And now...Our Favorite Songs of 2012

Because i've got nothing better to do than to bombard you with lists of stuff i like, here are my favorite 52 songs of the year.  A couple of my favorite records do not have songs on the list as they really should be taken in as a whole (see Swans or Symmetry).  Anyway, get acquainted with a new one each week.  It will be good for you.  Take your medicine.

1.  Action Bronson - 9-24-11
2.  Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Baby
3.  Beck - NYC 73-78
4.  Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland - The Narcissist
5.  Blur - Under The Westway

6.  Chromatics - Into The Black
7.  Chrome Canyon - Generations
8.  CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
9.  Claps - Strain
10.  Cloud Nothings - No Future No Past

11.  Death Grips - I've Seen Footage
12.  Diiv - Doused
13.  Dinosaur On Fire - Out or Orbit
14.  Empress Of - Don't Tell Me
15.  Father John Misty - Nancy From Now On

16.  FIDLAR - Cheap Beer
17.  Fight Bite - Charlotte Iris
18.  Flaming Lips (w/ Bon Iver) - Ashes in The Air
19.  Flying Lotus - Hunger
20.  Fucked Up - Year of The Tiger

21.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor - MLADIC
22.  Grimes - Genesis
23.  HAERTS - Wings
24.  Julia Holter - Boy in The Moon
25.  Hot Chip - Flutes

26.  Killer Mike - Reagan
27.  Levek - French Lessons
28.  Lower - But There Has to Be More
29.  Lower Dens - Lamb
30.  The M Machine - Glow

31.  Mere Mortals - The Pulpit
32.  Mirroring - Fell Sound
33.  Frank Ocean - Pyramids
34.  Pallbearer - An Offering of Grief
35.  Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From The Heart

36.  Quakers - Fitta Happier
37.  Quiet Americans - Selia
38.  Shadow Shadow - Riviera
39.  The Slaves - 111
40.  Spiritualized - Hey Jane

41.  Starving Weirdos - In Our Way
42.  Andy Stott - Numb
43.  Supreme Cuts and Haleek Maul - M00N
44.  Tame Impala - Apocalypse Dreams
45.  Trust - Heaven

46.  Twin Shadow - 5 Seconds
47.  Ty Segall Band - I Bought My Eyes
48.  U.S. Girls - Jack
49.  Var - Brodemordet
50.  Vatican Shadow - Cairo Is A Haunted City

51.  Vaura - Obsidian Damascene Sun
52.  Scott Walker - Epizootics!

Really, this list could have easily gone on for another 52 songs (sorry Memory Tapes and METZ and Thee Oh Sees and more and more), but we need to keep ourselves under control.  We're not savages.  We're music nerds.

You can probably sample most (if not all) of these on Soundcloud or any other streaming service you can think of.  Enjoy.