Our year end lists are wrapping up at this point, but we wouldn’t be a legitimate music site without a list of the top songs from 2012.  Personally, I feel like this list is a thousand times more difficult to compose than an albums list because we’re dealing with close to 400-500 songs in the running.  It’s been a long process trying to narrow that iTunes playlist down to 100, and I know some incredible tunes from this year are missing, but we hope you enjoy.  Ladies and gentlemen, follow the jump for the ATH version of top 2012 songs.

1. Five Seconds – Twin Shadow
2. To Be Young – Two Wounded Birds
3. Heaven – The Walkmen
4. We Were Children – Tribes
5. 1904 – The Tallest Man On Earth
6. Open Your Heart – The Men
7. I Hope You’ll Feel Alright – Tiger Waves
8. Paradise – Wild Nothing
9. Tumble Down – Terry Malts
10. All of Me – Tanlines
11. Yet Again – Grizzly Bear
12. Run My Heart – Twin Shadow
13. Yes Or No? – The Fresh & Onlys
14. Myth – Beach House
15. Radio – Nude Beach
16. Someone Purer – Mystery Jets
17. Who Knew – You Won’t
18. Bloom – Gypsy & The Cat
19. Winter Ghosts – JBM
20. Plague – Crystal Castles
21. Teenage Rebels – DUDES
22. The Love You Love – The Walkmen
23. Fineshrine – Purity Ring
24. Chasing My Mind – Holograms
25. Henrietta – Yeasayer
26. October – The Helio Sequence
27. Must Land Running – Stepdad
28. The Sun and Moon – Cursive
29. 1997 – Saint Motel
30. Scared but not that Scared – 1, 2, 3
31. Girls – Royal Headache
32. Let Me In – Hunx
33. Time To Run – Lord Huron
34. Finer Points – English Singles
35. Only In My Dreams – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
36. Now I Know It’s You – Strawberry Whiplash
37. Eat Me Alive – Gentleman Jesse
38. Stop Messing Around – Plateaus
39. Lite Me Up – Daughn Gibson
40. Suitcase – Standard Fare
41. All Night Long – The White Wires
42. B$G P$MP$N – Natural Child
43. Dressed For Space – Trust
44. Golden Eyelids – Lost In The Trees
45. Nye Nummer Et – Choir Of Young Believers
46. Cotton Flower – Future Islands
47. Turn It Around – The Men
48. Expire – Screaming Females
49. I Bought My Eyes – Ty Segall Band
50. My Sense of Pride – Cats On Fire
51. Got No Money – Fidlar
52. Lies – Races
53. About To Die – Dirty Projectors
54. Not Talking – A.C. Newman
55. Devil In The Old Folks’ Home – We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves
56. (They Found Me In The Back Of) The Galaxy – The Intelligence
57. Remembrance Of Things To Come – Princeton
58. Too Late – Spiritualized
59. Get Gone – White Arrows
60. The Reflection of You – Bear In Heaven
61. Waste A Lot Of Things – Jaill
62. Asunder – Fang Island
63. I Wait For You – Future Of What
64. Ladybird Love – Holy Esque
65. Gloria – Virals
66. Days – The Bankees
67. You Kill – Eternal Summers
68. A Pattern Recognition – Sea Pinks
69. Confetti – She’s So Rad
70. A Lie – The Eastern Sea
71. Spirits – Still Flyin
72. Freaking Out The Neighborhood – Mac DeMarco
73. Cry for Judas – The Mountain Goats
74. Proceed To Memory – Pinback
75. HEART – Oberhofer
76. Apocalypse Dreams – Tame Impala
77. Fireworks of the Sea – White Arrows
78. You Left Me – Mirror Lady
79. Chinese Braille – Suckers
80. Broken Eyes – Two Gallants
81. Walkin’ Down My Street – Nude Beach
82. Unsurfed Waves – Snowblink
83. Providence – Pujol
84. Waiting In The Wings – Big Wave Riders
85. Nancy from Now On – Father John Misty
86. Who Do You Like? – Joywave
87. Tuck the Darkness In – Bowerbirds
88. Night Is Dark – Grand Resort
89. Lonesome – Dr. Dog
90. Please Don’t Go Away – SAUNA
91. Hey Jaqueline – Papercuts
92. Believe In My Blood – Cold Cave
93. REM – The Pale Corners
94. Ashes – Twin Cabins
95. The Boy From Outer Space – The Hobbes Fanclub
96. Nassau – Grassfight
97. Birds – Poor Moon
98. If I – Machine Birds
99. Cholla – The Joy Formidable
100. A little longer (original master) – Kirby Kaiser

Well that’s it kids.  Let us hear what you think.  We know we’re smarter than you.

Spotify Playlist by request.