Playlist: My Top 20 of 2014

A selection of my top songs of 2014...

Top 20 Songs of 2014: George Ezra - Budapest

My house in Budapest

My, my hidden treasure chest,

Golden grand piano

My beautiful Castillo

You

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all

My acres of a land

That I've achieved

It may be hard for you to,

Stop and believe

But for you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd Leave it all

Ooh, for you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all

Give me one good reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away

My many artifacts

The list goes on

If you just say the words

I I'll up and run

To you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all

Ooh, to you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all

Give me one good reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away

Give me one good reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away

My friends and family

They don't understand

They fear they'll lose so much

If you take my hand

But, for you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd lose it all

Ooh, for you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd lose it all.

Give me one good reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away

Give me one good reason

Why I should never make a change

Baby if you hold me

Then all of this will go away

My house in Budapest

My, my hidden treasure chest,

Golden grand piano

My beautiful Castillo

You

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all.

Ooh, for you

Ooh, you

Ooh, I'd leave it all

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami

Sylvan Esso are extraordinary. A year ago the North Carolina duo—made up of Amelia Meath and Nicholas Sanborn—dropped "Hey Mami" on soundcloud. The layered melodies were plush, the instrumentation pleasingly spare, with Amelia's vocal acrobatics key to their appeal. And then there was that synth drop at the midway point. It was the first taste of Sylvan Esso and it had everyone with ears hooked.

Recently the duo joined us on a Brooklyn rooftop with a four-piece horn section (and a dude playing a wine bottle) for a never before performed acoustic version of "Hey Mami" which is both stripped back and souped up. Plus Amelia confessed the inspiration behind the song involved an unfortunate encounter with an oversexed cat-calling asshole.  vice

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

She walking so fast, she walking so fast, she walking so fast

Oh our lady she don't know how she go

She walking so fast, she walking so fast, she walk like a babe, hey

Her image it lasts and I know

She floats along as she goes

She owns the eyes as she flies right through the sound

Moving her body all around town

Hey, hey mami, hey, hey mami

I know what you want, I know what you want, I know what you want

Sooner or later the dudes at bodegas will hold their lips and own this shit

Curlin their toes on a shivery tip

But out here oh she don't know the gravity she owns

As she pulls on the eyeballs of all the kids standing tall

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

Hey mami, I know what you want, mami

She walking so fast, she walking so fast, she walking so fast

Oh our lady she don't know how she go

She walking so fast, she walking so fast, she walk like a babe, hey

Look at that ass and I know

She floats along as she goes

She owns the eyes as she flies right through the sound

Moving her body all around town

Hey, hey mami, hey, hey mami

I know what you want, I know what you want, I know what you want

Sooner or later the dudes at bodegas will hold their lips and own this shit

Curlin their toes on a shivery tip

But out here oh she don't know the gravity she owns

As she pulls on the eyeballs of all the kids standing tall

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Neighbors - Wild Enough

Neighbors

The Brooklyn-based songwriter/producer emerged from a hail of other bands and bedroom projects in 2012. We shared "Diamonds," from his indietronic debut Good Luck, Kid, but he's aiming for a sound much bigger this time around. Case in point: "Wild Enough." The new single, witnessed above, finds Stitleman cooing over a massive wave of thick synths, tropical drums, and airy effects pushed forward by the occasional ripping guitar solo. The accompanying video is equally ambitious and instantly enjoyable. Helmed by commercial director Philip Van (YSL, Chevy) and choreographed by Celia Rowlson Hall (MGMT, Chromeo), the VHS-filtered clip casts our host as a mad scientist conducting a series of strange yet beautiful tests on his unwittingly coordinated subjects. Failure was produced by Kyle "Slick" Johnson (Modest Mouse, the Hives). Spin

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Buddy - Boxing Elbows

Boxing Elbows is probably one of my favourite this year... the build, the musicality, the swagger, the poppy goodness is so good. The harmonies at the end of the track is what sold me on this one... Again, again again...

From the opening chords of “Weak Currents,” the album’s first single, the hand of Phil Ek is immediately evident. Ek, who mixed the album, is best known for his work with acts such as Band of Horses, Built to Spill, and the Shins, all of which Buddy’s sound could easily be likened to. The juxtaposition of the simple acoustic guitar part with the distant, kaleidoscopic, feedback provides a lush soundscape that is the perfect bed for the pretty vocal melody to lie upon. On this song and throughout the album, the backing vocal harmonies (at times augmented by guest artists Michelle Branch, Cary Brothers and Holly Conlan) steal the show, betraying a bit of Crosby, Stills, and Nash by way of the Fleet Foxes (another Ek pet project). This song is followed by “Slow Light Down,” which, though it never strays far from Indie rock orthodoxy in terms of its chord progression and melody, does make memorable use of overlapping background vocals, haunting guitar trills, and one of the standout lyrics on the entire album: “Despite what they say it isn’t love if you’re not ashamed.” BBS

Top 20 Songs of 2014: St. Vincent - Digital Witness

What can I say, this song is a wonderfully, sexy, poppy, electronic exploration into our digital self!

Get back, to your seat

Get back, gnashing teeth

Ooh, I want all of your mind

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?

If I can't show it, if you can't see me

What's the point of doing anything?

This is no time for confessing

I want all of your mind

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

People turn the TV on, it looks just like a window, yeah

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?

If I can't show it, if you can't see me

Watch me jump right off the London Bridge

This is no time for confessing

People turn the TV on and throw it out the window, yeah

Get back to your stare

I care, but I don't care

Oh oh, I, I want all of your mind

Give me all of your mind

I want all of your mind

Give me all of it

Digital witnesses, what's the point of even sleeping?

If I can't show it, if you can't see me

What's the point of doing anything?

What's the point of even sleeping?

So I stopped sleeping, yeah I stopped sleeping

Won't somebody sell me back to me?

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Leonard Cohen - Samson in New Orleans

How could a Leonard Cohen come out and it not get a nod; he is after all a huge influence on just about all I listen to... Samson in New Orleans's is a beautifully bitter lament on the power of nature on humanity and biblical references are obvious...

Cohen invokes Hurricane Katrina in "Samson in New Orleans," lamenting the destruction of jazz's birthplace: "You said you loved her secrets / And her freedoms hid away / She was better than America / That's what I heard you say."

You said that you were with me

You said you were my friend

Did you really love the city

Or did you just pretend

You said you loved her secrets

And her freedoms hid away

She was better than America

That’s what I heard you say

You said how could this happen

You said how can this be

The remnant all dishonored

On the bridge of misery

And we who cried for mercy

From the bottom of the pit

Was our prayer so damn unworthy

The Son rejected it?

So gather up the killers

Get everyone in town

Stand me by those pillars

Let me take this temple down

The king so kind and solemn

He wears a bloody crown

So stand me by that column

Let me take this temple down

You said how could this happen

You said how can this be

The chains are gone from heaven

The storms are wild and free

There’s other ways to answer

That certainly is true

Me, I’m blind with death and anger

And that’s no place for you

There’s a woman in the window

And a bed in Tinsel Town

I’ll write you when it’s over

Let me take this temple down

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Happyness - Baby, Jesus

Happiness is a great feeling; Happyness is a great band. The South London trio specializes in lush-yet-breezy indie rock that conjures all sorts of wistful feelings then takes the piss out of them with wry puns and punchlines. Think of it as Sparklehorse’s mournful dream-pop pocket symphonies infused with Pavement’s winking ironic sensibility, or Yo La Tengo if their public sense of humor seeped into their records more often. It’s gorgeous, gregarious stuff, music that immediately ingratiates itself but continues to reveal new layers of beauty with time.

It opens with ‘Baby, Jesus (Jelly Boy)’, which contains lyrics as weird as the title suggests. It’s a beautifully simple and almost idyllic sounding track, letting the guitar drip in like melting icicles. The vocals are whispered over the top, with the line “I’m the motherfucking birthday boy, don’t steal my thunder baby Jesus” standing out amongst the quiet backing. 

Top 20 Songs 2014: Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Body Electric

Small Town Heroes may not sound like what you’d expect from a New Orleans album, yet it is anchored in that city’s sense of musical adventure. Segarra learned her trade playing in street bands and busking on corners, which has given her a broad musical vocabulary. She arranges and produces these songs as eloquently as she writes them, often using just a few instruments to convey a surprisingly full sound. “Blue Ridge Mountain” opens the album with her clawhammer banjo and what sounds like a clogger working together as a makeshift rhythm section, with Yosi Perlstein’s spry fiddle dancing around them. “No One Else” is built on a folk-rock foundation, yet it pitches and yaws on a rolling piano bassline that might have been learned from an old Fats Domino or Professor Longhair record. PF

Said you're gonna shoot me down, put my body in the river
Shoot me down, put my body in the river
While the whole world sings, sing it like a song
The whole world sings like there's nothing going wrong

He shot her down, he put her body in the river
He covered her up but I went to get her
And I said, "My girl, what happened to you now?"
I said, "My girl, we gotta stop it somehow"

Oh, and tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand
Gonna do for a world that's so sick and sad?
Tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand
Gonna do for a world that's so gone mad?

He's gonna shoot me down, put my body in the river
Cover me up with the leaves of September
Like an old sad song, you heard it all before
Well, Delia's gone but I'm settling the score

Oh, and tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand
Gonna do for a world that's just dying slow?
Tell me what's a man with a rifle in his hand
Gonna do for his daughter when it's her turn to go?

Top 20 Songs 2014: Modern Baseball - Two Good Things

Like pretty much every guitar band these days that doesn’t immediately scan as “indie rock,” Modern Baseball have been lumped into “emo”—and yes, considering Modern Baseball are probably Weezer fans and are caught up in girl problems of their own making, that label sticks to an extent. Thing is, the actual music of You’re Gonna Miss It All is just about everything but emo, mostly some code-splitting of the pop-punk double helix. There’s shout-and-whoa power-pop (“Charlie Black”), prim twee (“Going to Bed Now”), folky punk (“Your Graduation”), all built around sturdy choruses. One thing Modern Baseball do have in common with their trendpiece peers is that they’re getting attention because they’re much, much better at making music than they were two years ago. This is evident in the songwriting, which is more confident and ambitious, but just as importantly, the production. You're Gonna Miss It All was mastered by Will Yip (basically the Steve Albini of this scene) and engineered by Jonathan Low, a guy who’s worked on the National’s records. So needless to say, it’s going to sound a lot more professional than Sports, a charmingly amateur affair that seemed content to be passed around amongst Modern Baseball’s Facebook friends. PF

Trying hard not to look like I'm trying that hard

Failing miserably at everything, including that

Making plans in my head right before I go to sleep

Trying to think of who could make a better me than me

Maybe I'll shoot him an email

Maybe he'll give it a go

Then I'll be free to just evaporate, disperse, or implode

Picking at holes in my jeans

There's so much God in my gene pool

Not feeling lonely, I just like being alone

I've called A through F already but no one knows

Why one girl, one band, two paychecks are more than I can handle

Mathematically that can't be more than one end of a candle

Bottom of the ninth, can't find my socks

Lord knows

I'm stuck between two good things, but I just wanna get out

Mom knows

I should have been home an hour ago

But I'm still outside, not doing anything wrong

Just walking in circles, replaying high school songs in my head

Because it's better than lying awake

Top Songs of 2014: The New Mendicants - Sarasota

You don't have to be a genius to guess what a collaboration between Joe Pernice (Scud Mountain Boys, Pernice Brothers) and Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) is going to sound like. Might there be ringing guitars? There very well might be. Could there be an undertow of melancholy? Indeed. And will there be harmonies on the choruses? Naturally. Although all the songs are credited to both, plus drummer Mike Belitsky, half the fun comes from guessing who's the lead writer on the songs, even though Pernice sings almost all the leads. Sarasota and If You Only Knew Her have the stately despair characteristic of Pernice's writing... The project began as an attempt to soundtrack a movie adaptation of Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down, and what appears to be one of those songs is one of the highlights. High Above the Skyline swoops and soars, precise and perfectly measured, both downcast and hopeful.

