where does your favorite end of the year list come from?

[Rdm]

I use to love the silent ballet. I guess now I am partial to boomkat and when the needle drops.Pitchfork should have given fiona the number one spot. Come on it killed both number 1 and 2. = (

[Kid Charlemagne]

I'm biased against Fiona Apple, so I thought her album was too high on the list. Kendrick Lamar was a good choice though, if that album doesn't restore your faith in hip hop, nothing will. Frank Ocean was my second favorite album of the year like Pitchfork, just awesome and damn near perfect, but nothing was topping Grizzly Bear for me. Here's my list for 2012:
1. Grizzly Bear- Shields
2. Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
3. Japandroids- Celebration Rock
4. Spiritualized- Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
5. Kendrick Lamar- Good Kid, Maad City
6. Black Moth Super Rainbow- Cobra Juicy
7. Titus Andronicus- Local Business
8. Cat Power- Sun
9. Pallbearer- Sorrow and Extinction
10. Converge- All We Love We Leave Behind
11. Miguel- Kaleidoscope Dream
12. Animal Collective- Centipede Hz
13. Metz- Metz
14. Ceremony- Zoo
15. Action Bronson/Party Supplies- Blue Chips
16. The Men- Open Your Heart
17. Purity Ring- Shrines
18. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti- Mature Themes
19. Flying Lotus- Until the Quiet Comes
20. Tame Impala- Lonerism
21. Ty Segall- Everything he's released in 2012.
22. Killer Mike- RAP Music
23. Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Hallelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
24. Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas
25. Beach House- Bloom
26. Death Grips- The Money Store
27. Grimes- Visions
28. King Tuff- King Tuff
29. Chief Keef- Back From the Dead
30. Divine Fits- A Think Called Divine Fits

[blackholesun]

I'm pretty much partial to any other places list haha. My favorite part is checking out releases listed that I haven't heard before. Here's my list. I'm not very good at ranking. I think anything in the top 8 could be my #1.



Father John Misty - Fear Fun
Kaki King - Glow
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Lilacs & Champagne - Lilacs & Champagne
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Swans - The Seer
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Calexico - Algiers
Evan Caminiti - Dreamless Sleep
Ancient Sky - T.R.I.P.S.
Krallice - Years Past Matter
Om - Advaitic Songs
Painted Caves - Not Here Not There
Pinkish Black - Pinkish Black
Burial - Kindred
Dysrhythmia - Test of Submission
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Maserati - Maserati VII
Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Vatican Shadow – Ghosts Of Chechnya
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
James Blackshaw - Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death
The Sea and Cake - Runner
Torche - Harmonicraft
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Whirr - Pipe Dreams
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Dirty Three - Toward The Low Sun
Beach House - Bloom
Evan Caminiti - Night Dust
Bosse-De-Nage - III
KTL - V
Conan - Monnos
Turing Machine - What Is The Meaning Of What
Emeralds - Just To Feel Anything
The Secret - Agnus Dei
Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
The Album Leaf - Forward/Return
Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
Mount Eerie - Clear Moon
Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
Paca Sala - Ro-Me-Ro
Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
Majeure - Solar Maximum
Manual - Awash
Troy Schafer - Evening Song Awaken
Sutekh Hexen - Behind The Throne
Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Ocean Parkway
Nadja - Dagdrøm
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages

[BRoswell]

Top 10:
In Our Heads-Hot Chip
Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!-Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Cancer 4 Cure-El-P
In Decay-Com Truise
Kill For Love-Chromatics
An Omen EP-How To Destroy Angels
Blunderbuss-Jack White
My Head Is An Animal-Of Monsters And Men
EP's 1988-1991-My Bloody Valentine
Don't Think-The Chemical Brothers

