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Jake. · 29-01-2015, 09:18 PM

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Shaun · 31-01-2015, 04:07 PM

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#80 - "Best Friend" - Foster the People
Pretty much the only cut from the token "difficult second album" that was worthwhile.

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#79 - "The Love" - Kiesza
I'm not sure if it's an addiction to Grand Theft Auto V that's put me in the mood for an endless stream of 80s Madonna-derivative singles, but at least the donk shoved on top of it made it her own.

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#78 - "Cruel World" - Lana del Rey
Whilst there is indeed the worry that Lana's slightly vague lyrics are now just playing into the hands of some very confused and melodramatic Brazilian fans, at least she has the common courtesy to put together blissful little pieces of music like this.

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#77 - "Ghost" - Ella Henderson
Imagine a world where everyone who finishes sixth on the X Factor releases a debut single as fantastic as this. Isn't it a wonderful idea? No pressure, Stevi Ritchie.

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#76 - "Little Monster" - Royal Blood
Well I think that, to date, this is the only CD from 2014 that I own so I suppose it's only fitting I slot something of theirs into this list.

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#75 - "Something from Nothing" - Foo Fighters
Never before has a song title borne more relevance in comparison to its corresponding album.

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#74 - "In the Heat of the Moment" - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
The first album was wonderful, and if this is anything to go by, the second should be too.

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#73 - "Shanghai" - Nicki Minaj
You'll have to make do with a pitched version for now. Further proof that Minaj saves her fire for the deluxe tracks.

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#72 - "Outside" - Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding
The fizzling out of 18 Months and the slow build-up to this record did a lot of damage to the concept that Calvin Harris releases extremely catchy, interesting and - most importantly - distinct songs. 'Outside' was a welcome reminder that he's still capable, but even better from Motion is yet to come.

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#71 - "Mecca" - Wild Beasts
The video is pretty. The music prettier. The voice prettiest. Who wouldn't pray to the east for this?

Shaun · 31-01-2015, 05:49 PM

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#70 - "Dance With Me" - Le Youth
Memo to Philip George: this is how you take a classic single and give it a new lease of life. I'm keen for Le Youth to make this an annual ritual.

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#69 - "Budapest" - George Ezra
Sometimes Radio 1 get behind someone worthwhile. Sometimes.

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#68 - "push pull" - Purity Ring
We've already heard a much better teaser from their upcoming second album, but they managed to sneak a surprisingly poppy little tune into the end of 2014. How lovely.

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#67 - "Inferno" - Music Go Music
I've given up on trying to lure people over to the side of the fence where we reenact ABBA videos and enjoy Music Go Music so I'll just let the song do the talking.

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#66 - "Lemonade" - SOPHIE
If 2015 doesn't belong to PC Music then to be honest I give up on everything. Never before has the sound of someone pissing on the floor (VERY FEASIBLE - SHUSH) been the start of something good.

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#65 - "Blue Blue" - iamamiwhoami
Sorry Scott, this is the last time they'll be appearing here.

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#64 - "Heart on Fire" - Indiana
The first time I heard this, I was driving home from my first day of work with incredibly sore feet in the middle of London. It was quite comforting.

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#63 - "Longpig" - Perfume Genius
I just couldn't let a list go by without including a song title that refers to cannibalism.

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#62 - "Desperado" - Azealia Banks
I'm struggling to choose a favourite bit.

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#61 - "Up" - Olly Murs & Demi Lovato
It's certainly the best male/female pop duet since Nelly Furtado & James Morrison.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters · 31-01-2015, 05:57 PM

nobody else gets a shoutout i'm special

Shaun · 31-01-2015, 05:59 PM

ben got one on page 1 but who cares that's in the past (like his youth)

Shaun · 01-02-2015, 06:59 PM

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#60 - "Blame it On Me" - George Ezra
It's rare that a second single is the loveliest of the lot but Ezra sticks out as a strong example.

