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post Jan 26 2017, 11:16 PM
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71 Regina Spektor - Older and Taller 125
72 Savages - The Answer 123
73 Against The Current - In Our Bones 122
74 Jagwar Ma - O B 1 120
75 Kllo - Bollide 116
76 Bear's Den - Auld Wives 115
77 Two Door Cinema Club - Bad Decisions 115
78 Cherry Glazerr - Told You I'd Be With The Guys 111
79 Milk Teeth - Brain Food 111
80 Coldplay - Everglow 110

funky synths and falsettos were the port of call for Two Door Cinema Club's single "Bad Decisions" music.gif Bear's Den peak at #76 here with Auld Wives, though there's still one more appearance to come from Against The Current, Jagwar Ma and Coldplay. Savages pop up at #72, "The Answer" is originally a 2015 single but when the music's this damn good there's no time for pedantry ~
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post Jan 26 2017, 11:17 PM
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Everglow and Bad Decisions are both amazing, fantastic to see them featured. I doubt Are We Ready? (Wreck) will feature for Two Door Cinema Club later on in the countdown but it'd be nice to see it there.
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post Jan 26 2017, 11:53 PM
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^ yeah Bad Decisions was the only TDCC single nominated i'm afraid!
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post Jan 27 2017, 12:12 AM
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61 Shura - Make It Up 139
62 Beck - Wow 138
63 Daughter - No Care 138
64 The Kills - Doing It To Death 135
65 Arion feat. Elize Ryd - At the Break of Dawn 134
66 Jagwar Ma - Give Me A Reason 130
67 Wardruna - Odal 128
68 School Of Seven Bells - Ablaze 127
69 M83 feat. Mai Lan - Go! 126
70 Animal Collective - Golden Gal 125

Hard not to love the heavy, rumbling riffs on The Kills' "Doing It to Death"! BJSC entries from Séyetana (Arion) and Tinnmark (Wardruna) are in here too along with a song from School of Seven Bells' swansong album, the wonderful "Ablaze"
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post Jan 27 2017, 10:36 AM
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Stoked to see Cherry Glazerr in the top 80. My favourite indie/alt/rock/etc single of the year and had no idea it had any support here. wub.gif
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post Jan 27 2017, 03:22 PM
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I'd have liked to have seen it a lot higher. The album is pretty good too.
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post Jan 28 2017, 08:49 AM
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gotta make room for twenty one pilots I guess drama.gif
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post Jan 28 2017, 10:08 AM
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Bad Decisions, OB1, The Answer, Everglow, Auld Wives, Golden Gal, Ablaze, Go!, Give Me A Reason, Make It Up, Wow, No Care and Doing It To Death.
Great countdown so far!
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post Jan 28 2017, 01:38 PM
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Shura and Beck a little lower than I expected, but then, I'm not so familiar with the music taste of folk in this sub. Fun countdown so far, a big spread of what's picking up points!
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post Jan 28 2017, 01:48 PM
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'Odal' was a divine BJSC discovery <3

I am such a flop Coldplay fan. I still haven't listened to their latest album in full yet and I think I've maybe heard 'Everglow' just the once. Need to get on that~
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post Feb 27 2017, 06:48 PM
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51 Chairlift - Crying in Public 155
52 Ghost - Square Hammer 153
53 Foals - Birch Tree 148
54 Jamie T - Power Over Men 146
55 Angel Olsen - Sister 143
56 Lemon Demon - Touch-Tone Telephone 142
57 Blood Orange - Best to You 141
58 Nicolas Jaar - No 141
59 Austra - Utopia 140
60 Disturbed - The Sound of Silence 139

Chairlift's wistful and wonderful ballad "Crying In Public" heads this latest batch, along with singles from Jamie T and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. BJSC hits from Quintessa and Trifoski are here too, awesome hard rock song Square Hammer, and best song ever Touch-Tone Telephone
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post Feb 27 2017, 06:52 PM
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41 Kings of Leon - Waste A Moment 194
42 Chairlift - Romeo 191
43 Coldplay - Up & Up 188
44 MŘ - Drum 185
45 BANKS - Trainwreck 179
46 PJ Harvey - The Community Of Hope 176
47 Plaitum - Jagwa 171
48 FM-84 - Arcade Summer 166
49 Radiohead - Daydreaming 166
50 Tonight Alive - How Does It Feel? 163

