JMG Top Ten Tracks For 2013

Culled from my Spotify favorites playlist, here's my annual roundup of the tracks that got the most play this year at Casa JMG. Some of them appeared here during the year, some did not.

1. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
(Openly gay, openly HIV+, very Dead Can Dance.)
2. Boy George - King Of Everything
(One of his loveliest ballads ever.)
3. The Knife - Full Of Fire
("Liberals giving me the nerve itch.")
4. David Bowie - Love Is Lost
(Hello Steve Riech Mix by James Murphy.)
5.  Nine Inch Nails - Copy Of A
(And the title track from Came Back Haunted.)
6. Brandon Maclean - Stupid
(Plus the Stereogamous remix on Spotify!)
7. Holy Ghost! - Dumb Disco Ideas
(Delicious nu-disco out of Brooklyn.)
8. Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy
(The Peaking Lights remix is very New Order-y.)
9. BT - Skylarking
(Glorious trance that evokes the mid-90s.)
10.  Lindstrøm - Lanzarote
(Instrumental retro Italo featuring Todd Terje.)

MORE FAVORITES:
FKA Twigs - Water Me
Bright Light Bright Light - In Your Care 
Purple Crush - Thirsty
Chicane - One Thousand Suns

Morgan Page + BT - In The Air

A bit of a trip back to the late 90s. Makes me miss SF.

BT - In The Air

Brian Transeau (BT) was a large part of my weekend soundtrack in San Francisco. Pleasuredome daddies should hear something familiar in this track.

BT & Chicane - Always

Here's the Chicane remix of the first single from Brian Transeau's epic 2-disc set These Hopeful Machines, just out from Nettwork Records. BT and Chicane (Nick Bracegirdle) gave me my two favorite tracks of the 90s, Flaming June and Saltwater (respectively). This song makes me very, very happy. You might also enjoy BT's cover of the Psychedelic Furs' The Ghost In You, also from the new album. Lovely. And if The Emergency isn't a huge club hit, I'll be surprised.