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#59 - "Ocean Death" - Baths
Hmm. I need to listen to this in the shower. (We don't have a shower at home

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#58 - "Unicorn" - Basement Jaxx
I think Tom liked this?

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#57 - "Sweetest Song" - Jessie Ware
To be honest you can't really go wrong with any of the songs on Tough Love but this stands as one of the more chilled and serene moments.

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#56 - "Sissy That Walk" - RuPaul
As usual, the main single that soundtracked a season of Drag Race was the only thing worth my time from Ru's new album but oh boy was this good. The build-up, the helpless reminders of this season's more jaw-dropping runways, and the lovely putdowns make this probably Ru's best yet.

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#55 - "Talking Backwards" - Real Estate
There is a very strong chance this song and the album it's on will only grow on me more since it was one of the last I listened to. *sways*

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#54 - "Ride" - TV on the Radio
Sadly not an insanely funky Lana del Rey cover, but more of a crestfallen masterpiece. I tend to go for their quieter, more sombre tracks on their records (see: Nine Types of Light's Killer Crane).

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#53 - "Yellow Flicker Beat" - Lorde
I think I'm now just about comfortable with the idea of liking a Lorde song. More of this sort of thing in the future, love.

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#52 - "Jubel" - Klingande
To be honest the vocalist should feature a bit more, but oh well. Still a sublime mix of the year's most dominant dance trends. I'm a bit concerned by how alike all of these music videos tend to be, though - sunny, blonde hipsters enjoying a drive and waving their arms around out the car window. An improvement on the wildly exploitative (look! she's operating a pneumatic drill and her tits are juggling!) videos that plagued Britain in the noughties, though, I suppose.

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#51 - "Blockbuster Night Part 1" - Run the Jewels
In context of the album it stands out as a highlight and a frightening, eye-opening track so lord knows what effect this has on the uninitiated.

Braden · 01-02-2015, 07:08 PM

George, Basement Jaxx, Ru & Lorde

Benjamin · 01-02-2015, 07:26 PM

Nice list so far

And my youth is still here

Shaun · 03-02-2015, 06:57 PM

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#50 - "Sort of Light" - Cuushe
Well done Ben x

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#49 - "Giant in my Heart" - Kiesza
Waaaaah-de-de-de-de-de-waaaaaah. The people's anthem.

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#48 - "This is What it Feels Like" - BANKS
Very good.

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#47 - "Bang Bang" - Jessie J, Nicki Minaj & Ariana Grande
Individually, they've put out some of the more disappointing and uninspiring singles of the year. Paired with others, they're capable of terrible things. But as this perfect trilogy? True greatness.

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#46 - "Riot" - Ace Wilder
It's funny: I thought 2013 would have taught us, with Icona Pop, that at least one imported Swedish number one single was necessary. This is the ideal candidate for that ongoing tradition. But no, I suppose we'll have to settle for Avicii.

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#45 - "Ice Princess" - Azealia Banks
Although a fairly large portion of this song's excellence is indebted to the chorus of Morgan Page's "In the Air", and much of the rest in the beat, at least a fine coating of Banks' arrogance and wordplay made it into the mix.

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#44 - "Fever" - The Black Keys
The album might not've lived up the standards set by Brothers or Rubber Factory but at least this first taste of it was good.

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#43 - "Uptight Downtown" - La Roux
Essays shall be written on why 2014 La Roux deserved the same, if not more, success as 2009 La Roux. But that's another post entirely.

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#42 - "Sayit" - Röyksopp & Robyn
This pips 'Monument' to the list just because of the robotic voice.

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#41 - "Boom Clap" - Charli XCX
It was very kind of Charli XCX to take a flop film and give it an anthem to make it more successful, wasn't it?

Benjamin · 04-02-2015, 04:26 PM

Cuushe in the top 50

Fetch The Bolt Cutters · 04-02-2015, 04:34 PM

Shaun · 04-02-2015, 06:04 PM

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#40 - "Our Time" - Lily Allen
Just about the only track from Sheezus that might be worth my time (no pun intended) three years down the line.