Plaitum had a big 2016 in buzzjack's song contests, a victory in Unknown Pleasures with "LMHY" followed by a bronze medal in BJSC with "Jagwa", the latter taking #47 on this countdown. More Chairlift here, with storming pop track "Romeo", and also the first of two appearances for PJ Harvey ~
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post Feb 27 2017, 06:59 PM
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That top 50 placing for 'Arcade Summer' wub.gif such a euphoric instrumental.
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post Feb 27 2017, 07:02 PM
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31 Haelos - Earth Not Above 210
32 Blossoms - Charlemagne 209
33 PJ Harvey - The Wheel 208
34 Against The Current - Running With The Wild Things 205
35 Aron Can - Međ Mér 200
36 L.E.J - La dalle 197
37 Sleigh Bells - I Can Only Stare 197
38 Teleman - Dusseldorf 197
39 Kitten - Fall On Me 196
40 MUNA - Winterbreak 195

Into the top 40, and cheers all around from me and Richie as Teleman's (imo) standout single "Dusseldorf" finds a rather big tally of 197 points. Among the others are underappreciated MUNA song "Winterbreak" (though it clearly found a few big fans at least!), a more straightforward and effective pop track from Sleigh Bells with "I Can Only Stare", a Persephonian hip hop smasher from Aron Can (which mustered up three sets of maximum points!!), more Jadakissnia with "Earth Not Above", and household name PJ Harvey with brilliant lead single "The Wheel". Indie pop band Blossoms also hit the big time, with "Charlemagne" getting a full daytime radio push in 2016.
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post Feb 27 2017, 07:24 PM
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21 Glass Animals - Life Itself 256
22 James Blake feat. Bon Iver - I Need A Forest Fire 254
23 Yeasayer - I Am Chemistry 248
24 Glass Animals - Youth 245
25 BANKS - Gemini Feed 239
26 La Femme - Sphynx 233
27 PVRIS - You and I 224
28 Wolf Alice - Lisbon 215
29 Bon Iver - 8 (circle) 212
30 LUH - I&I 211

It's all about Glass Animals in this 21-30 group! indie pop in 2016 didn't get much better than "Life Itself" really, with its infectious melodies and colourful/quirky instrumentation. More great tracks in here from Yeasayer, La Femms, BANKS, and of course Bon Iver with a mellow and soulful cut from his 22, A Million album, "8 (circle)". The slow-building beauty "I&I" from LUH. is also essential
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post Feb 27 2017, 07:35 PM
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16 Mai Lan - Technique 267
17 Mitski - Your Best American Girl 266
18 The 1975 - Somebody Else 266
19 twenty one pilots - Lane Boy 259
20 Jessy Lanza - It Means I Love You 257

Mitski gave dhwe a well-deserved Nuggets victory with the gorgeous "Your Best American Girl", which is also rewarded with a Top 20 finish here. Jessy Lanza used a cutesy vocal delivery and jittery instrumental to great effect on one of the year's best tracks, IT MEANS I LUV YA~ The 1975 continued their strong run with moody synth ballad "Somebody Else", and twenty one pilots gave "Lane Boy" a post-mainstream breakthrough single release (this is a first of quite a few tracks of theirs to come). And of course we can't forget Miss Mai Lan biggrin.gif ~teknik~
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post Feb 27 2017, 07:47 PM
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Jadakissnia impact for two batches in a row *.* and yay for the best Trifoski entry of last year appearing too x 'Sphynx' is mesmerising wub.gif
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post Feb 27 2017, 08:17 PM
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11 twenty one pilots - Ride 314
12 Bastille - Good Grief 313
13 ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me 295
14 SOFI TUKKER - Matadora 276
15 Radiohead - Burn The Witch 268

SOFI TUKKER was introduced to Buzzjack via Desbuanda's hit "Matadora", kicked off by charango strums before hitting you with pounding drum beats and a MASSIVE horn refrain. It's all very ~eclectik~ but actually really irresistible once you get used to it, anyone who hasn't heard Sofi Tukker's "Soft Animals" EP is doing themselves a disservice! Joining them in this final batch before the Top 10 are Radiohead with their brooding "Burn The Witch" (complete with one of the year's best videos), Bastille's comeback "Good Grief", ANOHNI's striking take on drone warfare on "Drone Bomb Me", and one of twenty one pilots' big smash singles "Ride" (all four of their tracks were in the Top 10 at one point, but only half remained at the end- thankfully, as that would've been JUST A TAD overkill)
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post Feb 27 2017, 08:55 PM
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post Feb 27 2017, 11:07 PM
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Burn The Witch was on the top spot of my voting list for this SOTY.
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