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Year-end countdown · 96.5 The Buzz · December 2012

96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012

The year-end countdown (December 2012) from 96.5 The Buzz in Kansas City, MO-KS ranks 96 songs, with “This Head I Hold” by Electric Guest at number one. The list features 75 different artists; Jack White has the most entries with five songs. The page numbers two consecutive entries 48 (Imagine Dragons, Tribes) and skips 49; both are kept at #48 as printed, so #49 is missing. #51's title was cut off on the page ("Danny, Dakota And The..."). Artist names printed surname-first ("WHITE, JACK") are written in normal order.

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# Song ListsBest
1 This Head I Hold Electric Guest 14 #1
2 Love Interruption Jack White 20 #2
3 Simple Song The Shins 37 #3
4 Too Close Alex Clare 23 #3
5 Ho Hey Lumineers 63 #1
6 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons 57 #1
7 Take A Walk Passion Pit 43 #3
8 Some Nights fun. 31 #2
9 Madness Muse 49 #2
10 Mountain Sound Of Monsters And Men 38 #3
11 Let's Go Matt And Kim 13 #11
12 Freedom At 21 Jack White 15 #12
13 Sixteen Saltines Jack White 16 #13
14 45 The Gaslight Anthem 18 #1
15 Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) Silversun Pickups 11 #7
16 Runaways The Killers 19 #5
17 Strange Attractor Animal Kingdom 7 #12
18 We Come Running Youngblood Hawke 15 #18
19 Headlights Morning Parade 11 #17
20 Spread Too Thin Dirty Heads 12 #6
21 Breezeblocks Alt J 37 #2
22 Sleep Alone Two Door Cinema Club 15 #22
23 Fitzpleasure Alt J 12 #18
24 Live To Rise Soundgarden 6 #14
25 Miss Atomic Bomb The Killers 5 #24
26 Domino The Destitute Coheed and Cambria 2 #26
27 Gimme Twice The Royal Concept 3 #27
28 This Ladder Is Ours Joy Formidable 5 #28
29 Breathing Underwater Metric 15 #21
30 Blood For Poppies Garbage 8 #30
31 Youth Without Youth Metric 17 #7
32 Days Go By The Offspring 9 #11
33 Put The Gun Down ZZ Ward 6 #23
34 Go Right Ahead The Hives 6 #22
35 All Of Me Tanlines 4 #34
36 Tightrope Walk the Moon 7 #36
37 Chained The xx 9 #23
38 Times They Are A-Changin' Flogging Molly 3 #38
39 The Pit Silversun Pickups 19 #6
40 The Celestials The Smashing Pumpkins 6 #39
41 The House That Heaven Built Japandroids 15 #4
42 Settle Down No Doubt 4 #42
43 Disparate Youth Santigold 13 #12
44 Oh Love Green Day 15 #8
45 Tempest Deftones 9 #36
46 Dance All Night f/Matisyahu Dirty Heads 1 #46
47 Closer Tegan and Sara 11 #39
48 Radioactive Imagine Dragons 39 #1
48 We Were Children Tribes 1 #48
50 Silenced by the Night Keane 8 #25
51 Danny, Dakota and the Wishing Well A Silent Film 2 #47
52 Been Away Too Long Soundgarden 9 #15
53 Hypocritical Kiss Jack White 2 #43
54 Babel Mumford & Sons 14 #19
55 The Afterlife Bush 2 #55
56 Sunshine Matisyahu 5 #33
57 Carry On fun. 19 #12
58 Warrior Kimbra 3 #7
59 Sweater Weather Neighbourhood 35 #2
60 Here Comes My Man The Gaslight Anthem 2 #60
61 Stubborn Love Lumineers 29 #9
62 Yeah Yeah Willy Moon 1 #62
63 Cold Blood Red Shoes 1 #63
64 I Ain't The Same Alabama Shakes 10 #18
65 Youth Daughter 4 #23
66 Dark Again Gold Fields 1 #66
67 Temporary White Rabbits 1 #67
68 What Makes A Good Man? Heavy 4 #37
69 Another One The Features 4 #29
70 Change Churchill 12 #39
71 Tessellate Alt J 16 #12
72 I'm Shakin' Jack White 15 #7
73 Up All Night Alex Clare 3 #73
74 Inhaler Foals 11 #46
75 Carried Away Passion Pit 10 #14
76 It's Time Imagine Dragons 36 #1
77 Where The Kids Are Blondfire 4 #75
78 We Are What You Say Dead Sara 1 #78
79 San Francisco Mowgli's 14 #4
80 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
81 Forest Whitaker Bad Books 6 #38
82 Where Will We Go IAMDYNAMITE 4 #29
83 Safe and Sound Capital Cities 32 #1
84 Let Yourself Go Green Day 9 #26
85 Fire Escape Civil Twilight 8 #21
86 Everybody Talks Neon Trees 18 #3
87 Somewhere to Hide Shiny Toy Guns 1 #87
88 Harbour Lights A Silent Film 2 #78
89 R U Mine? Arctic Monkeys 29 #1
90 Default Django Django 14 #8
91 Information Retrieved Pinback 1 #91
92 Control Garbage 1 #92
93 Night And Day Hot Chip 2 #47
94 Champion Chevin 1 #94
95 Death to My Hometown Bruce Springsteen 2 #95
96 Blue Jeans Lana Del Rey 6 #48

The page numbers two consecutive entries 48 (Imagine Dragons, Tribes) and skips 49; both are kept at #48 as printed, so #49 is missing. #51's title was cut off on the page ("Danny, Dakota And The..."). Artist names printed surname-first ("WHITE, JACK") are written in normal order.

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About this countdown

96.5 The Buzz Top 96 Songs of 2012 was broadcast by 96.5 The Buzz (Kansas City, MO-KS) in December 2012. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: 965thebuzz.com, "The Top 96 Songs of 2012" (Wayback Machine).

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