First things first, let’s name a winner of the “dress your man” giveaway from Road Runner Sports!
Congrats to Cassandra from runfortoday.wordpress.com
She won her husband a set of men’s running gear from Road Runner Sports (jacket, shirt, shorts). See my full review here. He just started running, so this will be a great way to motivate him to join you more often.
Back to the music!
This week’s theme was a great suggestion from Charlotte over at wildthingsrunfree.com — let’s look at the best songs of 2012. For the “something old,” I’m going to name an older song that made a comeback this year. Enjoy!
Something Old: Songs that are at least 5 years old.
Something Current: Songs that have been released within the past year.
Something to Consider: This is the wild card category. Feel free to list any song: old, current, guilty pleasure, underground, whatever.
Something Old
Artist: Muse
Title: Madness
Side Note: This is actually anything but old (released in Oct. 2012). It gets placed here because it has been 3 years since their last album and 6 years since their more “mainstream popular” album Black Holes and Revelations that “officialy” put them on the scene. I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG right now. Shout out to my girl — told you I got you! The title kind of fits what most people think about my decision to run FAR. :)
Quotable: “I can’t get these memories out of my mind, And some kind of madness has started to evolve.”
Something Current
Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen
Title: Call Me Maybe
Side Note: Hate it or love it, this song was everywhere this year. I love running to pop songs and it completely gets my legs moving. Because we are friends, I’m NOT going to include the music video. Instead I’ll give you what started one of the top meme’s of the year (16 million+ views). Ladies and gentlemen, Harvard Baseball!
Quotable: “You took your time with the call, I took no time with the fall. You gave me nothing at all, But still, you’re in my way.”
Something to Consider
Artist: Skirllex feat. Sirah
Title: Bangarang
Side Note: Funny that this band was introduced to me by Charlotte of WILD THINGS RUN FREE — I guess it comes full circle that it makes my list of the best songs for 2012. (It was released around the end of December 2011, basically 2012, right? My blog, my rules. Ha!)
Quotable: “Shout to all my lost boys. Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shout to all my lost boys. We rowdy”
There they are. A list of MY favorite songs that I added to my playlist this year. Next week I’ll be nominating YOUR picks from previous Playlist Thursday posts. Be sure to stay tuned to see if your post got nominated.
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What was your favorite song of 2012?
What was your least favorite song of 2012?
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I may or may not have begged people to not listen call me maybe as their fav song of 2012 on my post… Bahahaha. Wooooops ;)
Listen… List.. Same thing. Clearly my mind is still on music
Where the eff was I this year. I never heard Skirllex feat. Sirah. Love the beat and can see how this can get the adrenalin going. Call Me Maybe…yup I second your choice.
LOVE LOVE LOVE that Call Me Maybe is on this list!! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! (Yes, I’m a 12 year old at heart haha)
Love this list!
I’m still stick on Bruno Mars…and even though it’s played out, the Party Rock Anthem is pretty dope still..or was that 2011…aw crap
I have to admit, Call me maybe is on my list as is (turns and hides head in shame) Philip Philips’ Home. So many great songs this year!
Even though it was totally overdone, I do like Call Me Maybe! My favorites from this year: If Only by Dave Matthews and Something to Believe in by Citizen Cope (I love everything they do)
Great list! I SO want to run with you someday… jamming to the same tunes! :) That would be fun.
I think my favorite song for 2012 is (don’t judge) probably Call Me Maybe… just a fun little tune ;)
I LOOOOOOOOVE that new Muse song. It’s flipping AWESOME!!! I’m not a huge fan of pop music but I definitely get the appeal of Call Me Maybe. It’s sooo catchy you can’t help but move to it.
Call Me Maybe is totally overplayed but I still get a little pep in my step when it pops up on my Pandora station on the treadmill!
I love the new Muse album (I still listen to Time is Running Out relatively often)!
My favorite song of 2012 would have to be Walk the Moon – Anna Sun (which was technically released in summer 2011, but I didn’t find it until summer 2012 so it counts)! I also want to add the entire Wrecking Ball album to my favorite from 2012 list! I <3 Bruce.
I’ll have to check those out. I agree, the muse album (although different from their others) is a great one.
UGHHHHHH\
I just lost an hour of my life watching Carly Rae Jepson parody videos.
FML
But agreed- definitely the best pop song of the year.
hahaha… sorry about that. Some of them are pretty darn funny.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I am so thrilled to have won and can’t wait to see my hubby in the awesome gear. He’ll definitely look like a runner now ;
I really do like “Call Me Maybe”…as much as I tried not to like it, I eventually got hooked! It’s so catchy!
I may or may not have the last THREE Muse albums in my car’s cd changer and rearranged my upcoming race schedule to go to their concert here in Tampa! :)
Ok, that totally makes us besties. I have all three on my phone and love to just hit shuffle and let it do it’s thing.
I heard they are AMAZING live.
Ahh Muse, I really hope they are getting back on track now. Black Holes was the last album that I enjoyed. They need to get back to the genius of Origin of Symmetry, Showbiz and Absolution.
Your second choice was pretty much my most hated song of the year, so I’m just going to ignore that one ;) I love the final choice though!