Top 100 Songs of 2014 (80-61)

The songs on this list are as cool as this doge. Well, almost.

The songs on this list are as cool as this doge. Well, almost.

 

Around this time, it starts to get really hard to place songs. I like all of these tunes — a lot. My Top 100 Songs of 2014 (80-61):

80. Vance Joy – Riptide/Mess Is Mine

 

79. Dum Dum Girls – Too True To Be Good

Favourite track from their really sexy last album.

 

78. Schoolboy Q – Man Of The Year

 

77. La Roux – Kiss And Not Tell/Sexotheque

These songs deserve waaaaaay more views.

 

Bonus: Omar Souleyman – Wenu Wenu (from 2013)

 

76. Lykke Li – No Rest For The Wicked

 

75. Foster The People – Best Friend

Best song on their latest LP.

 

74. Aphex Twin – Minipops 67 (120.2) (Source Field Mix)

Welcome back Richard. You were missed.

 

73. Marina and The Diamonds – Froot

 

72. ILOVEMAKKONEN f. Drake – Tuesday

So random. So fresh. So 2014.

 

71. Charli XCX – Boom Clap

 

Bonus: Kongos – I’m Only Joking (From 2011)

 

70. Bombay Bicycle Club – Luna/Home By Now

Two really, really good songs. Two good videos, especially the one for “Luna”.

 

69. Ex Cops – Black Soap

Heard this one late in 2014, but it grabbed me right away.

 

68. Interpol – All The Rage Back Home

El Pintor raging here, home, and anywhere else is always comforting.

 

67. One Direction – Story Of My Life

 

66. Hedley – Crazy For You

Methinks it’s the best song these canucks have ever done.

 

65. Ask Embla – Legion

 

64. A.G. Cook – Beautiful

Reminiscent of Happy Hardcore, yet still on the cutting edge of pop.  Banger.

 

63. Sam Smith – Stay With Me/Stay With Me (Rainer & Grimm Remix)

I’d previously mentioned the Rainer & Grimm Remix of this tune in my Top Remixes of 2014 list, but I had to link it again. Both it and the original are fantastic, though I do prefer the remix.

 

62. Paloma Faith – Only Love Can Hurt Like This

Big, brassy, bombastic pop.

 

61. Ed Sheeran – Sing/One

It took me a while to get into “Sing”, but when I did, I was hooked. “One” is simply gorgeous.

Top 30 Songs of November 2014

This is my last Songs of the Month list for 2014, so I’m making it a super-sized one. November definitely deserves it. A lot of new releases hit the airwaves, and a bunch of them happened to be fantastic.  Here are 30 really, really good tunes that had my aural attention in the month of November.

30. Meg Myers – Desire

 

29. Avid Dancer – I Want To See You Dance

 

28. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – In The Heat Of The Moment

 

27. Tove Styrke – Borderline

 

26. Jessie Ware – Keep On Lying

 

25. Shabazz Palaces – Forerunner Foray

 

24. Glass Animals -Gooey

 

23. Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance

 

22. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life

 

21. Schoolboy Q – Man Of The Year

 

20. Foo Fighters – I Am A River

 

19. Robert De Long – Long Way Down

 

18. Gerard Way – No Shows

 

17. Joywave – Tongues

 

16. Ryn Weaver – Octahate

 

15. Royal Blood – Figure It Out

 

14. Stromae f. Lorde, Q-Tip, Pusha T, Haim – Meltdown

 

13. Interpol – All The Rage Back Home

 

12. Vance Joy – Mess Is Mine

 

11. Marina and The Diamonds – Froot

 

10. Kendrick Lamar – I

 

9. Grace Mitchell – Runaway

 

8. Cold War Kids – First

 

7. Night Terrors of 1927 f. Tegan and Sara – When You Were Mine

 

6. Taylor Swift – Blank Space

 

5. Ex Cops – Black Soap

 

4. Tei Shi – Bassically

 

3. One Direction – Night Changes

 

2. Elliphant f. Mo – One More

 

1. Broods – Mother and Father