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