100+ Favourite Songs of 2024

 

My annual list of favourite new/newish music. Suprisingly solid listing.

1. “Big Time Nothing” – St. Vincent 

2. “Enter the Mirror” – Everything Everything 

3. “The Future Is a Foreign Land” – Ghost 

4. “In the Modern World” – Fontaines D.C. 

5. “People Are Good” – Depeche Mode 

6. “X-Ray Eyes” – LCD Soundsystem 

7. “Lost in Space” – Foster the People 

8. “Discothèque Inside My Head” – Telenova 

9. “The Howl” – Crowded House 

10. “Family Values” - Broncho 

11. “Matador” – Luvcat 

12. “Audacious” – Franz Ferdinand 

13. “Neon Pill” – Cage the Elephant 

14. “God’s Plan” – Mother Mother 

15. “Water Underground” – Real Estate 

16. “Burial Ground” – the Decemberists 

17. “New Propeller” – Nada Surf 

18. “The Tower” – Future Islands 

19. “Calling After Me” – Wallows 

20. “Earth Worship” – Rubblebucket 

21. “Slowly Spilling Out” – Saint Motel 

22. “Devil Town” – Mother Mother 

23. “By the End of the Night” – Old 97’s 

24. “It’s a Bitch” – John Grant 

25. “Capricorn” – Vampire Weekend 

26. “Change Shapes” – Lauren Mayberry 

27. “Don’t You Want to Sleep with Someone Normal” – Love Fame Tragedy 

28. “Missing Out” – Maya Hawke 

29. “Nomad” – Clairo 

30. “Broken Man” – St. Vincent 

31. “Kleptocracy” – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 

32. “Condensation” – Sports Team 

33. “Night or Day” – Franz Ferdinand 

34. “Blood on the Hospital Floor” – the Wombats 

35. “Murder on the Dancefloor” – Royel Otis 

36. “Never My Love” – Jakob Dylan and Norah Jones 

37. “Got to Be Mine” – Vulfmon featuring Evangeline 

38. “Not Afraid” – Cult with No Name 

39. “Onions” – Cults 

40. “Brain Damage” – Joywave 

41. “Boom Boom Back” – Hinds featuring Beck 

42. “Rot in Hell” – the Dream Eaters 

43. “Blue Sky & The Painter” – Bastille 

44. “Blue Roses” – Diamond Dog 

45. “Foam” – Royel Otis 

46. “Flea” – St. Vincent 

47. “Rain Can’t Reach Us” – Yannis and the Yaw 

48. “Buddy, Come Over” – Everything Everything 

49. “Tomorrow Is Today” – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 

50. “Sickly Sweet” – NewDad 

51. “Panoramic View” – AWOLNATION 

52. “Bubblegum Dog” – MGMT 

53. “I Hope That You Spontaneously Combust” – Travis 

54. “Again” – Still Woozy 

55. “Planetarium” – Blitzen Trapper 

56. “Bored in the Summer” – Bad Bad Hats 

57. “Power” – Telenova 

58. “So Many Planets” – St. Vincent 

59. “These Ghosts” – Tyler Ramsey 

60. “Same Color as the Sun” – flor 

61. “Downhill” – Pom Pom Squad 

62. “Love Is Quite Nice” – Desmond Doom 

63. “Come Alive” – Phantogram 

64. “Blackberries” – Cold Cave 

65. “I like the way you kiss me” – Artemas 

66. “All That You Are” – Bear’s Den 

67. “Alive” – Travis 

68. “Canary” – Everything Everything 

69. “As You Are” – Day Wave 

70. “Glimpse” – Future Islands 

71. “He’s Back!” – Joywave 

72. “Alone” – the Cure 

73. “Some Dreams” – A Flock of Seagulls 

74. “Plastic Boxes” – Highly Suspect 

75. “A Fragile Thing” – the Cure 

76. “The Unloving Plum” – Haircut 100 

77. “Last Frontier” – Ride 

78. “Classical” – Vampire Weekend 

79. “Sweeter” – Cannons 

80. “Dancer” – IDLES featuring LCD Soundsystem

81. “High in Low Places” – Beach Weather 

82. “It Leads to This” – The Pineapple Thief 

83. “Howl” – She Drew the Gun 

84. “Next Exit” – Vacations 

85. “Cosmic Backseat Education” – Blitzen Trapper 

86. “Husk” – Men I Trust 

