It was certainly very difficult to talked about the worst of a year that's 20 plus years older than you, it's certainly very challenging for me to talk about the best of the best of any retro year. Typically whenever you are talking about any songs that's released in the calendar year, you have your leeway to talk about hidden gem, unpopular opinion, and something that followed the general consensus. But it's certainly became even more of an uphill battle when you wanna canonized a song — or even condemned them — to the dustbin of history. As a part time music critic myself, that job could get daunting especially with the context of history. You risked on alienating the general audience and the critics if you put a certain song on your best list because you buck against the history and the norm shall we say. Well I put an AC/DC song on my worst list so let's get on with this best list. 1980 for music as a whole are the year of transition. After the whole 70s thing h...
I'm purely making this best list because of completion really. But even with my reluctant here, I do have to say that I really love a lot of these songs. There's no doubt that the best list is for your personal record keeping because there's an emotional attachment to songs that you connect with. And that connection and emotional response is why I believe making best list is the best thing a critic do even if it doesn't draw views. And if there's any year that this is more true than ever was 2022. To put it bluntly I had a rough 2022 and untangling that emotion was me just listening to Spotify Top 50 Chart and just trying to keep up with the chart. I missed out on a lot of great albums outside of the mainstream not because there weren't any, but I was too preoccupied with anything else that music became secondary. This alongside my frustrating college situation leading to me seeking the Hot 100 or more specifically the Global chart more than ever. A lot of the b...