Our Favorite Songs of 2014 | Songs of the Year
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- Welcome to our Songs of the Year series. Today we're looking at 2014!
Every Friday we will each be choosing our favorite songs of a year, starting in 1958 and going all the way through 2021. We will be making five selections from the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Any song that broke the Hot 100 at any point during the year is eligible. After that we'll be making five more 'wildcard' selections. These picks can come from anywhere. They could've charted as well, but they could also be album cuts, from soundtracks, b-sides...anything at all. And lastly, we'll also be choosing our least favorite song to crack the Top 40.
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Here's the Year End Top 50. Will any of these make our lists?
1. "Happy" - Pharrell Williams
2. "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry featuring Juicy J
3. "All of Me" - John Legend
4. "Fancy" - Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
5. "Counting Stars" - OneRepublic
6. "Talk Dirty" - Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz
7. "Rude" - Magic!
8. "All About That Bass" - Meghan Trainor
9. "Problem" - Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea
10. "Stay with Me" - Sam Smith
11. "Timber" - Pitbull featuring Kesha
12. "Pompeii" - Bastille
13. "Shake It Off" - Taylor Swift
14. "Am I Wrong" - Nico & Vinz
15. "Turn Down for What" - DJ Snake and Lil Jon
16. "The Monster" - Eminem featuring Rihanna
17. "Say Something" - A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera
18. "Team" - Lorde
19. "Let Her Go" - Passenger
20. "Royals" - Lorde
21. "Let It Go" - Idina Menzel
22. "Wake Me Up" - Avicii
23. "Demons" - Imagine Dragons
24. "Story of My Life" - One Direction
25. "Chandelier" - Sia
26. "Black Widow" - Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora
27. "Bang Bang" - Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj
28. "Latch" - Disclosure featuring Sam Smith
29. "Maps" - Maroon 5
30. "Loyal" - Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and French Montana or Too Short or Tyga
31. "Best Day of My Life" - American Authors
32. "Habits (Stay High)" - Tove Lo
33. "Summer" - Calvin Harris
34. "Boom Clap" - Charli XCX
35. "Drunk in Love" - Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z
36. "Anaconda" - Nicki Minaj
37. "Break Free" - Ariana Grande featuring Zedd
38. "Bailando" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Descemer Bueno and Gente de Zona
39. "Burn" - Ellie Goulding
40. "Wiggle" - Jason Derulo featuring Snoop Dogg
41. "Rather Be" - Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne
42. "Don't Tell 'Em" - Jeremih featuring YG
43. "Show Me" - Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown
44. "Wrecking Ball" - Miley Cyrus
45. "Not a Bad Thing" - Justin Timberlake
46. "Roar" - Katy Perry
47. "Ain't It Fun" - Paramore
48. "The Man" - Aloe Blacc
49. "This Is How We Roll" - Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan
50. "Classic" - MKTO
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Billboard:
1.Big Sean ft. E-40 - I Don't Fuck With You
2.Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
3.Usher - Good Kisser
4.The Weeknd - Often
5.Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty
Wildcards:
1.D'Angelo - Another Life
2.Pharrell - Gust Of Wind
3.Jennifer Hudson - Walk It Out
4.Common - Rewind That
5.Ab-Soul ft. Jay Rock - Feelin Us
Billboard's Worst:
Pittbull ft. Ke$ha - Timber
Other Songs I Dig From 2014:
Prince - Tic Tac Toe
Lenny Kravitz - Sex
Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy
Pharrell - Happy
Wu-Tang Clan - Ruckus In B Minor
Pharoahe Monch ft. Black Thought - Rapid Eye Movement
Nick Manaj - Anaconda
J.Cole - Fire Squad
Ariana Grande - Only 1
Logic - Soul Food
YG ft. Kendrick Lamar - Really Be
Sam Smith - Money On My Mind
Run The Jewels - All Due Respect
Chris Brown - Add Me In
Robin Thicke - Living In New York City
BILLBOARD
"Ain't It Fun" - Paramore
"Fever" - The Black Keys
"Happy" - Pharrell Williams
"Left Hand Free" - alt-J
WILDCARD
"Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" - Father John Misty (WINNER)
"Chamber of Reflection" - Mac DeMarco
"Lazaretto" - Jack White
"Archie, Marry Me" - Alvvays
"Our Love" - Sharon Van Etten
2014 was a great year for music! While I like "Red Eyes," my SOTY has to go to that album's closer - "In Reverse." It's a masterclass in atmosphere, particularly in its opening minutes. Some of my other favorites are:
-"Devil" by Horse Thief (a criminally overlooked album)
-"The Golden Throne" by Temples
-"Inside Out" by Spoon
-"Drive" by Wild Cub
-"Night at Lake Unknown" by Conor Oberst
-'Divisionary (Do the Right Thing)" by Ages and Ages
-"Seasons (Waiting on You)" by Future Islands
-"Plymouth" by Stands of Oaks
-"Champions of Red Wine" by New Pornographers
-"Doses and Mimosas" by Cherub
-"Valhallas" by The Barr Brothers
Hot 100 is a distant memory. Three albums dominated my top 10, and a fourth filled out much of my extended playlist top 30.
2014 Top 10 Songs
1. Outlier - Spoon
2. Under the Pressure - The War On Drugs
3. Inside Out - Spoon
4. An Ocean In Between The Waves - The War on Drugs
5. Weight of Love - Black Keys
6. All the Rage Back Home - Interpol
7. Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands
8. Digital Witness - St. Vincent
9. All This Could Be Yours - Cold War Kids
10. Fever - Black Keys
Song of the Year - Outlier - Top five songs are separated by decimal points. In the end, Outlier wins because it is so unique in the Spoon discography.
*Congratulations Joe!
I’m with you on many of these choices.
So glad to see Shut Up and Dance and Happy in there especially Happy. All About the Bass is cool too as is Chandelier.
My Top 10 Songs
1. OPETH "Voice of Treason"
2. MIKE OLDFIELD "Sailing"
3. OPETH "Cusp of Eternity"
4. FOO FIGHTERS "I Am a River"
5. PINK FLOYD "Louder Than Words"
6. FLYING COLORS "Lost Without You"
7. ANATHEMA "Distant Satellites"
8. CHEVELLE "An Island"
9. OPETH "Faith In Others"
10. MIKE OLDFIELD "Castaway"
Greetings from Canary Islands
Congratulations Joe!
1) "It Ain't All Flowers" - Sturgill Simpson
2) "Happy" - Pharrell Williams
3) "Wrecking Ball" - Hard Working Americans
4) "Shake It Off: - Taylor Swift
5) "Something from Nothing" - Foo Fighters
6) "Numb" - Gary Clark Jr
7) "Weight of Love" - Black Keys
8) "Fancy" - Iggy Azalea
9) "Ultraviolence" - Lana Del Rey
10) "Red River" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Thumbs up for "Red River." My favorite from that album is "All You Can Carry."
HM - Jeremy Spencer - Durango, Thurston Moore - Speak to the Wild, Mark Lanegan - Harvest Home, James Williamson & Carolyn Wonderland - Open Up and Bleed, Camper Van Beethoven - Camp Pendleton
5. Black Keys - Weight of Love (One of their most accomplished songs - they were always good for one or the other highlight on albums that otherwise just dragged on.)
4. Ryan Adams - Stay With Me (In 2014 Adams' self titled album delivered what Petty, U2 and Springsteen failed to do with their releases in that year. I could have picked multiple songs from it.)
3. Jack Bruce - Fields of Forever (Once again he was united with Pete Brown for a classic rock song with a remarkable horn section to fire it up. The song and the album Silver Rails felt like a comeback but only months after the release we found that it was an unexpected goodbye.)
