Friday, January 1, 2016

Best of 2015


Top 10 Films:

1. ME & EARL AND THE DYING GIRL
2. SPOTLIGHT
3. INFINITELY POLAR BEAR
4. SICARIO
5. HATEFUL EIGHT
6. THE BIG SHORT
7. SPY
8. AVENGERS 2: AGE OF ULTRON
9. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
10. INSIDE OUT


Top 10 Albums:

1. Butch Walker - Afraid of Ghosts
2. Mumford & Sons - Wilder Mind
3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Chasing Yesterday
4. James Bay - Chaos and the Calm
5. Hop Along - Painted Shut
6. Kurt Vile - b'lieve I'm Going Down
7. Beach Slang - The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
8. Royal Headache - High
9. Kristen Diable - Create Your Own Mythology
10. The Very Best - Makes a King

Honorable Mentions:

Millencolin - True Blue
Dustin Kensrue - Carry the Fire
J.D. McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll

Top 50 Songs:

1. Lucero - Went Looking for Warren Zevon's Los Angeles
2. Josh Ritter - Getting Ready to Get Down
3. Butch Walker - 21+
4. J.D. McPherson - Let the Good Times Roll
5. Fidlar - West Coast
6. Doomtree - My Own Nation
7. Mumford & Sons - Believe
8. Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
9. Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good
10. Red City Radio - Two Out of Three Ain't Rad
11. Awolnation - Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)
12. The Fratellis - Imposters (Little by Little)
13. Metric - The Shade
14. Lil Dicky - Molly (feat. Brendon Urie)
15. Royal Headache - Carolina
16. Death Cab for Cutie - The Ghosts of Beverly Drive
17. Desaparecidos - City on the Hill
18. Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts - Youth Quake
19. Blues Traveler - Matador (feat. Thompson Square)
20. Bloodhoung Gang - Uncool As Me (feat. Joey Fatone)
21. Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
22. Mexican Institute of Sound - La Llama
23. Jason Isbell - Something More Than Free
24. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - You Know We Can't Go Back
25. Rihanna, Kanye West & Paul McCartney - FourFiveSeconds
26. Jamie T - Magnolia Melancholia
27. Major Lazer - Leon On (feat. MO & DJ Snake)
28. Beach Slang - Bad Art & Weirdo Ideas
29. Hop Along - Sister Cities
30. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear - Silent Movies
31. Violent Femmes - Fast Horses
32. Crow Bait - Separate Stations
33. Kristin Diable - I'll Make Time for You
34. Millencolin - Bring Me Home
35. Dustin Kensrue - Back to Back
36. James Taylor - Montana
37. GZA - The Mexican (feat. Tom MOrello)
38. Catfish and the Bottlemen - Cocoon
39. The Milk Carton Kids - Shooting Shadows
40. X Ambassadors - Unsteady
41. Mark Knopfler - Beryl
42. Modest Mouse - The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box
43. Local H - Mansplainer
44. Hiss Golden Messenger - He Wrote the Book
45. Action Bronson - Only in America (feat. Party Supplies)
46. Jose Gonzalez - With the Ink of a Ghost
47. Leon Bridges - Better Man
48. Jackie Greene - Light Up Your Window
49. Holy Holy - You Cannot Call for Love like a Dog
50. The Barr Brothers - Burn Card

And the rest of the songs I loved this year, in alphabetical order:

Anderson East - Devil in Me
Bhi Bhiman - Up in Arms
Big Wild - Aftergold
Boysetsfire - One Match
Brandon Flowers - Lonely Town
Brian Wilson - The Right Time
Buddy Guy - Flesh & Bone (feat. Van Morrison)
Calexico - Falling from the Sky
Cayucas - Moony Eyed Walrus
Chris Cornell - Let Your Eyes Wander
CHVRCHES - Never Ending Circles
Craig Finn - Maggie I've Been Search For Our Son
David Ramirez - Harder to Lie
Destroyer - Dream Lover
Don Henley - The Cost of Living (feat. Merle Haggard)
Elle King - America's Sweetheart
Enter Shikari - The Last Garrison
Frank Turner- Glorious You
Hit the Lights - Fucked Up Kids
Houndmouth - Sedona
Gang of Youths - Magnolia
Go! Team, The - Reasons Left to Destroy
Imagine Dragons - Shots
Jack Garratt - Weathered
Laura Stevenson - Jellyfish
Libertines, The - Gunga Din
Life of Dillon - Bluebirds
Lord Huron - Until the Night Turns
Mac McCaughan - Our Way Free
Maine, The - Miles Away
Matt Nathanson - Bill Murray
Mikky Ekko - Smile
Mountain Goats, The - Heel Turn 2
Of Monsters and Men - Crystals
Pops Staples - Friendship
Protoje - The Flame (feat. Kabaka Pyramid)
Raury - Devil's Whisper
Rocky Votolato - White-Knuckles
Ryan Adams - In the Dark
Sam Outlaw - Who Do You Think You Are?
Sharon Van Etten - Pay My Debts
Strung Out - Spanish Days
Sufjan Stevens - No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Tallest Man on Earth - Sagres
Tal National - Zoy Zoy
Tenement - I'm Your Super Glue
Wale - The White Shoes
Weepies, The - Early Morning Riser
Will Dailey - Castle of Pretending
Wiz Khalifa - See You Again (feat. Charlie Puth)
Zedd - Transmission (feat. Logic, X Ambassa

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