Music | Positively Peachy

Since the Grammy’s were last night I was feeling musical and honestly, there’s not a better way to reflect on a year of your life than listening to your music playlists. One of the beauties of using the streaming music client Spotify is the ability to do just that, and I want to share with you a few of my favorite songs I listened to (a LOT) in 2013. Now, they aren’t ALL from 2013, mind you, (there are a few songs from the 60’s and 70’s on here, just because I have rediscovered them and listened to them 2 million times this year). The list below includes songs I really liked this year, for some inexplicable reason or another.

Shall we begin? In no particular order… (links go to Youtube)

WOODKID – “RUN BOY RUN” (Not my usual, but if I was a runner or athlete this would be on my playlist.)
MUSE – “MADNESS” (I’ll admit, it’s a guilty pleasure and catchy as heck.)
TOM ODELL – “CAN’T PRETEND” (Give it to 2 minutes in. Trust me.)
THE FOX – “YLVIS” (Oh, shut up. You know you liked it too when it came out and watched that Youtube video 100 times. At least I will admit it.)
BASTILLE – “OBLIVION” (This guy’s voice = swoon)
PEARL JAM – “SIRENS” (A little poppish for Eddie Vedder, but I like the lyrics)
THE BETA BAND – “SQUARES” (Pretty trippy LSD version, but it’s just stupid catchy.)
ALT-J – “TESSELLATE” (No idea what he’s talking about, but it sounds great.)
ELTON JOHN – “LEVON” (We might have gone to an Elton John concert this year and this might have been his last song of the night, and I might have gotten really excited dancing with the old hippies with cigarette lighters, foul mouths, and hip replacements… and I might just secretly love it.)
THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA – “TO BUILD A HOME” (Amazing. Just listen to it. Really.)
JASON COLLETT – “RAVE ON SAD SONGS” (Totally underrated song, this guy has a great voice.)
IMAGINE DRAGONS – “RADIOACTIVE” (I definitely predicted this #1 after hearing it on the show “Hard Knocks” last year. I mean, c’mon, who doesn’t love it?)
JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW – “HIGHER LOVE” (Best cover I’ve heard in a while, although the dude sounds castrated.)
CAT POWER – “3, 6, 9” (Oh, why does this song have to be so catchy? She’s an odd one, but a Georgian, and I love her voice.)
BADFINGER – “BABY BLUE” (Thank you Walter White, for reminding me how much I love this band and how FANTASTIC this song really is.)
NADA SURF – “WHEN I WAS YOUNG” (Nice tune, I like the lyrics, and just hang on until about 2:00 in…)
COLDPLAY – “EVERYTHING’S NOT LOST” (Somehow I missed the “hidden” track on this song years ago, I heard it on XM and revived it.)
ALICE IN CHAINS – “BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE” (Dear Alice in Chains, thank you for coming back and recording this song and making it so fun to play on the guitar.)
BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH – “PICTURES” (This is the perfect song to just relax and listen to… no idea what he’s talking about, and the video is very odd.)
AWOLNATION – “SAIL” (First time I heard this song, I saw a man free-fall from outer space, OK? Forgive me, but it’s a bit inspiring.)
LORDE – “ROYALS” (Yeah, yeah… Another guilty pleasure)
RODRIGUEZ – “CAUSE” (We watched a documentary about this guy. Brilliant songwriter as popular as the Beatles in South Africa but somehow was completely overlooked and living in the slums of Detroit. Amazing story.)
LED ZEPPELIN – “GALLOWS POLE” (Thank you Spotify for now streaming the entire Led Zeppelin discography so I can be reminded of all their less popular songs, although I love pretty much everything they’ve done.)