I know we have the best albums threads running but just thought it would be interesting to hear your personal favourite song or instrumental track of the year. Not a poll but I might create a playlist.
Mine is this this song which I feel sums up The Delines perfectly – melancholic, small town characters struggling through life and with a heartbreakingly beautiful chorus with the oh so simple but so effective pay off line ‘ Hey Kid Codeine I’m always pissed off
Always about to lose my mind always about to blow my top’
Favourite song of 2022
I am genuinely stuck between four tracks & finding it impossible to pick a favourite.
The 4 in question;
London Bridge – Dave Rowntree
Hard To Fake It – Sorcha Richardson
Surrender My Heart – Carly Rae Jepsen
The Last Time – Arxx
However, if I had to pick the song that has been on repeat in my tiny brain most in 2022, it would be Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift. It just gets stuck in there & does not shift for hours on end. Still not sick of it though so it’s clearly a cracker!
That’s the one then.
I did think that I was typing it! haha 🙂
But then I put on London Bridge & am now on my 3rd listen in a row….
Just been thinking about this very subject. My choice: The Legends of Tomorrow- All We Need Is Love
Wow! Thank you, Rij… Expect a new version on the forthcoming Legends 25-year anthology ‘The Weather at World’s End’, out in March via Talking Elephant.
Possibly this one:
Probably Wilco – Bird Without a Tail/Base of My Skull
This is a superlative live performance and the first time they ever played it to an audience.
Possibly reflecting my bleak mood, I’m going with Brightside by my band of the year Halestorm – from their release this year with Lzzy Hale screaming out her angst and frustration at the enforced incarceration of lockdown. “I keep looking on the brightside of life ’cause it only gets darker”.
PS I did like some nice songs too…
This whole album is very good but this is the earworm
Thank you. Love it.
My dogs are a wonderful escape.
Agreed. It’s taken Calum far too long to step out of the shadows.
Not exactly 2022, but I first heard it last year, so allow me an induglence. ‘Different Drum’ by The Stone Poneys. Can someone please invent a Linda Ronstandt hot water bottle and duvet set?
How are you, Roberto? How’s the jaw/chin/mouth? Nice to see you back.
Double bed? rather optimistic
Absolutely not. I always dream roam around my double in my astral adventures. Room for one only. An equally thrilling boon when gifted and granted unto the bed chamber of one’s lover. I do not do single/king/queen size at all. Also, four star without en suite is camping enough for me.
Doing fine Gary. I hope you are too.
I think that ‘throw’ as I believe they are now called, would fit very nicely indeed over a Susanna Hoffs chair recliner, just in case of the odd sciatic flare up at night.
Sciatic flares never went out of fashion. If in doubt, sew in some triangles. Start with Dairylea and then make for Isosceles.
Nice to vada your dolly old eek Senor C, by the way.
Hola, Senor Alce.
Where might one purchase the aforementioned Ronstadt items – I’m asking for a friend of course!
Sold out, I’m afraid. I can sort you some Noam Chomsky/Ray Mears pillow covers. You can flip them accordingly during a bout of bivouac or decentralise 3am angst.
I got this boiled down to three favourites:
Abigail Lapell – Ships
Madison Cunningham – Hospital
The Delines – This ain’t no Getaway
But I’ve just listened to all three – and I have a winner.
Flippin earworm from my album of the year…
Loads of great albums but the one song that was an absolute earworm for me:
Chaise Longue – Wetleg
And, I believe, the album lived up to expectation
Feckin’ Wet Leg? You pissed yer kecks again Stevie?
You made that up didn’t you, you scamp.
This was the first track released from my favourite album of the year. It makes me smile every time I hear it.
So disappointed to miss her in Newcastle this year, once through cancellation and the second time through simply not being able to get there.
This is fabulous on so many levels.
Sault provided a huge amount of material to sift through and there are gems aplenty. This one is from Earth.
Valley Of The Ocean
What a great idea for a thread, Feedback!
Particularly so, because you mentioned The Delines. One of the great bands of our times
Willie Vlautin writes magnificent songs abut folks who are having rather a hard time. And then lets Amy Boone and his wonderful band turn them into something quite magical.
John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie must be up there smiling with St. Peter.
This is my current ear worm. A choon rather than a song.
https://sualee.bandcamp.com/track/the-wedding-feat-phil-cunningham-2
I have decided it can grace my wedding with the flames, as my coffin goes thru’ the curtains to the bonemeal manufacturer. Hopefully not for a few years, mind.
Wedding?
Harry Styles Wet Leg Yeah Yeah Yeah(s)? No it must be Strong by Romy and Fred Again. Romy has a wondrous voice and the whole uplifting, banging racket going on offsets it so well. Euphoric yet intimate. I should say so.
It’s either… Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (from the latest produced-by-Hot-Chip album)
Or… Al-Qasar – Hobek Thawrat (which first I heard on an Andy Kershaw podcast as I barrelled down the A1).
From my 2022 list:
Can’t really offer a Song Of The Year, this year. The vast majority of what I’ve listened to on record has been instrumental and on the few vocal albums I’ve liked there have been some great performances but no really exceptional songs except covers/standards/neo-standards.
Some great live vocal performances this year too, but again the songs performed were tried and tested ones.
Live 2022 vocal standout for me was Hattie Whitehead’s sensational performance of highlights from Joni Mitchell’s “Shadows And Light” live album, in a top-notch 7-piece band for Oxford’s Spin Jazz Club at Tap Social Movement in Botley. Further performances for Spin Jazz are on the cards, if a band can be (re)assembled at a suitable date and venue in 2023. Hattie has her own song repertoire, with which I’m almost completely unfamiliar at present.
This clip of her is pretty good.
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This long clip (which I’ve posted here more than once, I’m sure) shows her Joni-izing ability.
And while you’re there note bassist Flo Moore’s Jaco-channelling.
Jaco channelling or Pino plundering?
BooooDOOWWW
I have a few contenders, and this is definitely one of them. The others don’t have decent videos: so here is Amanda Shires (with Maren Morris on co-vocals) singing Empty Cups
This one by a small margin from Carthaginians by Teilifis…
What’s that you say? The Carthaginians? How does that go?
I think that might be mine also, Bamber. Or maybe Picadors from the first album.
One of my earworms of this year
For me it was this rather melodic little number.
Katy J Pearson
Absolute Stevie Nicksness!