Everfree's top 100 of 2012

[Pickslide1992]

Here's the list of the top 100 tracks of 2012. Anyone have any thoughts on these?

Eurobeat Brony – Discord (The Living Tombstone’s Remix)
AcoustiMandoBrony – Loyalty
Bronyfied – Brony Metal Medley
Forest Rain – Join The Herd
Tsyolin Befriends WoodenToaster – WoodenOverture
PonyPhonic – Lullaby for a Princess
Alex S. – Party With Pinkie [VIP]
Archie – Love is in Bloom (Archie Remix)
MandoPony – Picture Perfect Pony
PonyPhonic – The Moon Rises
Woodentoaster & TheLivingTombstone – Love Me Cheerilee
AwkwardMarina – My Little Pony The MUSICAL! Anthropology (Lyra’s Song)
Forest Rain (feat. Decibelle) – Great to be Different
H8_Seed+Glaze – Awoken
WoodenToaster + The Living Tombstone – Lost On The Moon feat. Rina Chan
ShadyVox – Pony Rock Anthem
Friendship is Witchcraft – Gypsy Bard
Brony Artists For Good – The Massive Smile Project
Aviators – One Last Letter
AcoustiMandoBrony – Long Way From Equestria
MandoPony – Sweet Apple Acres
All Levels at Once – Pony Should Pony Pony
Dasha and The Living Tombstone – Good Girl
The Living Tombstone feat. Lauren G. – Magic
The Living Tombstone – Octavia’s Overture
Twitch – Flutterborn
The L-Train – A Symphonic Metal Tribute To My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Assertive Fluttershy – Boooring!
PrinceWhateverer (ft. Liquid Cobalt and ISMBOFepicly) – Between Fairytales and Happy Endings
The Living Tombstone and Bronyfied – Stuck in Time
Aviators – Friendship
Lenich & Kirya – Pinkie’s Brew Russian Gypsy Jazz
Forest Rain – Hay Ms Derpy
All Levels at Once – Changeling
Aviators – The Fear of Flight
Alex S. – Ultimate Sweetie Belle
Acoustimandobrony – Loyalty (Aviators Remix)
MandoPony – Shining Armor
Replacer – Let Your Mane Down
The Living Tombstone – Dubstep Dishwasher
Bronyfied – Flower of the Season (ft. Aviators)
Bronyfied – My Little Metal Medley
Rina-chan – Colgate Brushie Song (Inspector Brush Remix)
superpsyguy – Derpy De Chocobo
Aviators – Never Back Down (Feat. d.notive and Yelling at Cats)
KPat Music – MLP FiM Season 1-2 Medley
Makkon06 – Deae Lunae
SMOR3S – Derpy Style ft. Meredith Sims & NoWacking (SMOR3S REMIX)
Random Encounters – It’s Not Easy Being a Brony [This Day Aria Cover]
MandoPony; Green Day – Student Of Celestia
The Living Tombstone – Smile Song (The Living Tombstone’s Remix)
Jake Lion – Fluttershy Inc
Forest Rain – Raise the Sun
Silva Hound ft. Rina-chan – Hooves Up High
Aviators – Love is in Bloom Remix (Feat. Yelling At Cats and Hmage)
Echelon – Sleep
SimGretina – Twlight Feat. Dusk Shine – Magic
Aviators and Omnipony – Monster
Rainbow Dash Theme (MLP Fighting is Magic) – RainbowCrash88
Stablefree – Discord Jazz Cover (ft. Replacer)
SimGretina – Twilightlicious (SimGretina Remix)
Flaedr – Crystal Fair Remix
Matthew Mosier – My Cadence (Ft. Megaphoric and ismBoF)
Baasik/BlackGryph0n – Paper Sky
SimGretina – Pinkie Pie feat. Bubble Berry – Laughter
Sim Gretina – BBBFF (Sim Gretina Remix)
dBPony (feat. EileMonty) – Miles
Forest Rain – Memory Lane
Super Ponybeat – Diamond Dogs (Euro Dirt Vocal Mix)
Aviators – Melody
StormWolf + WoodenToaster – Fruits Of Her Labour
H8_Seed – Neverending Strife
AcoustiMandoBrony/EileMonty – Nightmare in Everfree
PrinceWhateverer – Taking Flight
Michiri (ReicheruCharin) – Bad Harmony
H8_Seed (ft. Mic The Microphone) – Petrified
Toastwaffle – Sweetie’s Big Race (Toastwaffle’s Remix)
PrinceWhateverer – The Guardians of Equestria
Rina-Chan – Colgate’s Brew
ThatSonofaMitch feat. All Levels At Once – First Night Alone
SimGretina – Crystal Fair Remix
Zabrina – MLP_ FiM Pinkie Pie Smile Song Piano Cover
Alex S. – Trixie The Pony Troll [VIP]
SandJosieph – Daddy Discord [feat. Lanovran & SiminaCindy]
Eurobeat Brony – Luna (Aviators Remix)
AcousticBrony and PrinceWhateverer – Breaking Bonds (Ft. Mando, Lulz, MHM and George)
SimGretina – Princess of the Night (SimGretina Remix)
s2jdfgs – Gotta Make ‘em all Evil
Forest Rain – Luna (Alt Mode)
MandoPony – I Am No Hero (Lunas Theme)
All Levels at Once – Go Take Flight
Poni1Kenobi – The Party Hasnt Ended
Whitetail – MLP Fighting is Magic – Pinkie Pie Theme
FraGmenTd – Balloons in My Basket (Dj Pon-3 Deep Thoughts Remix)
TeiThePony – Twilight’s New Stockings
Aviators – The Real Me
FoozogzPepperBrony – ,~*Smile!*~, (Rmx VIP)
AwkwardMarina – Deejay Just Like Me Vinyl Scratch’s Song
SimGretina – Equestria Girls (P0n-3 Remix)
Twitch vs. Pinkie Pie – Welcome

