Top 40 Tracks of 2014 (Staff Picks)
By No Ripcord Staff
Here’s how the No Ripcord staffers voted in the race to find the Top 40 Tracks of 2014.
Angel Aguilar
1. Jim James - Nothing To It
2. Jack White - Lazaretto
3. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
4. Beck - Morning
5. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - Stranger to My Happiness
6. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
7. Protomartyr - Come and See
8. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
9. Alt-J - Left Hand Free
10. Wye Oak - Shriek
11. Mac DeMarco - Passing Out Pieces
12. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
13. Real Estate - Talking Backwards
14. Ariel Pink - Put Your Number on My Phone
15. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
16. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
17. Iceage - The Lord's Favourite
18. Spoon - Do You
19. Belle & Sebastian - The Party Line
20. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
Ben Jones
1. Sylvan Esso - Coffee
2. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
3. Spoon - They Want My Soul
4. Shabazz Palaces - Forerunner Foray
5. Beck - Morning
6. Sturgill Simpson - Turtles All the Way Down
7. Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby
8. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
9. Sharon van Etten - Our Love
10. Turn Blue - Weight of Love
11. Jack White - Lazaretto
12. The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
13. Caribou - All I Ever Need
14. Mac DeMarco - Goodbye Weekend
15. Swans - A Little God in My Hands
16. Aphex Twin - Produk 29
17. Real Estate - Talking Backwards
18. Future Islands - A Dream of You & Me
19. White Lung - Lucky One
20. Perfume Genius – Queen
Carl Purvis
1. Damon Albarn - Mr. Tembo
2. Royal Blood - Little Monster
3. Sharon van Etten - I Love You But I'm Lost
4. Sun Kil Moon - Micheline
5. Wild Beasts - A Simple Beautiful Truth
6. Alt-J - Hunger of the Pine
7. Beck - Morning
8. Real Estate - Crime
9. NehruvianDOOM - Darkness (HBU)
10. Tala - Serbia
11. The Wytches - Fire Frame Mattress
12. Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves
13. Warpaint - Love Is To Die
14. Gengahr - Fill My Gums with Blood
15. Death from Above 1979 - Cheap Talk
16. Beasts - Annie
17. Bombay Bicycle Club - Home By Now
18. Happyness - Anything I Do Is All Right
19. Cheatahs - Get Tight
20. Deers – Bamboo
Craig Stevens
1. Låpsley- Station
2. The Knocks - Classic (feat. Powers)
3. Ten Walls - Walking with Elephants
4. Disclosure and Friend Within - The Mechanism
5. Hudson Mohawke - Chimes
6. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
7. Sylvan Esso - Hey Mami
8. Caribou - Mars
9. Pulled Apart by Horses - Hot Squash
10. Royksopp & Robyn - Monument
11. James Vincent McMorrow - Cavalier
12. The Chemical Brothers - This is Not a Game (feat. Miguel and Lorde)
13. SBTRKT - The Light (feat. Denai Moore)
14. Mapei - Don't Wait (feat. Chance the Rapper)
15. Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
16. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
17. Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
18. Azekel - New Romance
19. Indiana - Solo Dancing
20. Bipolar Sunshine - Deckchairs on the Moon
David Coleman
1. Slow Club - Not Mine to Love
2. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
3. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
4. First Aid Kit - Stay Gold
5. Wild Beasts - Wanderlust
6. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
7. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes
8. Slow Club - Suffering Me, Suffering You
9. East India Youth - Total Strife Forever I
10. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
11. Sharon van Etten - Your Love is Killing Me
12. The Men - Dark Waltz
David Wood
1. Run the Jewels - Blockbuster Night Pt. 1
2. Perfume Genius - Queen
3. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
4. The Black Keys - Weight of Love
5. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
6. Swans - Oxygen
7. Swans - Screen Shot
8. Swans - She Loves Us!
9. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes
10. Spoon - Inside Out
11. Swans - A Little God in My Hands
12. Flying Lotus - Coronus, the Terminator
13. Run the Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry
14. Spoon - Do You
15. Swans - Bring the Sun / Toussaint L'Overture
16. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not a Part of Me
17. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
18. St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
19. The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
20. Aphex Twin - aisatsana [102]
Forrest Cardamenis
1. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
2. tUnE-yArDs - Real Thing
3. Susanna and Jenny Hval - O Sun O Medusa
4. Swans - A Little God in My Hands
5. Cloud Nothings - Pattern Walks
6. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
7. The Antlers - Palace
8. Avey Tare's Slash Flicks - Little Fang
9. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
10. Susanna and Jenny Hval - I Have Walked This Body
11. Todd Terje - Johnny & Mary
12. Sun Kil Moon - Micheline
13. Jack White - Would You Fight for My Love
14. The Men - Different Days
15. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
16. Ariel Pink - Put Your Number on My Phone
17. Belle & Sebastian - The Party Line
18. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends
19. Swans - Oxygen
20. Marianne Faith - Late Victorian Holocaust
Gabbie Nirenburg
1. St. Vincent - Birth in Reverse
2. Broken Bells - After the Disco
3. MØ - Don't Wanna Dance
4. Hospitality - I Miss Your Bones
5. John Southworth - Fiddler Crossed the Border
6. Death from Above 1979 - Right On, Frankenstein!
7. Kelis - Rumble
8. Thee Oh Sees - Drop
9. Pharrell - Marilyn Monroe
10. Cibo Matto - 10th Floor Ghost Girl
11. Ava Luna - Daydream
12. Spoon - Rent I Pay
13. Pixies - Blue Eyed Hexe
14. The Drums - Magic Mountain
15. SBTRKT - NEW DORP. NEW YORK.
16. BANKS - This Is What It Feels Like
17. TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot
18. Vince Staples - 65 Hunnid
19. Todd Terje - Alfonso Muskedunner
20. FKA Twigs - Papi Pacify
Graeme Marsh
1. The War on Drugs - An Ocean in Between the Waves
2. Interpol - My Desire
3. Hookworms - Retreat
4. Ben Howard - End of the Affair
5. Embrace - Quarters
6. The Black Keys - Weight of Love
7. TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot
8. Hookworms - On Leaving
9. Interpol - All the Rage Back Home
10. Ben Howard - All is Now Harmed
11. Embrace - I Run
12. Elbow - New York Morning
13. Cherry Ghost - The World Could Turn
14. TV on the Radio - Ride
15. Kasabian - Clouds
16. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Goodbye (Butterfly)
17. Catfish and the Bottlemen - Tyrants
18. Ben Howard - Small Things
19. Strand of Oaks - JM
20. Maximo Park - Leave this Island
Joe Marvilli
1. U2 - The Troubles
2. EMA - Satellites
3. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
4. TV on the Radio - Careful You
5. The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine
6. Beck - Waking Light
7. Coldplay - Midnight
8. Brody Dalle - Dressed in Dreams
9. Elbow - New York Morning
10. Damon Albarn - Heavy Seas of Love
11. Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
12. Interpol - All the Rage Back Home
13. Foo Fighters - Something from Nothing
14. Jenny Lewis - You Can't Outrun 'Em
15. Lykke Li - No Rest for the Wicked
16. The Horrors - I See You
17. Ty Segall - It's Over
18. Mastodon - High Road
19. Philip Selway - Coming Up for Air
20. White Sea – Prague
Joe Rivers
1. Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
2. Bok Bok - Melba's Call (feat. Kelela)
3. Slow Club - Not Mine to Love
4. SZA - Child's Play (feat. Chance the Rapper)
5. Smoove & Turrell - Lay It On Me
6. Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me
7. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
8. Grimes - Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)
9. Disclosure - You & Me (Flume remix)
10. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
11. Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite
12. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
13. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
14. Sia - Chandelier
15. Haim - If I Could Change Your Mind (Cerrone Funk mix)
16. Chromeo - Lost on the Way Home (feat. Solange)
17. Indiana - Solo Dancing
18. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
19. Chet Faker - Talk Is Cheap
20. Disclosure - F For You (feat. Mary J Blige)
Joel Stanier
1. Sun Kil Moon - I Can't Live Without My Mother's Love
2. Aphex Twin - 180dB
3. Mogwai - Remurdered
4. Sun Kil Moon - Dogs
5. The War on Drugs - An Ocean in Between the Waves
6. Aphex Twin - Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)
7. Mogwai - Heard About You Last Night
8. Adebisi Shank - Sensation
9. The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
10. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
11. Sun Kil Moon - Richard Ramirez Died Today
12. Sleaford Mods - Tied Up in Nottz
13. Young Fathers - Low
14. Caribou - Can't Do Without You
15. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
16. Aphex Twin - Produk 29
17. Flying Lotus - Ready Err Not
18. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes
19. Caribou - Silver
20. Caribou - Back Home
