The Coachella Message Board's Top Albums of 2012

[icedKeg]

Post your top 25 albums of the year in this thread. Number your albums in order from 1-25.

Your #1 album will be equal to 25 points.
Your #2 album will be equal to 24 points.
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Your #25 album will be equal to 1 point.
Make sense?

If you want to just post a top 10, or a list less than 25, that's okay. Your #1 album will still count for 25 points and so on and so forth.

I will tally everybody's lists together and post OUR collective Coachella Message Board Top 50 albums of 2012.

Lists will be due by Thursday, January 10th at 6:00PM PST. If you post and want to edit your lists at all, that's fine, but PLEASE ALERT ME WHEN YOU EDIT YOUR LIST.

I have the time to do this over the next couple of weeks and I enjoy doing it. It's kinda cool to see a year-end list that is put together by everybody on this board.

I do realize there is already a "Top Albums of 2012" thread, but this thread is more specific to us individually posting our best album lists, and then having them calculated into one final list that represents the board. If you've already posted a list in that thread, re-post it over here.

All are encouraged to post. The more the merrier.

If you don't want to be involved, then simply don't post.

Happy Holidays.

[SlowMotionApocalypse]

#1 Gaby Moreno "Postales"

#2 Aerosmith "Music From Another Dimension"

#3 ummm, what else came out?

[suprefan]

Taylor Swift - Red

[SepaGroove]

#1. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes

#2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city

#3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock

#4. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble

#5. John Talabot - fin

I feel like I'm forgetting some, but this will do for now.


* already made one edit. Subbed in Japandroids for Hot Chip

[xuclarockerx]

Deftones - Koi No Yokan (25 pts)

[theklein25]

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
3. Grizzly Bear - Shields
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. Purity Ring - Shrines
6. Swans - The Seer
7. Metz - Metz
8. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
9. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
10.Orbital - Wonky
11. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
12. Linkin Park - Living Things
13. Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
14. Soundgarden - King Animal
15. Metric - Synthetica
16. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
17. Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
18. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
19. Green Day - ¡Uno!
20. Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
21. Last Dinosaurs - In A Million Years
22. The XX - Coexist
23. The Shins - Port Of Morrow
24. fun. - Some Nights
25. Sand & Snow - A Silent Film

[xanman86]

1. Bloom - Beach House
2. Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3. Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
4. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
5. The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
6. Shields - Grizzly Bear
7. Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors
8. Lonerism - Tame Impala
9. Fin - John Talabot
10. The Lion's Roar - First Aid Kit
11. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
12. R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
13. Sun - Cat Power
14. Centipede Hz - Animal Collective
15. Coexist - The xx
16. Four - Bloc Party
17. Ekstasis - Julia Holter
18. Give Me Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them - Blu & Exile
19. Local Business - Titus Andronicus
20. Le Voyage Dans la Lune - Air
21. God's Father - Lil B
22. Cruel Summer - G.O.O.D. Music
23. Red - Taylor Swift
24. Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors - Big Boi
25. WIXIW - Liars

[bmack86]

1. Metz – Metz
2. Frank Ocean – Channel: Orange
3. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
4. Dawnbringer – Into the Lair of the Sun God
5. Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory
6. Liberteer – It’s Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees
7. Swans – The Seer
8. Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
9. Mike Wexler – Dispossession
10. Pig Destroyer – Book Burner
11. Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
12. Liars – WIXIW
13. Screaming Females – Ugly
14. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid, m.a.a.d. City
15. Titus Andronicus – Local Business
16. Baroness – Yellow and Green
17. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do
18. Grizzly Bear – Shields
19. Bob Mould – Silver Age
20. The Evens – The Odds
21. Jack White – Blunderbuss
22. Daughn Gibson – All Hell
23. Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse
24. Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
25. Royal Thunder - CVI

[wmgaretjax]

i have no clue where to put this because you all are spazzed out with top this and that...

some reissues I loved from this year:

