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Red's Best of 2014: The YECA (Top Singles, 50-31, Page 19)
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Nice set
Would You Fight For My Love and I Wanna Get Better are my favorites of the set
Trojans and Substitution
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Jack White
Bleachers
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I Don't Wanna Be Here Anymore.
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THE SINGLES LIST BEGINS!
My favourites from this set are Pearl Jam (the Lighting Bolt album in general really grew on me, throughout the year, so i'm glad you acknowledged that in your write-up of the song. PJ songs are really good with getting better with age), Jack White, and Bleachers. Three great songs! I agree with you that the Gaslight Anthem's latest album wasn't very good, though maybe I should listen to that song you charted again. And I do really admire that you continue charting Korn songs, even if "Hater" isn't their best work. I am well aware of sticking with an all-time fav artist through some dips in quality, so i'm glad you still decided to chart it. Hopefully the next big single is a return to form!
Excited for the NEXT TEN!
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i wanna get better is amazing
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Lightning Bolt
Bridges
I Wanna Get Better
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I feel like "I Wanna Get Better" should have been a bigger deal than it was. A side project for fun. member Jack Antonoff, Bleachers released a decent enough album and a better single, entitled...well..."I Wanna Get Better". The song did top the alternative radio chart here in the US, but it barely made a blip on the radar of the mainstream, which baffles me. It sounds like it would have been right up pop radio's alley, especially in 2014. Sometimes, this world just doesn't make any sense.
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Spot on, Red. Spot. On.
Damn, Red. Keep it going. I might copy your formatting and add the previous title holders of the spot. I hope you haven't patented it yet!
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Gaslight Anthhem is ok...as is Jack White
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I was checking out some of these as I read but I already knew and loved Bridges and Water Fountain. I feel like I Wanna Get Better and Cecilia And The Satellite would've been something I would've liked and discovered much earlier.
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The YECA: Top 100 Singles of 2014! (JUST missed...Part One)
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Originally posted by V3$$3L.
...at an average age of forty-something, Korn's still titling their songs things like "Hater"???
I really used to love them. I did.
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Honestly, their most recent album was (and still is) pretty good. "Hater" reminds me a lot of "Haze", though, in the sense that it's the kind of song that has me questioning my Korn fandom. It's just not very good. I'll always be a fan in some capacity, though. Their impact on me was too big.
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Hearing Stampede for the first time and on the first seconds of this song, it already blew my mind. The guitars riffs and the banging drums! This should’ve been higher, but hey the mindset is tricky when compiling a year-end countdown. I felt this way too. The vocals are solid. Reminds of a more kickass AC/DC song. Stampede!
Is Linkin Park one of those hints.
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God, now you're making me regret placing "Stampede" so low all over again. That song is AWESOME. What am I doing?!
Oh, and maybe.
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The again I confused Bleachers with Bleached. Brain, stop playing tricks on me.
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It's getting to be that time of the year.
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And I do really admire that you continue charting Korn songs, even if "Hater" isn't their best work. I am well aware of sticking with an all-time fav artist through some dips in quality, so i'm glad you still decided to chart it. Hopefully the next big single is a return to form!
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Honestly, if it's anything like the last album, the first single will disappoint and the second single will kick a ton of ass. Fingers crossed.
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Damn, Red. Keep it going. I might copy your formatting and add the previous title holders of the spot. I hope you haven't patented it yet!
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Wait...somebody wants to copy MY format? I'm so flattered.
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I was checking out some of these as I read but I already knew and loved Bridges and Water Fountain. I feel like I Wanna Get Better and Cecilia And The Satellite would've been something I would've liked and discovered much earlier.
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And now, you're making me feel guilty for putting off listening to stuff in other people's threads until next year. Geez. This has become the "Red Feels Guilty of Being Bad At Everything" best of.
Okay, this next set is going to take a little longer than usual. Why? Because I'm not even remotely done with the banners for the next set. In the meantime, though, feel free to have the first of two sets of those songs that JUST missed out on the top 100.
JUST missed...
