2017 in Review: The Best Songs

As before, the abundance of music to fill your earholes during your commute, work or attempts at exercise is worth it if only for the variety of songs that end up on this list. One song I have to highlight, because it’s only on Tidal, which no one besides its investors cares about, is the best track from JAY Z’s latest album, the confessional but underwhelming 4:44. That album’s title track is its finest moment, as he drops all pretense and lays bare his sins. The album’s many music videos were far more interesting than anything else on the music itself.


JAY Z – “4:44”

Animal Collective – “Jimmy Mack”
Arcade Fire – “Everything Now”
Dan Auerbach – “Shine on Me”
Bear and the Beasts – “Bones”
Beck – “Up All Night”
Bleachers (feat. Lorde) – “Don’t Take the Money”
Benjamin Booker (feat. Mavis Staples) – “Witness”
Phoebe Bridgers – “Smoke Signals”
Broken Social Scene – “Halfway Home”
Colony House – “You Know It”
Mac DeMarco – “On the Level”
DJ Shadow feat. Nas – “Systematic”
Drake – “Passionfruit”
Father John Misty – “Pure Comedy”
Craig Finn – “God in Chicago”
Foxygen – “Avalon”
Nelly Furtado – “Pipe Dreams”
Future Islands – “Ran”
Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Sylvia Says”
HAIM – “Little of Your Love”
Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean and Migos – “Slide”
The Horrors – “Something to Remember Me By”
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – “If We Were Vampires”
Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut to the Feeling”
Kesha – “Praying”
Kendrick Lamar feat. U2 – “XXX”
Lorde – “Liability”
Demi Lovato – “Sorry Not Sorry”
Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
Steve Martin with Steep Canyon Rangers – “Caroline”
N.E.R.D. feat. Rihanna – “Lemon”
New Found Glory – “Party on Apocalypse”
nothing,nowhere. – “Marykate”
Paramore – “Hard Times”
Portugal. The Man – “Feel It Still”
Margo Price – “All American Made”
David Ramirez – “Good Heart”
St. Vincent – “New York”
Mavis Staples – “No Time for Crying”
Sufjan Stevens – “Mystery of Love”
The Struts – “One Night Only”
Harry Styles – “Sign of the Times”
Topknot – “Seeping Scalp”
U2 vs. Kygo – “You’re the Best Thing About Me”
The War on Drugs – “Thinking of a Place”
Jessie Ware – “First Time”
Washed Out – “Hard to Say Goodbye”
The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
The xx – “Say Something Loving”

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