Life is complicated and busy. Did you notice? Keeping up with the music, movies and books that fed your youthful imagination and conversations is harder than ever, but even more important. Here's the good news: there's never been more great new stuff. The challenge is to find it.

So here are my highly opinionated views on sounds, sights and words that will help you keep it fresh and real, and links to the veins where the richest motherlodes can be found.

Feed your head.
- JumpingFlashJack

Friday, January 2, 2015

Best Tracks of 2014

Ten reasons to turn it up even louder.  Each one is a gem.


Courtney Barnett, Avant Gardener - Is she on acid or Ritalin?



Lake Street Drive, You Go Down Smooth - Big horns, big hook, big-voiced woman. Heaven.


 



Ray LaMontagne, Airwaves - The trippiest song of 2014 gave me an urge to tie-dye something.



Damon Albarn, Lonely Press Play - The guy from Blur and Gorillas gets all existential on us.



Temples, Shelter Song - Was there a track on Rubber Soul that I missed?

 


Mark Ronson, Uptown Funk - "Don't believe me, just watch."



Usher, Good Kisser - Soooooo smooth.



Jaime XX, All Under One Roof Raving - ...if the rave in question were in Trinidad. Headphones, please.



 
Jenny Lewis, She's Not Me - A little bit Petty, a little bit chamber pop. All Jenny.
 


Curtis Harding, Heaven's On the Other Side - This is what Mayer Hawthorne really wants to sound like.



Honorable mentions:
Chet Faker, Talk Is Cheap
Prince, This Could Be Us
SBTRKT, New Dorp, New York
Mary J. Blige, Therapy
Pablo Nutini, Let Me Down Easy
The War On Drugs, Red Eyes


 

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