My 50 favorite songs of 2013

Let me get this out of the way before people forget that 2013 was even a thing. I didn't actually listen to as much music last year as is my usual standard, with time-devouring hurdles like writing and hospitalization getting in the way, so I'd never be able to match the list of 500 awesome songs that I put together for the end of 2012.

This time, I'm limiting it to 50, but with a special condition: only one track per artist. So, these are my favorite songs of last year. My original plan was to include YouTube links for all of these, but honestly, it's 4:30 in the morning and that would take a lot of effort. And frankly, if you and I have similar taste in music, you've probably heard a good number of these already. This is not what you'd call an adventurous selection.

50. "Baby Center Stage" - Iron & Wine
49. "Video" - IS TROPICAL
48. "Maw Maw Song" - The Joy Formidable
47. "Prodigy" - No Joy
46. "Until the Colours Run" - Lanterns on the Lake
45. "Sea of Love" - Silver Swans
44. "Confidence" - The Dodos
43. "Siren's Song" - Rogue Wave
42. "Brainfreeze" - Fuck Buttons
41. "San Francisco" - Foxygen
40. "Cough" - Everything Everything
39. "Come a Little Closer" - Cage the Elephant
38. "Golden Light" - Starfucker
37. "Bourgeois" - Phoenix
36. "Landscape" - Glasser
35. "White Seal (Shell & Spine)" - Candy Claws
34. "Say That" - Toro y Moi
33. "Various Methods of Escape" - Nine Inch Nails
32. "Dark Matter" - Feathers
31. "Storm King" - Widowspeak
30. "Ice on the Dune" - Empire of the Sun
29. "The Wire" - Haim
28. "Ocean Repeating (Big-Eyed Girl)" - Wild Nothing
27. "Almost Home" - Moby
26. "We Sink" - CHVRCHES
25. "1x1x1" - Cloud Cult
24. "It Is What It Is" - Blood Orange
23. "Method of Error" - Boris
22. "Painful Like" - Austra
21. "The Trip" - Still Corners
20. "Future Warrior" - Palms
19. "You Lust" - The Flaming Lips
18. "Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)" - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
17. "Ironworks" - Baths
16. "In My Fears" - Nosound
15. "Full of Fire" - The Knife
14. "New You" - My Bloody Valentine
13. "Ingenue" - Atoms for Peace
12. "One Girl/One Boy" - !!!
11. "Georgio by Moroder" - Daft Punk
10. "Step" - Vampire Weekend
9. "Bambi" - Suuns
8. "It Must Be the Weather" - Holy Ghost!
7. "Fall for You" - Young Galaxy
6. 'We Are Explorers" - Cut Copy
5. "Wedding Song" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. "White Noise" - Disclosure
3. "Reflektor" - Arcade Fire
2. "Brennisteinn" - Sigur Rós
1. "Weightless" - Washed Out