{"id":2580,"date":"2015-12-31T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2019-07-17T00:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:22:49","slug":"rankstravaganza-2015-my-25-favorite-songs-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2015\/12\/rankstravaganza-2015-my-25-favorite-songs-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rankstravaganza 2015: My 25 favorite songs of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Watkins Family Hour gang was responsible for my favorite track of the year. [photo by Roman Cho, courtesy of Sacks & Co<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Ha! You thought this blog was done for. Surprise! I\u2019m back. (Fair warning, though: There might not be another post until New Year\u2019s Eve 2016. I am, however, staying somewhat active with posting both music- and planning-related stuff on this site\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>, though. Check \u2018er out.)<\/p>\n

Only 25 songs this year (*insert frowny emoticon here*), because I didn\u2019t feel like I listened to enough new music in 2015 to warrant the usual 30<\/a>. (Grad school, it seems, has a way of eating into not just blogging time but music-exploration time.) I feel strongly about these 25, though. They are all imminently listenable songs that any other aging wannabe hipsters out there should be able to get behind. You\u2019ll find plenty of Americana and unobjectionable modern indie pop, a little bit of garage punk, some female-fronted \u201890s grunge throwbacks, and (this being 2015, after all) some trendy \u201880s synthpop throwbacks. Soooo much synthpop out there. If only synthpop could somehow counteract carbon emissions, climate change would be as quaint a concern as the hole in the ozone layer. (The hole in the ozone layer isn\u2019t a concern anymore, right? I\u2019m just assuming because I haven\u2019t heard anything about it in 20 years.)<\/p>\n

Well, that was a strange tangent. Here are the songs:<\/p>\n