2. Ted Nugent - Never Stop Believing (At this point I take his records as instrumental albums with the vocals as sound effects of no specific meaning. One of the few remaining real rockers and guitar slingers - and most of them always were assh...wankers.)
1. Robert Cray - You Move Me (He still released good blues albums after all these years even if the spark had turned to business-as-usual at times. A new band and producer Steve Jordan gave the extra kick for this one.)
So . . Black Keys along with the Flaming Lips are two bands I have an insurmountable prejudice against for what I consider unoriginanlity . . I'm probably missing out on some good music, but that's just the way it is . . sometimes filters like this are useful, no?
@@NaughtyVampireGod In both cases it may be a question of how much time/resources you have or are willing to invest into artists that can be quite good but as many times fail. I agree that both are quite derivative but at times they add enough own ideas to become interesting.
@@roxannewalsh exactly . . a question of time management and a band giving me a reason not to spend my time . . I'd rather invest time finding a more-deserving, under-recognized artist . .
A REALLY bad year (I'll eventually do a deep dive and try to find gems in the 2010's. I'm just burned out on so many disappointments)
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1) Resist and Bite - Sabaton
2) Down to Earth - Flight Facilities
3) Animal Heart - Nina Persson
4) Final Masquerade - Linkin Park
5) Night Witches - Sabaton
6) Clair De Lune - Flight Facilities
7) Beautiful Agony - David Gray
8) Hearts of Iron - Sabaton
9) Until it's Gone - Linkin Park
10) Crave You - Flight Facilities
1. Swans - Oxygen
2. Cloud Nothings - I’m Not Part of Me
3. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
4. St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
5. Dope Body - Rare Air
6. Liars - Mess on a Mission
7. Perfume Genius - Longpig
8. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
9. Elliott Brood - Nothing Left
10. Ex Hex - Don’t Wanna Lose
11. Ariel Pink - White Freckles
12. Have a Nice Life - Defenestration Song
13. EMA - So Blonde
14. F***ed Up - Paper the House
15. White Lung - Face Down
16. Panopticon - Where Mountains Pierce the Sky
17. Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
18. clipping. - Body and Blood
19. Iceage - The Lord’s Favorite
20. Joyce Manor - Heart Tattoo
21. Pallbearer - The Ghost I Used to Be
22. The Hotelier - Dendron
23. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Lifenet
24. Car Seat Headrest - Kimochi Warrior
25. The New Pornographers - War on the East Coast
26. Every Time I Die - Moor
27. Protomartyr - Bad Advice
28. New Swears - Mainstream
29. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - So Long Saving Grace
30. Bob Mould - Fix It
31. The Both - Volunteers of America
32. Blut Aus Nord - Forhist
33. Guided by Voices - Vote for Me Dummy
34. Guided by Voices - All-American Boy
35. Behemoth - Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer
36. Dark Blue - Sounds Like Hell on Earth
37. Thee Silver Mt. Zion - Austerity Blues
38. PEARS - Sycophant
39. Kero Kero Bonito - Flamingo
40. Angel Olsen - Hi-Five
41. Tacocat - Crimson Wave
42. Sharon Van Etten - Every Time the Sun Comes Up
43. Braid - No Coast
44. The Lawrence Arms - Acheron River
45. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Bus Lines
46. Nap Eyes - Delirium and Persecution Paranoia
47. Morning Glory - Standard Issue
48. Earth - From the Zodiacal Light
49. Half Japanese - In Its Pull
50. Shellac - Riding Bikes
1. Boom Clap- Charli XCX
2. Shut Up + Dance- Walk the Moon
3. Go Away- Weezer/Bethany Cosentino
4. Sleep Like a Baby Tonight- U2
5. Love Never Felt So Good- Michael Jackson (Solo Version. No Timberlake)
6. Atop a Cake- Alvvays
7. Human Sadness- The Voidz
8. Fancy- Iggy Azalea/Charli XCX
9. Coming of Age- Foster the People
10. Girls Chase Boys- Ingrid Michaelson
1. Dancehall Domine - The New Pornographers
2. Magdalena 318 - Pixies
3. Too True To Be Good - Dum Dum Girls
4. Lazerray - TV On the Radio
5. Calling Out to You - Inspiral Carpets
6. Indie Cindy - Pixies
7. Shelter Song - Temples
8. Aloha & the Three Johns - Jenny Lewis
9. Stevie - Kasabian
10. Greens and Blues - Pixies
HM (alpha by artist) 35 songs :
Against Me! - Dead Friend
Tori Amos - Trouble's Lament
Blondie - Rave
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Memory Camp
Leonard Cohen - Did I Ever Love You
Lana Del Rey - Money Power Glory
Dum Dum Girls - Cult of Love
Dum Dum Girls - Trouble is My Name
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore
Future Islands - Spirit
The Hold Steady - I Hope This Whole Thing Doesn't Frighten You
The Hold Steady - The Ambassador
Inspiral Carpets - Let You Down
Kasabian - Clouds
Kasabian - S.P.S.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Crying
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - I'm in Your Mind
Jenny Lewis - The New You
The New Pornographers - War on the East Coast
The New Pornographers - Marching Orders
OK Go - The Writing's on the Wall
OK Go - Bright as Your Eyes
Parquet Courts - Black and White
Pixies - Blue Eyed Hexe
Pixies - Ring the Bell
Pixies - Snakes
Pixies - Another Toe in the Ocean
Quilt - Arctic Shark
Shakira - Empire
St. Vincent - Every Tear Disappears
Temples - Test of Time
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Sins of My Youth
TV on the Radio - Could You
TV on the Radio - Ride
Within Temptation - Silver Moonlight
Greetings TLM Community - I took a break for about a month . . . How ya bean? 😀
Back now and hopefully here till the end.
This is the year of Pixies triumphant return. 😎
Final studio albums from Inspiral Carpets, Tom Petty, Dum Dum Girls, and TV on the Radio.
I will do my best to post lists for 2010-2013, asap.
Thanks in advance for all yer comments. (Means a lot.)
Alrighty everyone . . Looking forward to seeing what ya got!
Welcome back! - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Thanks, Joe. And congrats! 😀
Still not fully grabbed by Indie Cindy but you've got a bunch of great artists. I was quite a fan of Inspiral Carpets back in the day but never listened to their more recent stuff until just now... and it sounds solid! And so it does that Jenny Lewis tune.
What I love about your lists is their uniqueness... Guess I'm easier to figure out
@@NaughtyVampireGod David Letterman enjoyed The Dum Dum Girls On His Show In 2014.
@@frangarcia7774 Thanks Fran. You are the master of great lists. Always a few surprises and not easy to figure out. Quite a bit of diverse choices there. Many of my picks have a psychedelic sound, but some defy categorization. Yeah, Fran - i am defintely more of an Indie Cindy fan than you are. If you recall I have it as my third favorite Pixies album after Doolittle (six stars!) and Bossanova and their last one to hit 5 stars.
Salad Days - Mac Demarco
Forgiven/Forgotten - Angel Olsen
Left Hand Free - Alt J
Inside Out - Spoon
Real Life Angel - Elbow
Dancehall Domine - The New Pornographers
Trustful Hands - The Do
Digital Witness - St. Vincent
Paper The House - Fucked Up
Stranger To My Happiness - Sharon Jones
World Away - Tweedy
Not as strong as last year but still a few great tracks
1. Just one of the guys
2. Golden state - John murry
3. Pretty machines - parquet courts
4. I don’t want to change you - Damien rice
5. Carissa - sun kill moon
6. You are your mothers child - Conor oberst
7. JM - strand of oats
8. Lost in a dream - war on drugs
9. Stay vicious - gaslight anthem
10. Algiers - afghan Whigs
i first heard all of these songs in 2016 so they were still really fresh at that point, 2016 was the year i started listening to a lot modern contemporary music on the regular and it definitely broadened my musical tastes for the better... I started community college that year and i had a lot of time to kill between classes so i'd hang in the school library with my laptop and just discover as much indie/alternative music that was new to me as i could lol
my top 10 of 2014 in no order:
Real Estate- Talking Backwards
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- Independence Street
Against Me!- True Trans Soul Rebel
St. Vincent- Digital Witness
The War on Drugs- Red Eyes
Mac DeMarco- Let Her Go
Alvvays- Archie, Marry Me
Johnny Marr- The Trap
Thurston Moore- Grace Lake
Parquet Courts- Instant Disassembly
good list - I have different songs by Against Me!, St. Vincent, Parquet Courts as HMs this time around.
