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30 Albums, Artists, Installations, And Other Such Ephemera That Meant Something To Me In 2012

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I’m nearly 30 and no closer to understanding what attracts to me one piece of music more than another. In fact, I’ve started work on a year-long series about 30 musical experiences that changed my life — not as something to look back upon, but as a way to understand how music has shaped me as a person, for better and, honestly, for worse. But that’s not until March. Our arbitrary means of making lists of the “best” music at the end of each year is something I admittedly enjoy more for discovery than needless bickering (see: every comment section ever), but this is the one list I particularly enjoy compiling and writing: the albums, performances, installations, individual artists and other such musical ephemera that formed 2012 for me.

Some of these blurbs (after the jump, for those of you in the Tumblr dashboard) have previously appeared at NPR Music for my top 10 metal and top 10 outer sound year-end lists, plus DC Heavy Metal’s Most Metal Moments of 2012, but more than half of it is new and completely unedited. I like to keep these things at a tidy 25 entries, but I just could not squeeze one out of this list. So 30 it is.

(I also made a 7-hour Spotify playlist featuring tracks from my favorite albums, songs, and other odds and ends, for the stream-inclined.)

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Lars’s weird list is worth reading and listening to. 

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August 2012

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June 2012

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VICE: “Spotify’s generous royalty rate of $0.003 per stream has made some... → vicemag.tumblr.com

vicemag:

“Spotify’s generous royalty rate of $0.003 per stream has made some lucky independent artists overnight hundredaires. For every 100,000 times a band’s song is streamed, the band gets $300; split four ways between bandmates, that’s $75 each. Let’s say in a year, the song pulls down 2,000,000…

I definitely don’t think that Spotify’s royalty rates are a good deal for musicians, but this is an annoyingly reductive/exaggerated argument that has two major flaws, both of which have to do with basic economics. One: streaming and purchasing a song are not the same thing. Those 200,000 listens were almost certainly not done by 200,000 different individuals. Arguing that the royalties per listen should be the same as the royalties per download is exactly the same as arguing that customers should who buy a song should have to pay 99 cents every time they listen to it. Two: it assumes that Spotify is the only source of income that will replace sales of albums and songs. The fact that this isn’t the case is the reason you’ve never heard anyone suggest the ridiculous contingency at the end of reason 1. If there were no other options besides Spotify, we’d all get gouged for streaming our favorite songs on a per click basis. Also, if you look around, this is so obviously not the case that it feels absurd to even have to type the “words” Rdio, MOG, Rhapsody, Vevo, etc etc etc forever. Bonus: I never hear people who make this complaint offer the obvious solution, which is that Spotify is too cheap. If we want musicians to make more money every time you stream their songs, at some point we’re going to have to volunteer more cash.
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May 2012

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March 2012

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Mar 30, 2012
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Mar 13, 2012
#that Bruce Hornsby piano
How are we going to refer to the new Fiona album

rawkblog:

The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do.

Idler? Driver? Drive ft. Ryan Gosling? 

It breaks my heart that this is one foot short of being in perfect iambic pentameter

It’s iambic heptameter! You know, like Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” or the theme from Gilligan’s Island.

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January 2012

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Jan 28, 2012
#follow the path of no resistance #to destroy their master
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December 2011

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November 2011

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September 2011

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Sitting at home on a Saturday night watching the U.S. Open and making a wedding dance party playlist. Want to help? What awesome songs should we play?

Sep 10, 2011

August 2011

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July 2011

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“I know what the senator wants — what the senator wants is a loge, obvs.”

Jul 18, 2011
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April 2011

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Least correctly answered song: "I Don't Want To Know" (guessed by one) → blogs.villagevoice.com

Best song on the album.

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#no april fools

March 2011

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