NME 50 Best Tracks and 50 Best Albums of 2013

I think I smell a little disagreement with the Mercury Prize. NME picked just-nominated Arctic Monkeys' AM as #1 album of 2013, while Mercury Prize winner James Blake is relegated at the behind-The-Strokes bottom of the Top 50. Tracks race, instead, has a rather predictable French robotic winner. Three playlists: 50 Tracks, 50 Albums (full version), 50 Albums (3 tracks version).

Enjoy.

P.S. Complete series of Spotirama end-of-2013 playlists (with charts by Amazon, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Pretty Much Amazing, Q, Renowned for Sound, Revolver, Rolling Stone, Rough Trade, Stereogum, Uncut, Zane Lowe) is here.

NME 50 BEST TRACKS OF 2013

(from #1 to #50)

NME 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #50)

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Strikethrough songs (4/50) and albums (2/50) are not available on Spotify. With a song, "After You", I played dirty. I haven't found the Soulwax remix, but I wanted it in the playlist, so I put the original Pulp version. Please, forgive me.

50 BEST TRACKS

1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky
2. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
3. Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
4. Disclosure feat AlunaGeorge - White Noise
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege
6. Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener
7. Pond - Xanman
8. Foals - My Number
9. Lorde - Royals
10. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
11. Merchandise - Anxietys Door
12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
13. Haim - Falling
14. David Bowie - Where Are We Now?
15. Drenge -Bloodsports
16. Queens Of The Stone Age - Smooth Sailin
17. Pulp Vs Soulwax - After You
18. Kanye West - I Am A God
19. Queens Of The Stone Age - If I Had A Tail
20. A$AP Rocky - Wild For The Night
21. Savages - She Will
22. Kanye West - Bound 2
23. Jagwar Ma - The Throw
24. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
25. Laura Marling - Master Hunter
26. Primal Scream - 2013
27. Childhood - Solemn Skies
28. Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal
29. Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours
30. Chvrches - Recover
31. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young
32. Arctic Monkeys - Whyd You Only Call Me When Youre High?
33. Factory Floor - Fall Back
34. Phoenix - Entertainment
35. Wolf Alice - Fluffy
36. Kanye West - New Slaves
37. Foals - Bad Habit
38. MIA - Bring The Noize
39. Katy B - 5AM
40. Kelis - Jerk Ribs
41. Big Sean - Control
42. King Krule - Easy Easy
43. Temples - Colours To Life
44. Parquet Courts - Stoned And Starving
45. Chance The Rapper - Juice
46. James Blake - Retrograde
47. The Cribs - Leather Jacket Love Song
48. Telegram - Follow
49. Pixies - Indie Cindy
50. Fat White Family - Is It Raining In Your Mouth?


50 BEST ALBUMS

1. Arctic Monkeys - AM
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Queens of the Stone Age - …Like Clockwork
4. Foals - Holy Fire
5. Savages - Silence Yourself
6. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
8. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
9. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
10. David Bowie - The Next Day
11. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
12. M.I.A. - Matangi
13. Drenge - Drenge
14. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
15. Peace - In Love
16. Jagwar Ma - Howlin
17. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
18. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
19. Disclosure - Settle
20. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
21. Iceage - You're Nothing
22. Deerhunter - Monomania
23. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
24. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
25. Haim - Days Are Gone
26. Factory Floor - Factory Floor
27. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
28. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
29. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
31. Merchandise - Totale Nite
32. Parma Violets - 180
33. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
34. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
35. Bill Callahan - Dream River
36. Deap Vally - Sistrionix
37. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
38. Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas
39. The Julie Ruin - Run Fast
40. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
41. The Strokes - Comedown Machine
42. Le Bon, Cate - Mug Museum
43. Knife, The - Shaking the Habitual
44. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
45. Future Of The Left - How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident
46. Primal Scream - More Light
47. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon
48. Pusha T - My Name is My Name
49. Daughter - If You Leave
50. James Blake - Overgrown

Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2013

Stereogum Go West. Kanye's Yeezus is #1 choice of 2013 for the American website. Along with him and some other usual suspects (Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Savages, The National... but no Arctic Monkeys and David Bowie), in this list you find many artists not so frequent in end-of-year charts. Like the mighty Deafheaven (at #2!), Volcano Choir, Kvelertak, Windhand, Blood Orange, Superchunk, Migos. Browse Stereogum for more infos on each album and listen to the regular two playlists, below.

