Best Albums and Songs of 2014: I Have to Use These Metaphors Just to Say I Like You

We can finally close the books on 2014, musically. Here’s my top 100 tracks and top 50 albums. As always I intend to quickly regret some of my placements soon after, but it’s a solid snapshot in time. If you so choose, there’s a couple of different ways you can listen – first, here are 8tracks links to my top 40, if you want to listen and be surprised.

Next, here’s a spotify playlist – songs not on spotify have links to YouTube next to their names below.

The lists – my top 100 songs of 2014.

1. Banks – Beggin For Thread
2. Jenny Lewis – Head Underwater
3. Clean Bandit – Rather Be feat. Jess Glynne
4. MØ – Maiden
5. Chloe Howl – Disappointed
6. Vanic X Machineheart – Circles
7. Twin Peaks – Making Breakfast
8. Real Estate – Talking Backwards
9. Angel Olsen – High & Wild
10. Rookie Magazine – Go Forth Feminist Warriors
11. Ariel Pink – Put Your Number In My Phone
12. YG – Who Do You Love?
13. Niia – Body
14. Alvvays – Archie, Marry Me
15. QT – Hey QT
16. I LOVE MAKONNEN – Tuesday
17. Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
18. First Aid Kit – Master Pretender
19. Tinashe – 2 On
20. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Warning
21. Joyce Manor – Heart Tattoo
22. Drake – 0 To 100 / The Catch Up
23. Speedy Ortiz – Bigger Party
24. Tokyo Police Club – Hot Tonight
25. Candy Hearts – I Miss You
26. Jessie Ware – Tough Love
27. Lykke Li – No Rest For The Wicked
28. EMA – So Blonde
29. Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
30. SOHN – Artifice
31. Charli XCX – Boom Clap
32. Maddie & Tae – Girl In A Country Song
33. Kiesza – Hideaway
34. Kenny Chesney – American Kids
35. Vance Joy – Riptide
36. Woods – Moving to the Left
37. Kira Isabella – Quarterback
38. R.L. – Ugly Heart
39. Miguel – Simplethings
40. Beverly – Madora
41. Migos – Fight Night
42. Music Go Music – Nite After Nite
43. Shamir – On The Regular
44. Spoon – Rent I Pay
45. Sylvan Esso – Coffee
46. Tune-Yards – Water Fountain
47. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
48. Honeyblood – Super Rat
49. Boots – Ride Ride Ride
50. Grimes – Go
51. CEO – Whorehouse
52. Future – Move That Doh
53. Cloud Nothings – I’m Not Part of Me
54. Tinashe – Pretend
55. JJ – Dean & Me
56. Perfume Genius – Queen
57. MKTO – Classic
58. Milky Chance – Stolen Dance
59. Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
60. The Apache Relay – Katie Queen Of Tennessee
61. Angel Olsen – Forgiven/Forgotten
62. One Direction – Steal My Girl
63. Vincent – Birth In Reverse
64. MØ – Don’t Wanna Dance
65. Foxygen – How Can You Really
66. Ariana Grande – Break Free
67. Ryan Adams – Gimme Something Good
68. Saint Motel – My Type
69. Run The Jewels – Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) [feat. Zack De La Rocha]
70. Ty Segall – Manipulator
71. How To Dress Well – Repeat Pleasure
72. The Rosebuds – Blue Eyes
73. Miranda Lambert – Automatic
74. Posse – Interesting Thing No. 2
75. Ed Sheeran – Don’t
76. FKA twigs – Lights On
77. Lana Del Rey – Brooklyn Baby
78. Sharon Van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up
79. Beck – Blue Moon
80. Kelis – Breakfast
81. Kendrick Lamar – i
82. Chumped – Hot 97 Summer Jam
83. SOPHIE – Lemonade
84. Dierks Bentley – Drunk On A Plane
85. Ought – Today More Than Any Other Day
86. Rich Gang – Lifestyle
87. Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High)
88. Chromeo – Jealous (I Ain’t With It)
89. Dum Dum Girls – Trouble Is My Name
90. Porter Robinson – Sad Machine
91. Ex Hex – Don’t Wanna Lose
92. Lilly Wood and The Prick – Prayer in C – Robin Schulz Radio Edit
93. Duke Dumont – I Got U
94. Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better
95. Nick Jonas – Jealous
96. White Lung – Snake Jaw
97. Alex Winston – Careless
98. Taylor Swift – Blank Space
99. Merchandise – Enemy
100. Sam Hunt – House Party

And my top 50 albums of 2014…

1. Tinashe – Aquarius
2. Angel Olsen – Burn Your Fire for No Witness
3. MØ – No Mythologies to Follow
4. Jenny Lewis – The Voyager
5. Charli XCX – Sucker
6. Run the Jewels – Run the Jewels 2
7. Twin Peaks – Wild Onion
8. Dum Dum Girls – Too True
9. Real Estate – Atlas
10. EMA – The Future’s Void
11. The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream
12. Spoon – They Want My Soul
13. Ex Hex – Rips
14. How to Dress Well – “What is the Heart?”
15. Taylor Swift – 1989
16. Miranda Lambert – Platinum
17. Clean Bandit – New Eyes
18. Cymbals Eat Guitars – LOSE
19. First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
20. Tune-yards – Nikki Nack
21. Ty Segall – Manipulator
22. Eric Church – The Outsiders
23. Alvvays – Alvvays
24. Jj – V
25. FKA Twigs – LP1
26. Joyce Manor – Never Hungover Again
27. Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
28. Chumped – Teenage Retirement
29. Cloud Nothings – Here and Nowhere Else
30. Azealia Banks – Broke with Expensive Taste
31. Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
32. Future Islands – Singles
33. Perfume Genius – Too Bright
34. Kelis – Food
35. Posse – Soft Opening
36. Sylvan Esso – Sylvan Esso
37. Parquet Courts – Something Animal
38. YG – My Krazy Life
39. Ariana Grande – My Everything
40. Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues
41. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Days of Abandon
42. Lykke Li – I Never Learn
43. Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
44. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
45. Metronomy – Love Letters
46. Porter Robinson – Worlds
47. White Lung – Deep Fantasy
48. Beck – Morning Phase
49. Katy B – Little Red
50. Banks – Goddess