Favorite Songs of 2020

At first I set out to put together a list of my favorite 20 songs of the year (just like I did previously with my favorite albums of the year), but after a day or so of thinking and writing them down, I quickly realized that the list was greater than 20 and in the end, I had a list of 50 songs. 

Well, I shrunk it down to 40 and then decided - what the hell am I doing? All of these songs are great. And I loved each one of them and each one deserves to be on the list. Each and every one of them.

So, here's my 40 favorite songs of the dumpster fire year that was 2020 - once again, in no specific order:

1. Within the Ruins - Black Heart

2. Architects - Animals

3. Foo Fighters - Shame Shame

4. Code Orange - Swallowing the Rabbit Whole

5. Unleash the Archers - Abyss

6. Machine Gun Kelly - Bloody Valentine

7. Poppy - Anything Like Me

8. Spirit Adrift - Screaming From Beyond

9. Green Day - Oh Yeah!

10. The Pretty Reckless - Death by Rock and Roll

11. Deftones - Urantia

12. Adelitas Way - Habit

13. Pop Evil - Work

14. Joyous Wolf - Odyssey

15. Tallah - L.E.D.

16. Black Stone Cherry - Again

17. Lady Gaga - 911

18. Armored Saint - End of the Attention Span

19. Spirit Box - Holy Roller

20. Run the Jewels - Holy Calamafuck

21. Ayron Jones - Take Me Away

22. AC/DC - Shot in the Dark

23. Hawk - CLVRMFKR

24. Avatar - Silence in the Age of Apes

25. Trivium - Amongst the Shadows and the Stones

26. Midnight - Fucking Speed and Darkness

27. August Burns Red - Defender

28. Metal Church - Dead on the Vine

29. Lamb of God - Memento Mori

30. Mr. Bungle - Bungle Grind

31. Royal Blood - Trouble's Coming

32. Hatebreed - When the Blade Drops

33. Stone Temple Pilots - Fare Thee Well

34. Bring Me The Horizon - Parasite Eve

35. Rob Zombie - The Triumph of King Freak (A Crypt of Preservation and Superstition)

36. Pearl Jam - Dance of the Clairvoyants

37. The Violent - Fly on the Wall

38. Smith & Myers - Not Mad Enough

39. Asking Alexandria - They Don't Want What We Want (And They Don't Care)

40. Them Evils - Where Ya Gonna Crash Tonight?