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[DominoKid]

Top 50 Albums | Top 100 Tracks | Top Music Videos

1. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel ...
4. Tame Impala - Lonerism
5. Swans - The Seer
6. Grimes - Visions
7. Beach House - Bloom
8. Chromatics - Kill For Love
9. Death Grips - The Money Store
10. Grizzly Bear - Shields
11. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
12. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
13. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
14. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
15. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
16. Burial - Kindred EP
17. Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
18. Ty Segall Band/Ty Segall & White Fence - Slaughterhouse/Hair
19. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
20. Jessie Ware - Devotion
21. Ariel Pink Haunted Graffiti - Mature Themes
22. Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
23. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dreams
24. Purity Ring - Shrines
25. Schoolboy Q - Habits N Contradictions
26. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
27. John Talabot - Fin
28. How to Dress Well - Total Loss
29. Cat Power - Sun
30. The Men - Open Your Heart
31. Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
32. Action Bronson - Blue Chips
33. Actress - RIP
34. Chairlift - Something
35. TNGHT - TNGHT EP
36. Sharon Von Etten - Tramp
37. Future - Pluto
38. Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action at a Distance
39. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
40. DIIV - Oshin
41. Dum Dum Girls - End of Daze EP
42. Rick Ross - Rich Forever
43. Mac Demarco - 2
44. Metz - Metz
45. El-P - Cancer for Cure
46. Rustie - BBC Essential Mix
47. Pallbearer - Sorrow & Extinction
48. Peaking Lights - Lucifer
49. Crystal Castles - III
50. Lambchop - Mr. M

 

[Error]

deserved, it's my aoty.

 

[aznpxdd]

Well deserved. Fuck awesome album.

 

[Sai-kun]

damn what @ grimes getting 6. You go girl. Also fuckyeah at Purity Ring at 24. Love them.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

They got 2 of the top 10 right.

 

[overcast]

GODDAMN I FEEL AMAZING, DAMNNN IM IN THE MATRIX.

 

[LightOfTruth]

Wow, he really made a classic.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

No NO LOVE DEEP WEB at all in the top 50? Booooooo! Boo I say!

Otherwise, this is a pretty good list of albums. Lots of great stuff here.

 

[themustardman]

Woaaah Swans is a pitchfork band now? When did this happen. Glad The Seer is listed I thought it was quite good.

 

[Discotheque]

25 is number 1. Ayo they got Channel Orange at number 2.

 

[LyleLanley]

I disagree with things.

 

[disappeared]

fuck yes japandroids getting the love.

 

[overcast]

25 is number 1. Ayo they got Channel Orange at number 2.

[Insert Q ad-lib here]

 

[BeeDog]

14. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
16. Burial - Kindred EP
35. TNGHT - TNGHT EP

Only thing I care about in this list. <3 Andy Stott's album.

 

[Visceir]

Whenever I see Channel Orange winning another AOTY or being high up there I think back to this post

 

[Jitters]

I have the same top two, just in a different order. So good choices.

 

[Salsa]

hell yes

 

[Nibel]

Hail to the new king

 

[disappeared]

listen and love friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqaEQTi3rew

 

[Chris R]

Great top 10, and for once I actually know 4 of the albums in it!

Hope Amazon sees this and drops the price on some of the albums I want but don't own yet from this list!

 

[AceOcelot]

Good list.

.... glad to see Beach House @ 7!!!
I don't agree with Grimes' album being that high. It's awesome don't get me wrong, but 6?

 

[overcast]

Yeah, I like Grimes, but that would be the one album in the top 10 I would take out. (Not that the others will necessarily make my list).

 

[Phonomezer]

Nice to see Hot Chip up there.

 

[Jay Sosa]

2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

HA HA suck it GAF

Channel boring my ass.

Though pitchfork isn't really a site I usually agree with.

btw: Out of the Top 50 I know 5 people/bands

 

[Jitters]

I thought Grimes was a lot better than The Chomatics, Death Grips, Grizzly Bear, and Beach House.

 

[cacophony]

no convergeeeeeeee

lol @ channel snooze @ 2

 

[C4Lukins]

Jessie Ware disserved so much better. And Miguel what the fuck? Nice to see El-P on there, and TNGHT. I wish DIIV and LMNOP times Tree were higher.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Lame list is lame. I cannot agree here...

