Underworld - And I Will Kiss

Bloc Party - 3X3

Muse - Big Freeze

S O H N - Oscillate

Burial - Kindred

Azealia Banks - 212

Regina Spektor - All the Rowboats

Lana Del Ray - Born to Die

Yeasayer - Longevity

 

/pav can quit about 212 and Born to Die being "2011" tracks.

Edited December 4, 201212 yr by AnthonyT

Hmm, I was thinking about this the other day actually.

 

Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

The Beards - You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man

The Gaslight Anthem - 45

The Heavy - What Makes A Good Man?

Howler - Back Of Your Neck

Imagine Dragons - It's Time

Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

Kanye, Jay-Z & Big Sean - Clique

The Killers - Runaways

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

Muse - Madness (sorry Tony)

No Doubt - Push & Shove

Plan B - ill Manors

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

Usher - Climax

Marina - Bubblegum Bitch

 

These are just a few songs that I enjoyed quite a bit this year:

 

Santigold "Disparate Youth"

Alabama Shakes "Hold On"

Jessie Ware "110%"

Hooray For Earth "No Love" (2011 but the official video was released this year so PAV be quiet)

iamamiwhoami "Goods"

Grizzly Bear "Yet Again"

Grimes "Genesis"

Purity Ring "Fineshrine"

Woodkid "Run Boy Run"

Of Monsters and Men "Little Talks"

Django Django "Default"

Alt-J "Tessellate"

Oliver Tank "Last Night I Heard Everything In Slow Motion"

Kindness "That's Alright"

M.I.A. "Bad Girls"

Frank Ocean "Pyramids"

Bat For Lashes "All Your Gold"

I was also thinking about this the other day and so made a list. Maximum one track per artist, otherwise Grizzly Bear would be ALL OVER the place:

 

1. Animal Collective - Honeycomb

2. Grizzly Bear - A Simple Answer

3. Beach House - Myth

4. Korallreven - Sa Sa Samoa (Elite Gymnastics remix)

5. Unicorn Kid - Need U

6. Twin Shadow - Five Seconds

7. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

8. Chad Valley - Fall 4 U (feat. Glasser)

9. iamamiwhoami - play

10. Purity Ring - Fineshrine

 

11. Lemonade - Neptune

12. Major Lazer - Get Free (feat. Amber Coffman)

13. Porcelain Raft - Backwords

14. Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk

15. Orbital - Wonky (feat. Lady Leshurr)

16. Blood Diamonds - Phone Sex (feat. Grimes)

17. Trust - Sulk

18. Sigur Rós - Varuo

19. Crystal Castles - Plague

20. Jai Paul - Jasmine

 

21. Charli XCX - You're The One

22. Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops (Bigger The Better)

23. Woodkid - Run Boy Run

24. Grimes - Vowels = Space and Time

25. Saint Saviour - Reasons

26. St. Lucia - September

27. Jessie Ware - Sweet Talk

28. John Talabot - When The Past Was Present

29. Stay+ - 1812

30. Solange - Losing You

 

While I'm at it, albums:

 

1. Grizzly Bear - Shields

2. Beach House - Bloom

3. Crystal Castles - (III)

4. Chad Valley - Young Hunger

5. Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend

6. Sigur Rós - Valtari

7. Wild Nothing - Nocturne

8. Holy Other - Held

9. Grimes - Visions

10. Twin Shadow - Confess

...and I just discovered Light Asylum released their album this year rather than last year. They can replace Twin Shadow mmk.

Orbital - Straight Son too.

Oh god there's too many I don't even want to think about this until I have to compile my YE chart. Kin leads the pack though.

Edited November 12, 201212 yr by Conderella

I found Kin to remind me too much of Cerys Mathews to take seriously. Couldn't really get into it.

