2014 – my year in music
What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …
I have re-ranked both singles and albums in December 2024, and I have also included the original charts I wrote at the end of 2014.
Top albums of 2014 | ||
1 | Kaiser Chiefs | Education Education Education and War |
2 | Honeyblood | Honeyblood |
3 | Superfood | Don't Say That |
4 | Temples | Sun Structures |
5 | Maximo Park | Too Much Information |
6 | Bleech | Humble Sky |
7 | Fashoda Crisis | Almost Everyone is Entirely Average at Almost Everything |
8 | Martha | Courting Strong |
9 | Bis | Data Panik Etcetera |
10 | Nina Persson | Animal Heart |
11 | Manic Street Preachers | Futurology |
12 | Abdoujaparov | Seaside Arcade Bingo Patrol |
13 | Sleaford Mods | Divide and Exit |
14 | Inspiral Carpets | Inspiral Carpets |
15 | Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Wig Out At Jagbags |
16 | Desperate Journalist | Desperate Journalist |
17 | Kirsty Bertarelli | Indigo Shores |
18 | New Mendicants | Into The Lime |
19 | High/Low | Stuck In A Void |
20 | Yes | Heaven & Earth |
21 | Wind-Up Birds | Poor Music |
22 | Band Of Holy Joy | Easy Listening |
23 | Gerard Way | Hesitant Alien |
24 | Happyness | Weird Little Birthday |
25 | Beck | Morning Phase |
26 | Carsick Cars | 3 |
27 | Hafdis Huld | Home |
28 | Big Boss Man | Last Man On Earth |
29 | Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots |
30 | Marc Almond | The Dancing Marquis |
31 | Slow Club | Complete Surrender |
32 | Tom Vek | Luck |
33 | Divine Paiste | Crystal Waves On A Frozen Lake |
34 | DZ Deathrays | Black Rat |
35 | Dark Horses | Hail Lucid State |
36 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | The Balcony |
37 | Glass Animals | ZABA |
38 | Space | Attack Of The Mutant 50ft Kebab |
The albums I played to death:
These aren’t necessarily the same as my favourite albums now, but the ones I remember buying on release and playing over and over and over again. | ||
31/03/14 | Kaiser Chiefs | Education Education Education and War |
Original chart - top albums of 2014 | ||
1 | Kaiser Chiefs | Education Education Education and War |
2 | Superfood | Don't Say That |
3 | Honeyblood | Honeyblood |
4 | Temples | Sun Structures |
5 | High/Low | Stuck In A Void |
6 | Maximo Park | Too Much Information |
7 | Manic Street Preachers | Futurology |
8 | Sleaford Mods | Divide And Exit |
9 | Tom Vek | Luck |
10 | Fashoda Crisis | Almost Everyone Is Entirely Average At Almost Everything |
11 | Inspiral Carpets | Inspiral Carpets |
12 | Bleech | Humble Sky |
13 | Wind-Up Birds | Poor Music |
14 | Space | Attack Of The Mutant 50ft Kebab |
15 | Primitives | Spin-O-Rama |
16 | Bis | Data Panik Etc |
17 | Martha | Courting Strong |
18 | Desperate Journalist | Desperate Journalist |
19 | Gerard Way | Hesitant Alien |
20 | Catfish and the Bottlemen | The Balcony |
21 | Nina Persson | Animal Heart |
22 | Chatham Rise | Chatham Rise |
23 | Dark Horses | Hail Lucid State |
24 | Tom Williams and the Boat | Easy Listening |
25 | Hafdis Huld | Home |
26 | Carsick Cars | 3 |
27 | Stephen Malkmus | Wig Out At Jagbags |
28 | DZ Deathrays | Black Rat |
29 | Slow Club | Complete Surrender |
30 | Damon Albarn | Everyday Robots |
Top tracks of 2014 | ||
1 | Martha | 1967, I Miss You, I'm Lonely |
