Fuck Albums, Let's Have a Favourite Song Thread

[Jeremiah Wilson]

Post your top 10 songs ever.

Bob Dylan - Meet Me In The Morning
youtube.com/watch?v=K7arNZNZPSw

Exuma - Dambala
youtube.com/watch?v=nWTaSNQULHE

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
youtube.com/watch?v=VerK4zwMRQw

Portishead - Glory Box
youtube.com/watch?v=4qQyUi4zfDs

Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
youtube.com/watch?v=CsYHN7eCCtU

FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
youtube.com/watch?v=3yDP9MKVhZc

The Beatles - Oh! Darling
youtube.com/watch?v=NdGLEVKwHPU

Elis Regina - Como Nossos Pais
youtube.com/watch?v=2qqN4cEpPCw

Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
youtube.com/watch?v=W6H8WcTPnWM

>pic unrelated

[Gabriel Watson]

>something on your mind
>aeroplane
Approved.

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
Mr. Bungle - Pink Cigarette
Tommy Keene - Places That Are Gone
Donald Fagen - I.G.Y.
Kanye West - Blood On The Leaves
Death Grips - Beware
Xiu Xiu - Botanica De Los Angeles
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - John Finn's Wife
Ween - Baby Bitch
Don McLean - American Pie

[Asher Thompson]

>Ween - Baby Bitch
Is it just me or did Ween purposely make this sound like an Elliott Smith song?

[Joshua Torres]

Barenaked Ladies - Pinch Me
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Kanye West - RoboCop
Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker the Berry
Death Grips - Giving Bad People Good Ideas
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There
Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me

[Charles Campbell]

The Mars Volta - Eritarka
youtu.be/10R0--iPv0w

Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle (9:30 version)
youtu.be/1k2jgv92MEM

The Decemberists - The Island
youtu.be/o3rATtl6q7E

Puscfifer - The Arsonist
youtu.be/yFm8P8q_6WU

The Mars Volta - Goliath
youtu.be/Iu6eUb-acyU

The Blood Brothers - Giant Swan
youtu.be/-rjSq9ydB9E

The Smashing Pumpkins - A Girl Named Sandoz
youtu.be/8CpaRKpefkQ

Portugal. The Man - Bad, Bad Levi Brown
youtu.be/fD1JaXXxl-E

Pink Floyd - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (live version from Ummagumma)
youtu.be/DoTRmyjoyrE

Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot
youtu.be/LBBaZGnAh8Y

[Juan Perry]

Fluid by the Gerbils
youtu.be/-Nk8cjmztPI
Golden Hours by Brian Eno
youtu.be/Sxyg3sP03Cs
Me Myself & I by De La Soul
youtu.be/FJEzEDMqXQQ
Round and Round by Ariel Pink
youtu.be/ecSg9WpLgl0
Rapping 2 U by Das Racist
youtu.be/drxmFBf8B-A
Concave Life by bugskull
youtu.be/86sRwCbg1Ng (at 19:33)
Dear Skorpio Magazine by Neon Indian
youtu.be/jpXSwIXA6YA
Little Fang by Avey Tare
youtu.be/JBvS-2KEOic
Baby Love by The Supremes
youtu.be/9_y6nFjoVp4
Sports Men by Kimonos
youtu.be/7gi8futLRbM

>exuma
>Donald fagen
>Pattie smith
All good choices

[Jayden Wood]

Coldplay - Everglow
Cranberries - Ode to My Family
Frank Ocean - Nights
Joy Division - New Dawn Fades
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
New Order - Age of Consent
Ramones - Bonzo goes to Bitburg
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Weeknd - Starboy

[Joseph Sanders]

>Me Myself & I by De La Soul
wtf is this shit? Sounds like it was made by a retarded 14 yr old in the 90s

[Brody Peterson]

They probably did lol

>Kendrick lamar- the blacker the berry
Great choice

If u don't like de la soul u can go

My personal top 10 tracks
American football - never meant
Kendrick Lamar - m.a.a.d city
Aphex twin - produk 29
Skinny puppy - VX gas attack
Objekt - tinderbox
Mr oizo - last night a DJ killed my dog
New order - true faith
Daft punk - rolling and scratching
Snoop dogg - gin and juice
Michael Jackson - human nature

[Daniel Green]

staaarboy keeeek what a fucking noob

[Jaxon Phillips]

Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers
A.R. Kane - Haunting
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
MBV - To Here Knows When
Mercury Rev - Something for Joey
The Cure - Pictures of You
Cocteau Twins - Spangle Maker
Broadcast - Come On Let's Go
The Verve - One Way To Go

>Hounds of Love
ayy

[Michael Morris]

Femanon here.