Dome - 1-4 + 5 (Wire spinoff industrial/experimental rock)
Egisto Macchi ‎– I Futuribili (abstract Italian post-orchestral music)
Eliane Radigue - Feedback Works (minimal sound art)
Etat Brut ‎– Mutations Et Prothèses (early 80s noise rock)
Francisco Meirino & Dave Phillips - We Are None of Us (noise sound art)
Gareth Williams & Marie Currie - Flaming Tunes (this heat spinoff weirdo rock)
Gruppo Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza ‎– Niente (morricone supergroup)
Henning Christiansen ‎– Kreuzmusik Fluxid Behandlung Op 189 (fluxus sound art)
Jean Tinguely - Sound Sculptures (fluxus sound art)
John Duncan - First Recordings 1978-1985 V1.2 (noise)
Laurie Spiegel ‎– The Expanding Universe (minimal/maximal experimental synth)
Merzbow - Lowest Music and Arts (noise)
Pauline Oliveros - Reverberations (sound art noise)
Robert Turman - Flux (new age drone)
Seth Price - Army Jacket (outsider pop)
Suzanne Ciani - Voices of Packaged Souls (experimental/weirdo synth)
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi ‎– Improvisation Sep. 1975 (electroacoustic improv)
Ulises Carrion - The Poet's Tongue (spoken word?)
Various Artists - Recollections GRM (not going to choose... these have all been brilliant. so thrilled that rehberg did this) (all kinds of brilliant musique concrete and early electronic avant garde)
William Basinski - Disintegration Loops (ambient)

edit: done Bryan.

[bmack86]

I ask this every year: could you please give just a brief overview of what each of these are? Same if you do your favorite albums of the year.

[RotationSlimWang]

Pretty sure the only good album that came out all year was Fiona based on these lists.

[bmack86]

Randy's top 25 of 2012:

Fiona Apple
Tool
The Beatles

[xuclarockerx]

These lists are mostly the same albums, just in different orders.

[buddy]

Frank Ocean's album because it's a damn sexy R&B album. I'll have to listen to Metz.

[sonnyboy11]

1. The Seer- Swans
2. Worship- A Place To Bury Strangers
3. This is PiL- Pubic Image Ltd
4. 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5. The Something Rain- Tindersticks

[Miroir Noir]

1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Chromatics - Kill for Love
3. Beach House - Bloom
4. Grizzly Bear - Shields
5. Tame Impala - Lonerism
6. Chairlift - Something
7. Twin Shadow - Confess
8. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
9. Bat for Lashes - The Haunted Man
10. The Men - Open Your Heart
11. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel . . .
12. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
13. Cat Power - Sun
14. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
15. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
16. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
17. Bob Mould - Silver Age
18. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
19. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
20. DIIV - Oshin
21. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
22. Dwight Yoakam - 3 Pears
23. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
24. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
25. Purity Ring - Shrines

[icedKeg]

...

A very welcomed bump I thought this thread was dead.

i have no clue where to put this because you all are spazzed out with top this and that...

some reissues I loved from this year:

This thread would be for ALL of your top albums of the year, not just reissues.

[stuporfly]

1. Cate Le Bon - Cyrk
2. Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Tim Burgess - Oh No I Love You
5. Grizzly Bear - Shields
6. Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold
7. Rocket Juice & the Moon - Rocket Juice & the Moon
8. Toy - Toy
9. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
10. Quantic & Alice Russell - Look Around the Corner
11. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
12. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
13. Lee Fields & the Expressions - Faithful Man
14. Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
15. Field Music - Plumb
16. Graham Coxon - A&E
17. Pond - Beard Wives Denim
18. Big Boi - Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
19. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
20. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
21. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
22. Pepe Deluxé - Queen of the Wave
23. Cat Power - Sun
24. Allo Darlin' - Europe
25. Django Django - Django Django

[Duvel]

here goes....

1. Even - 'In Another Time'
2. Grizzly Bear -'Shields'
3. First Aid Kit - 'The Lions Roar'
4. Of Monsters and Men - 'My Head Is An Animal'
5. Alabama Shakes - 'Boys & Girls'
6. Dirty Three - 'Towards The Low Sun'
7. Japandroids - 'Celebration Rock'
8. Gary Clark Jr. - 'Blak & Blu'
9. The Shins - 'Port of Morrow'
10. Jack White - 'Blunderbuss'
11. Tame Impala - 'Lonerism'
12. Hiatus Kaiyote - 'Tawk Tomahawk'
13. Band of Horses - 'Mirage Rock'
14. The Cold and The Lovely - 'The Cold and The Lovely'
15. The Lumineers - 'The Lumineers'
16. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 'Psychedelic Pill'
17. The Vaccines 'Come of Age'
18. The xx - 'Coexist'
19. Leonard Cohen - 'Old Times'
20. Money for Rope - 'Money for Rope'
21. Something for Kate - 'Leave Your Soul to Science'
22. The Cactus Channel - 'Haptics'
23. Bob Mould - 'Silver Age'
24. Frank Ocean - 'Channel Orange'
25. Dexy's (Dexy's Midnight Runners) - 'One Day I'm Going to Soar'

