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Your Top 5 Tracks of the Year
21stCenturyBoy
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As we're coming to the end of 2012, I thought it would be fun to do a retrospective and see what everyone has as their personal "Top 5" Tracks of the Year. Links (and maybe a bonus Worst Song Of The Year) also appreciated.
Mine are-
1) Chevy Thunder (Spector) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_HMJLKHso
2) Ho Hey (The Lumineers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4
3) Stars (Grace Potter & The Nocturnals) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7TmC__eDc
4) Running To The Sea (Royksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM6IxUDpVs
5) DJ Ease My Mind (Niki & The Dove) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnexkG4RrtA
Mine are-
1) Chevy Thunder (Spector) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_HMJLKHso
2) Ho Hey (The Lumineers) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCBSSwgtg4
3) Stars (Grace Potter & The Nocturnals) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7TmC__eDc
4) Running To The Sea (Royksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM6IxUDpVs
5) DJ Ease My Mind (Niki & The Dove) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnexkG4RrtA
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1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
2. Tulisa - Young
3. Cheryl Cole - Call My Name
4. Loreen - Euphoria
5. Little Mix - DNA
Listened to it a lot at the start of the year when it was still competing in Melodifestivalen and I got a bit sick of it by June!
1) Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
2) P!nk – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
3) Bastille - What Would You Do
4) Imagine Dragons – Bleeding Out
5) Lifehouse/Natasha Bedingfield – Between The Raindrops
so many good ones though!
Paul van Dyk - 'The Sun After Heartbreak' feat. Sue McLaren & Arty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc5CQXy5Ubs
Omnia and IRA - The Fusion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GDl-Ti7WBg
Super8 - alba - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQmX2Nojf4
Hanski - Fools Paradise - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHiXgUoml4Y
Store N Forward - Oregano (Original Mix) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHo9nJhFURs
Stooshe - Black Heart
Little Mix - Wings
Paloma Faith - Picking Up The Pieces
Girls Aloud - Something New
Taylor Swift - Safe & Sound
Cher Lloyd - Riot
Justin Bieber - Love Me Like You Do
Little Mix - How Ya Doin'
2NE1 - I Love You
Lana Del Rey - Bel Air
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (2012 Remix)
Ellie Goulding - Dead In The Water
Regina Spektor - Firewood
Fun - Some Nights
Fun - Carry On
Fun - Why am I the one
Fun - All Alone
Pink - Try/Truth about Love
Not been a great year IMO.
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (Ft. Kimbra)
Usher - Climax
Rita Ora - R.I.P. (Ft. Tinie Tempah)
Maroon 5 - Payphone (Ft. Wiz Khalifa)
Emeli Sande - My Kind of Love
B.O.B - So Good
Angel - Wonderful
Cover Drive - Explode
Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up
2 Call My Name - Cheryl Cole
3 22 - Taylor Swift
4 I Almost Do - Taylor Swift
5 Still (New Version) - Tamia
But I'll try anyway.
1. TVXQ - Catch Me
2. Leona Lewis - Fireflies
3. Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
4. EXO - Mama
5. Alexandra Burke - Heartbreak On Hold
Tough decision actually, it'll probably change tomorrow lol.
2.) "Time Is Love"-Josh Turner
3.) "Missing You Crazy"-Jon Pardi
4.) "Hard To Love"-Lee Brice
5.) "Tornado"-Little Big Town
6.) "Creepin'"-Eric Church
God bless you and them always!!!
Holly
P.S. Yeah I know I listed six, but I couldn't decide which song not to include, I think that they are all awesome!
Bo Bruce - 'Fighting Arizona'
Honestly right, I made a point of never watching The Voice, just the same as The X Factor because I just really don't 'get' the whole popularity contest they all turn into. Judges bitching for the sake of viewers and headlines and substandard singers glorified as something new and exciting? No ta. However, I did know of Bo when she was on the Orange unsignedAct shortlist, and was surprised to hear she was a contestant on The Voice and my blind cynicism meant I'd missed a whole series of live performances. Those who've heard her will have a tough time trying to argue she has a powerful voice, but personally I can't stand powerhouse vocalists who blast you with volume as a cheap substitute for emotion.
