Playlist Recommendations – September-December 2012

So one of the things I’m learning about my Playlist Recommendations series is that it’s a lot easier to actually create the playlists themselves than to write them up!  Despite several months of neglecting the posts here on the site, I have not given up on our monthly playlists.  Below you will find links to each of the last 4 months of Spotify playlists:

• September 2012
• October 2012
• November 2012
• December 2012

Additionally, the complete collection of playlist recommendations from 2012 is now available.  Below you will find the suggested tracks from September-December (which have all been included in one post in the interest of efficiency).  Hope you enjoy!

Indie/Alternative

• Sleep Alone – Bat for Lashes
• Love Run Dry – Owl Eyes
• What a Day – Josephine
• Cruisin’ FDR – Oberhofer
• Ruin – Cat Power
• Jesse James – Freedom Fry
• Lightning Bolt– Pet Lions
• She Makes Her Own Clothes – Split Seconds
• Human Elevator – The Cast of Cheers
• I Already Forgot Everything You Said – The Dig
• Eyes Be Closed – Washed Out
• Shut Me Out – Wolf & Cub
• One Day Like This – Elbow
• West Coast – Coconut Records
• Jungles – Stepdad
• Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap
• Greatest Hits – Mystery Jets
• Hold On, Hold On – Neko Case
• St. Croix – Family of the Year
• Bobby Brown – The Soft Pack
• Double Vision – Tops
• Battles – Hudson Taylor
• Catch My Disease – Ben Lee
• So Calm – Cave Painting
• Sun – Two Door Cinema Club
• Blue Ice – Shout Out Louds
• The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
• Gold – Wake Owl
• Bricks and Mortar – My Radio
• The John Wayne – Little Green Cars
• Hurricane – NEEDTOBREATHE
• Pioneers – The Lighthouse and The Whaler
• Mirror Maru – Cashmere Cat
• Always Wanting More – Jay Reatard
• Furr – Blitzen Trapper

Hip-hop/Rap

• My Crew – Vybz Kartel
• Sod in the Seed – Why?
• Lights Down – Statik Selektah & Termanology
• Without You – Frank Ocean
• Go For It – Freddie Gibbs ft. Young Jeezy
• Heart Skips a Beat – Olly Murs ft. Chiddy Bang
• D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) – Jay-Z
• Hurt Me Tomorrow – K’NAAN
• We Are – Hollywood Undead
• Finally Moving – Pretty Lights
• Fighting Trousers – Professor Elemental
• The OtherSide – The Roots, Bilal Oliver, Greg Porn
• That’s My Bitch – Jay-Z, Kanye West
• Dark Fantasy – Kanye West
• Two Steps from Disaster – E-Dubble

R&B

• Welcome Home – Elle Varner
  
• Next to Me – Emeli Sande
• Alibi – Dessa

Rock

• Handwritten – Gaslight Anthem
• The Descent – Bob Mould
• Friday I’m in Love – The Cure
• Moving On Up – Primal Scream, DKT-MC5
• Help is On the Way – Rise Against
• Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
• Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park
• Kill Your Heroes – AWOLNATION
• Somewhere in Neverland – All Time Low
• Short Change Hero – The Heavy
• Stand Up – All That Remains
• Never Have I Ever – Farewell Fighter
• Kids of the Black Hole – Adolescents
• Dirty Dishes – Mark Mallman
• Parting in the Porch – Crowns
• She Swears Like a Sailor – Crowns
• Madeline – Tickle Me Pink
• Purple – Pop Evil
• Didn’t Wanna Come Back Home – Fighting with Wire
• Feud – Band of Horses
• Sex – The 1975
• I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked – Ida Maria
• Thrash Unreal – Against Me
• Man in the Hall – State Radio

Classic

• You Make My Dreams – Hall & Oates
• Hit or Miss – Odetta
• Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
• Blame it On the Rain – Milli Vanilli
• Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong – Spin Doctors

Chill Rock

• Live and Die – The Avett Brothers
• Gone in the Morning – Newton Faulkner
• Sound of Sunshine – Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Penitentiary – Houndmouth
• High and Low – Forest Sub
• OK, It’s Alright with Me – Eric Hutchinson
• Sixteen Miles – Post Oak Savannah
  
• The Stable Song – Gregory Alan Isakov
• Lovers’ Eyes – Mumford & Sons
• Because I Know That I Can – Andy Burrows
• Stubborn Love – The Lumineers
• North Side Gal – J.D. McPherson
• Music – The Beautiful Girls
• Scar That Never Heals – Jeremy Fisher
• Let Me Be – Xavier Rudd
• If Ever I Stray – Frank Turner
• The Kill – Ben Rector
• Lost in My Mind – The Head and The Heart
• Here We Go – Dispatch
• Rock & Roll – Eric Hutchinson

Folk Rock

• All My Days – Alexi Murdoch
• Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby – Emmylou Harris, Alison Kraus, Gillian Welch
• Long Time Gone – Darrell Scott, Tim O’Brien
• The Chariot – William Elliott Whitmore
• I Ride On – The J Band
• Harlem River Blues – Justin Townes Earl

Pop

• Live High – Jason Mraz
• Tightrope – Janelle Monae ft. Big Boi
• On Top of the World – Imagine Dragons
• We Come Running – Youngblood Hawke
• Memories – Sambassadeur
• Hands are Clever – Alex Clare
• Whispering – Alex Clare

Calm

• Rosebush Inside (Morees Bickham) – Sean Hayes
• Nakamarra – Hiatus Kaiyote
• Beggar in the Morning – The Barr Brothers
• Disneyland – Five for Fighting
• The A Team – Ed Sheeran
• I Can’t Make You Love Me/Nick of Time – Bon Iver
• Superman – Lazlo Bane
• Stars – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
• Oats in the Water – Ben Howard
• Becomes the Color – Emily Wells

Sultry

• Maybe – Ingrid Michaelson
• One Sweet Love – Sara Bareilles
• That Wasn’t Me – Brandi Carlile
• Been Better – Kyla La Grange

Contemporary

• Ray of Love – Tune in Tokyo, P. Brandoli, N.Cowan
• Ghosts – The Presets
• The Keepers – Santigold
• Paris – Friendly Fires
• Follow – Crystal Fighters
• Finale – Madeon
• Speed the Collapse – Metric
• Raw Sugar – Metric
• Closer – Tegan and Sara
• I Feel Better – Gotye
• Hold On When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It – Stars
• Small Hours – Marbert Rocel
• 48 Roses – Mariachi El Bronx
• I’m Just Me – Diamond Rings
• The Suburbs – Mr Little Jeans
• Toucan Surf – JAWs
• Don’t Fuck with my Money – Penguin Prison
• Dance All Night – Free Energy
• Come & Get It – Krewella
• Rollerblades – Kwes
• Don’t Give Up – Noisettes