Top 10 Songs of 2016
What a clusterfuck this year has been, ammirite? But you have to think, we're just entering the age of hyperinformation-shitstorms and I don't see the years getting less intense in the near future. We all know within minutes when our favorite celebrity or artist dies, and while some of us mourn for the actual person and their family, many more of us mourn because it's a part of our youth dying, one of our treasured memories. Like most of my friends, 2016 was just a terrible year in many ways. But when I started composing this year's top 10 list, my tenth here on this blog, I looked to last year's for context. I discovered that I got to see my three top favorite songs of last year performed live in really excellent situations. I got to see Human League perform, in Glasgow, three songs I had never seen them do, and got to talk to them about those songs afterward. And, there was the small matter of "Mixed Signals," the album my band released in July, shortly