06 January, 2015

Dokk's Top 100 Tunes of 2014 by iTunes Playcount

Here it is, my 2014 in music...

This wasn't the most exciting year for new music for me, but regardless, these albums are well worth a mention:

Ought's first album "More Than Any Other Day" - looking forward to more from these guys

The new disco album from The Juan Maclean, "In a Dream", which is their most accessible yet
Scotland's The Phantom Band won me over with their third album "Strange Friend"

Hospitality's "Trouble" kept me listening throughout the year

...and The Knife's final album, "Shaken-Up Versions" is an energetic revisiting of their career in a collection of re-recordings inspired by their last tour
But this year I got more out of older albums that I discovered for the first time in 2014....

Like the first album from These New Puritans, "Beat Pyramid," which is exactly the kind of music I like 
This year I finally embraced Soulwax's "Nite Versions" - why did I wait so long..?
Teenage Filmstars recorded "Buy Our Record Support Our Sickness" completely in reverse, and it's great:
And the prize find of the year must be Mica Levi's group, Micachu - their first album "Never" was love at first listen... (not so sure about their videos though)
I was also late to the party with Bongwater's first album, "Double Bummer", which is in equal parts brilliant and dumb; The Books' extraordinary album "The Way Out" is an implausible audio collage of self-help tapes; and the bizarre Fred Lane album "From The One That Cut You" which appears to be some kind of big-band jazz operetta about a low-rent Bobby Darin character who is slowly losing his mind. The album includes song titles like "Danger Is My Beer" and "I TalkTo My Haircut", so what's not to love? 

Honorable mention goes to Michael Fassbender et al for the soundtrack to the movie "Frank"
Assuming that list didn't put you off entirely, there's lots of other great stuff old and new on the top 100 list for 2014.

#/Track/Artist/Plays

1/Nothing/Micachu/35
2/Space Race/Shit Robot/34
3/I Love Techno/Soulwax/34
4/I Wanna Get Better (Vince Clarke Mix)/Bleachers/31
5/Feel Like Movin'/The Juan Maclean/31
6/Please Mr. Kennedy/Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac & Adam Driver/31
7/Like An Eagle (Black Loops & Maik Yells Remix)/Nancy Whang & Audiojack/30
8/Swords of Truth/These New Puritans/30
9/USA IV: Manifest/Dan Deacon/29
10/Compute/Soulwax/29
11/Numerology (AKA Numbers)/These New Puritans/29
12/Hunger of the Pine/Alt-J (∆)/28
13/Greens and Blues/Pixies/28
14/Don't Push Me (ft Sensational & Nick Zinner)/Ghostigital/27
15/Hit Me/Savages/27
16/Nightingale/Hospitality/26
17/Waste/Micachu/26
18/Easy/Micachu/25
19/Pleasant Heart/Ought/25
20/Barra Barra/Rachid Taha/25
21/Feeling Right/Warpaint/25
22/Dont Stop/Brazilian Girls/24
23/212 (ft Lazy Jay)/Azealia Banks/23
24/The One Who Has to Carry You Home/Hollow & Akimbo/23
25/Rockets and Jets/Hospitality/23
26/You Are My Destiny/The Juan Maclean/23
27/Love Is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy)/David Bowie/22
28/Hot Cake/The Fall/22
29/Evil Eye/Franz Ferdinand/22
30/||: A Circle Inside A Circle Inside :||/Holden/22
31/Echo Sam/Holy Fuck/22
32/Give Me Every Little Thing/The Juan Maclean/22
33/Johnny Bagga' Donuts/Palma Violets/21
34/The Wind That Cried the World/The Phantom Band/21
35/Answering Machine (ft. Planningtorock)/Shit Robot/21
36/Comeback Kid/Sleigh Bells/21
37/Bulletproof Unkle Remix/Breakbeat Era/20
38/Heathen Child/Grinderman/20
39/Blue Eyed Hexe/Pixies/20
40/I Love You All [Radio Mix]/The Soronprfbs/20
41/White Chords/These New Puritans/20
42/My Machines (Museum Of Love mix)/Battles/19
43/Stay Useless/Cloud Nothings/19
44/Tuff Enuff/Shit Robot/19
45/We Got A Love (ft Reggie Watts) (SINGLE MIX)/Shit Robot/19
46/Dead Friend/Against Me!/18
47/Blackpool Late Eighties/Holden/18
48/A Place Called Space/The Juan Maclean/18
49/Losing My Edge/LCD Soundsystem/18
50/Belle Glade Missionaries/Of Montreal/18
51/NY Excuse/Soulwax/18
52/E Talking/Soulwax/18
53/Got 2 Let U (Shaken Up Version)/The Knife/17
54/Today More Than Any Other Day/Ought/17
55/We Got A Love (ft. Reggie Watts) (Paul Woolford Remix)/Shit Robot/17
56/The Rhinohead/Von Südenfed/17
57/Love is to Die/Warpaint/17
58/Moonlight On Vermont/Captain Beefheart/16
59/All You're Waiting For (Feat. Nancy Whang)/Classixx/16
60/Kicker Conspiracy (Live)/The Fall/16
61/Mountain Energei/The Fall/16
62/Hands Up Billy/The Fall/16
63/Electric Alice/Grinderman/16
64/(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free/Grinderman/16
65/Going Out/Hospitality/16
66/A Simple Design/The Juan Maclean/16
67/Hello Teenage America/Meat Beat Manifesto/16
68/Migmy/Mouse On Mars/16
69/Everything (Autolux Remix)/Nine Inch Nails/16
70/Around Again/Ought/16
71/Snakes/Pixies/16
72/20 Years Tall/Sego/16
73/I Have Not Been To Oxford Town/David Bowie/15
74/Overture from 'I Am Curious, Orange'/The Fall/15
75/Mister Rode/The Fall/15
76/Deceptacon [DFA remix]/Le Tigre/15
77/Funkytown/Lipps Inc./15
78/Hanging On The Telephone/The Nerves/15
79/Loverman/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/15
80/Starships (Explicit)/Nicki Minaj/15
81/Indie Cindy/Pixies/15
82/I'm Free/Soup Dragons/15
83/Oh Joy/Todd Terje/15
84/You Taste Sweeter/Tomorrow's World/15
85/Lies/Absofacto/14
86/Left Hand Free/Alt-J (∆)/14
87/Your Drums Your Love (Friendly Fire Remix)/AlunaGeorge/14
88/You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat/Death Grips/14
89/Walk On The Wild Side (DJ Miguel Mateus Edit)/Duffo/14
90/Birthday Song/The Fall/14
91/Jam Song/The Fall/14
92/Disco Infiltrator/LCD Soundsystem/14
93/Secure the Galactic Perimeter/Michael Fassbender , The Soronprfbs  & Stephen Rennicks/14
94/Kick Out The Chairs (Tom Boy Remix)/Munk Feat. James Murphy and Nancy Whang/14
95/Dingbat (feat. Museum of Love)/Shit Robot/14
96/Supermoon/Simian Mobile Disco/14
97/No Relief/Tensnake Feat. Fiora/14
98/Secret Xtians/Unknown Mortal Orchestra/14
99/Unconditional Love/Against Me!/13
100/My Machines/Battles/13

That's it! Reset for 2015!