Best Songs Through May 31st, 2014

Head – Lydia Loveless

Rather Be – Clean Bandit

Longer Than You’ve Been Alive – Old 97’s

Sour Times – The Civil Wars

Problem – Ariana Grande

Child’s Play – SZA

NRA Man – Peter Stampfel

Once Upon A Dream – Lana Del Rey

Make It Look Good – Mariah Carey

Good Kisser – Usher

Zigzagging Toward The Light – Conor Oberst

Our Time – Lily Allen

Emotions – Katy B

XO – Beyonce

Fever On The Bayou – Rodney Crowell

Play “God Only Knows” At My Funeral – Fireworks

Fancy – Iggy Azalea

Hi-Five – Angel Olsen

Who Needs You – The Orwells

A Tribe Called Red – Angel Haze

Unconditional Love – Against Me!

Long Hair – Drowners

Whistle -je’June’d

Almost Was Good Enough – Bro. Stephen , Jim James

Stay The Night – Zedd with Hayley Williams

Summer – Calvin Harris

Something That Feels Bad Is Something That Feels Good – Haunted Hearts

Coming Of Age – Foster The People

Bitch In Heat – Marla Mase

Runaway Dream – Sophie Ellis-Baxter

Lariat – Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

Hunter Of Invisible Game – Bruce Springsteen

Public Service Announcement – Of Mice And Men

Ordinary Fools – The Chain Gang Of 1974

Rumble At The Rainbo – Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks

All I Need Is You – John Newman

Show Me – Kid Ink

Love Me Again – John Newman

Movie Moment – Frank Schiazza

Half Life – Marla Mase

Take What You Can – Frank Schiazza

Bonnie Portmore – The Rails

Do Yo Shit – Pretty Taking All Fades

Holiday – Chanel West Coast

Pieces – Trixie Whitley

Twin Size Mattress – The Front Bottoms

Deep Sea Diver – Angel Haze

When The Master Calls The Roll – Rosanne Cash

A Feather’s Not A Bird – Rosanne Cash

Cavalier – James Vincent McMorrow

After Hours – The Crystal Method

Grace – The Crystal Method

Trying To Get To You – Phil Gammage

Talking Backwards – Real Estate

Red Dust – James Vincent McMorrow

Kills Me When You’re Gone – Phil Gammage

Moneyball – Jennifer Nettles

Over It – The Crustal Method

In The Pines – Phil Gammage

Who We Are – Swiftfoot

Rockstar – A Great Big world

The Last Time Live 1965 – The Rolling Stone

Beam Me Up – Cazzette

True Trans Soul Rebel – Against Me!

Blue Moon – Beck

Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!