[frankie teardrop]

i put an embryonic version of this in the 2012 recommendations thread (is this thread redundant?), but here's the final, crystalized list:

albums:
tamaryn- tender new signs
scott walker- bish bosch
breathless- green to blue
led er est- the diver
martial canterel- empire
linea aspera- linea aspera
and also the trees- hunter not the hunted
2:54- 2:54
the soft moon- zeros
silent servant- negative fascination
lebanon hanover- the world is getting colder/why not be solo
duchess says- in a fung day t
pinkish black- pinkish black
swans- the seer
a place to bury strangers- worship
the whip angels- ego death
various artists- function operate vol. 1

top songs:
deathday- dropped into obscurity
savages- flying to berlin
tiers- october
kiss the anus of a black cat- let things drift
void vision- everything is fine
anasazi- i saw the witch cry
belgrado- panopticon
diiv- doused
nao katafuchi- stormy weather
die selektion- triumph
tropic of cancer- the one left
inhalt- walking on glass
ssleeping desiress- a voice
rosenkopf- burning spirits
the kvb- always then
liz and laszlow- rien a paris
dream affair- the porter
police des moeurs- n'en parlons plus
hot guts- edges
religious to damn- lovely day
neud photo- dimensions
featureless ghost- cover of night
merchandise- in nightmare room
mushy- scratch my skin

reissues:
tranquil eyes- walks
the product- alive again
memoires d'automne- cliche
art fact- and the seasons changed
half string- maps for sleep
the sound- from the lion's mouth
smashing pumpkins- mellon collie & the infinite sadness
medicine- shot forth self living
stress- conspiracy theory
trop tard- ils etaient 9 dans l'obscurite
sam rosenthal- tanzmusik
the wake- here comes everybody
uv pop- no songs tomorrow
various artists- danza meccanica vol. 2
ceramic hello- the absence of a canary
a haunted sawmill- epitaphe

[Trains]

Haven't heard a lot of new music this year, but these ones have all been pretty brilliant.

Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
Alcest - Les Voyages de L'Âme
Astra - The Black Chord
Baroness - Yellow & Green
How to destroy angels - An omen EP
Faunts - Left Here Alone EP
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allulujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

[Rdm]

My thread topic was asking- what is your favorite website that ranks albums. I don't understand how this became a list your favorite records thread of 2012 .

[frankie teardrop]

if anything, that belonged here:
http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/239-Random-Music-Questions

so perhaps better that it evolved into something more deserving of it's own thread?

[ManBurning]

The sad thing is, i must be really fucking old because, browsing through these lists, I have no goddamn idea on what almost ANYTHING being listed is... wow...
welcome to 2012? I should get out of my 90's time machine now.

[frankie teardrop]

if it's any consolation, my list is highly tuned in to the styles i most listen to, being synth/post-punk/shoegaze, etc. and most of those bands did little-to-fuck-all to earn any mainstream recognition (old artists/new albums, or too far under the radar to matter to any "hip" sites), which is most unfortunate as i found a lot to love this year.

the only things on my list that got any attention outside of my own world/scene/friends/etc. are tamaryn, diiv, soft moon, 2:54, scott walker, swans, savages, and merchandise. i'd like to think it lends well to tastemaking, but i'm probably just unhip. either way...

[Rdm]

I politely disagree. I think people are interested in this subject. Such as me . I loved the silent ballet and now I am having a hard time finding an end of the year obscure instrumental list.

[onthewall2983]

Steven Wilson's list

Albums of 2012

Kreng - Works For Abattoir Fermé
Vatican Shadow – Kneel Before Religious Icons
Vatican Shadow - Ornamented Walls
Swans - The Seer
Cut Hands - Black Mamba
Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya
Marillion - Sounds that Can’t be Made
Use of Ashes - White Nights: Flake of Eternity
Shearwater – Animal Joy
Arvo Part - Adam’s Lament
36 - Lithea
Monolake – Ghosts
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
X-TG - Desertshore / The Final Report
Eleh - The Weight of Accumulation
Container - LP2
North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric

