P.F.’s Top 40 Songs of 2013

By PF Wilson

Sorry it’s a little late. And I won’t bore you with a lot of editorial comment, but it was another good year for tunes. It was a 3 team race for the top, won out by Scotland’s very fine CHVRCHES. Enjoy!

Oh, and if you go to this episode of the podcast, you can hear FanGirl and I count down our respective Top 5s.

1. “The Mother We Share” - CHVRCHES

2. “The City” – The 1975

3. “Fred Astaire” – San Cisco

4.  “Magnetic Eyes” – Matrix and Futurebound

5. “Harlem” – New Politics

6. “Diane Young” – Vampire Weekend

7. “This is What it Feels Like” – Armand Van Buren

8. “Night Cafe” – OMD

9. “Counting Stars” - OneRepublic

10. “Spark” -  Afrojack

11. “Somewhere Only We Know” – Lily Allen

12. “Top of the World” – Imagine Dragons

13. “Right Action” –Franz Ferdinand

14. “Metroland” - OMD

15. “Stay Out” – Nina Nesbitt

16. “The Beach” – San Cisco

17. “Chocolate” – The 1975

18. “Midnight Run” – Andy Hawk & The Train Wreck Endings

19.  “I Always Knew” – The Vaccines

20. “Safe and Sound” – Capital Cities

21. “Skip to the Good Bit” – Rizzle Kicks

22. “Live and Die” – Avett Brothers

23. “Why Am I The One?” F.U.N.

24. “Shiver” – Walk the Moon

25.  “House of Gold” – Twenty-one Pilots

26.  “Sad Night, Where is Morning” – The Ocean Blue

27.  “Love is a Bourgeois Construct” – Pet Shop Boys

28. “24 Hours” –Sky Ferriera

29. “Unbelievers” – Vampire Weekend

30. “When Can I See You Again?” – Owl City

31.  “The Pit” – Silversun Pickups

32. “Recovery” – Frank Turner

33. “Lightning Bolt” – Jake Bugg

34. “Strawberry Smile” – Andy Hawk & The Train Wreck Ending

35. “Dear Darlin’” –Olly Murs

36. “Somewhere to Hide” – Shiny Toy Guns

37. “Anna Sun” – Walk The Moon

38. “Still Into You” - Paramore

39.  “Helen of Troy” - OMD

40. “Shooting Star” – Owl City