Andrew's Top 120 - Favourite Songs of 2014

Interesting tidbits about this list: 4 songs about home or coming home, 4 songs about some kind of high, 3 or 4 bears and a cub, 3 or 4 ghosts, 2 houses, and 2 hummingbirds...

1. “Every Other Freckle” – alt-J
2. “Paris” – Magic Man
3. “Dangerous” – Big Data
4. “Holy Branches” – Radical Face
5. "Quartz" – TV on the Radio
6. “Digital Witness” – St. Vincent
7. “Oblivion” – Bastille
8. “No Sugar in My Coffee” – Caught a Ghost
9. “Ghost Story” – Coldplay
10. “Left Hand Free” – alt-J

11. “Lazy” – Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
12. “Slippery Slopes” – Jenny Lewis
13. “Do You” - Spoon
14. “Euphoria” - Blondie
15. “Another Set of Issues” – OK Go
16. “The Epilogue” – Crosses
17. “Got to My Head” – Waters
18. “If” – Armand Margjeka
19. “Time Between” – Bear in Heaven
20. “After the Disco” – Broken Bells

21. “Sparklers” – Gemini Club
22. “So Now What” – the Shins
23. “Come with Me Now” – Kongos
24. “Long Way Down” – Robert DeLong
25. “First” – Cold War Kids
26. “When You Were Mine” – Night Terrors of 1927 feat. Tegan & Sara
27. “Happy Idiot” – TV on the Radio
28. “I Wanna Get Better” - Bleachers
29. “Agora” – Bear Hands
30. “Flashed Junk Mind” – Milky Chance
31. “House on Fire” – Matt Alber
32. “Harder Than Stone” – City and Colour
33. “Time Go” – Caught a Ghost
34. “Love Without Fear” – Dan Wilson
35. “Red Hand” – Owl John
36. “Coming of Age” – Foster the People
37. “Sirens” – Pearl Jam
38. “Rise in the Wake” – the Trews
39. “Black Soap” – Ex Cops
40. “Quicksand” – We Were Evergreen

41. “Invisible” – U2
42. “Big Ideas” – Francisco the Man
43. “Agape” – Bear’s Den
44. “Always” – Panama
45. “Hold On” – Blitzen Trapper
46. “Hummingbird” – the Both (Aimee Mann & Ted Leo)
47. “Aviation High” – Semi Precious Weapons
48. “Changing of the Seasons” – Two Door Cinema Club
49. “Habits (Stay Hight)” – Tove Lo
50. “Be Ready When I Say Go” – Emperors
51. “Careful You” – TV on the Radio
52. “Unkinder (A Tougher Love)” – Thumpers
53. “The Writing’s on the Wall” – OK Go
54. “Lanterns” – Birds of Tokyo
55. “I Wish We Were Leaving” – Bright Light Bright Light w/Elton John
56. "Control” – Broken Bells
57. “I’m Only Joking” – Kongos
58. “All the Rage Back Home” – Interpol
59. “Coming Home” – Kaiser Chiefs
60. “Budapest” – George Ezra
61. “Leave the Party” – Happyness
62. “The Mute” – Radical Face
63. “Rent I Pay” - Spoon
64. “Blue Eyes” – Ladyhawke
65. “Tonight” – Magic Man
66. “Sprinkles” – We Are Scientists
67. “Desole Pt. II” – the Gromble
68. “Blue Moon” – Beck
69. “Parallels” - eels
70. “Take It or Leave It” – Cage the Elephant
71. “Balance” – Opus Orange
72. “Shipwreck” - USS
73. “Erosion” – Cymbals
74. “Castles” – Armand Margjeka
75. “When You’re Gone” – Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
76. “Counting Stars” – One Republic
77. “Mile High” - Blondie
78. “Riptide” – Vance Joy
79. “Not the End of the World (Even As We Know It)” – Faded Paper Figures
80. “Coming Home” – Blitzen Trapper
81. “Warm Foothills” – alt-J
82. “Be Not So Fearful” – A.C. Newman
83. “Underwater” – Joshua Radin
84. “Best Friend” – Foster the People
85. “Days” – the Drums
86. “Daughters” – We Were Evergreen
87. “Holding on for Life” – Broken Bells
88. “What’s Fair Is Fair” – the Trews
89. “Hot Coals” – Cold War Kids
90. “It Was Like That When We Got Here” – Camper Van Beethoven
91. “Waves” – Sleeper Agent
92. “Hummingbird” – Armand Margjeka
93. “Out of Mind” – Magic Man
94. “Bright as Your Eyes” – OK Go
95. “Knock Knock Knock” - Spoon
96. “Home” - Dotan
97. “High” – Young Rising Sons
98. “One Minute More” – Capital Cities
99. “Black Out Days” – Phantogram
100. “Snug as Fuck” – Liam Finn
101. “Winter” – TV on the Radio
102. “I Don’t Know You Anymore” – Bob Mould
103. “Sugar on the Side” - Blondie
104. “Picking Up All the Pieces” – Strange Talk
105. “We’re the Future” – Fanfarlo
106. “They Want My Soul” – Spoon
107. “Magic” – Coldplay
108. “Age of Miracles” – the Trews
109. “All This Could Be Yours” – Cold War Kids
110. “Thunder Clatter” – Wild Cub
111. “Flying Saucer Blues” – Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s
112. “Giants” – Bear Hands
113. “House of Gold” – 21 Pilots
114. “Wants What It Wants” – Andrew Belle
115. “When We’re Fire” – Lo-Fang
116. “Lost Stars” – Faded Paper Figures
117. “Just One of the Guys” – Jenny Lewis
118. “Helena Bonham Carter” – Liam Finn
119. “Classy Dames and Able Gents” – Camper Van Beethoven
120. “Made for Ending" - Jukebox the Ghost

Note: some of these may have been released earlier, but I became aware of them in 2014. My list, my rules. Deal with it. Ha ha!