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I’m so excited to bring back my yearly “Friends Of Indie Music Filter” poll, where I reach out to great folks I know in different facets of the music industry and ask for their top five lists.  Over the course of last week, I received a bunch of contributions from music supervisors, publishers, and bloggers.  All = massive music fans.  Please pay attention to these lists, as here’s where you’re going to find those missing gems you might not have discovered elsewhere this year.

This is post 1 of 2, Top Songs Of 2014 (listed in order of when it was received by IMF).  Below the lists is a playlist (songs in random order), where I added each person’s top song, plus one of my own favourites from each top 5 list.  Best albums up tomorrow. Enjoy!

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Jonathan Palmer (SONGS Music Publishing)
1. Tove Lo – “Habits (Stay High)” 2. St. Vincent – “I Prefer Your Love” 3. Lana Del Rey – “West Coast” 4. St. Paul and the Broken Bones – “Call Me” 5. Lil John and DJ Snake – “Turn Down for What”

Tej Jordan Sandhu (Co-Founder / FANATIC inc.)
1. Ryan Hemsworth – “Snow In Newark”  2. Jessie Ware – “Say You Love Me (Alex Adair Remix)” 3. Chet Faker – “1998”  4. Raury & Vancouver Sleep Clinic – “Superfly” 5. TOTEM – “Chase Me”

Geoff Nelson (Staff Writer, IMPOSE magazine)
1. Happyness – “Montreal Rock Band Somewhere” 2. Spoon – “Inside Out” 3. The War on Drugs – “An Ocean In Between The Waves” 4. Los Angles Police Department – “She Came Through (Again)” 5. Mr. Little Jeans – “Good Mistake”

David Hayman (Music Supervisor, Super Sonic Creative)
1) Mark Ronson ft. Mystikal – “Feel Right” 2) The War On Drugs – “Suffering” 3) SPOON – “Inside Out” 4) TV On The Radio – “Careful You”  5) Keys & Krates – “Keep it 100”

Rebecca Rienks (Music Supervisor, E! Entertainment)
1.) Run The Jewels feat. Zack de la Rocha – “Close Your Eyes and Count to Fuck” 2.) Cloud Nothings – “Now Hear In”  3.) Kid Ink feat. Pusha T – “Murda” 4.) kidä – “Diälogue” 5.) Single Mothers – “Marbles”

Laura Katz (Music Supervisor, Cutting Edge Group)
1. Angel Olsen – “Forgiven/Forgotten” 2. Cashmere Cat – “Pearls” 3. Basement Jaxx – “Never Say Never” 4. Hamilton Leithauser – “The Silent Orchestra” 5. Tensnake – “Feel of Love”

Greg Danylyshyn (Music Supervisor, Go Big Entertainment)
1. Antlers – “Hotel”  2. Sea Wolf – “Young Bodies” 3. Cloud Nothings – “Now Hear In” 4. Strand of Oaks – “Goshen ’97” 5. Dawn Golden – “All I Want”

Chris Restivo (Music Supervisor / Toy Box)
1.(tie) Run The Jewels – “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck)” or “Love Again” *Depends on my mood* 2. Little Dragon – “Paris” 3. Badbadnotgood – “Can’t Leave The Night” 4. Nothing – “Dig” 5.(TIE) Waters – “Got To My Head” & Hundred Waters – “Murmurs”

Jill Stewart (Musicmill – Music Sup Assistant)
1. Perfume Genius – “Fool” 2. Pearls – “Big Shot” 3. Little Dragon – “Cat Rider” 4. Setec – “Fistful of lizards” 5. Teeth & Tongue – “Family Home”

Jennifer Smuckler (TV Music Lionsgate)
1. First Aid Kit – “My Silver Lining” 2. Jungle – “Busy Earning” 3. Asgeir – “Going Home” 4. Bombay Bicycle Club – “Home By Now” 5. Flight Facilities – “Sunshine”

