Sunday, December 13, 2015

Andrew's Top 120 - Favourite Songs of 2015

Lots of Canadian bands this year (maybe because I've been listening to SiriusXM's THE VERGE channel, which is primarily music by Canadian bands). 2015 was a particularly bad year for music, well music on commercial radio at least (need I remind you that only a few weeks ago Justin Bieber had 16 songs in Billboard's top 100). Despite that, I was able to find some music I would consider decent or good, even... Here's this year's list of my favourites.

1. “All I Ever Wanted” – Vance Joy
2. “Get to Heaven” – Everything Everything
3. “Lampshades on Fire” – Modest Mouse
4. “Return to the Moon” – EL VY
5. “All This Wandering Around” – Ivan & Alyosha
6. “Renegades” – X Ambassadors
7. “Messiah” – Prides
8. “Horseshoe” – Withered Hand
9. “Molecules” – Atlas Genius
10. “The Shade” – Metric
11. “Regret” – Everything Everything
12. “Coyotes” – Modest Mouse
13. “You Haunt Me” – Sir Sly
14. “Found You” – Django Django
15. “Somebody New” - Joywave
16. “Distant Past” – Everything Everything
17. “No No No” - Beirut
18. “Paul Is Alive” – EL VY
19. “Long Night” – Guster
20. “Gone” – Jr. Jr.

21. “Everglow” – Coldplay
22. “Damage Points” – Slow Runner
23. “S.O.S.” – Femme
24. “Phone in a Pool” – Ben Folds
25. “My Type” – Saint Motel
26. “Ex’s and Oh’s” – Elle King
27. “2 Heads” – Coleman Hell
28. “Destruction” - Joywave
29. “Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread” – Everything Everything
30. “Remedy” - Jeen
31. “Meet You at the Bottom” – Olivia Quillo
32. “Everything at Once” - Travis
33. “Huarache Lights” – Hot Chip
34. “Class Historian” – Broncho
35. “Come on Ghost” - Idlewild
36. “Modern Man” – Ivan & Alyosha
37. “Sister of Pearl” - Baio
38. “Cross My Mind” – Twin Forks
39. “Southern Sun” – Boy & Bear
40. “Small Victories” – Folly and the Hunter

41. “Electric Love” – BØRNS
42. “Hollow Moon” – AWOLNATION
43. “Moaning Lisa Smile” – Wolf Alice
44. “Tear in My Heart” – Twenty One Pilots
45. “Trip Switch” – Nothing But Thieves
46. “Hold Back the River” – James Bay
47. “Sleepin’ Light” – EL VY
48. “Sedona” – Houndmouth
49. “Tectonic” – Brendan Maclean
50. “Stupid” - Brendan Maclean
51. “Ghost Town” – Adam Lambert
52. “All of It But Me” – Young Professionals
53. “Now” - Joywave
54. “Dream Lover” – the Vaccines
55. “Let’s Be Still” – the Head and the Heart
56. “Cold Cold Man” – Saint Motel
57. “Holy Dove” – Civil Twilight
58. “One Time Thing” – the Airborne Toxic Event
59. “Hometown” – Twenty One Pilots
60. “Vessel” – Dan Mangan and Blacksmith

61. “First Light” – Django Django
62. “Intoxicated” – High Ends
63. “Complexity” – Eagles of Death Metal
64. “In a Future World” – Telekinesis
65. “Dodged a Bullet” – Greg Laswell
66. “Never Let You Down” – Woodkid featuring Lykki Li
67. “Bang Your Drum” – Dead Man Fall
68. “Gasoline” – Dave Monks
69. “The Party Line” – Belle and Sebastian
70. “The Business of Emotion” – Big Data
71. “Ten Headed Beast” – Hundreds
72. “Black Sun” – Death Cab for Cutie
73. “White Is Red” – Death from Above 1979
74. “To the Blade” – Everything Everything
75. “Drifting” – On an On
76. “Anymore” - Tongues
77. “The Shape I’m In” – Willows
78. “Collect Yourself” – Idlewild
79. “Oh Daniel” – Civil Twilight
80. “Loud Places” – Jamie xx featuring Romy

81. “Wolves” – Dreamers
82. “Things Happen” – Dawes
83. “Cecilia And The Satellite” - Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
84. “Fly Away” – Good Old War
85. “Contagious” – Night Riots
86. “Who Needs You” – the Orwells
87. “Simple Machine” – Guster
88. “It’s All Just Pretend” – Ivan & Alyosha
89. “I Am” – AWOLNATION
90. “Goshen ‘97” – Strand of Oaks
91. “No Reptiles” – Everything Everything
92. “Somebody Like You” – Mike Score
93. “Plastic” – New Order
94. “Bros” – Wolf Alice
95. “Trying” – Bully
96. “This” – Collective Soul
97. “Who R U?” – Australia
98. “Drag” – Day Wave
99. “The Seeds You Sow” – Prides
100. “Until the Night Turns” – Lord Huron

101. “Break the Glass” – Django Django
102. “Science” – Folly and the Hunter
103. “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” – Chris Cornell
104. “Somebody Else” – Clones of Clones
105. “The Grass Is Always Greener” – Say Hi
106. “Icon Love” – On an On
107. “I Want You” – Flagship
108. “Bennett Built a Time Machine” – Spock’s Beard
109. “Mystery and Wonder” – Blitzen Trapper
110. “Only Friend” – the Temperance Movement
111. “Bully” – Robbie Williams
112. “One of Us Should Go” – Heidi Gluck
113. “Show Me the Way” – Penguin Prison
114. “Map of the World” – City and Colour
115. “Back Home” Andy Grammer
116. “Giants” – Matt Nathanson
117. “Ghost Town” – Madonna
118. “Blood Hands” – Royal Blood
119. “Ship to Wreck” – Florence + the Machine
120. “Downtown” – the Sheepdogs
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