An annual tradition on my blog – My Top 100 Songs of the Year.
To further explore amazing music, here are my Top Songs from the 2010’s (click “Follow” at the top of Spotify if you want to add any of the playlists to your sidebar of playlists)
If you follow indie music at all, you’ll find that most “Top Songs of The Year” are trying really hard to be cool and prove their hipster-ness. My Top Songs list is Indie Music for the Masses — Indie Music that’s actually enjoyable to listen to.
My 3 Top Albums of 2017:
Grizzly Bear – Painted Ruins (click to play on Spotify) – beautiful, complex music. So many good songs on this album. Mandy and I had the opportunity to see them in concert this fall which was amazing.
The National – Sleep Well Beast – another great album from probably my favorite band of all time. Brooding and quiet, but moving. The lead singer co-wrote many of the songs with his wife which adds vulnerability as they wrestle with their marriage.
Hamilton – Original Broadway Cast Recording (OK, I know this didn’t come out in 2017, but my family fell in love with this 2 and a 1/2 hour “album” in 2017). Pretty much all we listened to all fall, culminating with a trip to Chicago to see the play this past December! This play is brilliant songwriting.
Here are my 100 favorite songs of 2017 (click to play the full list in Spotify):Â
100 The Silence by Manchester Orchestra
99 Stroll On by Mutemath
98 Deflect the Light by Vessels, The Flaming Lips
97 Starlight (Goldroom Remix) by Jai Wolf, Goldroom
96 Goodbye Soleil by Phoenix
95 Cruel World by Active Child
94 Hold Me Down by Yoke Lore
93 Good Luck by The Undercover Dream Lovers
92 The Castle by The Flaming Lips
91 The Passenger by Hunter As a Horse
90 Silence by Marshmello, Khalid
89 Stars Last Me A Lifetime by Cut Copy
88 Oslo by Anna Of The North
87 This Song by RAC, Rostam
86 No Promises by San Fermin
85 Good Love by Zola Blood
84 Darling by Real Estate
83 Fleur de Lys by Phoenix
82 Only You by Yoke Lore
81 Ran by Future Islands
80 Anymore by Goldfrapp
79 Light Outside by Absofacto
78 Whiteout Conditions by The New Pornographers
77 Your Love by HAERTS
76 Cave by Future Islands
75 I Saw You Close Your Eyes by Local Natives
74 Only You by Selena Gomez
73 Change My Mind by JR JR
72 Into Waves by A Little Nothing
71 Work It on out by Haiva ru
70 Jupiter by James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner
69 Signal by SOHN
68 Strange or Be Forgotten by Temples
67 Hot Thoughts by Spoon
66 Proof by SOHN
65 Utopia by Austra
64 Love by Lana Del Rey
63 Die Young by Sylvan Esso
62 No One’s Here To Sleep by Naughty Boy, Bastille
61 The Only Thing by Zola Blood
60 Right Words by Cults
59 The Only Heirs by Local Natives
58 Thunder by Imagine Dragons
57 Of The Night by Bastille
56 Black Out Days – Future Islands Remix by Phantogram, Future Islands
55 Punk Drunk & Trembling by Wild Beasts
54 The Driver by Bastille
53 Sum by Loney Dear
52 I’ll Still Destroy You by The National
51 oh baby by LCD Soundsystem
50 Believer by Imagine Dragons
49 Electric Blue by Arcade Fire
48 I Don’t Know Why by Imagine Dragons
47 Fallss by Bayonne
46 I Took Your Picture by Cults
45 Goodpain by Yoke Lore
44 Cut-Out by Grizzly Bear
43 Mercury by James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner
42 Guilty Party by The National
41 Third of May / ÅŒdaigahara – Edit by Fleet Foxes
40 Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man
39 Nobody Else Will Be There by The National
38 Hard Liquor by SOHN
37 Spiral by Wye Oak
36 We a Famly by The Flaming Lips
35 Wasted Acres by Grizzly Bear
34 Venus by James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner
33 Role Model by Phoenix
32 Four Cypresses by Grizzly Bear
31 Visions of Gideon by Sufjan Stevens
30 Now & Then by Sjowgren
29 On Our Way Home by Empire of the Sun
28 Everything Now by Arcade Fire
27 Aquarian by Grizzly Bear
26 Asido by Purity Ring
25 The Moth by Manchester Orchestra
24 Day I Die by The National
23 Easy Tiger by Portugal. The Man
22 Read My Mind by Geographer
21 Deadcrush by alt-J
20 Hit Parade by Mutemath
19 Saturn by James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Nico Muhly, Bryce Dessner
18 Wave Is Not the Water by Wye Oak
17 Mourning Sound by Grizzly Bear
16 Born to Beg by The National
15 Offering by Cults
14 Slip Away by Perfume Genius
13 Number One (feat. Richie Havens & Son Little) by Portugal. The Man, Richie Havens, Son Little
12 Tell Me Why by Nine Pound Shadow
11 The Gold by Manchester Orchestra
10 Abandon by Charles Fauna
9 The Alien by Manchester Orchestra
8 Neighbors by Grizzly Bear
7 Cassius, – by Fleet Foxes
6 The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness by The National
5 Rennen by SOHN
4 Losing All Sense by Grizzly Bear
3 Empire Line by The National
2 Three Rings by Grizzly Bear
1 Beige by Yoke Lore