Singles Round up of the Year – 2022

I published 12 singles round ups for 2022, one per month (OK, so maybe some were slightly delayed…) which amount to a rough total of 350 – 400 songs in total. The fact that I featured the songs meant I liked all the songs in each list, so when I thought – I’ll do a Festive 50 like John Peel used to do, I failed miserably, so here is my Effervescent Eighty, first off, my top 15, then the rest in no particular order…

  1. Monica Queen – Where is Home?
  2. Water Machine -Hot Real Estate
  3. Pizza Crunch – Wilting Youth
  4. Horsegirl – Anti Glory
  5. Junk Pups – Miss Behave
  6. Sacred Noise – Part of Me
  7. Jemma Freeman and the Cosmic Something – Easy Peelers
  8. Brontes – First Hand Arrogance
  9. His Lordship – All Cranked Up
  10. Keeley – Shadows on the Hill
  11. Collars – Baby I’m Bored
  12. The Bobby Lees – Monkey Mind
  13. Syvdoh – As I Lay Dying
  14. Dream Wife -Leech
  15. Dumb Poets – Magic Happens

The rest (in no particular order)

  • Sloan Brothers – Songs Like This
  • Wife Guys of Reddit – Pig Fat
  • Dead Pony – Bullet Farm
  • Bikini Bottoms – The Game
  • Port Sulphur – Kone Trips
  • pMad – Broken
  • Gentle Sinners – Face to Fire (After Nyman)
  • Earl of Hell – Hang ’em High
  • The Kaplans – Get Inside It
  • Jill Lorean – Black Dog
  • Run into the Night – Common Stream of Consciousness
  • Panic Shack – Mannequin Man
  • Savage Cut – The Debt
  • Sister John – Young at Heart/The Bluebells – Glasgow is a Rainbow
  • Trashcan Sinatras – Lay of the Land
  • Bunkhouse – RIP ie
  • Katherine Aly – Hype Up
  • Tallies – Special
  • Spyres – Honestly
  • Butcher Boy – So Far So What
  • HiFi Sean and David McAlmont – The Skin I’m In
  • Dead Thatchers – Nae Pasaran
  • Jo Jo and the Teeth – Don’t Get Too Heavy
  • London Plane – Come Out of the Dark
  • bdrmm – Three
  • Marianne Dissard – When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful
  • The Best Bad Influence – Boomstick
  • Vulture Party – Bad Wolf Moon
  • The Courettes – Daydream
  • Deux Furieuses – Bring Down the Government
  • Cloth – Lucid
  • Simon Bromide – Not That Type
  • Scorpio Leisure – Give Us Our Space
  • The Claudettes – Exposure
  • Suede -15 Again
  • Pete Astor- Fine and Dandy
  • Girls in Synthesis – Watch with Mother
  • Lloyds House – Heather
  • Tina Sandwich – Fast Cars (and Movie Stars)
  • Simon Love – L.O.T.H.A.R.I.O.
  • bis – Lucky Night
  • The Nightingales – I L:ove CCTV
  • Fragile Gang – I Love the Rain
  • The Proclaimers – Dentures Out
  • Popup – Solstice
  • Brenda – Cease and Desist
  • Ditz – Summer of the Shark
  • bigfatbig – Brink of My Sanity
  • Def Robot – Palaces of Gold
  • The Filthy Tongues – Hang My Head
  • Brat Coven – Ready to Kill
  • David Delinquent & the IOUs – Rocksteady Girl
  • Bela & the Lugosis – Blinding Red Sunglow
  • Reaction – Bad Trip Express
  • Rats From a Sinking Ship – Epilogue
  • Poster Paints – Falling Hard
  • The Interrupters (ft Rhoda Dakar/Tim Armstrong) – As We Live
  • Starry Skies – Light in Your Soul
  • Los Bitchos – Los Chrismos
  • Diablofurs – Dream Skies
  • Scottish Faultlines – Lies More Potent Than Any Truth
  • The Thaw – Lovers Eyes
  • Klubber Lang – Sad Professor
  • Soft on Crime – Splendid Life
  • Vardy Band – Pirate Song

Links for all the full single round ups for 2022:

Here is a playlist featuring the songs that appear on Spotify: