A pesar de este miedo quiero vivir peleando. Lo mejor del 2012 en música

Una vez más aparece en este blog lo que considero mejor en música de todo lo que pude escuchar durante el año pasado. En años anteriores lo aclare pero en el resumen del 2011 me pareció que no era necesario aclararlo y hubo confusiones en algunos lectores del blog. Entonces: de esta lista de discos y canciones pocas son efectivamente del 2012, la gran mayoría son de años anteriores. Aunque suene excesivo las más de 140 canciones que elegí, aclaro también que cada una fue elegida con especial mimo y que cada una encierra una historia. Una parte importante de esa lista son canciones que tenía en cassettes y como en casa no funcionan ninguna de las caseteras las estaba extrañando.
Armé esta lista mientras leía (y sigo leyendo) Retromanía de Simon Reynolds, un excelente libro que a veces me deja la impresión de que lo escribieron y publicaron para mí. Es un libro que tiene resonancias importantes en mi vida, tal como lo sentí con Leonard Cohen y su libro El juego favorito.

Discos del 2012

1 – Kurt Vile – Smoke ring for my halo

2 – Bon Iver – Bon Iver

3 – Tune-Yards – Whokill

4 – Gang Gang Dance – Eye contact

5 – M83 – Hurry up, We’re dreaming

6 – St. Vincent – Strange mercy

7 – Real Estate – Days

8 – The Dodos – No color

9 – Maria Minerva – Cabaret Cixous

10 – Atlas Sound – Parallax

11 – Connan Mockasin – Forever dolphin love

12 – Fucked Up – David comes to life

13 – Tom Waits – Bad as me

14 – Andy Stott – We stay together

15 – Kate Bush – 50 words for snow

16 – MX-80 Sound – Out of the tunnel

17 – This Heat – Deceit

18 – Kitchens of Distinction – Love is hell

19 – Beach House – Bloom

20 – Whomadewho – Brighter

21 – Ash Ra Tempel – Inventions for electric guitar

22 – Plastic People of the Universe – Egon Bondy’s happy hearts club banned

23 – Samla Mammas Manna – Maltid

24 – The Work – See

25 – Uz Jsme Doma – Hollywood

26 – Stump – A fierce pancake

27 – Strangelove – Time for the rest of your life

28 – Bridget St. John – Ask me no questions

29 – Bridget St. John – Songs for the gentle man

30 – Cassiber – Beauty and the beast

31 – MCH Band – 1982-1986

32 – Malaria! – Compiled 1981-1984

33 – Julian Cope – World shut your mouth

34 – The Associates – The affectionate punch

35 – The Associates – Fourth drawer down

36 – Au Pairs – Playing with a different sex

37 – The Microphones – The glow Pt. 2

38 – Mount Eerie – Clear moon

39 – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Patio

40 – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Tatay

41 – The Style Council – Café bleu

42 – Tracey Thorn – A distant shore

43 – Dirty Three – Horse stories

44 – Etron Fou Leloublan – Batelages

45 – Bush Tetras – Boom in the night 1980-1983

46 – The XX – Coexist

47 – Animal Collective – Centipede Hz

48 – Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan

49 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature themes

50 – My Bloody Valentine – Eps and rarities

51 – Insides – Clear skin

 

Canciones del 2012

1 – Amy Winehouse – In my bed

2 – Yes – Sweetness

3 – Yes – Roundabout

4 – Fleet Foxes – Lorelai

5 – Bob Welch – Sentimental lady

6 – Beach House – Walk in the park

7 – Wild Beasts – Burning

8 – Til Tuesday – Voices carry

9 – Hall and Oates – Say it isn’t so

10 – Wilco – Impossible Germany

11 – Tantor – Llama siempre

12 – Babasónicos – Barranca abajo

13 – Norah Jones – Happy pills

14 – Metronomy – Trouble

15 – M83 – Reunion

16 – St. Vincent – Surgeon

17 – Real Estate – All the same

18 – Maria Minerva – A little lonely

19 – Kleerup & Robyn – With every heartbeat

20 – Tom Waits – Kiss me

21 – Beach House – Wild

22 – Christina Rosenvinge – Canción del Eco

23 – Sudden Sway – Relationships

24 – Stump – Our fathers

25 – Benjamin Diamond – In your arms (we gonna make it)

26 – A-Ha – Analogue (All I want)

27 – Strawberry Switchblade – Who knows what love is?

