Vote: Song, by Toad Readers’ Top Five Songs of the Year
 Vote for your top five Albums of the Year here.
So, with voting for the readers’ top five Albums of the Year underway, I thought we might get the ball rolling for the songs of the year.
Once again, in no particular order, write down your five top songs, preferably in the following format, so I can add them to my spreadsheet a little easier:
Band Name – Song Name
Just as wee refresher, here are the five you chose this time last year:
1. Rob St. John – Sargasso Sea
2. Bill Wells & Aidan Moffatt – The Copper Top
=3. P.J. Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder
=3. The Twilight Sad – Sick
=3. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bats in the Attic
Happy voting, and hopefully see those of you who are Edinburgh-based at either Christmas Baubles or Christmas Songwriters tonight.
grandbrothers – 5gegen1
Randolph’s Leap – Hermit
Chvrches – The Mother We Share
Withered Hand – Heart Heart
Yusuf Azak – Lay Me Down
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Heart Attack
Little Comets – Jennifer
Public Service Broadcasting – Spitfire
Japandroids – The House That Heaven Built
Wonder Villains – Ferrari
Grimes -Genesis
King Creosote -Ankle Shackles
Bobby Womack -Please Forgive My Heart
Blur -Under The Westway
Burial -Kindred
1. Withered Hand – Heart Heart
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – we drift like worried fire
3. Meursault – Mamie
4. PAWS – Boregasm
5. Sigur Ros – Ekki Mukk
Toy – Kopter
Cloud Nothings – Wasted Days
Meursault – Flittin’
Barna Howard – Tinker Creek
The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
1. fun. – Some Nights
2. P.O.S – Bumper
3. P.O.S – Fuck Your Stuff
4. Alabama Shakes – Be Mine
5. Jack White – Take Me With You When You Go
Black Market Karma – Comatose
Zig Zags – Scavenger
Gorgeous Bully – Who Do You Think You Are
Dolfish – Must Be Something Wrong With These Shoes
Sea Pinks – You’re Not Happy
1. Meursault – Flittin’
2. Get Well Soon – Roland, I feel You
3. Purity Ring – Fineshrine
4. Tall Ships – T=0
5. Loch Lomond – Your Eyes
Get Free – Major Lazer
If you are aware of Major Lazer but not a fan of dancehall based electronica you might not have noticed this little atypical beauty, featuring a lovely vocal from Amber of Dirty Projectors.
Lay Your Cards Out – Polica
I like tracks that make it by the skin of their teeth and this fits. Mournful but with some serious flammy drums and enormous crashing fills. Shouldn’t but it does.
Maiden – MØ
The Thai/Hi Life guitar motive at the top got me straight away, then a nice generic slightly distorted female vocal runs along a vaguely far eastern melody leaving enough mystery to dream to.
Work – A$AP Ferg
Strange how some hip hop, when you hear it quiet seems to emphasise all the negative cliches associated with it, but then, when you turn it up and feel the bass, the cliches become profound.
Feel The Love – Rudimental ft John Newman
Not strictly the song but the song with the video, although the tune, looping round, building the kind of tension you remember from when you were a kid, waiting for tickles, manages to take basic a pop D&B structure and morph it into a small mystical experience… with a trumpet solo! But add the video of horses being ridden through the snowy streets of super-urban Detroit and we have a proper moment.
Oh shit, I forgot about Ankle Shackles.
Matthew, can you add another category for favourite songs to play face-melting guitar solos along to?
that’s one tricky category if you ask me, because the answer would change every ten minutes. too much music this year.
1. Shearwater – You As You Were
2. Get Well Soon – You Cannot Cast Out The Demons
3.NO – The Long Haul
4. The Light Parade – Walk With You
5. Tindersticks – Frozen
maybe i should check back in the next ten minutes and change it.no?ok.
1. Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny – Dodecahedron
2. Carousels – Sweet Honey
3. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
4. Pictish Trail – Michael Rocket
5. Sharon Van Etten – Leonard
Hail Bop – Django Django
Heart Heart – Withered Hand
Sometimes the Act of Giving love – James Yorkston
Be Be High – Euro Childs
Vanishing Song – Grant Lee Phillips
Withered Hand – Inbetweens
Meursault – Hole
Cold Seed – The mark
Bo Ningen – Henkan
Gallon Drunk – Hanging On
1. Euros Childs – Spin that girl around
2. The Leg – Sad as Dead Monkeys
3. Meursault – Flittin
4. RM Hubbert – For Joe (makes me cry every time, the bastard)
5. Clinic – See Saw
Was tempted to vote for the twenty-minute wigout at the end of the eagleowl set on Eigg (vinyl is too mainstream for me; do you have it on PTSD feedback loop?)
1. Foals ‘Inhaler’
2. Breton ‘Foam’
3. The Walkmen ‘Heartbreaker’
4. Father John Misty ‘Hollywood Forever Cemetary Sings’
5. Meursault ‘Dull Spark’
1. Peace – ‘Bloodshake’
2. Foals – ‘Inhaler’
3. The Invisible – ‘ London Girl’
4. St Vincent & David Byrne – ‘Who’
5. Breton – ‘Sandpaper’
Ok, two consecutive nods for a Foals song, so I had a listen. Holy fuck, they’ve gone all Jane’s Addiction – superb!
Randolph’s Leap – Please Don’t Belong
TNGHT – Higher Ground
PAWS – Jellyfish
Cloud Nothings – Stay Useless
Meursault – Untitled
The Walkmen – The House You Made
Meursault – Settling
Adam Stafford – Vanishing Tanks
King Creosote – Ankle Shackles
The Underground Youth – Juliette
Thought I better copy my song choices over here, just in case you missed them on the album thread.
The Leg – Bake Yourself Silly
King Creosote – Doubles Underneath
Meursault – Dull Spark
Jonnie Common – So-Called Summer
Christopher Owens – Here We Go
Actually, I’m going to change Doubles Underneath to Ankle Shankles. So my real choices are :
The Leg – Bake Yourself Silly
King Creosote – Ankle Shackles
Meursault – Dull Spark
Jonnie Common – So-Called Summer
Christopher Owens – Here We Go
When I said Cold Seed I meant Cold Specks but you knew that already. Must admit the new Foals single is interesting looking forward to the album and tour early next year.
1. Perfume Genius – Hood
2. Meursault – Dull Spark
3. Withered Hand – Heart Heart
4. The New Fabian Society – Lost in Berlin
5. Sleigh Bells – Comeback Kid
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1. Meursault-Flittin’
2. Meursault-Settling
3. Jesus H. Foxxe-Elegy For The Good
4. Jesus H. Foxxe-So Much Water
5. Twilight Sad-Another Bed
I’m late to comment, but so Toadally in love with my top 4 this year, that I had to weigh in. x
I wont be troubling the top 5 anytime soon
1) Foals – Inhaler
2) Futureheads – Beeswing
3) Alt J – Breezeblocks
4) Meursault – Untitled
5) The XX – Fiction
oh dear
Adam Stafford – Vanishing Tanks
Grimes – Oblivion
The Twilight Sad – Nil
Death Grips – I’ve Seen Footage
The Walkmen – Song For Leigh