Mid Year Wrap Up: Best Songs
The year is almost half over! That means that all this week we will be listing our contributors’ favorite musical achievments for the year thus far. Here are our favorite singles from the first half of 2010:
Josh Keller
1. Cults “Go Outside”
2. Avi Buffalo “Whats in it for?”
3. Holy Fuck “P.I.G.S”
4. Pure Ecstasy “Easy”
5. Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”
6. Japandroids “Art Czars”
7. Free Energy “Bang Pop”
8. Twin Sister “I want a House”
9. Hold Steady “The Weekenders”
10. Toro Y Moi “Blessa”
JH
1. Joanna Newsom “On A Good Day”
2. Beach House “Walk in the Park”
3. Cults “Go Outside”
4. The National “Anyone’s Ghost”
5. Caribou “Odessa”
6. Fanfarlo “Harold T. Wilkins”
7. Broken Social Scene “World Sick”
8. Plants and Animals “Tom Cruz”
9. Vampire Weekend “California English”
10. Spoon “Written in Reverse”
Jon Schober
1. Here We Go Magic “Collector”
2. Tame Impala “Solitude is Bliss”
3. Malachai “Fading World”
4. Best Coast “When I’m With You”
5. Tobacco “Fresh Hex (Feat. Beck)”
6. Caribou “Leave House”
7. The Radio Dept. “You Stopped Making Sense”
8. The Soft Pack “Answer To Yourself”
9. Club 8 “Isn’t That Great?”
10. The Whitsundays “How Long Will You Go On”
Jon Behm
1. Beach House “Zebra”
2. Janelle Monáe “Mushrooms and Roses”
3. Caribou “Odessa”
4. Cults “Go Outside”
5. Anita Tijoux “1977”
6. Janelle Monáe “Tightrope”
7. Kelley Stoltz “Pinecone”
8. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings “Better Things”
9. Tame Impala “Solitude is Bliss”
10. Noun “Holy Hell”
Tune in tomorrow for favorite local albums from the Twin Cities!
My list did not have songs from albums that made it to my top 10 albums, so that explains why there is no National, Soft Pack, Beach House, Caribou, etc.
Also, I wasn’t sure if “When I’m With You” was this year or last, so I left it off, but it is one of my favorite songs from whatever year it came out.
There are a few songs that I don’t know, so some new stuff to check out, which is always exciting.