Tops of Y2K12

New Music
Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
Guided By Voices - Let's Go Eat the Factory
Mac Demarco - Rock n Roll Nightclub EP
Wild Nothing - Nocturne
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange


Local: 
Pistol Crash - Free Fallin
Wood Ear - Steeple Vultures
Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon
The Human Eyes - Guiding Eyes For The Blind  


Reissues:
Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee (best album to ever come out of Chapel Hill?)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything/Loveless/EPs 1988-1991


Best Discoveries/Rediscoveries:
The Wipers (how had I not heard these dudes yet?)
Early Faces (right when Rod joined...basically the best drinking music a man could ask for) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xHBjeiqzkQ
Larry & The Blue Notes (sweet early 60s Texas garage band) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83kYS1bEmjk
Pentagram (FUUUCK Yeah. Better than Sabbath?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7JTD_73kpI

Best movies I saw this year:
The Comedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSrh7o-Ia_U
Last Days Here (insane doc about the singer for pentagram and his struggles with drugs and subsequent triumphant return) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aUf_F5Lc_k&feature=fvwrel Teen A Go Go (documentary about the Fort Worth/Dallas 60s garage band scene) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJRw7icZa-M

Notables:
The Best Show on WFMU was playing in my earbuds almost every day.
The First song on the new Neil Young and Crazy Horse album is literally 30 min long (I got through about 20)
Tim Heidecker's "Titanic" BOB DYLAN song is 15 min long (I got through all 15).