So a recently I expanded my Favorite Films Per Year list into a Top 5 Films Per Year list, and thought it’d be fun to do the same now with my Favorite Songs Per Year list… I need help…
For this list, I was able to go as far as back as 1967 before my brain broke. Also, I implemented two rules for myself:
1.Only one song per album (with the exception of b-sides, EP’s, bonus tracks, etc.)
2.No instrumentals
Obviously there’s a lot to get through here, so let’s get going:
2022
1.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “The Shape I’m Takin’”
2.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Black Summer”
3.Jack White - “Love is Selfish”
4.Silversun Pickups - “Alone on a Hill”
5.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Roulette”
2021
1.Slipknot - “The Chapeltown Rag”
2.Royal Blood - “Mad Visions”
3.Guns N’ Roses - “Hard Skool”
4.Guns N’ Roses - “Absurd”
5.Jack White - “Taking Me Back”
2020
1.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Cyr”
2.Pearl Jam - “Dance of the Clairvoyants”
3.Stone Temple Pilots - “Years”
4.The Strokes - “The Adults Are Talking”
5.Greta Van Fleet - “My Way Soon”
2019
1.Tool - “Descending”
2.Slipknot - “Solway Firth”
3.The Weeknd - “Blinding Lights”
4.Cage the Elephant - “Social Cues”
5.The Black Keys - “Shine a Little Light”
2018
1.Jack White - “Over and Over and Over”
2.Alice in Chains - “The One You Know”
3.Slipknot - “All Out Life”
4.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)”
5.Greta Van Fleet - “When the Curtain Falls”
2017
1.Greta Van Fleet - “Edge of Darkness”
2.Royal Blood - “How Did We Get So Dark?”
3.Portugal. The Man - “Feel It Still”
4.Queens of the Stone Age - “The Way You Used to Do”
5.Stone Sour - “Song #3”
2016
1.Metallica - “Hardwired”
2.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Dark Necessities”
3.Zack de la Rocha - “Digging for Windows”
4.Zakk Wylde - “Sleeping Dogs”
5.The Weeknd - “I Feel It Coming”
2015
1.The Dead Weather - “Let Me Through”
2.Hamilton - “Alexander Hamilton”
3.Silversun Pickups - “Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)”
4.Faith No More - “Superhero”
5.Adele - “Hello”
2014
1.Run the Jewels - “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)”
2.Slipknot - “Custer”
3.Royal Blood - “Out of the Black”
4.Slash - “Shadow Life”
5.Jack White - “Lazaretto”
2013
1.Arctic Monkeys - “R U Mine?”
2.Daft Punk - “Instant Crush”
3.Cage the Elephant - “Come a Little Closer”
4.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “This is the Kitt”
5.Alice in Chains - “Stone”
2012
1.Slash - “Standing in the Sun”
2.Adele - “Skyfall”
3.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Never is a Long Time”
4.Jack White - “Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy”
5.Linkin Park - “Castle of Glass”
2011
1.Adele - “He Won’t Go”
2.Foo Fighters - “Dear Rosemary”
3.Gotye - “Somebody That I Used to Know”
4.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Look Around”
5.Foster the People - “Pumped Up Kicks”
2010
1.The Black Keys - “Next Girl”
2.Slash - “Nothing to Say”
3.Ozzy Osbourne - “Let Me Hear You Scream”
4.The Dead Weather - “Die By The Drop”
5.Linkin Park - “Blackout”
2009
1.Silversun Pickups - “Panic Switch”
2.Alice in Chains - “Your Decision”
3.Paramore - “Ignorance”
4.Kiss - “Modern Day Delilah”
5.Arctic Monkeys - “Crying Lightning”
2008
1.Slipknot - “Sulfur”
2.Cage the Elephant - “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked”
3.One Day as a Lion - “Wild International”
4.Oasis - “Falling Down”
5.Guns N’ Roses - “This I Love”
2007
1.Foo Fighters - “Stranger Things Have Happened”
2.Queens of the Stone Age - “3’s & 7’s”
3.Arctic Monkeys - “D is for Dangerous”
4.The White Stripes - “Icky Thump”
5.Linkin Park - “Across the Line”
2006
1.Tool - “The Pot”
2.Stone Sour - “Through Glass”
3.Chris Cornell - “You Know My Name”
4.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Death of a Martian”
5.Arctic Monkeys - “Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
2005
1.Audioslave - “Be Yourself”
2.Gorillaz - “Feel Good, Inc.”
