Thursday, November 12, 2015

2015 Festive Fifty Shortlist Vote!

 It's that time of year again! Time to vote for the songs that will comprise the Festive Fifty for 2015!

Here are the songs (instructions are below):

Alabama Shakes - Don't Wanna Fight
Alabama Shakes - Future People
Arborist - Twisted Arrow
BC Camplight - Grim Cinema
BC Camplight - Thieves In Antigua
Beach House - PPP
Beirut - No no no
Ben Folds - Phone in the Pool
Björk - Lionsong
Blur - Ice Cream Man
Blushing Satellite - Arul
BORNS - Electric Love
Brandi Carlile - Wherever is Your Heart
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Dust (13th Floor Elevators cover)
Cairo Gang - Ice Fishing
Calexico - Falling From the Sky
Catfish & the Bottlemen - Kathleen
Catfish & the Bottlemen – Cocoon
Chvrches - Bury It
Chvrches - Leave a Trace
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best
Daughter - Doing the Right Thing
Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
Dawes - Things Happen
Decemberists - Make You Better
Decemberists - The Singer Addresses His Audience
Diet Cig - Dinner Date
Diet Cig - Sleep Talk
EL VY - Return To The Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with Crescendo)
Elle King - Ex's and Oh's
Escondido - Heart is Black
Ezra Furman - Body Was Made
Fall Out Boy - Jet Pack Blues
Fall Out Boy - Novocaine
Father John Misty - Chataeu Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)
Fenne Lily - Stranger
Florence & the Machine - Ship to Wreck
Garden of Elks - This Morning We Are Astronauts
Girlpool - Before the World Was Big
Grimes - Flesh Without Blood
Grimes - Realti
Hamilton soundtrack - Wait For It
Helio Sequence - Leave or Be Yours
Hop Along - Waitress
Houndmouth - Sedona
Imelda Staunton - Everything's Coming Up Roses
Jamie XX - Stranger in a Room
Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
John Grant - Disappointing
Joywave - Tongues
Kacey Musgraves - Dime Store Cowgirl
Kacey Musgraves - Pageant Material
Kendrick Lamar - i
Kendrick Lamar - King Kunta
Khruangbin - White Gloves
Kopecky - Talk to Me
Kurt Vile - Pretty Pimpin
Leftfield - Head & Shoulders
Legs - Top of the World
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Leon Bridges - Smooth Sailin'
Lord Huron - Fool For Love
Low - What Part of Me
Major Lazer - Lean On
Marlon Williams - Strange Things
Matthew E White - Rock and Roll is Cold
Max Richter - Space 11 (invisible pages over)
Memory Tapes - House on Fire
Modest Mouse - Lampshades on Fire
Mumford & Sons - The Wolf
My Morning Jacket - Believe (Nobody Knows)
Mynabirds- All My Heart
Mynabirds- Believer
Naoise Roo - Sheets
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats - S.O.B.
New Basement Tapes - Kansas City
New Blue Death--Silo
New Order - Nothing But a Fool
Passion Pit - My Brother Taught Me How to Swim
Passion Pit - Where the Sky Hangs
Patrick Watson--Love Songs For Robots
Pierce Brothers - Mama Please
Pierce Brothers - Overdose
Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake
Public Service Broadcasting - Gagarin
Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
Rihanna, Kanye, Paul McCartney - Four Five Seconds
Rodney Cromwell - Barry Was an Arms Dealer
Roots Manuva - Don't Breathe Out
Shifters - Creggan Shops
Slaves - The Hunter
Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends
Slug - Greasy Mind
Small Black - Boys Life
Speedy Ortiz - Raising the Skate
Sufjan Stevens - No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross
Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
Tobias Jesso Jr - How Could You Babe
Torche - Minions
TV On the Radio - Trouble
The World is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – You Can’t Live There Forever
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love
Wave Pictures - Pea Green Coat
Weepies - No Trouble
Wilco - Random Name Generator
Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
Yang Fan - Autumn in Your Town
Zun Zun Egui - African Tree

Here's the spotify playlist I made:
https://play.spotify.com/…/…/playlist/1z4I7kd14CO36lOJT3lIDK

And here are the leftovers:
Pierce Brothers - Overdose (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQhRKxRd4RE)
https://soundcloud.com/blushingsate…/blushing-satellite-arul
The Shifters - Creggan Shops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXe-FxNWPJc)
https://soundcloud.com/fenne-lily/stranger
The Cairo Gang - Ice Fishing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd2z4EJBuLc)
https://newbluedeath.bandcamp.com/track/silo
https://genjingrecords.bandcamp.com/tra…/autumn-in-your-town
The one song I can't find anywhere is Pierce Brothers - Mama Please. If you can find a nice playable version, please post it in the comments

Send me (contrastians@gmail.com) your top 10 favorites (#1 being your favorite) and if you want, 1 song that you want to vote AGAINST! by midnight pacific time on Sunday 11/22/15.

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