My Favorite Songs of 2024

It was actually kind of difficult to limit myself to just 100 songs this year.  We really did get a lot of amazing work from a lot of amazing artists in 2024.  Let's keep up that pace for 2025.  We're gonna need it.

Anyway, i'm just jotting these down at random, as i wrote them down in my notebook in the first place, except for number one.  I love everything on this post, but nothing hit me quite the way that Fat Dog's "King of the Slugs" hit me this year.  It's my favorite.  Check out the whole list, and few tunes, below, my favorite 100 songs of 2024.

1. Fat Dog - "King of the Slugs"

2. The Smile - "Bending Hectic"

3. Justice w/ Tame Impala - "Neverender"

4. Grandaddy - "You're Going to Be Fine and I'm Going to Hell"

5. Flowertown - "00"

6. Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, & Marta Sofia Honer - "Ten Hour Wave"

7. Dead Bandit - "Circus"

8. Slow Salvation - "Japan"

9. Mark Peters - "Cinder Flower"

10. The Hologram People - "Isola Dei Morti Viventi (Main Theme)"

11. Sam Morton - "Cry Without End"

12. Zetra - "Holy Malice (Annabel)"

13. Sarita Idalia - "Spirit Ditch"

14. Chelsea Wolfe - "House of Self-Undoing"

15. Near Beer - "Al Pacino"

16. Akira Galaxy - "What's Inside You"

17. Gwendoline - "Conspire"

18. Joyer - "Silver Moon"

19. Lip Critic - "It's the Magic"

20. IDLES - "Pop Pop Pop"

21. Pink Milk - "You Will Follow Me to Hell (Night on Earth)"

22. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - "Emergence"

23. Girls in Synthesis - "Lights Out"

24. Daisy Rickman - "Feed the Forest"

25. Winged Wheel - "Sleeptraining"

26. Meatbodies - "Hole"

27. Orcas - "Under the Milky Way"

28. Winter - "Sallow"

29. Babyrose & BADBADNOTGOOD - "Weakness"

30. Honey Radar - "Combat Paper"

31. Thom Yorke - "Knife Edge"

32. Overmono & The Streets - "Turn the Page"

33. Beings - "Happy to Be"

34. Dawn Chorus & The Infallible Sea - "Reveries"

35. Xeno & Oaklander - "Magic of the Manifold"

36. The Garrys - "Cakewalk"

37. Belong - "Souvenir"

38. Bill Baird - "Invisible"

39. TR/ST - "Soon"

40. Jessica Pratt - "Life Is"

41. Magdalena Bay - "Death and Romance"

42. Midwife - "Killdozer"

43. Beak> - "Strawberry Line"

44. Robert Ashcroft w/ Ruth Radelet - "Faded Photograph"

45. The Drin - "Tigers Cage"

46. Tupperwave - "My Lucky Stars"

47. Tristwch Y Fenywod - "Ferch Gyda'r Llygaid Du"

48. R. Missing - "The Down that Creeps"

49. KITE with/ Anna Von Hausswolff & Henric De La Cour - "Losing"

50. Previous Industries - "Dominick's"

51. Sleepwalk - "Lucky to Be"

52. Mica Levi - "Slob Air"

53. STOMP TALK MODSTONE - "Purple from Love"

54. Flesh of Morning - "The Devil in Me"

55. Fontaines D.C. - "Starburster"

56. Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan - "A Shared Sense of Purpose"

57. The Gabys - "Cursed"

58. Cold Cave - "Hourglass"

59. Wand - "Hangman"

60. Cindy Lee - "Kingdom Come"

61. Animal Piss, It's Everywhere - "Beach Song"

62. Washed Out - "The Hardest Part"

63. The Body - "End of Line"

64. Hatchie - "Eyes Without a Face"

65. White Shape - "Knives Down"

66. The Submissives - "Obsessed"

67. Anthony Green - "Megadeath"

68. Raudiver - "Leave"

69. Wussy Duo - "Cellar Door"

70. Clinic Stars - "Only Hinting"

71. Cassie Ramone - "Together"

72. Inner Magic - "Discovery"

73. The Serfs - "Regen"

74. Ideal Living - "Loving and Still"

75. Art d'Ecco - "Serene Demon"

76. Mount Eerie - "I Walk"

77. Paten Locke - "Canseco"

78. HEALTH - "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)"

79. Sadplanet - "Walk"

80. Broadcast - "Follow the Light"

81. L'Eclair w/ Klaus Johann Grobe - "Lotus"

82. Sons of Zoku - "Nu Poeme"

83. Kompromat - "I Let Myself Go Blind"

84. Deary - "Aurelia"

85. Pounds 448 & Bohemia Lynch - "Power Grid"

86. Sunshy - "Stop Saying How You've Been"

87. Trophy Grief - "Everything Ends"

88. Beth Gibbons - "Floating on a Moment"

89. Fine - "Losing Tennessee"

90. The Olivia Tremor Control - "The Same Place"

91. Boyhood - "Shells"

92. Knifeplay - "Spirit Echo"

93. Disarme - "Change"

94. Soaring - "Sun"

95. Minuit Machine - "Hold Me"

96. Ka - "Tested Testimony"

97. Kendrick Lamar - "Not Like Us"

98. The Mellons - "Tell Me Why"

99. The Odd Pattern - "Letarg"

100. The Cure - "Endsong"

And one to grow on...

101. The Moment of Nightfall and Tony Jay - "Kori no Mori (Ice Forest)"

As per usual, i'm certainly leaving something off.  Be back here tomorrow for my favorite old song discoveries of the year.