December 9, 2012

Best Songs of 2012

Here's my second annual best songs of the year list. This was a particularly strong year as far as songs go; the first 20 tracks listed below are all monsters. Here are the top 100 tracks of 2012:


                                                   1. Cloud Nothings: “Wasted Days”                  
                "I thought I would be more than this! I thought I would be more than this!!"

2. School of Seven Bells: “Lafaye”

3. Mykki Blanco: “Wavvy”
"I'm the muthafuckin' rookie of the year..."

4. El-P: “The Full Retard”
"Pump this shit like they do in the future!"

5. Beach House: “Lazuli”

6. Laurel Halo: ""Light + Space”
"Words are just words, words are just words, that you soon forget..."

7. Sharon Van Etten: “Give Out”

8. Death Grips: “Hacker”
"I know the first three numbers..."

9. DIIV: “How Long Have You Known”

10. Father John Misty: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
"Jesus Christ, girl."
"Someone's gotta help me dig..."

11. iamamiwhoami: “Sever”

12. Tame Impala: “Apocalypse Dreams”

13. Bear in Heaven: “Sinful Nature”


14. Grimes: “Genesis”

15. Rose Cousins: “One Way”

16. Unicorn Kid: “Pure Space”

17. Cloud Nothings: “No Sentiment"
"We started a war!!"

18. Frank Ocean: “Pyramids”

19. Miike Snow: “The Wave”

20. Purity Ring: “Fineshrine”
"My little ribs around you"
The entire list:
  1. Cloud Nothings: “Wasted Days”
  2. School of Seven Bells: “Lafaye”
  3. Mykki Blanco: “Wavvy”
  4. El-P: “The Full Retard”
  5. Beach House: “Lazuli”
  6. Laurel Halo: ""Light + Space”
  7. Sharon Van Etten: “Give Out”
  8. Death Grips: “Hacker”
  9. DIIV: “How Long Have You Known”
  10. Father John Misty: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
  11. iamamiwhoami: “Sever”
  12. Tame Impala: “Apocalypse Dreams”
  13. Bear in Heaven: “Sinful Nature”
  14. Grimes: “Genesis”
  15. Rose Cousins: “One Way”
  16. Unicorn Kid: “Pure Space”
  17. Cloud Nothings: “No Sentiment"
  18. Frank Ocean: “Pyramids”
  19. Miike Snow: “The Wave”
  20. Purity Ring: “Fineshrine”
  21. Pallbearer: "Devoid of Redemption"
  22. Blut Aus Nord: "Epitome XIV"
  23. Black Moth Super Rainbow: “Spraypaint”
  24. Chairlift: “Met Before”
  25. DIIV: “Doused”
  26. Dirty Projectors: “Gun Has No Trigger”
  27. Django Django: ""Default”
  28. Father John Misty: “Nancy From Now On”
  29. Frankie Rose: “Know Me”
  30. Jessie Ware: “Wildest Moments”
  31. Lambchop: “Gone Tomorrow”
  32. Mister Lies: “I Walk”
  33. Porcelain Raft: “Drifting In and Out”
  34. Purity Ring: “Lofticries”
  35. Ramona Falls: “Spore”
  36. Blut Aus Nord: "Epitome XVI"
  37. Swans: “A Piece of the Sky”
  38. Pallbearer: "An Offering of Grief"
  39. Thee Oh Sees: “Lupine Dominus”
  40. Ty Segall Band: “I Bought My Eyes”
  41. The Walkmen: “Heaven”
  42. Baroness: "Board Up the House"
  43. Perfume Genius: “Hood”
  44. The Shins: “Simple Song”
  45. Ty Segall & White Fence: “Time”
  46. Ty Segall Band: “Wave Goodbye”
  47. White Fence: “It Will Never Be”
  48. Burial: “Ashtray Wasp”
  49. David Byrne & St. Vincent: “Who"
  50. Frankie Rose: “Interstellar"
  51. Japandroids: “The House That Heaven Built”
  52. Nas: “Accident Murderers”
  53. Chromatics: “Kill For Love”
  54. The Shins: “Bait And Switch”
  55. Sky Ferreira: “Everything is Embarassing”
  56. Tame Impala: “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
  57. Ty Segall & White Fence: “I Am Not A Game”
  58. Beach House: “Myth”
  59. Frank Ocean: “Bad Religion”
  60. Baroness: "Stretchmarker"
  61. Lotus Plaza: “Strangers”
  62. Lower Dens: ""Brains”
  63. The Men: “Open Your Heart”
  64. Ty Segall & White Fence: “Scissor People”
  65. Four Tet: “Ocoras”
  66. Grimes: Oblivion”
  67. Twin Shadow: “Five Seconds”
  68. Django Django: ""Love’s Dart”
  69. Death Grips: “I’ve Seen Footage”
  70. Nicholas Jaar: “And I Say”
  71. Thee Oh Sees: “Floods New Light”
  72. Wild Nothing: “Through the Grass”
  73. Bobby Womack: “Please Forgive My Heart”
  74. Chairlift: “I Belong in Your Arms”
  75. Chromatics: “Back From the Grave”
  76. El-P: “Tougher Colder”
  77. Frank Ocean: “Sweet Life”
  78. Kendrick Lamar: “Backstreet Freestyle”
  79. Laurel Halo: ""MK Ultra”
  80. Spiritualized: “Hey Jane”
  81. The Walkmen: “Song for Leigh”
  82. Hot Chip: “Flutes”
  83. The Men: “Candy”
  84. Eternal Summers: “Millions”
  85. Baauer: “Harlem Shake”
  86. Cloud Nothings: “Stay Useless"
  87. Flying Lotus: “Between Friends”
  88. Frankie Rose: “Night Swim”
  89. Killer Mike: “Reagan”
  90. Tame Impala: “Elephant”
  91. Torche: “Kicking”
  92. Death Grips: “Get Got”
  93. Kendrick Lamar: “The Art of Peer Pressure”
  94. Lotus Plaza: “Monoliths”
  95. Alcest: ""Faiseurs De Mondes"
  96. Chairlift: “Amanaemonesia”
  97. Dirty Projectors: “Dance For You”
  98. Grimes: “Circumambient”
  99. Kendrick Lamar: “Swimming Pools”
  100. Beach House: “Wild”

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