The Spotify mix now includes 100 through 81 plus all those bonuses. Give a listen!
| Hot Mix 2014 on Spotify |
| #100 - 91 | #90 - 81 | #80 - 71 | #70 - 61 | #60 - 51 |
| #50 - 41 | #40 - 31 | #30 - 21 | #20 - 11 | #10 - 1 |
90. PC Worship “Rust”
Just saw the commercial for the new Kidz Bop and it should come as no surprise that "Rust" and "Gypsy's" are tracks 1 and 2 respectively. Makes complete sense if you know brats like we do; all 4th through 7th graders love dissonant drone and the sound of flushing toilets; they love PC Worship and know all the words to Social Rust; when they get bored, they draw PC Worship logos on their Surgery Channel trapper keepers. I'll never understand these fuckin' kids these days and their Surgery Channel. It's just like sometimes you don't wanna see that stuff, you know? Like you're just flipping through the channels looking for Charles Barkley porn or whatever and BOOM there's Little Richard on MTV getting open heart surgery. There's this wolf pressing his face against the window and he's like screaming at us right now. 89. T.I. featuring Young Thug “About the Money”
We were starting to miss T.I. and figured he was a goner. Leave it to Floyd Mayweather of all people to get T.I. back into the spotlight of buzz and gossip. At that point, returning to the radio was a no brainer, as he prepped the same checklist as everyone else who charted on hiphop stations in 2014. After crossing "Call DJ Mustard" off his list (resulting in "No Mediocre"), he did the other thing everyone else did: Stealing the triplet-rap thing from Migos' "Versace," a mostly annoying and timely trend which probably just recently died alongside the end of 2014 itself. Migos doesn't even use it anymore. "About the Money" is probably the only other charting instance besides "Versace" that accents the triplet cadence in an interesting way, while the keyboard loop seemed suspiciously familiar. It's not from Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At," but possibly something similar.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfIdtm-OC8
88. Midnight “No Mercy for Mayhem”
Death-rock is still with us, alive and well. Bands like 45 Grave and Turbonegro carried the torch over to Cleveland's Midnight, who administered much needed defibrillation in the mid-2000s, a necessary resuscitation essentially saving the genre from falling victim to corny call-and-response cliches ("and i like it like it and i love it love it"). They got drums, guitars and death galore, but strangely enough, buried way in there you'll also find melodies, huge riffs, and honest-to-satan catchy hooks. Coming to a Return of the Living Dead sequel near you.
87. Shamir “On the Regular” / tUnE-yArDs "Water Fountain"
Remember those kids on the playground during recess who were all about double-dutch and handclap memorization games? Down Down Baby and Miss Mary Mack and all that shit. And that other one that was like "Miss Lucy had a steamboat the steamboat had a bell Miss Lucy went to heaven and the steamboat went to hello operator give me number 9 and somethin somethin somethin i will kick your behind the fridgerator there was a piece of glass miss lucy stepped upon it and she somethin broke her ask me no more questions tell me no more lies the boys are in the somethin somethin." So yeah, those kids grew up and became Shamir and tUne-yArDs. Now you know.
Shamir: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp9GgdCgMXk
tUnE-yArDs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbiFcPhccu8
86. Eyehategod “Robitussin and Rejection”
The internet buzz suggests a few of the songs on Eyehategod's outstanding self-titled have been floating around and performed live since as early as 2008. While the uncharacteristically energetic "Agitation Propaganda" or the death-puppet dangling limbs sludge-romp of "Nobody Told Me" could have fit into our Hot Mix just as easily, "Robitussin and Rejection" wins for cutting the deepest. With agonizing, devastating hopelessness intact, nothing beats the lowest depths. At that point, just say fuck it and find literally any fucking drug you can get your hands on. If you can't find money for real drugs, then go raid your parents' closet or your girlfriend's bathroom or anywhere, and just swallow the first thing you can find. Mom's got Robitussin. Cool. Wash it down with your own piss. Numb the pain and move on.85. Azealia Banks “BBD”
The NY girl's Boston tribute. It's our 2nd favorite song on Broke With Expensive Taste after "212," but mostly because it doesn't confront the listener with the album's predominant excessively-musical production which removed all the grit and rawness from almost all of its other new songs. A few instances on BWET get so EDM-corny and unnecessarily melodic that it sounds like she's rapping or singing over MarioKart (and not in a good way). "BBD" unfortunately indulges the OTHER thing that brought down this record: Her impeccable rap flow on "212" seems to have been completely abandoned in favor of a quieter lower-register Missy Elliott impression meshed with a thick, heavy Long Island accent. Although in this instance, the "BBD" recipe actually works: dancable, catchy, fun, and just minimal enough that it made almost no difference. As much as we love "212," part of us wishes she hadn't included it. While we understand why it's there (money), it supplies a glaring reminder of what we're not receiving. (Note: Well we're not changing this now, but it turns out this song was actually released over 2 years ago on 1/1/13 and isn't one of the album's 12 newer songs. Go figure.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lidf7koHmI8
84. Mac Demarco "Let Her Go"
Probably the best from the more traditional-sounding half of Salad Days. The subdued chorus doesn't resolve itself until after returning back to the verse section, suggesting an unsettled, bittersweet type of freedom. It's kinda weird and lame how stupidly large the Demarco-backlash has grown over the past two years. Yeah, of course he's a fucking weird rockstar, but he's a weirdo who basically invented his own specific combination of recording technique, guitar timbre and tone, achieving a distinct and instantly recognizable atmosphere. And he's still able to write very good songs within the somewhat strict parameters he's built for himself. And what's more, it kinda sounds like Pod-era Ween. All of these things rule. If a few fans of Vampire Weekend or The 1975 or Neutral Milk can't take another weirdo in the world, what difference does it really make? Haters gon' haight.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neu3_4MeGls
83. The Notwist "Casino"
Rollin' the dice. "See the dice roll just like me." What's that movie where the dude's like "Life's a risk. Everything's a risk." It probably sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18L18wcypI
82. Xiu Xiu "Black Dick"
DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK. DICK.81. Ariel Pink “Lipstick”
The Mysterious Cities of Gold has to be somewhere in top 10 best TV theme songs. So after the theme song is finished, queue "Lipstick" to play as the episode begins, setting the scene and panning the landscape. (Or this show could also work.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRmtrT6hoPM
| Hot Mix 2014 on Spotify |
| #100 - 91 | #90 - 81 | #80 - 71 | #70 - 61 | #60 - 51 |
| #50 - 41 | #40 - 31 | #30 - 21 | #20 - 11 | #10 - 1 |
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