120) The Black Keys - Fever
119) The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt
118) Beck - Blue Moon
117) Bastille - Flaws
116) Slash - World On Fire
115) Fitz and the Tantrums - Fools Gold
114) Sam Smith - Stay With Me
113) Robert Delong - Long Way Down
112) Volbeat - Dead But Rising
111) The Dead Weather - Open Up (That's Enough)
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Water Fountain and Bridges! They almost made my top 100. Also, I forgot to tell you, if you liked that FKA twigs album, you might want to check Arca out, he worked with her on all of her second EP, "Lights On" and "Give Up", also on 'Yeezus'.
Honestly, TRF.
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Stay With Me should be on the top
the rest i'm kinda glad that they didn't make it
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Fools Gold is good! but they have better singles so I'm not that sad they just missed the top 100
Long Way Down, Fever and Flaws though but I'm happy with that Sam Smith song too, can't stand it!
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Fever and especially Stay With Me should have been in the top 100
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Originally posted by THERihFan
Water Fountain and Bridges! They almost made my top 100. Also, I forgot to tell you, if you liked that FKA twigs album, you might want to check Arca out, he worked with her on all of her second EP, "Lights On" and "Give Up", also on 'Yeezus'.
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I'm well aware of Arca and Arca's work on the FKA album AND Yeezus. He's definitely someone I'm looking out for.
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Long Way Down, Fever and Flaws though but I'm happy with that Sam Smith song too, can't stand it!
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I knew you'd be happy with that.
Okay, I have everything ready, finally. Update is coming!
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"Fever" and "Blue Moon" almost missed my top 100 too (but they didn't).
Bring on the next update!
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The YECA: Top 100 Singles of 2014! (90-81)
| How many people even remember that this song exists? How many people realize that "Cannibal" was part of a singles collection released by Silversun Pickups this year? It's almost certainly a disadvantage for this song that it was released as part of a greatest hits compilation, because "Cannibal" feels like something more. If it had been the first single off of a new Pickups album, I think that I (and many others) would have received it way better than I (and we) did. It's a shame, because this song deserved better. |
| Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to the first of many songs that will also, more than likely, be on the 2015 singles list. This particular song comes to us from Brooklyn duo Ex Cops, who have already built an impressive resume in a short period of time. Their most recent album, Daggers, I have not checked out, admittedly, but it was executive produced by an unlikely source: Billy Corgan. Yes, THAT Billy Corgan. One listen to lead single "Black Soap" is all you need to hear Corgan's influence on this duo's music. It's a bit downtrodden, it's a bit grand, and it's more than a bit catchy. |
| While "Glorious" didn't QUITE hit me on the same level as, say, some of Foxes' other singles, the title track off of her debut LP is still enjoyable, if, for nothing else, the lovely vocals of Louisa Rose Allen herself. The instrumental and production is fine, but not really memorable in and of itself. But the vocals of Foxes are anything but "not really memorable". That's a common theme found with many Foxes songs, and "Glorious" is perhaps the best example. Her voice melts my heart every time I hear it, and it melts just a little bit faster here. |
| Meet the future of hard rock in America. Okay, admittedly, "Mr. MTV" isn't the best introduction to America's next great hard rock band. That will come much later. But the most important factors that make Nothing More so exciting can be found here: The powerful and clean vocals of Jonny Hawkins, the extremely catchy chorus, and the band's innate ability to seemingly unleash incredible power at will. "Mr. MTV" isn't nearly the best example of all of this, but it still does its job, even in a more limited dose. |
| In This Moment...sigh. Why do I always get really excited for a new release of theirs and then just push them to the side like nothing? I mean, all things considered, In This Moment should be a Red favorite. They combine fist-pumping metal music with the sometimes angelic/sometimes terrifying vocals of singer Maria Brink, and, at its best, the combination is stunning. "Sick Like Me" pretty much follows the formula to a t, and I really should like it more than I do. But I always find myself distanced by the music I'm listening to while I'm listening to it. I don't know why this happens. It just does. I don't really get it, either. |
