While
2014 was a year of me visually and emotionally experiencing life no less than
life itself, there were certain instances when spending afternoons and those
wee hours drowning with the good grace of the sound of music was still the best
thing there is. And as this blog’s annual yearend tradition, I sifted through the goldmine of rarities and obscure finds once again to come up with this list of the
best tracks that came out this year (at least according to my ever reliable
taste, lol). My pc unfortunately crashed towards this year’s last quarter, hence,
unlike the previous years (2010 | 2011 | 2012 (Part 1) | 2012 (Part 2), | 2013) in which the ranks
were based on each track’s total number of plays on my iTunes player, this list
will simply rely on my ever reliable ability to remember which among those
tracks have accumulated the most play time. So, Here then is the list of the 14
of the most substantial pieces of my 2014, alphabetically arranged.
1. All Of The Stars – Ed Sheeran. Fvck John Green, there’s
no fault in our stars, just metaphors and complex things we don’t understand.
2. Arsonist’s Lullaby – Hozier. Thank heavens there’s
Hozier.
3. A Step You Can’t Take Back – Keira Knightley.
This
Begin Again shit effortlessly haunts
like a beating heart, it’s hard to get pass it.
4. Bakuran – Johnoy Danao feat. Aiza Seguerra. Heartfelt retelling
of that classic tale on the controversial thin fine line separating friendship
and romance, and all the other gray spots in between.
5. Cen†uries – Fall Ou† Boy. Totally out of the box,
yet largely entertaining.
6. Diwata – Abra feat. Chito Miranda. Other than the fact
that the MV was shoot at UPLB with Nicole Asensio, assuming the role of Maria Makiling, there’s so much lovable about the track itself, including all the underlying
meanings between the lines.
7. Ikaw – Yeng Constantino. This track single-handedly
deflates the argument about the questionable existence of forever.
8. Lost Stars – Adam Levine. Can’t remember any
Adam Levine shit I ever liked til this one.
9. Mahal Ko O Mahal Ako – KZ Tandingan. It bagged the
highest award during Himig Handog 2014,
enough said.
10. Rude – MAGIC!. Bandwagon anyone?
No. Used to love this track 319m Youtube views ago.
11. Seasons (Waiting On You) – Future Islands. Perhaps the most
heartwarming romantic tale of despair for 2014.
12. Sabado – Eraserheads. Nostalgia. Artifacts
of childhood memories, heartaches, highschool dramas, summer trips – rolled into
one then put to sound.
13. Take Me To Church – Hozier. A bleakly deviant
track which is an abrasive approach of presenting bunch of irony, inequality,
and toxicity of life caged by the society’s faulty standards
14. Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran. It’s Ed
Sheeran afterall.
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