Thread: Best Albums of 2012

Since it's officially the last day of this year, what are your favorite releases? Here's my top 5:

5. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky


4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock


3. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city


2. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself


1. Screaming Females - Ugly



and some other notables:

Death Grips - The Money Store
Heems - Nehru Jackets
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Kishi Bashi – 151a
Sigur Ros - Valtari

I have to pick up that Japandroids album, keep hearing great stuff about it.

My list:

5. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theater is Evil


4. The Wallflowers - Glad All Over


3. Jack White - Blunderbuss


2. The Killers - Battle Born


1. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

Originally Posted by aberdien

Since it's officially the last day of this year, what are your favorite releases? Here's my top 5:

5. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky


4. Japandroids - Celebration Rock


3. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city


2. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself


1. Screaming Females - Ugly



and some other notables:

Death Grips - The Money Store
Heems - Nehru Jackets
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
Regina Spektor – What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Kishi Bashi – 151a
Sigur Ros - Valtari

Haven't heard any of those.

Proof that beauty is in the eyes and ears of the beholder

Originally Posted by CoachChaz

Proof that beauty is in the eyes and ears of the beholder

Yup. Unless you are 14 years old and just like top-40 pop songs, you will be hard pressed to find similar music tastes with most anyone. My influences are really strange, ranging from really being into new-wave and prog rock in the 80's and early 90's to listening to stuff like Asleep at the Wheel and Ronnie Milsap with my dad when we were camping. Its strange how our musical tastes evolve over time.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

Yup. Unless you are 14 years old and just like top-40 pop songs, you will be hard pressed to find similar music tastes with most anyone. My influences are really strange, ranging from really being into new-wave and prog rock in the 80's and early 90's to listening to stuff like Asleep at the Wheel and Ronnie Milsap with my dad when we were camping. Its strange how our musical tastes evolve over time.

I'm kind of the same. My top 5 would be a mix of blues, country and metal.

I haven't sought out much "new" music lately.

For example, I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan and haven't even sought out that album...

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I haven't sought out much "new" music lately.

For example, I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan and haven't even sought out that album...

It's pretty good. Put it on your "to do" list.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

I haven't sought out much "new" music lately.

For example, I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan and haven't even sought out that album...

You'd better get on that dude, if you are a fan its easily their best effort in a decade. One of the few albums I can listen to front to back of theirs, I can't even do that with Zeitgeist.

I'm the same way though. I hear a lot of songs I like on Pandora at work but not enough where I want to run out and buy the whole album. Everything is so single focused in the music industry right now that all the smaller labels and artists are putting out the best work. Its just hard to track them down, I usually stumble on them from recommendations or internet music stations like Pandora, Grooveshark, etc.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

You'd better get on that dude, if you are a fan its easily their best effort in a decade. One of the few albums I can listen to front to back of theirs, I can't even do that with Zeitgeist.

I'm the same way though. I hear a lot of songs I like on Pandora at work but not enough where I want to run out and buy the whole album. Everything is so single focused in the music industry right now that all the smaller labels and artists are putting out the best work. Its just hard to track them down, I usually stumble on them from recommendations or internet music stations like Pandora, Grooveshark, etc.

Will do. Zeitgeist was OK. I don't listen to much music at work, because I'm not allowed to stream on my work computer. So outside of new country and new pop on the radio, I just don't hear new music.

I really miss 96.5 the Buzz in KC. They are freakin awesome.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Will do. Zeitgeist was OK. I don't listen to much music at work, because I'm not allowed to stream on my work computer. So outside of new country and new pop on the radio, I just don't hear new music.

I really miss 96.5 the Buzz in KC. They are freakin awesome.

And I don't know if you ever bothered, but as the other Oasis fan in America that I know of you should check out Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Beady Eye is basically Oasis minus Noel, so if you add some tracks from his album to theirs you get a pretty solid rock album.

Originally Posted by MasterShake

And I don't know if you ever bothered, but as the other Oasis fan in America that I know of you should check out Beady Eye and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. Beady Eye is basically Oasis minus Noel, so if you add some tracks from his album to theirs you get a pretty solid rock album.

Noel is what I loved about Oasis...so I'll have to check this stuff out.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by MOtorboat

Noel is what I loved about Oasis...so I'll have to check this stuff out.

Thanks.

I always liked Noel too. True to the Oasis style, Beady Eye has better riffs and music, but Noel's album has much better songwriting. Hopefully they can get over it and get back together soon. I want a 20th anniversary Whats the Story Tour.

I liked the new Matchbox 20 album, but I mostly just listen to 90s grunge

Matchbox Twenty is not 90s grunge.