As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Friday, December 23, 2016

Best Music of 2016


[NOW UPDATED with the results of the radio station polls in which I voted] 

Songs (AAA division) 
  1. Off The Ground – The Record Company (#16 WXPN Top 100, #13 WTMD Top 89)
  2. Dark Necessities – Red Hot Chili Peppers (#51 WXPN)
  3. Adventure Of A Lifetime – Coldplay
  4. Quiet Corners And Empty Spaces – The Jayhawks (#90 WXPN, #48 WTMD)
  5. Don’t Know What It Means – Tedeschi Trucks Band
  6.  (Baby) Hold On – The James Hunter Six
  7. Cautionary Tale – Dylan LeBlanc (#66 WXPN)
  8. Trailer – Mudcrutch (#93 WXPN)
  9. Wristband – Paul Simon (#40 WXPN, #59 WTMD)
  10. S.O.B. – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
  11. Smooth Sailin’ – Leon Bridges
  12. Vaporize – Amos Lee (#21 WXPN)
  13. Rita Mae Young – The Record Company (#9 WXPN, #40 WTMD)
  14. Ain’t Nothin’ Wrong With That – The Marcus King Band (#17 WXPN, #14 WTMD)
Songs (other) 
  1. Cake By The Ocean – DNCE
  2. I Took A Pill In Ibiza – Mike Posner
  3. Like I’m Gonna Lose You – Meghan Trainor
  4. Me Myself & I – G-Eazy f/Bebe Rexha
  5. This Is What You Came For – Calvin Harris f/Rihanna
  6. Can’t Stop The Feeling – Justin Timberlake
  7. In The Night – The Weeknd
  8. One Dance – Drake
  9. This Girl – Kungs & Cookin’ On 3 Burners 
Album cuts 
  1. Comeback Kids – The Jayhawks (from Paging Mr. Proust)
  2. Unintended Consequence Of Love – Bonnie Raitt (from Dig In Deep)
  3. Live In The Moment – Teenage Fanclub (from Here) 
Albums 
  1. Here – Teenage Fanclub
  2. Hold On! – The James Hunter Six
  3. Give It Back To You – The Record Company
  4. Side Pony – Lake Street Dive (#6 mvyradio Top 25)
  5. We’re All Gonna Die – Dawes (#11)
  6. Kin – KT Tunstall
  7. Delilah – Anderson East
  8. Love On Your Side – Owen Danoff (EP)
  9. Dig In Deep – Bonnie Raitt (#5)
  10. The Things That We Are Made Of – Mary Chapin Carpenter
  11. Stranger To Stranger – Paul Simon (#7)
  12. Paging Mr. Proust – The Jayhawks
  13. Little Windows – Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones 
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