Blind Melon - No Rain
youtu.be/f1V2eHNFXUM
Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said
youtu.be/J6pxDfycP3Y
Doc Watson - Shady Grove
youtu.be/b-kaG1NuLZM
Eluveitie - Inis Mona
youtu.be/R-morg7h7Xk
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
youtu.be/f9bRmuP-kQY
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy Jr.
youtu.be/K5ygoDnlGCg
Iron & Wine - Evening On The Ground (Lilith's Song)
youtu.be/TCK4yRFOGVI
TOOL - Parabol/Parabola
youtu.be/9vluBFWv4mE
Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger (acoustic)
youtu.be/Bywv_yjSgHc
Blink-182 - Adam's Song
youtu.be/XPnTi72pXQg

[Benjamin Lopez]

kanyewest - family business
james blake - two men down
mac demarco - dreaming
sufjian stevens - impossible soul
jai paul - BTSTU
NMH - two headed boy pt2/ oh comely
bob dylan - sad eyed lady of the lowlands
david bowie - five years
frank ocean - nights
young thug - again

there's more but these are one of my favorite 10 songs

[Christopher Clark]

I'll fuck you up mate

[Jaxon Bell]

>Something On Your Mind

>Rapping 2 U

My niggas.

In no particular order:
>Stereolab - The Flower Called Nowhere
youtube.com/watch?v=hxywNDPKPJQ

>The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
youtube.com/watch?v=EkPy18xW1j8

>Destroyer - European Oils
youtube.com/watch?v=5PPNjWaSEdc

>DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central, Pt. II (72 Hrs. by Rail From Missouri)
couldn't find a link

>Floating Points - King Bromeliad
youtube.com/watch?v=5GWsQTwy9GM

>The Ronettes - Do I Love You?
youtube.com/watch?v=qmR8bXSzObU

>Sweet Trip - Chocolate Matter
youtube.com/watch?v=BZg8BhBWyo8

>Momus - Lucky Like St. Sebastian
youtube.com/watch?v=qkSruKt6m4Q

>Baby Huey and the Babysitters - A Change is Going to Come
youtube.com/watch?v=IF6RaCLO7n0

>Doopees - Through My Window
youtube.com/watch?v=Ex8PpOKsLDE

[Kevin Turner]

Deftones - What Happened to you?
Ghost - Satan Prayer
Jimi Hendrix - Castles made of sand
Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Funky Monks
Caravan Palace - Comics
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots
Meshuggah - Sickening
Korn - Clown
Com Truise - Data Kiss

[Michael White]

best stereolab song desu

[Jeremiah Cooper]

Guided by Voices - Indian Fables
youtube.com/watch?v=MawYckU6w5k

Cleaners From Venus - The Jangling Man
youtube.com/watch?v=faf1WoCihSg

Lilys - Your Guest and Host
youtube.com/watch?v=k_cf0ef_9Rk

Vitreous Humor - Sharin' Stone
youtube.com/watch?v=LRW57Vhaqyc

Sweet Trip - Darkness
youtube.com/watch?v=2IAt9SZwX6E

Kanye West - Family Business
youtube.com/watch?v=Sf7YpEfpYwI

Superdrag - Phaser
youtube.com/watch?v=FRZ5OuyMuf8

The Lapse - Hide Your Daughters
youtube.com/watch?v=5uVAAM_bNH0

The Magnetic Fields - Fear of Trains
youtube.com/watch?v=dfO9immAajA

The Replacements - Alex Chilton
youtube.com/watch?v=sTSJYZyouek

[Zachary Scott]

keeeeeeeeeeek dis nigga said coldplay - evergrow

[Adam Lewis]

>Starting with 10
Shellac - Watch Song
Coltrane - Countdown
Bach - Jesu, Joy Man's Desiring
John Cage - Soliloquy
Pharoah Sanders - Hum Allah
Wu-Tang Clan - Ain't Nothin to fuck with
Ben Folds - Jackson Cannery
Kendrick Lamar - How Much A Dollar Cost
Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
DNA - Blonde Redhead

Half of these aren't even "songs", they're just my favorite pieces of recorded music

