Confession: Aside from NPR and sports talk shows, I don’t listen to the radio much anymore.

So it was no surprise when I heard this morning — on NPR, of course — the picks for best songs of 2012 I didn’t know 90 percent of them. (Here’s the entire list, in alphabetical order.)

I mean, who’s Ana Tijoux, the Egyptian Project, and Kelan Philip Cohran and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble?

All three made the list — and with names I actually do recognize like Usher, Andre 3000 and — get this! — Sinead O’Connor. Nice to see she’s still rocking the charts!

But the one song that I hadtohadtohadto agree on one song on the list: fun.’s “We Are Young.”

Here’s the video

Here’s how NPR described the song: “The most shout-along-able hit single of 2012 is more than what it seems on the surface. It’s the chronicle of a bar brawl; it’s the midnight plea of an unreliable narrator; it’s the Glee generation’s slide into maturity; it’s an emo barn-burner that tells the ugly truth about male vulnerability for once. If you didn’t notice all that, who cares? You still got to sing your guts out.

Yeah, that.

NPR’s Ann Powers had her own take on the best songs of 2012, gleaned from the pop charts. (Here’s her list.)

It’s full of the usual suspects — and songs I know! — like “Somebody That I Used To Know,” “Call Me Maybe” and, her pick, “What Makes You Beautiful” by the English-Irish boy band sensation One Direction.

Here’s the video

Got any to add to this list?