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Monday, December 17, 2012

Favorite Albums of 2012

I hesitate to call any list a "Best Of". That title comes loaded with a slant towards the author(s) personal preferences and the publications intended audience**. Despite what my ego thinks, I don't really know what the "best" is.

But, I do know what I like. The more I like an album, the more I listen to it. So, this is my Favorite Albums of 2012 based on what I've listed to the most this year. I hope you'll find something you like. And if not, you can search the rest of the year end lists, like I will, for something you do, and may have missed this year.

[**Disclaimer: Like the "Best Of" Lists you'll find on this site.]

Note: Each title links to a video of a song from the album.
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37. Jimmy Fallon: Blow Your Pants Off

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36. Mac Demarco: 2

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35. Leonard Cohen: Old Ideas

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34. Divine Fits: This Is Divine Fits

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33. Diana Krall: Glad Rag Doll

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32. Spritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light

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31. Eric Bibb: Deeper In The Well

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Check out the full list after the jump ----->

Favorite Songs of 2011

Not an exhaustive or complete list by any means given that these are the "Favorite Songs of 2011" as I'm recalling them on the last few days of the year, but it's at least fairly representative.

Where an artist had an entire album that could have been listed as a favorite, I tried to list an alternate song from ones I had previously posted earlier in the year.

Here's to doing a better job of documenting favorites in the New Year. Cheers!

Ryan Adams - "Dirty Rain"

Adele - "I'll Be Waiting"
Greg Allman - "Floating Bridge"

Beastie Boys - "Make Some Noise"

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - "Livin' in the Jungle"

The Black Keys - "Dearest"

The Black Keys - "Run Right Back"

Blitzen Trapper - "Fletcher"

Bon Iver - "Holocene"

Cake - "Sick of You"

Hayes Carll - "KMAG YOYO"

The Civil Wars - "Barton Hollow"

Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis - "Forty Four"

Gary Clark Jr. - "Don't Owe You A Thang"

Ry Cooder - "Baby Joined the Army"

Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi (Rome) - "The Rose With the Broken Neck"
Dawes - "Time Spent in Los Angeles"
The Decemberists - "Don't Carry It All"
Das Racist - "Relax"
Deer Tick - "Let's All Go to the Bar"
Feist - "Graveyard"

The Flaming Lips - "Two Blobs Fucking"

Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"

Cee Lo Green - "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care"
Lisa Hannigan - "Knots"
The Head and the Heart - "Coeur d'Alene"
Joe Henry - "Heaven's Escape"
Iron and Wine - "Walking Far From Home"
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Alabama Pines"
Sarah Jarosz - "Run Away"
Michael Kiwanuka - "I'm Getting Ready"
Laura Marling - "The Beast"
Buddy Miller - "No Good Lover" (featuring Ann McCray)

The Low Anthem - "Apothecary Love"

Lykke Li - "Get Some"

Megafaun - "Real Slow"

Del McCoury with Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Jambalaya"

Middle Brother - "Blue Eyes"

My Morning Jacket - "Slow Slow Tune"

Neon Indian - "Polish Girl"

Okkervil River - "Wake and Be Fine"

Radiohead - "Give Up the Ghost"
Robbie Robertson - "Straight Down the Line"

Raphael Saadiq - "Day Dreams"

Ben Sollee - "Embrace"
Smith Westerns - "Imagine Pt. 3"
St. Vincent - "Cruel"
Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Bound for Glory"
Chris Thile and Michael Daves - "Sleep With One Eye Open"
George Thorogood - "Willie Dixon's Gone"
Trombone Shorty - "Buckjump"
tUnE-yArDs - "My Country"
TV on the Radio - "Will Do"
Kurt Vile - "Puppet to the Man"
The Wood Brothers - "Mary Anna"
Wilco - "One Sunday Morning"
Wild Flag - "Romance"
Wye Oak "Civilian"
Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, and Chris Thile - "No One But You"

Friday, December 23, 2011

The Ten Best Songs I Found on Top Ten Lists of 2011*

Another year, another list, and another bunch of stuff I haven't heard of or didn't get a chance to listen to.

So here's my chance to reconcile some 2011 listening while there's still some 2011 left.

I tried this last year and had a lot of fun with it, so here we go again with:

"The Ten Best Songs I Found on the Top 10 Lists of 2011"

To make the list, the songs have to be ones I hadn't heard before and sources must be named to pay the discovery process forward.

Disclaimer: Not all the lists are Top 10 lists, but you get the idea.

Artist: Cass McCombs
Song: County Line
Album: WITS END
Source: NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs of 2011