Thursday, December 20, 2012

A Gross (144) of Favourite Songs of 2012


(some may have been released earlier but I became aware of them in 2012)

1. “Beetle in the Box” – Admiral Fallow
2. “No Way Down” – the Shins
3. “Let Them Bleed” – Toggi
4. “Skyscrapers” – OK Go
5. “Safe and Sound” – Capital Cities
6. “All the Little Things” – Ben Cocks
7. “It’s Time” – Imagine Dragons
8. "Yer Spring” – Hey Rosetta!
9. “Sweeter” – Gavin Degraw
10. “Somebody That I Used to Know” – Gotye feat. Kimbra

11. “Dirty Paws” – Of Monsters and Men
12. “The Grand Optimist” – City and Colour
13. “Gold on the Ceiling” – the Black Keys
14. "Simple Song” – the Shins
15. “Trojans” – Atlas Genius
16. “Forest Whitaker” – Bad Books
17. “How’d You Like That?” – the Kooks
18. “The Stand” – Mother Mother
19. “Treading Water” – Alex Clare
20. “Ho Hey” – the Lumineers

21. “Where the Kids Are” – Blondfire
22. “Hold On When You Get Love, Let Go When You Give It” - Stars
23. "Kill Your Heroes” - AWOLnation
24. “We’re Far Enough From Heaven Now We Can Freak Out” – Deep Cotton
25. “Running Lights (Denial)” – Skittish
26. “Boredom and Joy” – Jets Overhead
27. “Madness” - Muse
28. “Blood for Poppies” – Garbage
29. “It’s Nice to Be Alive” – Ball Park Music
30. “Easy Way Out” - Gotye
31. “Don’t Stop Lovin’ Me” – Pomplamoose
32. “We Come Running” – Youngblood Hawke
33. “Girl in a Coat” – Blitzen Trapper
34. “Come Back Down” – Greg Laswell
35. “Burn It Down” – Linkin Park
36. “September” – the Shins
37. "Little Talks” – Of Monsters and Men
38. “N.Y.E.” – Dinosaur Bones
39. “Americanarama” - Hollerado
40. “Reagan’s Skeleton” - Yeasayer
41. “Female Robbery” – the Neighbourhood
42. “Houdini” – Foster the People
43. “Bright Whites” – Kishi Bashi
44. “Symptoms” – Atlas Genius
45. “Default” – Django Django
46. “Baby Don’t Dance” – Mother Mother
47. “Wolves” – Big Wreck
48. “Too Close” – Alex Clare
49. “Reunion” – M83
50. “Called Out in the Dark” – Snow Patrol

51. “Let’s Fall in Love” – Mother Mother
52. “Change” – Churchill
53. “Company” – Andy Burrows
54. "Days Are Forgotten” – Kasabian
55. “Cheerleader” – St. Vincent
56. “I’m the One Leaving You” – Bend Sinister
57. “It’s Only Life” – the Shins
58. “Living a Lie” – Aimee Mann and James Mercer
59. “Yet Again” – Grizzly Bear
60. “Lindsay” – Eliott Brood
61. “Three White Horses” – Andrew Bird
62. “It Gets Old To Be Alone” – the Wooden Sky
63. “Strange Attractor” – Animal Kingdom
64. “Wild Country” – Wake Owl
65. “Feed the Dada” – Dada Life
66. “Safer Than Love” – Bell X1
67. “Clone” – Metric
68. “Keep It for Your Own” – POP ETC
69. “Don’t Leave Me” – Regina Spektor
70. “Would That Not Be Nice?” – Divine Fits
71. “Work Around It” – Them Swoops
72. “Everybody Knows” – Jukebox the Ghost
73. “Here We Go” – the Spring Standards
74. “Fire Escape” – Civil Twilight
75. “Save Me” – Gotye
76. “I Might Drop By” – Greg Laswell
77. “Are You Gonna Waste My Time?” – Zeus
78. “Love Interruption” – Jack White
79. “On the Run” – Kaiser Chiefs
80. "Too Cold” – Current Swell
81. “Chained” – the xx
82. “Soon Enough” – Aimee Mann
83. “Go Ego” – Eight and a Half
84. “Easy Come Easy Go” – Great Lake Swimmers
85. "Apple Pie” – Nelson Can
86. “Simply Simple” – Mother Mother
87. “Eyeoneye” – Andrew Bird
88. “Rain” – the Gin Club
89. “On and On” – Noah and the MegaFauna
90. “Overwhelmed” – Tim McMorris
91. “The Theory of Relativity” - Stars
92. “Untouched and Arrived” – Ace Reporter
93. “Hey Joe” – Blitzen Trapper
94. “Broken Chair” – Chris and Thomas
95. “Sappho” – Tribes
96. “How It Starts” – the Features
97. “Hummingbird” – Alex Clare
98. “Being Alone” – Love on a Real Train
99. “Same Mistakes” – the Echo-Friendly
100. “Disappeared” – Aimee Mann