My Top Bandcamp Discoveries 2014

Katie Deter pens simple yet lovely tracks. I really got into this little release in 2014, it really brought me back to thinking about my beautiful daughter, growing up in a cold world. The music is fairly straightforward but the lyrics are adorable and innocent; her voice is the kicker, so unique and distinct it got me coming back again and again. And it is free too... Well if you feel like scrooge that is! Awesome release. 

I can't wait till she matures only slightly and pens her next release.

adult mom is again a wonderful little release, however there is a tad more of an edge to these short and fast paced songs. The backdrop has more of an indie garage feel, but the lyrics again are great; maybe because of my daughter getting older, after all these are growing up songs... 

Raw, true through and through!

Top 20 Songs of 2014: Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up

Pace mine for for you

Hold my horses, patient

Hey man, tricks can't wait to hear my emotions

Every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

Every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

People say I'm a one-hit wonder

But what happens when I have two?

I washed your dishes, but I shitted in your bathroom

Even when the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

Even when the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

We broke your glasses, but covered our asses

Take time silently, feel real room hi-fi

Every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

Every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

Yeah, every time the sun comes up, I'm in trouble

Imagine when

Every time the sun comes up, I see double

Live session on NME

On Letterman

Top 20 Songs 2014: Lily and Madeleine - The Wolf is Free

The Wolf is Free is off L&M newest album, entitled Fumes. I really fell in love with this song when they released the music video. The song is so perfectly represented in the images - its' mysterious sounds, its' simple lines, its' angelic harmonies all combine to create a wonderful tune. 

Simply beautiful...

Some crippling dream
I know whose fault it is, I know it isn’t me.
The wolf is free.
I wanna chase him down and drown him in the sea.

The innocent flock like sheep
Their efforts are in vain, the wolf is back again
I hope he comes for me
I’m not out-running him and I’m not gonna scream.

I’m gonna follow him
I know his name,
I know his name.

The wolf is free
His eyes are narrowing, it is a scary thing.
And some fears run deep
There is a change in him, there is a change in me.

I’ll put you to sleep.
My fingers through your hair, into your skin, I’ll be,
Ten fingernails deep,
And I won’t let you go, you will not bury me.

Pitchfork Top 50 Albums

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Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums

Every year has its share of tragedies and darkness, but 2014 has felt particularly tough. On global, national, and community levels, death, devastation, and darkness have plagued the nightly news in a particularly frustrating and seemingly senseless way. Perhaps that feeling is amplified by the omnipresence of technology that has made each and every pain felt by a larger audience and then replayed on an endless loop. It could also be that this has been an especially broken year, a theory supported by the fact that so many of 2014’s best albums are fueled by artists facing harrowing struggles.

45. ALEX G – DSU

Alex Giannascoli, a North Philadelphia native and Temple University student, makes low-key but lovely bedroom pop under a shorter version of his name. Quietly prolific, Giannascoli has seamlessly blended the gentle and the off-kilter through releases like 2012’s TRICK and RULES. Now, with DSU, his first ever mastered full-length (and Orchid Tapes debut), he refines his formula while maintaining his charm. The album’s best songs, like “Boy”, “Sorry”, and “After Ur Gone”, feature a simple combination of muted acoustic guitars, droning but heartfelt vocals, bass, a steady drum pattern, and the occasional piano. Even with his rudimentary pieces, Alex G is a deft songwriter, able to pack tons of sugary hooks, emotional resonance, and smart flourishes into such simple compositions. –Josh Terry

39. MODERN BASEBALL – YOU’RE GONNA MISS IT ALL

Modern Baseball is a rocket back to my high school days of listening to The Get Up Kids and The Promise Ring. At the time, though, I didn’t want people to hear just how sad-sappy-sack the music and lyrics were. Modern Baseball’s You’re Gonna Miss It All is the kind of album I actually wanted at that time. The lyrics tell hilariously awkward tales of dealing with whatever the fuck life in your late teens and early twenties is, and the music takes on the catchiness from those early bands, but without every awkward blemish Photoshopped away. The Philadelphia rockers have the realism and wordplay I wanted, using the words I was too ashamed to write. It’s a damn near perfect combination. –Nick Freed

