Drake- Hold On, We're Going Home

(and I'm not even a fan of his)

I'll think of more tomorrow

12/3/2013 11:55:36 PM

dawg if you say you like a drake song then you like ALL drake's songs. you cant openly admit this

12/4/2013 12:02:22 AM

Chris Malinchak - So Good To Me
Lxury - J.A.W.S
Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn (I mean really I could list the whole album here)
CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
HAIM - Don't Save Me
Sylvan Esso - both of their songs
Volcano Choir - Byegone
Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
Kanye - Black Skinhead (though Blood on the Leaves is clearly the best song on that album)
Get Lucky obviously

12/4/2013 12:42:40 AM

HAIM - The Wire

12/4/2013 1:08:04 AM

Earthless - Uluru Rock

x1000

12/4/2013 8:18:04 AM

some of my favorites

Chvrches - Gun
Volcano Choir - Byegone
National - Sea of Love
Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good at Being in Trouble

oh shit. can't forget We Can't Stop either

[Edited on December 4, 2013 at 8:26 AM. Reason : miley]

12/4/2013 8:22:51 AM

I don't recognize any of the songs in this thread so far.

12/4/2013 9:57:40 AM

How bout the Royals song by the noxema girl.

12/4/2013 10:52:01 AM

That Drake song is gonna be a top single for me well into 2014.

12/4/2013 10:58:45 AM

Are we talking about our personal favorites, or most commercially successful singles?

12/4/2013 11:14:57 AM

I'll go ahead and copy and paste these

Sylvan Esso - both of their songs
Volcano Choir - Byegone
Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
Kanye West- Black Skinhead (I'm ok with throwing in Bound 2 since he did make a video for it)

and add these:

Miley Cyrus- We Can't Stop
Hospitality- I Miss Your Bones

[Edited on December 4, 2013 at 11:20 AM. Reason : will think of more]

12/4/2013 11:19:29 AM

THE love-murder ballad of 2013. period.
BC Kingdom - Lock Up
http://www.spin.com/articles/bc-kingdom-lock-up-saint-heron-records-solange-stream/

Also from the same Solange compilation, my #1 sexy time number (hold the murder)
Kingdom (feat. Kelela) - Bank Head
https://soundcloud.com/kkingdomm/bank-head-feat-kelela

Best band to come out of Detroit
Lord Scrummage - Lake Cheese
Lord Scrummage - Vortex 8.6 Update
https://soundcloud.com/lordscrummage/07-vortex-8-6-update
https://soundcloud.com/lordscrummage/09-lake-cheese

Best single to listen to while waiting in line at Space Mountain
Telomere - Spiral Arms

Best Super Mario 3D World Accompaniment
Alvin Band - Bowser's Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnRBsspUYk

Techno-pop
The Field - Guided Tour
https://soundcloud.com/betoni-1/the-field-a-guided-tour

Best non-Bjork but I always think it's totally Bjork when it Comes on (also best use of an alarm ringtone)
Glasser - Shape
http://pitchfork.com/news/51983-listenwatch-glasser-shape/

FUCK LINKS, DO YOUR OWN WORK

Best single if you went back in time and took away Mark Kozelek's guitar and forced him to use a synth
Chad Valley - Shell Suite

Best b-side
Grizzly Bear - Smothering Green

Feel good pop
Vacationer - Good as New (Geographer Remix)

Pop greatness starts at :45
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - Beautiful Dream

Best use of fucking horns
Rubblebucket - Save Charlie

Best single that's really two good songs and if you don't like the first one you'll miss the totally better second one
Braids - In Kind

Best song by a real-life Pirate
Man Man - Sparks
Blackout Beach - Cloud of Evil

Best Grimes single but Grimes came out in 2012 so I have to use this instead
Jessy Lanza - Giddy

Best Guitar which makes me like this new band but also makes me wonder what Trey Anastasio is up to
Celestial Shore - Coming and Going

Best female rock
Frankie Rose - You for Me

Best single if I was 12 and MySpace was still the greatest new thing
Hoodie Allen - Long Night

Also
Royal Bangs - CA Heart Attack

[Edited on December 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM. Reason : f]

12/4/2013 11:55:23 AM

Ah, so it's our own personal favorites then?

Not sure I can remember them all off the top of my head, but here's a few:

Tame Impala - Elephant
Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
Avenged Sevenfold - Hail to the King
Bastille - Pompeii
New Politics - Harlem
Avicii - Wake Me Up
Paramore - Still into You (as much as I want to hate this song, I just can't)

12/4/2013 12:35:38 PM

why would it not be personal favorites?

a thread of a list of the top commercial hits doesn't seem that interesting

12/4/2013 12:37:27 PM

CHVRCHES - We Sink
Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
Disclosure - White Noise
Deerhunter - The Missing
Twin Shadow - Old Love / New Love
Washed Out - It All Feels Right
Blood Orange - Something on that album (haven't picked it yet )

Honorable Mention

The 1975 - The City

12/4/2013 12:57:24 PM

the knife - full of fire

12/4/2013 1:18:16 PM

Swearin'- Dust in the Gold Sack

12/4/2013 2:10:01 PM

Some fun songs I heard on TV:

James Blake - Retrograde
http://vimeo.com/59361603

The Vaccines - I Always Knew (Nov. 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84no_HITKFo

Elektrik People - Make Me a Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhPOpBvb54

12/4/2013 4:58:59 PM

deerhunter - monomania
mikal cronin - weight
smith westerns - varsity
beck - defriended, i won't be long
arcade fire - reflektor

12/4/2013 5:43:48 PM

In before Smath74

12/4/2013 9:29:21 PM

You people have the worst taste in music of all time.

