Sunday, December 15, 2013

My 100 favorite songs from 2013

I decided to go with 100 songs this year because frankly, there were just too many jams that had to be included.  So, here they are in absolutely no particular order.  I just wrote them down as they came to me.  As per usual, one song per artist.

If anyone reading this feels so inclined to put all of these songs onto one massive playlist and then send it to me, you will get my well deserved thanks and possibly a high five.

Let's get to it:

1. Deafheaven - "Vertigo"
2. Grouper - "The Man Who Died in His Boat"
3. Fuzz - "This Time I got a Reason"
4. Suede - "Barriers"
5. Angel Olsen - "Sweet Dreams"
6. Sally Shapiro - "Starman"
7. Wampire - "The Hearse"
8. Schuh, Pink, and Cowboy - "Cloak and Dagger"
9. Benoit Pioulard and Foxes in Fiction - "Ground Glass"
10. Troller - "Tiger"

11. The Knife - "Full of Fire"
12. Colin Stetson - "To See More Light"
13. My Bloody Valentine - "Only Tomorrow"
14. Jacco Gardner - "Clear the Air"
15. Iceage - "Morals"
16. Mark Kozelek - "Like Rats"
17. The Haxan Cloak - "The Mirror Reflecting"
18. Revelator - "Net of Gems"
19. Wear Your Wounds - "Adrift in You"
20. Georgiana Starlington - "Gust"

21. Club 8 - "Kill, Kill, Kill"
22. Cold Cave - "People Are Poison"
23. Solar Bears - "Cosmic Runner"
24. Kylesa - "Unspoken"
25. Midnight Juggernauts - "Ballad of the War Machine"
26. Carnivores - "Pillow Talk"
27. Phantom Love - "Lotus"
28. Feuerbahn - "Triumphwagen"
29. St. Lucia - "Before the Dive (CHVRCHES remix)"
30. Phosphorescent - "Song for Zula"

31. Sigur Ros - "Brennisteinn"
32. Pharmakon - "Crawling on Bruised Knees"
33. Milk Music - "I've Got a Wild Feeling"
34. Deerhunter - "Monomania"
35. Kurt Vile - "Wakin' on a Pretty Day"
36. HAERTS - "All the Days"
37. Chelsea Wolfe - "Fight Like Gods"
38. Daft Punk - "Contact"
39. MGMT - "Alien Days"
40. Savages - "She Will"

41. Conan - "Beheaded"
42. Tempers - "Strange Harvest"
43. Temples - "Shelter Song"
44. Bombino - "Imuhar"
45. Ghost B.C. - "Waiting for the Night"
46. Peter Gordon and Factory Floor - "Beachcombing"
47. Postiljonen - "When All the Wild Things Die"
48. Man's Gin - "Deer Head and the Rain"
49. Tree - "The King"
50. Boards of Canada - "Reach for the Dead"

51. FMLYBND - "Electricity"
52. Morne - "New Dawn"
53. Outfit - "I Want What's Best"
54. Forest Swords - "The Weight of Gold"
55. Haleek Maul - "Lobo"
56. Mood Rings - " The Line"
57. King Khan and the Shrines - "Darkness"
58. Lustmord - "Chorazin"
59. Bookhouse - "Laura Palmer's Theme"
60. Locrian - "Two Moons"

61. Diarrhea Planet - "Kids"
62. Rob (featuring Chloe Alper) - "Juno"
63. Ellery James Roberts - "Kerou's Lament"
64. Ovlov - "Where's My Dini?"
65. Jagwar Ma - "The Throw"
66. Ariel Pink and Jorge Elbrecht - "Hang on to Life"
67. Tropic of Cancer - "More Alone"
68. Marie Davidson - "Esthetique Privee"
69. Gauntlet Hair - "Bad Apple"
70. Antwon - "Dying in the Pussy"

71. Windhand - "Woodbine"
72. BANKS - "Waiting Game"
73. White Poppy - "Who Are You"
74. Dawn of Midi - "Nix"
75. Black Hearted Brother - "(I Don't Mean to) Wonder"
76. Fort Romeau - "Stay True"
77. Wolvserpent - "In Mirrors of Water"
78. Ejecta - "Jeremiah (the Denier)"
79. Lustre - "Green World"
80. Ty Segall - "Sleeper"

81. Russian Circles - "Memorial"
82. Arcade Fire - "Reflektor"
83. Danny Brown - "ODB"
84. Helen - "Dying all the Time"
85. Odonis Odonis - "Are We Friends?"
86. Arnold Dreyblatt and Megafaun - "Home Hat Placement"
87. Bill Callahan - "The Sing"
88. The Men - "I Saw Her Face (acoustic)"
89. Gems - "Medusa"
90. David Bowie - "Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich mix by James Murphy)"

91. Lazerhawk - "Massacre"
92. Androgynous Mind - "Knock on my Door"
93. Thee Oh Sees - "Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster"
94. Purple Pilgrims - "Earthly Heaven / Joon"
95. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Higgs Boson Blues"
96. Action Bronson - "Pepe Lopez"
97. The Stranger - "Where Are our Monsters, Where Are our Friends?"
98. bEEdEEgEE - "Flowers"
99. Death Grips - "Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)"
100. Charli XCX - "You (Ha Ha Ha)"

I probably could have come up with even more songs, but i've gotta go make dinner.  Get to listening!

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