[Lincoln Brown]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

[Matthew Morgan]

That's not 10, but good choice

[Jace Brown]

No particular order

>Grateful Dead - the other one live at winterland in 75
>Quasimoto - bluffin
>De La Soul - Jenifa taught me
>American Football - the regrets are killing me
>teen suicide - swallow
>teen suicide - the same things keep happening to me
>miles Davis quintet - my funny valentine
>Leonard Cohen - suzzanne
>Bob Dylan - girl from north county (1963)
>Stevie wonder - I wish

[Ian Jackson]

Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades
Fugazi - I'm So Tired
Death Grips - Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood
Aesop Rock - Rings
R.E.M. - You Are the Everything
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Penny Dreadfuls
Radiohead - Gagging Order
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Penfold - I'll Take You Everywhere

[Logan Edwards]

OP asked for songs, though.

good choices

>Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
>Tim Buckley - Love from Room 109 at the Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway)
>Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer
>Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Mirror Man
>Faust - Miss Fortune
>Built to Spill - Velvet Waltz
>Van Morrison - Almost Independence Day
>The Grateful Dead - Turn on Your Lovelight [live 1969]
>Bob Dylan & the Band - Tears of Rage
>The Velvet Underground - Ride into the Sun [Quine tapes]

[Zachary Barnes]

>>Tim Buckley - Love from Room 109 at the Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway)
Great choice, just started listening to Happy Sad and it's so beautiful

[Bentley Taylor]

>>Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
I listened to that album for the first time yesterday and I was blown away. The subtle shifts in dynamics in that song in particular are insane

[Aaron Ramirez]

this was very easy
g.co/kgs/x0ySZ7

[Daniel Sanchez]

Not in order:

Moses Gunn Collective - Shalala youtube.com/watch?v=oS6PzoUkveM
Mac Demarco - Ode to Viceroy youtube.com/watch?v=6bfTTeZOrs4
Tyler, The Creator - Fucking Young/ youtube.com/watch?v=SCcVrLcGD7k
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea youtube.com/watch?v=hD6_QXwKesU
Unkown Mortal Orchestra - From the Sun youtube.com/watch?v=rGEx8SfI540
Madeintyo - Skateboard P youtube.com/watch?v=zQK9zEDXpTI
$UICIDEBOY$ - SARCOPHAGUS II youtube.com/watch?v=k-6DgNgSnpA
Jacco Gardner – Find Yourself youtube.com/watch?v=YDSiImxP6Vw
The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds youtube.com/watch?v=mgNYK96lQOg
Felly - Fabrics youtube.com/watch?v=uPIzsaV94cY

[Wyatt Edwards]

weird how I didn't notice the similarities until now

[Eli Rogers]

in no particular order

Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Burial - Raver
Coil - Going Up
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Underworld - Born Slippy.NUXX
Yes - Close To The Edge
Burzum - Tomhet
Jason Lescalleet - 7
Ween - If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)

[Samuel Walker]

i smoke two joints in the morning i smoke two joints at night i smoke two joints when i smoke two joints and then i smoke two more

[Jordan Edwards]

Chuck berry you can never tell
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qK5N2LavUZQ

Revolution The Beatles
m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLGzRXY5Bw
We can work it out the beatles
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyclqo_AV2M

Hey you Pink Floyd
m.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcBwE6j09U

(These are songs stuck in my head this week, I could never choose the 10 greatest songs ever)

[Brody Russell]

this is too hard

[Ian Morgan]

This song always gets me worked up
youtube.com/watch?v=DyCtfd8w6JQ

[Jason Taylor]

clever thread

Pavement - Unfair
The Clash - Stay Free
David Bowie - Fashion
Modest Mouse - Interstate 8
New Order - Subculture
Boards of Canada - Everything You Do is a Balloon
My Bloody Valentine - Loomer
The Delgados - Pull the Wires from the Wall
Swell Maps - Harmony in Your Bathroom
Swirlies - Two Girls Kissing

[Christopher Hall]

...