Reissues of 2012

Terje Rypdal – Odyssey (3CD set)
Arild Andersen – Green in Blue: Early Quartets (3CD set)
Edgar Froese – Solo 1974-83 (The Virgin Years) (4CD set)
Can – The Lost Tapes (3CD set)
Merzbow – Lowest Music and Arts (10LP box set)
Mike Oldfield – Platinum
Sensations Fix – Music is Painting in the Air (2CD)
Regis – 1994-1996
Daphne Oram – The Oram Tapes Vol 1 (4LP set)
Ramleh – Awake (8LP set)
Sema – Time Will Say Nothing (4LP set)
Kluster – Klusterstrasse (8LP set)

[BlueCalx]

Oh, I'm so bloody dreadful at this, but I'll throw my hat in the ring anyway. My brain is the opposite of the brain of the fella in High Fidelity, organizing things into lists comes as easily to me as writing poetry in Inuit. That said,

Saint Etienne - Words and Music
Aquarian - Obsidian EP
Lilacs & Champagne - s/t
Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales
School of Seven Bells - Put Your Sad Down EP
Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
Brian Eno - Lux
Sean Price - Mic Tyson
Evitan - Speed of Life
El Perro Del Mar - Pale Fire
Fennesz - Aun
Katy B - Danger EP
Lindstrom - Six Cups of Rebel
Ice Choir - Afar
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Vatican Shadow - Ornamented Walls
The Soft Moon - Zeros
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Moon Duo - Circles
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
That Kendrick Lamar record everyone likes, but Ab Soul's Control System even moreso, and Schoolboy Q's Habits and Contradictions everso slightly less.
Vladislav Delay - Kuopio
100s - Ice Cold Perm
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Chromatics - Kill For Love
E-40 & Too $hort - History, vols. 1 & 2
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream

I think that's it. I was going to include reissues and tracks, but fuck it. Also, nevermind my list, I tend to spend my days listening to "Suedehead" on repeat over and over.

Edit: Stoked to see Scott Walker come up a bunch. I've fallen pretty hard for Bish Bosch.

[xmd 5a]

Boomkat's lists always have a lot to agree with.

Steve Wilson's list is pretty awesome. The Ramleh 8LP box seems epic.

Glad to see tons of Vatican Shadow mentioned above (though Kneel Before Religious Icons was a 2011 release IIRC). September Cell and Atta's Apartment Slated for Destruction were some of my favourite releases of the year.


Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

Wasn't aware of this, thanks! Descension and Firsternis are great.

[Presideo]

My thread topic was asking- what is your favorite website that ranks albums. I don't understand how this became a list your favorite records thread of 2012 .
I guess most were itching to post their best of 2012. Oh well, when in Rome...

(in no particular order)
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Crystal Castles - III
Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
Death Grips - The Money Store / No Love Deep Web
El-P - Cancer For Cure
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Gaza - No Absolution in Human Suffering
Grimes - Visions
HEALTH - Max Payne 3 OST
How to Dress Well - Total Loss
Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid M.A.A.D City
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Tame Impala - Lonerism

Overall, Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange' was my favorite. I played the shit out of that album and I'm still not tired of it.

[wizfan]

VICE hits it out of the park, again.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-vice-albums-of-the-year-2012

[Clownboat]

VICE hits it out of the park, again.

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-vice-albums-of-the-year-2012

That was great. "people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire)" is just brilliant.

[Senateguard33]

Hmmm here are some albums that have been in rotation this month.

Coil-Astral Disaster
Basil Poledouris-Conan The Barbarian (Score)
Depeche Mode-Construction Time Again
Nine Inch Nails-Uncoiled
Madonna-Like A Prayer
Ministry-Psalm 69

[wizfan]

That was great. "people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (The Wire)" is just brilliant.

They do that joke every year, and it never gets old.

[Conan The Barbarian]

My favorite list comes from a land that is beyond.

[ManBurning]

My favorite list comes from a land that is beyond.

Dammit, when I saw that you replied to this list, I was hoping to see some sort of list of yours, you are one of the few people who's musical tastes I still trust on this site.

[Conan The Barbarian]

I would probably let you down.

[Jinsai]

A collection of best-of-2012 lists from Anticon musicians (http://www.anticon.com/news/anticons-best-2012)

not all music-related, but interesting/amusing nonetheless