Brandi Carlile | photo by Alysse Gafkjen | courtesy of artist
Your top 50 XPN songs of 2018
Year-End Mania is the Key’s annual survey of the things below the surface that made 2017 incredible. In this installment, WXPN’s listener-voted best songs of 2017.
We played songs, you listened. You voted, we listened. After tallying up the numbers and playing back the jams, we are delighted to bring you a recap of your top 50 XPN songs of 2018.
50. Paul McCartney – “Come On To Me”
49. Courtney Barnett – “Charity”
48. The Record Company – “Life to Fix”
47. Hop Along – “How Simple”
46. Florence and the Machine – “Hunger”
45. Ray LaMontagne – “Such a Simple Thing”
44. Courtney Marie Andrews – “Kindness of Strangers”
43. Mitski – “Nobody”
42. Your Smith – “The Spot”
41. Courtney Barnett – “Nameless, Faceless”
40. Hop Along – “Prior Things”
39. Sharon Van Etten – “Comeback Kid”
38. Lana Del Rey – “Mariner’s Apartment Complex”
37. Dawes – “Feed the Fire”
36. Neko Case – “Bad Luck”
35. Maggie Rogers – “Light On”
34. Kamasi Washington – “Fists of Fury”
33. Mt. Joy – “Silver Lining”
32. David Byrne – “Everybody’s Coming To My House”
31. Parquet Courts – “Wide Awake”
30. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – “You Worry Me”
29. Rainbow Kitten Surprise – “Fever Pitch”
28. Brandi Carlile – “The Mother”
27. Kurt Vile – “Bassackwards”
26. The Marcus King Band – “Homesick”
25. The Decemberists – “Severed”
24. Christine and the Queens – “5 dollars”
23. Dawes – “Living in the Future”
22. RayLand Baxter – “Casanova”
21. Ruston Kelly – “Mockingbird”
20. The War and Treaty – “Healing Tide”
19. Caroline Rose – “Soul No. 5”
18. Death Cab for Cutie – “Gold Rush”
17. Natalie Prass – “Short Court Style”
16. Phosphorescent – “New Birth in New England”
15. Amos Lee – “No More Darkness, No More Light”
14. Kurt Vile – “Loading Zones”
13. Leon Bridges – “If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)”
12. Childish Gambino – “This Is America”
11. Leon Bridges – “Beyond”
10. Lori McKenna – “People Get Old”
9. Caroline Rose – “Jeannie Becomes a Mom”
8. Christine and the Queens – “Girlfriend”
7. Hozier ft. Mavis Staples – “Nina Cried Power”
6. Janelle Monae – “Make Me Feel”
5. Leon Bridges – “Bad Bad News”
4. Low Cut Connie – “Beverly”
3. Kacey Musgraves – “Slow Burn”
2. Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse”
1. Brandi Carlile – “The Joke”