BILLBOARD
Chocolate- The 1975
Take Me to Church- Hozier
Left Hand Free- ∆
I’m Not the Only One- Sam Smith
Blank Space- Taylor Swift
WILD CARD
Off the Ground- Anderson.Paak (SOTY)
Next of Kin- Alvvays
Burning- The War on Drugs
Chamber of Reflection- Mac DeMarco
I'm Not Part of Me- Cloud Nothings
WORST- Centuries- Fall Out Boy
You're the first person I've seen with Hozier's "Take Me to Church." That song strikes me as a candidate for song of the decade.
BILLBOARD
1. *i by Kendrick Lamar #39* (Expert use of a re-recorded sample in an exciting, adventurous hip hop package.)
2. *Chandelier by Sia #8* (All about that fierce chorus that could grab anyone's attention.)
3. *West Coast by Lana Del Rey #17* (Slows things down even further into a dark, dreamy piece.)
4. *Ain't It Fun by Paramore #10* (Lots of energy here, and sounding as good as they ever did in that modern pop punk/power pop style.)
5. *Style by Taylor Swift #6* (Pleasant conventional pop with a nice touch of 80s synthpop.)
WILDCARD
1. WINNER: *Fade Away by Susanne Sundfør* (As melodic and pretty as electropop gets. An invigorating recording with her great voice and the driving synth beat.)
2. *Passing Out Pieces by Mac DeMarco* (Feel like this quirky bedroom pop works at its absolute best here thanks to that meaty synth.)
3. *Continental Shelf by Preoccupations [as Viet Cong]* (Sounds almost like it could be pulled straight out of the early 80s post-punk scene, and a great one too.)
4. *After Dark by Mr. Kitty* (An off-the-board pick, but can't deny as an alluring slab of modern synth.)
5. *Party Police by Alvvays* (Something about the way the guitar feels low-fi but mixed with jangle sensibilities really hits on this one.)
Top 10 Wildcard HM:
Seasons (Waiting on You) by Future Islands
Talking Backwards by Real Estate
Sugah Daddy by D'Angelo and the Vanguard
Atop a Cake by Alvvays
Solid year for female pop acts. Like most of these more recent years, don't feel like it's blowing the doors off the music scene. But what I like, I like a lot.
Worst TOP 40: Ew! by Jimmy Fallon featuring will.i.am #26 (Trash concept with the most repulsive musical elements tossed into one place. The worst!)
Worst Runner Up:
Hangover by Psy featuring Snoop Dogg #26
Wiggle by Jason Derulo #5
This Is How We Roll by Florida Georgia Line featuring Luke Bryan #15
#SELFIE by The Chainsmokers #16
The 2 Alvvays songs you listed are also the ones I would choose from that album. Their melodies are like honey. My favorite tune on the Mac DeMarco album is "Chamber of Reflection." It has sort of a "slow-jam R&B" vibe that I love.
Best Songs Matches:
*124 - Kram +1*
*102 - Joe +3*
*85 - Jason +1*
Worst Songs Matches:
*9 - Jason*
4 - Joe
3 - Kram
Top Song Votes:
23 - Jason
21 - Kram
*21 - Joe*
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Chamber of Reflection is very cool indeed. Would definitely show up if I did another 10 or so. I actually wound up mentioning 4 from that Alvvays album, if you include the two 2013 singles last time. :D
1. Hot Smoke and Heavy Blues - Mothership
2. Big Mouth - Red Dragon Cartel feat. Maria Brink
3. I Gave Up EVerything for You, 'Cept the Blues - Joe Bonamassa
4. Secret (Just Bring Me a Jar Full of Shine) - Rival Sons
5. The Way - California Breed
6. I Feel Free - Persian Risk
7. Electric Man (Take You to the Sugar Shack) - Rival Sons
8. Till the Sun Turns Black - The Skull
9. You're Gonna Pay - Skull Fist
10. Beggar's Bargain - Wo Fat
Billboard
Drunk In Love - Beyoncé
Fever - Black Keys
WAKE ME UP - Avicii
Ain’t It Fun - Paramore
Midnight- Coldplay
Wildcards
Blue Moon- Beck
Never Catch Me - Flying Lotus ft Kendrick Lamar
Cusp of Eternity - Opeth
Right On, Frankenstein- Death From Above 1979
Winner
Transgendered Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!
HM
Left Hand Free - Alt J
Back To Earth - Steve Aoki ft Patrick Stump
Back to the Shack- Weezer
Timebomb - Tove Lo
Brother - Gerard Way
Chamber of Reflection - Mac Demarco
Awake - Tycho
Worst -
Best Day of my Life - American Authors (fucking grocery core)
I think the production on that 2014 Against Me! album is somewhat iffy (strange that their albums from the early 2000s sound so much better), but “Paralytic States” is a fantastic track. I forgot to put it on my list because I lost interest in the band’s output after they signed to a major label in 2006, and thus forgot that track even existed until now.
Reinventing Axl Rose and Eternal Cowboy remain two of the best folk-punk albums of the 2000s (not that it’s a crowded contest within that sub-genre).
@@echosmyron1278 Yeah .. I like Against Me! but TDB album was a step down imo. I have the song Dead Freind as an HM but that's it.
1. Teenage Wasteland - Wussy
2. The Oil Rigs at Night - The Delines
3. Turtles All the Way Down - Sturgill Simpson
4. Near You - Courtney Marie Andrews
5. Burning Bridges - Lucinda Williams
6. JM - Strand of Oaks
7. Eyes to the Wind - The War on Drugs
8. Forgiven/Forgotten - Angel Olsen
9. My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit
10. King of Bakersfield - Cracker
11. In Time - Immigrant Union
HM: Waking Light - Beck, Head - Lydia Loveless, Down to the Well - Hardworking Americans, Soul - Songs: Ohia, Do You - Spoon, Have You Seen My Son? - Benjamin Booker.
Getting harder to find exciting new stuff in 2014, but several seasoned performers came good yet again (Elbow, the Manics, Ben Watt, The Decemberists):
1. My Sad Captains - Elbow
2. Arabella - Arctic Monkeys
3. Spring - Ben Watt
4. Make You Better - The Decemberists
5. Detectorists (theme) - Johnny Flynn
6. Futurology - Manic Street Preachers
7. Take Me - Sisyphus
8. Lake Song - The Decemberists
9. Under the Plastic and NCT - Sleaford Mods
10. Nathaniel - Ben Watt
11. Walk Me To The Bridge - Manic Street Preachers
12. New York Morning - Elbow
13. The Body Electric - Hurray for the Riff Raff
14. Archie, Marry Me - Alvvays
15. Under the Pressure - War On Drugs
16. Full Moon and Empty Arms - Bob Dylan
17. Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) - David Bowie
18. You Got Me Singing - Leonard Cohen
19. Forget - Ben Watt
20. Every Breaking Wave - U2
21. I Know It's Wrong (But That's Alright) - Hurray for the Riff Raff
22. Ultraviolence - Lana del Ray
23. The Man - Aloe Blacc
24. Chandelier - Sia
25. Our Love - Sharon van Etten
26. Boom Clap - Charli XCX
27. Do It Again - Röyksopp, Robyn
28. Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands
29. Lonely Press Play - Damon Albarn
30. Hunger of the Pine - Alt J
I got nothing in common with the boys on my top 5 this year, but only because I consider Red Eyes as 2013. Good pick Joe!
