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Top 60 Albums of 2012.
« on: January 14, 2013, 07:51:20 PM »
The only list that matters!

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LPs:

1.   A Giant Dog - Fight (Tic Tac Totally)
2.   Big Dipper - Crashes On The Platinum Planet (Almost Ready)
3.   Bison B.C.Lovelessness (Metal Blade)
4.   Bob Mould Silver Age (Merge)
5.   Cat PowerSun (Matador)
6.   Christian MistressPossession (Relapse)
7.   Corin Tucker BandKill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars)
8.   Corrosion of ConformityCorrosion of Conformity (Candlelight)
9.   Criminal CodeCold Thought (Inimical Records)
10.   Dan DeaconAmerica (Domino)
11.   Death Grips The Money Store (Epic)
12.   Deftones - Koi No Yokan (Reprise)
13.   Dinosaur Jr.Bet the Sky (Jagjaguwar)
14.   Dokken - Breaking the Chains (Elektra)*
15.   EYE - Center of the Sun (Kemado)
16.   Frankie Rose Interstellar (Slumberland)
17.   Grass WidowInternal Logic (HLR)
18.   Grimes - Visions (4AD)
19.   Guided By VoicesThe Bears For Lunch (GBV, Inc.)
20.   Jack White - Blunderbuss (Third Man/XL Recordings/Columbia)
21.   Karl Hendricks Trio - The Adult Section (Comedy Minus One)
22.   Ke$ha Warrior (RCA)
23.   La SeraSees The Light (Hardly Art)
24.   Lana Del RayBorn To Die (Interscope/Polydor/Stranger)
25.   LiteratureArab Spring (Square of Opposition)
26.   Major StarsDecibels of Gratitude (Important Records)
27.   Mares of ThraceThe Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon)
28.   Mind Spiders - Meltdown (Dirtnap)
29.   Mount CarmelReal Women (Siltbreeze)
30.   Nu SensaeSundowning (Suicide Squeeze)
31.   OFF!OFF! (Vice)
32.   OverkillThe Electric Age (Nuclear Blast)
33.   PallbearerSorrow and Extinction (Profound Lore)
34.   Patterson Hood Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO)
35.   PinbackInformation Retrieved (Temporary Residence)
36.   Prong Carved In Stone (Steamhammer/SPV)
37.   Radar Eyes - Radar Eyes (HoZac)
38.   Rebecca Gates & the Consortium - Float (12XU)
39.   Redd KrossResearching The Blues (Merge)
40.   River City Tanlines - Coast to Coast (Big Legal Mess)
41.   Royal Thunder CVI (Relapse)
42.   RushClockwork Angels (Roadrunner)
43.   Satan's WrathGalloping Blasphemy (Metal Blade)
44.   Spider BagsShake My Head (Odessa)
45.   TestamentDark Roots of the Earth (Nuclear Blast)
46.   The FrogsCount Yer Blessingsz/Squirrel Bunny Jupiter Deluxe (Self-released) [RIP, D. Flemion]
47.   The Golden BoysDirty Fingernails (12XU)
48.   The Mountain Goats Transcendental Youth (Merge)
49.   The Young Dub Egg (Matador)
50.   Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II (In the Red)
51.   TorcheHarmonicraft (Volcom)
52.   Ty SegallTwins (Drag City)
53.   Ty Segall BandSlaughterhouse (In the Red)
54.   TyvekOn Triple Beams (In the Red)
55.   Unnatural HelpersLand Grab (Hardly Art)
56.   Unsane – Wreck (Alternative Tentacles)
57.   Van HalenA Different Kind of Truth (Interscope)
58.   White Lungsorry (Deranged)
59.   Witch MountainCauldron of the Wild (Profound Lore)
60.   ZZ Top - La Futura (American Recordings/Universal Republic)

*This album was released in 1983.  Since it's not a proper 2012 release, it can be replaced by Screaming Females - Ugly (Don Giovanni).

EPs:

1.   Chaos ChaosS (Kickstarted)
2.   Corrison of Conformity - Megalodon (Scion/AV Presents)
3.   DownDown IV, Part 1 – The Purple EP (Down Records)
4.   Dum Dum Girls – End of Daze (Sub Pop)
5.   PottymouthSun Damage (Puzzle Pieces/Feeble Minds/Ride The Snake)
6.   The Resonars Long Long Thoughts (Trouble in Mind)
7.   Times New Viking Over & Over (Siltbreeze)
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Re: Top 60 Albums of 2012.
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2013, 04:21:14 PM »
Thank you, sir. Now I can ignore other year-end lists with confidence.

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Re: Top 60 Albums of 2012.
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2013, 11:36:08 AM »
I've heard exactly two of the aforementioned albums.

Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.
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Re: Top 60 Albums of 2012.
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2013, 12:02:13 PM »
I've heard exactly two of the aforementioned albums.

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