January 1st, 2013 2:20pm
FLUXBLOG 2012 SURVEY MIX
This 10-disc, 191-song mix is a survey of some of the best and most notable music from 2012. In addition to this downloadable survey mix, I have also put together a similar but notably different Spotify/Rdio playlist version for BuzzFeed Music. That version does not include a lot of obscure or unofficially released tracks, and errs on the side of popular hits rather than personal favorites. (So, like, that one has “Call Me Maybe,” while this one has “Tiny Little Bows.”) It also includes music I simply had not heard before the beginning of December.
This is the 11th in the Fluxblog survey anthology series. You can still download 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
DOWNLOAD DISC 1
Japandroids “Night of Wine and Roses” / Kendrick Lamar “Backseat Freestyle” / Fiona Apple “Anything We Want” / Ellie Goulding “Anything Could Happen” / Carly Rae Jepsen “Tiny Little Bows” / Chairlift “I Belong In Your Arms” / Tame Impala “Apocalypse Dreams” / The Mynabirds “Disaster” / Kanye West featuring 2Chainz, Big Sean and Pusha T “Mercy” / Solange “Losing You” / Schoolboy Q “There He Go” / Grimes “Circumambient” / Wonder Girls (원더걸스) “Like This” / French Montana featuring Drake and Lil Wayne “Pop That” / Le1f “Wut” / Ceremony “Adult” / Sauna Youth “PSI Girls” / Titus Andronicus “In A Big City” / Fun. “Why Am I the One?”
DOWNLOAD DISC 2
Skrillex “Bangarang” / The Smashing Pumpkins “Panopticon” / St. Vincent “Krokodil” / Big K.R.I.T. “4EvaNaDay (Theme)” / THEESatisfaction “Existinct” / Kitty Pryde “Okay Cupid” / Nicki Minaj featuring 2Chainz “Beez in the Trap” / Hyuna Kim “Ice Cream” / Usher “I Care For U” / Divine Fits “Would That Not Be Nice” / Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” / Norah Jones “Happy Pills” / Melody’s Echo Chamber “Some Time Alone, Alone” / The Mountain Goats “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1” / Corin Tucker Band “Groundhog Day” / Patti Smith “Banga” / Micachu and the Shapes “Low Dogg” / Bruno Mars “Locked Out of Heaven” / One Direction “Live While We’re Young” / Dirty Projectors “Swing Lo Magellan” / Lavender Diamond “I Don’t Recall” / King Krule “Rock Bottom”
DOWNLOAD DISC 3
The xx “Angels” / Jessie Ware “Still Love Me” / Frank Ocean “Bad Religion” / Passion Pit “Constant Conversations” / Ne-Yo “Cracks In Mr. Perfect” / Meek Mill featuring Drake and Jeremih “Amen” / Major Lazer “Get Free” / Clinic “Cosmic Radiation” / How to Destroy Angels “Ice Age” / Flying Lotus “Phantasm” / Julia Holter “Goddess Eyes II” / Wu-Tang Clan “Six Directions of Boxing” / SHINee “Sherlock” / Opossom “Blue Meanies” / Tennis “Petition” / Joey Bada$$ “World Domination” / Odd Future “Oldie”
DOWNLOAD DISC 4
Bat for Lashes “A Wall” / Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX “I Love It” / Girls Generation “Telepathy” / Mouse on Mars “They Know Your Name” / of Montreal “We Will Commit Wolf Murder” / El-P “Drones Over Brooklyn” / Rihanna “Diamonds” / Scissor Sisters “Baby Come Home” / Hot Chip “Don’t Deny Your Heart” / BigBang “Fantastic Baby” / Flo Rida “I Cry” / Azealia Banks “Jumanji” / Muse “Madness” / Metric “Clone” / Felix “Don’t Look Back (It’s Too Sad)” / The Magnetic Fields “God Wants Us To Wait” / Field Music “A New Town” / Poor Moon “People In Her Mind” / She Does Is Magic “Sing With Me” / Frankie Rose “Gospel/Grace” / Florence and the Machine featuring Josh Homme “Jackson”
DOWNLOAD DISC 5