| Unlike many people who loved it, "Dangerous" did not click with me all that well. I sense that, if I had listened to that song, say, in 2006 or 2007, I would have hailed the song and placed it in my top 20. But 2014 Red is harder to impress. That's where "The Business of Emotion" comes in. Featuring frequent M83 collaborator Morgan Kibby, aka White Sea, "The Business of Emotion" was much more exciting on the first listen (and subsequent listens) than "Dangerous" ever was, and it has me more excited for Big Data's debut. This is the kind of electropop I was hoping to hear more of, and I can't wait to lavish my love on this song in 2015. |
| I was not a fan, really, of "Until It's Gone", the first slow song single release from The Hunting Party. "Final Masquerade" is definitely the better song and better single choice. And yet, I still can't really connect to this song beyond simply enjoying the song for what it is, and that's a solid slower paced track. There have been times, of course, where I've connected to the slower LP material in a big way (see "Waiting For The End"), but "Final Masquerade" doesn't quite have the same punch to it that a song like "Waiting For The End" does. It may have a shot at the 2015 list, though, and who knows what could happen in 12 months? |
| One of the most surprising returns of the year was that of Finch. Sure, they had embarked on a What It Is To Burn anniversary tour a couple of years ago, but I wasn't really expecting much more than that from the post-hardcore icons. Lo and behold, they signed a contract this year with Razor & Tie, and they actually went back into the studio to make some new material. Did I listen to the album that "Two Guns to the Temple" is on, Back to Oblivion? Of course not. But "Two Guns to the Temple" is still a very welcome return single for a band that remains criminally underrated to this day. |
| Well, would you look at that? I finally got into a Lana track! And all it took was the involvement of Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach. Okay, so my appreciation of this song is not all for Lana's performance. The production on this track is, honestly, wonderful. Auerbach's prints are all over the song, especially in the verses, which is where this song truly shines. The tempo, complete with strong drums and smooth guitar riffs, gives Lana an added punch that I felt was lacking in previous songs of hers that I had listened to. If the song was just the verses, I probably would have placed this song higher. I do feel that the chorus drags the song down, though. It's okay, but it slows the song down WAY too much. Still, doesn't it just feel like this is the kind of music that Lana was meant to perform? |
| Yes, I did not listen to the new Coldplay album. This is probably my biggest mistake of the year, if I had to guess. I'm an unabashed Coldplay fan who especially loved certain songs off of Mylo Xyloto, an album that was met with decidedly mixed reaction. So yeah, I made a mistake by not listening to Ghost Stories. But that's not the elephant in the room. It's painfully obvious that this song was inspired in more ways than one by Muse's "Madness". Chris Martin is a BIG fan of "Madness", saying at the time that it was "Muse's best song ever". One listen to both "Madness" and "Magic" back to back and you'll hear the influence. Thankfully, Chris Martin is a talented enough musician that he is able to make "Magic" his own song and not merely a ripoff of another band's song. |
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Hey, we're 1/5 of the way through! Maybe I'll make it halfway, who knows?! Okay, but seriously, though, the next set will feature songs 80-71. That set includes the first of two singles from two different critically (and Red) beloved albums, the second and final single from someone who appeared in the previous set, the first of two singles from a side project from a rock giant, and the only single (at least for this year, anyway) from one of my absolute favorite albums of the year. See you...um, let's say Tuesday, to be on the safe side...but it COULD be up tomorrow! Maybe. Hopefully. Possibly.
As an aside, I'm actually on the same pace that I was on last year, maybe even a little faster. The bad news about that is, after the 80-71 set last year, I posted one more set nearly a week later and then stopped. If nothing else, I vow to not let that happen again. That's my promise to all of you.
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Just Missed: 7.4/10 (.4 for Sam Smith) (Flaws + Fever + Fools Gold + Long Way Down + Dead But Rising <33)
90-81: 7/10 (Magic + Final Masquerade + Mr. MTV + West Coast + Cannibal <3)
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Yaaas West Coast and Magic
Dan Auerbach really did such a great job with Lana, the whole rock edge he brought was just.
Wait, now that you mentioned Madness, Magic does really remind of that. It's like, a less weird and more mellow version of Madness.
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Ooh, "Magic"! I loved that one. Every time I write Coldplay off they win me back with one great song.
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Glorious
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