Favorite Songs From 2022

[LithoJazzoSphere]

A few of you posted your lists of these in the tracker thread, but I want to have a dedicated thread for them for future posterity.  Here are mine.  Pretty fluid order, though not quite as bad as the album list, since I know at least the top 50 songs better than my top 50-ish albums for sure.  I'll probably shift things around some and add a few things as I continue to check out a few more albums and revisit some of these, but it's a good start. 

1 - Chelsea Wolfe - "Oui Oui Marie"
2 - Carpenter Brut/Sylvaine - "Stabat Mater"
3 - Giant Walker - "Coda"
4 - Kingfisher Sky - "All That Is Left"
5 - Kate Havnevik - "Space Ark"
6 - David Maxim Micic/Vladimir Lalic/Aleksandra Djelmas - "Cry"
7 - Lights - "Rent"
8 - Spiritbox - "Hysteria"
9 - Shedfromthebody - "Giver"
10 - Sylvaine - "Mono No Aware"
11 - Red Handed Denial - "Father Said"
12 - Zola Jesus - "Undertow"
13 - Vila - "Liminal Space"
14 - Morphide - "Panopticon"
15 - REMINA - "Dying Sun"
16 - AEries - "Absorber"
17 - Yaatri - "Vipassana"
18 - Visions of Atlantis - "I Will Be Gone"
19 - Soilwork - "Vultures"
20 - Emily Jane White - "Battle Call"
21 - Darkher - "Where the Devil Waits"
22 - Sara Gazarek - "Vanity"
23 - Mors Principium Est/Sara Lindroos - "Pure"
24 - Within Temptation - "Don't Pray For Me"
25 - Pure Reason Revolution - "Lucid"
26 - Marissa Nadler - "Saunders Ferry Lane"
27 - Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Hear My Dear"
28 - Battle Beast - "Master of Illusion"
29 - Celldweller - "My Disintegration"
30 - Oceans of Slumber - "The Waters Rising"
31 - Delain - "The Quest and the Curse"
32 - Daniel Tompkins - "Frenzy"
33 - Shape of Despair - "Dissolution"
34 - Ashes of Ares/Ripper Owens - "Monster's Lament"
35 - Cobra the Impaler - "Scorched Earth"
36 - YAYA Kim - "Sorry For Being Born"
37 - Jani Liimatainen/Tony Kakko - "All Dreams Are Born To Die"
38 - FVNERALS - "For Horror Eats the Light"
39 - Tears For Fears - "Break the Man"
40 - Frayle - "Treacle & Revenge"
41 - Evergrey - "The Orphean Testament"
42 - A.A. Williams - "Golden"
43 - Korda/Jonas Renkse - "Chrome Eyes"
44 - Ethel Cain - "A House in Nebraska"
45 - Revocation - "Galleries of Morbid Artistry"
46 - Dreadnought - "Liminal Veil"
47 - Luna Fawn Ripley - "Lost At Sea"
48 - The Jordan - "Best Damn Day"
49 - Jessie Ware – “Free Yourself”
50 - Arch Enemy - "Handshake With Hell"
51 - Emma Ruth Rundle - "In Sadness For Our Dying World (here come the Christians)"
52 - Blind Guardian - "Architects of Doom"
53 - Pre-Human Vaults - "Whirlwind Reaper"
54 - The Birthday Massacre - "One More Time"
55 - White Ward - "Phoenix"
56 - Seven Lions/Fiora - "See You Again"
57 - Silver Talon - "We Die Young"
58 - Hatchie - "Quicksand"
59 - Ithaca - "Fluorescent"
60 - Dim Gray - "Avalon | The Tide"

Honorable Mentions:

