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Top 89 Staff Picks: Jim McGuinn, program director and host

by Jim McGuinn

December 01, 2015

Top 89 of 2015
The Current's program director Jim McGuinn shares his top songs and albums of 2015
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Top 20 Songs of 2015

1. Beck - "Dreams" off Radio Maximum Music
2. Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best" off Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Alabama Shakes - "Don't Wanna Fight" off Sound and Color
4. Leon Bridges - "Coming Home" off Coming Home
5. Mark Ronson - "Daffodils" feat. Kevin Parker off Uptown Special
6. Ty Segall - "Manipulator" off Manipulator
7. Disclosure - "Holding On" feat. Gregory Porter off Caracal
8. Cage the Elephant - "Mess Around" off Tell Me I'm Pretty
9. Jason Isbell - "24 Frames" off Something More Than Free
10. Tobias Jesso Jr. - "How Could You Babe" off Goon
11. Sleater-Kinney - "A New Wave" off No Cities to Love
12. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats - "S.O.B." off Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
13. Kendrick Lamar - "King Kunta" off To Pimp a Butterfly
14. Wolf Alice - "Moaning Lisa Smile" off My Love Is Cool
15. Hippo Campus - "Suicide Saturday" off Bashful Creatures EP
16. EL VY - "Return to the Moon" off Return to the Moon
17. BORNS - "10,000 Emerald Pools" off Candy EP
18. Kamasi Washington - "Final Thought" off The Epic
19. Brandi Carlile - "Wherever Is Your Heart" off The Firewatcher's Daughter
20. Tame Impala - "Let It Happen" off Currents

Top 10 Albums of 2015



1. Courtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
2. Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color
3. Sleater-Kinney, No Cities to Love
4. Tame Impala, Currents
5. Disclosure, Caracal
6. Tobias Jesso Jr., Goon
7. Jason Isbell, Something More Than Free
8. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats
9. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly
10. Ty Segall, Manipulator

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