[Alchemy]

1. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
2. Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
3. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
4. Chairlift – Something
5. iamamiwhoami – Kin
6. The Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
7. Bill Fay – Life is People
8. Liars – WIXIW
9. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man in the Universe
10. Tame Impala – Lonerism
11. Lindstrøm – Smalhans
12. Literature – Arab Spring
13. Beach House – Bloom
14. Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
15. Grizzly Bear – Shields
16. Brian Eno – Lux
17. Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits
18. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
19. Four Tet – Pink
20. Jack White – Blunderbuss
21. Hot Chip – In Our Heads
22. Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II
23. Mount Eerie – Ocean Roar
24. Evans the Death – Evans the Death
25. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city

[icedKeg]

I'm such a nerd- I have like 160 albums in order...

I guess this is going to be my final answer for the 25:

1. Dark Dark Dark - Who Needs Who
2. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
3. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
4. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel
5. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
6. Daughn Gibson - All Hell
7. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
8. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
9. Allah-Las - s/t
10. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
11. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
12. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
13. Dr. John - Locked Down
14. Here We Go Magic - A Different Ship
15. Grimes - Visions
16. Santigold - Master Of My Make-Believe
17. Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II
18. Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour Golden Mile EP
19. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
20. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
21. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
22. The Antlers - Undersea EP
23. Lambchop - Mr. M
24. How To Dress Well - Total Loss
25. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Here


We need more peoples to post in here. Last year 36 people played, this year there's only been like 10. Not sure if you're waiting until the deadline or you just don't give a fuck. Probably the latter. But if you're thinking about posting your list, please do!

[cutterbutter]

This off season is the worst I've seen in my recent years on the boards. Everyone has been a depressing/apathetic asshole as of late.

[MassiveChemicalPunk]

1 Tame Impala Lonerism
2 Ty Segall Band Slaughterhouse
3 Django Django Django Django
4 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Trouble
5 Grizzly Bear Shields
6 Wild Nothing Nocturne
7 Japandroids Celebration Rock
8 Purity Ring Shrines
9 Twin Shadow Confess
10 Jack White Blunderbuss
11 Grimes Visions
12 Sleigh Bells Reign of Terror
13 Father John Misty Fear Fun
14 Diiv Oshin
15 Hot Chip In Our Heads
16 Frank Ocean Channel Orange
17 Boys Noize Out of the Black
18 Crystal Castles III
19 The Presets Pacifica
20 Beach House Bloom
21 Best Coast The Only Place
22 John Talabot Fin
23 The Vaccines Come of Age
24 Yeasayer Fragrant World
25 Divine Fits A thing called Divine Fits

[ods..]

Yeahhhhhhh... I also have upwards of 200 in a list. the last 150 isn't really in any order though... Got a lot of work to do.

I left all Singles/EPs off of this list. I figure it's the top albums which to me means full lengths... For my overall top 100(ish) I'm going to rank them all (singles/eps/albums) together I think, since I'll be judging which releases specifically fucked me up overall.

1. Kendrick Lamar – Good Kid m.a.a.d City
2. Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
3. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
4. Schoolboy Q – Habits and Contradictions
5. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
6. JMSN – Priscilla
7. John Talabot – ƒin
8. Grimes – Visions
9. Ab-Soul – Control System
10. Phony Ppl - Phonyland
11. Jessie Ware – Devotion
12. Chromatics – Kill for Love
13. Peaking Lights – Lucifer
14. Flying Lotus – Until the Quiet Comes
15. Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
16. Future – Pluto 3D
17. Liars – WIXIW
18. THEESatisfaction – awE naturalE
19. Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
20. Kindness – World, You Need a Change of Mind
21. Death Grips – the Money Store
22. Tame Impala - Lonerism
23. Freddie Gibbs – Baby Face Killa
24. Matthew Dear – Beams
25. Recondite – On Acid

[Josh_Garrett]

1. Alleluyah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - GY!BE
2 Valtari - Sigur Ros
3 The Seer - Swans
4 The Money Store - Death Grips
5 Bloom - Beach House
6 Lonerism - Tame Impala
7 Good Kid M.A.A.D. City - Kendrick Lamar
8 Shields - Grizzly Bear
9 Love This Giant - David Byrne & St Vincent
10 The Idler Wheel - Fiona Apple
11 Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
12 Coexist - The XX
13 Centipede Hz - Animal Collective
14 An Awesome Wave - Alt J
15 Beacon - Two Door Cinema Club
16 Bish Bosch - Scott Walker
17 Blunderbuss - Jack White
18 Crystal Castles III - Crystal Castles
19 Trouble - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
20 Shrines - Purity Ring
21 Synthetica - Metric
22 Four - Bloc Party
23 Until the Quiet Comes - Flying Lotus
24 My Head is an Animal - Of Monsters and Men
25 The Lions Roar - First Aid Kit