[Dylan Stewart]

Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
Dinosaur Jr. - They Always Come
Swervedriver - The Hitcher
The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties
The Verve - Slide Away
Nirvana - Do Re Mi
Mystery Machine - Valley Song
Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
My Bloody Valentine - You Made Me Realize

[Parker Perry]

Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
vimeo.com/10626238

Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
youtu.be/W888EzZ0lrk

Meat Puppets - Lake Of Fire
youtu.be/9jPglNrZhkA

Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
youtu.be/BgRYncR1Nog

The Byrds- Wasn't Born To Follow
youtu.be/PrU9iI2VxPE

Hasil Adkins - She Said
youtu.be/sLka7gxpivw

Mississippi Fred McDowell - Brooks Run Into The Ocean youtu.be/CcB8ILD9BZg

X-Ray Spex - I Am A Poseur
youtu.be/8w72-hyrM88

Herbie Hancock - Rain Dance
youtu.be/05GTWKu4uU8

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley
youtu.be/48ZcNxD8eJY

Honorable mentions: CCR - It Came Out Of The Sky, The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms, R.L. Burnside - Shake 'Em On Down, The Embarrassment - Sex Drive, Miles Davis - Right Off, Nick Cave - Tupelo, Captain Beefheart - Sure Nuff n Yes I Do, The Velvet Underground - After Hours

[Adrian Torres]

One of the links is wrong, THIS is Herbie Hancock's Rain Dance youtu.be/0VRkq1fphGs

[Nicholas Hill]

In no particular order, I guess:

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
youtube.com/watch?v=P3YR-RKrL1g

Ween - Chocolate Town
youtube.com/watch?v=7MLJ5WTssZk

Panda Bear - Ponytail
youtube.com/watch?v=7tq7E-6wf5Q

Animal Collective - Winters Love
youtube.com/watch?v=mSTSD2EhMUI

The Flaming Lips - Spoonful Weights A Ton
youtube.com/watch?v=mVsyJtCsqeA

DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
youtube.com/watch?v=InFbBlpDTfQ

Tame Impala - Endors Toi
youtube.com/watch?v=vTU2iSdsU8Q

Pavement - Gold Soundz
youtube.com/watch?v=lPvhKV3Yg2k

Ride - Vapour Trail
youtube.com/watch?v=pVhNi5cU8mo

Gorillaz - Demon Days
youtube.com/watch?v=odLERTf16GQ

[Joshua Evans]

Most of these are entry level, but honestly most of the songs that "catch" and stand out the most to me are from fairly popular acts. All of these songs have just stuck to me with insane replay-ability as I'm sure y'alls lists have. Anyways, in no order:

Bob Dylan- Mr. Tambourine Man
Beach Boys- I Know There's An Answer
Lupe Fiasco- Paris, Tokyo
Bright Eyes- First Day of My Life
Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
Kanye West- Touch The Sky
Neutral Milk Hotel- In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bon Iver- Skinny Love
The Smiths- I Know It's Over
The Strokes- Last Nite

[Bentley Barnes]

Vapor Trail is a 10/10

[Bentley Murphy]

Bruce Springsteen - The Ties that Bind
Swans - Your Property / YRP
MBV - Sometimes
The Knife - Cherry on Top
Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise if You Can See
Cat Power - Good Woman
Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
Dead Can Dance - Cardinal Sin
Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber
Tim Buckley - Monterey

[Ayden Hall]

My bloody valentine - thorn
youtube.com/watch?v=1dzkS77KoiM
Pavement- summer babe
youtube.com/watch?
v=cMjlhIWxfFI
Swirlies-jeremy parker
youtube.com/watch?v=B4E9TS-98Lg
A place to bury strangers
youtube.com/watch?v=WTXGXXi1vg8
Company flow 8 steps to perfection
youtube.com/watch?v=aOKp3ziKzGk
Pro era - last cypher
youtube.com/watch?v=UCojMokW_Dw
Fugazi - suggestion
youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGD_kSQxmE
mick jenkins - rain
youtube.com/watch?v=txQ2yCXIJkg
Joan manuel serrat
youtube.com/watch?v=vNT2Xq0jKo8
nino bravo
youtube.com/watch?v=r-OvqPW3j6c

[Daniel Harris]

>The Delgados
Never thought I'd see them mentioned here

[Aaron Perez]

Aphex Twin - Cock/ver10
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-M8sIzLNVT0

The Strokes - When It Started
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xt8hv8rUkSg

Ween - Little Birdy
m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4eDmPYJd5M

Iglooghost - Peach Rift
m.youtube.com/watch?v=OAcwqrKNByI

Is Tropical - Land of the Nod
m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsnhn2KsiE

