The year 2012 was a good one for me and the tracks on the playlist this week has music from Canadian Indie albums released in 2012. Music has a way of transporting us to a different time in our memories and these tracks certainly take me there. Six years ago, was the year of Tracks on Tracks and I was happy to be on that train and get to NXNE and the R3 picnic. If you were listening to CBC R3 then, you will recognize many of the songs on the playlist. There are a lot of tracks that might not be as familiar but the artist playing them is because it was from an earlier album before you became aware of them. Or there are some you may have just not have heard from before. So while it is a look back at 2012 there may still be some new to you tracks.
We started with 2006 in March because I was hoping to make this a monthly playlist and there are 12 months in a year and 2006 was 12 years ago. We are on 2012 this month and 2013 next month, etc until we get to the current year and then see how it goes from there. It can be fun to check back and see what music we still love and what music we once loved but have moved on from and to find out what we missed. I made a YouTube playlist that you can find below, with the same songs that are on the Spotify playlist. The bonus of that is many have videos to watch as well and that can be fun to check out too.
2012 brought us great albums from Brasstronaut, Cold Specks, Kathleen Edwards, Patrick Watson, Grimes, Kid Koala, Rah Rah and so many more. Those were the good old days my friends.
Hello
Good morning.
Does anyone know a way to ‘manage’ a Youtube playlist? Meaning that it’s so long, I’ll usually shut dpwn the computer at some point. So, how to get back to tune #46, for instance?
@Benoit, umm, ya go view the playlist, where it numbers out each video, and then click on #46, am I missing something?
Michael, I’ll look. Up to now, I’ve simply been activating playback with a click and, after shutting it down, wondering how to get back.
Michael: o.k., yes, I see, stupidly simple. Thanks.
@benoit if all else fails, Google is your friend. Whenever these kind of conundrums came up, Craig Norris used to famously say: ‘If only there was a way we could search something to find an answer’.
Man I miss that guy.
Sure! I’m also aware of the “one-googles-things-for others-more-than-for-oneself” tendency.
I think the thing is that we still have a reflex to “ask a person” first, and I “was here”. (I’ve often been in your position, and answered another person’s query through a quick DuckDuckGo or something.)
A shorter, funnier form might be: ‘If only there was a way we could google questions’.
Have you ever had the conversation where you walk in with a question and leave with the answer but the other person didn’t say or do anything, just verbalizing the problem helped you solve it
@Garf, that happens all the time! At least for me, and for others.
Garf, yup. What *I* used to do was actually worse, I think. When uncertain about a translation problem, I’d ask a few people, and ALWAYS end up going against the advice of one particular person — just as it happened. The thing is, I didn’t hide it, so it ended up, understandably, bugging this person quite a bit.
In effect, the person’s reasoning for b) always solidified me in my leaning toward a).
And what you’re talking about can probably be done without another person, just by verbalising the question as though there were another person there. (Of course, you have to be honest with yourself.)
The amount of advice our dogs have given me over the years is ridiculous, and they would always look at me like I was an idiot for asking
I opine that rather than thinking you’re an idiot, they’re going: “sausage?” or maybe, “walkies?”
no, they knew better than to expect a walk from me, and they had a different look for sausages (or food in general)
hah. Ciao, off cycling!
Fun conversation this morning. Yes Garf, I do that too and have been a sounding board for others. It works to get those thoughts outside of your head to make things clearer.
This playlist is ridiculously long but I kept finding more. I tend to just leave a tab open and come back to it.
Nice playlist Darbar. Nice to see a little BARK on the list. Hard to believe Kings and Queens is that old. They’ve only done one album since. I guess when they all have their own careers, they only get together so often to make music as a band.
I remember 2012 for the amazing album Beams by Matthew Dear (not Canadian).
Thanks Krib. You would think with 126 on the playlist, that I would have gotten them all but I am sure there are more albums that I missed. We are getting into the years now that feel like they just happened.
There are certainly a lot of tracks I missed out on in 2012. So while looking back I am still discovering new music. I like that.
I just saw some people who were R3 bloggists back in the day. 2012 came up in conversation, as that was the year of the Tracks on Tracks thing which was being fondly remembered. I honestly find it hard to remember everyones bloggist name now but let me try… there was shonica, theradiohead, old abe, n3rb, westcrunch, chrispyprotools … and a couple I simply do not recall the internet name for. I’m surprised I did that well just now.
Well done FT. I saw a pic from that meeting. Hmm Mark went by markgage or something?
yeah maybe it was just his actual name!? Haha, not sure.
I find what happens when I start listening to these playlists that you make Darbar, is that I’ll put it on shuffle, hear a song I really like and then I go off in that direction – finding more songs by that band, and then eventually, coming back to the playlist to do the same thing.
Thanks for making these 🙂
That is part of my goal FT. I want people to use them as launching pads into exploring more of what artists offer. Woot! Thanks for listening. 😀
It is easier to make the YouTube playlists with these flashback ones. They are also harder to manage if I need to rearrange. It’s a pain in the ass trying to sort them so I make the Spotify one first and use that to make the order. This one is alphabetical by artist name. I added some tracks later and they didn’t get sorted in to the YouTube playlist in order. If you are listening by shuffle that doesn’t matter anyways.
I sometimes do shuffle, but if not, I’ll start it then kind of scan through and pick certain ones and skip over others. For example Grimes from the 2012 playlist, I had no interest in her then and still don’t! But I went down a Rah Rah wormhole. I like that band .,.. it’s a shame they seem to not really be a band anymore?
I think Erin moved to BC. Marshall shows up with his Alley Dawgs from time to time. Other members show up with other bands and recordings. Rah Rah isn’t active at this point no.
Up to now, I may like the CATL song the best — 19, Gold Tooth Shine. A gang vocal blues.
That is a good one but Black Mountain before that is a favourite of mine of course.
(I’m liking some songs I never heard in 2012, somehow.)
I found that too. Thanks for listening Benoit. 🙂