Album Art of the Year
Sleigh Bells – Reign of Terror
Perfect
Best Comeback Album of the year
Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
Dude who released a lot of good stuff but didn’t land on either of my year end music lists
Andrew Bird (Break it Yourself / Hands of Glory)
Number 1 Album That I Didn’t Get But Everyone Else LOVED
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Worst Shit I Listened To All The Way Through
3) The Killers - Battle Born
As someone who still genuinely likes old Killers stuff, and was quietly very excited to listen to “Battle Born”, I couldn’t believe how little I liked or even remembered it. These guys seemed to take the fast track to hacky Springsteen tribute band city.
2) Mumford and Sons - Babel
How these guys continue to ride the whiny British guys with banjos shtick all the way to the bank is beyond me. Babel sounded like one really long obnoxious overwrought leftover from their first album.
1) Kitty Pryde - Haha, I’m Sorry
You know when your’re at a bar and there is an annoying drunk white girl whose stupid conversations, about how wasted she feels and the guy who won’t call her back, are for some reason able to cut through the music, continually finding their way into your ears all night? Well imagine if they made that into a ‘rap’ album.
Album Titles of the Year
3) Tame Impala - Lonerism
2) Porcelain Raft - Strange Weekend
1) Dan Deacon - America
Pregaming Song of the Year
3) Grand Rapids - Feels Like a Lifetime
2) Cherub – Doses and Mimosas
1) Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses
Newest Crush
Either girl from ’Grand Rapids’
Song that isn’t by ‘Fun.’ that is most likely to have the ‘Wonderwall’ effect on British people when it comes on in a bar.
Tribes - We Were Children
Music Video Of the Year
MIA - Bad Girls
Biggest Disappointments
3) The Tallest Man on Earth - There’s No Leaving Now
2) The Avett Brotheres - The Carpenter
1) The XX - Coexist
Top “Girls Night Out” Songs
3) Friends - I’m His Girl
2) Icona Pop - I Love It
1) MIA – Bad Girls
Songs Most Likely to be on “Mood Music” Mixes
3) Polica - I See My Mother
2) Rhye – Open
1) Frank Ocean - Lost
Most Pornographic Music Video of the Year
Rhye – Open
Albums that I missed when they came out, but wore out in 2012
2) Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic
1) Fitz and the Tantrums - Pickin’ Up The Pieces
Albums from 2011 that are still getting played heavily
3) The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love
2) The Vaccines - What’d You Expect From the Vaccines
1) Surfer Blood – Tarot Classics
Scariest Dude of 2012
2) School Boy Q
1) Stefan Burnett of Death Grips
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- Am I the only one who can’t stand Mumford and Sons?
- Did you watch any NSFW music videos this year?
- What are the key elements to a good “Girls night out” song?
-What are the key elements to a good “Bros night out” song?
- How did Andrew Bird not have a song on my top 100 list?
- Is there an American equivalent to “Wonderwall”?
