Top 88 Tunes of 2015 from 88-9!

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