Right, the totally subjective forty best tracks of the year. This year I have changed the rules in that this list is my favourite 40 tracks from 2012, I have decided that they didn't have to have been released as a single but I also put a limit of two tracks each from the Dexys and Spiritualized albums other wise the top twenty would have looked very boring indeed being filled by these artists and a smattering of other tracks.
There is still a healthy mix of dance and indie. However as with the albums there is an increasing retro vibe, with the likes of the Alabama Shakes, Nick Waterhouse and Jasmine Kara.
- Spiritualized - So Long You Pretty Thing
- Dexys - Home
- Burial + Fourtet - Nova
- Gregory Porter - 1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub)
- Allo Darlin' - Some People Say
- Meursault - Settling
- Koreless - Lost In Tokyo
- The xx - Our Song
- Arctic Monkeys - Black Treacle
- Scuba - NE1BUTU
- Dexys - Free
- Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital
- Jasmine Kara - Ain't No More Room
- Not allowed to mention as apparently it is a copyright infringement to even type the name of the band
- Burial - Ashtray Wasp
- Spiritualized - Hey Jane
- Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure mix)
- Illum Sphere - Birthday
- The xx - Angels
- Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
- The Orb - Golden Clouds (Youth Gigantic Dreadnaught mix)
- Moon Duo - Circles
- Lorca - Love Like This
- Tashaki Miyaki - Best Friend
- Not allowed to mention as apparently it is a copyright infringement to even type the name of the band
- King Creosote - Ankle Shackles
- Jess Roberts - Voodoo Woman
- Ten Five Sixty - Do This For Me
- Nick Waterhouse - Say I Wanna Know
- Delta Code - Track 1
- The Raveonettes - The Enemy
- The Allah- Las - Tell Me (What's On Your Mind)
- Manjah - My Dub Is Empty Without You
- Alabama Shakes - Heavy Chevy
- Withered Hand - Wonderful Lie
- Wooden Shjips - Crossing (Weatherall mix)
- The Underground Youth - Juliette
- Ricardo Villalobos - Any Ideas
- dusk + blackdown - High Road
- Black Acid - Black Acid
9 comments:
jaysus Drew your a gas man. still 'with it' enough to even know this shit never mind rank it. thnkas for keepin us up to date. the few songs i know from your list are all great too. was azeila banks foul mouthed tune from this yr? if so, thats my favourite
I'm lost in the past nowadays, I must try out a few of these.
BTW I'm probably being dense but I don't understand the thrust of your comment re Nights Over Egypt over at The Ghost's marathon comment trail last night.
Darcy - the Jones Girls thing is a long running disagreement that Mr H and I have over the merits of the song.
I think you may like the Gregory Porter and Nick Waterhouse.
I am also thinking of doing a list of my best old finds, top of which would be Bette Boothe.
Cheers Anto, I will need to check out the Azeila Banks tune, I don't think I know it.
its called 212. she uses the C word to eh, i suppose great effect
Anto's right- 212 is a fucking great record. Was it this year?
Jesus Anto, I thought Nicki Minaj was filthy, she got nothing on Azealia Banks. It's good though!
Daughter Eliza's got it on Now 82. A clean version. Virtually no vocals on it.
I was also thinking of doing a list of The Best Stuff I've Listened To This Year That Wasn't Released this Year.
Lists eh?
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