Have you listened to a song the last year that is SO GOOD it makes your previous top songs toplist that we compiled a year ago here on this forum.

If you have not created such a list you might IMAGINE such a list and what it takes to make it...

The reason this thread is not about albums is because it will then tend to be dominated by albums. And I'm a songs guy.

FEEL FREE to duplicate this thread into an albums thread.

Here are some songs that I feel are among the very best of artists I've listened to the last year:

Ryan Adams - Anybody Wanna Take Me Home
The Who - Overture
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes (Chris Hughes single mix)
Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman - Where Or When
James - Sometimes
Amon Tobin - Lighthouse
Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync
Sting - Angel Eyes
Donny Hathaway - I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (aaah)
David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
Fiona Apple - Sally's Song
Sundays - My Finest Hour (thanks, Nina)
Ricard Villalobos - Enfants
Throwing Muses - Fish
Decerf, Zajd & Cerrona - Black Safari
Cure - A Forest
Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell (finally gripping the rap shit)
Amboy Dukes - Journey To The Center Of The Min
Lou Reed - Endless Cycle
Goblin - Suspiria
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
Richard Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights (live)
The Move - Cherry Blossom Clinic
Terry Callier - Lazarus Man
Warbringer - Total War (unfredish)

There probably wouldn't be room for all of these in my Top 200, but they've sufficiently blown my mind enough in the last year that some would certainly make it, and the rest would be on the cusp. Ordered by artist, obviously...

Aaron Parks - Nemesis
Amon Tobin - Nightlife
Anthony Braxton - Piece Three
Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy Song
Art Bears - Three Wheels
Arvo Pärt - Cantus in Memorium of Benjamin Britten
Baaba Maal - Daande Lenol
Boris - Farewell
Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
Can - Quantum Physics
Carla Bley - Hotel Overture
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi - Rios, Pontes & Overdrives
The Cinematic Orchestra - All That You Give
Cluster - Plas
Colin Blunstone - Caroline Goodbye
Cortijo y su Combo - Gumbo
Damn Sam The Miracle Man & The Soul Congregation - Music Makes You Feel Alright
Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise
The Delgados - Accused of Stealing
The Divine Comedy - In Pursuit of Happiness
Donald Byrd - Cristo Redendor
Double Leopards - The Fatal Affront
Dreamies - Program Ten: Sunday Morning Song
Ennio Morricone - L'estasi Dell'oro (The Ecstasy of Gold)
Exuma - Exuma, The Obeah Man
Femi Kuti - You Better Ask Yourself
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
George Crumb - Black Angels: Departure
George Russell - Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
Ghostface Killah - Shakey Dog
György Ligeti - Requiem
Hareton Salvanini - Imagem/Yelris
Harmonia - Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
Harry Partch - Exordium: The Beginning of a Web
Henry Cow/Slapp Happy - Beautiful as The Moon/Terrible as an Army with Banners
Igor Wakhévitch - Materia Prima
Jay-Z - Heart of The City (Ain't No Love)
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant au Royaume des Mouches
John Barry - Theme from Midnight Cowboy
Judee Sill - The Kiss
The Knife - Heartbeats
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Lil Wayne - La La La
LiLiPUT - Die Matrosen
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Lisa Germano - …A Psychopath
Mahmoud Ahmed - Ere Mela Mela
Matmos - Y.T.T.E. (Yield To Total Elation)
Minnie Riperton - Rainy Day In Centerville
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila-Symphonie: Introduction
OOIOO - Grow Sound Tree
Organized Konfusion - Releasing Hypnotical Gases
Orlando Julius - James Brown Ride On
Oumou Sangaré - Yala
Penguin Café Orchestra - Penguin Café Single
Philip Glass - Spaceship
The Raincoats - In Love
Rip, Rig & Panic - Bob Hope Takes Risks
Ronald Shannon Jackson - Alice In The Congo
The Roots - Long Time
Sam Rivers - Tranquility
Scientist - Your Teeth In My Neck
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Dazzle
The Slits - Typical Girls
Sparks - Thank God It's Not Christmas
Steely Dan - Aja
Steve Reich - Drumming, Pt. IV
The Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own
Ween - Buckingham Green
The Wipers - Youth of America
Yoko Ono - What a Bastard the World Is

