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2013 – The Year’s Best Music – Songs

Top Songs

In my mind, it seems like I was just sitting down to write this very same list from last year. Time flies when you’re wearing tank tops. This year marks the first time listening to music in my car eclipsed listening to it in any other setting. Also, I blew through a few zillion podcasts in the Honda. Podcasts are awesome.

I present, without further comment, the songs I most enjoyed listening to in Anno 2013:

  1. Grammy by Purity Ring
  2. Free At Dawn by Small Black
  3. The Possessed by Glass Candy
  4. Livin’ It Up by Ciara
  5. Beloved by Say Lou Lou
  6. In Real Life by The Ruby Suns
  7. Graceless by The National
  8. Golden Wake by Mutual Benefit
  9. Line of Fire by Junip
  10. Blue Crystal Fire (Originally released in 1978) by Robbie Basho
  11. Beta Love by Ra Ra Riot
  12. Sonsick (Magic Man Remix) by San Fermin
  13. Born at 5:00 by Bombadil
  14. One Half by Julianna Barwick
  15. Childhood’s End by Majical Cloudz
  16. Something About You by Dornik
  17. Fool of Me (feat. Chet Faker) by Say Lou Lou
  18. Recollection by Keep Shelly In Athens
  19. Without You My Life Would Be Boring by The Knife
  20. Sea of Love by The National
  21. Mute by Youth Lagoon
  22. God’s Children (The Kinks cover) by Woods
  23. Boring Country Song by Bombadil
  24. Demon To Lean On by Wavves
  25. Tonight We Fall by ADULT.
  26. No Stranger by Small Black
  27. Stone Cold Coup d’Etat by They Might Be Giants
  28. I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance (Tycho Remix) by Ulrich Schnauss
  29. I Am a [REDACTED] by Kanye West
  30. WIIW by Kirin J Callinan
  31. Drive by Beacon
  32. Let’s Kiss by Mirage
  33. Science/Visions by Chvrches
  34. A Violent Sky by Apparat
  35. One More Ring by Bombadil
  36. Branches by Chrome Canyons
  37. Hurricane (Chvrches Remix) by MS MR
  38. Madmen Love by Keep Shelly In Athens
  39. Into Eternity by Farah
  40. Just Desserts by Marina & The Diamonds & Charli XCX
  41. I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance by Ulrich Schnauss
  42. Youth by Daughter
  43. Compliment Your Soul by Dan Croll
  44. Varsity by Smith Westerns
  45. Street of Dreams by Frankie Rose
  46. Wanderlust by Polly Scattergood
  47. Atlantis by Postiljonen
  48. Menswear by The 1975
  49. Oostende by Keep Shelly in Athens
  50. Unbreakable (feat. Baaba Maal and The Very Best) (Baio Vocal Mix) by Yadi

Feel free to stream most of them here:

Best Tunes of 2013 – Half-Year Edition

Behold, I haven’t written a dratted thing on here for months.

I would like to remedy that with a Soundcloud (no, not Spotify or Grooveshark or Rdio) playlist of songs that I consider to be on the shortlist for the best of 2013. Put on your headphones and push play or turn up your speakers and go clean your house/office/bedroom or something.

At best, this list is a poor representation of the great material artists have been churning out this year. I hope to have a list that better represents the total scope of my interests by the end of the year. It’s hard work keeping up with this “music”- as they call it- moving across the Internet at the speed of fiber-optics.