Baby Let Me Follow You Down – Phil Gammage

Black Synagogue – Angel Haze

Simon Ferocious – Mogwai

Can’t Remember To Forget You – Shakira and Rihanna

When I’ve Been Drinkin’ – Jon Pardi

Always Going – Peggy Sue

Cult Of Love – Dum Dum Girls

Thrive – Casting Crowns

Ordinary Thieves – The Chain Gang Of 1974

Radio – David Crosby

Safe With Me – Sam Smith

Together – Disclosure

Morning Falling – David Crosby

Ways To Phrase A Rejection – Drowner

Long Hair – Drowners

Watch You Change – Drowners

Invisible – U2

Air Balloon – Lily Allen

Everything Is AWESOME!! – Tegan And Sara, The Lonely Island

Making Believe – The Daden Triplets

The D Word – Toni Braxton And Babyface

XTC – The Chemical Brothers Remix – Boys Noize

Drive – Marissa Nadler

I’d Rather Be Broke – Toni Braxton

Samba Pa Ti – Bernie Worrell

jaunt – je’June’d

Cigarettes – Noah Gundensen

Between The Bars – The Civil Wars

Everything’s Gonna Be Undone – Band Of Horses

Dizzy Heights – Neil Finn

Automatic – Miranda Lambert

Love And Affection – Daley

Alone Together – Daley, Marsha Ambrosius

Less Than Whole – Eric Paslay

Northern Exposure – Cheatah

St. Roch Blues – Hurray For The Riff Raff

Dibby Dibby Sound – DJ Fresh

Proper Moise – Dapper Laughs

Today I Took Your Picture Down – Benmont Tench

Really Want To See You – Lydia Loveless

Chris Isaak – Lydia Loveless

Cried – Candice Glover

High & Wild – Angel Olsen

Blue Murder – The Feeling

Aaliyah – Katy B

Crying For No Reason – Katy B

Cold One – Eric Church

Misogyny Drop Dead – Planningtorock

Give Me Back My Hometown – Eric Church

I Just Do – The Feeling

Hey Y’all – Cole Swindell

Wave – Beck

Waking Light – Beck

What I’ve Done Before – The Fleshtones

Rattlesnake – St. Vincent

Rattlesnake – St. Vincent

Pretty Girls – Dierks Bentley

Out Of The Black – Neneh Cherry

Waves – Sleeper Agent

Fuck LA – Schoolboy Q

7-Hour-Drive – The Notwist

Wild Wild Love – Pitbull

Riser – Dierks Bentley

Morning – Beck

Huey Newton – St. Vincent

Lay Me Down – Sam Smith

Desolation – Lamb Of God

Drown In Blue – Marla Mase

Bent Nail – Nothing

Dark Waltz – The Men

Sanctified – Rick Ross

Martha – BBC Live Version

Shit Shot Counts

Bitch In Heat – Marla Mase

Marilyn Monroe – Pharrell

Brand New – Pharrell

Hunter – Pharrell

Run Boy Run – Woodkid

Believer – American Authors

It Girl – PHarrell

High Heels – Cheri Dahl

We’re A Winner – True Groove Allstars

Lost Queen – Pharrell

Loco De Amor – Juanes

New York Morning – Elbow

Prendidi – Ozomatli

Asleep – Scraps

Trophies – Young Money, Drake

This Blue World – Elbow

NSA Man – Peter Stampfel

The Man – Aloe Blacc

The Dancer Disappears – Dean Wareham

I Blame You – Ledesi

The Secret – Shit Robot

Be Brave – Sleeper Agent

Take It Off – Sleeper Agent

Grandma – The Floacist

I Just Wanna Party – YG

Make You Mine – Black Lips

Macarena – Miss Piggy

Under The Pressure – War On Drugs

Waves – Sleeper Agent

High – Freddie Gibbs And Madlibs

Knicks – Freddie Gibbs And Madlibs

Summer – Calvis Harris

Wake Me Up – Avicii Remix – Avicii

The Blanket Of Night – Elbow

A Bossa Nova E Foda – Caetano Veloso

Bohemian Like You – The Dandy Warhols

Argentina (Parts I, II II) – Tokyo Police Club

I Came To Believe – Johnny Cash

Sweetheart Like You – Craig Finn

When Everything Was What It Was – The Belle Brigade

Monument Park – The Baseball Project

Seasons (Waiting For You) – Future Islands

Sweet Sticky Thing – D’Angelo

Devil Inside – London Grammar

Depth Of My Soul – Thievery Corporation

When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky – Lucius

Heart Is A Drum – Beck

Your Bright Baby Blues – Sean Watkins, Sara Watkins

Sugar On Your Tongue – Jon Langford And Skull Orchard
Turn Down For What – DJ Snake And Lil Jon

Ramblin Man – Hank William III And Melvyn’s

Tangled Up In Blue – The Charlie Daniels Band

I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – The Charlie Daniels Band

Country Pie – The Charlie Daniels Band

She Looks So Perfect – 5 Seconds To Summer

3Jane – EMA

Tell the World – Eric Hutchinson

Sheep (Live) – Screaming Females

Rattle + Rollin – Tweens

Johnny And Mary – Todd Terje (Feat Bryan Ferry)

