We’ve come to the close of another year, which means it’s time to tally up what people have been reading on Slicing Up Eyeballs over the past 12 months. A lot of posts about Depeche Mode, it turns out. While the band only logs one entry in the Top 10, they’ve got six headlines in the Top 20 — a good year from the boys from Basildon.
As you can see from the full most-viewed list below, the big winner in 2012 was our premiere of some very rare footage of R.E.M. performing a full 40-minute set in at Atlanta’s 688 Club in February 1981. The Top 10 also features multiple entries about The Cure and Dead Can Dance, as well as streams of new music from Kate Bush and Public Image Ltd.
As we approach our fourth anniversary in February, it’s been another fantastic year, with more than 760,000 visitors from 195 different countries — including one apiece from the likes of Somalia, Papua New Guinea, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Timor-Leste — racking up nearly 2.5 million pageviews on the site over the course of 2012.
So thank you all for stopping by Slicing Up Eyeballs in 2012 to read, watch, listen, comment, participate and share — and stay tuned for a great 2013.
Slicing Up Eyeballs’ most-viewed posts of 2012:
1. Premiere: R.E.M. at Atlanta’s 688 Club, 1981 — watch rare 40-minute set (11/30/12)
2. Stream: The Cure’s first American concert — newly discovered tape from 1980 (11/6/12)
3. Stream: Dead Can Dance, ‘Anastasis’ — first new record in 16 years (6/26/12)
4. Video: The Cure debuts guitarist Reeves Gabrels, digs out rarities at Pinkpop (5/26/12)
5. Brendan Perry reveals title of first Dead Can Dance album in 16 years (5/14/12)
6. Depeche Mode debuts new untitled song in Paris with in-studio video (10/23/12)
7. Video: Watch BBC’s ‘Punk Britannia: Part 1, Pre-Punk 1972-1976’ — full episode (6/2/12)
8. Stream: Kate Bush, ‘Running Up That Hill’ (2012 Remix) — from Olympics (8/11/12)
9. Stream: Public Image Ltd., ‘One Drop’ — first new PiL recording in 20 years (2/13/12)
10. Dead Can Dance sets Aug. 9 release date for first new album in 16 years (5/8/12)
11. Vince Clarke rejoins Depeche Mode… for dinner (5/22/12)
12. Depeche Mode: New album cross between ‘Violator,’ ‘Faith and Devotion’ (10/23/12)
13. Video: Paul McCartney, Nirvana members debut new song (12/13/12)
14. Depeche Mode shoots down fake 2013 tour dates (7/19/12)
15. Billy Bragg takes on Morrissey over slam of Olympics’ ‘blustering jingoism’ (8/8/12)
16. My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’ reissue: Are the 2 discs mislabeled? (5/8/12)
17. Stream: Devo, ‘Don’t Roof Rack Me, Bro!’ — song about Mitt Romney’s dog (8/14/12)
18. Depeche Mode tour 2013 : European dates surface (10/22/12)
19. Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan is 50 today — watch 7 full concerts, 1981-2009 (5/9/12)
20. Free Slicing Up Eyeballs stickers (10/14/11)
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- Slicing Up Eyeballs’ most-clicked of 2011: Nirvana, U2, The Smiths, Pixies, The Cure
- Best of 2010: The Cure dominates Slicing Up Eyeballs’ most-viewed posts of the year
- The Cure, Pixies, Morrissey, Depeche Mode top list of most-viewed stories of 2009
- Morrissey, Cure, Depeche Mode, Pixies top first 6 months of Slicing Up Eyeballs
