As is the yearly tradition, here are the contents of an email the went out this morning. Please feel free to participate and get your friends, loved ones, and bitter enemies to participate as well :)
OK! We officially have a Longlist for the 2017 Festive Fifty. It
seems like a pretty diverse list. Some old favorites, some new
favorites.
So here's what you need to do next. Send me
a list (to contrastians@gmail.com) of your 10 favorite songs from this list. In order from "Most
Favorite (1)" to "10th Most Favorite (10)" by the end of Sunday, 11/19.
If you would like, you may cast a Negative Vote for one song that you really don't want to see on the Final Festive Fifty.
Here's the list. The links to the Spotify playlist and 75% of the songs that aren't on Spotify is below that. Happy Voting!
| Airiel - Keep You |
| Alt-J - 3WW |
| Alt-J - Pleader |
| Amy Lee - Love Exists |
| Angelica Garcia - Orange Flower |
| Archaique Smile - Faraway Salvation |
| Audiolepsia - Rachel |
| Besnard Lakes - Laura Lee |
| Big Thief - Shark Smile |
| Bleachers - Don't Take the Money |
| Blink 182 - Parking Lot |
| Cat Palace - Cat Palace |
| Cat Pierce - Hard to Be A Woman |
| Church - Undersea |
| Depeche Mode - Where's the Revolution? |
| Dessa - Good Grief |
| Diet cig - Sixteen |
| Diet Cig - Tummy Ache |
| Drive-By Truckers - What It Means |
| Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon |
| ENTRANCE - Not Gonna Say Your Name |
| Everything Everything - Desire |
| Feist - Baby Be Simple |
| Fleet Foxes - Third of May |
| Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White - Look at What the Light Did Now |
| Flyte - Faithless |
| Flyte - Victoria Falls |
| Generationals - Turning the Screw |
| Girl Ray - Stupid Things |
| Gnod - Paper Error |
| Grandaddy - Way We Won't |
| Greta Van Fleet - Highway Tune |
| Grizzly Bear - Neighbors |
| Haim - Little of Your Love |
| HAIM - Want You Back |
| Halsey - 100 Letters |
| Halsey - Alone |
| Hamish Hawk - Goldenacre |
| Horrors - Something to Remember Me By |
| Humdrum Express - ePetition |
| Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales - Trick Of The Light |
| Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires |
| Jens Lekman - How We Met, The Long Version |
| Jens Lekman - To Know Your Mission |
| Jeremy Messersmith - Everybody Gets a Kitten |
| Jessie Ware - Alone |
| Jessie Ware - Midnight |
| Josh Ritter (feat. Bob Weir) - When Will I Be Changed |
| Juana Molina - Sin Dones |
| Julia Michaels - Issues |
| K.Flay - Blood In the Cut |
| Kamasi Washington - Knowledge |
| Kendrick Lamar - DNA |
| Kesha - Bastards |
| Kesha - Praying |
| Lana Del Ray, The Weeknd - Lust for Life |
| Land of Talk - This Time |
| LCD Soundsystem - Call the Police |
| Lorde - Liability |
| Lorde - Perfect Places |
| Luke Haines - Building For Britain in the Seventies |
| Luxembourg Signal - Blue Field |
| Mark Lanaghan Band - Beehive |
| Meursault - Klopfgeist |
| MGMT - Little Dark Age |
| Morrissey - Spent the Day in Bed |
| Mountain Goats - Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds |
| National - Dark Side of the Gym |
| Neil Finn - More Than One of You |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree |
| Pains of Being Pure At Heart - My Only |
| POS - Faded |
| Public Service Broadcasting - They Gave Me a Lamp |
| Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used To Do |
| Real Estate - Darling |
| Regrettes - Seashore |
| Residente - Una Leyenda China |
| Robert Plant - Bluebirds Over the Mountain |
| Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press |
| Secret Meadow - Vexation |
| Silver Torches - If I Reach |
| Sleaford Mods - BHS |
| Slowdive - Star Roving |
| Smiths - The Queen is Dead (Full Version) |
| SPC ECO - Pearls |
| St. Vincent - New York |
| Strobes - Winder |
| Superorganism - Something For Your M.I.N.D. |
| Sweet Baboo - Pink Rainbow |
| Tash Sultana - Jungle |
| Tashaki Miyaki - Get It Right |
| Temples - I Wanna Be Your Mirror |
| This Is The Kit - Hotter Colder |
| This Makes Us Human - Apology For a Revolution |
| Tourist - Sleepwalking |
| Tourist - We Stayed Up All Night |
| War on Drugs - Strangest Thing |
| War on Drugs - Thinking of a Place |
| Warm Digits ft. Field Music - End Times |
| Wolf Alice - Don't Delete the Kisses |
| XX - Replica |
| Zara Larsson - Lush Life |
| ZZ Ward - Cannonball |
Hamish Hawk - GoldenacreThe Humdrum Express - e-PetitionLuke
Haines - Building For Britain in the 70s is not available anywhere that
I can find it. If you can find it definitely let me know!
