Top 10 Best Songs of 2013 According to Rolling Stone
So, essentially, I am very happy with their choice of songs. Really. This surprised me as well. Although none of them appeared on my own list, I have a very positive opinion about most of the songs. If I had made a top 50 list instead of only 10 tracks, four of these songs would probably have made it, including the three top spots and number 7. Although it's not my favorite song by that artist, I also like number 9 on this list. The other songs are fine with me, although they are not my style. I am also surprised they included indie bands and non-singles in their top ten.
From a mainstream point of view, as Rolling Stone presents it, Miley Cyrus would have needed to be on this list as well (after all, "Drive" just barely missed my own list), but at least she appears in lower positions. You can't include everything in the top ten. Of course, as much as I like their choice of songs, their texts accompanying the items are ridiculously short and passionless. This makes it clear that, although their ultimate selection is fine, they only compiled the most obvious choices rather than selecting something they authentically liked.
Oh, and I need to make a retrospective correction on what I said about their 2014 list. I said their items number one and ten were justified in the top ten, but the others were just solid. I overlooked the fact that their number one item of 2014 is actually from 2013, which I could have realized since I included a song from the same album on my 2013 list. Well, silly me.
This time I've checked every song. Their number 6 item is from 2012, and the rest are fine.
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Get Lucky - Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers
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Royals - Lorde
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Black Skinhead - Kanye West
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Hannah Hunt - Vampire Weekend
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When a Fire Starts to Burn - Disclosure
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Stoned and Starving - Parquet Courts
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Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
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Retrograde - James Blake
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Started from the Bottom - Drake
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Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
