Top 113 Songs of 2013 - Honourable Mentions

Here comes December. No, wait... it's here! Which means It's My Kind of Scene is almost ready to present to you our list of the Top 113 Songs of 2013. Over the next twelve days, we'll be revisiting our favourite tracks of a year that kicked all kinds of music butt. It was a year of 16 year old music dynamos, French robot people, twerking like only a white girl can and so much more. While the international music scene has been a little bit cray and a whole lot Miley (and a little less Gaga, Beyonce and Britney), the Australian music scene has exploded with exciting new talent that are ready to rock your socks off. You're going to be meeting a lot of them over the next week and a bit. Sadly, not all of our favourite tracks can make the list... so we thought we'd offer a little preview with some honourable mentions. If songs this good didn't make the cut, just think how awesome the ones that did must be. Now go forth, listen and get your white girl twerk on with these 10 brilliant tracks from 2013!

Honourable Mentions:

Worthy

by Jacob Banks

The time has come for fate to decide,

If a part of me is even worthy. 

Rah Rah Radio

by The Delta Riggs

And she said you should go back to where you come from,

She said you should go back to where you come from. 

Hard Out Here

by Lily Allen

And if you can't detect the sarcasm, you've misunderstood...

Down On Life

by Elliphant

I could use a break, me need to go down, down, down, down on life,

I need you to take all my shadows for a walk tonight. 

Over The Love

by Florence + The Machine 

And I'll sing from the piano, tear my yellow dress and,

Cry and cry and cry... over the love of you.  

Fun Fact - Florence Welch has made the top 10 of our end of year countdowns dating back to 2009, with 'Cosmic Love' hitting #1 in 2009, 'Heavy In Your Arms' was #9 in 2010, #3 with 'Shake It Out in 2011 and #7 last year with 'Sweet Nothing', her collaboration with Calvin Harris. 2013 will be the first year Ms Welch has been absent from the upper echelon of our chart. Spoiler alert? 

Glory Days

by Iluka

I'll never let it go, no I'll never let it go...

Motorway

by Little Boots

They have lives, they have plans,

They could never understand. 

The Sound

by Ariela Jacobs

All I can hear is the sound of how we bid farewell.

Ohio

by Kingswood

She's got pretty almond eyes, I was taken by surprise,

She was standing at the show, 

Why? I guess I'll never know.

Fun Fact - The video for 'Ohio' has Kira Puru in it. Everything is better with Kira Puru. Thelma Plum makes an appearance as Puru's badass lady friend and you just might see a whole lot more of her throughout this countdown. Or will you? The drama... the excitement. What?   

Young and Beautiful

by Lana Del Rey

Hot summer nights, mid July,

When you and I were forever wild.

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The Top 113 Songs of 2013 countdown begins tomorrow! 

 

Top 25 - 10 February, 2013

Eliza Hull!

Songs of the Week, 10/02/13 from itsmykindofscene on 8tracks Radio.

1. The Griswolds - The Courtship of Summer Preasley
2. Atlas Genius - If So (NEW)
3. Little Daylight - Overdose
4. Flaming Lips - Sun Blows Up Today
5. Eliza Hull - Echoes (NEW)
6. MKO - Snarly (NEW)
7. Birds of Tokyo - Lanterns

8. Chrvches - Recover (NEW)
9. Elephant - Skyscraper (NEW)
10. Monarchy ft. Dita Von Teese - Disintegration
11. The Knife - Full of Fire

12. M.I.A - Doobie (NEW)
13. HAIM - Don't Save Me
14. Emma Louise - Freedom
15. The Delta Riggs - Rah Rah Radio (NEW)
16. Chloe Howl - Rumour
17. Shout Out Louds - Illusions (NEW)

18. James Blake - Retrograde (NEW)
19. Sarah Blasko - God Fearing





20. Tegan and Sara - How Come You Don't Want Me? (NEW)
21. Pati Yang - Hold Your Horses (NEW)





22. Cold War Kids - Miracle Mile
23. Phebe Starr - Jurrasica
24. Bertie Blackman - Growl Howl (NEW)
25. Moon Boots - No One (NEW)

New Music Monday #38

 Rock = The Delta Riggs.

Rah Rah Radio

by The Delta Riggs

Album: Rah Rah Radio (April 2013)

It’s the very first sound of that dirty guitar on Rah Rah Radio and I’m reminded of how much I love rock music. Dirty, filthy rock music is so much fun and the first single from The Delta Riggs debut album is exactly that. Sometimes music doesn’t need to be life changing, it doesn’t need to be all love stories and heartbreak and flowers and unicorns and it shouldn’t be pretty. Sometimes music needs to be uncontrollable foot tapping, head nodding, jumping up and down. It needs to be screaming along, more than singing along and it needs to be simple solid drums, guitars and lyrics. This is simple rock music at its best, and sometimes simple rock music is the best. Please Delta Riggs, don’t go back to where you’ve come from, you guys rock and I love it.     

 

Jo Michelmore gives Rah Rah Radio four Kurt Cobains out of five

Snarly

By MKO

EP: Lily Lotus Orchard Sunflower (March/April 2013)

I’m going to offer you some advice. Press play and close your eyes. Let Snarly float over you, let it rest gently on you, let it take a hold of you, then, like a wave of delicious sounds, let it make you move. The first single from MKO’s EP Lily Lotus Orchid Sunflower is such a pleasant experience from start to end I’ve literally pressed play over and over, four minutes is not enough. From the initial synths and subtle vocal, it builds, gradually layering lovely upon lovely sounds with such fabulous, subtle intensity; this is a song I never want to end. It’s a little bit pop, a little bit soul, a little bit hip hop, a little bit amazing. I’m going to offer you some advice, there’s a little secret in Brisbane, they’re called MKO and you’re going to want to know about them, now. If this is how delightful the first taste of their EP is, I can’t imagine how I’m going to cope with more. 

Jo Michelmore gives Snarly four Lady Gaga's out of five

NEW MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Beta Love 

by Ra Ra Riot

Album: Beta Love (2013)

 

Some facts about this clip: a fan of New York band Ra Ra Riot made this clip by splicing together footage from an 80’s TV dance show. This means that this footage is not set up, it’s real. Actual people wore these amazing clothes and performed these awkward dance moves in front of cameras which broadcast their uncomfortable faces on television screens in people’s homes. This makes me happy.

Some questions about this clip: who are Ra Ra Riot? I don’t know much either, but after watching and hearing this, I think I love them. Also, what’s a dance party show? Why are there not dance party shows now? I’d watch a dance party show! I’d appear on a dance party show. I love think I love dance party shows! Someone, somewhere, make a dance party show, immediately!
 

Jo Michelmore gives Beta Love five Jacksons out of five