January 12, 2020

Best of: Top 50 of 2019: My favourite songs of 2019

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Photo by John Ordean at One In Ten Words oneintenwords.com toronto indie alternative live music blog concert photography pictures photos nikon d750 camera yyz photographer
Photo by John Ordean at One In Ten Words oneintenwords.com toronto indie alternative live music blog concert photography pictures photos nikon d750 camera yyz photographer
Photo by John Ordean at One In Ten Words oneintenwords.com toronto indie alternative live music blog concert photography pictures photos nikon d750 camera yyz photographer
Looking back at old posts, I see that it's been 10 years since I posted my first "best of" post back at the end of 2009. Back then, I did a list of my favourite 25 songs and favourite 30 albums, in no particular order. Since then, I've been putting together lists of my favourite songs and albums of each year and more recently my favourite concert photos of the year, starting back in 2014. If you want, you can peruse all my best of posts from this link here.

This year is no exception with my favourite songs of the year below, my favourite albums of the year right over here and my favourite concert photos of the year right here. Hope you enjoy the list. You can now find it on Spotify and on Apple Music, too, along with a bunch of previous best-of lists.

2019 sucked in a whole host of ways, but music is definitely not included in the suckage. Hopefully you agree that 2019 was a really good year for music, that you find some songs in the list that you loved, and you hopefully find some new discoveries.

All the best as we climb into 2020.

50. Wallows "Scrawny"

49. Foals "Exits"

48. Frank Turner "The Lioness"

47. Hollerado "Time on Earth"

46. Sharon Van Etten "Seventeen"

45. Nilüfer Yanya "In Your Head"

44. Methyl Ethel "Trip the Mains"

43. Kid Bloom "LEMONHEAD"

42. Screaming Females "Let Me In"

41. FONTAINES D.C. "Boys in the Better Land"

40. Low Hum "Strange Love"

39. Charly Bliss "Capacity"

38. The Effens "Human"

37. Pottery "Lady Solinas"

36. Broken Social Scene "Can't Find My Heart"

35. The National "Rylan"

34. Ex Hex "Rainbow Shiner"

33. Alice Merton "Lash Out"

32. pronoun "temporary tantrum"

31. girl in red "dead girl in the pool"

30. The Japanese House "We Talk All the Time"

29. Clairo "Bags"

28. King Princess "Cheap Queen"

27. Pkew Pkew Pkew "I Don't Matter at All"

26. FIDLAR "Can’t You See"

25. Angel Du$t "On My Way"

24. Ian Blurton "Days Will Remain"

23. allusinlove "All My Love"

22. The Anti-Queens "Worse Than Death"

21. Miss June "Twitch"

20. Control Top "Chain Reaction"

19. Tallies "Easy Enough"

18. Bob Mould "Sunshine Rock"

17. Ra Ra Riot "Bad to Worse"


15. PUP "Kids"

14. Barrie "Clovers"

13. Mannequin Pussy "Drunk II"


11. Ludic "My Love"

10. Dizzy "Twist"

9. Hatchie "Without a Blush"

8. Better Oblivion Community Center "Dylan Thomas"

7. K.Flay "Bad Vibes"

6. SWMRS "Trashbag Baby"

5. The Twilight Sad "I'm Not Here [Missing Face]"

4. The Regrettes "California Friends"

3. Sunflower Bean "Come for Me"

2. Bleached "Hard to Kill"

1. Billie Eilish "Bad Guy"
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