(Dolch) - "Tonight"
Avatarium - "Mother Can You Hear Me Now"
Avishai Cohen Trio - "Shifting Sands"
Borealis/Lynsey Ward - "Burning Tears"
Brutus - "Liar"
Curse of Iris - "Jadis"
Deathbell - "The Ladder"
Demonical - "We Conquer the Throne"
Depressed Mode/Gogo Melone - "Suffer in Darkness"
Devin Townsend - "Equinox"
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter/Sabine Scherer – “Euer Gott ist der Tod”
Earthside/Baard Kolstad - "All That We Knew and Ever Loved"
(EchO)/Heike Langhans - "Chemical"
Elder - "Coalescence"
Elegeion - "Dust"
Epica/Charlotte Wessels/Myrkur - "Sirens of Blood and Water"
Ghost of Mirach/Marcela Bovio - "A Day of Reckoning"
GoGo Penguin - "Fanfares"
Kavinsky/Prudence - "Zenith"
Lost Domain - "As the Sun Sets"
Machine Head - "Slaughter the Martyr"
Master Boot Record - "80686"
Mecha Maiko - "Shut It Down"
Michael Romeo - "Brave New World Outro"
Michelle Branch - "Not My Lover"
Mindwarden - "The Layer"
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway - "Castilleia"
Moriah Woods - "Silenced"
NeraNature - "It's Time"
Nightrage - "Swallow Me"
Pia Isa - "Statistics"
Projected - "At Your Window"
Purity Ring - "xsalt"
R. Missing - "Placelessness"
Saudade/A.A. Williams/Lee "Scratch" Perry - "Chill of Death"
Sharon Van Etten - "Darkness Fades"
The Answer Lies in the Black Void - "In Obsidian Clouds"
The Chronomaster Project/Marcela Bovio - "Nothing Left To Lose"
The Interrupters - "Kiss the Ground"
Weyes Blood - "Twin Flame"

[Lethean]

Chrome Eyes was 2021 wasn't it?  But maybe you couldn't buy it until 2022...

Lucent was my most listened to 2022 track so I guess that's my #1.

[Lethean]

Most of my listening is album based and with an exception here and there, I have the same number of plays for each track.  I'd have to spend more time figuring out rankings than I'd want to.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Chrome Eyes was 2021 wasn't it?  But maybe you couldn't buy it until 2022...

Lucent was my most listened to 2022 track so I guess that's my #1.

Youtube says they're November '21 uploads, but Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud say they're '22 releases. 

[SoundscapeMN]

I have a Spotify list that is hardly 100% up to date, but I'll try and share soon (might also go in the Retro SOTY topic eventually, lol).

[Lethean]

Chrome Eyes was 2021 wasn't it?  But maybe you couldn't buy it until 2022...

Lucent was my most listened to 2022 track so I guess that's my #1.

Youtube says they're November '21 uploads, but Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud say they're '22 releases.

Soundcloud for me has October 2021 but I think it's fine to count it as 2022.  I hope they release a whole album.

[dparrott]

Warpaint - Stevie.  Nothing's hit me as hard as that in years.

[twosuitsluke]

This is what I've got so far. I've probably missed some songs but this is a pretty good start...

Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell

Cave In - Amaranthine

Coheed and Cambria -
Rise, Naianasha (Cut the Cord)/The Liars Club/Beautiful Losers/Comatose/ Window of the Waking Mind/Shoulders/A Disappearing Act

Disillusion - Am Abgrund

Frank Turner - Farewell to My City/Punches

Ghost - Kaisarion

Hot Water Music - Turn the Dial

Ibaraki - Rõnin

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - The Dripping Tap/Magenta Mountain/Lava/Gaia/Ambergris/Ice V/Hypertension

Kirk Hammett - High Plains Drifter

Kreator - Strongest of the Strong

Machine Head - Become the Firestorm/Rotten

Megadeth - We'll Be Back

NOFX - Darby Crashing Your Party

PUP - Totally Fine

Rammstein - Dicke Titten

Sigh - Mayonaka No Kaii

The Flatliners - Performative Hours

The Lazy Eyes - Where's My Brain???

