Record of the Year Revisited: 2013

Original Record of the Year: Daft Punk - Get Lucky

For many years now I've kept a list of all the CDs I own because it reached the point where it became too big to remember every CD. More recently I added the year the CD is from to the list to see how they span the years.

After doing that I don't own any CDs which came out after 2013. One CD from 2013 I do own is "Random Access Memories" by Daft Punk. 

The only track from any of the CDs I own from 2013 to make the Top 40 was "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk which was my pick for record of the year.

When searching for the best year it was 1 of just 2 records from the 2013 sample Top 40 that I liked with the other being "Pompeii" by Bastille.

The Bastille was a record I didn't discover until later, but is it better than the Daft Punk record?

Not at all. Neither record is outstanding, but the Daft Punk record is good enough to go out and buy and the Bastille record isn't.