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I love the number 31. This is because my favourite NBA basketball player of all time - Reggie Miller - wore it.

I logged onto last.fm just after midnight ticked over from 2012 into 2013 and I opened up all of my charts for the previous 12 months. I want to present them, but I don't want to give you information overload.

Combine these two little snippets of information and it becomes obvious what I must do; present my top 31 most played Albums, Artists and Tracks of 2012.

I may also add some commentary here and there.

Note well that this is not my subjective ranked favourite stuff that was released in 2012, but rather just the raw number of listens (of stuff from all time periods) that I scrobbled.

New releases are tagged with *NEW*.
Bands I saw live (in 2012) are tagged with *SAW*

Albums:
1. Jack White – Blunderbuss (137 plays) - *NEW*
2. The Shins – Port of Morrow (132 plays) - *NEW*
3. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (126 plays) - *NEW*
…

Well, since one of the only two things I give a serious shit about is music, I feel it my duty to write up a blog on my scrobbles for the entire spectrum of no one to read and let my thoughts float out in the netherspaces of the interwebs.

I can't say it's been any sort of "epic" year for me musically, because I would say that every year like a broken record. It was a year and much was discovered and loved and cherished. I am zehr thankful for the catalogue of artists I have discovered this year through radio, Pandora at work and sexy scrobble friends. This list includes Passion Pit, Starfucker, Pinback, Gotye, Of Monsters and Men, We Are Scientists, The Temper Trap, Japandroids, The Dandy Warhols, Strange Talk, Cut Copy, The Silent Comedy, Spoon, M83, The Gaslight Anthem, and the single most important one to me, Modest Mouse.

Good lord of fuck, I was a complete moron. Pretty sure everyone knows who Modest Mouse is, no thanks to Float On all those years ago, and if not the name of the band or track, you knew the tune. …

2012
From Worst
to Best


Intro,
Omitted,
and
#284 - #281



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Intro







"We fell in love,
or rather I did,
she gave me a shove,
into a pit unrequited.

I suppose it's not fit,
my mental health,
but at least I have this pit,
all to myself."

*strum strum, strum strum strum strum strum*



So here we are, another year gone by. Some people sitting in the corner rubbing vaseline on their naked bodies, yelling,

"THIS WAS THE BEST YEAR FOR MUSIC, EVER!"

and some people sitting on the edge of a skyscraper, rubbing vaseline on their naked bodies, yelling,

"THIS WAS THE WORST YEAR FOR MUSIC, EVER!"

And then there's me, sitting on top of our piano with a crappy 90s iBook yelling,

"THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY WAYS TO WRITE 'NAZI CIRCLE-JERK!' WHERE'S MY VASELINE!?!"

Music, and music journalism, never really changes.
(cough cough cough cough, right? Someone get me a glass of water)
…

2013-08-10 - Die Ärzte & Danko Jones
2013-05-17-20 - Wave-Gotik-Treffen: KMFDM,The 69 Eyes,VNV Nation,Suicide Commando,Velvet Acid Christ,imax

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2013-02-14 - FraKtus (Studio Braun: Rocko Schamoni, Heinz Strunk & Jacques Palminger)
2013-02-01 - Black Light Burns, Jayce Lewis

2012-12-27 - Torch, Toni L
2012-12-06 - HGich.T
2012-11-22 - Fünf Füße für ein Halleluja (with Sven van Thom, Blockflöte des Todes und Martin Gottschild )
2012-10-27 - Coogans Bluff
2012-09-30 - Radiohead, Caribou
2012-09-13 - Laibach
2012-09-02 - Soulfly, Incite, Lody Kong
2012-08-31 - Jacques Palminger & The Kings of Dub Rock
2012-08-17 - Die Ärzte, The Stranglers
2012-07-27-29 - Greenville Festival: The Flaming Lips, The Roots, The Stooges, HGich.T, A, Dizzee Rascal, Gogol Bordello, Selig, Turbonegro, Donots, Deichkind, Scooter, Bodi Bill, Red Fang, Kellermensch, Kilians, Kettcar, Young Rebel Set, Blockflöte des Todes, Eternal Tango, Yuna, Kyla La Grange…

Albums, EPs, Mixtapes, Reissues.

In no particular order:
Errors - Have Some Faith In Magic
Ian Skelly - Cut From A Star
Allah-Las - Allah-Las
Beaulieu Porch - Beaulieu Porch
Beaulieu Porch - In Touch With the Infinite
MMOSS - Only Children
Little People - We Are But Hunks Of Wood
Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild
How to Dress Well - Total Loss
Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
Meyhem Lauren - Mandatory Brunch Meetings
Jesse Boykins III & MeLo-X - Zulu Guru
The Mynabirds - Generals
Kaki King -Glow
The Weeknd - Trilogy
Solange - True
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Stars - The North
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Congo Ashanti Roy & Pura Vida - Hard Road
Junkie XL - Synthesized
John Talabot - Fin
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D. City
El-P - Cure 4 Cancer
Dark Time Sunshine - ANX
Planet Asia - Black Belt Theater
Reks - Rebelutionary
Beneficence - Concrete Soul
Murs & Fashawn - This Generation
9th Wonder & Murs - Final Adventure
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Crime & Punishment

01. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS Health)
02. Martial Canterel - Assault
03. Skinny Puppy - Killing Game
04. John Maus - Cop Killer
05. The Dandy Warhols - The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers AKA The Ballad
06. Frank Zappa - The Beltway Bandits
07. The Pop Group - Rob A Bank
08. Tom Waits - A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun
09. Iggy Pop - Run Like A Villain
10. Barry Adamson - The Crime Scene
11. Diagram Brothers - I'm A Policeman
12. The Wreckery - Laying Down Law
13. Paul Roland - The Hanging Judge

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