100 Songs: My Favourite Tracks from 2012 (or some of them, at least)

I've really enjoyed compiling my '10 Tracks' playlists over the last few months. I don't know if anyone else ever listens to them, but I find pleasure in putting them together anyway - partly because I like good music, but equally because I just like lists.

To mark the end of the year, I thought I'd look back over my musical pickings and put together a much longer list with my top 100 tracks from the last 12 months.

Some of them have featured on my shorter lists, but many of them haven't. Most were released in 2012, but one or two were released slightly earlier and only came to my attention this year. And I couldn't bring myself to rank them in any sort of preferential order, so alphabetical it is.

With all that in mind, here they are: 100 of my favourite tracks from 2012

1. ‘”45”’ – The Gaslight Anthem
2. ‘110%’ – Jessie Ware
3. ‘A+E’ – Clean Bandit
4. ‘All I Want’ – Kodaline
5. ‘Angels’ – The XX
6. ‘Anna Sun’ – Walk the Moon
7. ‘Another Love’ – Tom O’Dell
8. ‘Anything Could Happen’- Ellie Goulding
9. ‘Ayla’ – The Maccabees
10. ‘Bad Blood’ – Bastille
11. ‘Bad Girls’ – MIA
12. ‘Beg’ – Bombay Bicycle Club
13. ‘Best of Friends’ – Palma Violets
14. ‘Bikes’ – Lucy Rose
15. ‘Blinding’ – Jakwob
16. ‘Bloodbuzz Ohio’ – Julia Stone
17. ‘Bloodshake’ – Peace
18. ‘Blue Jeans’ – Lana Del Rey
19. ‘Bones’ – Michael Kiwanuka
20. ‘Bones’ – Young Guns
21. ‘Boy’ – Nina Nesbitt
22. ‘Breezeblocks’ – Alt-J
23. ‘Bruises’ – Band of Skulls
24. ‘Caliban’s Dream’ – Underworld
25. ‘Can’t Pretend’ – Tom O’Dell
26. ‘Cannibal’ – Marika Hackman
27. ‘Clouds’ – Newton Faulkner
28. ‘Cough Cough’ – Everything Everything
29. ‘Don’t Leave Me’ – Regina Spektor
30. ‘Don’t Save Me’ – Haim
31. ‘Esmerelda’ – Ben Howard
32. ‘Every Single Night’ – Fiona Apple
33. ‘Exits and Entrances’ – We Are the In Crowd
34. ‘Figure 8’ – Ellie Goulding
35. ‘Fineshrine’ – Purity Ring
36. ‘Fingers Crossed’ – SOAK
37. ‘Flaws’ – Bastille
38. ‘Forever’ – Haim
39. ‘Glockenspiel Song’ – Dog Is Dead
40. ‘Handwritten’ – The Gaslight Anthem
41. ‘Hang Loose’ – Alabama Shakes
42. ‘Happy Pills’ – Norah Jones
43. ‘Ho Hey’ – the Lumineers
44. ‘Hurts Like Heaven’ – Coldplay
45. ‘I Will Wait’ – Mumford & Sons
46. ‘I Won’t Give Up’ – Jason Mraz
47. ‘I’m His Girl’ – Friends
48. ‘If Ever I Stray’ – Frank Turner
49. ‘iLL Manors’ – Plan B
50. ‘In the Open’ – Benjamin Francis Leftwich
51. ‘Inhaler’ – Foals
52. ‘Is Your Love Big Enough?’ – Lianne La Havas
53. ‘Kemosabe’ – Everything Everything
54. ‘Kronos’ – Keaton Henson
55. ‘Laura’ – Bat For Lashes
56. ‘Lay Your Cards Out’ – Polica
57. ‘Lightning Bolt’ – Jake Bugg
58. ‘Lines’ – Lucy Rose
59. ‘Little Talks’ – Of Monsters & Men
60. ‘Love Interruption’ – Jack White
61. ‘Love Is All I Got’ – Feed Me & Crystal Fighters
62. ‘Matilda’ – Alt-J
63. ‘Midnight City’ – M83
64. ‘Myth’ – Beach House
65. ‘Need Your Love’ – The Temper Trap
66. ‘Never Fade Away’ – Spector
67. ‘Never Let Me Go’ – Florence + the Machine
68. ‘New York’ – Angel Haze
69. ‘Night Light’ – Jessie Ware
70. ‘No Church In the Wild’ – Jay Z & Kanye West
71. ‘Oats In the Water’ – Ben Howard
72. ‘Oblivion’ - Grimes
73. ‘Ride’ – Lana Del Rey
74. ‘She’ – Laura Mvula
75. ‘Smother’ – Daughter
76. ‘Sol.’ – Mausi
77. ‘Some Nights’ – Fun.
78. ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ – Gotye
79. ‘Something Good’ – Alt-J
80. ‘State Hospital’ – Frightened Rabbit
81. ‘Stingin’ Belle’ – Biffy Clyro
82. ‘Sun’ – Two Door Cinema Club
83. ‘Take A Walk’ – Passion Pit
84. ‘Taste It’ – Jake Bugg
85. ‘Teenage Daughter’ – Dog Is Dead
86. ‘Teenage Icon’ – The Vaccines
87. ‘The Brightest Lights’ – King Charles
88. ‘The Fall’ – Rhye  
89. ‘The Woodpile’ – Frightened Rabbit
90. ‘Tongue Behind My Teeth’ – The Staves
91. ‘Two Fingers’ – Jake Bugg
92. ‘Warm & Easy’ – The 2 Bears
93. ‘Warrior’ – Foxes
94. ‘We Take Care of Our Own’ – Bruce Springsteen
95. ‘Went Away’ – The Maccabees
96. ‘Wildest Moments’ – Jessie Ware
97. ‘Yeah Yeah’ – Willy Moon
98. ‘You Know You Like It’ – AlunaGeorge
99. ‘Your Drums, Your Love’ – AlunaGeorge
100. ‘Your Love’ – Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 

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Enjoy!