FAV SONGS Of 2020
Wow, friends. This year the highs hit higher, the lows hit lower, and we were all given a unique, if not unsettling perspective on what we take for granted. For most of us getting lost in music was the closest most of us got to a vacation. Here are the songs that helped maintain our sanity
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THE STROKES : “At The Door”
“Struck me like a chord/ I’m an ugly boy/
Holding out the night/ Lonely after light
You begged me not to go/ Sinking like a stone
Use me like an oar/ And get yourself to shore”
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KATE NV : “Sayonara” (Full Moon version)
“Нет Нет Нет/ Да Да Да
Sayonara, прощай”
also: “Plans” / “Telefon”
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13
JAYDA G : “Both of Us”
“I can’t love enough for the both of us/
But I just want to be with you”
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U.S. GIRLS : “IOU”
Also: “4 American Dollars” / “The Quiver to the Bomb”
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CINDY LEE : “Heavy Metal” also : “Just For Loving You I Pay the Price”
“Give me one more day/ Where the sun speaks your name
When we met you buried deep in my heart/ Heavy metal
One step closer, come on back to me”
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10
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER : “I Don’t Love Myself”
“Nature fucking with me, unconditionally
She doesn’t have to run a scam/ Now I love her again
I don’t love me anymore/ And all my thoughts bеcome a
Total jealous void
Maybe nеxt year we’ll implode/ Wouldn’t that be nice for a change?
also: “Lost But Never Alone” / “The Long Road”
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09
CHARLI XCX : “Forever”
“I know in the future/ We won’t see each other
Cold just like December
But I will always love you/ I’ll love you forever”
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08
SUFJAN STEVENS : “The Ascension” (also: “My Rajneesh”)
But now it strikes me far too late again
That I was asking far too much of everyone around me
And now it strikes me far too late again
That I should answer for myself as the Ascension falls upon me
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07
ADRIANNE LENKER : “anything”
“Grocery store list, now you get pissed
Unchecked calls and messages
I don’t wanna be the owner of your fantasy
I just wanna be a part of your family”
(also: “zombie girl”)
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06
SAULT : “Wildfires”
“White lives/ Spreading lies
You should be ashamed/ The bloodshed on your hands
Another man/ Take off your badge
We all know it was murder
We are dying, it’s the reason we are crying”
(also: “Little Boy”)
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05
YVES TUMOR : “Kerosene!”
“I ain’t like them other girls/ Look me in the eye, tell me I’m the one
And I’ll be your only boy/ Oh, I can be your only girl, little baby
I can be anything you need/ I need kerosene!”
(also: “Gospel for a New Century”)
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04
PERFUME GENIUS: “Describe”
“No bells anymore/ Just my stomach rumbling
Can you describe them for me?
The lock on the door
Is barely holding / Can you just wait here with me?”
(also: “On the Floor”)
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03
CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS : “People, I’ve been sad”
“If you fall apart, then I’m falling behind you/
You know the feeling/ You know the feeling”
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02
ARCA : “Time” / “Mequetrefe”
“I know you want it, I-I know you want it
And it’s time/ To let it out/ And show the world…”
“Look at how she is growing up/ She came walking from her house
She doesn’t get a taxi or an Uber or a Lyft
May they see her on the streets…”
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01
GRIMES : “IDORU”
“Choose, I say/ As my fingers tremble/ This is who I am
And, and, and you/ Fingers tremblin’ too/ Understand
I wanna play a beautiful game/ Even though we’re gonna lose”
(also: “Delete Forever” / “So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth”)
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