My two primary reasons for making this thread are: To see your lists, and to post mine after having worked on it.
As usual, I personally stick by a few rules:
1) At least 1 song per year but that's with a decade of songs, so here it's at least 2 songs per year, just looking at 1/2 a decade.
2) Edited, due to difficulty that some posters are having: With all the artists out there, no artist represented by more than 2 songs. (Unless someone has a solo, but then there's another song, from a separate CD, which is a collaboration of that artist with another independently established artist then that's Ok.)
3) No more than 5 songs from any one year. But damn, even I had to break this one... So Ok, no more than 6 songs from any one year...
(I could've made at least half the from 2011; what a great year.)
1. Snow Patrol - Called Out In The Dark_2011
2. Dirty Vegas - Let The Night_2014
3. Edward Maya - This Is My Life_2013
4. The National - Conversation 16_2010
5. Timbaland - Nelly Furtado & Soshy - Morning After Dark_2010
6. X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons - Jungle_2014
7. Pitbull & Marc Anthony - Rain Over Me_2011
8. John Legend - Magnetic Man - Getting Nowhere_2010
9. Ms Mr - Bones_2013
10. Active Child - Johnny Belinda_2011
11. Sia - David Guetta - Titanium_2011
12. The War On Drugs - Under the Pressure_2014
13. Plumb - Drifting_2012
14. Saint Motel - Ace In The Hole_2014
15. OneRepublic - Love Runs Out_2014
16. Adam Lambert - Runnin_2012
17. Gotye - Easy Way Out_2011
18. Diamond Rings - Something Else_2010
19. Bush - The Sound Of Winter_2011
20. Wye Oak - Glory_2014
I found my list to be quite surprising for me personally. No Bruce Cockburn, no Depeche Mode, no Moby, no Enigma, no Leonard Cohen, no Kate Bush, no Enya. Although some of those have dropped off over the last decade or so, the fact that none are there is surprising. Only 'The National' would be on any previous list of mine. This decade is like a changing of the guard with respect to artists who produce songs I like.
Songs that just missed the cut at #20 (alphabetically by artist):
Adele - Rolling in the Deep (another 2011)
Broken Bells - Holding On For Life
Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs
Christina Novelli - Gareth Emery - Concrete Angel
Dan Tyminski - Avicii - Hey Brother
Destroyer - Kaputt (another 2011)
Dido - End Of Night
Fitz & The Tantrums - The Walker
Flo Rida - Good Feeling (another 2011)
Hercules & Love Affair - Painted Eyes (another 2011)
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Nicki Minaj - David Guetta - Turn Me On (another 2011)
Trevor Guthrie - R3hab - SoundWave
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - If I Had My Way
The Killers - Shot At The Night
Train - Angel In Blue Jeans
Hey, I know my tastes are kind of odd on this Board, but I am interested to see what songs the rest of you would have on your top-20 lists from 2010-2014.
A couple added notes if I may...
The top-6 on that list was almost like a role of the dice as to the order.
And #20, because I couldn't add any more 2011s, was really difficult to choose a song that satisfied me to make the top-20 list.
EDITED: Song added into the Top-20 and one removed.
As usual, I personally stick by a few rules:
1) At least 1 song per year but that's with a decade of songs, so here it's at least 2 songs per year, just looking at 1/2 a decade.
2) Edited, due to difficulty that some posters are having: With all the artists out there, no artist represented by more than 2 songs. (Unless someone has a solo, but then there's another song, from a separate CD, which is a collaboration of that artist with another independently established artist then that's Ok.)
3) No more than 5 songs from any one year. But damn, even I had to break this one... So Ok, no more than 6 songs from any one year...
(I could've made at least half the from 2011; what a great year.)
1. Snow Patrol - Called Out In The Dark_2011
2. Dirty Vegas - Let The Night_2014
3. Edward Maya - This Is My Life_2013
4. The National - Conversation 16_2010
5. Timbaland - Nelly Furtado & Soshy - Morning After Dark_2010
6. X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons - Jungle_2014
7. Pitbull & Marc Anthony - Rain Over Me_2011
8. John Legend - Magnetic Man - Getting Nowhere_2010
9. Ms Mr - Bones_2013
10. Active Child - Johnny Belinda_2011
11. Sia - David Guetta - Titanium_2011
12. The War On Drugs - Under the Pressure_2014
13. Plumb - Drifting_2012
14. Saint Motel - Ace In The Hole_2014
15. OneRepublic - Love Runs Out_2014
16. Adam Lambert - Runnin_2012
17. Gotye - Easy Way Out_2011
18. Diamond Rings - Something Else_2010
19. Bush - The Sound Of Winter_2011
20. Wye Oak - Glory_2014
I found my list to be quite surprising for me personally. No Bruce Cockburn, no Depeche Mode, no Moby, no Enigma, no Leonard Cohen, no Kate Bush, no Enya. Although some of those have dropped off over the last decade or so, the fact that none are there is surprising. Only 'The National' would be on any previous list of mine. This decade is like a changing of the guard with respect to artists who produce songs I like.
Songs that just missed the cut at #20 (alphabetically by artist):
Adele - Rolling in the Deep (another 2011)
Broken Bells - Holding On For Life
Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs
Christina Novelli - Gareth Emery - Concrete Angel
Dan Tyminski - Avicii - Hey Brother
Destroyer - Kaputt (another 2011)
Dido - End Of Night
Fitz & The Tantrums - The Walker
Flo Rida - Good Feeling (another 2011)
Hercules & Love Affair - Painted Eyes (another 2011)
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Nicki Minaj - David Guetta - Turn Me On (another 2011)
Trevor Guthrie - R3hab - SoundWave
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - If I Had My Way
The Killers - Shot At The Night
Train - Angel In Blue Jeans
Hey, I know my tastes are kind of odd on this Board, but I am interested to see what songs the rest of you would have on your top-20 lists from 2010-2014.
A couple added notes if I may...
The top-6 on that list was almost like a role of the dice as to the order.
And #20, because I couldn't add any more 2011s, was really difficult to choose a song that satisfied me to make the top-20 list.
EDITED: Song added into the Top-20 and one removed.
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