This song was written after she was sent to a rehabilitation clinic in the Arizona desert by her father to stop her drug addiction, and it's really a wonderful song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH2aJCOTlRU
Imagine Dragons - 'It's Time'
What a song. This is the type of song that just rings with celebration and accomplishment. Over a stomping melody, chiming riffs and a chorus chant at home in buildings no lesser in size than the biggest arenas, 'It's Time' is Imagine Dragons' finest hour. Lead singer Dan Reynolds wrote the song whilst contemplating whether or not he should quit music altogether, but the result was for the better, hence the chorus' final line "I'm never changing who I am". It's catchy, it's loud, it's mid-tempo. It's lyrics speak of triumphing over adversary, and it's just a shame that the song never really has the success it deserved. It was the perfect soundtrack to the recent Stephen Chbosky adaptation of his novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENM2wA_FTg
Coldplay - 'Charlie Brown'
A lot of the time, I pay more attention to lyrical connections in songs, but at the same time melody is immensely important. I've got to want to remember the lyrics and be able to hear them back in my head clearly. Whilst the lyrical connection to 'Charlie Brown', which contains one of Coldplay greatest ever riffs (alongside the storming 'Lovers In Japan' and perhaps the psychedelic 'Hurts Like Heaven'), isn't so strong as it could've been, few can deny the sheer awesomeness of that riff. A sparkling, ambitious and beautifully matured interpretation of modern rock lifts Coldplay out of the MOR-wilderness for this track. Even the mentions of "All the boys.../All the girls..." can't diminish the spectroscopic abandon that this song overflows with.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFBJgnNgU4
Kasabian - 'Goodbye Kiss'
Wistful sentiment isn't something that is commonly aligned with Kasabian who, throughout their earlier years were happy enough to make as many reference to British lad culture per song as possible. Oh sure, pretty much all Kasabian's music sits well with me when I feel like punching faces to the sound of jagged electro-rock such as 'Fast Fuse' and 'Club Foot', but 'Goodbye Kiss' is something quite different. There's still every finger pointing to the song being a work of Kasabian, but it's reserved delivery and honest lyrics make it stand out amongst an album of more of the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZarE8_M3fc
Aiden Grimshaw - 'This Island'
Now, honestly, who the hell saw this coming? I mean fair enough the gloom-pop wobble from his time on The X Factor translates with the same slicing and unnerving intensity but the D&B productions and the effervescent synths buzzing around his deep vocal register on 'This Island' feel more like a psychotic Rob Swire than the trembling, bequiffed teenager we saw every Saturday back in 2010. With a glassy, slickly-polished production pumped full of more energy than an 808 on crack, the ice-cold sentiment of Grimshaw's inner angst burns with his trademark intensity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbBx05N4Dk
There's plenty of others, but these came to me first. Hope you all enjoy.
Conor Maynard ft. Ne-Yo- Turn Around
Emeli Sande & Labrinth- Beneath Your Beautiful
Tamar Braxton- Love and War
Olly Murs- Troublemaker
2. Aiden Grimshaw - Curtain Call
3. Deaf Havana - Hunstanton Pier
4. Biffy Clyro - Stingin' Belle
5. The Killers - Runaways
1. Melanie Fiona - Gone and never coming back
2. Hoodie Allen - Lucky man
3. Sam Sparrow - Shades of grey
4. Delilah - Tabitha, Mummy and me
And soley for entertainment value and James Arthurs cover on XF
5. Lmfao - Sexy and I know it
Florence & The Machine - Spectrum
Niki & The Dove - Somebody
gossip - Perfect World
Lana Del Rey - National Anthem
&
grimes - genesis
2. Leona Lewis - Lovebird
3. Owl City ft Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time
4. Pink - Run
5. Ellie Goulding - My Blood
#1 Little Mix - Wings
#2 Little Mix - DNA
#3 Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah - RIP
4. Tulisa - Young
Hundreds of songs could be at 5 so I will randomly pick:
#5 Coldplay ft. Rihanna - Princess Of China
2012 has been a brilliant year for music! Hopefully 2013 is just as good!
Cheryl Cole: Call my name
Bruno Mars: Locked out of heaven
All Lana Del rey songs
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Love this song...
2. Santigold - Disparate Youth
3. Lana Del Rey - Ride
4. Loreen - Euphoria
5. Aiden Grimshaw - Curtain Call.