Top 100 Songs of 2013 (80-61)

Continuing along with my Top 100 Songs of 2013, here are songs 80-61:

80. Arcade Fire – Afterlife/Here Comes The Night Time/Supersymmetry/It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus)

Afterlife:

Here Comes The Night Time:

(To whomever made this video: I want to shake your hand. Superb.)

Supersymmetry:

It’s Never Over (Oh Orpheus):

 

79. The Besnard Lakes – People of The Sticks

 

78. Slowriter – Silver Spaceships/April 8

Silver Spaceships:

April 8:

 

77. The National – Hard To Find/This Is The Last Time

Hard To Find:

(An absolutely heartbreaking song combined with an absolutely heartbreaking visual. This is when the internet wins life. Pure perfection.)

This Is The Last Time:

 

76. In The Valley Below – Peaches

 

75. USS – This Is The Best

 

74. Selena Gomez – Slow Down

 

73. The Killers – Shot At The Night

 

72. Frightened Rabbit – Nitrous Gas

 

71. Disclosure – When A Fire Starts To Burn

(Right, and it starts to spread…)

 

70. Avicii – Wake Me Up

 

69. Porcelain Raft – The Way Out

 

68. Ambassadors – Unconsolable

 

67. Frightened Rabbit and Manchester Orchestra – Architect

 

66. Editors – The Phone Book

 

65. Sky Ferreira – Boys/Omanko/Ain’t Your Right

Boys:

Omanko:

Ain’t Your Right:

 

64. CLMD vs. KISH – The Stockholm Syndrome

 

63. Linkin Park & Steve Aoki – A Light That Never Comes

 

62. The Belle Game – River

 

61. Grouplove – Ways To Go

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