Enjoy.

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STEREOGUM THE 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 tracks each album, from #1 to #50)

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1. Kanye West - Yeezus
2. Deafheaven - Sunbather
3. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
4. Disclosure - Settle
5. My Bloody Valentine - m b v
6. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
7. Danny Brown - Old
8. Haim - Days Are Gone
9. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
11. Volcano Choir - Repave
12. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
13. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
14. Savages - Silence Yourself
15. Kvelertak - Meir
16. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
17. Windhand - Soma
18. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
19. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob
20. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe
21. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
22. Superchunk - I Hate Music
23. Deerhunter - Monomania
24. Bill Callahan - Dream River
25. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
26. Migos - Young Rich N*ggas
27. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
28. Drake - Nothing Was the Same
29. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
30. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
31. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
32. Iceage - You're Nothing
33. The Field - Cupid's Head
34. Yuck - Glow and Behold
35. Gorguts - Colored Sands
36. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
37. Forest Swords - Engravings
38. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
39. Pure Bathing Culture - Moon Tides
40. Pharmakon - Abandon
41. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady
42. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
43. Cassie - RockaByeBaby
44. A$AP Ferg - Trap Lord
45. Youth Lagoon - Wondrous Bughouse
46. Yo La Tengo - Fade
47. A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
48. Carcass - Surgical Steel
49. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience [1 of 2]
50. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2013

They just heard the news.

Here comes Rolling Stone. With Vampire Weekend, Kanye West and Daft Punk on top, a rather surprising Paul McCartney at #4 and some albums you probably won't find in other charts (John Fogerty's Wrote a Song for Everyone, Ashley Monroe's Like a Rose, Bombino's Nomad, Keith Urban's Fuse and even the sheet-only Beck's Song Reader).

Enjoy.

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ROLLING STONE 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #50)

(3 tracks, from #1 to #50)

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Strikethrough albums (3/50) are not available on Spotify (some, like Lorde's Pure Heroine, Keith Urban's Fuse and Sky Ferreira's Night Time, My Time may not be available in some countries). Usually I don't include cover albums in Spotirama playlists. But Song Reader (#50) is a sheet album Beck published inviting artists and fans to record their own version. So in the playlists you find a full cover version of it. :-)


1. Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
2. Kanye West - Yeezus
3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
4. Paul McCartney - New
5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
6. Queens of the Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork
7. Lorde - Pure Heroine
8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. John Fogerty - Wrote A Song For Everyone
11. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
12. Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
13. Disclosure - Settle
14. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
15. Atoms for Peace - Amok
16. David Bowie - The Next Day
17. Danny Brown - Old
18. Ashley Monroe - Like A Rose
19. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
20. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
21. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
22. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
23. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
24. Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP 2
25. Elton John - The Diving Board
26. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
27. Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
28. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
29. Bombino - Nomad
30. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
31. Haim - Days Are Gone
32. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe
33. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
34. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
35. Best Coast - Fade Away EP
36. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
37. The So So Glos - Blowout
38. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
39. Keith Urban - Fuse
40. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
41. J. Cole - Born Sinner
42. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
43. Savages - Silence Yourself
44. Valerie June - Pushin' Against a Stone
45. Avicii - True
46. Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
47. M.I.A. - Matangi
48. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
49. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
50. Beck - Song Reader