Ke$ha “Die Young” / Sleigh Bells “Demons” / Death Grips “I’ve Seen Footage” / Miguel “Do You…” / Himanshu “Womyn” / Danny Brown “Grown Up” / David Byrne and St. Vincent “Who” / Calvin Harris and Florence Welch “Sweet Nothing” / Angel Haze “Werkin’ Girls” / Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert “Same Love” / The Weeknd “Echoes of Silence” / Andy Stott “Hatch the Plan” / Alt-J “Tessellate” / Grizzly Bear “Yet Again” / Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen “If I Didn’t Know Better” / Sharon Van Etten “Kevin’s” / Damien Jurado “Maraqopa” / Waxahatchee “Grass Stain” / Swans featuring Karen O “Song For A Warrior” / Blur “Under the Westway” / Bobby Womack “Please Forgive My Heart”
DOWNLOAD DISC 6
Animal Collective “Moonjock” / Taylor Swift “State of Grace” / Matt LeMay “Compare and Contrast” / Guided by Voices “Class Clown Spots A UFO” / Captain Murphy “Children of the Atom” / Liars “No. 1 Against the Rush” / Matthew Dear “Her Fantasy” / The Kills “Dreams” / Lana Del Rey “Born to Die” / Bruce Springsteen “We Take Care Of Our Own” / Dum Dum Girls “Lord Knows” / Jack White “Take Me With You When You Go” / Dexys “You” / R. Kelly “Fool For You” / Jeremih “773 LOVE” / How to Dress Well “& It Was U” / Sky Ferreira “Everything Is Embarrassing” / A$AP Rocky featuring Drake, 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar “Fuckin’ Problems” / Action Bronson “Thug Love Story 2012”
DOWNLOAD DISC 7
Godspeed You! Black Emperor “We Drift Like Worried Fire” / Spiritualized “Hey Jane” / First Aid Kit “Emmylou” / Bob Dylan “Narrow Way” / Lee Ranaldo “Off the Wall” / Cat Power “Manhattan” / A.C. Newman “Do Your Own Time” / Hospitality “Eighth Avenue” / Beck “I Only Have Eyes For You” / Nas “A Queen’s Story” / Masta Killa “R U Listening” / Rick Ross featuring Andre 3000 “Sixteen”
DOWNLOAD DISC 8
Psy “Gangnam Style” / Deerhoof “Breakup Songs” / Madonna “I’m Addicted” / King Louie “Val Venis” / Purity Ring “Fineshrine” / Sylver Tongue “Hook You Up” / The Walkmen “Love Is Luck” / The Lumineers “Classy Girls” / The Band Perry “Better Dig Two” / Poliça “I See My Mother” / G-Dragon “CrayOn” / Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Is This the Best Spot?” / Ben Folds Five “Michael Praytor, Five Years Later” / Imperial Teen “No Matter What You Say” / Neil Young “Born In Ontario” / Swearin’ “Kenosha” / Kate Nash “Fri-end?” / Hundred Waters “Boreal” / Exitmusic “The Night” / Zebra Katz “Ima Read” / MDNR “Faster Horses” / Avicii vs Nicky Romero “I Could Be the One”
DOWNLOAD DISC 9
Kool A.D. “La Piñata” / Mac DeMarco “Annie” / Meyhem Lauren featuring AG Da Coroner, Action Bronson and Despot “Pan Seared Tilapia” / Jaipaul “Jasmine” / AlunaGeorge “Your Drums, Your Love” / Disclosure “Latch” / Todd Terje “Inspector Norse” / Killer Mike “Go!” / Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire featuring Gucci Mane “Telephuck” / Domo Genesis and the Alchemist “Power Ballad” / Ab-Soul featuring Danny Brown “Terrorist Threats” / Cadence Weapon “Loft Party” / Porcelain Raft “Put Me To Sleep” / Lotus Plaza “Monoliths” / Savages “Husbands” / METZ “Wet Blanket” / Future “You Deserve It” / Big Boi featuring A$AP Rocky and Phantogram “Lines” / Gorillaz featuring James Murphy and Andre 3000 “DoYaThing”
DOWNLOAD DISC 10
Beach House “Myth” / Rhye “The Fall” / Cody ChesnuTT “Don’t Follow Me” / T.I. featuring Andre 3000 “Sorry” / Alabama Shakes “Hold On” / Perfume Genius “Hood” / Squeeze “Tommy” / Black Bananas “TV Trouble” / Twin Shadow “Five Seconds” / The Shins “Simple Song” / TNGHT “Higher Ground” / John Talabot featuring Pional “Destiny” / Chief Keef “Love Sosa” / Roc Marciano “Flash Gordon” / Thee Oh Sees “Lupine Dominus” / Baroness “Take My Bones Away” / Chromatics “Kill For Love” / Green Day “Oh Love” / Glen Hansard “High Hope”