If you ask me, the list is dominated by the bigger artists, which to me is a double edged sword. These guys are popular for a reason, they have top notch stuff, but being a guy rooting for the underdog, I would appreciate having more lesser knowns in the list. While guys like Mando and Bronyfied have several entries here, people like Silva Hound only have one, and others I'm huge fans of (Claire Anne Carr for instance) have none.

I'm not sure how the list was conceived, but my suggestion would be limit two songs per artist to be on next year's list, that way everyone will be happy: People who are fans of the flagship musicians and people who like seeing smaller artists get their time in the limelight. The brony music scene is much to big to have a bias. This site is a testament to that, as I've heard primo stuff from most people here, but they're constantly overshadowed and snubbed. On a lighter note, I see our own Makkon has a song higher up on the list, so props to you, man.

Anyway, any of you have thoughts on the list?

[Nine Volt]

I can't say I'm surprised at any of these. I fully expected the popular guys to dominate the list, and in a way they deserve it. As Pick said, they're popular for a reason. It's just annoying seeing the same guys everywhere

[itroitnyah]

1) is this in order

2) Did you form this list, or did you get it from a source? If so, could you provide a link to the source?

[Lavender_Harmony]

Read the topic, itroitnyah.

This list is pointless, and pretty rubbish.

[Beetie Swelle]

The source of the list can be found here.

Also, this is taken from the Youtube video:

The Process:
The song places were determined by public voting of tracks they liked on our website over the past 9 months as they played, partially normalized for their exposure time on the station, so older tracks did not have an unfair advantage over newer tracks simply for being available for voting longer.

This was the result of a 'popular vote' of the populace, as such, it directly reflects song popularity.

[colortwelve]

This was the result of a 'popular vote' of the populace, as such, it directly reflects song popularity.

Exactly. Just as we don't consider the Billboard Top 100 to be the best music, but only the catchiest, this is not exactly a measure of musical merit.

Brony pop music is a thing.