Marc Z. Gold (Gold Soundz)
1. New Pornographers – “Born With A Sound” 2. Sun Kil Moon – “Carissa” 3. Spoon – “New York Kiss” 4. Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – “Little Fang” 5. Operators – “Ancient”

Dondrea Erauw (Instinct Entertainment)
1. Ryan Adams – “Feels Like Fire” 2. Manchester Orchestra – “Cope” 3. Noah Gundersen – “Ledges” 4. HOLYCHILD – “Running Behind” 5. Taylor Swift – “All You Had To Do Was Stay”

Carly Evans (Music Coordinator at All3 Media)
1. Thomston – “Anaesthetic” 2. Years and Years – “Desire” 3. VERITE – “Weekend” 4. Wolf Alice – “Moaning Lisa Smile” 5. Dillon Francis – “Get Low”

Lisa Lagace (Turn The Record Over)
1. Jenny Lewis – “Just One Of The Guys” 2. The War on Drugs – “Under The Pressure” 3.  Kevin Drew – “Good Sex” 4). Sia – “Chandelier” 5. Cold Specks – “Bodies At Bay”

Nisha Lakhani (Music Supervisor, Storyboard Music)
1. Ben Khan – “Eden” 2. SBTRKT ft Denai Moore – “The Light” 3. BANKS – “This Is What It Feels Like” 4. Only Lovers Left Alive Soundtrack (SQURL, Madeline Follin) – “Funnel of Love” 5. Taylor Swift – “Shake It Off”

Ben Hochstein (Music Supervisor)
1. Lilly Wood and The Prick – “Prayer in C (Robin Schulz Remix)” 2. Courtney Barnettt – “Avant Gardener” 3. Interpol – “All the Rage Back Home” 4. Young Fathers – “No Way” 5. Alvvays – “Archie, Marry Me”

Amine Ramer (States of Sound)
1. Glass Animals – “Gooey “(gilligan Moss Remix) 2. Jessy Lanza– “Stange Emotion” 3. SBTRKT – “Temporary View” 4. Seinabo Sey – “Younger” (Kygo Remix) 5. Caribou – “Can’t do without you”

Zach Hart (We Listen For You)
1. The Deloreans – “As Long As It’s You”  2. Kevin Morby – “All Of My Life” 3. Nerves Junior – “Last Ones In” 4. Angel Olsen – “Hi-Fi” 5. Antlers – “Hotel”

Tom Hutch (Apollo Studios)
1. Riff Raff – “Introducing The Icon” 2. Grimes – “Go feat. Blood Diamonds” 3. Alt-J – “Every Other Freckle” 4. RL Grime & What So Not – “Tell Me” 5. Lana Del Ray – “West Coast”

Heather Guibert (Music Supervisor / Francium Enterprises)
1. Young Summer – “Taken” 2. SOHN – “Artifice” 3. Chet Faker – “To Me” 4. Laura Welsh – “Ghosts” 5. Raleigh Ritchie – “Bloodsport”

Amanda Krieg Thomas (Music Supervisor, Format)
1. Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk” 2. Marian Hill – “Got It” 3. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne – “Rather Be” 4. Sir Sly feat. Lizzy Plapinger – “Inferno” 5. Dorothy – “The Wicked Ones”

Joel C. High (Music Supervisor – creative control)
1. Benjamin Booker – “Always Waiting” 2. Lowell – “Cloud 69” 3. Seinabo Sey – “Hard Time” 4. Caught A Ghost – “No Sugar In My Coffee” 5. Run The Jewels – “Close Your Eyes (and Count To Fuck)”

Lueda Alia (Founder @ Made of Chalk)
1. Arms and Sleepers – “Tiger Tempo” 2. Raised By Swans – “Katla” 3. East Forest – “Limitations” 4. T.O.L.D – “Lucifer’s Eyes” 5. Kiasmos – “Held”