16. WEEZER – EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT IN THE END

A mother says the title of Weezer’s ninth album in the first track’s opening moments, comforting her child. If this album were the end of the band’s career, it would indeed be “alright.” But, fortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the case with Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The band’s return to form is a reminder that Rivers Cuomo and co. still have much to offer the alternative rock universe, whether it’s fashionable to like them or not. In this light, the new record comes across strangely comforting. Cuomo once said about his band’s classic sophomore record, Pinkerton, “I’m not coloring anything or softening anything. This is who I am and if you don’t like it … well, we should probably part ways, and I’m just gonna tell you the very worst parts of myself.” That Cuomo seems to be back on Everything Will Be Alright in the End, with single “Back to the Shack” stating, “I had to go and make a few mistakes so I could find out who I am/ I’m letting all of these feelings out even if it means I fail.” Those lyrics could easily describe his band’s last five or so albums, and delivering this record, with that apology, puts the entirety of Weezer’s career in a different, much more favorable light. –Philip Cosores

12. OWEN PALLETT – IN CONFLICT

This was an apex year for Owen Pallett. Arcade Fire’s most reliable five-tool collaborator received an Academy Award nomination for the Her soundtrack. He also bared hidden turmoils across In Conflict. The album entertains apathy but still gets excited about venturing into parts unknown. “Song for Five & Six” and “Soldier’s Rock” reinforce the notion that it’s time to pick up the pieces and move on. But move on where? And to what end? Tracks like “The Sky Behind the Flag” also offer up Pallett’s bittersweet composition with a bunting of tones that unfurl into a vast aural tapestry. The music is ripe with all manner of blips, blorps, and impassioned introspection. The latter half of In Conflict then races toward an anxious albeit encouraging end, with high intensity cuts like “The Riverbed” and “Infernal Fantasy” upping both the tempo and the stakes. The biggest highlight is Pallett’s enchanted vocals, which pair incredibly well with his meditations. They’re like a siren song of contrition warning others to avoid the emotional rocks and hazards that scuttled a life once sweet. In 2003, The Postal Service hurried down a similar route with Give Up. Now, in 2014, these poignant barbs arrive with more complexity, like forlorn packages dropped off by a guided quadrocopter. –Dan Pfleegor

6. AGAINST ME! – TRANSGENDER DYSPHORIA BLUES

“Your tells are so obvious,” shouts Laura Jane Grace in what’s maybe the most triumphant opener of the year. “Shoulders too broad for a girl.” It’s the first time she’s kicked off an album since she took her own name, her real name, since she told it to the rest of the world. “Transgender Dysphoria Blues”, from the album of the same name, might boast the most devastating first verse of an Against Me! record since Grace sang about her grandparents back in 2002 on “Pints of Guinness Make You Strong”. It carries the same weight. Transgender Dysphoria Blues never shies away from that heaviness, but it also never stops feeling like a victory. Grace packs so much fear into these songs: fear of violence, abandonment, disappointment, change, and death. These aren’t rare shadows for people working through a transition, especially for women who were told for years that they were men. Grace stares them down with a fire that lights up hope in its wake.

Strangely enough, the album’s most hopeful song takes place in a pair of caskets. Grace wrote “Two Coffins” for her young daughter as a reminder that even if not all love is unconditional, hers would last through death. Is that morbid? A little — you don’t get too many songs about a beloved child’s “little moon face” that also imagine that face sealed underground. But death sticks around whether we imagine it or not. For Grace, embracing the possibility of the worst is a cornerstone of her courage. The sixth Against Me! album is a landmark for a number of reasons — their first since dropping their major label, their first since Grace’s transition — but it’s also a massive declaration of triumph and, most of all, freedom. We close our own cell doors, or the world closes them for us. From the album’s first words, we know Grace has decided to kick hers down. –Sasha Geffen

1. THE WAR ON DRUGS – LOST IN THE DREAM

Pressure is a cruel mistress. Its impending presence is both the wild animal that chases us when we’re running our fastest and a trigger that, like nothing else, can tempt us to stop moving altogether. Some, like Adam Granduciel, can’t help but see this paradox everywhere, so it makes sense that it’s the figure in the crosshairs of the best album he’ll likely ever make.

