Tuesday, December 14, 2021

100 Favorite Songs of 2021

This list could just go on and on, but to keep things relatively brief, here are my 100 favorite songs in no kind of order from 2021, a year that was hard for all of us.  Check 'em out!

1. Squid - Narrator
2. Xiu Xiu and Chelsea Wolfe - One Hundred Years
3. Viagra Boys - In Spite of Ourselves
4. Molly Burch - Emotion
5. Poison Ruin - Carrion

6. Bobby Lee - Fire Medicine Man
7. Small Black - Duplex
8. Fawning - All I Have
9. Tomahawk - Sidewinder
10. Nightshift - Make Kin

11. Writhing Squares - Rogue Moon
12. Boyhood - Don't You Dare
13. Divide & Dissolve - Oblique
14. Nun Gun - On Neurath's Boat
15. Hooveriii - Control

16. Nana Yamato - Under the Cherry Moon
17. The Pink Noise - Out of Step
18. Anika Pyle - Emerald City
19. Andrew W.K. - Babalon
20. Stomp Talk Modstone - Linger



21. Beachy Head - Destroy Us
22. Bloodslide - Pica
23. Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose
24. Adrian Younge - Light on the Horizon
25. Rudimentary Peni - Anthem for Doomed Youth

26. Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments
27. Foam and Sand - Circle 11
28. Krallice - Resistant Strains
29. THROTH - Dead Eyes
30. Whitney K. - Maryland

31. Iceage - Vendetta
32. Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet
33. 36 & Awakened Souls - Guide Me Home (Shoegaze Version)
34. Clouds Taste Satanic - Sleeping on the Roof
35. Tele Novella - Crystal Witch

36. Kele - Smalltown Boy
37. SPC ECO - All I See
38. Damon Albarn - Darkness to Light
39. Calvin Love - Sailin' On
40. Electric Youth and Pilotpriest - Modern Fears



41. Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth - Remember We Were Lovers
42. Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
43. Exum - Dark Kept Secret
44. Renee Reed - I Saw a Ghost
45. Lovelorn - Sickness Reward

46. Khruangbin - Right
47. Charles - Remember Blushing
48. Liars - Sekwar
49. Kataan - Abyss
50. Pictureplane - Avalanche

51. The Gabbard Brothers - Sell Your Gun, Buy a Guitar
52. Ivan the Tolerable - Gold Hat
53. The Body and Big/Brave - Oh Sinner
54. HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails - Isn't Everyone
55. Flying Lotus and Thundercat - Black Gold

56. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime
57. The Lost Days - In the Fade
58. Amigo the Devil - Small Stone
59. Whatitdo Archive Group - La Pietra
60. Conway the Machine and Big Ghost LTD - Kill All Rats



61. Soup - Burning Bridges
62. Failure - Headstand
63. EggS - Old Fashioned Virtue
64. Noveller - Laura Palmer's Theme
65. The Diasonics - Gurami

66. Holy Hive - Deadly Valentine
67. Cindy - To Be True
68. Flowertown - Time Trials
69. Mega Bog - Maybe You Died
70. BADBADNOTGOOD - Signal from the Noise

71. Ty Segall - Whisper
72. Cass McCombs and Karen Black - I Wish I Knew the Man I Thought You Were
73. Parquet Courts - Walking at at Downtown Pace
74. Jarvis Cocker - Aline
75. Aeon Station - Leaves

76. Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Blood Moon
77. Nothing - La La Mean I Love You
78. Julia Shapiro - Death (XIII)
79. Sugar Horse - Dadcore World Cup
80. IDLES - The Beachland Ballroom



81. Curses featuring CICI - Gina Lollobrigida
82. Pink Milk - Terminator 2 Theme
83. Men I Trust - Before Dawn
84. Maria Davidson - Persona
85. Psychic Mirrors - You Remind Me

86. Leonie Pernet - Mon Amour Tu Bois Trop
87. S Y Z Y G Y X - Light You on Fire
88. Daniel O'Sullivan - Perpetual Ascension
89. Natural Yogurt Band - 57 Lashes of the Mallet
90. Mouth Painter - Tropicale Moon

91. Herbal Tea - Front Seat Painting
92. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and The London Symphonic Orchestra - Movement 6
93. White Ring - Light Hours Linger
94. Badwan/Coxon - Boiling Point
95. Supreme Joy - Julie

96. Wolves in the Throne Room - Masters of Rain and Storm
97. Grouper - Kelso (Blue Sky)
98. Zetra - Care
99. Cory Hanson - Paper Fog
100. Magdalena Bay - Chaeri



That's what i've got.  I really thought about including Fucked Up's "Year of the Horse," but as it takes up the duration of a double LP, maybe it's an album instead.  Who can say?  Anyway, check these out and know that i left plenty of great stuff off of there.  And like every other year, i'm sure i'll hear something new in the next couple of weeks that should also be on this list.

Be back tomorrow for a bunch of older songs i just heard for the first time this year.

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