Most years, it's just around this time of the year that I start organizing my favorite songs. This year, I'm going to let you in on the process.
I usually keep a playlist of potentials that consists of my favorite song (or sometimes two songs) from each album I've listened to for the year. Around halfway through the year, I start organizing that list into five categories (in relation to the my Favorite Songs of the Year) list: Definite, Probable, Possible, Maybe, and No. As I listen to my playlist over the course of the year (constantly adding new songs to it), I shuffle songs in and out of the various categories.
Right now, I've got 69 songs in the overall 2022 Potentials list, including four each in the Definite and Probable categories. I think those are the only ones I'm going to describe for you here. So here are those eight songs, in alphabetical order by artist:
Alexia Avina - I Am Opening - A slow, quiet, ethereal song that almost floats away on its own.
Barrie - Dig - Quirky but pretty little alt-pop love song.
Beach House - Over and Over - Dream pop at its finest by this Baltimore, MD duo.
The Birthday Massacre - One More Time - Hook laden alternative rock.
Graveyard Club - Broken Wide Open - '80s influenced alternate pop rock with male and female vocals.
Matisyahu - Lonely Day - Just another heartfelt, well-written Matisyahu song.
The Monochrome Set - My Deep Shoreline - Slighty sarcastic but lovely track from this veteran '80s indie pop band.
Nocturna - The Trickster - Bombastic ballad from this Italian gothic symphonic rock band.
And here, without descriptions, are the 21 songs in my Possible category:
Antigone Rising - Badlands
Bastille - Shut Off the Lights
Big Thief - Spud Infinity
Broods - Piece of My Mind
Calexico - Cumbia Peninsula
Chaos Magic - Garden of Winter
Darkher - Immortals
Envy of None - Never Said I Love You
Faun - Innisfree
Graveyard Club - Rose Wine
Lights - Easy Money
Johnny Marr - Night and Day
Moonlight Haze - It's Insane
The Ninth Wave - Maybe You Didn't Know
Peregrine - The Awful Things
Placebo - Chemtrails
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Not the One
Royksopp (with Alison Goldfrapp) - Impossible
Say Sue Me - No Real Place
SheWolf - Lone Wolf
Visions of Atlantis - Legions of the Sea