1. The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure (Great album, the Red Eyes single made my list last year)
2. Kishi Bashi - Philosophize In It, Chemicalize With It! (The song that introduced me to Kishi Bashi, a favorite artist of mine now)
3. Smooth & Turrell - Will You Be Mine (funky)
4. Architecture in Helsinki - I Might Survive (some great disco vibes from this track)
5. Lady Lamb - Billions of Eyes (Something about the imagery and storytelling in this song makes me really enjoy it)
Some really great stuff in 2014. Love all three of the top picks
Me;
1. Brooklyn Baby LDR
2. Back in the Tall Grass Future Islands
3. Every time the Sun Comes Up SVE
4. Seasons Future Islands
5. Party Police Alvvays
Leaving out TWODs hurts
Wild Card
01 Indie Cindy - Pixies
02 Hypnotic Eye - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
03 Walk Me To The Bridge - Manic Street Preachers
04 Human Sadness - Julian Casablancas + The Voidz
05 I Watched the Film the Song Remains the Same - Sun Kill Moon
US Hot 100
01 Happy - Pharell Williams
02 West Coast - Lana Del Ray
03 Fever - The Black Keys
04 You're Mine (Eternal) - Maria Carey
05 Sugar - Maroon 5
Worst Song
Edge Of A Revolution - Nickelback
Somewhat later than usual, my choices for 2014 are as follows:
Billboard:
Magic - Coldplay
Happy - Pharrell Williams
Ain’t It Fun - Paramore
Love Runs Out - OneRepublic
Ordinary Love - U2
Wildcards:
American Dream Plan B - Tom Petty & Heartbreakers
The Chamber - Lenny Kravitz
Weight Of Love - Black Keys
Lazaretto - Jack White
Worst song: It’s My Birthday - will.i.am & Cody Wise (#1 in UK charts)
(You folks in America had the good sense to ignore this feeble effort - us Brits usually buy any old junk but at least we did ignore Ew! It clearly wasn’t a great year for will.i.am)
Song of the Year: An Ocean In Between The Waves - The War On Drugs
(Thanks guys for making me aware of this excellent band. As Jason says, there are several strong tracks from Lost In The Dream that could be worthy winners but this one is my personal favourite)
HMs:
Different Shades Of Blue - Joe Bonamassa
Laurel Canyon - The Church
Rainbow - Robert Plant
Good Things - Rival Sons
Figure It Out - Royal Blood
Hi Bryan. No real similarities between our 2014 lists. Though they didn't make my final cut, I do hold a positive opinion of Ain't It Fun, Love Runs Out and Lazaretto.
From the unfamiliar songs, I did enjoy The Chamber, Laurel Canyon and my favorite, Rainbow from Robert Plant.
Not certain when I'll post a list again. Hopefully fairly soon. Best wishes Bryan!
@@brentjackson6839 Thanks for your feedback as always, my friend. I am pleased to see you have now posted some recent lists, so there will be many more songs that are new to me amongst them. 😃
5.They Want My Soul-Spoon
4.Oxygen-Swans
3.I Watched the film The Song Remains the Same-Sun Kil Moon
2.Red Eyes-War on Drugs
SOTY-Manipulator-Ty Segall
+1 for the Sun Kil Moon, but I hate seeing that super-generic War on Drugs song ranked ahead of Swans.
My Top 10 Songs 🎵 Of 2014 - # 10 Screen Shot - Swans # 9 Boom 💥 Clap 👏 - Charli XCX # 8 Aisatsana - Aphex Twin # 7 My Oh My - Leonard Cohen # 6 World Away - Tweedy # 5 Magic 🎩 - Coldplay # 4 Rimbaud Eyes 👀 - Dum Dum Girls # 3 All The Rage Back Home - Interpol # 2 Inside Out - Spoon 🥄 & # 1 Lonely Press Play ▶️ - Daman Albarn. My favorite album of the year was They Want My Soul by Spoon. Woke up one morning & that crummy U2 album was on my phone 📱!! ✌️
Spoon! 🙌🏻
David. Nice to see another fan of Dum Dum Girls
Congrats, Joe!
I completely lost touch with whatever’s popular, so those later years are more educative than anything.
10. Blondie - Maria
9. AC/DC - Rock or Bust
8. Beck - Morning
7. Bruce Springsteen - Dream Baby Dream
6. The Horrors - So Now You Know
5. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Xr
4. Ariel Pink - One Summer Night
3. Interpol - All the Rage Back Home
2. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
1. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
Always good to see CEG. - Joe
Congrats, Joseph!
Favorite Track 2014:
SCOTT WALKER + SUNN O))) - Brando
Favorite Singles:
1. VERONICA FALLS - Nobody There
2. PAUL ORWELL - Tell Me, Tell Me
3. THE SPITFIRES - I'm Holdin' On
4. MIRIAM - My Love Has Gone
5. DAVID BOWIE - Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
Wildcards:
1. LANIE LANE - I See You
2. LANIE LANE - The Phantom
3. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS - People Don’t Get What They Deserve
4. MARISSA NADLER - Anyone Else
5. REIGNING SOUND - Never Coming Home
Honorable Mentions:
JULIA HOLTER - Don't Make Me Over
HANNAH LOU CLARK - Silent Type
MISTY MILLER - Taxi Cab
PALM SPRINGS - Seal My Fate
FIRE EYES - Hide Out
PAUL MESSIS - Nightmares
THE YEARNING - Chasing Shadows
MICHAEL LYNCH - She's On Her Way
ANGEL OLSEN - High & Wild
AMY LAVERE - Big Sister
Couple of overlaps (Scott Walker with Sunno))) and Reigning Sound). Bummed that Reigning Sound just called it a day, but Greg Cartwright always has something else happening.
Was getting worried about no TWOD picks but Joe snuck in at the end!
1. Path to Follow - Way Down Wanderers
2. Not about Angels - Birdy
3. Tilted - Christine and the Queens
4. Problem - Ariana Grande ft Iggy Azalea
5. Firestone - Kygo ft Conrad Sewell
also Hey Luis Don't Bite Me - Tom Rosenthal, All Broken - Michael Fassbender and Tuft - Michael Fassbender from the movie Frank soundtrack were good listens
In no specific order:
Lera Lynn: Out to Sea
Ty Segall: The Clock + Feel
St. Vincent: Prince Johnny
Quilt: Arctic Shark
Sharon Van Etten: Your Love Is Killing Me
New Pornographers: Brill Bruisers
Joan As A Police Woman: Holy City
Beck: The Heart Is A Drum
Juanes: Don’t Act Like Your Heart Isn’t Hard (Beck's Song Reader Book)
Very slowly catching up with the schedule. My long list of UK chart songs this year has dropped to 26. While this is not a good sign, there were quite a lot of big hits that I nearly put on it. However, for the first time in decades I had no acts with more than 1 song on my long list without making the top 10. This year's leading act are Royal Blood whose debut album gets 3 songs on my top 10, with another on the long list. The Arctic Monkeys continue their bid to get the most post-millennium entries on my top 10s with 2 entries together with Taylor Swift who provides 2 of the finest pop songs of recent years. Talking of great pop songs by female vocalists, Sia also makes the top 10 which is completed by the great slow-burner from Hozier and an early slice of Jungle's slightly alternative joyous dance-pop.
