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Top 100 Songs of 2013 (60-41)

Continuing along with my Top 100 Songs of 2013, here are songs 60-41:

60. Pharrell (sung by luckiest “I-can’t-believe-I-got-to-sing-on-this-track-that-I-had-nothing-to-do-with” guy of the year, Robin Thicke) – Blurred Lines

 

59. Vampire Weekend – Step/Unbelievers/Diane Young/Obvious Bicycle

Step:

Unbelievers:

Diane Young:

Obvious Bicycle:

 

58. Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop/Wrecking Ball

We Can’t Stop:

Wrecking Ball:

 

57. White Lies – There Goes Our Love Again

 

56. Sara Bareilles – Brave

 

55. Pearl Jam – Sirens

 

54. Phosphorescent – Muchacho’s Tune

 

53. Beyonce – XO

 

52. Placebo – Too Many Friends/Bosco/A Million Little Pieces/Exit Wounds

Too Many Friends:

Bosco:

A Million Little Pieces:

Exit Wounds:

 

51. Foxes – Youth

 

50. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – So Good At Being In Trouble/Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark)

So Good At Being In Trouble:

Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark):

 

49. The Preatures – Is This How You Feel?

 

48. Goldfrapp – Drew

 

47. Britney Spears – Perfume

 

46. The Joy Formidable – The Leopard And The Lung/Silent Treatment

The Leopard And The Lung:

Silent Treatment:

 

45. Frank Turner – Recovery

 

44. Coheed and Cambria – The Hard Sell/The Dark Side Of Me

The Hard Sell:

The Dark Side Of Me:

 

43. Louise Burns – Emeralds Shatter

 

42. Tegan & Sara – I Was A Fool

 

41. Bastille – Pompeii

My Top 15 Songs of October 2013 in Haiku

It’s been some time since I’ve dabbled in the art of Haiku poetry. I admire how Haiku use words and syllables to describe, cut, and leave open. It’s a freeing form of poetry, and since it’s easily recognizable to many, I’ve decided to work it into My Top 15 Songs of October list. Haiku needn’t necessarily follow the 5-7-5 syllable rule, but since it’s the form I originally learned, and it’s probably the most recognizable form of Haiku poetry (in English), it’s the one I’ve chosen to employ here.

15. Active Child f. Mikky Ekko – Subtle

Subtlety is lost

In your face is the standard

A wayward approach

 

14. Sleigh Bells – Bitter Rivals

I try to be nice

My rivals are people too

‘Til I stomp them down

 

13. Die Antwoord – Cookie Thumper

Gibberish sounds good

When it’s Zef above all else

While baking wear mitts

 

12. Janelle Monae f. Miguel- Primetime

No one was drop kicked

In the making of this song

Of this I’m not sure

 

11. Chvrches – Lungs

Lungs through which air flows

Distributing oxygen

I use ears to breathe

 

10. Placebo – Bosco/Exit Wounds

I can say sorry

How many times the same way?

When you leave I’ll stop

 

9. Shad – Love Means

You get what you give

It has eyes and can see all

Careful eyes betray

 

8. Charli XCX – Superlove

Japan likes neon

Lights that alter what is seen

Darkness eats it all

 

7. Sky Ferreira – You’re Not The One

I can see clearly

What I did not see before

Gone from you, happy

 

6. The Naked & Famous – Rolling Waves

Water cascading

Time after time on the beach

A new way to breathe

 

5. QOTSA – My God Is The Sun

The orb of life, warmth

Praised, praying, please rise today

All things some day sleep

 

4. Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball

Twerking unsteady

When practised on wrecking ball

Hip replacement, shame

 

3. Tame Impala – Elephant

Pink Floyd meets Lennon

It took me more than a while

Speakers shaking, taught

 

2. Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?

Crawling back to you

Dread tingling up, down, my spine

I shouldn’t have asked

 

1. The 1975 – The City

A metropolis

Lit, cunning, unforgiving

The place I call home