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Now that Sean has given us a fairly exhaustive chronicle of David Bowie’s career, I suppose it’s time we move on to writing about something else. Or at least, that’s what I’d be saying if there were actually some decent movies or albums coming out soon. But there aren’t, so I guess we’ll just keep the Bowie lovetrain a-rollin’ as each of us (minus Nancy probably) share our top ten songs by Mr. Bowie.
What a year! And Miraculously, I saw almost everything I wanted to see. The only exceptions being; Wreck-it-Ralph and This is Not a Film. Films I liked but not enough to make my top ten include; Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Cabin in the Woods, The Dark Knight Rises, Django Unchained, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Moonrise Kingdom, and another one that wasn’t easy to eliminate.
The movie industry needs to change. We have all these great ways of delivering content nowadays, and yet it still sucks trying to see movies that aren’t the AAA release of the last few weeks. In December, I really wanted to catch up with some of the big movies of 2012. First I checked Netflix, but their selection of 2012 movies was limited to movies that were super indie and out of theaters by early summer. Red Box wasn’t much better. Then I looked at Amazon, which had a slightly better selection, if I wanted to buy Blu Rays or pay the DVD price for a streaming rental. This sucks. Don’t make me want to pirate things!
Well, it got weird. In 2011, we talked about how strange it was that we still didn’t have any news regarding a new Xbox or PlayStation, that this console generation was starting to outstay its welcome. Sure, 2012 gave us the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita, but neither of them scratched the new console itch. Then many of the big games of 2012 got delayed to 2013 (Bioshock Infinite, where art thou). So what became of the year? Well, PC definitely became my platform of choice, as it probably always should be anyway. And I ended up playing lots of games in genres I usually don’t care too much about – and being pretty impressed.
I had a really hard time making my list and now I’m at the point where I’m not even really sure if 2012 was a really good year for music or a really solid year for music. Up until, well, now, I had 20 albums I felt were worthy of being called my favorites of the year. On one hand, that’s really exciting that I had so many I didn’t want to leave off. On the other hand, that means I didn’t have the handful of truly outstanding albums that I absolutely needed to have on my list. Maybe it’s because this was my first year as an Rdio subscriber, which resulted in me listening to well over 80 albums, significantly more than I had in one year before. Anyway, here’s the 10 I ended up on, in an order that is more arbitrary than you might think.
In 2012, I listened to as many albums as years Bradley Cooper has been alive. Finding good music never gets any easier but it’s out there. This year wasn’t much different than last year, or the year before. There was stuff I liked, stuff I didn’t (cough, cough, Beach Boys’ reunion album) and a helluva lot in-between. Here’s what made me tap my toes in 2012.
I was pretty disappointed when Sean pointed out that my total post count for the year was a measly 20 posts. But I guess it makes sense considering I had a fairly busy year compared to most, and yet I still managed to find enough time to listen to 40 albums, a new record for me. I guess it helped that I bought a car this year, and thus listened to music pretty frequently during those drives. Here are a few albums that served as more than just good road music.
