VATO'S FAVORITE SONGS OF 2013
20. Skylar Grey Feat. Angel Haze - ****, Man!
Before July of 2013 I wouldn't have even considered putting her in my top 5000 of a year. She just seemed too basic for me to like her. But after a friend told me to listen to her album and I reluctantly did, I immediately fell in love with her. This work of art about an unwanted pregnancy (!) was the immediate stand out from "Don't Look Down". It was love at first listen, and I'm proud to say I remain in love after all these months.
19. Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King
It took a while for this song to grow on me. Like many have already said, I wasn't happy with the change of direction for this album. For some reason they started sounding like the bands my older rocker brother used to listen to when I was kid. After the album came out though, I was completely blown away by it that I decided to give this song another chance, I thought maybe I would like it in the context of the full album. I certainly did, more than I probably should have.
18. A$AP Rocky - Fashion Killa
The song that should've been a bigger single than ****in Problems, but unfortunately it didn't do much on charts. One of the standouts on A$AP's album, and it helped lots that queen of pop Rihanna is in the video
17. Fall Out Boy Feat. Foxes - Just One Yesterday
The best song from my favorite album of the year. There's not a lot to be said about this work of art, except that the video ****ing rocks
16. Major Lazer - Get Free
I didn't know about Major Lazer before this year, I only knew that Beyonce plagiarized one of his songs, and that Diplo made this project out of his love for reggae music, but I didn't actually
know him/them. But then, this masterpiece was "Free Song of The Week" on iTunes and I decided to check it out and the rest is history. I spent most of the summer replaying this amazing piece of art and it's safe to say it could end up becoming one of my favorite songs of ALL time. It's that good.