Exclusive Early Look At Pitchfork’s Best of 2012 List

Every year, the tastemakers at the popular music website, Pitchfork, grace the Internet with their much-anticipated Top 50 Albums Of The Year list. This year, we were lucky enough to get an exclusive early look at their list for 2012:
- “A Very Kreayshawn Christmas”
- SIRI responding to existential questions
- NYC Police Scanner - August 21, 2012, 10:53 p.m. - 11:48 p.m.
- Neil Young’s autobiography’s book proposal
- “Animal Collective Reads The New Yorker in Pig Latin” (Remixed by Steve Aoki)
- M.I.A.’s DVD commentary of The Wire, season 2
- The creaking pipes in a Pitchfork writer’s studio apartment
- “Forrest Gump: Original Movie Soundtrack” reissue
- A five-year-old’s school play about the four food groups
- Joy Division - ironic shirt (Japanese import)
- Phil Collins’ remastered colonoscopy results
- Dudes Who “Went to School” At Rhode Island School of Design - Laughing Blowfish 7”
- Cat Power - “Farts on a Piano”
- Lou Reed & Limp Bizkit - “Hip Hop Banana”
- Crazy guy with a spoon - complete discography
- R. Kelly - “Goodnight Moon” (audiobook)
- Diplo’s “Selected Voicemails” (Asian Chicks Edition)
- A hammer
- “Hip Hop for White People: Volume 3”
- Busker on the Nassau Ave G stop (Queens Plaza bound side)
- Photoshopped nudes of Lana Del Ray
- Half a cigarette found on the floor of LCD Soundsystem’s last show
- A metal album
- Lena Dunham’s cupcake farts
- “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 2: Official Movie Soundtrack”
- An 8” x 10” photo of Jeff Magnum
- Beck ordering pizza through the Bane voice changer app
- The Bruno Mars episode of SNL
- Valencia (Instagram filter)
- DJ Hurricane Sandy - Remix
- Stephen Malkmus’ laundry bill
- “The History of Netflix” (VHS)
- Skrillex’s fax transmissions album
- Bruce Springsteen - “A Concert to Benefit White People” Live DVD
- Wes Anderson messing around with a thumb piano at Pier 1
- The Occupy Wall Street Drum Circle Band
- Big Boi - grocery list
- Pitchfork’s Various Nautical-Themed Artists Playlist featuring Best Coast, Beach House, Wavves, Frank Ocean
- The scene in “Blue Valentine” where Ryan Gosling plays a ukelele
- Grizzly Bear
- A grizzly bear
- Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein making shadowpuppets that look like Sonic Youth for 30 minutes
- Pitchfork.com - “Best of 2009” list
- The Weeknd, MGMT, Dntel - “Vwls Are Cmplt Bllsht”
- Bone Iver - Bon Iver’s “Blood Bank EP” as reinterpreted by canines
- Pitchfork.com - “Best of 2017” list
- PJ Harvey - sex tape
- M83 - Like, the album with all the lasers on it and stuff and it sounds like an album full of laser music, that one.
- One Direction - “Take Me Home” (cassette)
Honorable mentions:
- Boat shoes
- “How To Listen To (And Review Positively!) Black Metal: A Beginner’s Guide” (audiobook)
- “Mom-bahton Massive: Moombahton Lullabies for Infants”