2024 Music: Songs of the Year 100-51

 Plenty into the new year as usual but I felt like I had the time and energy this year to put together a full set of posts rather than just dumping a list of titles into one post. It's mainly late because I spent the end of last year overseas, and since coming back I've wanted to finish my last book of 2024 so I can do all of my end-of-year posts effectively in one go.

So the easiest first; from a shortlist of around 200 songs from last year, I've sorted them into a top 100 and 'the rest' which I'll share in the form of a playlist after getting through to my number 1 song, but this post is traditionally just a dump of the first 50 songs, counting down (the best order in which to count things) to number 51, then for the next post I'll jump into the top 50 with a brief writeup of each song, and then count down the top 20 with slightly-less brief writeups of each song and why it's there.

100) POP SONG - Kenshi Yonezu (Visual Kei)

99) R U 4 REAL - Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand (Indie Folk)

98) Lucky - The Bamboos feat. Bobby Flynn (Funk Soul)

97) Holster - The Strumbellas (Indie Folk Pop)

96) Wakili - Seckou Keita (Senegaleso Kora Folk)

95) Nobody's Soldier - Hozier (Soul Pop)

94) Old Bones - Them Moose Rush (Hard Rock)

93) There's Always Been a Bird in Me - Mercury Rev (Art Pop)

92) Hearts in Danger - Shaznay Lewis (Pop)

91) A Moon Behind the Clouds - Phosphorescent (Indie Folk)

90) Security Camera - Bridget Kearney (Indie Pop)

89) Icarus IV - Kishi Bashi (Baroque Pop)

88) Outta Here - AWOLNATION (Indie Pop Rock)

87) Wild Geese, Wild Love - Amanda Bergman (Folk Pop)

86) Sand - Dove Cameron (Hyperpop)

85) Frosty the Snowman - Xiu Xiu (Gothic Christmas Rock)

84) Watercolour - Ruth Theodore (Indie Folk)

83) Dark Vacay - Cigarettes After Sex (Dreampop)

82) Living on the Wall - Laura J Martin & Iwan Morgan (Alt Pop)

81) I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All - Father John Misty (Indie Folk)

80) Bad Idea - Vera Sola (Desert Folk)

79) Song to the Siren - Garbage (Gothic Rock Cover)

78) Umva - Elsy Wameyo (Kenyano Hip-Hop)

77) Under Your Wings - Giant Rooks (Pop Rock)

76) Better Day - Jamie Webster (Folk Pop)

75) Sycophant's Paradise - Chemtrails (Noise Pop)

74) Supercalifragilistic - xikers (K-Pop)

73) §5 - Opeth (Progressive Metal)

72) Alone - The Cure (Gothic Rock)

71) Wreckage - Pearl Jam (Post-Grunge)

70) No. 1 in the World - RXM Reality (Deconstructed Club)

69) Comfortably Numb - Body Count & David Gilmour (Rap Rock)

68) Going Down - Kim Dracula & Alex Boniello (Non-Musical Theatre Hip-Hop)

67) JOYRIDE - Kesha (Pop)

66) To the Bone - HiNA (Maori Folk Pop)

65) Letting Go - Hollow Coves (Indie Folk)

64) Goddamn Biscuit - Fantastic Negrito (Contemporary RnB)

63) Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter (Pop)

62) Icy Windy Sky - UGLY (UK) (Post-Pop)

61) Dead Stars - Kim Krans (Art Rock)

60) Cordelia - Flower Face (Dreamfolk)

59) Rhino - Tides from Nebula (Polisho Post-Metal)

58) POLAROIDS - CLYPSO (Indie Dance)

57) Hero - anamē & Lydmor (Downtempo Electronica)

56) Birds - GERD (Art Pop)

55) now - Little Moon (Indie Folk)

54) euphoria - Kendrick Lamar (Hip-Hop)

53) Off With Her Tits - Allie X (Synthpop)

52) Playing for Time (Bright-Side Mix) - Peter Gabriel (Art Rock)

51) Knock Yourself Out XD - Porter Robinson (Pop)