87. “Gaslight” – Travis 

88. “End of Beginning” – Djo 

89. “Rainbow” – Cage the Elephant 

90. “Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come” – the Wombats 

91. “Light Runner” – GIFT 

92. “Picture of You (X+W)” – U2 

93. “That Golden Time” – Villagers 

94. “The Town That Cursed Your Name” – the Reds, Pinks, and Purples 

95. “All a Mystery” – Phantogram 

96. “Regular People” – Moon Walker 

97. “Hot Sun” – Wilco 

98. “Stay Golden” – Saint Motel 

99. “Rats” – Suzanne Vega 

100. “Going in Circles” – GIFT 

101. “Bus” – Travis 

102. “Candy Coloured Catastrophe” – Redd Kross 

103. “Senna – Haux 

104. “Say It Like You Mean It” – Sleater-Kinney 

105. “Mary Boone” – Vampire Weekend 

106. “Stockholm Syndrome” – Hangwire 

107. “Magpie” – Peach Pit 

108. “Evil Love” – Kate Pierson 

109. “Chemical Animal” – the Jesus and Mary Chain 

110. “Ice Cream Sundae” – Inhaler

100+ Favourite Songs of 2023

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

2.          “Wild Bird” – the Coral

3.          “New Body Rhumba” – LCD Soundsystem

4.          “Daydream” – Being Dead

5.          “The Drop” – Sports Team

6.          “Loving You” – Cannons

7.          “Not Strong Enough” - boygenius

8.          “Weirdo” – Girl Scout

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

13.      “Kisses” – Slowdive

14.      “Ride On” – the Nude Party

15.      “Empty Nest” – Sivlersun Pickups

16.      “Rigor Mortis Radio” – the Hives

17.      “Geometry” – Rubblebucket

18.      “North Wind” – the Coral

19.      “Escalator” – Sparks

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

28.      “Wolf” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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

36.      “In the Dark” – Biig Piig

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

44.      “Honey” – the Lone Bellow

45.      “Surefire” – Wilderado

46.      “Pages” – White Reaper

47.      “The Narcissist” – Blur

48.      “Tropic Morning News” – the National

49.      “Just to Keep You Satisfied” – Inhaler

50.      “This Is Why” – Paramore

51.      “Desire” – Cannons

52.      “Pistol” – Cigarettes after Sex

53.      “Oceans Apart” – the Coral

54.      “City of Angels” – Ladytron

55.      “My Favourite Stranger” – Depeche Mode

56.      “Insomnia” – the moss

57.      “The Way” – Manchester Orchestra

58.      “Evergreen” – Mt. Joy

59.      “Bang Bang” – Momma

60.      “Padam Padam” – Kylie Minogue

61.      “Runaway” – Leathers

62.      “Delirious” – Cindy Wilson

63.      “Highlands” – Middle Kids

64.      “Los Angeles” - Lol Tolhurst x Budgie xJacknife Lee featurig James Murphy

65.      “Hello” - Grouplove

66.      “Go Down River” – the Heavy Heavy

67.      “Exhausting Lover” – Ben Folds

68.      “That’s Where She Belongs” – the Coral

69.      “Atomic City” – U2

70.      “Nothing Matters” – the Last Dinner Party

71.      “Sole Obsession” – Nation of Language

72.      “Angry” – the Rolling Stones

73.      “Nothing Is Perfect” - Metric

74.      “One Like You” – LP

75.      “When We Were Very Young” – Belle andSebastian

76.      “Really Really Light” – the New Pornograpers

77.      “You Were Meant for Me” - Sparks

78.      “Faces” – Ladytron

79.      “Brazilian Iris” – Faded Paper Figures

80.      “Loner” – Day Wave

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