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Listen To Game Informer's Favorite Songs Of 2012

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by Matt Bertz on December 21, 2012 at 02:30 PM

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Many of the Game Informer staffers share similar passions to our readers outside of video games – whether that be films, television shows, books, comics, tabletop games, or watching clips of creepy people on YouTube. To round out our end of year coverage we decided it would be nice to share our favorite songs of the year with the community. The playlist has a little of everything – catchy hip-hop, thrashing metal riffs, bubbly electro-pop, somber bearded white guys strumming guitars, and anthemic punk songs. Click the links below to check out the Spotify playlists. We hope you enjoy it!

Game Informer's Favorite Songs of 2012

Note: The web browser playlist shows only 30 songs. To get access to the full list of more than 100 songs, subscribe to the playlist in Spotify.

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Filed under: Feature, game informer, Spotify, 2012 Playlist, No Dan Ryckert Contributions Because He's Stuck In 1978

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by blackjesus23 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 06:09 PM

Who picked Danny Brown and Kendrick Lamar? Solid choices.
by cerpintaxman Friday, December 21, 2012 at 06:29 PM

Grizzly Bear's Yet Again should be on the playlist alongside Sleeping Ute and Sun in Your Eyes.

P.S. Never mind, just saw it.
by Jendon Friday, December 21, 2012 at 06:30 PM

Hey, could you maybe include a playlist here, in just plain text please?

Instead of just on a music service that gives the artist basically nothing ($0.00043 per stream) for their music?
by Slazzlestick Friday, December 21, 2012 at 06:56 PM

Obviously some Pitchfork readers in the house. Love the eclectic list guys.
by babyeater3000 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 07:02 PM

white people
by babyeater3000 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 07:02 PM

white people
by trebulant1 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 07:30 PM

The fact that so many of these songs are already on my list of songs from 2012 ensures that I am going to continue using gameinformer as my chief source of gaming information. Such great taste and class.
by cmaley1 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 07:47 PM

The Gaslight anthem and The Sword!? Solid, solid choices. "Handwritten" was probably my favorite album to come out this year.
by bombstopper Friday, December 21, 2012 at 07:56 PM

This is a cool list. Fun to see the tastes of the office outside of just games and Dan's obsession with wrestling. Also who put Macklemore? Seattle Pride!
by darkflamemaster Friday, December 21, 2012 at 08:11 PM

cool
by el_topo715 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 08:20 PM

Some good ass deep cuts here. Purity Ring+Baroness+Riff Raff? Sehr Gut

Just throw some Liturgy in there and you've almost got my top 50 most played...
by ZERØ Friday, December 21, 2012 at 08:38 PM

Never heard of any of those songs.
by droctogonapus93 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 09:28 PM

The office has some good tastes in music. It was a varied and fun listen. Whoever picked "Sixteen Saltines" knows what's up.
by el_topo715 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 09:58 PM

Some good ass deep cuts here. Purity Ring+Baroness+Riff Raff? Sehr Gut

Just throw some Liturgy in there and you've almost got my top 50 most played...
by Dorby1988 Friday, December 21, 2012 at 10:44 PM

I am into metal myself, I listen to As I Lay Dying, Inflames, Korn, Machine Head, Static-X, Five Finger Death Punch, Hellyeah, 10 Years, and many more.
by Cody R Cantrell Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 12:20 AM

So apparently the people that I trusted so much with gaming new and believed would be so cool listen to mostly complete garbage.
by Breadbitten Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 08:50 AM

And my 'Personal Track/Song of the Year' award goes to...

www.youtube.com/watch
by Nick Mattson Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 12:19 PM

No P.O.S.? Someone isn't supporting his local artists
by a name Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 01:09 PM

My favorite song of 2012 was "Abysm Nucleus" By cytotoxin. actually, anything on radiophobia would qualify.
by Justin13Anderson Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 04:46 PM

Who in the group is at least a Coldplay fan, if not obseesed like i am?