I’ve mentioned this a lot, but it’s worth repeating: 2017 has been a year when I’ve found it pretty difficult to focus enough to read or watch narrative television. So it's probably not that surprising that music has been especially important to me this year. It’s been a good companion on my commutes and long work-related drives, and it’s been the soundtrack for solo runs, short and long.
So here are my 17 songs for 2017. They're not necessarily favorites, or even the best songs that I encountered this year. Instead I narrowed down this list to those songs that will remind me intensely of this particular period of my life when I hear them sometime in the far future. I've mentioned most of them before on this DW, but it seems worthwhile to collect them in one place.
( In order of their addition to my iTunes Library… )What are your songs of the year?