Friday Playlist

A special playlist this week. I think I finally got my Favorite Songs of the Year list hammered out yesterday. I’ll finish my write up over the weekend and share it early next week.

When I used to do a semi-private podcast, each year before I shared my favorite songs, I would do a review show counting down the #1 songs of all the previous years. Seems like a good way for me to share some good tunes with you.

Enjoy!

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2004 - “Float On” - Modest Mouse. Famously the song I was listening to when S yelled at me that her water had broke, and it was time to head to the hospital. Nine hours late, little baby M had arrived! 2005 - “Going Missing” - Maximo Park. My social life went missing after I became a father. Hey-yo! 2006 - “Star Witness” - Neko Case. The song that introduced me to the treasure that is Ms. Case. 2007 - “Intervention” - Arcade Fire. A controversial year. As much as I loved this song at the time, a couple years later when I did my Best of the Decade list, it was knocked down by two songs that I had rated much lower initially.[1] 2008 - “The Modern Leper” - Frightened Rabbit. The year this not-so-merry band of Scots blew my mind. 2009 - “Whirring” - The Joy Formidable. Re-released two years later to wider acclaim, I was a cool “into all the music blogs” guy and loved this song the first time they unleashed it. 2010 - “FootShooter” - Frightened Rabbit. Every fucking line of this song is utterly amazing. All the other songwriters should have just stopped at this point. 2011 - “He Gets Me High” - Dum Dum Girls. Starting a hell of a run for Dee Dee and her pals; they claimed the #2 slot the next year. 2012 - “The House That Heaven Built” - Japandroids. Kick ass rock still exists. 2013 - “Holy” - Frightened Rabbit. Three-time champs! 2014 - “Red Eyes” - The War on Drugs. I can still listen to this song - and the album it came from - 20 times in a row. 2015 - “California Nights” - Best Coast. Bethany Cosentino’s entire career was a build up to this song.