[Music] Top 20 albums of 2012

[galimim]

So I think it is time to start making top lists of the year. Here is mine

1. Royal Thunder – CVI
2. Black Moth – The Killing Jar
3. Enter Shikari – A Flash Flood Of Colour
4. Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
5. Halestorm – The Strange Case Of…
6. While She Sleeps – This Is The Six
7. Vision Of Disorder – The Cursed Remain Cursed
8. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind
9. The Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
10. Lamb Of God – Resolution
11. Meshuggah – Koloss
12. Sabaton – Carolus Rex
13. Cancer Bats – Dead Set On Living
14. Lower Than Atlantis – Changing Tune
15. Black Breath – Sentenced To Life
16. Your Demise – The Golden Age
17. Enslaved – Riitiir
18. Upon A Burning Body – Red. White. Green
19. Feed the Rihno – The Burning Sons
20. Emilie Autumn – Fight Like A Girl

EDIT: it is a typo in the title. Can someone fix it please?

[Oevaag]

Can't help feeling that music will have moved on somewhat 900 years from now :P

[Jon]

I've heard of maybe one or two bands on that list, and can't name a single song by either.

[Tjamen]

1. Taylor Swift - Red <3
2. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts
3. Lana Del Ray - Born to Die
4. MIKA - the Origin of Love
5. Melody Gardot - the Absence
6. Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
7. The Script -#3
8. Kent - Jag är inte rädd för mörkret (swedish)

my list, a "slightly" different type of music

[Orby]

Not sure I have even brought 20 new albums this year :P
I'll come back and list them as soon as I can remember them :P

[Eorayn]

I've heard of maybe one or two bands on that list, and can't name a single song by either.

This was the exact feel I had after reading the list.

[Fuzzzie]

Okay, fixed the title.I can't imagine the OP wanted us to speculate on music 900 years from now

[melodramocracy]

I've heard of maybe one or two bands on that list, and can't name a single song by either.

Why would that matter at all? Popularity has little to nothing to do with quality in artistic mediums.

As for the list, most of my purchases this year were of older material, so I can't come up with a list this long. Out of the new stuff, I'd say that Koloss (Meshuggah), Les Voyages De L'Ame (Alcest), In Via (Frames), and Leichenhaus (Bereft) were the best.

[Badpaladin]

Still too early to make a list, but I'm probably gonna have:

- The Tallest Man On Earth
- Swans
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Fiona Apple
- Converge
- Loma Prieta
- Dark Time Sunshine

On it, considering the quality of the albums they all dropped. Who knows though, December may blast my face off with good music.

[Jon]

Why would that matter at all? Popularity has little to nothing to do with quality in artistic mediums.

It was more of a commentary on my own taste. Bands that I like haven't exactly been at the top of the charts lately either, many of them haven't even produced any new material in decades.

I know there's still plenty of good music being made today, but for some reason I can't be bothered to dig through the crap to find it like I used to do when I was younger... so I'll often just listen to my old favorites. And 15-20+ years ago I actually liked a lot of the music that had chart success, these days I can't stand it.

[galimim]

Cheers Fuzzzie! It was a typo. I should have double checked everything before posting.
Everyone has different taste. Just post your lists. Maybe you will encourage someone to check out an album or 2 and they will find their new favourite band.

[Orby]

Gonna list my top albums of the year but I wont list a top 20 as some of those brought this year haven't been all that great :P

In no order...

Reel Big Fish - Candy Coated Fury
Cosmo Jarvis - Think Bigger
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Owl City - The Midsummer Station
The All American Rejects - Kids in the Street
Matchbox Twenty - North
InMe - The Pride
Linkin Park - Living Things
Papa Roach - The Connection
Shinedown - Amaryllis
Three Days Grace - Transit of Venus
The Used - Vulnerable

[WaitingforMoP]

