A: (6)
Active Child - 1999
Adele - When We Were Young
Alabama Shakes - Give Me All Your Love
Alex Winston - Dead End
Allie X - Hello
Autre Ne Veut - Age of Transparency
B: (7)
Bdy_Prts - Cold Shoulder
Big Grams - Fell in the Sun
Big Data - Clean (feat. Jamie Lidell)
Bilal - I Really Don't Care
Bleachers - Rollercoaster (feat. Charli XCX)
BØRNS - Electric Love
Brandon Flowers - Still Want You
C: (8)
Carly Rae Jepsen - E·MO·TION
Chairlift - Ch-Ching
Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom
Chet Faker - 1998 (feat. BANKS)
Chic - I'll Be There
Christine and the Queens - Tilted
CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue
Courtney Barnett - An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in NY)
D: (8.5)
David Guetta - Hey Mama (feat. Nicki, Bebe, & Afrojack)
Demi Lovato - Delete It Fat
Destroyer - Times Square
Disclosure - Moving Mountains (feat. Brendan Reilly)
DNCE - Cake By the Ocean
Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment - Sunday Candy (feat. Jamila Woods)
Dornik - Stand in Your Line
Drake - Hotline Bling
Du Blonde - Black Flag
E: (4)
Ellie Goulding - Around U
Emily King - The Switch
Empress Of - How Do You Do It
Everything Everything - To the Blade
F: (6)
Fall Out Boy - Uma Thurman
Father John Misty - The Ideal Husband
Fetty Wap - 679 (feat. Remy Boyz)
Fletcher - War Paint
Florence and the Machine - How Big How Blue How Beautiful
Foxes - Body Talk
G: (5)
Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly
Giorgio Moroder - Right Here, Right Now (feat. Kylie Minogue)
Grace Potter - Your Girl
Grimes - Kill V. Maim
Gwen Stefani - Used to Love You
H: (3.5)
Halsey - New Ironicana
Hiatus Kaiyote - Borderline With My Atoms
Holychild - Monumental Glow
Hot Chip - Love is the Future
I: (1)
Icona Pop - Emergency
J: (10)
Jack Garratt - Worry
Jack U - Where Are You Now (feat. Justin Beiber)
Jamie Woon - Skin
Jamie xx - Loud Placed (feat. Romy)
Japanese Wallpaper - Between Friends (Anatole Remix)
Jason Derulo - Want to Want Me
Jess Glynne - You Can Find Me
Jessie Ware - Meet Me in the Middle
Joanna Newsom - Anecdotes
Julia Holter - Lucette Stranded on the Island
K: (7)
Kaleida - Think
Kanye West - All Day
Kaskade - Day Trippin' (feat. Estelle)
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Kevin Garrett - Control
The Knocks - Dancing With Myself
Kwabs - Perfect Ruin
L: (1)
Lianne La Havas - Green & Gold
M: (10.5)
M.I.A. - Borders
Mac DeMarco - The Way You'd Love Her
Madeon - Pay No Mind (feat. Passion Pit)
Major Lazer - Lean On (feat. DJ Snake and MO)
Marina & the Diamonds - Savages
The Meeting Tree - r u a cop?
Miguel - the valley
Mike Evin - Al Green
Miley Cyrus and Her Bad Album
Mr. Oizo - Hand in the Fire (feat. Charli XCX)
MS MR - Tripolar
N: (3)
Nao - Zillionaire
Natalie Prass - My Baby Don't Understand Me
Neon Indian - Slumlord
O: (0)
None!
P: (6)
Panda Bear - Crosswords
Passion Pit - Lifted Up (1985)
The PB Underground - Part Time Lover (feat. Brendan Reilly)
Pell - Cafe Du Monte
Penguin Prison - Calling Out
Phases - I'm In Love With My Life
Q: (0)
None!
R: (6)
Rihanna & Kanye & Paul - FourFiveSeconds
Robyn & La Bagatelle Magique - Tell You (Today)
Roisin Murphy - Evil Eyes
Royce Wood Junior - Clanky Love
Rudimental - Breathe (feat. Lianne La Havas)
Ryn Weaver - The Fool
S: (11)
Say Lou Lou - Nothing But a Heartbeat
Seinabo Sey - Poetic
Sexwitch - Helelyos (Iran)
Shamir - Demon
Shy Girls - Renegade
Sleater-Kinney - Price Tag
Snakehips - All My Friends (feat. Tinashe & Chance the Rapper)
Sophie - MSMSMSM
St. Lucia - Dancing on Glass
Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better
Susanne Sundfor - Kamikaze
T: (4)
Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing
Tigertown - Papernote
Towie - Heaven Only Knows
Troye Sivan - Youth
U: (0)
None!
V: (1)
V V Brown - Shift
A lot of great things happened in 2015. I graduated, I got a full time job, I drank a lot, and I listened to a lot of music. But you're here for the music thing, and that's what this is here for!
Last year was my first time I participated in ATRL’s “Best Of,” and I enjoyed it a lot! A combination of last minuteness and inability to rank my favorite songs/albums made me go with a format that allowed me to showcase a lot of music that I enjoyed. It was an “A-Z” listing of musicians and a song that I enjoyed of theirs that year.
I actually really liked that format and, because I can’t do anything else creative like graphics I’ve decided to use the same format with more of a theme! Basically it’s all alphabet soup… as you could tell from the title. I figured it would be a good theme because in a world where people try to label you, you just gotta laugh it off and remember that labels are for soup cans. XD
The way it works is I will have a musician, such as Beyonce, and list one song that I liked that they put out this year, such as Blow. This is using 2013 as an example of course. I’ll also throw in some other songs that I really enjoyed by that musician and some songs that I didn’t like very much, for most of them at least. There may even be some surprise inclusions.
Also feel free to let me know of certain musicians I’ve missed out in certain letters of the alphabet. I know I’ve already missed out on a lot, but I wanna know still!
And send me to your own Best Ofs! I was super late on it last year but I have a lot more free time this year.
I plan to roll out one letter a day and play it by ear from there. Let’s get to it!