101. “Life Is a Bitch Slap” – My Radio
102. “Youth without Youth” – Metric
103. “California” – Delta Spirit
104. “Bait and Switch” – the Shins
105. “Rock and Roll Forever” – the Whigs
106. “Story of My Life” – Eat More Cake
107. “Gun-Shy” – Grizzly Bear
108. “Never Go Back” – Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
109. “Warrior” - Kimbra
110. “Welcome to Pittsburgh” – River City Extension
111. “Mountain Sound” – Of Monsters and Men
112. “We Are Young” – fun.
113. “Headlights” – Morning Parade
114. “All in Vain” – the Vaccines
115. “A Heavy Abacus” – the Joy Formidable
116. “Live to Rise” – Soundgarden
117. “Video Games” – Lana Del Ray
118. “Give It Back” – the Ting Tings
119. “Won’t Come Home” – Bad Breaks
120. “Killing Switch” – Last Lynx
121. “Days Go By” – the Offspring
122. “One More Night” – Maroon 5
123. “Stay Gold” – the Big Pink
124. “Paddling Out” – Miike Snow
125. “Sixteen Saltines” – Jack White
126. “Aftershave Ocean” – the Vaccines
127. “Happy” – Mother Mother
128. “Tides” – the xx
129. “At Transformation” – the Tragically Hip
130. “Octopus” – Bloc Party
131. “Hall of Mirrors” – the Helio Sequence
132. “Settle Down” – White Arrows
133. “Come to Life” – Lots of Love
134. “Built to Break (Anger)” - Skittish
135. “Give Me Love” – Ed Sheeran
136. “Do Your Own Time” – A.C. Newman
137. “Complications” – Philistines
138. “Champion” – the Chevin
139. “Become Someone Else’s” – Jens Lekman
140. “Pontoon” – Little Big Town
141. “Weirdo” – the Vaccines
142. “A Simple Answer” – Grizzly Bear
143. “Frank Left” – Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
144. “American Horror Story Theme” – Murder House

Monday, December 17, 2012

Favorite TV Shows - 2012 Edition

Anyone who knows me knows I watch a lot of television. Well, let me rephrase that, the TV in my house is on a lot, and I watch certain shows... To be honest, the TV is on mostly for background noise. I will admit to this, however:  2012 had some truly interesting and worthy shows that captured my imagination moreso than recent years.  Here are 20 of my favorites in alphabetical order.  Those in bold were my top five faves.

Adventure Time (Cartoon Network)
American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Bob’s Burgers (FOX)
Breaking Bad (AMC)
Community (NBC)
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
Futurama (Comedy Central)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Girls (HBO)
Grimm (NBC)
Louie (FX)
Mad Men (AMC)
Parenthood (NBC)
Parks and Recreation (NBC)
Portlandia (IFC)
The Simpsons (FOX)
South Park (Comedy Central)
30 Rock (NBC)
The Walking Dead (AMC)
Weeds (Showtime)

100+ Favourite Songs of 2023

Good music is out there. I just need to do some sleuthing to find many of the songs that comprise this list. Here are 100-and-some songs I d...