20 Dec 2012

COUNT EM’ 1, 2…60? 2012

Every December, I look forward to counting down my 50 favorite songs for the year. However, I’m on the Yow Yow 4th birthday train so I’m making it 60 tracks! The task has become a little easier for me this year because I haven’t added any new tracks to my iTunes library so the majority of the songs will be coming from my Spotify playlists and Yow Yow’s Songs of the Day!

There aren’t really any terms that I’ve set for the countdown, but since I run this – I pretty much decide what songs I want to be on the list and it is basically tied to one thing: They are songs that I’ve loved in 2012, but not necessarily released in 2012. And of course they are in no particular order. That’d be impossible!

Here are my favorite 60 songs of 2012:

photo cred | Stereogum

1. The Shins – Simple Song

2. Brian Fennell – Perfect Time (Blue Eyes)

3. Apparat – Black Water

4. Michael Kiwanuka – I’m Getting Ready

5.  Lemaitre – Coffee Table

6. Big Time Rush – Music Sounds Better With You

7. Mesita – Living / Breathing

8. Bad Rabbits – Advantage Me

9. Brandon Flowers – Crossfire

10. Big Deal – Swoon

photo cred | Blackbook Mag

11. Electric Guest – This Head I Hold

12. Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Madeon Remix)

13. Azure Ray – Sleep

14. Matthew Perryman Jones – Satellites

15. Of Monsters & Men – Mountain Sound

16. Yuna – Live Your Life

17. Estelle – Do My Thing ft. Janelle Monae

18. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close

19. Rihanna – You Da One

20. Andy Grammer – We Could Be Amazing

photo cred | American Eagle – Made To Last

21. Lucy Schwartz – Porcelain

22. Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running

23. Hey Marseilles – Elegy

24. Dumbfounded – Growing Young

25. Kennedy – Karate

26. TV Girl – I Wonder Who She’s Kissing Now

27. Crystal Fighters – Home

28. Victoria Justice – Make It In America

29. Cary Brothers – Free Like You Make Me

30. Sufjan Stevens – Futile Devices

31. The Wanted – Glad You Came (Alex Gaudino Remix)

32. Imagine Dragons – It’s Time

33. Jonquil – History of Headaches

34. Young Wonder – Orange

35. Mr. Little Jeans – Runaway

36. Vacationer – Good As New

37. Summer Heart – I Wanna Go

38. How To Dress Well – & It Was You

39. Gemini Club – Nothing But History

40. Liz Coyles – Butterflies

41. Mayer Hawthorne – No Strings

42. The Lumineers – Ho Hey

43. Matt & Kim – Let’s Go

44. Beat Connection – Palace Garden 4 a.m.

45. Stars – Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It

46. Little Dragon – Sunshine

47. Alexandra Burke – Elephant

48. Atlas Genius – Back Seat

49. Passion Pit – Constant Conversations

50. Madeon – The City

51. Trails and Ways – Nunca

52. Lee DeWyze – Sweet Serendipity

53. Ed Sheeran – Small Bump

54. The Middle East – Blood

55. Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen

56. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Same Love

57. Flight Facilities ft. Christine Hoberg – Clair De Lune

58. Lord Huron – She Lit A Fire

59. Dwntwn – See My Eyes

60. Nas and Amy Winehouse – Cherry Wine