I'm not a huge fan of top 100 song lists, just because it's much harder to be definitive than it is with albums (not that album lists are ever definitive, but they're a bit closer). As you saw with my last post, I've already made mixes. But on our spreadsheet, throughout the year I had been keeping a top 100 essential tracks, so I decided to formalize it into a list. These are my favorite songs of the year. Did I miss something? Let me know. This list is available on Spotify here. All songs with asterisks are not available on Spotify. Like us on Facebook here: http://on.fb.me/WVIPNE.
- Death Grips - Hacker
- Foxygen - Make It Known
- Here We Go Magic - How Do I Know
- Damien Jurado - Working Titles
- King Krule - Rock Bottom*
- Woods - Cali In A Cup
- Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You
- Chief Keef - I Don't Like
- The Babies - Alligator
- White Rabbits - I Had It Coming
- Andrew Bird - Danse Carribe
- Holograms - Fever
- Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
- Beach House - On The Sea
- Ty Segall & White Fence - Scissor People*
- The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
- El-P - Oh Hail No
- Japandroids - Continuous Thunder
- Sonny & The Sunsets - Pretend You Love Me
- Dirty Projectors - About to Die
- Lambchop - Never My Love
- Theophilus London & A$AP Rocky - Big Spender*
- Protomartyr - Bubba Helms*
- Spiritualized - Hey Jane
- Hospitality - All Day Today
- Woods - It Ain't Easy
- Perfume Genius - Take Me Home
- Mac DeMarco - Freaking Out The Neighborhood
- Chris Cohen - Rollercoaster Rider
- Liars - Brats
- White Fence - A Hermes Blues
- Melody's Echo Chamber - Some Time Alone, Alone
- TEEN - Better
- Purity Ring - Fineshrine
- The Casket Girls - You Never Know
- White Rabbits - I'm Not Me
- Grass Widow - Disappearing Industries
- Father John Misty - Only Son of the Ladiesman
- Fang Island - Never Understand
- Divine Fits - Shivers
- Opossom - Getaway Tonight
- Kendrick Lamar - Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst
- Gorillaz, James Murphy, Andre 3000 - DoYaThing*
- Dinosaur Jr. - Watch The Corners
- Guided By Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO
- The Tallest Man On Earth - Leading Me Now
- Julie Doiron - Our Love*
- Sonny & The Sunsets - I See The Void
- Nude Beach - Cathedral Echoes
- Big K.R.I.T. - 4EvaNaDay (Theme)
- Divine Fits - What Gets You Alone
- Aesop Rock - Zero Dark Thirty
- Action Bronson & Alchemist - Randy The Musical*
- The Men - Ex-Dreams
- Mind Spiders - On The Radio
- Nada Surf - Looking Through
- Grizzly Bear - A Simple Answer
- Royal Headache - Surprise
- Whirr - Toss
- Django Django - Default
- Killer Mike - Go!
- The Maccabees - Pelican
- Dirty Projectors - Just From Chevron
- Mac DeMarco - Cookin’ Up Something Good
- The Walkmen - Song For Leigh
- Dr. Dog - Do The Trick
- Cat Power - Manhattan
- Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses
- Fang Island - Asunder
- Zammuto - Too Late to Topologize
- Passion Pit - Love Is Greed
- Craft Spells - Sun Trails
- Frankie Rose - Had We Had It
- The Mountain Goats - Cry For Judas
- Holograms - Chasing My Mind
- Grimes - Genesis
- Jens Lekman - The End of the World Is Bigger Than Love
- Frank Ocean - Sweet Life
- Beachwood Sparks - Earl Jean
- Shearwater - Immaculate
- Beach House - Wishes
- Parquet Courts - N Dakota
- Craig Finn - Balcony
- Parquet Courts - Borrowed Time
- King Tuff - Screaming Skull*
- Perfume Genius - Hood
- Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams
- Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes I
- Campfires - They'll Seem Like Castles*
- The Soft Pack - Bobby Brown
- Deerhoof - The Trouble With Candyhands
- The Fresh & Onlys - Do What I Came to Do
- Fiona Apple - Periphery
- La Sera - Please Be My Third Eye
- Twin Shadow - Five Seconds
- Liam The Younger - An Easy Place Pt. 2
- AU - Solid Gold
- Daughn Gibson - In The Beginning
- Thee Oh Sees - Flood's New Light
- Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle
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