2020.01.10
Most of the songs here have had a moment of moving me greatly - they catch something in my wistful, melancholy self, a lovely ache that I cherish in life.
2010: Sea of Love - Cat Power
Runner-up: The Girl You Lost to Cocaine - Sia
2011: As It Comes - The Exploding Voids
Runners-up:
Addicted to Love - Florence + The Machine
Knockin - Carolina Chocolate Drops and the Luminescent Orchestrii
(Small shout out to my friend Kjersten who made a mix "Tilkirke" (to church, in Norwegian - Knockin and a bunch of other great songs came from there, and I'm a tough person to make a mix for...)
2012: The District Sleeps Tonight - The Postal Service
Runners-up:
Socrates - The Lisps
Concrete Wall - Zee Avi
2013: Valentine - Fiona Apple
Runners-up:
Needing/Getting - OK Go
Something About You - Cary Brothers (feat. Laura Jansen)
I Need My Girl - The National
2014: Coffee - Sylva Esso
Runner-up: The Writing's on the Wall - OK GO
2015: My Favorite Picture of You - Guy Clarke
Runner-up: How Naked Are We Gonna Get - The Blow
2016: A Cimma - Fanfare Invisible
2017: Make Out - Julia Nunes:
Runner-up: Los Ageless - St. Vincent
2018: Til It's Over - Anderson .Paak
Runner-up: Take on Me (MTV Unplugged) - a-ha
2019: To Turn You On - Nataly Dawn + Ryan Lerman
Runner-up: Curse of the I-5 Corridor - Neko Case
Who cares if the horse is blind? Just keep loading the wagon.
The Boy Who Wears Shorts All Winter. For a very very brief moment way back when, I thought about becoming that, and I don't have a clear idea as to why. (Besides some snip of it being "an attention thing")