2 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends |
3 | Honeyblood | Choker |
4 | Kaiser Chiefs | Bows And Arrows |
5 | Public Service Broadcasting | Gagarin |
6 | Pop Will Eat Itself | Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA) |
7 | Franz Ferdinand | Erdbeer Mund |
8 | Manic Street Preachers | Europa Geht Durch Mich |
9 | Bleech | Not Like You |
10 | Maximo Park | Give, Get, Take |
11 | Honeyblood | (I'd Rather Be) Anywhere But Here |
12 | Superions | Konnichiwa |
13 | Primitives | Hidden In The Shadows |
14 | Chris T-T and the Hoodrats | Bury Me With A Scarab |
15 | Menswear | Crash (2014) |
16 | Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band | Bingo |
17 | Superfood | Right On Satellite |
18 | Kaiser Chiefs | Misery Company |
19 | Sleaford Mods | Tiswas |
20 | Bleech | Here I Am |
21 | Honeyblood | Biro |
22 | Kaiser Chiefs | Meanwhile Up In Heaven |
23 | Charlatans | So Oh |
24 | Close Lobsters | New York City In Space |
25 | Sinead O'Connor | 8 Good Reasons |
26 | S*M*A*S*H | (I Want To) Kill Somebody 2014 |
27 | Colour Me Wednesday | Sugar Coated |
28 | Superfood | Superfood |
29 | Johnny Marr | Easy Money |
30 | Local Girls | Bleached |
31 | Animal Noise | Bag Of Bones |
32 | History Of Apple Pie | Jamais Vu |
33 | Andrew Grumbridge feat Lockton | The Catastrophic Transfer Of Wealth From The Young To The Old |
34 | Temples | Mesmerise |
35 | Alvvays | Archie, Marry Me |
36 | Nina Persson | Animal Heart |
37 | Abdoujaparov | Married To The Rock |
38 | Fashoda Crisis | Billericay |
39 | Superfood | TV |
40 | Desperate Journalist | Cristina |
41 | Superfood | (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) |
42 | Neon Waltz | Bare Wood Aisles |
43 | Sounds of Sputnik feat Ummagma | New Born |
44 | Jagwar Ma | Why'd You Only Call When You're High |
Original chart - top tracks of 2014 | ||
1 | Pop Will Eat Itself | Reclaim The Game (Funk FIFA) |
2 | Killatrix | Supersonic |
3 | Superfood | Right On Satellite |
4 | Cud | Victoria |
5 | Maximo Park | Give, Get, Take |
6 | Close Lobsters | New York City In Space |
7 | Primitives | Hidden In The Shadows |
8 | Honeyblood | Choker |
9 | Martha | 1967, I Miss You, I'm Lonely |
10 | Menswear | Crash (2014) |
11 | Temples | Mesmerise |
12 | Sleater-Kinney | Bury Our Friends |
13 | Curxes | Avant-Guarded |
14 | St Vincent | Digital Witness |
15 | Electric Six | I Need A Restaurant |
16 | History Of Apple Pie | Jamais Vu |
17 | Death From Above 1979 | Trainwreck 1979 |
18 | Superions | Konnichiwa |
19 | Kaiser Chiefs | Bows and Arrows |
20 | Inspiral Carpets | Spitfire |
21 | Sleaford Mods | Tiswas |
22 | Wind-Up Birds | The Gristle |
23 | High Low | Crashland |
24 | Tom Vek | Sherman (Animals In The Jungle) |
25 | Asylums | I've Seen Your Face In A Music Magazine |
26 | Desperate Journalist | Control |
27 | Pond | Elvis' Flaming Star |
28 | Viet Cong | Continental Shelf |
29 | Neon Waltz | Bare Wood Aisles |
30 | Public Service Broadcasting | Gagarin |
31 | Gerard Way | Millions |
32 | Mogwai | Teenage Exorcist |
33 | We Are The Ocean | Ark |
34 | Chris T-T and the Hoodrats | Bury Me With A Scarab |
35 | Blessa | Unfurl |
36 | Manic Street Preachers | Europa Geht Durch Mich |
37 | Dumb | Two Bottles |
38 | Sinead O'Connor | 8 Good Reasons |
