Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Favorite Songs of 2018

Yesterday, i posted my favorite albums of the year (kind of feeling appalled that i left new records from Daughters and Preoccupations off of that thing too), and today we continue with even more music and more lists.  Just what you were waiting for, i'm sure.

Anyway, here are my favorite 100 songs of 2018...in completely random order.

1. Andrew WK - "Music Is Worth Living For" (I can't deny it.  This is my favorite of the year.)



2. Grimes - "We Appreciate Power"
3. Penelope Trappes - "Carry Me"
4. Echo Ladies - "Overrated"
5. Jon Spencer - "I Got the Hits"

6. Slow Crush - "Tremble"
7. Cobra Man - "Toxic Planet"
8. Boy Harsher - "Face the Fire"
9. Ioanna Gika - "Roseate"
10. Rebecca Peake - "A Waste of Time"

11. Ty Segall - "Rain"
12. Author & Punisher - "Nazarene"
13. Deafheaven - "Canary Yellow"
14. Golden Dawn Arkestra - "Wings of Ra"
15. Roosevelt (with Washed Out) - "Forgive"

16. Death Valley Girls - "Disaster (Is What We're After)"
17. Fucked Up - "Raise Your Voice Joyce"
18. Tuğçe Şenoğul - "Bunu Sana Demistim"
19. Thom Yorke - "Suspirium"
20. Drab Majesty - "Cannibal"



21. Dinosaur on Fire - "Romance V"
22. Deerhoof - "Midnight, The Stars and You"
23. Toby Driver - "Glyph"
24. somesurprises - "Low on Sleep"
25. Hooveriii - "Reptile"

26. HEALTH & Soccer Mommy - "Mass Grave"
27. Bun B (with Run the Jewels) - "Myself"
28. Anemone - "Laying in the Sun"
29. Jonathan Bree - "You're So Cool"
30. Beak> - "When We Fall"

31. Roy Montgomery (with Liz Harris) - "Landfall"
32. Bambara - " Dark Circles"
33. Kadhja Bonet - "Childqueen"
34. Empath - "Polyfoam"
35. Warm Drag - "Sleepover"

36. Father Murphy - "Gradual"
37. Gorillaz - "Kansas"
38. Low - "Dancing and Blood"
39. Spiritualized - "The Prize"
40. Daughters - "Satan in the Wait"



41. Nothing - "Zero Day"
42. Tony Price - "Heavy Jasmine"
43. Stephen Malkmus - "Middle America"
44. Sam Gendel - "East LA Haze Dream"
45. Thou - "The Changeling Prince"

46. Ben Vince - "Assimilation"
47. oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls - "True Blue"
48. Nine Inch Nails - "God Break Down the Door"
49. VOWWS - "ESSEFF"
50. Iceage (with Skye Ferrera) - "Pain Killer"

51. Protomartyr (with Kelley Deal) - "Wheel of Fortune"
52. Chromatics - "Black Walls"
53. Them Are Us Too - "Grey Water"
54. Father John Misty - "Mr. Tillman"
55. Juliana Hatfield - "Xanadu"

56. The Black Lips and The Khan Family - "Too Much in Love"
57. Michael Rault - "When the Sun Shines"
58. MIEN - "Earth Moon"
59. Sexores - "When I'm in Your Eyes"
60. Childish Gambino - "This Is America"



61. Grouper - "The Races"
62. Cindy Lee - "Dry Dive"
63. Drinks - "Blue from the Dark"
64. Beach House - "Drunk in LA"
65. RF Shannon - "Black Madonna, So Divine"

66. Girls Names - "25"
67. Hilary Woods - "Inhaler"
68. SSION (with Ariel Pink) - At Least the Sky Is Blue"
69. Vive La Void - "Devil"
70. Leon Bridges - "Bad Bad News"

71. The Buttertones - "Baby C4"
72. Caroline Says - "Sweet Home Alabama"
73. PYNKIE - "Dew"
74. Burnt Ones - "Good Omen (Tower)"
75. Dungen and Woods - "Turn Around"

76. Kevin Nichols - "I Don't Wanna Die But I Wanna Die"
77. Mint Field - "Ojos en el Carro"
78. Cut Worms - "Coward's Confidence"
79. Parquet Courts - "Freebird II"
80. Holy Motors - "Honeymooning"



81. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - "Dark Water"
82. Wyatt Blair - "The Want to Be Wanted"
83. Hermit and The Recluse - "Sirens"
84. JEFF The Brotherhood - "Magick Man"
85. Living Hour - "Tous Les Garcons et Les Filles"

86. The Body - "Nothing Stirs"
87. The Limiñanas - "Istanbul Is Sleepy"
88. King Tuff - "The Other"
89. Earl Sweatshirt - "Nowhere2go"
90. Launder - "Fade"

91. Jeff Rosenstock - "USA"
92. The Green Child - "Her Majesty II"
93. Preoccupations - "Disarray"
94. Jorge Elbrecht - "Oceans Alive"
95. Habibi - "Nedayeh Bahar"

96. L'Enfant De La Forêt - "Noir-Etang"
97. Nicole Atkins and Mark Lanegan - "November Rain"
98. Colin Self - "Emblem"
99. Anna St. Louis - "Desert"
100. Jóhann Jóhannsson - "Children of the New Dawn"



And there you go.  I'm sure i left something off that i'll regret and stew over later.  Anyway, be back tomorrow for 10 great songs that didn't actually come out in 2018, but that i loved nonetheless.

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