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2012 – my year in music

What could be more ridiculous than trying to rank the thousands of singles and albums you’ve bought and heard over a lifetime? Here we go …

I have re-ranked both singles and albums in December 2024, and I have also included the original charts I wrote at the end of 2012.

	Top albums of 2012

1	Bleech	Nude
2	Bloc Party	Four
3	Tame Impala	Lonerism
4	Midway Still	Always Ends
5	Frank and Walters	Greenwich Mean Time
6	Dodgy	Stand Upright In A Cool Place
7	Taffy	Caramel Sunset
8	Finger	I Don't Believe My Eyes
9	Maximo Park	The National Health
10	Lovely Eggs	Wildlife
11	Deferred Sucess	Deferred Sucess
12	2:54	2:54
13	Local Girls	Deluxe Kicks
14	Therapy?	A Brief Crack Of Light
15	Y Niwl	Y Niwl 4
16	Primitives	Echoes And Rhymes
17	Dingus Khan	Support Mistley Swans
18	Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra	Towards Other Worlds
19	Evans The Death	Evans The Death
20	Garbage	Not Your Kind Of People
21	Pre New	Music For People Who Hate Themselves
22	Baddies	Build
23	WeirdGear	Aurora
24	Laetitia Sadier	Silencio
25	Two Door Cinema Club	Beacon
26	Maccabees	Given To The Wild
27	Wind-Up Birds	The Land
28	Melody's Echo Chamber	Melody's Echo Chamber
29	Quinton Sung	OK Computer (8-bit)
30	School Of Seven Bells	Ghostory
31	Muse	The 2nd Law
32	Monochrome Set	Platinum Coils
33	Choir Of Young Believers	Rhine Gold
34	Mull Historical Society	City Awakenings
35	Chris Brokaw	Gambler's Ecstasy
36	Winter Olympics	Profit and Loss
37	Bob Mould	Silver Age
38	Nada Surf	The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
39	Hives	Lex Hives
40	Kids With Torches	Carried Over Trees
41	Ben Folds Five	The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
42	Mystery Jets	Radlands
43	Herida	Ghost Of The Sun
44	Scissor Sisters	Magic Hour
45	Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Mature Themes
46	This Many Boyfriends	This Many Boyfriends
47	of Verona	The White Apple
48	As Able As Kane	Totalitarian Tip-Toe
49	Focus	Focus X

The albums I played to death:

These aren’t necessarily the same as my favourite albums now, but the ones I remember buying on release and playing over and over and over again.

04/06/12	Bleech	Nude
20/08/12	Bloc Party	Four
05/10/12	Tame Impala	Lonerism

	Original chart - top albums of 2012

1	Bleech	Nude
2	Bloc Party	Four
3	Midway Still	Always Ends
4	Tame Impala	Lonerism
5	Taffy	Caramel Sunset
6	Focus	Focus X
7	Wind-Up Birds	The Land
8	Lovely Eggs	Wildlife
9	Local Girls	Deluxe Kicks
10	Pre New	Music For People Who Hate Themselves
11	Winter Olympics	Profit And Loss
12	Nada Surf	The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy
13	Laetitia Sadier	Silencio
14	Frank and Walters	Greenwich Mean Time
15	Toy	Toy
16	Finger	I Don't Believe My Eyes
17	Evans The Death	Evans The Death
18	Dingus Khan	Support Mistley Swans
19	Primitives	Echoes And Rhythms
20	Weirdgear	Aurora
21	Dodgy	Stand Upright In A Cool Place
22	Baddies	Build
23	Mull Historical Society	City Awakenings
24	Deferred Sucess	Deferred Sucess
25	I Like Trains	The Shallows
26	Chris Brokaw	Gambler's Ecstasy
27	School Of Seven Bells	Ghostory
28	Mystery Jets	Radlands
29	Maximo Park	The National Health
30	Boy	Mutual Friends
31	Maccabees	Given To The Wild
32	Surfquake	Surf And Destroy
33	Herida	Ghost Of The Sun
34	This Many Boyfriends	This Many Boyfriends
35	2:54	2:54
36	Ben Folds Five	The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind
37	George Withers	The Joy Formidable On Cello
38	Choir Of Young Believers	Rhine Gold
39	Monochrome Set	Platinum Coils
40	Therapy?	A Brief Crack Of Light
41	As Able As Kane	Totalitarian Tip-Toe
42	Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti	Mature Themes
43	Hives	Lex Hives