[Blake Foster]

great choices!!! thorn and suggestion are two of my favorurite songs

>what it is
what it is
>what it is
WHAT IT IS

[Eli Lee]

MF DOOM - Kon Karne
youtube.com/watch?v=PSwz6Au_CsE

The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
youtube.com/watch?v=PunrhxAjXYs

Mobb Deep - Survival of the Fittest
youtube.com/watch?v=XNPCQaIQdEA

DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
youtube.com/watch?v=JwAYcBKyEBQ

OutKast - Elevators (Me & You)
youtube.com/watch?v=pacUC1YK8Ac

[Alexander Howard]

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
Don't Think Twice it's Alright - Bob Dylan
Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan
Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
Rock n' Roll Suicide - David Bowie
Five Years - David Bowie
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Alice - Tom Waits
Soldier's Things - Tom Waits
Let My Baby Stay - Mac Demarco

[Charles Wood]

Yndi Halda - Dash and Blast
youtube.com/watch?v=pgwLMojiw7U

SWANS - Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture
youtube.com/watch?v=wWQ1AQ_dMFo

MONO - Recoil, Ignite
youtube.com/watch?v=YEbRNqnwqmY

Hans Zimmer - Mountains
youtube.com/watch?v=o_Ay_iDRAbc

Explosions in the sky - With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
youtube.com/watch?v=VgoFzBqbSaU

Nujabes - Kujaku
youtube.com/watch?v=GDpKynUq-cQ

Fleet Foxes - Sun It Rises
youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5B-U6LwaA

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Mladic
youtube.com/watch?v=RXdF9uhVrI0

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Hand Covers Bruise
youtube.com/watch?v=9SBNCYkSceU

KASHIWA Daisuke - Subaru
youtube.com/watch?v=oF_V9VEyc2c

[Bentley Moore]

Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down
The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
New Order - True Faith

[Sebastian Martin]

we could def hang

>me
Cardiacs - Loosefish Scapegrace / Dog Like Sparky / RES / every tune they ever did........
The Tuss - Death Fuck
Four Tet - Locked
Luke Vibert - Boney L
Sunken Foal - Row Of Gods

these are my definite favorite songs of all time, I couldn't think of more, if so they would only be fillers I think

[Xavier Nguyen]

The Cure - Disintegration
Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
Have a Nice Life - Hunter
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
Kanye West - Good Life
Björk - Hidden Place
David Bowie - Station to Station
Nas - NY State of Mind
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
(pls no bully)

[Benjamin Gutierrez]

Swans - Blood Promise (Swans are Dead version)
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
GY!BE - East Hastings
Talk Talk - The Rainbow/Eden/Desire
Slint - Good Morning Captain
The Angels of Light - Untitled Love Song
Can - Halleluhwah
A Silver Mt. Zion - BlindBlindBlind
Tim Buckley - Driftin
Les Rallizes Denudes - Night of the Assassins
This Heat - A New Kind of Water
Pere Ubu - Laughing

fuck this first I missed the 10 part and listed 30 off the top of my head then tried to cut down to 10 but this is the best I can do

[Oliver Sanders]

The Velvet Underground - After Hours
youtube.com/watch?v=fND_Y6OgsDs

Cigarettes After Sex - K
youtube.com/watch?v=L4sbDxR22z4

Foster The People - Fire Escape
youtube.com/watch?v=8Rz0npqmUvg

Emile Haynie - Little Ballerina
youtube.com/watch?v=ikHlWhwWD0s

Amy Winehouse - Best Friends, Right
youtube.com/watch?v=xByKmarYqzU

The Radio Dept. - Peace of Mind
youtube.com/watch?v=v8ieRy50bPI

salvia palth - i was all over her
youtube.com/watch?v=dUegJBEusoI

The Strokes - I'll Try Anything Once
youtube.com/watch?v=zcze-UD1D4w

Karen O - Ooo
youtube.com/watch?v=Wqa9PA3nkN4

The Weeknd - Till Dawn
youtube.com/watch?v=PJaLS9C8W6I

Beach House - 10 mile stereo
youtube.com/watch?v=3-rYQRxzaJM

teen suicide - the same things happening to me all the time, even in my dreams
youtube.com/watch?v=bVB7UMwvlAo

I know it's not 10 but whatever, all these songs mean a lot to me in some way or another and make me feel something special each time they come on weather it be personal and nostalgic or just relating to them.

I also don't really know how these kinds of threads promote discussion but whatever