Top 50 Tracks of 2014

Merry Christmas everybody! Just a few days are left in the 2014 calendar which means that it's time to go through our record collection once again and select our favorites from the past 12 months. 

We are starting today with the list of our Top 50 Tracks of the Year and we'll continue with the albums in the next few days. As usual, the rule for our annual track selection is to include only one song per artist or group and also we tend to favor tracks that were released as singles or EPs over album tracks.

Without any further ado, here are Cool Music Central's Top 50 Singles of 2014:

1.  Disco//Very - WARPAINT

2.  Satellites - EMA 

3.  Rimbaud Eyes - DUM DUM GIRLS 

4.  Feel - TY SEGALL 

5.  Do You - SPOON 

6.  Digital Witness - ST. VINCENT 

7.  Water Fountain - TUNE-YARDS

8.  Mesmerise - TEMPLES 

9.  Ben's My Friend - SUN KIL MOON 

10. Lazaretto - JACK WHITE 

11. Taking Chances - SHARON VAN ETTEN 

12. Hi-Five - ANGEL OLSEN 

13. Talking Backwards - REAL ESTATE 

14. All The Rage Back Home - INTERPOL 

15. War On The East Coast - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS 

16. Bury Our Friends - SLEATER - KINNEY 

17. Oxygen - SWANS 

18. Pro Anti Anti - LIARS 

19. Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) - RUN THE JEWELS 

20. Tied Up In Nottz - SLEAFORD MODS 

21. Detonation - THURSTON MOORE 

22. Drown With The Monster - WHITE LUNG 

23. Hot And Cold - EX HEX 

24. Lariat - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS 

25. Algiers - THE AFGHAN WHIGS 

26. Scum, Rise! - PROTOMARTYR 

27. Sunbathing Animal - PARQUET COURTS 

28. I'm Not Part Of Me - CLOUD NOTHINGS 

29. We Are Floating - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT 

30. Under The Pressure - THE WAR ON DRUGS 

31. Was It A Dream - MARISSA NADLER 

32. Romance And Adventure - ALLO DARLIN’ 

33. The Littlest League Possible - GUIDED BY VOICES 

34. Losing To The Dark - LA SERA 

35. Don't Mess With Me - BRODY DALLE 

36. Bagboy - PIXIES 

37. Fever - THE BLACK KEYS 

38. Trainwreck 1979 - DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 

39. The Lord's Favorite - ICEAGE 

40. How Can You Really - FOXYGEN 

41. Istanbul - MORRISSEY 

42. Strange Weather - ANNA CALVI 

43. Orion - 2:54 

44. Rockets And Jets - HOSPITALITY 

45. Simple And Sure - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART 

46. American Horror - SPEEDY ORTIZ 

47. Archie, Marry Me - ALVVAYS 

48. 501-415 - ALLAH-LAS 

49. Hundreds Of Ways - CONOR OBERST

50. Happy Idiot - TV ON THE RADIO

You can stream our Top 50 list here.

The Best Albums of 2014 so far - Part 4

Last but not least... The final ten albums in the list of our 40 favorite records of 2014 so far, featuring Temples, The Afghan Whigs, The Black Keys, The Hold Steady, The Men, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, The War On Drugs, Tune-Yards and Warpaint. Have a listen below and also check out our Top 20 Tracks of the last six months - just a small sample of a quite long list:

The A-Z of the first half of 2014 (pt.4):

• TEMPLES - Sun Structure 

• THE AFGHAN WHIGS - Do To The Beast

• THE BLACK KEYS - Turn Blue

• THE HOLD STEADY - Teeth Dreams

• THE MEN - Tomorrow's Hits

• THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART - Days Of Abandon

• THE WAR ON DRUGS - Lost In The Dream

• TUNE-YARDS - Nikki Nack

• WARPAINT - Warpaint

• WOODS - With Light And With Love

Here's the rest of our Top 40:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Top 20 Tracks (January - June 2014) 

 

• Disco//Very - WARPAINT
• Satellites - EMA
• Digital Witness - ST. VINCENT
• Rimbaud Eyes - DUM DUM GIRLS
• Mesmerise - TEMPLES
• Ben's My Friend - SUN KIL MOON
• Talking Backwards - REAL ESTATE
• Water Fountain - TUNE-YARDS
• Taking Chances - SHARON VAN ETTEN
• Hi-Five - ANGEL OLSEN
• Lariat - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
• We Are Floating - ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT
• Sunbathing Animal - PARQUET COURTS
• Tied Up In Nottz - SLEAFORD MODS
• Pro Anti Anti- LIARS
• Scum, Rise! - PROTOMARTYR
• Falling Down The Stairs - BLANK REALM
• I'm Not Part Of Me - CLOUD NOTHINGS
• Don't Mess With Me - BRODY DALLE
• Algiers - THE AFGHAN WHIGS