Best Songs of 2012

Here's my second annual best songs of the year list. This was a particularly strong year as far as songs go; the first 20 tracks listed below are all monsters. Here are the top 100 tracks of 2012:

                                                   1. Cloud Nothings: “Wasted Days”                  

                "I thought I would be more than this! I thought I would be more than this!!"

2. School of Seven Bells: “Lafaye”

3. Mykki Blanco: “Wavvy”

"I'm the muthafuckin' rookie of the year..."

4. El-P: “The Full Retard”
"Pump this shit like they do in the future!"

5. Beach House: “Lazuli”

6. Laurel Halo: ""Light + Space”
"Words are just words, words are just words, that you soon forget..."

7. Sharon Van Etten: “Give Out”

8. Death Grips: “Hacker”
"I know the first three numbers..."

9. DIIV: “How Long Have You Known”

10. Father John Misty: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
"Jesus Christ, girl."
"Someone's gotta help me dig..."

11. iamamiwhoami: “Sever”

12. Tame Impala: “Apocalypse Dreams”

13. Bear in Heaven: “Sinful Nature”

14. Grimes: “Genesis”

15. Rose Cousins: “One Way”

16. Unicorn Kid: “Pure Space”

17. Cloud Nothings: “No Sentiment"
"We started a war!!"

18. Frank Ocean: “Pyramids”

19. Miike Snow: “The Wave”

20. Purity Ring: “Fineshrine”

"My little ribs around you"

The entire list:

1. Cloud Nothings: “Wasted Days”
2. School of Seven Bells: “Lafaye”
3. Mykki Blanco: “Wavvy”
4. El-P: “The Full Retard”
5. Beach House: “Lazuli”
6. Laurel Halo: ""Light + Space”
7. Sharon Van Etten: “Give Out”
8. Death Grips: “Hacker”
9. DIIV: “How Long Have You Known”
10. Father John Misty: “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
11. iamamiwhoami: “Sever”
12. Tame Impala: “Apocalypse Dreams”
13. Bear in Heaven: “Sinful Nature”
14. Grimes: “Genesis”
15. Rose Cousins: “One Way”
16. Unicorn Kid: “Pure Space”
17. Cloud Nothings: “No Sentiment"
18. Frank Ocean: “Pyramids”
19. Miike Snow: “The Wave”
20. Purity Ring: “Fineshrine”
21. Pallbearer: "Devoid of Redemption"
22. Blut Aus Nord: "Epitome XIV"
23. Black Moth Super Rainbow: “Spraypaint”
24. Chairlift: “Met Before”
25. DIIV: “Doused”
26. Dirty Projectors: “Gun Has No Trigger”
27. Django Django: ""Default”
28. Father John Misty: “Nancy From Now On”
29. Frankie Rose: “Know Me”
30. Jessie Ware: “Wildest Moments”
31. Lambchop: “Gone Tomorrow”
32. Mister Lies: “I Walk”
33. Porcelain Raft: “Drifting In and Out”
34. Purity Ring: “Lofticries”
35. Ramona Falls: “Spore”
36. Blut Aus Nord: "Epitome XVI"
37. Swans: “A Piece of the Sky”
38. Pallbearer: "An Offering of Grief"
39. Thee Oh Sees: “Lupine Dominus”
40. Ty Segall Band: “I Bought My Eyes”
41. The Walkmen: “Heaven”
42. Baroness: "Board Up the House"
43. Perfume Genius: “Hood”
44. The Shins: “Simple Song”
45. Ty Segall & White Fence: “Time”
46. Ty Segall Band: “Wave Goodbye”
47. White Fence: “It Will Never Be”
48. Burial: “Ashtray Wasp”
49. David Byrne & St. Vincent: “Who"
50. Frankie Rose: “Interstellar"
51. Japandroids: “The House That Heaven Built”
52. Nas: “Accident Murderers”
53. Chromatics: “Kill For Love”
54. The Shins: “Bait And Switch”
55. Sky Ferreira: “Everything is Embarassing”
56. Tame Impala: “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards”
57. Ty Segall & White Fence: “I Am Not A Game”
58. Beach House: “Myth”
59. Frank Ocean: “Bad Religion”
60. Baroness: "Stretchmarker"
61. Lotus Plaza: “Strangers”
62. Lower Dens: ""Brains”
63. The Men: “Open Your Heart”
64. Ty Segall & White Fence: “Scissor People”
65. Four Tet: “Ocoras”
66. Grimes: Oblivion”
67. Twin Shadow: “Five Seconds”
68. Django Django: ""Love’s Dart”
69. Death Grips: “I’ve Seen Footage”
70. Nicholas Jaar: “And I Say”
71. Thee Oh Sees: “Floods New Light”
72. Wild Nothing: “Through the Grass”
73. Bobby Womack: “Please Forgive My Heart”
74. Chairlift: “I Belong in Your Arms”
75. Chromatics: “Back From the Grave”
76. El-P: “Tougher Colder”
77. Frank Ocean: “Sweet Life”
78. Kendrick Lamar: “Backstreet Freestyle”
79. Laurel Halo: ""MK Ultra”
80. Spiritualized: “Hey Jane”
81. The Walkmen: “Song for Leigh”
82. Hot Chip: “Flutes”
83. The Men: “Candy”
84. Eternal Summers: “Millions”
85. Baauer: “Harlem Shake”
86. Cloud Nothings: “Stay Useless"
87. Flying Lotus: “Between Friends”
88. Frankie Rose: “Night Swim”
89. Killer Mike: “Reagan”
90. Tame Impala: “Elephant”
91. Torche: “Kicking”
92. Death Grips: “Get Got”
93. Kendrick Lamar: “The Art of Peer Pressure”
94. Lotus Plaza: “Monoliths”
95. Alcest: ""Faiseurs De Mondes"
96. Chairlift: “Amanaemonesia”
97. Dirty Projectors: “Dance For You”
98. Grimes: “Circumambient”
99. Kendrick Lamar: “Swimming Pools”
100. Beach House: “Wild”