Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

I don't really hear it with the 1975.

basically I never want to hear any 21st century musical act or project named after a year from the 20th century

hmm i really thought you'd dig the 1975

didn't predict myself that lex would love a more emo arctic monkeys

anyway "sex" is a killer song, rest of that ep is kind of mushy and indistinct tho

"sex" & "the city" are instant classics

careful use of quotations...and tenses ... blah bad joke

This is the point in list making that I hate, where suddenly impossible choices have to made. Deciding to leave Ariel Pink out of my top ten was hard enough, now I'm figuring out whether lightning bolt, Oneida, Dial, or Meek Mill gets the shaft on my albums list

not Meek

It's like "which finger should I sever?"

Yeah I know

I almost chucked him but couldn't

you sever the pinkie on the hand with 6 fingers.

Lightning bolt released stuff this year? I haven't got round to listening to earthly delights yet. I loved the two before thAt. Has their sound changed much since then?

FACT put Gunplay's Bogota Rich on their albums list so well done them

yeah i prefer 601 but that's still a good look

FACT list is the best so far imo

sorry, LB

consolation prize is that "I Found A Ring In My Ear" gets a spot on the tracks list because it RULES

OOR (Dutch magazine):

1. ALT- J - AN AWESOME WAVE (INFECTIOUS/PIAS)
2. JACK WHITE - BLUNDERBLUSS (XL/BEGGARS)
3. FRANK OCEAN - CHANNEL ORANGE (DEF JAM/UNIVERSAL)
4. CLOUD NOTHINGS - ATTACK ON MEMORY (WICHITA/PIAS)
5. THE XX - COEXIST (XL/BEGGARS)
6. TAME IMPALA - LONERISM (MODULAR/NEWS)
7. DJANGO DJANGO - DJANGO DJANGO (BECAUSE/WARNER)
8. GRIZZLY BEAR - SHIELDS (WARP/V2)
9. ALABAMA SHAKES - BOYS & GIRLS (ROUGH TRADE/KONKURRENT)
10. KENDRICK LAMAR - GOOD KID, M.A.A.D. CITY (INTERSCOPE/UNIVERSAL)
11. METZ - METZ (SUB POP/KONKURRENT)
12. MOSS - ORNAMENTS (EXCELSIOR/V2)
13. CHROMATICS - KILL FOR LOVE (NEWS)
14. JAKE BUGG - JAKE BUGG (MERCURY/ UNIVERSAL)
15. FIRST AID KIT - THE LION’S ROAR (WICHITA/PIAS)
16. BEACH HOUSE - BLOOM (BELLA UNION/V2)
17. DR JOHN - LOCKED DOWN (NONESUCH/WARNER)
18. BLAUDZUN - HEAVY FLOWERS (V2)
19. TY SEGALL - TWINS (DRAG CITY/MUNICH/V2)
20. ALLAH-LAS - ALLAH-LAS (INNOVATIVE LEISURE/V2)
21. MICHAEL KIWANUKA - HOME AGAIN (POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL)
22. CASE MAYFIELD - THE MANY COLORED BEAST (PIAS)
23. THE VACCINES - COME OF AGE (COLUMBIA/SONY)
24. SWANS - THE SEER (YOUNG GOD/KONKURRENT)
25. MARK LANEGAN BAND - BLUES FUNERAL (4AD/BEGGARS)

Fuck me that's the absolute worst.

2012 list from hell. Apart from Swans. And Kendrick I guess.

Are there any songs on Tame Impala as good as 'Elephant' or should I resign myself to only voting for that int he singles poll?

ok so Rolling Stone's album of the year is Springsteen's.

we take care of our own

Rolling Stone know their demographic and goddamit they're going to pander to them.

the idea of a bunch of dutch knobs in a room debating alt-j vs. frank ocean is fucking hilarious to me

An Aweshome Wave vs Shannel Ocean

*Oranshe

We spent a bunch

Rolling Stone know their demographic and goddamit they're going to pander to them.
--Deafening silence (DL)

How would this read if it was Kendrick

I mean if you read these threads, every mag is either "pandering" or "trying to be ______" or "trying to hard" with their number one choice. I think Springsteen is a fine choice for an RS list

hang on the song "springsteen" or the artist springsteen? the former is awesome, had no idea the latter was still active or alive or whatever

Springsteen actually died in 1992, this is a Tupac style remix album.

People like the Gaslight Anthem and former members of REM and Michael Franti providing backing tracks for his vocals.

Did RS release its full list?

TS: dadrock pandering vs contempt for the actual tastes/opinions of yr readers

the Eric Church song is def way better than anything Springsteen did this year, but i would never expect Rolling Stone to acknowledge that

RS top 4 is Bruce, Frank, Jack and Bob

Then there's Fiona Apple, Kendrick, Edward Sharpe, Green Day, Japandroids, Neil Young

What about Neil?

I heard his horse went crazy

standing by the Green Day shitshow is more embarrassing than all the senior citizens on that list combined

did they pick just one album for the list or all 3?

Think it's just the first one

xpost It's not picking a Springsteen album that's the problem. It's that it's not all that great a Springsteen album.

xp Depends on whether or not you think this is a great Springsteen album.

are you kidding, of course it isn't!

That's my point, though Whiney seems to think otherwise.

For me "pandering" is the difference between RS/Uncut recognising a veteran at his late-period best and just honouring him because he's a veteran.

Okay it is just ¡Uno! according to some Green Day forum

Someone had the full list there btw

1. Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
2. Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
3. Blunderbuss - Jack White
4. Tempest - Bob Dylan
5. The Idler Wheel... - Fiona Apple
6. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
7. Here - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
8. !Uno! - Green Day
9. Celebration Rock - Japandroids
10. Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
11. Babel - Mumford & Sons
12. Rebirth - Jimmy Cliff
13. Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen
14. The Only Place - Best Coast
15. Locked Down - Dr. John
16. Sun - Cat Power
17. Born and Raised - John Mayer
18. Life is Good - Nas
19. Mirage Rock - Band of Heroes
20. R.A.P. Music - Killer Mike
21. Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings
22. Slipstream - Bonnie Raitt
23. A Thing Called Divine Fits - Divine Fits
24. Cruel Summer - G.O.O.D. Music
25. Sunken Condos - Donald Fagen
26. Django Django - Django Django
27. Blak and Blu - Gary Clark Jr.
28. Bloom - Beach House
29. Away From the World - Dave Matthews Band
30. 1991 - Azealia Banks
31. Red - Taylor Swift
32. Hospitality - Hospitality
33. Visions - Grime
34. Boys & Girls - Alabama Shakes
35. Shields - Grizzly Bear
36. The Bravest Man in the Universe - Bobby Womack
37. Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now - Justin Townes Earl
38. Local Business - Titus Andronicus
39. Gossamer - Passion Pit
40. Escort - Escort
41. The Carpenter - The Avett Brothers
42. Europe - Allo Darlin'
43. Some Nights - fun.
44. Not Your Kind of People - Garbage
45. Rich Forever - Rick Ross
46. The 2nd Law - Muse
47. Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables - Todd Snider
48. Oceania - The Smashing Pumpkins
49. Folila - Amadou and Mariam
50. Swing Lo Magellan - Dirty Projectors

haha someone else gets the Cruel Summer gasface

No Lame Impala in there afaics

I like the idea of Band of Heroes. Are they some Tea Party answer to Band of Horses?

nice to see Grime on a 2012 list, didn't know if that stuff was still being made

No XX or ZZ on that list either