Top Songs of 2019: 41-60

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60. “Supply and Demand” 

Wilder Woods 

Wilder Woods

Coming in at #60 is pretty impressive considering the federally mandated 40 spot penalty for blue-eyed soul 

59. “Violence (single)” 

Grimes feat. i_o

58. “Valley to LA” 

Bleached 
Don't You Think You've Had Enough

"Through the gray and decay of this beautiful place"

57. “Hard of Hearing” 

Radical Face
Therapy EP

56. “Kantori Ongaku” 

Devendra Banhart
Ma

Japanese lesson #1: ongaku is a native Japanese word meaning "music", while kantori is a transliteration of the English word "country" and is written in the katakana phonetic alphabet.
  

55. “Survival (single)” 

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

"Witness a survivor / the man is strictly the provider / the ambitions of a rider"

54. “Surefire (single)” 

Wilderado

53. “Marigolds” 

Kishi Bashi 

Omoiyari

Japanese lesson #2: Omoiyari means "compassion" while Kishi Bashi means nothing (Kaoru Ishibashi = K. Ishibashi = Kishi Bashi)

52. “Somebody's Baby” 

Sidney Gish 
Animal Kingdom: Jackson

51. “Back in My Body” 

Maggie Rogers
Heard It In A Past Life 

50. “Wasted Youth” 

Jenny Lewis 

On the Line

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49. “All My Words” 

The Way Down Wanderers
Illusions

"And if the grass has never been greener / you're sure to find the dirt won't be either"

48. “Feet (edit)” 

The Fat White Family

47. “Hold My Breath Until I Die" 

Tegan and Sara 

Hey, I'm Just Like You

46. “Die Waiting” 

Beck
Hyperspace

Japanese lesson #3: As with kantori in lesson #1, the album art here is a katakana transliteration of the English album title (haipasupasu). Congratulations, you are now fluent. Motto panakeku!

45. “A World So Full of Love (single)” 

Shakey Graves

 

44. “La Vie en Rose (single)” 

Lucy Dacus

43. “Motivation (single)” 

Normani 

42. “Use This Gospel” 

Kanye West feat. Clipse and Kenny G
JESUS IS KING 

41. “All Some Kind of Dream” 

Josh Ritter

Fever Breaks

"For it seems that these are darker days / than any others that we've seen / oh, how we wished that we weren't wide awake / and this was all some kind of dream"