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#39 - "Glow" - Ella Henderson
Obviously this is the single that should have gone to #1. To be fair, both this and Ghost should have. But this is a far superior song.

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#38 - "The Crying Game" - Nicki Minaj & Jessie Ware
I totally didn't expect one of the most successful artists in the world right now to work with one of my underrated queens but I'm delighted it's happened, because it was just about the only standard-edition Pinkprint track that was "definitely good".

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#37 - "Can't Do Without You" - Caribou
It is quite nice

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#36 - "Pray to God" - Calvin Harris & HAIM
I am led to believe that this shall be the next single now that the buzz around Outside has subdued a little, and I could not be happier. By far his greatest effort since Feel So Close.

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#35 - "Problem" - Ariana Grande & Iggy Azalea
Quite rightly the song of the summer, and even Iggy managed to string together a good verse for the occasion.

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#34 - "Every Night" - Hannah Diamond
YES.

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#33 - "Calm After the Storm" - The Common Linnets
Everyone knows that the Eurovision Song Contest is a tacky annual spectacle that, at best, will provide one memorable pop song and an assortment of daft and hilarious ones, so you'll forgive me if, on the night, I wrote this off as something "just pleasant". Once the night ended, and in the following months, it grew and grew and I found myself listening to it through choice quite often. It really is rather lovely.

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#32 - "I Will Never Let You Down" - Rita Ora
Even Rita Ora is capable of releasing a banger if it's written by Calvin Harris. Even Rita Ora.

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#31 - "Uptown Funk" - Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars
That week when nobody really knew of Uptown Funk and then Fleur East kindly helped it to its current chart dominance was a wonderful one, and in an ideal world would've sealed her win, but no, bland rock still exists and so too do millions of voters with a soft spot for a well-groomed beard.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters · 04-02-2015, 06:14 PM

can you hurry it up a little

Shaun · 04-02-2015, 06:28 PM

no

i'll do another ten 2nite

Smithy · 04-02-2015, 06:35 PM

Giving Jessie ware credit when no one else does

Shaun · 05-02-2015, 04:03 PM

forgot to do ten last night so here's twenty to make up for it

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#30 - "Dangerous Days" - Zola Jesus
Although Taiga might not've lived up to her career-high 2011 album Conatus, this first glimpse of it promised glory and a killer chorus. It just sounds super-happy, which is as far removed from her usual sound as it can get.

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#29 - "Put Your Number in My Phone" - Ariel Pink
He's certainly doing a lot to pick up a reputation as a douchebag this year but so long as he continues releasing enchanting albums and singles like this I'm quite happy to stay aboard this train. Also I quite like his fashion taste. Or I dislike it enough to come full circle.

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#28 - "Dibby Dibby Sound" - DJ Fresh, Jay Fay & Ms. Dynamite
As is custom with music threads posted by Z on here, I initially hated it and found it annoying. Then it crept onto the BRIT Award adverts. Then RuPaul's Drag Race launched and I considered it the perfect lipsynch-for-your-life should a UK edition emerge. It is flawless. Fun video, too.

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#27 - "Cavalier" - James Vincent McMorrow
dat falsetto tho

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#26 - "I'm Aquarius" - Metronomy
It took a while to adjust from the patriotic indie cool of English Rivieira but once I settled down and accepted that a 2001: A Space Odyssey video was the next phase, it burrowed its way into my head in pretty much the same way. Especially with those shoop-doop-doop-aaaahs.

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#25 - "I'm Not Part of Me" - Cloud Nothings
Full Springsteen effect on this one, it just feels energetic.

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#24 - "Tough Love" - Jessie Ware
Can this current trend of electronic/R&B ballads never end please? Thanks

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#23 - "I See You" - The Horrors
Although basically one long continuation of their 2011 album Skying, this just ticks every box for me.

