This was a great year in music. Here is my list of favorite tunes. Most of them came off of albums from my “Top 50 Albums of 2012” list, with a handful of top 40 tunes thrown in. What were your favorite songs this year?
- Alabama Shakes – “Hold On”
- Japandroids – “The House That Heaven Built”
- Kishi Bashi – “Bright Whites”
- Ben Sollee – “Unfinished”
- The Shins – “Simple Song”
- Menomena – “Plumage”
- Fiona Apple – “Every Single Night”
- Maps & Atlases – “Winter”
- Beach House – “Myth”
- Wilco & Billy Bragg – “When The Roses Bloom Again”
- Divine Fits – “My Love Is Real”
- Frank Ocean – “Thinkin Bout You”
- Neon Trees – “Everybody Talks”
- Passion Pit – “Take A Walk”
- The Tallest Man On Earth – “Leading Me Now”
- Jack White – “Hypocritical Kiss”
- Ramona Falls – “Spore”
- Gotye – “Somebody That I Used To Know”
- Paul Banks – “The Base”
- Menomena – “Pique”
- Mumford & Sons – “I Will Wait”
- Dr. Dog – “Vampire”
- The Lumineers – “Ho Hey”
- Ben Sollee – “Whole Lot to Give”
- The Killers – “Runaways”
- Galactic – “Ha Di Ka”
- Imagine Dragons – “It’s Time”
- The Helio Sequence – “One More Time”
- Ramona Falls – “Bodies of Water”
- Ultraista – “Bad Insect”
- Of Monsters And Men – “Little Talks”
- Alabama Shakes – “Rise to the Sun”
- Two Door Cinema Club – “Next Year”
- Here We Go Magic – “How Do I Know”
- Frank Ocean – “Pyramids”
- Divine Fits – “Would That Not Be Nice”
- Kishi Bashi – “Manchester”
- Dr. Dog – “Lonesome”
- Dirty Projectors – “About to Die”
- Delta Spirit – “Teat It Up”
- Glen Hansard – “This Gift”
- David Byrne & St. Vincent – “Who”
- The Walkmen – “Heartbreaker”
- Passion Pit – “Mirrored Sea”
- Paul Weller – “The Attic”
- Andrew Bird – “Eyeoneye”
- Father John Misty – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
- Fun. – “We Are Young”
- Trampled By Turtles – “Alone”
- Sigur Ros – “Fjogur piano”
Link to listen in Spotify: Top 50 Songs of 2012