As the year-end lists roll in, Belfast writer and musician Ben Behzadafshar cuts through the noise with a sharp, refreshingly unsentimental look at 2024 in music (see: the ‘Song Intro That Sounds Most Like In the End by Linkin Park’ Award, claimed by Fontaines D.C.) The 17th-century French composer Jean Baptiste Lully once got so swept up in one of his own compositions that he smashed a conducting staff used for keeping time through his foot. The foot became gangrenous, but he refused to have it taken off. Why? The man loved to dance. He died shortly after. Louis XIV…