Well it's that time of the year to open this the 2014 Indie/Alt song of the year.

 

The idea is to nominate your five favourite tracks from 2014.

 

Anything can be nominated as long as it was released as a single/album track/made the charts this year.

 

Obviously this is genre based so anything that would normally be discussed in this forum can be nominated.

 

Please don't choose tracks which have been previously nominated in preceding years in this thread. You're just wasting a nomination!

I will be checking! If anybody does see songs from previous votes then let me know.

 

Previous Year Lists

 

2011

2012

2013

 

I'll keep the thread open for a couple of weeks so any tracks released in December can be included and then the voting thread will open.

 

In the meantime here is the 2013 Top 10. Will anybody dominate in the same way as The Monkeys did? Feel free to speculate while you're thinking of all those awesome tracks.

 

01. (491) Chvrches - The Mother We Share

02. (476) Arcade Fire - Reflektor

03. (466) Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

04. (427) Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?

05. (420) Foals - My Number

06. (360) Bastille - Pompeii

07. (320) London Grammar - Wasting My Young Years

08. (299) Arcade Fire - Afterlife

09. (282) Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

10. (277) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

Nominations so far (08/12/14)

 

The 1975 - Robbers

A. G. Cook 'Beautiful'

American Authors - Best Day Of My Life

Alt J - Every Other Freckle

Banks - Beggin For Thread

Bastille - Oblivion

Ben Khan "Youth"

Billon 'Special (Danny L Harle Remix)'

The Black Keys - Fever

Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna

Caribou "Our Love"

Catfish & The Bottlemen - Kathleen

Catfish & The Bottlemen - Cocoon

CHVRCHES - We Sink

Coldplay - Magic

Coldplay - Midnight

Damon Albarn - Selfish Giant

Eagulls - Nerve Endings

Eternal Death - Head

Fickle Friends - SWIM

FKA Twigs - Two Weeks

Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing

Gaslight Anthem - Rollin' And Tumblin'

George Ezra "Budapest"

George Ezra - Blame It on Me

George Ezra - Listen To The Man

Gerard Way "Action Cat"

Glass Animals "Hazey"

Grimes - Go

If I Could Change Your Mind - HAIM

Hannah Diamond 'Every Night'

The Horrors - So Now You Know

How To Dress Well - Words I Don't Remember

iamamiwhoami - fountain

iamamiwhoami - hunting for pearls

iamamiwhoami - vista

iamamiwhoami - blue blue

Imogen Heap - Run Time

Interpol - My Desire

Jagwar Ma 'Uncertainty (MssingNo Remix)'

Jamie T - Zombie

Jamie xx "All Under One Roof Raving"

Kaiser Chiefs - Coming Home

Kasabian- Eez-Eh

Klaxons - There Is No Other Time

Lana Del Rey- Big Eyes

Lana Del Rey- Money Power Glory

Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence

Lana Del Rey- West Coast

Lorde - Team

Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat

Lydia Ainsworth - Malachite

Manic Street Preachers - Europa Geht Durch Mich

Marina & The Diamonds - Froot

Maximo Park - Midnight On The Hill

Paradis - Garde Le Pour Toi

Pixies - Blue Eyed Hexe

Royal Blood - Little Monster

Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton

Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself

SOHN - Artifice

St Vincent - Prince Johnny

TĀLĀ 'Alchemy'

TĀLĀ "Serbia"

Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts 1, 2, 3)

Tori Amos - Oysters

Twin Atlantic - Heart & Soul

Vance Joy - Riptide

The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

Wild Beasts "Wanderlust"

Wild Cub "Thunder Clatter"

X Ambassadors "Jungle"

You Me At Six - Cold Night

iamamiwhoami - fountain

iamamiwhoami - hunting for pearls

iamamiwhoami - vista

iamamiwhoami - blue blue

Grimes - Go

 

How many noms do we get? Five?

How many noms do we get? Five?

 

Yes five.

Kasabian- Eez-Eh

Lana Del Rey- Big Eyes

Lana Del Rey- Money Power Glory

Lana Del Rey- Ultraviolence

Lana Del Rey- West Coast

v diverse noms so far then

Caribou "Our Love"

Jamie xx "All Under One Roof Raving"

Wild Beasts "Wanderlust"

TĀLĀ "Serbia"

Ben Khan "Youth"

 

Tried to pick stuff others may not pick, and I might sub in a December release if Burial wakes up anytime in the next week.

 

By the way I won't even start compiling my EOY chart using my database until 29th December so if the voting can be delayed until then that would be very much appreciated.

Wild Cub "Thunder Clatter"

Glass Animals "Hazey"

George Ezra "Budapest"

Gerard Way "Action Cat"

X Ambassadors "Jungle"

How To Dress Well - Words I Don't Remember

Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts 1, 2, 3)

FKA Twigs - Two Weeks

Eternal Death - Head

Paradis - Garde Le Pour Toi

 

By the way I won't even start compiling my EOY chart using my database until 29th December so if the voting can be delayed until then that would be very much appreciated.

 

Noms will be open for at least two weeks so voting won't start until the 20th at the earliest and will remain open until after the start of the new year.

is it pointless nominating songs already nominated by others or do we just nominate our top 5 even if they've already been nominated?

Edited December 6, 201410 yr by jsanta

is it pointless nominating songs already nominated by others or do we just nominate our top 5 even if they've already been nominated?

If something you want to nominate has already been chosen then choose something else.

If something you want to nominate has already been chosen then choose something else.

Thank you!

 

Every Other Freckle - Alt J

Luna - Bombay Bicycle Club (not sure if this is 2013 or not, I can't remember whether it was January 2014 or not)

Cocoon - Catfish & The Bottlemen

If I Could Change Your Mind - HAIM

The Heat - Jungle

 

If any of these are disallowed then take this instead:

We Sink - CHVRCHES

 

A. G. Cook 'Beautiful'

Billon 'Special (Danny L Harle Remix)'

Hannah Diamond 'Every Night'

Jagwar Ma 'Uncertainty (MssingNo Remix)'

TĀLĀ 'Alchemy'

 

I would prefer if we'd be able to nominate Danny L Harle 'Broken Flowers' and MssingNo 'Xe2' instead as they rose to Buzzjack prominence in 2014 but they're technically 2013 songs I think.

Fickle Friends - SWIM

Kaiser Chiefs - Coming Home

Coldplay - Magic

Coldplay - Midnight

SOHN - Artifice

 

I won't take the piss and nominate A Sky Full of Stars as well :ph34r:

Twin Atlantic - Heart & Soul

Jamie T - Zombie

American Authors - Best Day Of My Life

Maroon 5 - Animals

The Madden Brothers - We Are Done

 

The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

Interpol - My Desire

Banks - Beggin For Thread

Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton

The Horrors - So Now You Know

 

^_^

Maroon 5 - Animals

The Madden Brothers - We Are Done

You have two more choices. Neither of these are going through. Sorry.

Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing

Coldplay - Magic

George Ezra - Blame It on Me

The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather

Vance Joy - Riptide

The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather

This is from 2013 so sorry, choose another track.