Saturday, December 07, 2013

Favorite/Favourite Songs of 2013

Here's my list of faves for 2013. Deal with it.

1. “Dead Now” – Frightened Rabbit
2. “Ancient Mars” – the Zolas  
4. “A Rose by Any Name” – Blondie featuring Beth Ditto
5. “Graceless” – the National
6. “Right Action” – Franz Ferdinand
7. “Archie, Marry Me” – Alvvays
8. “Flaws” - Bastille
9. “We Were Wolves” – the Farewell Circuit
10. “The Hunter” – On and On
34. “Unbelievers” – Vampire Weekend
35. “Put Me to Work” - Papa
36. “Ever Loved Once” – Blitzen Trapper
37. “Brief Encounters” – Franz Ferdinand
38. “Tightrope (Reddfield Deep Radio Edit)” – Matt Alber
39. “Pumpin’ Blood” – NoNoNo
40. “I Love You” – Woodkid

41. “Shuggie” - Foxygen
42. “Radioactive” – Imagine Dragons
43. “Parade” – Three Blind Wolves
44. “Do I Wanna Know?” – Arctic Monkeys
45. “The Perfect Life” - Moby
46. “GMF” – John Grant 
47. “Black Chandelier” – Biffy Clyro
48. “Harbour Lights” – A Silent Film
49. “Weird Science” – Most Non Heinous
50. “Hearts Are Made for Beating” – Wax Fang
51. “Put a Light on” - Generationals
52. “This Is Sally Hatchet” – Father John Misty
53. “Animals” – Cultfever
54. “Knot in My Heart” – the Zolas
55. “I’m a Witch” - Ladyhawk
56. “Golden State” – City and Colour
57. “A Goodbye” – Earlimart
58. “Die in My Arms” – Marching Band
59. “Dust and Bones” – Night Terrors of 1927
60. “The Way I Tend to Be” – Frank Turner

61. “Cardiac Arrest” – Bad Suns
62. “Breakers” – Local Natives
63. “Frosted Tips (Watching the New World Die)” - Califone
64. “Bad Blood” - Bastille
65. “In Came the Flood” – Wintersleep
66. “Breezeblocks” – Alt J
67.  “Conquest of Spaces” – Woodkid
68. “America” – Laura Veirs
69. “Awkward” – San Cisco
70. “Live and Die” – the Avett Brothers
71. “Power Lines” - Telekinesis
72. “Feeling Good” – the Sheepdogs
73. “Timeless” – the Airborne Toxic Event
74. “The Woodpile” – Frightened Rabbit
75. “From Nowhere” – Dan Coll
76. “Wishes and Stars” – Harper SImon
77. “Home” – Phillip Phillips
78. “Hellbent” – New Order
79. “Laura Palmer” - Bastille
80. “Elephant” – Tame Impala

81. “I Love You” – Said the Whale  
82. “Hearts a Mess” - Gotye
83. “Good to See You” – Grapes of Wrath
84. “My Number” – Foals
85. “Bigger Than Love” – Benjamin Gibbard with Aimee Mann
86. “Nancy From Now On” – Father John Misty
87. “Kinda Fuzzy” - eels
88. “Fantasy” – MS MR
89. “Heart Attack” – Blitzen Trapper 
90. “Avalon” – Fiction Family
91. “Everlasting Arms” – Vampire Weekend
92. “Harlem” – New Politics
93. “The Walker” – Fitz and the Tantrums
94. “Heavy Feet” – Local Natives
95. “Believer” – American Authors
96. “Thirst” – City and Colour
97. “Awake” - Generationals
98. “Love Songs and Lullabyes” - Skittish
99. “Nothing Is Anything” - Wintersleep
100. “Born to Ruin” – Wildlife

101. “Just Make It Stop” – Low
102. “Cultured Man” – the Zolas
103. “Down Down the Deep River” – Okkervil River
104. “The Wire” – Haim
105. “Six Dead Tigers” – Yukon Blonde
106. “Don’t Swallow the Cap” – the National
107. “I’m Going Down” – Vampire Weekend
108. “Things We Lost in the Fire” - Bastille
109. “The Golden Age” – Woodkid
110. “Take It on Faith” – Matt Mays
111. “Now I’m Learning to Love the War” - Father John Misty
112. “Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out” - Cracker
113. “Just My Luck” - Dawes
114. “I See You” – Caveman
115. “Overrated” – Soft Swells
116. “Bones” – MS MR
117. “Achille’s Desire” - Whitehorse
118. “Out of the Blue” – Prides
119. “Plastic Cup” - Low
120. “This Ladder Is Ours” – the Joy Formidable
121. “Up Against the Wall” – Fiction Family
122. “I’ve Got a Feeling” – New Order
123. “Wor” – Django Django
124. “Ghosts and Creatures” – Telekinesis
125. “Late Night” - Foals
126. “College” – Rogue Wave
127. “Welcome to My World” – Depeche Mode
128. “Shake It Off” – Soft Swells

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