Arabella - Arctic Monkeys
Snap out of it - Arctic Monkeys
Take me to Church - Hozier
Time - Jungle
Figure it out - Royal Blood
Little Monster - Royal Blood
Out of the Black - Royal Blood
Chandelier - Sia
Blank Space - Taylor Swift
Shake it off - Taylor Swift
01. Cliff Martinez - Son of Placenta Previa
02. Gaye Su Akyol - Cehennem Meyhanesi
03. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
04. Auktyon - Профукал (Blown)
05. Kendrick Lamar - i
06. Mica Levi - Lonely Void
07. Disclosure - F FOR YOU ft. Mary J. Blige
08. My Brightest Diamond - This Is My Hand
09. Rick Ross - Sanctified
10. mus.hiba - Slow Snow
11. Cleavage - Prove
12. FKA Twigs - Numbers
13. Endon - Etude for Lynching the Family
14. Flying Lotus - Pickled!
As always, five favorites from the TLM selections:
1. Cruel World- Lana de Rey
-y’all picked four Lana songs, and hey, I loved one of them
2. 3005- Childish Gambino
-he needs to rap again…
3. Party Police- Alvvays
4. Red Eyes- The War on Drugs
5. Every Time the Sun Comes Up- Sharon Van Etten
-new to me too
Well done Kramza!🙂Ultraviolence does it for me, any song from that is my song of year, if I had to choose one it would I fucked my way up to the top. I just like it when she swears!😃
Hi everyone!! These are my favorite songs of 2014:
1.Carissa. Sun Kill Moon
2.Everyday Robots. Damon Albarn
3.Everytime The Sun Comes Up. Sharon Van Etten
4.Do You. Spoon
5.Careful You. TV On The Radio
6.Prince Johnny. St Vincent
7.Seasons (Waiting On You). Future Islands
8.Lipstick. Ariel Pink
9.Nevermind. Leonard Cohen
10.I'm Aquarius. Metronomy
11.In Conflict. Owen Pallet
12.Chandelier. Sia
13.Lazaretto. Jack White
14.My Silver Lining. First Aid Kit
15.Video Girl. FKA Twigs
16.Red Eyes. The War On Drugs
17.Talking Backwards. Real Estate
18.Silver Timothy. Damen Jurado
19.Bury Ours Friends. Sleater-Kinney
20.I'm Not Part Of Me. Cloud Nothings
21.American Interior. Gruff Rhys
22.Parade. The Antlers
23.Feel. Ty Segall
24.Chamber of Reflection. Mac DeMarco
25.Algiers. The Afghan Whigs
26.Instant Disassembly. Parquet Courts
27.Blue Moon. Beck
28.Ultraviolence. Lana Del Rey
29.Queen. Perfume Genius
30.Archie, Marry Me. Alvvays
31.It's Hard To Love Blindly. Barzin
32.Burning Bridges. Lucinda Williams
33.Brill Bruisers. The New Pornographers
34.Limonov, De Asturias Al Infierno. Pablo Und Destruktion
35.27 Is The New 17. Zeus
36.Doctor Trompeta. Meridian Brothers
37.Uptown Funk. Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars
38.Tough Love. Jessie Ware
39.You Can Have The Crown. Sturgill Simpson
40.Todo Tiene Su Hora. Juan Luis Guerra y 4. 40
41.We Get Along. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
42.Goshen '97. Strand of Oaks
43.Fever. The Black Keys
44.Postcard. Roddy Frame
45.All The Love. Jolie Holland
46.Drive. Marissa Nadler
47.Tied Up In Notz. Sleaford Mods
48.Warning. Cymbals Eat Guitars
49.In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition Of Passing). A Sunny Day In Glasgow
50.Sangre Pop. Tremenda Trementina
Hard to believe I don’t have a Spoon song in my Top 10, but glad to see you have them so high on your list. “Rainy Taxi” is my favorite off that album should probably be in my list. Just wanted to highlight some other artists for this year.
Hello Fran - I am back. We have several of the same artist but looks like no songs in common this time.
Where have you been my friend?!! You've been missed! Great to have you back. Will check out your list now Naughty
@@frangarcia7774 Hey Fran. Thank you my friend. I appreciate it. Some personal matters kept me away. i actually did some work on the years 2010-13 so hopefully I can complete those lists and be all caught up soon. I missed all you guys.
Looks like we are the only 2 people repping that Sun Kil Moon album. The lyrics on Benji are approximately five million times better than anything that anti-masker Lana Del Rey/Lizzy Grant (did her label force her to change her stage name?) has ever written.
my favorite from 2014 was Cherish by Ballet School
Hot 100:
- Beyonce feat. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love
- Charli XCX - Boom Clap
- Taylor Swift - Style
- Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams
- Ariana Grande feat. The Weeknd - Love Me Harder
Wildcard:
- Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby
- Prince - Breakfast Can Wait
- Sturgill Simpson - The Promise
- Nikki Lane - Right Time
Worst: So many contenders once again but I have to go with one of my least favourite songs in recent memory and pick "Rude" by Magic. I hate everything about this song - the music, the singing and especially the lyrics. Trash.
First: This was a song I was absolutely addicted to back in 2014 and I still love to this day. Just a perfect, catchy song - "My Silver Lining" by First Aid Kit
That whole First Aid Kit album (Stay Gold) is purdy darn good. That'll be in my "top 25 albums of 2014" for sure.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Yeah I agree
I hate the way the guy dances in the Rude video . . 🤨
Eight greats from this year. Bit of a sausage fest. Not being ironic having Granduciel and Kozelek together!
Mahogany Dread - Hiss Golden Messenger
Legend Has It - Run the Jewels
Tommy's Congo - Steve Gunn
Chamber of Reflection - Mac DeMarco
An Ocean in Between the Waves - The War on Drugs
Carissa - Sun Kil Moon
Delorean Dynamite - Todd Terje
A Dream of You and Me - Future Islands
Charted Song :
U2 - The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) (#8 in the Province of Québec)
Wildcards :
Owen Pallett - Chorale (favorite song)
Yes - It Was All We Knew
Beck -Turn Away
Coldplay - O
David Crosby - What’s Broken
The song « Tastes like music »:
(still not this week)
album by a ‘new’ act :
Vashti Bunyan - Heartleap
Least favorite song :
T.I. & Young Thug - About The Money
Just a funny observation...there seem to be (almost) as many songs about Joey Ramone by now than there used to be songs about Elvis.
Chandelier = great x
*2014* Top 5 - slim year, for my taste
5. Morrissey - Istanbul
4. Khruangbin - A Calf Born In Winter
3. Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream
2. The Church - Love Philtre*
1. Savages - F*ckers
_*Further Deeper_ - Fave album of the year
I have to admit that one of the side effects of this series was for me to recognise how many great albums and songs The Church have made over the years. I have all their albums since 1982 and they were always good to great but somehow the band was just "always there" and only now I became aware what a massive body of work they have produced and how many are in the range of 4 star or better albums.
@@roxannewalsh Interesting . . I lost that band after 1990 . .🤔
@@NaughtyVampireGod I do not recall the details (since not applicable for me) but I think The Church had some trouble with their American labels at a time. They never were that big in the US anyway but their output remained quite consistent all those years.
@@roxannewalsh Starfish and the somewhat less terrific Gold Afternoon Fix were everywhere in America and the then Church vanished . . Donnie Darko (a good film) introduced their greatest song a decade later . . I found the 80's back catalog on my own but by then it was just a question of more interesting things going with other artists as the 90s progressed - however as you say - they never really left the scene . . a listography would be amazing but at 25 albums a huge time investment
@@NaughtyVampireGod I see a big issue in those large discographies/listograhies related to bands that not many people know about. You can fill a few gaps for an artist if you know them to some degree but to explore them from scratch takes long. I make this experience currently with a few examples whom I have missed all my life and it is on the one hand rewarding but at times overwhelming (I just do it by adding max 1 or 2 albums per week from their catalogue...)