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Top Songs of 2014: Andrew Jackson Jihad - Getting Naked, Playing with Guns

AJJ writes the most outrageous lyrics to, at times very sweet acoustic melodies - in this case this is what got my attention with this track in particular off his latest release, Christmas Island. The common "man" speaks in inferences, as he takes on modern twists happening in the 21st century woe. Fairly linear song that is catapulted to new heights with this playfully depressing look at ourselves and our fall from grace.

Getting naked and playing with guns

there's a gerbil in the microwave, a baseball bat in everyone

sharing kisses and building a bomb

we'll set it off like Microsoft in 94

we'll set it off like Microsoft in 94

McDonald's play place before the xbox

cake frosting sweet talking bedroom wall

covered in knives, touching god, burning shit

we'll make a wish and take a trip to future town like our daddy did

and we'll kill the neighbor kid who only wants to be our friend

his dad is dead enough that his new dad can cure the bends

we'll make a wish and take a trip to future town

feeling weird yet tasting sweet

its a top bottom rock smoking magic mask making it bleed

feeling sweet, getting weird

now I can se the playgorund from the trees

and i can see the playgrond from the trees

and we'll show the neighbor kid what

what our love actually means

he's here from out of town and I heard he's got ADD

we'll climb the tallest branch with a rifle full of dreams

and we'll blow the little dickhead up to smitherines

Getting naked and playing with guns

there's a gerbil in the microwave, a baseball bat in everyone

sharing kisses and building a bomb

we'll set it off like microsoft in 94

we'll set it off like Microsoft in 94 in our backyard

Top Songs of 2014: Kevin Morby - Motors Running

Kevin Morby's second solo release is a gem of an affaire, choosing one song is a hard thing for me to do; but the driving charge, sultry vocals and the electric jangle makes this track an often played occurrence round my parts! I recommend the whole album, but hey I had to choose...

From Pitchfork

The short, spirited "Motors Running", a none-too-fond fare-thee-well to a fellow traveler, gives you almost nothing in terms of backstory: "We had just gotten started," Morby sings, "with black shadows coming out of your door." But in just a few lines, he manages to tell you everything you need to know: you can stay, Morby seems to be saying, but I've gotta keep moving. Throughout Still Life, Morby will introduce a character or describe a situation, but you never get the sense that these are permanent fixtures in Morby's life so much as markers on the long, oft-lonesome road he's traveling on.

Aquarium Drunkard's Albums of 2014

Here are a few highlights from AD favourite albums of 2014

See comments on their blog - very nice list and write-ups of each of the top albums.

AQUARIUM DRUNKARD 2014

Spin's Top 101 Songs of 2014

It's been as wide-open a race for our favorite songs of the year as any 12-month period we can remember; without one specific artist or movement really putting their imprint on the year, just about anyone could've claimed for the top spot. Hence, our list of the 101 Best Songs of 2014 includes just about everything; our top 20 alone contains a pair of former child actresses, a band three decades deep into their career, an icon who's been dead for five years, and an artist that doesn't technically exist by some definitions.

Regardless of the improbability of some of the performers involved, though, the songs themselves were as strong as ever — songs that made us go up, turn down, and swing from the chandel-li-iiiiiieeer. Close your eyes, and let's start counting.

Here are a few of my highlights from the list - a lot of songs, many that meeh, whatever!

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92. Ariel Pink, "Sexual Athletics"

84. Sun Kil Moon, "Carissa"

70. Todd Terje feat. Bryan Ferry, "Johnny and Mary"

67. Falls, "Please"

56. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, "Kelly"

55. Wussy, "Teenage Wasteland"

23. Cloud Nothings, "I'm Not Part of Me"

1. Future Islands, "Seasons (Waiting on You)"