12/4/2013 10:09:44 PM

a person who only drinks budweiser wouldn't enjoy a double ipa right away

12/4/2013 10:21:11 PM

ah forgot to include glasser - shape

12/4/2013 11:03:12 PM

yeasayer - ambling amp

12/5/2013 8:09:21 AM

Katy Perry - Roar

12/5/2013 8:28:25 AM

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-songs-of-2013-20131204/

*fucking slideshow* - doesn't show up right in the print view either

12/5/2013 2:41:18 PM

You mean the print view doesn't contain content from 99 other pages? Weird.

"Diane Young" for me

12/5/2013 3:46:40 PM

Instant Crush is cruising up my list

12/12/2013 4:29:32 PM

^^ You mean you've never seen a printable slideshow? Weird.

12/12/2013 4:32:03 PM

Its not a slide show, its 100 web pages

12/12/2013 4:44:11 PM

Sees Darius Rucker's Wagon Wheel

Never goes back to Rolling Stone ever again

12/12/2013 5:34:56 PM

^ holy crap was that included? whoever said pitchfork is the most important music publication seems to be right.

12/12/2013 5:56:19 PM

Rolling Stone hasn't been musically relevant in 15+ years. The Pitchfork thing is still arguable, but Rolling Stone is not in the conversation.

12/12/2013 6:27:10 PM

there were actually a few good songs that I wasnt aware of on that list, so, while Rolling Stone has fallen way off the list isnt completely worthless. I forgot how much I liked "Young Legends" by Sleigh Bells until that list reminded me to give it another listen

my vote for song of the year is Get Lucky

[Edited on December 12, 2013 at 6:55 PM. Reason : adf]

12/12/2013 6:52:12 PM

but instant crush is way better than get lucky ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

12/12/2013 7:25:13 PM

I'm not a fan of it, but I have always been a sucker for when a video gets made of a song I already liked and instantly start liking the song more

I've been that way for as long as I can remember, too

same goes for hearing certain songs live

12/12/2013 8:38:25 PM

speaking of which, eric wareheim totally won 2013 as far as videos go for his beach house and major lazer videos

[Edited on December 12, 2013 at 9:50 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2013 9:48:33 PM

Quote :

"but instant crush is way better than get lucky"

rolling stone is garbage

black skinhead wasn't the best single off yeezus either

also fuck lorde and fuck acapella in general

[Edited on December 12, 2013 at 10:12 PM. Reason : .]

12/12/2013 9:52:02 PM

I like Instant Crush too, not sure if i like it more than Get Lucky, but was it released as a single?

Is that the purpose of this thread or are we just picking out the best songs of the year, regardless of if they got airplay or not?

12/13/2013 7:20:01 AM

Chemical bros. If they did this year

12/14/2013 12:56:23 PM

instant crush is the newest single

this thread is singles and tracks and whatever, methinks

12/15/2013 3:18:11 AM

They don't technically do singles (but neither do a lot of bands I listen to this year). My Song of the Year is a tie between Deafheaven's "Dream House" and "The Pecan Tree", both of which were used to promote the album

12/15/2013 8:29:56 PM

Instant Crush >>> Get Lucky

Sylvan Esso - all of their songs
mikal cronin - weight

Kate Nash - Part Heart
CVURCHES - You Caught The Light
Small Black - No Stranger
Swearin' - Loretta's Flowers (though I've played Fat Chance from their old album on loop more than anything on the newest one...)

couldn't pick just one Haim song

12/15/2013 9:52:13 PM

I'd also add

Mikal Cronin - Shout it out

and that Sky Ferreira album, mostly for You're Not The One and Heavy Metal Heart

[Edited on December 15, 2013 at 10:51 PM. Reason : .]

12/15/2013 10:29:08 PM

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9288-the-top-tracks-of-2013/10/

was this published before you made this thread? creepy if not. i didnt know people took Drake seriously.

12/16/2013 7:10:02 PM

Quote :

"@joeovies Pitchfork named Drake’s “Hold On We’re Going Home” #1 track of 2013. Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” was #8. I…can’t. "

^ Just came out today.

12/16/2013 7:12:48 PM

Drake is such a great rapper, that his only good song is when he doesn't rap

the first time i heard that song i was like "where is Drake?"

[Edited on December 16, 2013 at 7:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/16/2013 7:17:51 PM

Quote :

"was this published before you made this thread? creepy if not. i didnt know people took Drake seriously."

creepy?

12/16/2013 7:24:45 PM

because i didn't think people took drake seriously

12/16/2013 7:26:26 PM

A handful of haters, including me, are #1 Drake fans now.

There was an inkling of it that I tried to resist, and then I decided to just let it happen.

It's been fun.

12/16/2013 7:52:51 PM