Another year has passed, and with that comes our best attempt to gather our favorite tracks and order them from best to, well, the very best. This collective is about as subjective as it gets — it’s not something that necessarily represents what was popular or what certain sites wrote about. It’s simply the music we loved in 2012.

Without further ado, we present to you our list of the top 100 songs of 2012. While we had a blast putting this together, it didn’t come without an argument or two. What we agreed to below, however, is something we’re truly excited to share with you. These 100 songs are the tracks we turned to hundreds of times throughout the year, songs that we’ll take with us into 2013 and songs that we can listen to ten years from now, remembering the stupid decisions we made when we were young and reckless (relatively reckless at least). Like the artwork for this playlist? That was all the doing of Lydia Conklin.