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Here’s the list of My 50 Favourite Covers of 2015 (50-26). (Original artist is in parentheses.)

50. FKA Twigs – Elastic Heart (Sia)

49. Houndmouth – Runaround Sue (Dion)

48. E^ST – Bittersweet Symphony (The Verve)

47. Sympathy and The Lion – Glory Days (Bruce Springsteen)

46. Ezra Furman – Crown of Love (Arcade Fire)

45. Years and Years – Hotline Bling/Dark Horse (Drake/Katy Perry)

44. #1 Dads – Two Weeks (FKA Twigs)

43. Brandi Carlile – Murder In The City (The Avett Brothers)

42. Watkins Family Hour – Steal Your Heart Away (Fleetwood Mac)

41. Milky Chance – Shake It Off (Taylor Swift)

40. The Killers – The Bucket (Kings of Leon)

39. The Vaccines – Night Changes (One Direction)

38. Charles Bradley – Changes (Black Sabbath)

37. Muse – Lies (Chvrches)

36. PVRIS – Talking Body (Tove Lo)

35. Walk Off The Earth – Cheerleader (OMI)

34. Bob Wayne – Skyfall (Adele)

Cool cover. Can’t find a link to share at present.

33. Chvrches – What Do You Mean (Justin Bieber)

32. The Belligerents – Praise You (Fatboy Slim)

Bonus: Patti Smith – Smells Like Teen Spirit (NIrvana)

31. Lucius – Wake Me (Bleachers)

30. Ben Gibbard – Archie, Marry Me (Alvvays)

29. Catfish And The Bottlemen – Read My Mind (The Killers)

28. Missio – Zombie (Cranberries)

Bonus: Kasabian – Sesame Street Theme/Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)

27. Disclosure and Sam Smith – Hotline Bling (Drake)

26. Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires – Mutineer (Warren Zevon)

This is what I thought of 2014.

I typically write a lengthy preamble when I issue my Top 100 Songs of The Year list. This year’s won’t be an extended or hyperbolic one.

2014 was fucked up in all manner of ways. One giant ray of light that helps pierce the omnipresent darkness of the world, at least for me, is music. 2014 was no different. My love for and of music is as strong as ever. I continue to zestfully seek out good music, as there’s a bounty of good new music around every corner, if you know where to look.

“Genres” and “types” of music are harder than ever to distinguish and designate, though if I had to isolate one type that resonated the strongest with me in 2014, it’d be pop music. It’s not that pop music ever went away, it’s just that pop has become such a versatile and shifty chameleon — it seems with every passing year, more types of music get sucked into the massive “pop” black hole, and “pop” infiltrates other genres with gusto and stealth. A tip of the cap to “pop” in 2014; a handful of brilliant pop songs made an indelible mark on the year in music (more than I can recall in recent years).

Music does so much to and for me; I won’t go into that though, as I mentioned at the outset of this piece that I’d practice brevity. So instead of me spitting game at music, I’ll end this introduction with some light, but ever true words, from the one of a kind one hit wonder, Cansei de Ser Sexy…

“Music is my boyfriend, music is my girlfriend, music is my daddy. Music’s my imaginary friend. Music is my brother. Music is my great grand-daughter, music is my sister, music is my favourite mistress…my music is where I’d like you to touch…”