What Are Your Favorite Songs of 2017?


What were your favorite songs from 2017? Here’s the list. And congratulations to Rise Albert who won the 93 second Turn It Up CDs shopping spree.

1 Workman Song:   Rock & Roll
2 Suitcase Junket:   Beta Star
3 Childish Gambino:   Redbone
4 St. Vincent:   Los Ageless
5 Valerie June:   Astral Plane
6 Lord Huron:   The Night We Met
7 Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile:   Over Everything
8 Father John Misty:   Total Entertainment Forever
9 Gentle Hen:   College Town
10 Ibeyi & Kamasi Washington:   Deathless
11 John Mayer:   In The Blood
12 Michael Kiwanuka:   Cold Little Heart
13 Portugal The Man:   Feel It Still
14 Rubblebucket:   If UC My Enemies
15 Arcade Fire & Mavis Staples:   I Give You Power
16 Josh Ritter:   Showboat
17 Morrissey:   Spent The Day In Bed
18 Rag & Bone Man:   Human
19 Spoon:   Hot Thoughts
20 The New Pornographers:   High Ticket Attractions
21 Abe Loomis:   Refugees Are Welcome Here
22 Arcade Fire:   Everything Now
23 Big Thief:   Shark Smile
24 Brandi Carlile:   The Joke
25 Cage The Elephant:   Whole Wide World
26 Chainsmokers & Coldplay:   Something Like This
27 Hurray For The Riff Raff:   Hungry Ghost
28 Kings Of Leon:   Waste A Moment
29 Mark Mulcahy:   Catching Mice
30 Mavis Staples:   If All I Was Was Black
31 Prince:   Deliverance
32 The National:   The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
33 The War On Drugs:   Pain
34 U2:   You’re The Best Thing About Me
35 Beck:   Dear Life
36 Cold War Kids:   Love Is Mystical
37 Deer Tick:   Jumpstarting
38 Dispatch:   Only The Wild Ones
39 Dustbowl Revival:   Busted
40 The Nields:   Tyrants Always Fall
41 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings:   Matter of Time
42 Erin McKeown:   Pretty Little Cemetary
43 Father John Misty:   Ballad Of The Dying Man
44 HAIM:   Want You Back
45 Hurray For The Riff Raff:   Rican Beach
46 Laura Marling:   Wild Fire
47 Maggie Rogers:   Alaska
48 Old 97’s & Brandi Carlile:   Good With God
49 Real Estate:   Darling
50 Robert Plant:   Bones Of Saints
51 Sampha:   (No One Knows Me) Like The Piano
52 Secret Sisters:   He’s Fine
53 The National:   Day I Die
54 Ed Sheeran:   Castle On The Hill
55 The War On Drugs:   Holding On
56 Trombone Shorty:   Dirty Water
57 Aimee Mann:   Goose Snow Cone
58 Billy Bragg:   Why We Build The Wall
59 Childish Gambino:   Have Some Love
60 Bridget Kearney:   Wash Up
61 Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears:   Sexual Tension
62 Cage The Elephant:   Cold Cold Cold
63 Car Seat Headrest:   War Is Coming (If You Want It)
64 Chicano Batman:   Friendship Is A Small Boat In A Storm
65 Dan Auerbach:   Shine On Me
66 Gorillaz & Mavis Staples:   Let Me Out
67 Drive by Truckers: What it Means
68 Dave Rawlings:   Cumberland Gap
69 Sun Parade:   Braindrain
70 Iron & Wine:   Call It Dreaming
71 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit:   If We Were Vampires
72 JD McPherson:   Lucky Penny
73 Lorde:   Liability
74 The New Pornographers:   Whiteout Conditions
75 St. Vincent:   New York
76 Jay Som: Baybee
77 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit:   Hope The High Road
78 Jack Johnson:   My Mind Is For Sale
79 Maggie Rogers:   On & Off
80 MILCK:   Quiet
81 Mavis Staples:   Little Bit
82 Michael Kiwanuka:   Love & Hate
83 Mavericks:   Damned If You Do
84 Valerie June:   Shakedown
85 Wilco:   All Lives, You Say?
86 Van Willian & First Aid Kit:   Revolution
87 Lorde:   Green Light
88 Pokey LaFarge:   Riot In The Streets
89 Regina Spektor:   Older & Taller
90 Rhiannon Giddens:   Julie
91 Spoon:   Can I Sit Next To You
92 Vance Joy:   Lay It On Me
93 Shovels & Rope:   Botched Execution

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