Playlist for December 2012

 This is the list of all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in their entirety during the month of December 2012. At the end are my notes and a list of all the live performances I saw before the year ended.

12/1/12
Circle Jerks - “IV”
Crisis Arm - “Junk Drawer” EP

12/3/12
JFA - “Blatant Localism” EP
JFA - “Valley of the Yakes”
The Whyioughtas/Nothing Substantial - “So What?” split
Fissure - S/T EP
Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Greatest Hits”

12/4/12
MGMT - “Climbing to New Lows”
Tension - Demo 2011
Tension/xMayonnaiseTheBastardx - split
Aggro - “Jozercore”
The New Varsity - 4-song demo
Kid At Heart - 4-song demo

12/5/12
Government Issue - “Complete History Volume One”
Code Orange Kids - “Cycles” EP
Blink 182 - “Take Off Your Pants and Jacket”
The Gravitys - “Bring You Down”

12/6/12
Why We Fight HC - Summer 2012 demo
Disapproval - “EMYA” promo tape
Disapproval - 2011 demo
Government Issue - “Complete History Volume Two”

12/7/12
New Brigade - 2011 demo

12/8/12
D.O.A. - “13 Flavors of Doom”
D.O.A. - “Festival of Atheists”
Souvenirs - “Tired of Defending You” EP
Angry Samoans - “Inside My Brain”

12/9/12
7 Seconds - “Scream Real Loud”
Fear - “More Beer”
Social Distortion - “Mommy’s Little Monster”
EA80 - “Der Mord Fallt Aus” EP
AFI - “Sing the Sorrow”
Logan Greene Electric - S/T EP

12/10/12
Sleepwalkers - “Bury My Bones” EP
Rookie Town - “On Fallen Logs (I.D.P.)” EP
Wild Pack Of Canaries - “MMR Singles Series 1.3”
Gaza - “No Absolutes in Human Suffering”

12/11/12
New Found Glory - S/T
Bad Religion - “Stranger Than Fiction”
New Found Glory - “From the Screen to Your Stereo” EP

12/12/12
Bad Religion - “The Process of Belief”
Bad Religion - “The New America”
Void - “Condensed Flesh” EP
V/A - “Don’t Miss These Bands at Warped Tour 04” promo CD
Minor Threat - “First Demo Tape” EP

12/13/12
Articles Of Faith - “Core” compilation CD
Autococcoon - “Ponies Float”

12/17/12
51D - S/T tape
Whirr - “Part Time Punks session”

12/18/12
Whirr - “Distressor”
The Funky Jah Punkys - “Live at the Roundhouse”

12/19/12
The Meatmen - “Stud Powercock: Touch N Go Years 1981-1984”
Headwind - “Fall Back” EP
Plagues - “I: Age of Viral Origin”
Dr. Know - “The Best Of”

12/21/12
V/A - “Give’em All The Boot Vol.3” Hellcat Records sampler CD
Stresscase - “Cut Me Off” EP
Descendents - “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”
Meat Puppets - “In a Car” EP
Urban Waste - S/T EP
The Effigies - “Remains Nonviewable”
Dillinger Four - “Versus God”

12/22/12
Apathean - “Aggregation” EP

12/24/12
The Mau-Maus - “Punk Singles Collection”
Billy Corgan - “TheFutureEmbrace”
Social Unrest - “Rat in a Maze” EP
The Exploited - “Punk’s Not Dead”
Verbal Abuse - “Just an American Band”
Cat Stevens - “Catch Bull At Four”
Notorious B.I.G. vs Dr. Dre - “Notorious 2001”
The Vindictives - “The Many Moods of the Vindictives”
The Distillers - “Coral Fang”

12/25/12
Funeral Oration - S/T
Nothing From Something - 5-song demo
Sick Of It All - “Call to Arms”
Elton John - “#1s”
Cannibal Corpse - “Vile”
Agonstic Front - “Something’s Gotta Give”
All Charges Dropped - “Dirt Girl” EP
Dead Soldiers - S/T
Kaaos - “Valtio Tuhoaa Ei Rakenna” EP
Tegan & Sara - “So Jealous”
The Chosen Few - “Do The Manic”
NOFX - “45 or 46 Songs That Weren’t Good Enough To Go On Our Other Records”
Everclear - “Sparkle and Fade”
30 Seconds To Mars - “A Beautiful Lie”
The Game - “L.A.X.”

12/26/12
E-Sod & Potlogic present “Last Words Of the Dying” mixtape
Raphael Saadiq - “Stone Rollin’”
Karp - S/T

12/27/12
You, Me, and Us - “Paperweights” EP
Rigor Mortis - S/T
Suicidal Tendencies - “Free Your Mind and Save My Mind”

12/28/12
Religious Girls - “Midnight Realms” EP
Religious Girls - “Open Your Heart to Fantasy” EP
The Shins - “Wincing the Night Away”

12/29/12
The Gravitys - “Bring You Down”

NOTES:
- The new Crisis Arm EP is awesome
- I forgot how badass Government Issue was
- That was legitimately the first time I had heard “Sing The Sorrow” and goddamn “Girl’s Not Grey” has been stuck in my head ever since...I see why it was a hit
- Also stuck in my head since the 9th: Logan Greene Electric...ironically the line thats in there on repeat is “You get get that guy off your mind; he’s wasting all your energy, wasting all your time” LOL
- “No Absolutes in Human Suffering” is definitely amongst the top 5 hardcore albums of 2012
- “The New America” is without a doubt the worst Bad Religion album
- I hadn’t heard the “Condensed Flesh” EP in like 8 years but that shit still rips so goddamn hard, I’m gonna go ahead and say it’s better than the split with The Faith
- The Funky Jah Punkys sound exactly like the name implies
- Dr. Know and Dillinger Four still just kick so much ass, I can’t believe I went so long without their stuff in my collection
- “TheFutureEmbrace” isn’t GREAT by any standards but I’d say it is somewhat unfairly maligned
- I have been trying to find that Vindictives CD for fucking YEARS, thanks to Mark Leisenring for letting me borrow his beloved CD case this month
- That NOFX CD really is as pointless as the name implies
- I don’t care what you think, I love Everclear
- It was about as difficult to find the tracklist for that E-Sod/Potlogic mixtape as any old school hardcore rarity I’ve ever looked up
- R.I.P. Mike Scaccia

I also saw Crisis Arm (twice),The Coltranes, Stresscase, Full Of Hell, Code Orange Kids, Gaza, Why We Fight HC, Reflect (first show!), Souvenirs, Silver Snakes, Limerent Dance Machine (twice), Aaron Tanner (puppet show), The Gift Machine, Autococoon, Beanvian Stalks Guava, north Americans, Kids., and You, Me and Us perform live.