Country TwitterFAIL: December '12

Top Songs of 2012 - (Very!) Honorable Mentions

These are the songs released in 2012 that fell outside my top 10, but I felt were worthy of mention... 

not only mention, but excited proclamation actually. 2012 was a banner year for music - 

mostly outside of the mainstream, though there were some true mainstream gems. 

Here are FTM's honorable mentions for top songs of 2012, in no particular order.

Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round (Mainstream Country Song of the Year)

Fistful of Beard - White Bluff

Dwight Yoakam - It's Never Alright

The Departed - Prayer for the Lonely

Shooter Jennings - The Long Road Ahead

The Pollies - Ashes of Burned Out Stars

Horsehead - God Damned the Rain to Fall

Brent Cobb - Diggin' Holes

Ronnie Fauss - This Year

Corb Lund - One Left in the Chamber

Uncle Lucius - Pocket Full of Misery

Kendrick Lamar - B*tch, Don't Kill My Vibe

Ryan Bingham - Western Shore

Kathleen Edwards - A Soft Place to Land

fun. - Some Nights

Zac Brown Band - The Wind

Bonnie Raitt - You Can't Fail Me Now

Alabama Shakes - Heartbreaker

Gretchen Peters - The Matador

ZZ Top - I Gotsta Get Paid

EL-P - The Full Retard

Darrell Scott - Dance in the Darkness
Alan Jackson - So You Don't Have to Love Me Anymore

The Deadfields - Carolina Backroads

Kellie Pickler - Long As I Never See You Again

Smashing Pumpkins - Pinwheels

Blackberry Smoke - Crimson Moon

Lucero - Like Lightning

Marty Stuart - Sundown in Nashville

Kasey Anderson and the Honkies - Some Depression

Roger Creager - Bad Friend to a Good Man

Soundgarden - Blood on the Valley Floor

Josh Abbott Band - Flatland Farmer

Bruce Springsteen - Land of Hope and Dreams

Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built

Old Crow Medicine Show - Ain't It Enough

Lindi Ortega - Use Me

Frank Ocean - Thinkin' About You

Gary Clark Jr. - You Saved Me

Taylor Swift "I Knew You Were Trouble" eCard

Because I'm too lazy and holiday-hungover to come up with my own ideas at the moment, here's a companion eCard to Trigger's new video review of T-Swift's new song... all credit goes to him for the idea.

Condescending Wonka Weighs in on Your Christmas Present

Have a Good One!

Merry Christmas (or have a good Tuesday)!

We'll see you back here Wednesday... probably.