Songs I Was Obsessed With In 2012

Another year, another self-serving attempt at music blogging. Since I have little idea of what came out in 2012, here's a list of the songs I was personally obsessed with last year. YouTube links are provided. Happy new year, all!

1. Bernard Cribbins — Right Said Fred
2. Yazoo —Only You
3. The Kinks — Have A Cuppa Tea
4. Kate Bush — Love And Anger
5. Elbow — I've Got Your Number
6. Fleetwoods — Come Softly To Me
7. James — Five-O
8. Air — Seven Stars
9. Ella Fitzgerald — I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
10. Blur — This Is A Low
11. Yazoo — Nobody's Diary
12. Prefab Sprout — The King Of Rock 'N' Roll
13. Duran Duran — Ordinary World
14. Annie Lennox — Why
15. Leonard Cohen — Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
16. Tom Tom Club — Genius Of Love
17. Sade — No Ordinary Love
18. Röyksopp — It's What I Want
19. Neil Young — A Man Needs A Maid
20. Leonard Cohen — So Long, Marianne

Kinda, maybe NSFW?

Another set of mixtape illustrations is up on Ten Paces and Draw, with the theme of Bad Reputation. I signed up for the wonderfully dirty "Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges, and drew something sort of vaguely suggestive in tribute. Innuendo abounds.

The Songs I Was Obsessed With In 2011

I've always wanted to do an end-of-the-year music post. But I'm usually a few (or twenty, or thirty) years behind the curve. So instead of the top songs of 2011, here is a list of the songs that I happened to be obsessed with last year, in some sort of order. Dubious YouTube links provided.

1. The Waterboys—The Whole Of The Moon
2. Sufjan Stevens—I Want To Be Well
3. Cut Copy—Where I'm Going
4. Morrissey—I Am Hated For Loving
5. James—Laid
6. David Bowie—It's No Game
7. Chris Isaak—Wicked Game
8. The Smiths—Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
9. David Bowie—Ashes To Ashes
10. Cut Copy—Need You Now
11. M83—Midnight City
12. Furniture—Brilliant Mind
13. New Order—Elegia
14. David Bowie—Changes
15. The Dream Academy—Life In A Northern Town
16. Roxette—It Must Have Been Love
17. The Psychedelic Furs—Heartbreak Beat
18. Silver Jews—How Can I Love You If You Won't Lie Down
19. The Books Featuring Jose Gonzalez—Cello Song
20. Brian Eno—St. Elmo's Fire
21. Tony Perkins—Rocket To The Moon (Yes, that Anthony Perkins.)
22. Howard Jones—No One Is To Blame
23. Pavement—AT & T
24. Christopher Cross—Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)
25. M83—Claudia Lewis
26. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds—Red Right Hand
27. Geoffrey O'Connor—So Sorry

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.

I'm very excited to reveal the latest project I've been secretly working away on! There's no purpose to this at all other than my own personal enjoyment. I present to you, David Bowie:

(Clicking should give you the full size.) Although I'm sure it's been done before, I really wanted to draw all of Bowie's assorted eras, while listening to his music on loop, of course. And it was a lot of fun doing the research. Here is a helpful guide if you're unfamiliar with any of the Bowies above, going from left to right:

1967: Mod Bowie with the self-titled debut that didn't catch on
1969: Space Oddity psychedelic folk Bowie
1970: Man Who Sold The World Bowie with long golden locks and a dress
1972: Ziggy Stardust
1975: Young Americans soul funk Bowie
1976: The Thin White Duke
1977: Bowie in Berlin recovering from all that cocaine
1980: Clown Bowie from the video Ashes to Ashes
1983: Let's Dance pop success Bowie
1986: Jareth the Goblin King
1990: Bowie in his hard rock band Tin Machine
1995: Super crazy Earthling era Bowie
1999: Chill millennium Bowie
2002: Reality era just about to retire Bowie