Happy, merry, my faves of the year: 21 for 12

If today is, indeed, the end of the world, let it not end without noting my favorites of the year. These are all albums unless otherwise noted, and are listed in no particular order.

01. Dr John - Locked Down
02. Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling (film)
03. The Hives - Lex Hives
04. Bill Fay - Life Is People
05. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
06. Lee Fields - Faithful Man
07. Dexys – One Day I’m Going To Soar
08. Swans - The Seer
09. Searching For Sugar Man (film)
10. Beware of Mr. Baker (film)
11. Velvet Underground - The Verve/MGM Albums (boxset)
12. Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Super Deluxe)
13. Best of Punk Magazine (book)
14. Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65
15. The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story (book)
16. Punk: An Aesthetic (book)
17. Sugarman 3 - What the World Needs Now
18. James Chance - Incorrigible!
19. House of Love - House of Love (Deluxe)
20. Mark Stewart - Politics of Envy / Exorcism of Envy
21. Viv Albertine - The Vermillion Border