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Best songs of 2014: Listen to Future Islands, Run the Jewels, St. Vincent and more

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The Reverb staff lists its picks of the best songs of 2014, with Future Islands, Run the Jewels, St. Vincent and more.

List season has arrived! And to kick off the month of year end wrap-ups, Reverb brings you our picks of best songs of 2014.

Rather than spend weeks of sleepless nights screaming at each other in the Reverb offices, we opt to create our own individual lists of the 10 best songs of 2014. This, we believe, gives you a look into each writers particular taste, and also gives you a wide sample of tracks to choose from. Below youll find 130 songs (about 100 without repeats) of our favorite songs from the year. Youll notice that songs from Future Islands, Taylor Swift, St. Vincent, Run the Jewels and Ty Segall appear the most on our lists.

To give you an opportunity to hear all of these tracks, we put together a master Spotify playlist (with the exception of repeats and artists not available on Spotify *cough* Taylor Swift *cough*) of nearly six hours of the best music of 2014.

Stay tuned for our picks of best albums and best shows of 2014 later this month. See our Reverb staff lists and listen to our best songs of 2014 playlist below:

Matt Miller

1) Seasons (Waiting On You), Future Islands 2) Close Your Eyes (And Count to F***), Run The Jewels 3) Blank Space, Taylor Swift 4) Two Weeks, FKA twigs 5) Digital Witness, St. Vincent 6) A Simple Design, The Juan Maclean 7) Never Catch Me (feat. Kendrick Lamar), Flying Lotus 8) Avant Gardener, Courtney Barnett 9) Feel, Ty Segall 10) Fiona Coyne, Saint Pepsi

John Wenzel

1) Forget, Ben Watt 2) Somebodys Talking, The Preatures 3) Never Work for Free, Tennis 4) Volunteers of America, The Both 5) Storming the Beach, King of Prussia 6) Airborne, The Pack A.D. 7) Table at Fools Tooth, Guided by Voices 8) Dont Wanna Lose, Ex Hex 9) Seasons (Waiting on You), Future Islands 10) The Lords Favorite, Iceage

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Churchill sent troops to Falklands to ward off Japanese

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Winston Churchill dispatched 1,700 troops to the Falkland Islands in 1942 out of concern that the Japanese were planning to invade the territory and interfere with critical sea routes in the South Atlantic.

Documents held at the National Archives, cited by Kyodo News, indicate that Churchill realised the strategic importance of the islands to Britain's war effort after Japan's attack on US forces at Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941.

Playing on Argentina's desire to reclaim the islands, the Japanese ambassador to Buenos Aires had promised the government that Japan "would see that the Falklands are returned to Argentina," according to documents in the archive from Esmond Ovey, the British ambassador.

In a subsequent exchange dated December 26, the Admiralty had sent a coded message to the commander in chief of British forces in the South Atlantic warning that "The Japanese have given out that they will shortly be running a convoy to Argentina and that they will capture the Falkland Islands and present them to the Argentinians."

In a message to senior defence officials in London dated April 1, 1942, Churchill stated, "It would be a very serious thing to lose the Falkland Islands to the Japanese and no comfort to say that it would hurt the United States more than ourselves.

"The Falkland Islands are very well known and their loss would be a shock to the whole Empire," he wrote. "They would certainly have to be retaken."

Requests for assistance from Canada were turned down, while the United States ignored suggestions that it would be in Washington's best interests to garrison the islands.

To ensure that a seaborne invasion to recapture the islands - which Britain was ill-equipped to carry out in 1942 - was not required, 1,700 men of the 11th battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment were posted to the Falklands.

"The object of the reinforcement would be to make it necessary for the Japanese to extend their attacking forces to a tangible size," Churchill wrote. "This might well act as a deterrent."

The Japanese threat to the islands failed to materialise and, by late 1944, the troops had been dispatched to different theatres of the conflict.

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Boat used to transport MPs shot at before Solomon Islands vote

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A boat being used to transport politicians in Solomon Islands was damaged by gunshots just hours before a parliamentary vote to choose a new prime minister.

Solomon Islands held a national election almost three weeks ago and two main factions have been competing for the loyalties of MPs.

Parliamentarians aligned with Manasseh Sogavare had been taken to a resort near Honiara on Monday in an effort to stop them defecting before Tuesday's leadership vote.

Police Commissioner Frank Prendergast confirmed the boat was damaged by gunshots early on Tuesday morning.

The politicians were not on the boat at the time and no-one was injured, he said.

Police would not give details about the extent of the damage to the vessel.

The boat did make it back to the capital Honiara in time for the parliamentary vote on Tuesday.

Manasseh Sogavare won the vote 31 to 19, becoming prime minister for the third time.

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force has formed a joint taskforce with the Participating Police Force (PPF) and is giving high priority to the investigation.

The PPF is part of the Australian-led Regional Assistant Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which has spent $2.6 billion over the last decade to help restore law and order after ethnic violence.

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Charitable Cayman Islands Hospital Saves Young Haitian Heart Patients – Video

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Charitable Cayman Islands Hospital Saves Young Haitian Heart Patients
Health City Partners with Have a Heart, Digicel and Haiti Cardiac Alliance to Save Young Haitian Heart Patients Four young Haitians returned to their home country last week having recently...

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Happy Holidays from International Hospital, Health City Cayman Islands – Video

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Happy Holidays from International Hospital, Health City Cayman Islands
Wishing you happy holidays from the team at Health City Cayman Islands, an international hospital, located on Grand Cayman, specialising in cardiac surgery, cardiology, orthopaedics, pulmonology,...

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