[Nine Volt]

This was the result of a 'popular vote' of the populace, as such, it directly reflects song popularity.

Brony pop music is a thing.

And that's terrible.

[Matthew N.]

So mainstream.

[Freewave]

Well the omissions bug me the most. As some people said Cyril the Wolf, Tarby, And The Rainfall, Derpedity, Sub Sound, SGAP (for crissakes), etc didn't make the list which i think is a shame (especially when some people made the list MULTIPLE times). I guess I'd rather see an even bigger list if they have stats for 200 as the 101-200 likely would be as solid quality if not better in places. I was floored to see my remix at #94 as i didn't bother to even look the first time i checked it out. I think artists that put great quality consistantly but don't have certain tracks peak more than others do suffer (sgap).

Guess I'd love to see more lists so if you wanna add your choices please put them in our own mlr personal lists viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6243 If think even a list of 100 tracks like Everfree is gonna miss out on so much quality music from the year. That's why the idea of Sabrespark's Top 25 polling offended me even more.

[Nine Volt]

Tomb made the list 8 times. Glaze made it 5 times. Literally over 1/10 of these two songs were these guys' songs in some respect. At least Glaze's were almost all collabs, but seriously.

And that's terrible.

[Freewave]

Tomb made the list 9 times. Literally almost 1/10 of these songs were Tomb's in some respect.

And that's terrible.

I remember the days when Tomb was just Glaze's little buddy. Then Tombface happened. Now he's THE most popular artist. I guess people (his fans) really like his stuff and just like the idea of putting a name with a face. Guess he had the same success rate in 2011 though too but just continued that streak.

Case in point. All these songs made the 2011 list on Everfree + Celestia Radio's Top Lists.

The Living Tombstone - Sister Hate (ft. Mic The Microphone) (Both)
The Living Tombstone - Party Cannon
The Living Tombstone - Like a Spinning Record
The Living Tombstone - Winter Wrap Up (Tomb’s Remix)
The Living Tombstone - September (ft. Mic The Microphoe and PinkieSkye)
The Living Tombstone, Mic The Microphone, and Jackleapp - Good Ol' Days
DJ Alex S. + The Living Tombstone - Party With Pinkie (The Living Tombstone's Remix)

[Nine Volt]

Tomb made the list 9 times. Literally almost 1/10 of these songs were Tomb's in some respect.

And that's terrible.

I remember the days when Tomb was just Glaze's little buddy. Then Tombface happened. Now he's THE most popular artist. I guess people (his fans) really like his stuff and just like the idea of putting a name with a face. Guess he had the same success rate in 2011 though too but just continued that streak.

I think that if Glaze worked as fast as Tomb he would be just as, if not more popular. In my opinion, Glaze's songs are musically superior than Tomb's. But because Tomb puts out 'pretty good' songs on a fairly regular basis, it made him more popular than Glaze, who puts out 'great' songs on a much slower basis.

Just some food for thought

[Pickslide1992]

I'm shocked that Cyril didn't make it either. He's currently one of my favorites (Helps that he's a great guy to boot), and I figured he'd be a shoe-in. Still it seems like they went ahead and put TLT's entire 2012 discography here.

[MRPPony]

I like some of these songs, but truth be told I was expecting a more diverse list: New/upcoming artists and something that's not +50% EDM (yeah yeah I'm a hypocrite. whatever I enjoy my hiphop/hard rock/metal too) but whatever, I can't necessarily complain much about the list. I didn't even start jumping into this till Sep. this year but either way I'm not all that surprised.

I'll admit I often listen to the same songs over and over rather than take the time to jump on MLR/EQB/YT/ED's MotD and listen/download new music but to constantly listening to it year round? Goes to show you radio and their "Top 100" list is the same regardless where it is. Doesn't matter, so long as everyone's happily enjoying their music.

[BlackElectric]

I'm surprised that Jackle App isn't on that list.

[Pickslide1992]

I'm surprised that Jackle App isn't on that list.