1.The Faceless - Autothiesm
2.Periphery - Periphery II : This Time, It's Personal
3.Whitechapel - Whitechapel
4.Attack Attack! - This Means War
5.Veil Of Maya - Eclipse
6.Chelsea Grin - Evolve (EP)
7.As I Lay Dying - Awakened
8.Cannibal Corpse - Torture
9.The Used - Vulnerable
10.Dragonforce - The Power Within
11.MGK - Lace Up
12.2 Chainz - Based on a TRU Story
13.Testament - Dark Roots Of The Earth
14.The Fray - Scars and Stories
15.The Killers - Battle Born
16.All American Rejects - Kids in the street
----From This Point Down I didn't even buy these albums, but am filling out up to the rest of 20 with ones I considered buying but didn't----
17.Linkin Park - Living Things
18.Rush - Clockwork Angels
19.Lamb Of God - Resolution
20.Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman : The Ascension
(It should be noted I thought #13 through #16 should honestly have also ended up in the not bought section, I have barely listened to those, a few great songs on each but the rest is extremely "mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh")

Also, originally released in 1990, "Spiritual Healing" by Death has been remastered and re-released. If you want to figure that counts... then you could put it in at about #3 on my list

Overall? Not a great year for music IMO. My top 5 here I thoroughly enjoyed those albums from start to finish. But the rest was all basically "meh" overall.... lots of "filler" tracks I didn't care much for among a just few great tracks on all the rest...

[Nak]

1. Dragonforce - The Power Within
2. Kamelot - Silverthorn
3. All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win
4. Halestorm - The Strange case Of...
5. As I Lay Dying - Awakened
6. Linkin Park - Living Things
7. Stone Sour - House Of Gold & Bones pt.1
8. Ascension - Far Beyond The Stars
9. War Of Ages - Return To Life
10. Flyleaf - New Horizons
11. Shinedown - Amaryllis

[Thalkran]

my #1 is, by a wide margin, Woods V: Grey Skies and Electric Light by Woods of Ypres. the album is just...phenomenal. one of my all-time favorites, not just this year.
#2 - Lamb of God's Resolution
#3 - Be'lakor's Of Breath and Bone
#4 - Spawn of Possession's Incurso
#5 - Gorod's A Perfect Absolution
#6 - In Mourning's The Weight of Oceans
#7 - Job For a Cowboy's Demonocracy - i didn't like some of their older stuff, but they've definitely improved.
#8 - Unleashed - Odalheim
#9 - Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
#10 - Aborted - Global Flatline

the rest are hard to decide on; i haven't bought a lot of new releases this year.

[akashaa01]

believe is my favourite album by justin bieber i love all its songs.

[Stormcall]

I haven't actually made my top 20 yet, but...

These are definites(in no order):
Sabaton-Carolus Rex
Spawn of Possession-Incurso
Threshold-March of Progress
The Birthday Massacre-Hide & Seek
Rebellion-Arminius Furor Teutonicus
Hexen-Being and Nothingness
Overkill-The Electric Age
Savage Messiah-Plague of Conscience
Accept-Stalingrad
Paragon-Force of Destruction
Kreator-Phantom Antichrist
Tantara-Based on Evil

Everything from here on down could be replaced if I hear something better(again, in no order):
Testament-Dark Roots of Earth
Orden Ogan-To the End
Ex Deo-Caligvla
Grave Digger-Clash of the Gods
Magnum-On the 13th Day
Candlemass-Psalms for the Dead
Gorod-A Perfect Absolution
Waylander-Kindred Spirits

I have yet to hear Be'lakor-Of Breath And Bone or Trail of Murder-Shades of Art, they both could knock one of the above off the list though.

[Zantera]

Top 20:

Swans - The Seer
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II: Future Sequence
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Loma Prieta - I.V
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
Sarah Blasko - I Awake
North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme
Kimbra - Vows (US Version)
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
Submotion Orchestra - Fragments
Gazpacho - March of Ghosts
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
Beach House - Bloom
Gregory and the Hawk - Come, Now

I have a longer list on: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php...&listid=114375

[Deleted]

1. Taylor Swift - Red
2. Marina And The Diamonds - Electra Heart
3. Infected Mushroom - Army Of Mushrooms

Enough for me