I love how Joe is like “worst year ever” for the last 10 years and then busts out the most indie-centric list of songs. Hilarious. Heigh Ho definitely in my Top 10 albums of the year, but difficult to single out a song for my Top 10. Jason gets my vote with a brilliant synth-pop song. I wish I liked Future Islands full albums more, but they get a bit formulaic with a sound that I only really like in small doses. Singles is the closest to a full album I’ve enjoyed by them, though.
1. “Turtles All the Way Down” by Sturgill Simpson
2. “Water Fountain” by tUnE-yArDs
3. “Seasons (Waiting On You)” - Future Islands
4. “Mahogany Dread” by Hiss Golden Messenger
5. “Queen” by Perfume Genius
HM: “Party Police” by Alvvays, “Early” by Run the Jewels (fea. Boots), “Red Eyes” by The War On Drugs, “Horizon” by Real Estate, “Chris Isaak” by Lydia Loveless
Cheers ✌🏻
You almost had it right. So close. - Joe
Oh yeah, no Ryan Adams, Kram?
@@TastesLikeMusic Congratulations! 💍
Cool list Jon. That Hiss Golden Messanger sounds pretty awesome, didn't know it. Have you heard the Metronomy album from 2014? I think it'd be right up your alley
@@TastesLikeMusic Shame that Trevor Jones is so reserved ..
Some of the songs I love from a pretty good year. I don't like doubling up on artists but what're you going to do, especially with albums like Attica chock full of great songs?
Liminality : Fennesz
Silverkeys : Shackleton
Nathalie Neal : Swans
Inside Out : Spoon
Dude Incredible : Shellac
Teenage Wasteland : Wussy
North Sea Girls : Wussy
Beautiful : Wussy
Death After Life I : Thug Entrancer
Video Girl : FKA Twigs
Lights Out : Angel Olsen
Dance Slow Decades : Angel Olsen
Can't Do Without You : Caribou
Your Love Is Killing Me : Sharon Van Etten
1000 Deaths : D'Angelo and The Vanguard
Turkey Dog Coma : Flying Lotus
I'm in Your Mind/I'm Not In Your Mind/Cellophane/I'm In Your Mind Fuzz [medley] : King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Am I In Heaven : King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
West Memphis : Lucinda Williams
Otava : Ø
Bécs : Fennesz
Love Wussy; I just did some record shopping and scored a cheap, autographed copy of What Heaven Is Like.Some other great choices I missed, as always.
@@johnlefsky8731 thanks. Wussy are a fairly new discovery for me. Their lack of recognition is a shame. Attica may be my favourite. I'll check your list as there's often omissions from mine I see on yours.
My solution for the Wussy issue was to nominate Attica as my AOTY winner in 2014. Not the only time that they (or Ass Ponys) were my #1.
@@roxannewalsh it was your reviews on RYM that led me to Wussy. Thank you for that. If I'd known them at the time Funeral Dress, Left for Dead and Attica would have been on the short list for AOTY on this channel.
Rough year: 9 Between the Lines -Siena Root Circlon6a[141.98] -Aphex Twin All That You Can Carry -Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Let Me Be -The Vintage Caravan Fuego -Phish Weight of Love -Black Keys Dreamwalker -Wo Fat Paradise in a Purple Sky -Earthless Meets Heavy Blanket 1 What Goes Boom -Pixies
Pixies won the year . . (but didn't get SOTY for me)
@@NaughtyVampireGod Magdalena 318 got very close! Nice to see band release good album a ways after their heyday.
@@dbasstij512 Yes . . One of the greatest reunion albums ever. They got unfairly slammed for not sounding like the old pixies. A clown review from pitchfork.
Songs of 2014
Billboard:
Taylor Swift - Style
Pharell Williams - Happy
Coldplay - Sky Full Of Stars
Avicii - Hey Brother
Wildcard:
The War On Drugs - Red Eyes
Prince - Breakdown
Todd Terje - Svensk Sas
Ariel Pink - Put Your Number In My Phone
Mac De Marco - Chamber Of Reflection
Worst:
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
SOTY:
Disclosure - Latch
Nice to see a bit of Coldplay love here. Jason has ‘Ghost Stories’ as their worst album, but I find it to be the best one they’ve done after Viva La Vida (I give it 4/5 stars)….must be the Target edition.
’Oceans’ made my Wildcard. ‘Sky Full of Stars’ I think works well--it gets ripped for not being part of the aesthetic of that album but I disagree--it just missed my Billboard list.
My #1... Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott ... The Snowman…
The worst... Ew! ... Jimmy Fallon & Will.I.Am...
Wildcards...
Alvvays - Ones Who Love You,
James - Frozen Britain,
Angel Olsen - Enemy,
Lana Del Rey - Shades Of Coal,
JUST MISSED OUT...
The Coral - You Closed The Door,
Real Estate - Past Lives,
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Full Grown Boy,
Morrissey - I’m Not A Man,
Marissa Nadler - 1923...
My favourites for 2014:
01) Going Home - Asgier
02) Wave - Beck
03) Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
04) Coup De Grace - Royksopp
05) I'm A Mother - Perfume Genius
06) Killing Me - Little Dragon
07) My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit
08) Cosby Sweater - Hilltop Hoods
09) Morning - Beck
10) God's Whisper - Raury
#1 Queen - Perfume Genius
#2 Dancehall Domine - The New Pornographers
#3 Digital Witness - St. Vincent
#4 Milly's Garden - Steve Gunn
#5 Your Love is Killing Me - Sharon Van Etten
Honourable mentions:
Stars - Angel Olsen
Disco//Very - Warpaint
Seasons (Waiting on You) - Future Islands
Blue Moon - Beck
Ride - TV On The Radio
Jason gets my vote.
Dancehall Domine my SOTY. One the best videos of the 2010s . .
@@NaughtyVampireGod such a power pop gem. Joe’s pick, Champions of Red Wine, is also great
@@AnotherBadSpeech That's good, too. missed my cut in favor of a few others. I'm a big New Pornographers fan. I will check out yer #1 and some others.
Normally I line up more with Jason but Joe had some great picks this year. That Party Police song was a great choice.
Welcome to the decade of indie Joe. - Joe
Welp, my Hot 100 list died in 2014. Couldn't find even five. Just some wild cards.
Wild Cards:
5. Bag Boy - The Pixies
4. Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
3. Wrong Club - The Ting Tings
2. U Get Me High - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
1. Red Eyes - The War On Drugs
Ultraviolence charted! That’s one. And you had the best song. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Yup, that's one. It's not 5. I actually found 3 but Ultraviolence was only one to make wild card list.
@@nightowl1851 It’s a shame you have given up on the Billboard hits, Night Owl. I am still determined to pick 5 each year, even though some of my choices are compromise selections that are simply the best of a very ordinary bunch. 😀
@@bryanbyrde8338 Maybe 2015? Not holding my breath. I found 5 for 2014 -- three I enjoyed and 2 I could not rank in good conscience.