You and me both. His seasons album was pretty good. You'd think one of those tracks would be on the list.

[Rainbowdutch]

There is no way of having a fair top 100. The system is broken and will always be broken. All you can do about it is complain and cause pointless drama, which is exactly what everyone is doing. I just wish they didn't...

[Freewave]

I'm surprised that Jackle App isn't on that list.

You and me both. His seasons album was pretty good. You'd think one of those tracks would be on the list.

Keep in mind that there was only one NEW track on that Seasons ep. 3 of those were from previous Toast Beards in mid 2011 i think. Not sure why Spring was not on their though as that was the 2012 entry....

[ChocolateChicken]

The fact that Rina Chan somehow made it on the top 100 at all, and as an "artist," is just ridiculous.

The whole list is ridiculous.

[Gray Ham]

I want to throw up a little (especially at Tomb's Discord remix, Archie's Love is in Bloom remix, Pony Rock Anthem and The Massive Smile Project being in the top 20).

EDIT: Also, I'm joining the group wondering how SGAP didn't get on. At least Deae Lunae made it.

[Fimbulin]

This list has lots of my favorite songs. idk what all the fuss is about. So Tomb, Sim, and Bronified made it on the Everfree radio and people tuned in! Hooray for them!

p.s. funny how woodentoaster enterprises by Dr.Dissonance isn't on there. Oh wait. It's a radio station and they play what they want and not what I want. *scrunchy face*

Lalala!

[Pickslide1992]

This list has lots of my favorite songs. idk what all the fuss is about. So Tomb, Sim, and Bronified made it on the Everfree radio and people tuned in! Hooray for them!

p.s. funny how woodentoaster enterprises by Dr.Dissonance isn't on there. Oh wait. It's a radio station and they play what they want and not what I want. *scrunchy face*

Lalala!

It's not so much the fact those superstars are on the list (Hell, I'm happy for them, esp. Bronyfied as a personal friend), but it's just that a lot of them have multiple songs. They may as well put every song TLT did in 2012, but from what I've heard either in this thread or when I talked to Bronyfied about this, this wasn't Everfree's personal list, but rather the listeners. Pop radio is pop radio, brony or otherwise. I'm sure if there was a top 250 or so, it'd be a little more varied (I bet even one of my tracks would make it.....Fat chance, I know. ).

So like I said, it's what the listeners want, and they obviously love Mando and TLT and others, while some favorites in the music community (Like Matthew Mosier) got one song or none. As for the Massive Smile Project, I'm glad they made it, since it was a valiant effort, but technically Mando did do the instrumentation, so IDK is this counts as something he did or not.

[Freewave]

The fact that Rina Chan somehow made it on the top 100 at all, and as an "artist," is just ridiculous.

The whole list is ridiculous.

EDIT You are right she's on there 3 times. Sorry for only seeing the Tombstone featured song.

Discarding a whole list that was based on votes and plays though is silly. Are there gaps, massive repetition in artists, and oversights? Absolutely.

[Sonarch]

I think that if Glaze worked as fast as Tomb he would be just as, if not more popular. In my opinion, Glaze's songs are musically superior than Tomb's. But because Tomb puts out 'pretty good' songs on a fairly regular basis, it made him more popular than Glaze, who puts out 'great' songs on a much slower basis.

Just some food for thought

Much slower cause he's lazy.

But yeah, Glaze can make a really catchy, interesting track, but it's been like forever since he had a song come out. I wonder what he's been up to....

[Nine Volt]

I think that if Glaze worked as fast as Tomb he would be just as, if not more popular. In my opinion, Glaze's songs are musically superior than Tomb's. But because Tomb puts out 'pretty good' songs on a fairly regular basis, it made him more popular than Glaze, who puts out 'great' songs on a much slower basis.

Just some food for thought

Much slower cause he's lazy.

But yeah, Glaze can make a really catchy, interesting track, but it's been like forever since he had a song come out. I wonder what he's been up to....

It's only been a month, lol :3
Well, 4 if you mean an original song