PopMatters The 75 Best Songs of 2013

November was an appetizer, December is the judgement month. The first big webzine speaking is PopMatters that today published its chart of The 75 Best Songs of 2013. #1 is Daft Punk's Get Lucky, and it's likely we'll find it on the top of many other lists. Some choices sound a bit non-conventional (I Wanna Be Yours as best track from Arctic Monkeys' Am, I Appear Missing from Queens of the Stone Age's Like Clockwork), some other may be indications for the upcoming Top Albums chart (four albums are present with two tracks: Haim's Days Are Gone, Kayne West's Jeezus, Okkervil River's The Silver Gymnasium, Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City). Finally, Spotify percentage is quite high: just two songs missing (see below for full data).

Enjoy.

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POP MATTERS THE 75 BEST SONGS OF 2013

(from #1 to #75)

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1. Daft Punk – Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
2. John Newman – Love Me Again
3. Bastille – Pompeii
4. Kanye West – Black Skinhead
5. Neko Case – Man
6. Vampire Weekend – Step
7. Haim – The Wire
8. Janelle Monáe – Dance Apocalyptic
9. Paramore – Still Into You
10. CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share
11. The Lone Bellow – You Never Need Nobody
12. Superchunk – Me & You & Jackie Mittoo
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues
14. Phosphorescent – Song For Zula
15. Kanye West – Bound 2
16. Vampire Weekend – Diane Young
17. The National – Graceless
18. Okkervil River – Down Down The Deep River
19. Arcade Fire – Reflektor
20. Lorde – Royals
21. David Bowie – Where Are We Now?
22. Jason Isbell – Elephant
23. Autre Ne Veut – Play by Play
24. Haim – Days Are Gone
25. Deafheaven – Dream House
26. Yo La Tengo – Ohm
27. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)
28. Kacey Musgraves – Merry Go 'Round
29. Chance the Rapper - Chain Smoker
30. Betty Who – Somebody Loves You
31. Charli XCX – You - Ha Ha Ha
32. Ciara – Body Party
33. Pistol Annies – Hush Hush
34. Los Campesinos! – Avocado, Baby
35. Rudimental – Feel The Love (feat. John Newman)
36. Majical Cloudz – Bugs Don’t Buzz
37. Frightened Rabbit – The Oil Slick
38. Arctic Monkeys – I Wanna Be Yours
39. Cloud Control – Dojo Rising
40. Lee Ranaldo and the Dust – Lecce, Leaving
41. Pusha T – Nosetalgia (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
42. Queens Of The Stone Age – I Appear Missing
43. Radkey – Cat & Mouse
44. Robert DeLong – Global Concepts
45. Tegan And Sara – Closer
46. Wolf People – Hesperus
47. Volcano Choir – Byegone
48. My Darling Fury - Blots in the Margins
49. Okkervil River – Pink-Slips
50. Disclosure – F For You
51. Cass McCombs – Brighter! (feat. Karen Black)
52. James Blake – Retrograde
53. Foals – My Number
54. Manic Street Preachers – Rewind the Film (feat. Richard Hawley)
55. Waxahatchee – Swan Dive
56. The Vaccines – Melody Calling
57. Eminem – Bad Guy
58. John Grant – GMF (feat. Sinead O'Connor)
59. The Head And The Heart – Another Story
60. Suede – It Starts And Ends With You
61. The White Mandingos – My First White Girl
62. Thee Oh Sees – Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster
63. The Icarus Line – Don't Let Me Save Your Soul
64. Nico Vega – Beast
65. Johnnyswim – Heart Beats
66. Phoenix – Entertainment
67. ÁLI – Cocoon
68. The Knife – Full Of Fire
69. Rhye – Open
70. Young Jeezy – R.I.P. (feat. 2 Chainz)
71. Butterclock – Holograms
72. J. Cole – Crooked Smile (feat. TLC)
73. Mikal Cronin – Weight
74. Bibio – À tout à l'heure
75. Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener

Uncut 80 Best New Albums of 2013

Another substantial end-of-year chart from the UK printed music press. This one comes from monthly magazine Uncut, it has been published on January 2014 issue and it is slightly bigger than average (80 albums). That means here you can find many titles excluded from other charts: for example, albums by Jonathan Wilson, Johnny Marr, Yo La Tengo, Okkervil River, Phoenix, Iron & Wine, Robyn Hitchcock and Sir Elton John (ranked in a not very royal #75 position). "Spotify Curse of the 2013 UK Charts" goes on: as already happened in Mojo's list (with Bill Callahan), also in this one the #1 album (My Bloody Valentine's mbv) is not available on the streaming service. All three big Spotify desaparecidos of the year (My Bloody Valentine, Bill Callahan, Roy Harper) are in the Top 10, with the fourth one, Atoms For Peace's Amok, at #27.  Some other albums are missing (full chart is below), but almost 90% are available.

Enjoy.

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UNCUT 80 BEST NEW ALBUMS OF 2013

(full albums, from #1 to #80)

(3 tracks, from #1 to #80)

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Strikethrough albums (10/80) are not available on Spotify. Prefab Sprout's Crimson/Red and Connan Mockasin's Caramel may be not available in some countries (Italy, for example) though they are in the playlists. Linda Thompson's Won't Be Long Now raised my eyebrows: I found only 30-second snippets of each song. I put them on the playlists, but I deeply hope the 30-second policy is not going common on Spotify.

1. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
2. David Bowie - The Next Day
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
4. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
5. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
6. Roy Harper – Man & Myth
7. Bill Callahan – Dream River
8. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
10. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
11. Matthew E White - Big Inner
12. Prefab Sprout – Crimson/Red
13. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
14. National - Trouble Will Find Me
15 Julie Holter - Loud City Song
16. Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin
17. Kanye West - Yeezus
18. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold
19. Endless Boogie - Long Island
20. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
21. Broadcast - Berberian Sound Studio
22. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
23. Jonathan Wilson - Fanfare
24. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - II
25. Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
26. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
27. Atoms For Peace - Amok
28. Johnny Marr - The Messenger
29. Hiss Golden Messenger - Haw
30. Yo La Tengo - Fade
31. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get...
32. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
33. Richard Thompson - Electric
34. White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade
35. Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle - Perils From The Sea
36. Mark Kozelek & Desertshore - S/T
37. Eleanor Friedberger - Personal Record
38. Haim - Days Are Gone
39. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
40. Chris Forsyth - Solar Motel
41. Low - The Invisible Way
42. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
43. Okkervil River - Silver Gynasium
44. Fuzz - S/T
45. Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film
46. Factory Floor - S/T
47. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
48. Iron & Wine - Ghost On Ghost
49. Mazzy Star - Seasons of Your Day
50. Houndstooth - Ride Out The Dark
51. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoniba - Jama Ko
52. The Necks - Open
53. Linda Thompson - Won't Be Long Now
54. Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
55. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
56. Edwyn Collins - Understated
57. Frightened Rabbit - Pedestrian Verse
58. Mikal Cronin - MCII
59. Luke Haines - Rock And Roll Animals
60. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
61. Connan Mockasin - Caramel
62. Jon Hopkins - Immunity
63. Pet Shop Boys - Electric
64. Anna Calvi - One Breath
65. The Civil Wars - The Civil Wars
66. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
67. Jim James - Regions Of Light And Sound Of God
68. Steve Mason - Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time
69. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
70. William Tyler - Impossible Truth
71. Don Cavalli - Temperamental
72. Emmy Lou Harris & Rodney Crowell - Old Yellow Moon
73. Laura Veirs - Warp And Weft
74. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
75. Elton John - The Diving Board
76. Suuns - Images Du Futur
77. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum
78. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic
79. Robyn Hitchcock - Love From London
80. Tony Joe White - Hoodoo