3.Depeche Mode - “John the Revelator”
4.The White Stripes - “Blue Orchid”
5.Queens of the Stone Age - “Little Sister”
2004
1.Keane - “Everybody’s Changing”
2.Velvet Revolver - “Fall to Pieces”
3.Green Day - “Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
4.U2 - “Vertigo”
5.Slipknot - “Duality”
2003
1.No Doubt - “It’s My Life”
2.Linkin Park - “Faint”
3.The White Stripes - “Seven Nation Army”
4.Eminem - “Lose Yourself”
5.Outkast - “She Lives in My Lap”
2002
1.Queens of the Stone Age - “You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like a Millionaire”
2.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Minor Thing”
3.Audioslave - “Like a Stone”
4.Justin Timberlake - “Like I Love You”
5.Stone Sour - “Bother”
2001
1.Weezer - “Island in the Sun”
2.John Frusciante - “Away & Anywhere”
3.The White Stripes - “Fell in Love with a Girl”
4.Daft Punk - “Harder Better Faster Stronger”
5.System of a Down - “Ariels”
2000
1.LeAnn Rimes - “Can’t Fight the Moonlight”
2.Linkin Park - “In the End”
3.The White Stripes - “Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise”
4.Outkast - “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)”
5.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Let Me Give the World to You”
1999
1.Collective Soul - “Heavy”
2.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Scar Tissue”
3.Foo Fighters - “Generator”
4.Rage Against the Machine - “Guerilla Radio”
5.Eminem - “My Name Is”
1998
1.Jerry Cantrell - “Dickeye”
2.Outkast - “Rosa Parks”
3.Queens of the Stone Age - “Mexicola”
4.Rob Zombie - “Superbeast”
5.Lauryn Hill - “Doo Wop (That Thing)”
1997
1.The Verve - “Bittersweet Symphony”
2.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Eye”
3.Faith No More - “Ashes to Ashes”
4.Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
5.Blur - “Song 2”
1996
1.Tool - “Forty-Six & Two”
2.Outkast - “ATLiens”
3.Soundgarden - “Blow Up the Outside World”
4.Butthole Surfers - “Pepper”
5.Rage Against the Machine - “Bulls on Parade”
1995
1.The Smashing Pumpkins - “1979”
2.Oasis - “Champagne Supernova”
3.No Doubt - “Don’t Speak”
4.Garbage - “Stupid Girl”
5.Green Day - “Geek Stink Breath”
1994
1.Nine Inch Nails - “Closer”
2.Soundgarden - “Limo Wreck”
3.Pantera - “5 Minutes Alone”
4.Weezer - “Say It Ain’t So”
5.Motley Crue - “Power to the Music”
1993
1.Pearl Jam - “Rearviewmirror”
2.The Smashing Pumpkins - “Mayonaise”
3.Tool - “Swamp Song”
4.Nirvana - “Very Ape”
5.Duran Duran - “Come Undone”
1992
1.Blind Melon - “No Rain”
2.Faith No More - “Kindergarten”
3.Alice in Chains - “Would?”
4.Rage Against the Machine - “Bombtrack”
5.Pantera - “A New Level”
1991
1.Guns N’ Roses - “November Rain”
2.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Under the Bridge”
3.Nirvana - “Come As You Are”
4.Ratt - “Nobody Rides for Free”
5.Ozzy Osbourne - “No More Tears”
1990
1.Pantera - “Cemetery Gates”
2.Alice in Chains - “Bleed the Freak”
3.Depeche Mode - “Enjoy the Silence (Single Version)”
4.Bell Biv DeVoe - “Poison”
5.Madonna - “Vogue”
1989
1.Faith No More - “From Out of Nowhere”
2.Nine Inch Nails - “Head Like a Hole”
3.Nirvana - “Blew”
4.Aerosmith - “Water Song/ Janie’s Got a Gun”
5.Shark Island - “Paris Calling”
1988
1.Edie Brickell - “What I Am”
2.Ozzy Osbourne - “Miracle Man”
3.Danzig - “Mother”
4.Living Colour - “Cult of Personality”
5.Guns N’ Roses - “Patience”
1987
1.REM - “The One I Love”
2.Guns N’ Roses - “Rocket Queen”
3.Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Backwoods”
4.INXS - “Need You Tonight”
5.Depeche Mode - “Strangelove (Single Version)”
1986
1.Kim Wilde - “You Keep Me Hangin On”
2.Metallica - “Battery”
3.Kenny Loggins - “Danger Zone”
4.Ozzy Osbourne - “The Ultimate Sin”
5.Queen - “A Kind of Magic”
1985
1.Kiss - “Tears Are Falling”
2.Motley Crue - “Home Sweet Home”
3.Dead or Alive - “You Spin Me Round (Performance Mix)”
4.Husker Du - “New Day Rising”
5.Tears For Fears - “Shout”
1984
1.The Smiths - “How Soon Is Now?”
