re: The best song of 2012

1.) Japandroids "The House That Heaven Built"
2.) Cloud Nothings "Wasted Days"
3.) Spiritualized "Hey Jane"
4.) DIIV "Doused"
5.) Wild Nothing "Shadow"
6.) Ty Segall/White Fence "Time"
7.) The Men "Open Your Heart"
8.) Tame Impala "Elephant"
9.) Torche "Snakes Are Charmed"
10.) Titus Andronicus "In A Big City"

limiting to one per artist, i'd go:

1. cloud nothings- wasted days
2. animal collective- applesauce
3. japandroids- the house that heaven built
4. a.c. newman- i'm not talking
5. beach house- new year
6. grimes- oblivion
7. lower dens- brains
8. titus andronicus- my eating disorder
9. chairlift- amanaemonesia
10. the shins- simple song

Should we just make one massive list of songs we enjoyed from the year of 2012?

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Then your flow was INVALID!

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I understand. I had to squeeze in Japandroids, as the rest of it is not that rocky.

I make mix tapes (Your dj aint no dj, he just makes mix tapes), and I pride myself on flow, and transitions. And cloud nothings just doesn't work with the rest of the mix (draft below). Wasted days is entirely too long, and No Future/no past is just a little too loud. I do really like wasted days tho. And man were cloud nothings good live. Plus my wife hates them, and her friends are getting it too.

Continuous Thunder - Japandroids
Default - Django Django
Elephant - Tame Impala
Oblivion - Grimes
Kill for Love - Chromatics
Neighborhood Watch - Memory Tapes
Interstellar - Frankie Rose
Monoliths - Lotus Plaza
Brains - Lower Dens

Sometimes I have to make sacrifices for my art.



And I had to alter my track selection too, like Japandroids song is not my favorite but it works wiht the flow. Same for frankie rose, although I could have inserted any of her stuff in there.

if anyone would like a copy of the mix tape, leave your email and I will send it. I do upload it to a server for easy downloading.

Yeah, if I were making a mix tape, I would either close with Wasted Days because you really can't play off of that and a good long song is a good closer. Or I'd use Fall In instead. Snappy, upbeat number which is a good intro to the band without having the problems of the more experimental stuff.

I make a year end mix every year, too. I wait until after Xmas usually. Titus Andronicus just messes up my playlist every year... damn your 10 minute songs!

Sure. I'd love to see yours as well.

I start mentally making it around Thanksgiving, but I tend to sit down and just actually do the labor come January 1st. I already know what's gonna be on it, by that point. I just have to do it. No cover art though, cuz I suck at graphics.

Couple of my favorite tunes of the year... my memory and laziness get in the way of a comprehensive list...

Bob Mould - Descent

Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving

Nude Beach - Walkin' Down My Street

JAGWAR MA - COME SAVE ME

Specifically the 12 inch version