Top Songs of 2017: 41-60

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60. “Creature Comfort” 

Arcade Fire 

Everything Now

It is weird to see reviewers who gave The Suburbs a pass complain about the joyless and pretentious elements of Everything Now. 

59. “Oceans Away (Sam Feldt remix)” 

A R I Z O N A 

Spacing in band name looks good, but results in iTunes sorting it under the letter "R"  

58. “No Question” 

Waxahatchee
Out in the Storm

57. “Don't Take the Money” 

Bleachers
Gone Now 

56. “Kill Jill” 

Big Boi w/ Killer Mike & Jeezy 

BOOMIVERSE

Killer Mike and Big Boi have been guesting on each other tracks for nearly 15 years and make a better duo than Killer Mike and El-P, even if Run the Jewels shows up higher on this year's list.  

55. “Blondie” 

Blondie

Pollinator

Pretty vintage for a band that has been around since 1974. 

54. “Deadly Valentine” 

Charlotte Gainsbourg 

Rest

53. “I''m the One” 

DJ Khaled w/ Bieber, Quavo, Chance & Lil' Wayne 

Grateful

In 2017 Chance the Rapper did a lot of impressive things (giving $1M to Chicago schools, hosting SNL, cracking wise as a weatherman) but getting Justin Bieber onto the list is maybe the most surprising. 

52. “Mercury” 

Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, etc. 
Planetarium 

Most of Planetarium (an album inspired by the solar system) is as much of a bloated mess as that concept might suggest, but this very Sufjan-y track is an exception. 

51. “Alone” 

Jessie Ware 

Glasshouse

50. “New York” 

St. Vincent 

MASSEDUCATION

49. “Ubu” 

Methyl Ethel
Everything is Forgotten

48. “Take Care” 

Young Thug

BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS

Love the last minute, especially when it sounds like he name checks (in a song full of name checking) onetime Niner QB Tim Rattay. ed note: Young Thug does not name check Tim Rattay. 

47. “Little of Your Love" 

HAIM 

Something To Tell You

In addition to directing Oscar contender Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson found time to direct the video for this song, the second best goofy dancing video HAIM made in 2017 (first best). 

46. “Slip Away” 

Perfume Genius 

No Shape

A pretty impressive artistic progression/evolution continues for Mike Hadreas. 4th album, 4th appearance on this list. 

45. “Nights With You” 

MØ

MØ seems to be taking a modern approach to music recording in a post-Spotify world. 5 years into her career she has only released one LP but has new singles and EPs every 6 months or so.

44. “Call Ticketron” 

Run the Jewels

Run the Jewels 3

43. “Telefono” 

Phoenix 

Ti Amo

There is a lot of Italian mixed with the English in this album from the French indie pop stalwarts. We like the slow fade in to the start of the song. 

42. “You Don't Know About Me” 

Ella Vos 

Words I Never Said

41. “Good Old Days” 

Macklemore

GEMINI

7 of the 20 songs in this grouping have an all caps album title or band name. We guess that is a thing now. As are corny YOLO songs that we can't help but like.