2.Metallica - “Ride the Lightning”
3.The Smiths - “What Difference Does It Make?”
4.Van Halen - “Panama”
5.Queen - “I Want to Break Free”
1983
1.U2 - “New Year’s Day (Video Version)”
2.Ozzy Osbourne - “Bark at the Moon”
3.Metallica - “Jump in the Fire”
4.Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”
5.David Bowie - “Let’s Dance (Single Version)”
1982
1.Michael Jackson - “Thriller”
2.Kiss - “Creatures of the Night”
3.Toto - “Africa”
4.Van Halen - “Hang ‘em High”
5.Rush - “Subdivisions”
1981
1.Rush - “Limelight”
2.Ozzy Osbourne - “Diary of a Madman”
3.Van Halen - “Unchained”
4.Motley Crue - “Live Wire”
5.Kim Wilde - “Kids In America”
1980
1.Devo - “Whip It”
2.Ozzy Osbourne - “Mr. Crowley”
3.Motorhead - “Ace of Spades”
4.Blondie - “Call Me (Single Version)”
5.ACDC - “Back in Black”
1979
1.The Police - “Message in a Bottle”
2.The Eagles - “I Can’t Tell You Why”
3.Kiss - “I Was Made for Lovin’ You”
4.Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”
5.Tom Petty - “Refugee”
1978
1.The Cars - “Just What I Needed”
2.Van Halen - “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love”
3.Journey - “Wheel in the Sky”
4.Dire Straits - “Sultans of Swing”
5.Toto - “Hold the Line”
1977
1.Kiss - “I Stole Your Love”
2.Fleetwood Mac - “You Make Loving Fun”
3.Bee Gees - “Stayin’ Alive”
4.Heart - “Barracuda”
5.Blue Oyster Cult - “Godzilla”
1976
1.Aerosmith - “Rats in the Cellar”
2.Kiss - “Detroit Rock City”
3.Kiss - “Hard Luck Woman”
4.The Ramones - “Blitzkrieg Bop”
5.Kansas - “Carry On, Wayward Son”
1975
1.Heart - “Crazy on You”
2.Fleetwood Mac - “Landslide”
3.Led Zeppelin - “Trampled Under Foot”
4.Pink Floyd - “Wish You Were Here”
5.ACDC - “T.N.T.”
1974
1.Queen - “Killer Queen”
2.Blue Swede - “Hooked on a Feeling”
3.The Rolling Stones - “It’s Only Rock ’n Roll (But I Like It)”
4.Kiss - “Black Diamond”
5.ABBA - “Waterloo”
1973
1.The Rolling Stones - “Angie”
2.Led Zeppelin - “No Quarter”
3.Redbone - “Come and Get Your Love”
4.The Wings - “Band on the Run”
5.Dobie Gray - “Drift Away”
1972
1.Elton John - “Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)”
2.Black Sabbath - “Supernaut”
3.David Bowie - “Moonage Daydream”
4.Neil Young - “Heart of Gold”
5.Stealers Wheel - “Stuck in the Middle with You”
1971
1.The Rolling Stones - “Wild Horses”
2.Led Zeppelin - “Battle of Evermore”
3.Black Sabbath - “Children of the Grave”
4.The Who - “Behind Blue Eyes”
5.John Lennon - “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”
1970
1.The Beatles - “Let It Be (Single Version)”
2.Derek & the Dominos - “Layla”
3.Led Zeppelin - “Out on the Tiles”
4.Black Sabbath - “War Pigs / Luke’s Wall”
5.Santana - “Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen”
1969
1.The Rolling Stones - “Gimme Shelter”
2.Led Zeppelin - “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”
3.Led Zeppelin - “Ramble On”
4.The Beatles - “Here Comes the Sun”
5.The Archies - “Sugar, Sugar”
1968
1.The Beatles - “Revolution”
2.Jimi Hendrix - “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
3.The Beatles - “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
4.Steppenwolf - “Magic Carpet Ride”
5.Big Brother & the Holding Company - “Piece of My Heart”
1967
1.Jimi Hendrix - “Little Wing”
2.Jimi Hendrix - “Foxey Lady”
3.The Doors - “Break On Through”
4.The Beatles - “With a Little Help from My Friends”
5.Marvin Gaye - “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”
…Welp, that’s it!
Peace!
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