Sunday, December 23, 2018

A Gallon of Andrew's Favourite Songs of 2018

So if each of these songs was a fluid ounce, I'd have a gallon's worth of cream of the crop songs for 2018. So these 128 songs are, in roughly most favourite at the top order, my picks for the year--a year in which I really had to search for something worth listening to, as most mainstream music the industry was pushing was simply not very good. In my humble opinion these songs, however, are worth a listen or twelve.

 1. “Fast Talk” - Houses
2. “Cheetah Tongue” – the Wombats 
3. “Glory” – Cold Cave
4. “Fast Slow Disco” – St. Vincent
5. “Keep Coming Back” – Kid Dakota
6. “Come Through” – the Regrettes 
7. “Longtime Listener” – Wild Moccasins
8. “Black Cloud” – Postdata
9. “Blood on the Surface” – Mikky Ekko
10. “The New Great Depression” – the Moth and the Flame
11. “Champagne” – Django Django
12. “Problems III” – the Growlers
13. “Your Nail and Your Hammer” – Oh Pep!
14. “Back Down” – Bob Moses
15. “Life on Earth” – Snow Patrol
16. “Silver Lining” – Mt. Joy
17. “Shiny One” – Belly 
18. “Bikini” – Caroline Rose 
19. “Lonely Nights” – Wax Fang
20. “Next Time” – Greg Laswell

 21. “Tiger” – Joon Moon 
22. “Empty Vessels” – Devotchka
23. “Every Other Night” – Peter Bjorn and John
24. “Before” – Reed and Caroline
25. “Severed” – the Decemberists
26. “Works Every Time” – Mini Mansions
27. “Burning Money” – Mounties 
28. “Screws” - Dreamers
29. “Just for Us” – Francis and the Lights
30. “Extraordinary Love” - Erika Wennerstrom
31. “XYZ” – Flasher 
32. “You’re Somebody Else” – Flora Cash
33. “Look Together” – Wild Moccasins
34. “Black Flamingo” – the Wombats
35. “More of the Same” – Caroline Rose
36. “Everybody Wants to Be Famous” – Superorganism 
37. “He’s Got His Mother’s Hips” – John Grant
38. “tieduprightnow” – Parcels 
39. “Living in the Future” – Dawes 
40. “The Deconstruction” – eels

 41. “Have Fun Tonight” – Fischerspooner
42. “Crossing a Line” – Mike Shinoda
43. “Broken Machine” – Nothing But Thieves
44. “Wait by the River” – Lord Huron
45. “Make Me Feel” – Janelle Monae
46. “Doesn’t Matter” – Christine and the Queens
47. “Sober Up” – AJR feat. Rivers Cuomo
48. “The Joke” – Brandi Carlile
49. “I Can’t Quit” – the Vaccines
50. “Letting Go” – Wild Nothing
51. “Everybody’s Lonely” – Jukebox the Ghost
52. “Heard It All Before” – Bend Sinister
53. “Northern Lights” – Death Cab for Cutie
54. “Pink Lemonade” – James Bay
55. “99” – Barns Courtney
56. “Dark Ages” – Peter Bjorn and John
57. “It’s Science” – Reed and Caroline
58. “Oblivion” – Two Medicine
59. “Best Days” – Lissie

 60. “Mr. Tillman” – Father John Misty
61. “How Simple” – Hop Along
62. “Tic Tac Toe” – Django Django
63. “Missing You (the Most)” – Wild Moccasins
64. “Is He Strange” – John Grant
65. “On the 5” – Winnetka Bowling League
66. “New Birth in New England” – Phosphorescent
67. “All Wordz Are Made Up” – the Voidz
68. “Blur” – MØ featuring Foster The People
69. “Turn” – the Wombats
70. “Once in My Life” – the Decemberists
71. “Breadwinner” – Everything Everything
72. “Baby I’m a Queen” – Sofi Tukker
73. “Breathe In, Breathe Out” – Melody’s Echo Chamber
74. “You Earned the Right to Be a Dick” – Sparks
75. “Handyman” - AWOLNATION
76. “Painted Yellow Lines” – Dispatch 
77. “Born in the Right Country” – River Whyless
78. “Addictions” – Lucy Dacus
79. “Other Lover” – Mikaela Davis
80. “No Love for the Wild” – Haerts

 81. “Gold” – Two Medicine
82. “Friends and the Fakers” - LowRay
83. “Dark Saturday” – Metric
84. “Bone Dry” - eels
85. “Count It Up” – Field Music
86. “Crisis Fest” – Sunflower Bean
87. “Superposition” – Young the Giant
88. “Love Somebody” – Okkervil River
89. “The Words I Make” – We Are the Willows
90. “You Wouldn’t Like Me” – the Beths
91. “Lemon to a Knife Fight” – the Wombats
92. “Qyurryus” – the Voidz
93. “Pressure” – Flasher
94. “I’ll Be Your Girl” – the Decemberists
95. “Mirrors” – the Incredible Vickers Brothers
96. “Gems and Rubies” – Valley Queen
97. “Shame” – Elle King
98. “Four Out of Five” – Arctic Monkeys
99. “Declaration Seed” – Church Traffic
100. “Keep It in Line” – Broncho

 101. “Soul No. 5” – Caroline Rose 
102. “Bleeding Hearts” – Oh Pep!
103. “Dark Matter” – Reed and Caroline
104. “Gold Rush” – Death Cab for Cutie
105. “Metamorphosis” – John Grant
106. “Plastic Heart” – Ghost Twin
107. “May I Be the Light” – Lump 
108. “Nearer My God” – Foxing 
109. “Betting on the Sun” – Bird Streets
110. “First Do No Harm” - Kazyak
111. “Witchcraft” – Graveyard Club
112. “God Save Our Young Blood” – BØRNS and Lana Del Rey
113. “Come for Me” – Sunflower Bean
114. “A Trick of the Light” – Villagers 
115. “Sucker’s Prayer” – the Decemberists
116. “Ohio” – Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
117. “Tidal Wave” – Portugal the Man
118. “Gang of Wolves” – Bend Sinister
119. “The Fox in Motion” – Hop Along
120. “Lightenup” - Parcels
121. “Happy Unhappy” – the Beths
122. “Astropsychosis” – Two Medicine
123. “Surveillance” - Interpol
124. “Sun Come and Golden” – Flasher 
125. “Annihilation Song” – Rubblebucket
126. “Living a Dream” – Peter Bjorn and John
127. “Diet Gum” – John Grant

128. “Batshit” – Sofi Tucker (guilty pleasure)

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