41. Ohio – The Black Keys – You are probably too young to remember the scratch and sniff album cover of the Ohio punk compilation in the 1970s. It smelled of burning rubber. Only a local like Chrissie Hynde or the Black Keys could romanticize the State and get away with it.
42. Honey Bunny – Girls – Bracing old fashioned rock and roll.
43. Novocane – Frank Ocean – Takes away the pain and adds to it: the strings haunt the track.
44. Four Letter Word – Beady Eye – As straightforward an Oasis cop as you can imagine, and what's wrong with that?
45. All Night Doctors – Bush – A great moment off a disappointing reformation.
46. Maracas – Mate Of State – Marital fidelity band plus tempo changes,.
47. Best Night – The War On Drugs – Heralding a new denizen of an old weird ambient sound sound.
48. A Better Place – Glen Campbell – A perfect farewell to the memories he had.
49. Ghost On The Dancefloor – Blink 182 – Sure I liked the album at the time, I don't listen to it now. This song, I listen to.
50. It Girl – Jason Derulo – Addictive dance pop romance,
51. Keep Your Head Up – Andy Grammer – Local talent leaves to the West Coast, makes lots of friends.
52. Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 with Christina Aguilara – The whistling intro makes it.
53. Back In The Crowd – Tom Waits – He croaks therefore he is.
54. Mr. Nice Watch – J Cole featuring Jay-Z – "They say time is money but really it's not…" leads J Cole to the conclusion Cole and his girl should spend their life balling.
55. Taken For A Fool – The Strokes – Recorded live at MSG earlier this year, Costello improves a good song and makes it great.
56. Dirt Road Anthem – Jason Aldean – The rap shouldn't work but it does. A big hit.
57. TMZ – Weird Al Yankovic – It's funny because it's true
58. Give Me Everything – Pitbull – Ne-Yo sounds great next to Pitbull.
59. El Blue de Ping Pong – Rita Indiana And Los Mysterious – Off the best Spanish language album of the year.
60 Untitled – Steve Reid, Keiran Hebdan, Matts Gustaffson – Avant garde jazz