'Cruel World' - Lana does yet another Lynchian 'Wild at Heart' song. What I do love about this is the instrumental build and the Lana's switching out the vocal styles. She really disproves here anyone questioning her pipes. Good choice to go for the repeated chorus and put us in the place of a woman possibly in peril. x
Yep. Gonna contradict myself re melody now, 'cos I never heard Milky Chance before, and it too has a particularly horizontal melody, but I'm loving it, loving the expression. Which goes to show my own biases. Love the sorta stripped down experimental nature of this one. Loves. x
(Honourable Mentions: Hozier - Take Me To Church, Coldplay - Ink, Sleaford Mods - Tied Up In Nottz, Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words, Lebanon Hanover - Fall Industrial Wall)
Charting Songs:
5. Lily Allen - URL Badman (UK #93)
4. OneRepublic - Love Runs Out (Germany #3, UK #3, US #15)
3. Coldplay - Magic (UK #10, Germany #14, US #14)
2. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (US #1, UK #1, Germany #5)
1. Taylor Swift - Blank Space (US #1, UK #4, Germany #9)
Wildcards:
5. Lifeformed - 9-Bit Expedition [From the game ‘Dustforce’.]
4. Simple Minds - Broken Glass Park
3. Boy Harsher - Pain
2. The Crystal Method - Jupiter Shift
Worst Top 40 Hit: The Chainsmokers & Alexis Killacam - #Selfie
SONG OF THE YEAR 2014: Susanne Sundfør - Fade Away [Lovely little Pop tune that gets stuck in your ear easily. The microwave bell at the end of the bridge is pure genius.]
Champions of Red Wine (ps I'm a champion of white wine). I have to admit ignorance here in terms of what this song is about. Maybe, when I press play on your vid Joe will explain it... but it's my sorta thing, kind 80s but still lacking enough tune for me, although I can see this growing... I think I'm missing the context ... ooops it's repeating on my yt listen and I think I'm already getting a bit addicted... x
Joe picks the clear winner for me. This album marked time. This song marked time. This is the one that will be talked about long after we're gone. Transcendent stuff x
Wow! Still under 3 minutes and we get 'Boom Clap', which might usurp my earlier guess for worst for one of ya. No verse melody whatsoever. Jeesh! I'm sorta impressed. Loves x
Congratulations to Joe
Love love love the hard synth on G.U.Y. Easily my fave track so far. x
Well, chaps. Feels like another journey we went on. Although, to tbh, it just demonstrated for me how I would not have the stamina to do what you guys must to keep this up. So, kudos again to you for that. Evidently I have opinions and a bit of experience in the music industry to inform that, and I know engagement is good for the optics and algorithm. My fave artists are, of course, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, and, as you know, Husker Du. Although, if I were a millionaire I'd pay you a lot to do Billie Holiday's discography, which never mind that not happening, but even working it out would be tough. You are doing a brilliant job here, and I think if you just keep doing what you're doing ('cos it's clear you love it), the channel will grow. All the best to you. And thanks again. :)
I think they'd do that for less than a million dollars . . 😎
1. Len Price 3-London Institute
2. Half Man Half Biscuit-This One's For Now
3. The Muffs-Weird Boy Next Door
4. Spider Bags-Eyes Of Death
5. D'Angelo and The Vanguard-1000 Deaths
6. Richard Dawson-The Vile Stuff
7. Ex Hex-Watefall
8. Ty Segall-Feel
9. The Electric Mess-Better To Be Lucky Than Good
10. Carla Bozulich- What Is It Baby?
11. Los Vigilantes-Un Dia Nada Mas
12. Wussy-Gene, I Dream
13. Thee Oh Sees-Encrypted Bounce
14. Swans-A Little God In My Hand
15. Guided By Voices-Littlest League Possible
16. Kasai All Stars-Thus Spoke The Ancestors
17. Sleaford Mods-Strike Force
18. Jenny Hval and Susanna-Running Down
19. Scott Walker and Sunno)))- Herod
20. The Coathangers-Springfield Cannonball
21. Outrageous Cherry-Department Of Ghosts
22. Robyn Hitchcock-Don't Look Down (a Grant Lee Phillips cover)
23. Reigning Sound-Never Coming Home
24. Pere Ubu-Visions Of The Moon
25. Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO- Dark Star Blues
26. The Both-You Can't Help Me Now
27. Eno/Hyde-Lilac
28. Jon Langford's Skull Orchard-Drone Operator
29. The Above-Broken Soul
30. White Fence-Wolf Gets Red Faced
And now to check out other lists and do my weekly 'Oh yeah!!!"
I'm a big Eno fan but never got around to the Eno/Hyde albums. I should rectify that. I forgot Pere Ubu, one of my favourite bands. Golden Surf II might be my pick but I don't know Carnival of Souls as well as the other later albums. 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo from 2017 is next which I like a lot. Great list.
A lot of these artists/albums appeared on my AOTY list for 2014, so I skipped them for SOTY, but a good playlist here.
Fade Away by Susanne Sundfør wins for me
Ok. I'm less than 3 minutes in and despite Jason's first pick, I'll be surprised if that very song 'Shut up and dance with me' isn't on someone's worst pick. Love you Jason but good god ham you're upping the ante with that one. xxx :)
The year BabyMetal released its debut album, after having teased us with various songs in the previous years. They would make more great songs after this one, but never were able to sound as fresh and ground breaking.
Song of the year
Road of Resistance - BabyMetal
Runners up
Onedari Daisakusen - BabyMetal
Catch Me If You Can - BabyMetal
Iine! - BabyMetal
Follow Me Down - The Pretty Reckless
Figure It Out - Royal Blood
Take Me to Church - Hozier
Come Back Home - 2NE1
Red Light - f(x)
Mamma Mia - Kara
I’m so happy Charli XCX’s Boom Clap made the list, Sucker is my album of the year.
I've never heard of Blake Mills before, but sonically this is incredible. Shame the lyrics are a pean to normative romance tropes in the quest for marriage. Then again, I was massively touched by Father John Misty's 'I love you honeybear' so that's on me. Yep. This is brilliant and my favourite so far. x
My top 6 are all Taylor..
1. Blank Space
2. All You Had To Do Was Stay
3. New Romantics
4. How You Get The Girl
5. Style
6. Out Of The Woods
I was a mentor in my church's youth ministry program at the time, and I heard these songs on a loop for several years.. haha. they're good
They’re pretty good. - Joe
Here are some of my favourite songs of 2014: Painkiller by Three Days Grace, As I Lay Me Down by Black Collar Union, Gotta Get Away by The Black Keys, Subterranean by Foo Fighters, 1000HP by Godsmack, Dragonaut by Judas Priest, Mark the Graves by LINKIN PARK, Let Me In Your Heart Again by Queen, The Negative One by Slipknot, Rainbow In the Dark (feat. Jason Christopher, Christian Martucci, Roy Mayorga & Satchel) by Corey Taylor, Figure It Out by Royal Blood, U Get Me High by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Drown by Theory Of A Deadman, Kingdom of Zod by Billy Talent, Ghosts by Big Wreck, Rock the Blues Away by AC/DC and Under the Sun by The Trews.
Nice to see a list from someone who doesn’t worship indie music. - Joe
Nice to see a list from someone who doesn’t worship indie music. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Thanks Joe.
Hello Everyone!
Here’s 2014:
1. Wanderlust - Wild Beasts (“We’re decadent beyond our means, we’ve a zeal”)
2. Pain - Boy Harsher
3. Cherry - Chromatics
4. Tidal Wave - Interpol
5. Habits (Stay High) - Hippie Sabotage Remix - Tove Lo
6. Lie, Cheat, Steal - Run The Jewels
7. Prince Johnny - St. Vincent
8. Occupy Your Mind - Villagers
9. Queen - Perfume Genius
10. Two Weeks - FKA twigs
HM - Holding On For Life - Broken Bells
Hi Michele - First Interpol album without Carlos D & first one with some noticeable flaws. He's putting out an instrumental album this year. Have an awesome 👌 weekend 😀
@@brentjackson6839 Good afternoon! Hope you’re having a wonderful Friday. I love this year in music and the top song spots are nearly interchangeable. I’m seeing Interpol tonight with Spoon - thrilled to death I am! TTFN
@@davidellis5141 Hope you had a nice horseback ride, David! El Pintor is probably my least favorite Interpol album but I still enjoy it quite a bit. Was expecting to see Mr. Dengler on the big screen by now, acting along with an ominous film score. A gal can hope. I still wish he hadn’t left his band mates and he’ll be missed when I see them play tonight. Hope you have a lovely weekend!
