Top 10: Favorite Singles of 2014

[LuckyNumber7]

So this is a sort of spin-off from the album thread. What are your favorite singles from 2014?

10. Digitalism (ft. Youngblood Hawke) - Wolves

9. Blondfire - Where the Kids Are

8. U2 - Invisible

7. Panama Wedding - All the People

6. The Griswolds - Beware the Dog

5. The Airborne Toxic Event - Wrong

4. The Boxer Rebellion - Always

3. The Mercey Beat - Sweet

2. Bleachers - Wild Heart

1. Night Terrors of 1927 (ft. Tegan and Sara) - When You Were Mine

 

[PhilsFan]

Can it be songs? I have a playlist of my favorite songs of the year but I don't feel like looking up if each one was released as a single.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I don't care, that's fine.

 

[bono_212]

This is my playlist, it's updated as best as I can do with Grooveshark. It's in no order, and there are a lot of multiple appearances by the same artists. I'm really sad that I can't get most of the Bruce songs on there I loved, because "Down in the Hole" is just the best:

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My favorite songs of the year are probably:

1) Stars - "Trap Door" - No One Is Lost
2) RAC - "Let Go (Ft. Kele & MNDR)" - Strangers
3) Bombay Bicycle Club - "It's Alright Now" - See You Tomorrow
4) White Sea - "Warsaw" - In Cold Blood
5) Tycho - "L" - Awake
6) Against Me! - "Dead Friend" - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
7) CunninLynguists - "In the City" - Strange Journey Vol. 3
8) The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes" - Lost in the Dream
9) Eagulls - "Possessed" - Eagulls
10) The Jezebels - "Look of Love" - The Brink
11) Katie Herzig - "Summer" - Walk Through Walls
12) Sun Kil Moon - "Micheline" - Benji
13) Casualties of Cool - "Flight" - Casualties of Cool
14) Joyce Manor - "Victoria" - Never Hungover Again
15) Trust - "Icabod" - Joyland

And I'm going to stop myself there, because I could easily keep going. EMA's So Blond, Down in the Hole and Iris probably would've been the next few. Plus Phantogram, The New Pornographers, Caught A Ghost, Casket Girls, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Rick Ross (In Vein)...dammit...too many really great standout tracks for a list.

 

[LemonMelon]

Unquestionably my SOTY:

Phantogram - Fall In Love - YouTube

 

[bobsaget77]

1 Invisible
2 Invisible
3 Invisible
4 Invisible
5 Invisible
6 Invisible
7 Invisible
8 Invisible
9 Invisible
10 Invisible


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[iron yuppie]

Some standout songs for me:

Broncho: Class Historian
FKA Twigs: Two Weeks
Interpol: All the Rage Back Home
Jessie Ware: Sweetest Song
Liars: Vox Tuned D.E.D.
Morrissey: Neal Cassady Drops Dead
Robert Plant: Rainbow
Sharon Van Etten: Taking Chances
Spoon: Do You
Tennis: I'm Calling
TV on the Radio: Careful You
U2: The Troubles
Warpaint: Biggy

 

[IWasBored]

http://youtu.be/dC8Tseewv6c

 

[PhilsFan]

In no particular order:

Broken Bells - Perfect World
Haunted Hearts - Love Incognito
U2 - The Troubles
St. Vincent - Severed Crossed Fingers
Lykke Li - Never Gonna Love Again
The Antlers - Palace
The War on Drugs - An Ocean in Between the Waves
Spoon - Outlier
The New Pornographers - War on the East Coast
Phantogram - Fall in Love

 

[bono_212]

Most of those were also on my long list of favorite tracks, Peefer.

 

[PhilsFan]

Yeah, I have a list of 40-something songs that I made into a couple CDs for my car.

 

[iron yuppie]

I forgot about St. Vincent - Digital Witness.

 

[Cute Irish Bono]

For me:

The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
U2 - Sleep Like A Baby Tonight
Swans - Screen Shot
Delay Trees - Steady
Low Roar - Breathe In
Alcest - Away
Spoon - Inside Out
Pure X - Heaven
New Madrid - And She Smiles
The Wheel Workers - Want

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Fancy and Shake It Off and Blank Space, ya ninnies.

 

[u2popmofo]

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2014 | PopMatters

Ey Cobbz u be likin der num won

 

[LemonMelon]

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2014 | PopMatters

Ey Cobbz u be likin der num won

Cool #1.

But I think I saw All About That Bass on there. The top 13 tracks could be Jack Nicholson Party and I would just be ashamed to be on the list.

 

[u2popmofo]

But I think I saw All About That Bass on there.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

 

[bono_212]

That song is evil incarnate.

 

[ImNotSleeping]

In no particular order

Metal and Dust - London Grammar
Fall in Love - Phantogram
Black Out Days - Phantogram
Love Alone is Worth the Fight - Switchfoot
Ba55 - Switchfoot
Ten Tonne Skeleton - Royal Blood
Out of the Black - Royal Blood
Midnight - Coldplay
Giants - Bear Hands
Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde

U2 is their OWN category:
All of SOI, but I'll try and limit it for now-
California
This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
Invisible
Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
Lucifer's Hands
Crystal Ballroom

 

[IWasBored]

That song is evil incarnate.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

That song is evil incarnate.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

That song is evil incarnate.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

That song is evil incarnate.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

That song is evil incarnate.

Fuck that song and anyone who listens to it on purpose.

Because this cannot be stated enough.

 

[LemonMelon]

Setting aside how obnoxious, plastic and derivative the music and production itself is, the lyrics are hypocritical and repetitive. Her army of writers pitched this track as a word against fat-shaming and wound up making up a new ideal instead of preaching acceptance for all body types. That's some sinister shit right there.

And holy fuck, Anaconda is on that list too. That one might be even worse.

 

[bono_212]

Yeah, that was basically what I meant when I said it was evil.

 

[intedomine]

Songs, more generally. Because what really is a single these days with so many "tasters" out and about?

1. War on Drugs - Under the Pressure

2. Merchandise - Green Lady

3. Clark - Winter Linn

4. War on Drugs - Disappearing

5. U2 - Sleep Like a Baby Tonight

6. Teleman - Steam Train Girl

7. Morrissey - Staircase at the University

8. Real Estate - Talking Backwards

9. Morrissey - Neal Cassady Drops Dead

10. War on Drugs - Red Eyes

11. Coldplay - Midnight

12. War on Drugs - Ocean Between the Waves

13. Interpol - Same Town, New Story

14. Kim - Ryan Adams

15. Chvrches - Get Away


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[bobsaget77]

1 Red Eyes - The War On Drugs
2 Invisible - U2
3 Do You - Spoon



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[IWasBored]

the fuck is a "taster"?

 

[u2popmofo]

the fuck is a "taster"?

math rock

 

[PhilsFan]

Fancy and Shake It Off and Blank Space, ya ninnies.

Style is the best song on the Taylor Swift album as far as this cat's concerned.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

In no particular order:

Broken Bells - Perfect World

The fact that I missed this on my own list shames me.

 

[PhilsFan]

Broken Bells gets shit on a lot for some legitimate reasons, but that song alone makes that collaboration worthwhile.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I don't really know what's cool or what's not, or who's shitting on what. I didn't even know Brian Burton had his hands on it. I kind of just listen.

I mean people ragged on me for being down with Imagine Dragons. I don't care. I mean their most recent works have stagnated and are shit, but I liked the start they got off to.