I'm probably going to get shit for putting of monsters and men on there but although its not that good it's a fun ass album

[ialvarado2]

1 - Jack White - Blunderbuss
2 - Cafe Tacvba - El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco
3 - Beach House - Bloom
4 - Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Octopus Kool Aid
5 - Hello Seahorse! - Arunima
6 - Dr. Dog - Be the Void
7 - Liars - WIXIW
8 - Fiona Apple - The idler blah blah blah...
9 - Die Antwoord - Ten$ion
10 - Made in Mexico (movie soundtrack)
11 - Japandroids - Celebration Rock
12 - Carla Morrison - Dejenme Llorar
13 - Yeasayer - Henrietta
14 - Regina Spektor - What we saw...
15 - Deftones - Koi No Yokan
16 - Molotov - Desde Rusia con Amor
17 - The Lumineers
18 - Sigur Ros - Valtari
19 - Santigold - My make believe
20 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
21 - Natalia Lafourcade - Mujer Divina
22 - Pegasvs
23 - Bat for Lashes – The Haunted Man
24 - Ty Segall – Slaughterhouse
25 - Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls

[TallGuyCM]

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
3. Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
4. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
5. BEAK> - BEAK>>
6. Mount Eerie - Clear Moon/Ocean Roar
7. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
8. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
9. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
10. Liars - WIXIW
11. Grizzly Bear - Shields
12. Beach House - Bloom
13. Daphni - Jiaolong
14. VCMG - SSSS
15. Deerhoof - Breakup Song
16. Ty Segall - Twins
17. Sigur Ros - Valtari
18. Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
19. Quakers - Quakers
20. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
21. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
22. Rhyton - The Emerald Tablet
23. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
24. From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide
25. Ceremony - Zoo

[swhite423]

1. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
2. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
3. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Hallelujah! Dont bend, Ascend!
5. Tame Impala - Lonerism
6. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
7. Grizzly Bear - Shields
8. Titus Androdicus - Local Buisiness
9. Baroness - Yellow and Green
10. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
11. DIIV - Oshin
12. Swans - The Seer
13. The XX - Coexist
14. Twin Shadow - Confess
15. Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
16. Beach House - Bloom
17. Ty Segall - Twins
18. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
19. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
20. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
21. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
22. Four Tet - Pink
23. Grimes - Visions
24. Bob Mould - Silver Age
25. Blink 182 - Dogs Eating Dogs EP

[IceyHotshot]

1. Deepchord Presents Echospace - Silent World OST
2. The Tallest Man on Earth - There's No Leaving Now
3. Kaki King - Glow
4. Fire! with Oren Ambarchi - In the Mouth a Hand
5. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
6. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
7. From the Mouth of the Sun - Woven Tide
8. Sigur Ros - Valtari
9. Chromatics - Kill for Love
10. Laurel Halo - Quarantine
11. Scott Walker - Bisch Bosh
12. Colin Stetson & Mats Gustaffson - Stones
13. The Boats - Ballads of the Research Department
14. Oren Ambarchi - Audience of One
15. Four Tet - Pink
16. Dustin Wong - Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Lead
17. Olan Mill - Home
18. LCD Soundsytem - Shut Up and Play the Hits
19. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
20. Bob Dylan - Tempest
21. Ryan Teague - Field Drawings
22. Keiji Haino, Stephen O'Malley, and Oren Ambarchi - Nazoranai
23. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
24. Baroness - Yellow and Green
25. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

[Baby Sandwich]

1. John Talabot - ƒin
2. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes
5. Zammuto - Zammuto
6. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
7. Liars - WIXIW
8. ScHoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
9. Actress – R.I.P
10. Julia Holter – Ekstasis
11. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
12. Grizzly Bear - Shields
13. DIIV – Oshin
14. Chromatics – Kill For Love
15. Kendrick Lamar - good kid m. A. A. d city
16. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
17. Lower Dens - Nootropics
18. Beach House - Bloom
19. Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE
20. Purity Ring - Shrines
21. Daniel Rossen - Silent Hour/Golden Mile
22. Death Grips - The Money Store
23. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
24. Four Tet - Pink
25. Crystal Castles - III