List season has arrived! And to kick off the month of year end wrap-ups, Reverb brings you our picks of best songs of 2014.
Rather than spend weeks of sleepless nights screaming at each other in the Reverb offices, we opt to create our own individual lists of the 10 best songs of 2014. This, we believe, gives you a look into each writer’s particular taste, and also gives you a wide sample of tracks to choose from. Below you’ll find 130 songs (about 100 without repeats) of our favorite songs from the year. You’ll notice that songs from Future Islands, Taylor Swift, St. Vincent, Run the Jewels and Ty Segall appear the most on our lists.
To give you an opportunity to hear all of these tracks, we put together a master Spotify playlist (with the exception of repeats and artists not available on Spotify *cough* Taylor Swift *cough*) of nearly six hours of the best music of 2014.
Stay tuned for our picks of best albums and best shows of 2014 later this month. See our Reverb staff lists and listen to our best songs of 2014 playlist below:
1) “Seasons (Waiting On You),” Future Islands
2) “Close Your Eyes (And Count to F***),” Run The Jewels
3) “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift
4) “Two Weeks,” FKA twigs
5) “Digital Witness,” St. Vincent
6) “A Simple Design,” The Juan Maclean
7) “Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar),” Flying Lotus
8) “Avant Gardener,” Courtney Barnett
9) “Feel,” Ty Segall
10) “Fiona Coyne,” Saint Pepsi
1) “Somebody’s Talking,” The Preatures
2) “Never Work for Free,” Tennis
3) “Volunteers of America,” The Both
4) “Forget,” Ben Watt
5) “Storming the Beach,” King of Prussia
6) “Airborne,” The Pack A.D.
7) “Table at Fool’s Tooth,” Guided by Voices
8) “Don’t Wanna Lose,” Ex Hex
9) “Seasons (Waiting on You),” Future Islands
10) “The Lord’s Favorite,” Iceage
1) “Birth in Reverse,” St. Vincent
2) “Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1,” Run the Jewels
3) “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift
4) “Feel,” Ty Segall
5) “i,” Kendrick Lamar
6) “I’m Not Part of Me,” Cloud Nothings
7) “Klapp Klapp,” Little Dragon
8) “Two Weeks,” FKA Twigs
9) “Hands Up,” Vince Staples
10) “American Horror,” Speedy Ortiz
1) “Seasons (Waiting On You),” Future Islands
2) “Do You,” Spoon
3) “Heart Is A Drum,” Beck
4) “Lost In The Dream,” The War On Drugs
5) “All Under One Roof Raving,” Jamie XX
6) “Bored In The USA,” Father John Misty
7) “Preben Goes To Acapulco,” Todd Terje
8) “Magic,” Coldplay
9) “Coulda Been My Love,” Foxygen
10) “Back, Baby,” Jessica Pratt
1) “Seasons (Waiting on You),” Future Islands
2) “Birth in Reverse,” St. Vincent
3) “Delorean Dynamite” Todd Terje
4) “How Can You Really,” Foxygen
5) “Klapp Klapp,” Little Dragon
6) “Uptown Funk,” Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
7) “Shake it Off,” Taylor Swift
8) “Can’t Do Without You,” Caribou
9) “Never Catch Me,” Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar
10) “Uncast Shadow Of A Southern Myth,” Parkay Quarts
1) “Early,” Run the Jewels
2) “Shades of Cool,” Lana Del Ray
3) “Digital Witness,” St. Vincent
4) “I’m Not a Part of Me,” Cloud Nothings
5) “Houston Hades,” Stephen Malkmus
6) “Fever,” The Black Keys
7) “Dear Gods of Slapstick,” The Pink Noise
8) “What Color Is Blood,” Parquet Courts
9) “Feel,” Ty Segall
10) “Wave,” Beck
1) “Feel,” Ty Segall
2) “The World Could Turn,” Cherry Ghost
3) “Sweet Spot,” Wild Beasts
4) “Black Souls,” Satan’s Satyrs
5) “Johnny & Marry,” Todd Terje featuring Bryan Ferry
6) “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime),” David Bowie
7) “Pretty Girls,” Little Dragon
8) “Magnolia,” Lee Fields
9) “Nowhere,” Ringo Deathstarr
10) “All Must Die,” The Oath
1) “Avant Gardener,” Courtney Barnett
2) “Inside Out,” Spoon
3) “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift
4) “Two Weeks,” FKA Twigs
5) “Shelter Song,” Temples
6) “All My Life,” Run the Jewels
7) “Hunger,” Zola Jesus
8) “Foil,” (“Royals” parody) “Weird Al” Yankovic
9) “Headbanger,” King Tuff
10) “Not on Drugs,” Tove Lo
1) “Lifestyle,” Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan
2)”No Type,” Rae Sremmurd
3) “About the Money,” TI, Young Thug
4) “Higher,” SBTRKT, Raury
5) “I,” Kendrick Lamar
6) “Don’t Wait,” Mapei
7) “Believe Me,” Lil Wayne, Drake
8) “Pistols at Dawn,” Seinabo Sey
9) “Coco,” OT Genasis
10) “Mamacita,” Travi$ Scott, Rich Homie Quan
1) “All Will Combine,” Chad VanGaalen
2) “Caer,” Buscabulla
3) “Springful,” Adult Jazz
4) “1936,” Phox
5) “I Krill You,” Helado Negro
6) “Shuggie,” Foxygen
7) “New Name,” Sinkane
8) “Little Fang,” Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
9) “Mr. Noah,” Panda Bear
10) “Oak Tree,” Mirel Wagner
1) “Cocoon” Catfish and the Bottlemen
2) “Blank Space,” Taylor Swift
3) “Do You,” Spoon
4) “Head Underwater,” Jenny Lewis
5) “Can’t Say No,” The Fleeting Ends
6) “Don’t Wait Up,” Tweens
7) “My Silver Lining,” First Aid Kit
8) “Rocking Chair,” The Districts
9) “When the Nights Get Long,” Jukebox the Ghost
10) “Luv, Hold Me Down,” Drowners
1) “Move That Dope (feat. Pharrell, Pusha T),” Future
2) “Girl,” Jamie XX
3) “Digital Witness,” St. Vincent
4) “Mamacita (feat. Rich Homie Quan & Young Thug),” Travis $cott
5) “Seasons (Waiting on You),” Future Islands
6) “No Flex Zone,” Rae Sremmurd
7) “i,” Kendrick Lamar
8) “No More,” Shlomo & Jeremih
9) “Thatap Not Me,” Skepta ft. JME
10) “Attak (feat. Danny Brown),” Rustie
1) “No Rest For The Wicked,” Lykke Li
2) “Helena Bonham Carter,” Liam Finn
3) “Avant Gardener,” Courtney Barnett
4) “Brill Bruisers,” New Pornographers
5) “Hotel,” The Antlers
6) “Sick Talk,” Wye Oak
7) “Red Eyes,” The War on Drugs
8) “Kill The Fun,” Haley Bonar
9) “Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped In Plastic,” Slug
10) “I’m In Your Mind Fuzz,” King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
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