Friday Playlist
I’ve been a little slower than normal slapping together my Favorite Songs of the Year list. I can just #Blame2020 and leave it at that. I will also add that I’m having a devil of a time picking my favorite song of 2020, which I kind of need to do in order to complete the list.
But I’m working on it, and in hopes of ensuring I complete this year’s list over the next week, I’ll go ahead and share my standard prelude.
Here is my list of my favorite song of each year going back to 2004. I offer it with the standard disclaimer that I do not adjust these over time. If I were to re-do any of these annual lists, there would no doubt be adjustments. But I want this list to always be a snapshot of what I was thinking in each particular year.
Happy listening!
2004: “Float On” - Modest Mouse 2005: “Going Missing” - Maximo Park 2006: “Star Witness” - Neko Case 2007: “Intervention” - Arcade Fire 2008: “The Modern Leper” - Frightened Rabbit* 2009: “Whirring” - The Joy Formidable 2010: “FootShooter” - Frightened Rabbit 2011: “He Gets Me High” - Dum Dum Girls 2012: “The House That Heaven Built” - Japandroids 2013: “Holy” - Frightened Rabbit 2014: “Red Eyes” - The War on Drugs* 2015: “California Nights” - Best Coast 2016: “To Know You” - Wild Nothing 2017: “Pain” - The War on Drugs / “Strangest Thing” - The War on Drugs 2018: “Night Shift” - Lucy Dacus 2019: “Weird Ways” - Strand of Oaks
Asterisk indicates Favorite Song of the Decade