Happy new year? Who needs it?

 

Ok, so this is the first day since Christmas I've felt somewhat like a human being.  I've only just started getting music back in my head, let alone listening to it.  Needless to say, there wasn't an M10 again this week, and you know what they say about missing that second week of church.  Let's all hope I rally my musical soul by next time around.  And I was going to put some thought in these last couple weeks as to how to modify the by-points top 20 of 2022, but that's out the window too.So instead, maybe for the first time, you get the unadulterated by-points top 20 of 2022!  Ready? Let's go!

20- Brooke Annibale, What If You. #1 for 3 weeks in April and May.

19- Wilco, Hearts Hard To Find. Best line of the year for me:  "Reality...ruins everything..." After a long, up and down journey, it peaked at #2 in October.

18- Sunflower Bean, Who Put You Up To This? One of two biggies for the Beaners, it topped the chart for two weeks right before Brooke in April.

17- Talk, Run Away To Mars. Active and just off a pair of weeks at the top when this nastyness hit our home.

16- and 15- both go to Built To Spill, first with Fool's Gold, and then with Understood. For me, it was a Built To Spill Summer.

14- The Cactus Blossoms, Everybody.  I would have moved this up into top ten territory.  If I could find a way to make everybody fit.

13- Jayhawks, Save It For A Rainy Day.  When there's no new Jayhawks music about, I go back and mine 1994's Tomorrow The Green Grass for gems like this.

12- Harry Styles, As It Was.  Not quite the enormous pop hit it was on Billboard, but still better than 100% of the other songs that made that chart.

11- The Cactus Blossoms, Is It Over? cementing their spot as the M10's version of the Everly Brothers.

10- Sunflower Bean, In Flight. I would have put this no lower than #5 had I re-arranged.  Second best line of the year- "Life is short and cliffs are high..."

9- Cannons, Bad Dream.  The surprise (as they usually are) winner for song of summer '22, Would have scooted it down to make room.

8- Envy Of None, Liar.  This one crept up on me like a snake...

7- Beach House, Pink Funeral.  You can pretty much be assured that any year Beach House has new stuff out, they'll have 2 in the top ten of that year.  Stay tuned...

6- The Explorers Club, Tragedy . A spot-on redo of the 1950's hit by the Fleetwoods.

5- The Manchester Orchestra with Lucius, Inaudible (Lucius Version) Definitely would have been top 3 in a rearrange.

4- Dent May, Crying Laughing.  Though I would have dropped it just a bit, still the best of all of the Dentster's hits here.

3- Beach House, ESP. The other top three in doubt.  What isn't in doubt is #1.

2- Lucius, The Man I'll Never Find. Easy #4 behind the big three.

And at #1... only the second to turn 100 points in our history...

1- Broken Bells, Love On The Run. You ever have that song?  5 seconds in, you know it's a hit for you.  10, you know how big a trough it's going to plow through your musical mindscape?  That's this one for me.

And there you go!  Hopefully, this will reawaken my musical drive and we'll get back to business as usual next week...