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Kyle's Top Albums



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— Holiday Makonnen (@iLoveMakonnen5D) November 28, 2014

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Kyle's Top Songs
14. Ty Dolla $ign - “Stand For”Never see me on the stand though.
13. MBE - “Feeling Good”Literally how can you not feel good when you listen to the best bop song of the year?12. Ariana Grande - “One Last Time”11. Popcaan - “Everything Nice”Popcaan singing “music'll play 'til the speaker fuck up” made me renew my faith in music every time I heard it this year.10. How to Dress Well - “Words I Don’t Remember”Here is a 2,000 word story I wrote about this song.9. Magic! - “Let Your Hair Down”Magic! May be a band made up of four cardboard cutouts standing in front of a speaker playing Police songs, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t make the easiest easy listening song of all time.8. Dej Loaf - “Try Me”Listen to this song when I’m feeling godly.
7. Key! feat. iLoveMakonnen - “I Understand”Key! crooning the words “don’t make me turn this car around” has been the Noisey editorial staff’s unofficial theme song for the last few months, and, at press time, there were no signs of that car getting turned around in the slightest.
6. FKA Twigs - “Pendulum”Everyone spent the year talking about the FKA Twigs album being the soundtrack to robot sex or something, but the clear highlight was a song about miscommunication and unrequited feelings for someone that sounds like a score for watching a mythical city crumble into the ocean. Forget robots; this is painfully human.
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2. Taylor Swift - “Out of the Woods”We were in screaming color.
1. iLoveMakonnen - “Club Goin’ Up (On a Tuesday)”This song has been stuck in my head at some point every day since it came out. Eric wrote a very nice thing about why it is the best song in his list, to which I will only add that, as recently as August, he and I ran into Makonnen in the crowd at the Drake and Lil Wayne show. On a Tuesday. Right after Drake's remix came out. Now, Makonnen and Drake are nominated for a Grammy together. Things only keep going up.Honorable Mentions: Drake - “0-100”; Rich Gang - “Lifestyle”; Fetty Wap - “Trap Queen”; OG Maco - “U Guessed It”; Prince - “Breakdown”; Tinashe - “Bet”; The-Dream - “Wedding Bells”; Wiz Khalifa - “We Dem Boyz”; Sam Hunt - “Leave the Night On”
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Kyle Kramer is a Noisey editor. Follow Kyle Kramer on Twitter.To paraphrase @Meghan_Trainor it's all 'bout that (GOP) base, 'bout that base for @JebBush https://t.co/T7K045dnLx
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