Good music is out there. I just need to do some sleuthing to find many of the songs that comprise this list. Here are 100-and-some songs I dug this year (in mostly priority order).
1.
“Ghosts Again” – Depeche Mode
3.
“New Body Rhumba” – LCD Soundsystem
7.
“Not Strong Enough” - boygenius
9.
“Aphrodite's Favourite Child” – Orchestral Manoeuvres
in the Dark
10.
“Chalk Flowers” – the Clientele
11.
“Pepper” – Death Cab for Cutie
12.
“Endless Sea” – Dream Room
14.
“Ride On” – the Nude Party
15.
“Empty Nest” – Sivlersun Pickups
16.
“Rigor Mortis Radio” – the Hives
20.
“Now and Then” – the Beatles
21. “The Sadness in You, the Sadness in Me” – the London Suede
22. “Blue Marbled Elm Trees” – King Creosote
23. “Prizefighter” – Youth Lagoon
24.
“Post-Traumatic Love” – ACTORS
25.
“Off My Mind” – Joe P and K. Flay
26.
“The Walk Home” – Young the Giant
27.
“An Arrow in the Wall” – Death Cab for Cutie
29. “Cold Reactor” – Everything Everything
30.
“Let Us Die” – King Princess
31.
“Your Side of Town” – the Killers
32.
“Wake Up” – Young the Giant
33.
“Wide Awake” – Strange Ranger
34.
“Bauhaus Staircase” – Orchestral Manoeuvres inthe Dark
35. “Thinking About You” – Beck
37.
“Let’s Make a Mistake Tonight” – Tennis
38.
“For Your Soul” – Josh Ritter
39.
“Angelcover” – the New Pornographers
40.
“Blue Over Blue” – the Clientele
41.
“The Perfect Pair” – beabadoobee
42.
“Eraser” – Sweeping Promises
43.
“Lose You” – Bully featuring Soccer Mommy
48.
“Tropic Morning News” – the National
49.
“Just to Keep You Satisfied” – Inhaler
52.
“Pistol” – Cigarettes after Sex
53.
“Oceans Apart” – the Coral
54.
“City of Angels” – Ladytron
55.
“My Favourite Stranger” – Depeche Mode
57.
“The Way” – Manchester Orchestra
60.
“Padam Padam” – Kylie Minogue
62.
“Delirious” – Cindy Wilson
64.
“Los Angeles” - Lol Tolhurst x Budgie xJacknife Lee featurig James Murphy
66.
“Go Down River” – the Heavy Heavy
67.
“Exhausting Lover” – Ben Folds
68.
“That’s Where She Belongs” – the Coral
70.
“Nothing Matters” – the Last Dinner Party
71.
“Sole Obsession” – Nation of Language
72.
“Angry” – the Rolling Stones
73.
“Nothing Is Perfect” - Metric
75.
“When We Were Very Young” – Belle andSebastian
76.
“Really Really Light” – the New Pornograpers
77.
“You Were Meant for Me” - Sparks
79.
“Brazilian Iris” – Faded Paper Figures
81.
“Road to Joy” – Peter Gabriel
82.
“Fleez” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
83.
“Slow Train” – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
84.
“Too Much, Enough” – Nation of Language
85.
“So You Are Tired” – Sufjan Stevens
86.
“Black Moonlight” – Duran Duran
87.
“Four Kinds of Horses” – Peter Gabriel
88.
“Muriel’s Big Day Off” – Being Dead
89.
“Born Leader” – Coach Party
90.
“I Want to Be Your Only Pet” – Bombay Bicycle
Club
91.
“Danse Macabre” – Duran Duran
92.
“Vaporized” – Sea Lemon
93.
“Panopticom” – Peter Gabriel
94.
“Only Wanna Dance” – almost monday
95.
“Just Before the Morning” – Local Natives
96.
“Your Day” – Pastel
97.
“Sightseer” – Nation of Language
98.
“Black Eye” – Allie X
99.
“Crumble” – the National featuring Roseanne
Cash
100. “Anything”
– Frankie Rose
101. “Echolalia”
– Yves Tumor
102. “Emergency
Contact” – Pierce the Veil
103. “i/o” –
Peter Gabriel
104. “Call Me What You Like” – Lovejoy
105. “Bug Like an Angel” - Mitski
106. “Half
Life” – Object of Affection
107. “Nothing
Is as Good as They Say It Is” – Sparks