Well, I'll just use the methodology of songs I've added in the last year with over 20 plays on my iTunes (in descending play order):

Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
Echo & the Bunnymen - Silver
DeVotchKa - The Clockwise Witness
R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Rihanna - Umbrella
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Albert Goes West
Echo & the Bunnymen - My Kingdom
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
The Jam - Going Underground
Cafe Tacuba - 53100
The Hold Steady - Magazines
Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up (thanks to the Survivor game)

By the way, Fred, these entries of yours made be extremely happy...

Squarepusher - Tetra-Sync
Donny Hathaway - I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry Sundays - My Finest Hour
Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell

I just looked at my list of "consumption" from 2008 on All Consuming to help me here. (Note: These are just songs that were new TO ME in 2008...not necessarily new.)

I've never made up a list of my top songs yet but here are some that COULD possibly end up on such a list:

Sylvia's Mother- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
Big Blue Diamonds- Van Morrison
Passenger Side- Wilco
Quiet! Do Not Disturb- Bobby Patterson
First of the Gang to Die- Morrissey
If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) - Me'Shell Ndegéocello
(Pop,Pop,Pop, Pop) Goes my Mind- Levert
Use Me- Bill Withers
Sweet Thing- Rufus f. Chaka Khan
You Got the Love- The Force f. Candi Staton
Cologne- Dolly Parton
Never Going Back to OK- The Afters

Glad to hear that, Sonofsam!


Highly approval!

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant au Royaume des Mouches
Aaron Parks - Nemesis
The Wipers - Youth of America
Ween - Buckingham Green
Nina Simone - Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's mix)


Already in my list!

Colin Blunstone - Caroline Goodbye
The Divine Comedy - In Pursuit of Happiness
Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold
Judee Sill - The Kiss
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own
The Roots - Long Time


Interresting:

Carla Bley - Hotel Overture
Dreamies - Program Ten: Sunday Morning Song
Exuma - Exuma, The Obeah Man
Harry Partch - Exordium: The Beginning of a Web
Minnie Riperton - Rainy Day In Centerville
Scientist - Your Teeth In My Neck
The Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies


Yes, that was my friday afternoon :)

Cortijo y Su Maquina Del Tiempo ~ Gumbo (1974)
Francis Lai ~ Where Did Our Summers Go (1968)
Lô Borges ~ Calibre (1972)
Cortex ~ Troupeau Bleu (1975)
Labi Siffre ~ It Must Be Love (1970)
Os Novos Baianos ~ Com Qualquer Dois Mil Reis (1973)
Jon Lucien ~ Listen Love (1974)
Billy Nicholls ~ Would You Believe (1968)
Minnie Riperton ~ Rainy Day In Centerville (1970)
Soft Machine ~ Slightly All The Time (1970)
Dorothy Ashby ~ Theme from "Valley of The Dolls" (1968)
This Heat ~ Makeshift Swahili (1981)
Piero Umiliani ~ Goodmorning Sun (1971)
Hermeto Pascoal ~ Bebe (1973)
Colin Blunstone ~ Her Song (1971)
Nirvana ~ I Never Found a Love Like This Before (1967)

The multiple recommendations of Minnie Riperton's "Rainy Day In Centerville" made me listen to the "Come to My Garden" album and after hearing only a couple of songs I can already say that it's a strong contender for my top 20 of 1970. Kudos, guys!

good load, Fred, ya olde song junkee, I just realized that I still owe you a now 4 and a half years old reply...
..that's so embarrassing...

besides, Henrik, what tastier could a premise for the 70's poll be than your latter statement? and I really wouldn't mind if Georgie does participate, too..

wow, netjade...that was a LONG time ago!

I do have TRIED to stop dl song suggestions :)


Georgie! Like your songs a lot. I am thinking summer on the beach here.