Your top albums of 2012

[Bloodshot Scott]

Well, just like that, another year has passed. It's getting insane now how fast they are going now that I hit 30. So what were your favorite/top albums of 2012? Since I really don't buy and/or even listen to the tripe that comes out today save for a small handful, I will only pick a top 4:

1. Alchemist - Russian Roulette (Alc is just so viscious here with this)
2. Dr. John Locked Down
3. Lil Wyte - Christmas Album
4. Nas - Life is Good

RS as usual has their heads up their asses looking for all the money the A&Rs have been sending them to review their shit. But admitedly there are a few in there I've been meaning to check out (er, download) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/50-best-albums-of-2012-20121205

 

[squallumz]

been listing to a lot of the still album by nine inch nails, but that was recorded in 2002. i dont think i heard anything produced in '12 except maybe i bet on sky by dinosaur jr. it was ok.

 

[lurkingdirk]

1. Bon Iver: Bon Iver.
2. Maps & Atlases: Beware and Be Grateful.

Those are my favourites of the last year. No question.

 

[mokbel69]

My top 3 albums would probably be
1. Soundgarden - Kind Animal,
2. Serj Tankian - Harakiri
3. Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird.
All 3 aren't their best work but that to me is because they have set such high examples in the past.
I was disappointed with Adrenalin Mob - Omerta, its ok to good but not great which with the talent involved was disappointing.
There's a few more albums like Projected - Human, Corrosion Of Conformity - self titled, The Mark Of Cain - Songs Of The Third and Fifth, OverReactor - Mouth Of The Ghetto, Call Me No One - Last Parade and Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion, but I haven't been listening to them long enough to really rate them yet. So my top 3 could very well change over time.

 

[TheSpokenWheel]

i dont know if i bought anything made in 2012... i almost certainly would have said the new QOTSA record, but they ended up taking their sweet-ass time.

 

[alexpnz]

1) Muse-The 2nd. Law (A monster of a record! Stadium Rock, Riffs, Dub Step, etc. etc.)
2) Kanye West-G.O.O.D Music presents Cruel Summer (A suprisingly a good, old school type mixtape....and I'm not a Kanye West fan at all!)
3) Testament-The Dark Roots of Earth (Great, old School Trash!)

 

[STDiva]

The Weeknd - Trilogy
Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Grimes - Oblivion

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.

 

[ralph48]

in no particular order
Atlas by Parkway Drive
Babel by Mumford and sons
Ex Lives by Every Time I Die

 

[BlueBalls]

A few I've enjoyed from last year in no particular order:

Swans - The Seer
Crystal Castles - III
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel....
Both Death Grips releases, 'No Love Deep Web' and 'The Money Store'
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

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[Slaughtersun]

KREATOR's "Phantom Antichrist" is definitely my personal Metal album of 2012. First I only got this because it's KREATOR, so I thought what the hell but didn't really expect a whole lot. Well, then I listened to it. Over all these years I've always checked out their new stuff, but I basically checked out after "Extreme Aggression" (1989), which I think is one of the best Thrash albums ever made. Phantom Antichrist is different, it's a little bit more on the modern side, with a lot of melodies woven into the music, but the Thrash is still and Mille also showed that he's still got it. Anyhow, it was my highlight of this past year.

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I've always liked P!NK's music but I gotta say, "The Truth About Love" is a pop music masterpiece. Usually, when it comes to music like this, I like two, three, maybe four songs on an entire album, but this one never loses its groove, its punch, whatever.

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Alright, here's some other great albums of 2012:

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MUMFORD & SONS; "The Road To Red Rocks"

Alanis MORISETTE; "havoc and bright lights"