January 26, 20178 yr Author CJ8_alfIHYI 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: 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 ~
January 26, 20178 yr 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.
January 27, 20178 yr Author 498zUzNGQxY 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"
January 27, 20178 yr 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:
January 28, 20178 yr 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!
January 28, 20178 yr 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!
January 28, 20178 yr '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~
February 27, 20178 yr Author flop! VQ3h0ZA3FQ0 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
February 27, 20178 yr Author E-YYdJfHtCE 41 Kings of Leon - Waste A Moment 194 42 Chairlift - Romeo 191 43 Coldplay - Up & Up 188 44 MØ - 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 ~
February 27, 20178 yr Author QN7YA4FO7TY 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 - Með 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.
February 27, 20178 yr Author yd9p4n5hLEg 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
February 27, 20178 yr Author u_hDHm9MD0I 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 :D ~teknik~
February 27, 20178 yr 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:
February 27, 20178 yr Author d6GJeap4Oqo 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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