After days and days of words, paragraphs, and annoyingly rogue YouTube formats, we’re taking it easy today. Here’s a list of my favorite 50 songs of the year; no tricks, no gimmicks. Per usual, the “One per main artist” rule applies, and if it made the Best Hits list, I DQ’d it from here. Most of these are singles, except when I opted for an album track because everybody knows and loves the singles (hence why “Pin” made it for Grimes over “Kill V. Maim”).

Spotify link is at the bottom, list is alphabetical (all the “The” bands are in T). Enjoy!

A$AP Rocky ft. ScHoolboy Q – “Electric Body”
Adventures – “Dream Blue Haze”
Alabama Shakes – “Don’t Wanna Fight”
Allison Weiss – “New Love”
Antarctigo Vespucci – “Crashing Waves”
Beach House – “PPP”
Beach Slang – “Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas”
Best Coast – “Fine Without You”
Bjork – “Atom Dance”
Bully – “Trying”
Carly Rae Jepsen – “EMOTION”
CHVRCHES – “Clearest Blue”
Courtney Barnett – “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)”
Death Cab For Cutie – “The Ghosts of Beverly Drive”
Deerhunter – “Breaker”
Desaparecidos – “The Underground Man”
Disclosure ft. Lorde – “Magnets”
Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment – “Wanna Be Cool”
El Vy – “I’m the Man to Be”
Erykah Badu ft. Andre 3000 – “Hello”
FKA twigs – “I’m Your Doll”
Florence + the Machine – “What Kind of Man”
Future – “I Serve the Base”
Grimes – “Pin”
Halsey – “Colors”
Jay Rock ft. Black Hippy – “Vice City”
Jeff Rosenstock – “You, In Weird Cities”
Jidenna ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Classic Man (remix)”
Kendrick Lamar – “King Kunta”
Lana Del Rey – “Music To Watch Boys To”
Leon Bridges – “River”
Marilyn Manson – “The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles”
Marina and the Diamonds – “Blue”
Modern Baseball – “The Waterboy Returns”
Rae Sremmurd – “This Could Be Us”
Screaming Females – “Ripe”
Sharon Van Etten – “I Don’t Want to Let You Down”
Sleater-Kinney – “A New Wave”
Tame Impala – “The Less I Know the Better”
The Dead Weather – “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)”
The Front Bottoms – “Laugh Til I Cry”
The Internet – “Under Control”
The Juliana Hatfield Three – “Ordinary Guy”
The Wonder Years – “Cigarettes and Saints”
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die – “January 10th, 2014”
Title Fight – “Rose of Sharon”
Titus Andronicus – “Dimed Out”
War on Women – “Second Wave Goodbye”
Wavves – “My Head Hurts”
Wolf Alice – “Moaning Lisa Smile”

Listmas 2015 Schedule
December 16th: Favorite Albums
December 17th: Worst Hits (10-6)
December 18th: Worst Hits (5-1)
December 19th: Best Hits (10-6)
December 20th: Best Hits (5-1)
December 21st: Favorite Songs
December 22nd: Year in Rant: Odds and Ends