28 – Microdisney – Horse overboard

29 – Bis – Everybody thinks that they’re going to get theirs

30 – Bis – Lie detector test

31 – The Delgados – Pull the wires form the wall

32 – The Associates – Tell me easter’s on Friday

33 – The Associates – Message oblique speech

34 – The Au Pairs – Headache (for Michelle)

35 – Jonathan Richman – It’s you

36 – Mount Eerie – Lone bell

37 – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Y Ffordd Oren

38 – Felt – Fortune

39 – Working Week – Venceremos

40 – The Style Council – The whole point of no return

41 – The Style Council – The Paris match

42 – Tracey Thorn – Dreamy

43 – Dusty Springfield – Nothing has been proved

44 – Basia – New day for you

45 – China Crisis – Black man ray

46 – Simple Red – Holding back the years (live)

47 – Be-Bop Deluxe – Jean Cocteau

48 – Asian Dub Foundation – Modern apprentice

49 – Belly – Star

50 – Inner City – Power of passion

51 – Stephen Merritt – One April day

52 – Soft Cell – Torch

53 – Belly – Stay

54 – The Colourfield – Thinking of you

55 – Mimilocos – Entre si

56 – The Lemonheads – It’s a shame about ray

57 – La Sobrecarga – Ansiedad oculta

58 – The Aluminum Group – Mr. Butterfly

59 – A-Ha – Number nine dream

60 – The Bible – Graceland

61 – Anita Ward – Spoiled by your love

62 – Band of Holy Joy – Tactless

63 – Bark Psychosis – Blue

64 – EPMD – Let the funk flow

65 – Ian Pooley – Disco love

66 – J Dilla – Waves

67 – Joanna Newsom – Colleen

68 – M/A/R/R/S – Anitina

69 – Mott the Hoople – All the young dudes

70 – The Cure – To the sky

71 – The Flaming Lips – The assassination of the sun

72 – The Woodentops – Last time

73 – The Undertones – Teenage kicks

74 – Medicine – Aruca

75 – Bows – Blush

76 – Bows – Big wings

77 – DJ Muggs – Rain

78 – Donna Regina – How beautiful

79 – Ministry – Lay lady lay

80 – The Kaleidoscope – Please

81 – The Serpent Power – Open house

82 – The Serpent Power – Flying away

83 – Transglobal Underground – Chariots

84 – Fred Neil – Fare thee well (Fred’s tune)

85 – Slapp Happy – Blue flower

86 – Slapp Happy – A little something

87 – Television – Rhyme

88 – Bush Tetras – You can’t be funky

89 – Destroy All Monsters – Bored

90 – Sonic Youth – Stalker

91 – Tanguito – La princesa dorada

92 – Los Abuelos de la Nada – Diana Divaga

93 – Love and Rockets – It could be sunshine

94 – Love and Rockets – Waiting for the flood

95 – Love and Rockets – Mirror people

96 – Martes Menta – Azul

97 – Henry Mancini – Moon river

98 – Pale Saints – Kinky love

99 – Sergio Pángaro y Baccarat – Lluvia dorada

100 – Soho – Nuthin’ in my mind

101 – Suárez – Guantes de piel

102 – Suárez – Río Paraná

103 – Wild Beasts – Catherine Wheel

104 – Wild Beasts – Thankless thing

105 – Change – The glow of love

106 – Change – Change of heart

107 – Alba Parietti – Only music survives

108 – Adele – Rolling in the deep

109 – Adele – Set fire to the rain

110 – Bobby Womack – Across 110^th Street

111 – Elton John vs. Pnau – Sad

112 – The Style Council – Shout to the top

113 – Robbie Williams – Candy

114 – Spearmint – A trip into space

115 – Teena Marie – Ooh la la la

116 – Nostalgia Guaraní – Bañado Norte

117 – La Juntada – Zamba y acuarela

118 – Raly Barrionuevo – Flor de lino

119 – Badly Drawn Boy – Silent sight

120 – King Biscuit Time – I walk the earth

121 – Ima Robot – Scream

122 – Sissi Hansen – Sexo amor, amor sexo

123 – Spoon – Small stakes

124 – Spain – Every time I try

125 – Stephen Malkmus – Freeze the saints

126 – Stevie Wonder – Lately

127 – Vetiver – On a nerve

128 – The Beta Band – Wonderful

129 – Caribou – She’s the one

130 – Eels – That look you give that guy

131 – Grandaddy – Yeah is what we had

132 – Van Morrison – Someone like you

133 – Bootsy Collins – Munchies for your love

134 – Gotye (feat. Kimbra) – Somebody I used to know

135 – Leonardo Favio – Morir peleando

136 – Paloma San Basilio – Cariño mío

137 – The XX – Reunion

138 – Animal Collective – Father time

139 – Animal Collective – Monkey riches

140 – Dirty Projectors – Just from chevron

141 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Only in my dreams

142 – Twin Shadow – Run my heart

143 – My Bloody Valentine – Sugar