The Mars Volta - Vigil/Collapsible Shoulders/Cerulea

The Murlocs - Growing Pains

Venom Prison - Judges of the Underworld

[nick_z]

Might as well copy my songs post from the other thread here, then:

Alter Bridge - Fable of the Silent Son
Amorphis - The Moon
An Abstract Illusion - In the Heavens Above, You Will Become a Monster
Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting
A-Z - At the Waters Edge
Black Map - Witching Hour
Blind Guardian - Secrets of the American Gods
Brymir - Voices in the Sky
Cleanbreak - Coming Home
Clutch - Mercy Brown
Coheed and Cambria - Love Murder One
Darkest Era - A Path Made of Roots
Darkswoon - Eaten By Wolves
Dawn of Solace - Dying Light
Disillusion - Abide the Storm
Early Moods - Return to Salem's Gate
Freedom Hawk - Coming Home
Ghost - Kaisarion
Godless Truth - Breathe Fire
Halo Effect    - Gateways
Iris Divine - Thirteen
Megadeth - We'll Be Back
Messa - If You Want Her To Be Taken
Moon Tooth - Phototroph
Queensryche - Lost in Sorrow
Ruby the Hatchet - Change
Saor - The Ancient Ones
Satan - Luciferic
Secret Shame - Saccharine Dream
Seven Kingdoms - A Silent Remedy
Sonja - Fuck, Then Die
Sumerlands - Twilight Points the Way
Sylvaine - Mono No Aware
Threshold - Let It Burn
Devin Townsend - Call of the Void
Wilderun - Identifier

Didn't feel like ranking them, but if I were to pick the three or four favorites, I'd probably say An Abstract Illusion  - "In the Heavens...", Ghost - "Kaisarion", Halo Effect - "Gateways", Blind Guardian - "Secrets of the American Gods"

Some other great songs from the albums above:

Amorphis - Seven Roads Come Together
A-Z - Trial By Fire
Coheed and Cambria - Rise, Naianasha (Cut the Chord)
Dawn of Solace - White Noise
Ghost - Spillways
Ghost - Hunter's Moon
Halo Effect - The Needless End
Messa - Dark Horse
Queensryche - Behind the Walls
Sonja - Wanting Me Dead
Sumerlands - Heavens Above
Wilderun - Distraction III

[nick_z]

Coheed and Cambria -
Rise, Naianasha (Cut the Cord)/The Liars Club/Beautiful Losers/Comatose/ Window of the Waking Mind/Shoulders/A Disappearing Act

Ha! You basically have half the album here, and not my main pick (Love Murder One)  Although I do have Rise, Naianasha in my other picks too. But I particularly enjoy Love Murder One...and the drumming on it is so cool.

To be fair, there are plenty of great, super-catchy songs all over this album 

[twosuitsluke]

Coheed and Cambria -
Rise, Naianasha (Cut the Cord)/The Liars Club/Beautiful Losers/Comatose/ Window of the Waking Mind/Shoulders/A Disappearing Act

Ha! You basically have half the album here, and not my main pick (Love Murder One)  Although I do have Rise, Naianasha in my other picks too. But I particularly enjoy Love Murder One...and the drumming on it is so cool.

To be fair, there are plenty of great, super-catchy songs all over this album 

I know, was just about to sat the same to you. I mean, it's obviously my album of the year by a long way, and I love almost every song. I find Love Murder One one of the weaker tracks, and it kinda blows my mind that you'd pick that over the songs I listed, but hey it's Coheed so I ain't gonna complain!

[nick_z]

I know, was just about to sat the same to you. I mean, it's obviously my album of the year by a long way, and I love almost every song. I find Love Murder One one of the weaker tracks, and it kinda blows my mind that you'd pick that over the songs I listed, but hey it's Coheed so I ain't gonna complain!

 

Like I said, it could've really been any of those...there are many great songs on the album. Maybe Shoulders I'm not quite as high on, but The Liars Club, Comatose, Beautiful Losers...all so good. Blood, too...not as immediately catchy/bombastic, but great song.