 

[Deleted member 57681]

no convergeeeeeeee

lol @ channel snooze @ 2

They were pretty high in the metal list I guess. Out of that only Pallbearer made it to the regular list (deserved).

 

[Discotheque]

no convergeeeeeeee

lol @ channel snooze @ 2

yes. It's a disgrace that there is no converge here. But also a disgrace that you snooze to Channel Orange.

in conclusion...

 

[DominoKid]

so much channel orange hate on gaf. never really got that...

 

[Jay Sosa]

so much channel orange hate on gaf. never really got that...

homophobia

 

[Yoshiya]

I love Channel Orange, I'm surprised at Fiona Apple being so high. Solid album though.

Kindred should be higher given it was left off the top 100 tracks lists completely...

 

[Discotheque]

Oh God. You gonna die. Nobody will Love Sosa after this.

 

[Salsa]

homophobia

what a stupid thing to say

I dont like Frank Ocean since I dont really like R&B

 

[GremlinFool]

While I don't agree with any of the top 3 choices, certainly Frank Ocean ought to have won top honors if they were going in that direction. I actually think GKMC is an outright bad album, one of the worst I've listened to all year. No, this isn't blatant trolling or an attempt at incensing the entire board. I genuinely, thoroughly dislike Kendrick's album this year (after really liking Section.80).

A pretty banal, predictable list through and through. Some pretty glaring omissions (not giving Perfume Genius any love whatsoever is a goddamn farce). It's been a year of bad best-of lists, so I'm not as intellectually insulted by P4K's year-end list as I normally would be.

From what I've seen, theneedledrop probably has the best 2012 album list.

 

[The Artful Dodger]

No love for Nas?

 

[Yoshiya]

Discovered John Talabot from their top tracks list a few days ago, great stuff.

I've seen two of the top ten live this year, and sold on tickets I had to a third.

 

[Jay Sosa]

Oh God. You gonna die. Nobody will Love Sosa after this.

Like anyone does now (besides Keef and I love him right back).

Spoiler

And I'm obviously joking

 

[Stabby McSter]

No love for Nas?

oh what did that really drop this year? i have no sense of time anymore

 

[DominoKid]

No love for Nas?

pitchfork has never really had time for nas besides illmatic. the fact they gave him 8.3 & BNM amazes me.

 

[Jay Sosa]

oh what did that really drop this year? i have no sense of time anymore

Life is good, which outside of one horrible horrible HORRIBLE track is pretty good. At least good enough to be in a Top 50.

 

[Nyrad]

loved "idler wheel..." and i'm glad it made into the top 3

 

[Jo Shishido's Cheeks]

Kendrick, Frank Ocean, Fiona Apple, Tame Impala + Beach House got a lot of play from me this year.
Decent list.

 

[enzo_gt]

YACK YACK YACK YACK

 

[The Artful Dodger]

Also both of Freddie Gibbs mixtapes were better than Rick Ross' "Rich Forever" mixtape.

edit: my bad Cold Day in Hell came out last year.

 

[RJT]

While I don't agree with any of the top 3 choices, certainly Frank Ocean ought to have won top honors if they were going in that direction. I actually think GKMC is an outright bad album, one of the worst I've listened to all year. No, this isn't blatant trolling or an attempt at incensing the entire board. I genuinely, thoroughly dislike Kendrick's album this year (after really liking Section.80).

I feel sorry for you...

 

[Gorillaz]

Havn't been able to listen to all the albums this year but glad K Dot is getting some play.

No love for Nas?

lol

 

[overcast]

I feel sorry for you...

Opinions and all that. I can understand not liking it, but calling it straight bad is about a wrong as opinion as they come. Don't know how you like section.80 and hate GKMC. You may prefer one, but Kendrick hasn't changed THAT much. If anything he got better in terms of flow and songwriting.

 

[enzo_gt]

On second look WTF @ channel.BORANGE being so high. Best sleep therapy album of the year I guess.

In other news the rap picks strangely correlate to my personal ones in the order they appear in.. sorta.