january

• truce - dresden dolls
  • for nostalgia reasons, for song-covering reasons, for screaming it to keep ourselves awake reasons
• doomstar requiem - dethklok
  • literally listened to this album like six times on our road trip. cannot go ten minutes without a line from it popping into my head
• holy diver - dio
  • getting asked "why did you start listening to dio?" and being unable to think of an answer that wasn't the honest truth (stranger things fanfiction)
  • anyway this song has maybe the greatest music video of all time

february

• cuts you up - peter murphy
  • somehow never heard this until now but man what an absolute instant fave

march

• feed the mantaray - soft play
  • i wake up with this in my head like 90% of the time
• hexie mountains - orville peck
  • i'm glad i started tracking media bc i can look back and see that this was not one of my faves when the album dropped, but it's probably a top ten all time fave for me at this point
• war pigs - t-pain
  • honestly t-pain is legitimately one of the greatest vocalists of all time

april

• funny business - alice merton
  • mostly just the chorus tbh
• all the way down - iggy pop
  • finally listened to every loser and while it was overall an incredible album, this one's my fave
• skinny ape - gorillaz
  • just listened to cracker island for the first time and while this wasn't my top song from the album, it is the one i've got on repeat
• my cosmos is mine - depeche mode
  • i didn't actually love this album but this song is an absolute banger
• acheron - patrick wolf
  • honestly this whole EP should be on this list
• for her - fiona apple
  • mom: do you know this one?
  • me: is it... a club mix of a greek chorus?

may

• gardenia - iggy pop
  • the bowieness is just what i need right now, idk
• i hate you - frank carter & the rattlesnakes
  • just a vibe unfortunately
• worse than yesterday - tweaker
  • fai sent me this and said "it kinda feels like something it's weird we didn't already know about" and this is absolutely correct. like this whole album woulda been formative as hell if i'd heard it in 2004, but especially this song. retconning this into my history tbh
• new gold - gorillaz feat. tame impala and bootie brown
  • had this on repeat on the bus one day after not sleeping the night before and i was so tired that every time it started again i was like "oh! this song! i like this song!" just totally surprised and delighted every time. like i was a baby playing peekaboo with damon albarn

june

• never fight a man with a perm - idles
  • video is incredible. and gross. incredibly gross i love it
• ruby - tweaker
  • still on this album but especially this track, there is honestly nothing better than smoking my way to a light buzz and listening to this song on repeat

july

• adam raised a cain - bruce springsteen
  • "i used to be the mom friend but i've been dadcoded since getting springsteen-pilled"
• drive - rem
  • i might not be beating the dadcoded allegations i fear
• mind your business - will.i.am & britney spears
  • long live the queen

august

• silver - pixies
  • had this on repeat for the entire start of the month, pretty much. like i had doolittle on repeat a lot but then i would just hit silver and leave it on for hours
• a noiseless noise - pj harvey
  • my 24 hours of travel to california was largely spent dozing to this album and then startling awake when this one came on. such a good song i couldn't make myself remove it from the playlist so i could sleep solidly
    • and also i was too tired to adjust the playlist but that's another story
• goldigger - tsar b
  • tricks don't work on me
• ruby - tweaker
  • looping this album in the shittiest motel we've stayed in, waking up to smoke inside and smoke outside and being so sad to leave

september/october

• one more page of insincerity please - veruca salt
  • had somehow never heard this before but as with pretty much every song fai sends me, it became an immediate fave
• c'mon billy - pj harvey
  • probably my fave of hers, have been listening to it a lot lately
• i'll be yours (version 4 a.m.) - placebo
  • this song is so great but this particular version... transcendent
• beck + call - july talk feat. tanya tagaq
  • spent a good few hours just watching every live performance of this i could find, always amazing, i love july talk so much
• waste - kmfdm
  • saw a youtube comment on this that said "i like this song it is cool" and that's how i feel about this. no deep thoughts or anything. i like this song it is cool

november

• s'old - taking back sunday
  • loved this whole album tbh but this one kicked me in the fucking face

december

• take me home country roads - lana del ray
  • not a lana fan and frankly john denver was a piece of shit but also: i fucking love that song and i fucking love this cover
• undertow - ivy
  • one of my mom's jams and i'm so mad i didn't know it first? how did i get through the year 2000 without this