Before I get into my 2012 Favorites List for real, there are some preliminaries I need to deal with.

First, I want to give a shout-out to a few of the records that I had hoped would make the top 100, but which to my surprise just didn't make the cut.

In no order:

• Replacements - Let It be
• Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
• Alison Krauss & Union Station - Every Time You Say Goodbye
• Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
• Digable Planets - Reachin
• The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
• David Bowie - Hunky Dory
• Sam Prekop - Who's Your New Professor
• Rogue Wave - Out Of The Shadow
• Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

All fine records. Definitely in my Favorites list. But the Top 100 was just out of reach for them, this time around.

And now the boring technical stuff...
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The final comparison for my 2012 Favorite Records list is in front of me: The Cure's "Seventeen Seconds" vs Yo La Tengo's "Electr-O-Pura". Hmmmm.... The Cure wins this one.

And that's the 4,000^th vote, and that's enough for me! Seven weeks. Blech.

So, I'll be starting the results soon.

Very exciting!