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Love this idea of crowdsourcing a long lost playlist.

I was thinking Broken Social Scene, too, as others suggested. Maybe Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl?

Other artist thoughts: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Bells, Sun Kil Moon, Los Campesinos, Wilco, Stars, Dirty Projectors…

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Broken Bells might be a good place to dig! The Dirty Projectors were on that same work playlist, funny enough. Anthem for a Seventeen Year Old Girl was like, the song I played the most in college.

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was there any Neutral Milk Hotel on it? This looks like the work of someone who loved some NMH. Maybe In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (song) or Holland, 1945?

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I don't think Neutral Milk Hotel was on there — but again, another good direction!

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Neutral Milk Hotel! a must...

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2010 was a good year for Indie music...some songs from that year that might be on the playlist are: Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) - Arcade Fire, Sweetest Kill - Broken Social Scene, I can change - LCD Soundsystem...perhaps some Spoon or Interpol as well?

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This is a good place to start – I feel like many of Sean's choices were def of this era but maybe a year back or two? I 100% went through Broken Social Scene's catalog once looking for a playlist song in the past but that might be worth revisiting.

Thank you for posting. It means a lot to me.

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Would add all of these :)

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A lot of the ones you’ve identified are stuff I was listening to, so on the off chance that this indicates some overlap in taste (plus some of these artists were in other bands as well), maybe check out (sorry I know there’s a lot):

Sunset Rubdown

Moonface

Magnolia Electric Company

Songs: Ohia

Uncle Tupelo

Son Volt

Alexi Murdoch

Damien Rice

Decemberists

Lucero

Okkervil River

Ryan Adams (if you still listen to him post metoo issues)

My Morning Jacket

Red House Painters

Sun Kil Moon

The xx

Airborne Toxic Event

Of Monsters and Men

The Head and the Heart

The Avett Brothers

The Civil Wars

The National

Bright Eye

the pillows

High and Mighty Color

And you know, Sufjan and R.E.M. and Radiohead. I think those go without saying.

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I love this idea! Thank you for sharing your story about Sean with us, and the music he gave to people's lives.

Maybe some of these? Under Control (The Strokes), Where Does the Good Go? (Tegan & Sara), Creature Fear (Bon Iver), Keen on Boys (The Radio Dept.), Ceremony (New Order), and seconding Anthems for A Seventeen Year Old Girl.

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These are all superb suggestions!

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Also clearly a shoegaze fan. What about Alison by Slowdive or Just Like Honey by The Jesus & Mary Chain?

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Alison sounds familiar — but I'm not 100% sure. I feel like I might be falling into a category of "maybe" songs soon? I had a co-worker who listened to a ton of Slowdive around 2013 so now I'm doubting myself. I don't think Jesus and Mary Chain were on there, but that's the right direction.

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Shoegaze deserves its rightful place :)

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I didn't include these because I'm not totally sure they're on the playlist, but here's some maybe songs:

Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Something from Painful album by Yo La Tengo

I think there's more Deerhunter, but I think Deerhunter was super popular at that moment so it's hard to tell what I would have been listening to in the cafe vs. the playlist

I think the St. Vincent / M83 / Blonde Redhead rabbit hole might be the right way to go

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And Yo La Tengo always so lovely to this Jerz boy

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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs acoustic version of Maps (released as ‘iTunes original’) one of my fave tracks of all time

https://music.apple.com/us/album/maps-itunes-originals-version/1443192143?i=1443192680

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This is a great playlist, Ashley - well, you’ve got lots songs by artists (The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Magnetic Fields, Asobi Seksu, M83, Deerhunter, St Vincent, Wolf Parade, Of Montreal, Talking Heads) that have been on my playlists, so plainly you guys had fabulous taste in music 😉

Some pre-2010 songs that I think fit the feeling of your list you could add, thinking you need to get to 69:

Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Love - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Shadowland - Youth Group

The Skyscraper Boast - Martian Memo To God

The One - The Like

Chosen One - The Concretes

Not Going Home - The Elected

Turn Out The Light - The Amsterdams

Awake My Soul - Mumford & Sons

When The Music’s Not Forgotten- Deadman

The Lakes of Canada - Jonathan Inc

Grazed Knees / Snow

Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens

Creation Lake - Silversun Pickups

Lived in Bars - Cat Power

Grazed Knees - Snow Patrol

When The Music’s Not Forgotten - Deadman

Awake My Soul - Mumford & Sons

The Lakes of Canada - Jonathan Inc

I And Love And You - Avett Bros

Terrified - Rainer Maria

The Valleys of New Orleans - The Veils

Dancing - Doveman

Blonde on Blonde - Nada Surf

Marching Bands of Manhattan- Death Cab for Cutie

Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie

Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire

Lies (Rebellion) - Arcade Fire

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

Intervention - Arcade Fire

The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - Postal Service

Books Written For Girls - Camera Obscura

Could Well Be In - The Streets

Tubin’- Hockey Night

Goodnight and Go - Imogen Heap

Stranger - Figurine

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I love this idea, too! Here are some ideas that might be totally wrong...

Adam Green - Novotel

TV on the Radio - Family Tree, Lover's Day, Love Dog, Crying

Beach House - Used to Be

Animal Collective - My Girls, Turn into Something

Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

Yeasayer - Tightrope

Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost

Beirut - A Sunday Smile, Postcards from Italy

other artists: Feist, the Shins, Bats for Lashes, Kings of Convenience

Around 2005-2012 especially I LOVED making playlists for people and I miss it a lot. Maybe I'll go out and make one for someone this week : )

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