The Gaslight Anthem - 45

Kanye, Jay-Z & Big Sean - Clique

The Killers - Runaways

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

Muse - Madness

Plan B - ill Manors

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

 

Alabama Shakes "Hold On"

Jessie Ware "110%"

Hooray For Earth "No Love"

Grimes "Genesis"

Purity Ring "Fineshrine"

Of Monsters and Men "Little Talks"

Alt-J "Tessellate"

Frank Ocean "Pyramids"

 

These two selections are AMAZING. :wub:

Edited November 12, 201212 yr by G-R-I-E-F-N-A

Lana Del Rey's 'I feel so alone' line in 'Born to Die' is probably my favorite moment in music of 2012. The way she sings that makes me weak.

Alt-J – Something Good

Yeasayer – Glass of the Microscope

The Maccabees – Unknow

Diiv - Doused

Grizzly Bear - Yet Again

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

Absofacto - On a Ladder Leading Nowhere

Metric - Breathing Underwater

Two Door Cinema Club - Pyramid

Twin Shadow - Five Seconds

Wild Nothing - Shadow

Exitmusic - The Cold

The Tallest Man On Earth - 1904

The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral

Miike Snow - Devil's Work

Lana Del Rey's 'I feel so alone' line in 'Born to Die' is probably my favorite moment in music of 2012. The way she sings that makes me weak.

 

 

It's made more powerful by adding "on a Friday night". Also one of my favourite moments of the year.

True, I actually love the whole sentence but it's especially the first part of it that gets to me.

TOO MANY.

 

Alt-J 'Taro'

Avicii 'Silhouettes'

Azealia Banks '1991'

Azealia Banks '212' ☨

Azealia Banks x Machinedrum 'Van Vogue'

Beach House 'Lazuli'

Charli XCX 'You're The One'

Crystal Castles 'Plague'

Crystal Castes 'Wrath Of God'

Disclosure 'Latch'

Grimes 'Oblivion'

GusGus ' Over' ☦

iamamiwhoami 'goods'

Little Boots 'Every Night I Say A Prayer'

M83 'Midnight City' ☨

Marina & The Diamonds 'Power & Control'

Nelly Furtado 'Big Hoops'

Orbital 'Wonky'

Purity Ring 'Obedear'

Rebecca & Fiona 'Dance'

Rihanna 'Where Have You Been'

Santigold 'Disparate Youth'

Sleigh Bells 'Comeback Kid'

Solange 'Losing You'

Swedish House Mafia 'Greyhound'

Trust 'Chrissy E'

Trust 'Dressed For Space'

Trust 'Sulk'

Unicorn Kid 'Need U'

Usher 'Climax'

 

☨ 2 years in a row baby!

☦ 2011 track so what (pav shhhh!)

 

how 'alternative' of me /yawn

Edited November 13, 201212 yr by ✖ leww ✖

Nicki Minaj - Starships :cheer:

I can't download any music at the moment and there's so much I haven't even got round to listening to properly yet :( Not even heard the Crystal Castles or Animal Collective albums yet, SOB.

If France does that to people then I'm never going there :cry:

Hmm, last.fm can probably tell me this better than I can...just the one track per artist like wot Harve did...

 

1. Cian Ciaran - 'Martina Franca'

2. Lower Dens - 'Brains'

3. Ringo Deathstarr - 'Rip'

4. Errors - 'Cloud Chamber'

5. Frankie Rose - 'Interstellar'

6. Lightships - 'Two Lines'

7. James Yorkston - 'Catch'

8. Snowgoose - 'Sycamore'

9. Taffy - 'So Long'

10. The Pictish Trail - 'Of Course You Exist'

11. DIIV - 'Doused'

12. Evans the Death - 'I'm So Unclean'

13. Euros Childs - 'That's Better'

14. ExLovers - 'Blowing Kisses'

15. Human Don't Be Angry - 'H.B.D.A. Theme'

16. Public Service Broadcasting - 'Spitfire'

17. Japandroids - 'Fire's Highway'

18. Richard Hawley - 'Seek It'

19. Blooper - 'Secret Song'

20. Pale Lights - 'Boy Of Your Dreams'

 

That's a pretty brilliant album right there, I might burn it.

Hmm, I was thinking about this the other day actually.

 

The Beards - You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man

 

I had to check if this was a real song and band. All I can say is...wow.

 

My own list of top 50 is coming next month, so prepare to be amazed.