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#22 - "Call You Out" - JUCE
I've already talked about the wonderfully-nineties video so let me instead wax lyrical on the insanely stylish trio behind it. You've got a hella soulful lead vocalist, a hella cute keyboarder (is that even a word?) and lovely harmonies from the guitarist. This song just deserves to go stratospheric.

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#21 - "Simplethings" - Miguel
The Girls soundtrack has already been responsible for hundreds of great things prior to 2014, so this was just the icing on the cake, really. Matching a heavily-distorted riff with Miguel's gorgeous crooning is a difficult balance to reach but it just works and works and works. *melts*

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#20 - "Steal My Girl" - One Direction
Look, I'm not comfortable about a One Direction single making it this far up the list either but that's just the selling power of this un. de. ni. a. ble. an. them.

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#19 - "Seasons (Waiting on You)" - Future Islands
Admittedly a late discovery for me and I strongly suspect this might creep its way further up the list with time. It sort-of sounds like someone has ground down the most sublime elements of about 12 different genres (the shoegazy synths, the gravelly voice, the piercing chorus riffs, the sci-fi sound effects) and concocted the perfect song from them.

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#18 - "I Got U" - Duke Dumont & Jax Jones
I spent all of my time allocated for this little write-up on a petition to make sure every single summer song features at least one steel drum in future. For now I'll just say: it makes me deliriously happy.

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#17 - "Shower" - Becky G
WHY, pray tell, DID THIS RACK UP 95 MILLION VIEWS, HIT THE TOP TEN OF THE BILLBOARD CHART, AND THEN MAKE ZERO IMPACT OVER HERE AT ALL? Especially when Carly Rae Jepsen can do it! That's just ****ing wrong. Real song of the summer right here.

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#16 - "Close Your Eyes (And Count to ****)" - Run the Jewels & Zack de la Rocha
It's just the perfect anarchic party song, really.

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#15 - "Crying for No Reason" - Katy B
Best British ballad since Someone Like You, no question.

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#14 - "Touch" - Shura
A video of pretty people making out to a chillout anthem? Well of course it was going to make the list.

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#13 - "My Type" - Saint Motel
Hands down the catchiest track of the year.

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#12 - "Let Me Down Gently" - La Roux
Oh god this La Roux era was so perfect and so much better than the first one <3

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#11 - "Ugly Heart" - G.R.L.
The absolute perfect pop debut and should've been the start of something special. It speaks of the song's strength and charm that even the tragic passing of Simone Battle can sort of momentarily be forgotten in amongst it. Aaaaah, now I'm sad

*puts it on again*

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:18 PM

Onto the top ten, then...

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:20 PM

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#10 - "Solo Dancing" - Indiana
This makes the top ten on account of having just about everything that made V V Brown's The Apple great: a thumping, dark, evolving beat, a disinterested and cold vocal, and a ridiculously good rhythm.

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:23 PM

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#9 - "Hey QT" - QT
Long live bubblegum pop.

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:25 PM

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#8 - "Chandelier" - Sia
Years down the line from now, seismologists will still be baffled trying to explain where on earth this pop masterpiece came from. I look forward to years of drunk, interpretive dances to this.

Smithy · 08-02-2015, 07:27 PM

Shoulda been #1 -sobs-

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:27 PM

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#7 - "Queen" - Perfume Genius
Just about everything on his first two albums was either backed by a simple piano melody or a slow synth progression, so it was a bit of a surprise for him to embrace glam rock on album #3 (even if it only extended to this and the next single). Also, there's the whole wonderful "let's piss off the homophobes" angle about it all.

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:29 PM

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#6 - "Do it Again" - Röyksopp & Robyn
R&R are basically the greatest combination since Nutella and your finger.

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:30 PM

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#5 - "Two Weeks" - FKA twigs
Sexiest song of the year

Shaun · 08-02-2015, 07:35 PM

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#4 - "Down on My Luck" - Vic Mensa
It astounds me that this only managed to reach #37, because it's quite obviously aimed at the clubs but simultaneously layered and arranged like an actual song, like most aren't. It's just ridiculously funky.

Thank you, Samuel.

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