Juan Edgardo Rodriguez
1. Ariel Pink - Black Ballerina
2. Amen Dunes - Splits are Parted
3. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
4. Sharon van Etten - Your Love is Killing Me
5. Swans - Oxygen
6. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
7. St. Vincent - Regret
8. Iceage - Forever
9. Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts I, II & III)
10. Sloan - Carried Away
11. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not a Part of Me
12. Perfume Genius - Queen
13. Pharmakon - Body Betrays Itself
14. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
15. Merchandise - Green Lady
16. Vince Staples - Hands Up
17. Peaking Lights - Breakdown
18. Spoon - Do You
19. Coldplay - Magic
20. Iceage - The Lord's Favourite
Luiza Lodder
1. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
2. Indiana - Solo Dancing
3. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
4. La Roux - Sexotheque
5. Royksopp & Robyn - Do It Again
6. Sharon van Etten - Everytime the Sun Comes Up
7. Sam Smith - Stay with Me
8. Aphex Twin - Syro
9. Beyoncé - Partition
10. Lana del Rey - West Coast
11. St. Vincent - I Prefer Your Love
12. Lykke Li - No Rest for the Wicked
13. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
14. Taylor Swift - Blank Space
15. Jessie Ware - Say You Love Me
16. Michael Jackson - Love Never Felt So Good
17. Lil Wayne - Believe Me (feat. Drake)
18. Rick Ross - Sanctified (feat. Kanye West and Big Sean)
19. Charli XCX - Boom Clap
20. Neneh Cherry - Out of the Black (feat. Robyn)
Mark Davison
1. Deptford Goth - A Shelter/A Weapon
2. Yumi Zouma - The Brae
3. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
4. Royksopp & Robyn - Monument
5. Taylor Swift - New Romantics
6. Sia - Chandelier
7. St. Vincent - Bring Me Your Loves
8. Tove Lo - Habits (Stay High)
9. Jessie Ware - Champagne Kisses
10. tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
11. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
12. Young Romance - Pale
13. Francois and the Atlas Mountains - La Vérité
14. Sylvan Esso - Uncatena
15. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me
16. Wild Beasts - Wanderlust
17. Liars - Mess on a Mission
18. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
19. iamamiwhoami - Fountain
20. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes
Peter Quinton
1. Protomartyr - Maidenhead
2. Joyce Manor - The Jerk
3. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not a Part of Me
4. Grouper - Holding
5. Real Estate - Past Lives
6. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
7. Chumped - Name That Thing
8. Caribou - Second Chance
9. The War on Drugs - Under the Pressure
10. Whirr - Heavy
11. Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
12. Perfect Pussy - Advance Upon the Real
13. Nothing - Dig
14. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
15. Dean Blunt - 100
16. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
17. Iceage - The Lord's Favourite
18. Gold-Bears - Yeah, Tonight
19. iLoveMakkonen - Too Much
20. Ariel Pink - Put Your Number on My Phone
Sean Caldwell
1. Liars - Mess on a Mission
2. Sleep - The Clarity
3. Protomartyr - Scum, Rise!
4. Run the Jewels - Oh My Darling Don't Cry
5. Ghostface Killah & BADBADNOTGOOD - Six Degrees (feat. Danny Brown)
6. Swans - A Little God in My Hands
7. Ty Segall - Manipulator
8. TOBACCO - Streaker (feat. Notrabel)
9. Carla Bozulich - Deeper than the Well
10. Pink Mountaintops - North Hollywood Microwaves
11. Bo Ningen - DaDaDa
12. Dope Body - Repo Man
13. Shabazz Palaces - Forerunner Foray
14. OOIOO - Atatawa
15. Damaged Bug - Photograph
16. Cold Specks - Absisto
17. Warpaint - Disco/Very
18. Boris - Quicksilver
19. Mogwai - Simon Ferocious
20. The Skull Defekts - The Known Unknown
Stephen Wragg
1. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
2. Aphex Twin - XMAS_EVET10 (Thanaton3 Mix)
3. Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues
4. Sia - Chandelier
5. Sun Kil Moon - Carissa
6. Perfect Pussy - Interference Hits
7. Sun Kil Moon - Ben's My Friend
8. EMA - So Blonde
9. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - In Love with Useless
10. Sleaford Mods - Tied Up in Nottz
11. QT - Hey QT
12. Beyoncé - ***Flawless (feat. Nicki Minaj)
13. Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)
14. Aphex Twin - Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)
15. Swans - Oxygen
16. Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving
17. Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
18. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal
19. Lil B - No Black Person is Ugly
20. GFOTY - USA
14 November, 2014 - 13:15 — No Ripcord Staff