	Top tracks of 2012

1	Frank and Walters	Indie Love Song
2	Bleech	Mondays
3	Bloc Party	Octopus
4	Metric	Youth Without Youth
5	Dingus Khan	Made A List
6	Taffy	So Long
7	Wind-Up Birds	Cross Country
8	Tame Impala	Elephant
9	Blindness	Glamourama
10	Bloc Party	Kettling
11	Vile Electrodes	Re-Emerge
12	Maccabees	Pelican
13	Iskaa and the Red Cars	Deja Vu
14	Maximo Park	The National Health
15	Bleech	Weirdo
16	Primitives	Who Are You Trying To Fool
17	Everything Everything	Cough Cough
18	Eva On The Western Castle Island	California Shrills
19	2:54	Creeping
20	Pulp	After You
21	Trash Monroe	Bleached Edges Of My Memory
22	Frank and Walters	The Parson
23	Midway Still	This Is How It Ends
24	Pre New	Cathedral City Comedown
25	Torre Florim	Firestarter
26	Baddies	Bronto
27	Evans The Death	Telling Lies
28	Blur	The Puritan
29	Primitives	You Trashed My Christmas
30	Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra	Towards Other Worlds
31	Local Girls	Jesus Complex Man
32	Blur	Under The Westway
33	Accrington Stanley	Dangerous Sports
34	This Many Boyfriends	(I Should Be A) Communist
35	Polica	Dark Star
36	We Are The Physics	Goran Ivanisevic
37	Deferred Sucess	Cider On The Beach
38	Midway Still	Mr Blue Sky
39	Joy Formidable	Wolf's Law
40	Finger	I Don't Believe My Eyes
41	Pond	You Broke My Cool
42	Baddies	Talk To Me Germany
43	Luscious Jackson	Are You Ready?
44	Frank and Walters	The Model
45	Omelettes	Perfect Wave
46	High/Low	Forty
47	Joy Formidable	This Ladder Is Ours
48	Quinton Sung	Airbag

	Original chart - top tracks of 2012

1	Wind-Up Birds	Cross Country
2	Vile Electrodes	Re-Emerge
3	Bloc Party	Octopus
4	Bleech	Mondays
5	Taffy	So Long
6	Everything Everything	Kemosabe
7	2:54	Creeping
8	Blur	Under The Westway
9	Blindness	Glamourama
10	Dingus Khan	Made A List
11	Pre New	Cathedral City Comedown
12	Republica	Christiana Obey (Tenek remix)
13	Knifeworld	Clairvoyant Fortnight
14	Primitives	Who Are You Trying To Fool
15	Boy	Drive Darling
16	Public Service Broadcasting	Dig For Victory
17	Evans The Death	Telling Lies
18	Tame Impala	Elephant
19	Cut Ribbons	Damascus
20	Midway Still	This Is How It Ends
21	Winter Olympics	Attention All Departments
22	De Staat	Firestarter (3FM session)
23	Eva On The Western Castle Island	California Shrills
24	Frank and Walters	Indie Love Song
25	Metric	Speed The Collapse
26	Pris	A Bomb In White Heat
27	Local Girls	Jesus Complex Man
28	Maximo Park	The National Health
29	Bleech	Adrenalin Junkie
30	Dutch Uncles	Fester
31	Laetitia Sadier	Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe
32	Wind-Up Birds	Being Dramatic
33	Of Monsters And Men	Little Talks
34	Bloc Party	Kettling
35	Comanechi	Major Move
36	High-Low	Forty
37	Polica	Dark Star
38	Das Russians	Private Ambulance
39	Honeyblood	Biro
40	Toy	Motoring
41	Fashoda Crisis	Horatio
42	Garbage	Battle In Me
43	Pond	You Broke My Cool
44	Tame Impala	Keep On Lying
45	Focus	Father Bacchus
46	Majeur	She Was Gone (835 remix)
47	Taffy	Indetermination
48	Luscious Jackson	Are You Ready
49	Kaiser Chiefs	On The Run
50	Winter Olympics	I Miss The Nineties
51	Lovely Eggs	Allergies
52	I Like Trains	Mnemosyne
53	Joy Formidable	This Ladder Is Ours
54	Nada Surf	Waiting For Something
55	Stereophonics	In A Moment
56	Graham Coxon	What'll It Take
57	Baddies	Bronto
58	Creision Hud	Target
59	Good Natured	5-HT
60	Everything Everything	Cough Cough
61	Mull Historical Society	The Lights
62	Rialto Burns	Hibernation
63	Toy	Left Myself Behind
64	Sebastien Tellier	Cochon Ville
65	Therapy	Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing
66	Alpaca Sports	She'll Come Back For Indian Summer
67	Mystery Jets	Someone Purer
68	Viva Brother	I Don't Want To Be Loved
69	Foals	Inhaler
70	Weareoff	The Pain Remains The Same
71	We Are Augustines	Chapel Song
72	School of Seven Bells	White Wind
73	Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra	Towards Other Worlds
74	Lovely Eggs	I Just Want Someone To Fall In Love With
75	Public Service Broadcasting	Spitfire
76	Snøskred	We Are
77	Dodgy	What Became Of You
78	Jensen Code	Under White Satellites
79	Cut Ribbons	White Horses
80	Savages	Husbands
81	Best Coast	The Only Place
82	Nordenfelt	Steam Powered Submarine
83	Just Another Snake Cult	Have You Seen This Girl Anywhere
84	Modovar	Clearly
85	Y Niwl	Dauddedau
86	Ben Folds Five	Do It Anyway
87	Bo Ningen	Daikaisei Part 1
88	Mmm	Dark Motion
89	Sonic Boom Six	Virus
90	Deferred Sucess	I Don't Wanna Go Home
91	High-Low	Spy Eye
92	Maccabees	Pelican
93	Novella	Don't Believe Ayn Rand
94	Madness	My Girl 2
95	Tim Burgess	White
96	Snakadaktal	Chimera
97	Ace Out	We Should Be Dancing
98	Death In The Afternoon	Francis and the City
99	Minus The Bear	Steel and Blood
100	Sibyl Vane	Get Out Of Town

	My favourite cover versions of 2012

1	Primitives	Who Are You Trying To Fool
2	Torre Florim	Firestarter
3	Midway Still	Mr Blue Sky
4	Frank and Walters	The Model
5	Quinton Sung	Airbag

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