1. Bird Streets – Bird Streets
2. Sloan – 12
3. Rob Bonfiglio – Trouble Again

 

117 Best Songs of 2018

 

 

1. The Late Show – Sha La La (Wake Me When You’re Done)
2. Sloan – Spin Our Wheels
3. RVG – Vincent van Gogh
4. Fireproof Sam and the Network Stars – Old Trope Academy
5. Bird Streets – Direction
6. Culture Abuse – Dozy
7. Ruler – Petrified
8. Gretchen’s Wheel – Plans
9. Van Go – Miles Away
10. Tony Clifton – Making Love
11. Extra Arms – Why I Run
12. Rob Bonfiglio – Passenger Seat
13. Sunshine Boys – Tripping Through Time
14. Ex Norwegian – Team No Sleep
15. Car City – (Don’t) Give Up on Love
16. Jeff Whalen – The Alien Lanes
17. P. Hux – Honey Sweet Baby
18. Ash – Confession in the Pool
19. Albert Hammond Jr. – Far Away Truth
20. Mozes and the Firstborn – Sad SuperMarket Song
21. Sure Sure – Friends
22. Autogramm – Jessica Don’t Like Rock ‘n’ Roll
23. The Innocents – Teardrop Kiss
24. The Grip Weeds – Casual Observer (To a Crime)
25. Bent van Looy – Never Look Back
26. Guided by Voices – Cohesive Scoops
27. Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock
28. Sweden – Back Again
29. Last Great Dreamers – Primitive Man
30. Nick Piunti – Temporary High
31. Valley Lodge – Stand
32. Hurry – Jamie
33. Chris Church – Fall into Me
34. Michael Slawter – Summer’s Kind
35. Caddy – Contagious
36. The Foreign Films – Shadow in The Light
37. Rooftop Screamers – Talk About It
38. Dave Paulson – Turning Around
39. Hot Nun – Anyway
40. Chris Richards and the Substractions – Call me Out
41. Scott Gagner – Ghost of Me & You
42. Paul Collins – Killer Inside
43. The 1984 Draft – Wedding
44. Dot Dash – Gray Blue Green
45. The Chills – Complex
46. Matthew Sweet – Out of My Misery
47. The Bottle Kids – Her Heart Is Much Worse Than Her Bite
48. The Stan Laurels – I Want To Believe
49. The Gunboat Diplomats – If Summer Could Stay
50. Anchor & Bear – Walking Around
51. Jackie Daytona – California
52. Bryan Estepa – No Ordinary
53. Caper Clowns – Paper Trail
54. Mooner – The Whole World Falls Down
55. Smash Palace – It Happened To Me
56. Michael Simmons – Rudderless Day
57. Lane Steinberg & His Magical Pony – You’re Not Connected to the Internet
58. The Davenports – Where Shall We Hang Elena?
59. Lisa Mychols – One Revolution
60. Greg Pope – Forget About You
61. Three Hour Tour – Standing Still
62. Dave Sheinin – Lies
63. Tim Jackson – Better late Than Never
64. Arthur Alexander – Psycho-Automatic
65. Tom Curless – Always Bloom Forever
66. The Glad Machine – Homecoming
67. Phil Yates & The Affiliates – My Favorite Bag
68. Andy Reed & Jason Reed – The Welcoming Song
69. Super 8 – Turn Around Or
70. Stoner Control – Gimme Some Space
71. The Good Sax – She Knows
72. Gentle Hen – She’s Got it Bad
73. Young Scum – Wasting Time
74. Kai Danzberg & Lisa Mychols – Let Me Know
75. The Maureens – 4AM
76. The Yearlings – Evelene (You’ve Go to Know It)
77. The Beths – Future me Hates me
78. The Genuine Fakes – Issues
79. The Thin Cherries – I Don’t Know You All
80. The Rallies – All of Us
81. Mike Pace and the Child Actors – Escape The Noise
82. The Great Affairs – Trippin’ over Me
83. The Pretty Flowers – Cream of Canvas
84. Pale Blue Dot – I know
85. Claw Boys Claw – Suck Up The Mountain
86. The Interrupters – She’s Kerosene
87. Jeremy & The Harlequins – Remember This
88. Elliot Schneider – I Second That Amendment Blues
89. Mylittlebrother – Love song for an Island
90. Bad Moves – Cool Generator
91. The Hunna – NY to LA
92. Billy & Dolly – Archies
93. The Connection – Checking
94. Simon Love – God Bless The Dick Who Let you Go
95. In Deed – Don’t Need, Don’t Care
96. Deniz Tek – Eddie Would Go
97. Three Hour Tour – You Never Know
98. The Cherry Bluestorms – She Said She Said
99. Everet Almond – Keep Quite Now
100. Streetcar Conductors – Pushover
101. The Cherry Drops – One More Try
102. The Newds – Freebasing Your Love
103. Addison Love – Anything’s Right
104. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – Paper Rain
105. Thrift Store Halo – Concrete Sky
106. Even – Pretender
107. Aaron Lee Tasjan – The Truth Is So Hard to Believe
108. Luv Dot Gov – What’s Going On
109. The Gold Needles – My Summer’s Angel
110. The Persian Leaps – Time Slips
111. Mike Viola – King Kong Hand
112. Danny Wilkerson – You Still Owe Me a Kiss
113. David Myhr – Lucky Day
114. Smokescreens – Waiting For Summer
115. The Longshot – Love is for Losers
116. Paul McCartney – Who Cares
117. Bill Lloyd – Satellite

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