Music Stuff That Ruled in 2014

We've spent all week chatting about our top albums of the year, or our favourite tracks, but so much more happens in music that isn't given a release date. It your most cherished moment probably isn't a St Vincent album or a Sam Smith single. It's usually something much more personal, meaningful and exact than that, like a particular affecting lyric, your first beer on the Outlook boat party, Libertines at Hyde Park or when you started crying at that Jon Hopkins gig because the rise in "Open Eye Signal" reminded you of your recently dead cat. Obviously, some really terrible stuff happened too, and you can read about that here.

For now, from everyone who contributes to Noisey in the UK, these are the moments in which music ruled in 2014.

I fondly recall being off my (incredibly sunburnt) face at Outlook festival, when a guy in a bucket hat and anorak ran on stage with a view to getting a hug from Action Bronson. The stupid man was duly punched and LITERALLY sat on by the rapper. The crowd roared. It was so Action Bronson. Huw Oliver

Look, I’d love to put something really cool here, about seeing PC Music on Quincy Jones’ yacht or something, but if I’m truly measuring musical moments by how much sheer joy I felt, then without a doubt my highlight of the year was The Libertines reunion at Hyde Park. I could get all teary-eyed about how much it meant, but frankly this Instagram speaks a 1000 words. Sam Wolfson

I found it eye opening to see the music coming out of revolutionary Ukraine, such as Dakha Brakha and Dakh Daughters (pictured): an all female group who had the courage to sing on the barricades in Kiev to get rid of their hated and corrupt President. Peter Culshaw

The final eight and a half minutes of Sharp Veins’ Functions Of The Now Mix for Truants, which moves through Lichens, Actress, Basinski and so much more. It is the most beautiful section of music I’ve heard all year. Josh Hall

Prince making a comeback, getting to grips with Twitter to surpass the wisdom of his own parody account, making everyone flip the fuck out by playing a bunch of last-minute shows and then dropping two albums. And he did it all having apparently not aged for the last two decades. Emma Garland

I nearly said there was no moment because 2014 has been such a weak year, but then I remembered my twitter profile pic, which was taken during a Katy Perry concert in April and it is literally the happiest I've looked all year, so it was probably that. And y'all can call me basic if you want but I AM SO HAPPY IN THAT MOMENT HOW CAN THAT BE WRONG. Grace Medford

My moment going to be Sophie at Visions festival, because it was the first new live thing I’ve seen for years that I genuinely adored, but then I saw Morrissey for the first time last month and he said "Remember me, forget my fate" at the end before playing “Asleep”. Had me in TEARS, mate. Iain Pettifer

It's got to be 2am at Club to Club festival in Turin. Tight licensing laws meant they just stopped serving booze. All the shirtless Italian dudes were getting antsy, twirling dayglo halos round their heads and twisting them into cocks and balls. Jacques Greene, who'd spent most of his set hidden behind a baseball cap, slowly lifted the rim and looked out grinning, before fading in his slow remix of "Had 1" by AG Cook. I’m tempted to say the crowd went wild, shouting along in hoarse Italian dialects, but in hindsight I suspect I was pretty much alone, fist-pumping relentlessly and spilling my last drink everywhere. I’m totally okay with that. Jazz Monroe

I got proper hooked on all eight daily-video days of Weird Al Yankovic's return. I totally forgot that you don’t always have to passionately and hatefully deconstruct things you think are wrong, by closely analysing their misogynistic undertones or maybe remarking on their elitism. You can humiliate and devalue it on a much deeper level by just making it totally and utterly jokes. Joe Zadeh

Dancing in a lemur onesie with Dan Snaith (Caribou) and Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) backstage at Outlook Festival to Todd Terje’s It’s Album Time was my finest moment, while Terje himself skulked outside his portakabin, eating Danish pastries, smoking, and kicking the sun-bleached turf moodily. Gavin Haynes

Back in November at Noisey’s Grime Karaoke, when Big Narstie dropped these lyrics:
Needed the food, told my G I'm hungry, come we go Greggs?
Order the food: two sausage rolls and a steak bake, sausage and beans what's next?
Wanted a sandwich but this fat bitch tried tell man that she ain't got no bread
Get me mad, autogas
Fuck up everyone in Gregg's
Kick 'em with the doughnuts and the yum yums
Nothing in this shop is blessed
Yeah I'm from south but mandem know
I'm mad in my Birmingham head
This boy's flow, woah, totally effed
Dem man are bread, baguettes, I'm a bloomer
Haven't these mandem know this yet?
Alex Hoffman