Me And The Wildwood Rose – Carlene Carter

Walking In The Rain – Anika Larsen And Jarrod Spector

River Bank – Brad Paisley

Queen Of Hearts – Darlia

It All Means Nothing – Screaming Females

I Keep It To Myself – Wilko Johnson An Roger Daltrey

Oh, Carolina – NEEDTOBREATHE

Full Moon – Woods

Good Luck, Good Night Goodbye – The Secret Sisters

Te Vevi – Villamizar

Cigarettes & Loneliness – Chet Faker

Right Here Now – Marshall Crenshaw

Let’s Not Try to Fix Everything At Once – Deleted Scenes

I Miss You – Candy Hearts

Rattle My Bones – The Secret Sisters

Going Going Gone – Marshall Crenshaw

State I’m In – NEEDTOBREATHE

Dirty Lie – The Secret Sisters

Drive-In Movies – Ray Montagne

Chariots Of The Gods – Ducksauce

I Do It All For You – SoMo

Sellouts – Breathe Carolina

Walter And John – Ben Watt, Robert Wyatt

To Me – Chet Faker

I Don’t Wanna Live On Mars – Ziggy Marley

Frankie Please – Rodney Crowell

Sticky – Teen

You Should Be Able To Feel It – The Whig

American Beauty – Bruce Springsteen

Theme For The Exodus From Bushwick To Ridgewood – Peter Stampfel

California Cottonfields – The Seldom Scene

Hickory Wind – The Seldom Scene

Move That Doh – Future

Love Sublime – Tensnake

Hello, San Francisco – Margot And The Nuclear So And Sos

Video Games – Boy George

So Blonde – EMA

Fancy – Iggy Azalea

Wasteland – NEEDTOBREATHE

Wheels Off – Old 97’s

Shatter Me – Lindsey Stirling

Wait for A Minute – Tune- Yards

Sleep Sound Jamie xx

Think About It – Naughty Boy

End Of The Line – Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks

Home – Naughty Boy

Mal Bicho – Santana

I Don’t Care – Nikki Lane

Girl – Jamie xx

First Day Of Spring – The Horrors

Do You Want A Man – William Onyeabor and The Vaccines

Wasted Words – Widespread Panic, Derek Trucks

Trophies – Young Money, Drake

Led By Hand – Fucked Up

Spoonful – Tomas Doncker Band

Yo Soy La Luz – Santana

Ezra’s Interlude – Chromeo

Lost On The Way Home – Chromeo

World Peace Is None Of Your Business – Morrissey

Do You Know where Your Children Are – Michael Jackson

Don’t Think Twice – Dolly Parton

Jealous I Ain’t With It – Chromeo

Just A Little Boy – Swans

A Sky Full Of Stars – Coldplay

Lay Your Hands On Me – Dolly parton

Life for Me – Lily Allen

16 Shades Of Blue – Tori Amos

Eurydice – The Pains Of being Pure At Heart

Blue Smoke – Dolly Parton

House is Rockin’ – Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Cut You Loose – Kenny Wayne Shepherd

We’ve Seen Birds – Smoke Fairies

Looking Back – Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Time Forgot  -Conor Oberst

Cry. – Mariah Carey

Changes – Neil Young

Early Morning Rain – Neil Young

Motor City Man – Kelly Willis And Bruce Robison

Let Me Down Gently – La Roux

No Strings – Chloe Howl

Your Love Is Killing Me – Sharon Van Etten

Amped To 12 – Shinobi Ninja

Monument – Royskopp And Robyn

Afraid Of Nothing – Sharon Van Etten

Comment: At the top, that Mariah Carey Stevie wonder cop is brilliant and I hope it breaks the way “#beautiful” failed to, and what has already broken pop is two huge songs with Iggy Azalea. Both “Problems” and “Fancy” are summer hits for sure. Anything else? Chloe Howl EP is out but probably won’t make a dent till next month.