm - Sleep/Swim
5. Four Tet - Sleep, Eat Food, Have Visions
6. Low - Try to Sleep
7. Mazzy Star - Before I Sleep
8. David Sylvian - Sleepwalkers
9. This Heat - Sleep
10. Max Richter - Lullaby From The West Coast Sleepers

Roundup

1. Atoms For Peace - What The Eyeballs Did
2. Darkstar - Timeaway
3. Tamaryn - The Garden
4. The xx - Basic Space - Surveillance
5. Villagers - Passing a Message
6. Grass Widow - Goldilocks Zone
7. Melody's Echo Chamber - You Won't Be Missing That Part Of Me
8. Dark Dark Dark - Tell Me
9. Ben Howard - Esmerelda
10. Spain - Without a sound

Mercury Prize Sucks

1. alt-J - Breezeblocks
2. Richard Hawley - She Brings the Sunlight
3. Plan B - ill Manors
4. Sam Lee - George Collins
5. Lianne La Havas - Is Your Love Big Enough?
6. Django Django - Default
7. The Maccabees - Feel To Follow
8. Ben Howard - Old Pine
9. Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
10. Roller Trio - RollerToaster
11. Field Music - Who'll Pay The Bills?
12. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again

Scary?

1. Tom Waits - Oily Night
2. Slint - Good morning, Captain 
3. Scott Walker - The Escape
4. Diamanda Galas - Wild Women With Steak Knives
5. The Residents - Hello Skinny
6. Nico - Evening of Light
7. Link Wray - Rumble
8. Napoleaon IV - They're Coming to Take Me Away Hahaaa!
9. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
10. Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady

stollen from the guardian