Noice work M-Dubz 👍
@@mattymac1399 Much obliged 😉
Favorite and his best RobertPlant - *TheLullaby&CeaselessRoar* BestRadioPlay - LadyG.G - *G.U.Y.* (even though it was palyed in 2013) and SIA - *Chandelier*
Ah. Joe picks a track of one of my favourite lps. 'Adult Diversion' is simply wonderful. And this song... I'm not qualified to rank this... far too biased.... it's practically perfect. As is Alvvays x
All the Lana del Rey love is amazing 🥰
I loved Annie Clark back when she was in Polyphonic Spree, and she's great, but I wish she'd also stop going for the rock star vibe. She's one of the best guitarists in the world. Wish she'd do a 'shut up and play guitar' lp. It's hard not to love St Vincent, but she always makes me feel like she's selling herself short. Like she's way more brilliant than we get... Funnily enough with the reference to Jesus on this track I'd recommend Zola Jesus' first album if you want this vibe but less considered. x
Kramzer, as someone who was a teenager during this period, I cannot support you putting "All About That Bass" on your Hot 100 list. That song is absolutely terrible.
Never hear Margo... etc before either. You know, I had a theory way back that a lot of good bands turned in to U2 - Kings of Leon, Travis, The Killers, The Foals for sure - I could go on.. but this is a case in point - the guitars wild enough, but holy goodness the singer is Bono surely. B- x
Wasn't paying attention that year. I think the only album I have from that year is Charli XCX Sucker so my number 1 has to be Famous. Woohoo, amazing song, amazing album!
I'm following along so as not to cheat. 'Seasons' is going to be hard to beat. It's a classic. Wonderful production, perfect mixing. Always made me think if MGMT had carried on with their particular sound after Oracular. It's just beautiful .. but... there is still something of an oppressive element to the lyrics - "I've tried hard to soften you"... always makes me feel uncomfortable. x
Congratulations joe although I disagree, love rude.
Kramzer no need for the potty mouth.
Joe's on it so far for me. Ultraviolence second in the running. Mostly 'cos I'd not heard the Lady Ga Ga track before, whereas I'm familiar with Lana - think 'Blue Bannisters' is her best, but this is classic nevertheless x
I suggest brilliant youtuber 'Todd in the Shadows' re 'All about that bass' and his even funnier take on 'Dear future husband'. But yeah, catchy tune if totally pandering. x
Agree w/ Digital Gramophone about Future Islands; that it's a good sound, but it comes again and again. (They remind me a bit of Keane in that aspect). More than half the fun about that band is just watching the singer.
I liked 'Queen' by Perfume Genius.
And IMO the irresistible "Under the Pressure' by TWOD. Joe says it right - it's not the greatest song; or for that matter guitar playing. He puts it together well. I am not sure what he needs that insane amount of stompboxes for. TWOD have turned this song into a mammoth at live shows.
'Busy Earnin' by Jungle
And, I am totally embarrassed to say this but I just love "Sky full of stars' by Coldplay. That synth.
Bring the Sun by Swans
TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE!!!!
"You know when people change
They gain a piece but they lose one too" - very insightful lyric from Future Islands.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.
@@TastesLikeMusic No, I like this lyric. I don't know how true it is, but it's trippy.
good song too. Wasn't sure at first but it won me over.
My list and lots of other info was lost from my computer but I didn't have any songs down as faves but for Joe's "Red Eye" by War on Drugs. A particularly good performance was done on the Letterman show.
letterman was very influential . . i've heard him cited a few times for this year
@@NaughtyVampireGod Sure. He might have been the best at getting good music guest. Warren Zevon's last week on tv was with Dave. Missed seeing you for a while .
@@oppothumbs1 Hey Thanks. Yeah. i was gone for about a month.
Sorry to hear you lost your work on the computer 🤔. . . I've got 50-100 pages of music notes which i upate continuously. Every so often I print it out. (I never trust those damn things! 🤨)
@@oppothumbs1 The Warren Zevon videos during his final illness are amazing. (Very tender moment when Bruce Springsteen give him a kiss.) Not part of letterman but thought about that. Great that Dave gave Warren a full show. One of the great moments in televison history.
Sharon Von Etten track is heartbreaking. Pacing is a bit too pedestrian for me, but the lyrics do kill. More recent was her track with Angel Olsen, 'Like I used to' which really does kill my heart and also proves me a hypocrite 'cos of the same pacing. Good stuff all the same x
Best SOTY = Mitski - First Love 👑
Worst SOTY = Maroon 5 - Animals 👎🏻👎🏻
Now I'm beginning to wonder what pop had to offer in 2014. The Taylor Swift track isn't bad, but pretty boring. Gotta admit, this is a time I kinda missed, and I appreciate the work you guys put it, but I hope it's gonna get better. Loves. x
I'm with you on the T-Swift. I'm not very familiar with Swift's work, but if that's supposed to be one of her best tracks it doesn't motivate me to investigate her further.
Y'all made awesome selections for 2014! Thank you for leaving the horribly overrated Sam Smith off the list!
Kramzer ...what about Shades of Cool ????
2014:
🏆Song of the Year: My Silver Lining, First Aid Kit
😎Wildcard:
Oceans, Coldplay
Under the Pressure, The War on Drugs
Heart is a Drum, Beck
Sisters, Radical Face
Inside Out, Spoon
🔥Billboard:
Happy, Pharrell
Blue Moon, Beck
Fever, The Black Keys
Brooklyn Baby, Lana Del Rey
🤮Worst: Ew, Jimmy Fallon, et al
First Aid Kit’s album “Stay Gold’ was my Album of the Year. Runners up included the work by Beck, The Black Keys, The War on Drugs, Spoon, Lana Del Rey, and Hans Zimmer (Interstellar). Coldplay’s Ghost Stories got an honorable mention as I actually think it’s a 4 star album, even if it gets trashed here. For the first time in their discography, U2 missed my top 5 in 2014, but I still give that album an honorable mention as I think musically its ok; the cover though is utter trash.
I've never been more in sync with Jason than these last two weeks (2013-2014). Very surprised of his Hot 100 Picks, and also didn't see coming "Seasons" as song of the year. Vote for him!
Also, Joe, don't disappoint me with your 2015 winner. There's only one right choice and you're the right guy to choose it.
After your cheerleading for Jason, I don’t know if you deserve it. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Maybe I don't, but your girl and her saxophone surely does 😉
Yeah. Again. I'd refer back to Zola Jesus for more progressive takes on bad boy good girl love than Lana's 'Sad Girl'. Lana's later stuff is better than this; less self aware and cheesy. x
I had a very annoying co worker that everyone couldn't stand who was obsessed with Rude. One of the most lacking in self awareness people I've ever known in my life.
OOh.! Kramzer did 'Happy' too. One of the most disliked songs ever. Personally I enjoy 'Walk of the Earth' version most. x
So far, despite what I said earlier, yep, 'Stay with Me' is the worst. I'd forgotten this and am now going to unsubscribe for you reminding me of this schmaltzy piece of horribleness. Obviously, I'm not going to unsubscribe 'cos you guys are brilliant. This song, though, it's hard to get through - kinda like some sorta horrible cross between someone's idea of an x-factor winner with a tik-tok newbie. It's going to be hard to beat x
I was sincerely hoping that you would all pick "Shake It Off" as the worst song of the year. Around the same time, I read some very intelligent comments by Taylor Swift in the Wall Street Journal, so that song was particularly disappointing.
'Follow your arrow' is deffo and anthem for liberals who need to equivocate in the face of their own guilt, but it is infectious if a little bland. Good one x