We’ve been making our way through the music you’ve helped power on The Current for the past 20 years by looking back at each year’s Top 89 Countdown, and now we have arrived in 2012. Back then, iPhones still had a headphone jack, Gangnam Style mania had taken over the globe, and you voted on your top songs of the year!

Take a look at the list above and suggest your favorites to help craft a playlist straight out of 2012.

So for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs from The Current’s Top 89 Songs Countdown from 2012 would you like to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs Played

The Lumineers- Ho Hey
Devine Fits- Would That Not Be Nice
Alabama Shakes- Hold On
Frank Ocean- Lost
Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know
Jack White- I'm Shakin'
Lana Del Ray- Blue Jeans