LADYBAR chooses quite an uneven list this year. Please enjoy:
15) Generationals, “Ten Twenty Ten” – “When I see your friends / They say it’s in my head / All my friends seem to think / You might leave me for dead.”
14) Monarchy, “Maybe I’m Crazy” – “I’d rather be crazy / Than share you with somebody else.”
13) Bon Iver, “Holocene” – “And, at once, I knew I was not magnificent.”
12) U.S. Royalty, “Monte Carlo” – “Don’t be scared of what you find / In the night.”
11) Louis La Roché, “The Wall” (Shook Remix) – “ I can’t take no more.”
10) The Strokes, “Taken for a Fool” – “I know, everyone goes any damn place they like.”
9) M83, “Midnight City” – “Waiting for a roar.”
8) Robyn, “Dancing on my Own” – “I’m giving it my all, but I’m not the girl you’re taking home.”
7) John Maus, “Hey Moon” – “I’m sure we’ll find some way to make the time pass.”
6) Metronomy, “The Look” (Fred Falke Remix) – “’You’re up, and you’ll get down….Cause you read it in a big book / And now you’re giving me the look look.”
5) Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues” – “And, now, after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be / A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me.”
4) Motopony, “King of Diamonds” – “I’ve been looking for the King of Diamonds / But I guess the queen will do.”
3) Robin Pecknold and Ed Droste, “I’m Losing Myself” – “And, I wonder if you look at me and instead see him taking my place.”
2) Björk, “Cosmogyny” – “And then / was light / was sound / was matter / and it all became / the world / we know…./ Dance eternal.”
1) The Weeknd, “Glass Table Girls” [3:24]: “La la la la la la la la/ ‘m so gone, so gone / bring out the glass tables.”