Thanks to your support, 2015 was great year for WERS, not to mention an awesome year for music!
Your input drives how much we play all the new songs and artists you discover on 88-9. So in that sense, this is YOUR countdown based on what you wanted to hear during the year. Tabulations are complete Thank You! George Knight will count down your Top 88 Tunes of 2015, starting at 4pm New Year’s Eve and again starting at Noon New Year’s Day! Enjoy, and make sure to stay in touch in 2016!
Here are the Top 88 so you can follow along and also make sure you don’t miss any of your favorites! Happy Holidays from all of us at Boston’s Modern Rock, 88-9 WERS!
TOP 88 TUNES OF 2015
1. Ex’s and Oh’s—Elle King
2. Lampshades on Fire—Modest Mouse
3. California—U-2
4. Long Way Down—Robert De Long
5. Lifted Up (1985)—Passion Pit
6. Mess Is Mine—Vance Joy
7. Little Wanderer—Death Cab For Cutie
8. Volcano—U-2
9. No Cities To Love—Sleater Kinney
10. False Hope—Laura Marling
11. Wherever Is Your Heart—Brandi Carlile
12. Black Sun—Death Cab For Cutie
13. Fool For Love—Lord Huron
14. Shots—Imagine Dragon
15. They Want My Soul—Spoon
16. Blame It On Me—George Ezra
17. Sagres—The Tallest Man On Earth
18. Kathleen—Catfish and the Bottlemen
19. Sedona—Houndmouth
20. My Type—Saint Motel
21. Smooth Sailin’—Leon Bridges
22. Weight of Love—The Black Keys
23. Electric Love—BORNS
24. True Affection—Father John Misty
25. Falling from the Sky—Calexico
26. What Kind of Man—Florence & The Machine
27. The Ground Walks, with Time in a Bottle—Modest Mouse
28. Endlessly—Guster
29. Don’t Wanna Fight—Alabama Shakes
30. Believe—Mumford & Sons
31. Loud Places—Jamie XX
32. Crystals—Of Monsters and Men
33. Let It Happen—Tame Impala
34. The Wolf—Mumford & Sons
35. Ghosts of Beverly Drive—Death Cab For Cutie
36. Dead Fox—Courtney Barnett
37. Dreams—Beck
38. Work Song—Hozier
39. Feeling OK—Best Coast
40. Tear In My Heart—Twenty One Pilots
41. Big Decisions—My Morning Jacket
42. The Wrong Year—The Decemberists
43. Things Happen—Dawes
44. Wherever You Go—Sublime with Rome
45. Renegades—X Ambassadors
46. Compound Fracture—My Morning Jacket
47. Human—Of Monsters and Men
48. The Next Storm—Frank Turner
49. Home—Field Report
50. All The Pretty Girls—Kaleo
51. Someone New—Hozier
52. First—Cold War Kids
53. Random Name Generator–Wilco
54. Once A Day—Michael Franti
55. Restless—New Order
56. Ship To Wreck—Florence & the Machine
57. Should Have Known Better—Sufjan Stevens
58. Nightlight—Silversun Pickups
59. 24 Frames—Jason Isbell
60. Bros—Wolf Alice
61. Song for Someone—U2
62. Different Colors—Walk The Moon
63. Return To The Moon—El Vy
64. Empty Nesters—Toro y Moi
65. Empire—Of Monsters and Men
66. Wide Open—The Chemical Brothers with Beck
67. Bad Blood—Ryan Adams
68. How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful—Florence & The Machine
69. Why Would I Now?—The Decemberists
70. Mountain At My Gates—Foals
71. The Eye—Brandi Carlile
72. All Across This Land—Blitzen Trapper
73. I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)—Dead Weather
74. Taste The Ceiling—Wilco
75. Pray For Rain—Pure Bathing Culture
76. Sunken Ship—Will Dailey
77. Body—Bassh
78. Loop De Li—Bryan Ferry
79. I’m Not The Only One—Sam Smith
80. Phone in A Pool—Ben Folds
81. Unsteady—X Ambassadors
82. Strangers—Langhorn Slim
83. Satisfy Me—Anderson East
84. Bird Of Prey—Natalie Prass
85. Way She Moves—Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts
86. Dearly Departed—Shakey Graves
87. Shake and Tremble—Django Django
88. Greens and Blues—Pixies