39 | Dum Dum Girls | Rimbaud Eyes |
40 | Franz Ferdinand | Leaving My Old Life Behind |
41 | Royal Blood | Ten Tonne Skeleton |
42 | Wolf Alice | Moaning Lisa Smile |
43 | Heavy Petting Zoo | Inherent Vice |
44 | Honeyblood | Biro |
45 | Fashoda Crisis | A Eulogy of Sorts |
46 | Giorgio Moroder | 74 Is The New 24 |
47 | Sallasmith | At The Devil's Gate |
48 | Nina Persson | Animal Heart |
49 | Wye Oak | Running Up That Hill |
50 | Interpol | Ancient Ways (clean) |
51 | Filthy Tongues | Crewcut |
52 | John Mouse | I Was A Goalkeeper |
53 | Kate Pierson | Mister Sister |
54 | Dark Horses | Saturn Returns |
55 | Manic Street Preachers | Let's Go To War |
56 | Grísalappalísa | ABC |
57 | Kaiser Chiefs | Cannons |
58 | James Atkin | Love Blind |
59 | Pollapönk | No Prejudice |
60 | Last Lynx | None Of My Friends |
61 | School | Head Over Here |
62 | Lunatics On Pogosticks | Cappuccino |
63 | Space | She's In Love With The Boy In A Bodybag |
64 | Joy Formidable | Yn Rhydiau'r Afon |
65 | Kaiser Chiefs | Ruffians On Parade |
66 | Bis | Keep Your Darkness |
67 | Inkhearts | Keeping Up |
68 | Leave The Planet | Coasts |
69 | Happyness | Great Minds Think Alike, All Brains Taste The Same |
70 | Mabel Greer's Toyshop | Electric Funeral |
71 | States Of Emotion | The Way That I'm Wired |
72 | Jonny Cola and the A Grades | Blow Up |
73 | Metronomy | Love Letters |
74 | Fickle Friends | Swim |
75 | Tahiti 80 | Garra |
76 | Gengahr | Fill My Gums With Blood |
77 | Elbow | Fly Boy Blue - Lunette |
78 | Johnny Marr | Easy Money |
79 | Charlatans | So Oh |
80 | Eight Rounds Rapid | Dostoyevsky |
81 | Juke | Pins and Needles |
82 | Big Deal | Talk (Reprise) |
83 | Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band | Bingo |
84 | Fagan | Tonight |
85 | Stephen Emmer and Glenn Gregory | Let The Silence Hold You |
86 | Spoon | Do You |
87 | JacksonsWarehouse | Right Here Right Now |
88 | Slug | Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped In Plastic |
89 | Honeymilk | A Scene In Between |
90 | Chatham Rise | Hollows |
91 | James | Moving On |
92 | Pre New | Speed Queen |
93 | As Elephants Are | Crown |
94 | Lola Colt | Vacant Hearts |
95 | Hafdis Huld | Pop Song |
96 | Young Galaxy | Hard To Tell |
97 | Wolf Party | In My Pocket |
98 | Todd Terje | Strandbar (disko) |
99 | Fanfarlo | Landlocked |
100 | Noire | Those Days |
My favourite cover versions of 2014 | ||
1 | Keith Top Of The Pops and his Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band | Bingo |
2 | Superfood | (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) |
3 | Jagwar Ma | Why'd You Only Call When You're High |
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- The amazing paper drop …
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- My day out at Nene Park
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- XFM’s “greatest” 100 songs ever
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- The most played songs of the noughties …
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- RIP Nick Sanderson
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- Sultans of Ping FC – 2006 interview
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- The Others – 2005 interview
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