An approximate Top 40 for 2014. Mixtape rules apply – maximum of one track per artist.
I made a YouTube playlist containing most of the tracks in the traditional countdown from 40 format. Click here for that, or on the song titles for individual links.
40. Manic Street Preachers – ‘Between the Clock and the Bed’
39. Wild Beasts – ‘Wanderlust’
38. Taylor Swift – ‘Shake It Off’
37. FM Belfast – ‘Brighter Days’
36. Erasure – ‘Elevation’
35. Book Group – ‘Here is Too Near’
34. Fight Like Apes – ‘Crouching Bees’
33. Eno • Hyde – ‘Daddy’s Car’
32. Arthur Beatrice – ‘More Scrapes’
31. Bombay Bicycle Club – ‘Carry Me’
30. Gone Wishing – ‘The Watchers’
29. Los Campesinos! – ‘Little Mouth’
28. Thumpers – ‘Unkinder (A Tougher Love)’
27. Sky Ferreira – ‘You’re Not the One’
26. Broken Records – ‘So Long, So Late’
25. Kaddish – ‘Treading’
24. V V Brown – ‘Faith’
23. Jenny Lewis – ‘She’s Not Me’
22. Future Islands – ‘Seasons (Waiting on You)’
21. The Antlers – ‘Refuge’
20. Jimi Goodwin – ‘Oh! Whiskey’
19. TV on the Radio – ‘Quartz’
18. SOHN – ‘The Wheel’
17. Ryan Adams – ‘Gimme Something Good’
16. Spoon – ‘New York Kiss’
15. Angel Olsen – ‘Unfucktheworld’
14. Jessie Ware – ‘Kind of… Sometimes… Maybe’
13. Run the Jewels – ‘Close Your Eyes’
12. Strand of Oaks – ‘Plymouth’
11. Pretoria Pines – ‘Ask Not the Sea’
10. Mogwai – ‘Teenage Exorcists’
09. Little Dragon – ‘Klapp Klapp’
08. The Ting Tings – ‘Wrong Club’
07. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – ‘Coming Down (ft. Matt Berninger)’
06. The Hazey Janes – ‘If Ever There Is Gladness’
05. Meursault – ‘Game of Pricks’
04. Interpol – ‘All the Rage Back Home’
03. Afghan Whigs – ‘Parked Outside’
02. Young Fathers – ‘Get Up’
01. Caribou – ‘Can’t Do Without You’
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