The Best Songs of 2012
The Emperors Of Wyoming "Cornfield Palace" Emperors Of Wyoming Hillbilly Digital
The Hussy "Undefined" Weed Seizure Tic Tac Totally
Bob Dylan “Pay In Blood” Tempest Columbia
Thee Oh Sees “Lupine Dominus” Putrifiers II In The Red
Neil Young With Crazy Horse “Psychedelic Pill” Psychedelic Pill Reprise — Set Phasers to Dance
Aimee Mann “Gumby” Charmer SuperEgo
The Beach Boys “That's Why God Made the Radio” That's Why God Made The Radio Capitol — Wonderful Reunion show at Summerfest
Beach House “Wherever You Go” Bloom Sub Pop — Hidden Bonus Track
Frankie Rose “InterStellar” Interstellar Slumberland
Lightships “Sweetness In Her Spark” Electric Cables Geographic
Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby “Do You Remember That?” A Working Museum Southern Domestic — The story of their romance
Spiritualized “I Am What I Am” Sweet Heart Sweet Light Fat Possum — Or as the cover says "Huh?"
Calexico “Para” Algiers Anti — A dark dark whirlpool
Patti Smith “Just Kids” Banga Columbia — Bonus track About Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti
The Liminanas “AF3458” Crystal Anis Hozac — Yeah Yeah Yeah
Yo La Tengo “Stupid Things” Stupid Things - EP Matador — New LP Fade is equally sublime
Man Or Astroman? “Defcon 5” Single Chunklet
Susanna Hoffs “Always Enough” Someday Baroque Folk
Allah Las “Tell Me (What's On Your Mind)” Allah-Las Innovative Leisure — Very cool garage Band
Cat Power “Manhattan” Sun Matador — Insistant little riff
The dBs “Write Back” Falling Off The Sky Bar-None — Great Pop song and welcome return of the dBs
Bill Fay “Cosmic Concerto (Life Is People)” Life Is People Dead Oceans — Surprise return of Cult star
Goat “Goatman” World Music Stranded — Wild stuff a happening here
Six Organs Of Admittance “Even If You Knew” Ascent Drag City — stretched out Guitar jam
Redd Kross “Stay Away From Downtown” Researching the Blues Merge Records — C'mon Baby let's don't go downtown
Taken By Trees “Dreams” Other Worlds Secretly Canadian — Hawaii inspired dreams
Best Coast “Up All Night” The Only Place Mexican Summer
Dr John “Ice Age” Locked Down Nonesuch Records — Gris Gris return to form with The Black Keys
Ty Segall “Would You Be My Love ” Twins Drag City — All three of his long players in 2012 were great
Jens Lekman “She Just Don't Want to Be With You Anymore” I Know What Love Isn't Secretly Canadian — Does he truly sing the title word "Don't" in this song??
Tender Trap “Train from King's Cross Station” Ten Songs About Girls Fortuna POP! — From Kansas City to King's Cross via Shangri-La
Lambchop “Gone Tomorrow” Mr M Merge — So quiet yet so powerful in concert
Garbage “I Hate Love” Not Your Kind Of People StunVolume — #10 - Rockin Pondamonium
The Fresh And Onlys “Fire Alarm” Long Slow Dance Mexican Summer — #9 - The Teardrop Still explodes
Peter Buck “10 Million BC” Peter Buck Mississippi — #8 The Spirit of Lux Lives, It's alive I Tell You
Woods “Is It Honest?” Bend Beyond Woodsist — #7 Catchy little chorus
First Aid Kit “Emmylou” The Lion's Roar Wichita — #6 For Gram, June and Johnny Too
Opossom “Girl” Electric Hawaii Fire Records — #5 Put it all together, Girl
Chuck Prophet “Temple Beautiful” Temple Beautiful Yep Roc — #4 A fine and rockin stage show, too
The XX “Angels” Coexist Young Turks — #3 Love love Love, she whispers softly
Treefort “Hideout” Tres Fort Self Released — #2 just a fantastic sound going on
M.Ward “Primitive Girl” A Wasteland Companion Merge Records — #1 The Single version makes it
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