Joe’s Top 50 Songs of 2021

You’ve seen the albums, songs and even genres that made up Joe’s 2021 listening experience.

Now comes… more songs. 50 to be exact. In case the top 5 wildcard / Billboard 100 songs weren’t enough.

For the most part only one song from each artist made the list, but there are exceptions for Wolf Alice (3), Mastodon (2), Laura Mvula (2), Silk Sonic (2) and Japanese Breakfast (2).

Special shout out to TLM teammate Jason for the introduction of Liam Kazar and longtime YouTube commenter Roxanne for Mdou Moctar.

It’s 3 hours and 29 minutes of pure listening pleasure. As long as your okay with lots of different genres and styles in the rock and pop milieu.

Here’s the list

1. Forever (Sailing) – Snail Mail
2. Safe From Heartbreak (if you never fall in love) – Wolf Alice
3. Gigantium – Mastodon
4. Persephone – Allison Russell
5. Broken Horses – Brandi Carlile
6. Boys at School – Spellling
7. Modern Guy – Death From Above 1979
8. Paprika – Japanese Breakfast
9. Conditional – Laura Mvula
10. The Other Black Dog – Genesis Owusu
11. White Dress – Lana Del Rey
12. Pyrocene – Genghis Tron
13. Smokin Out the Window – Silk Sonic
14. Heart of the Night – Eric Church
15. Jussy’s Girl – The Darkness
16. The Art of Losing – The Anchoress
17. Popular Mechanics – Sam Outlaw
18. Who Needs Friends – Royal Blood
19. Got Me – Laura Mvula
20. Starlight – Yola
21. Down in the Country – Israel Nash
22. Don’t Shut Me Down – ABBA
23. Heartlow – Jane Weaver
24. Synthine – Adjective Animal
25. Invisible Monster – Dream Theater
26. Smile – Wolf Alice
27. Mine Forever – Lord Huron
28. Afrique Victime – Mdou Moctar
29. I Don’t Wanna Wait – The War on Drugs
30. Head Rush – Art d’Ecco
31. Vendetta – Ice Age
32. Fucking Wizardry – Self Esteem
33. Morning – Sarah Jarosz
34. Suck Teeth – L’Rain
35. Teardrinker – Mastodon
36. I am not a woman, I’m a God – Halsey
37. Cheers – Faye Webster
38. Heat Above – Greta Van Fleet
39. Chivalry Is Not Dead – Hiatus Kaiyote
40. Siren Song – Jerry Cantrell
41. So Long Tomorrow – Liam Kazar
42. Maria – Steve Earle
43. Jaywalker – Andy Shauf
44. Close To You – Dayglow
45. And Then Life Was Beautiful – Nao
46. Be Sweet – Japanese Breakfast
47. Down – St. Vincent
48. Addition of Light Divided – Tori Amos
49. After Last Night – Silk Sonic
50. The Last Man on Earth – Wolf Alice

Here’s the Spotify Playlist