Jack white - blunderbuss and Santana - shapeshifter, for sure

1)The Mars Volta: Noctourniquet
2)First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
3)Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
4)the Melvins - Freak Puke
5)Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
6)mewithoutyou - Ten Stories
7)Jack white-Blunderbuss
8)Davids Lyre - Picture Of Our Youth
9)Ides Of Gemini - Constantinople
10)Miike Snow - Happy To You
11)Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
12)and as much as I hate to admit it, Soen - Cognitive

Looking forward to new Yeasayer, Grizzly Bear, Converge, QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, Soungarden, and maybe even Tool(not holding my breath)

Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Jack White - Blunderbuss
Marissa Nadler - The Sister
Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral
Young Prisms - In Between
Mariee Sioux - Gift for the End
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge

Here's my list, which is obviously going to change regularly.

Top Albums Of 2012 (So Far) - Rate Your Music

Your top 1 pick makes me very happy.

It's crazy because I heard it before you talked about it, and usually I don't discover this type of album/band on my own. Need to listen to their entire discography.

I wish I still had my Beginner's Guide to Killing Joke mix, but I deleted it along with my entire Mediafire account when Megaupload went down. I'd honestly say you can work your way backwards to their '90's material, then work your way forwards from their '80's material. That's how I did it, but the only problem with that is I don't think I gained a real appreciation for their more New Wave synth material from the mid '80's. Given that my first real taste of them was their 2003 second self-titled album though, I don't thikn that's necessarily a bad thing. Janszoon and Jackhammer are the other two members here I know really like the band, so if you're looking for another opinion on where to start I would recommend asking them.

start with Laugh!...I Nearly Bought One....it is a beginners guide to Killing Joke....and in my opinion has the best version of Pssyche :)

goof....if you have problems finding it i would be honored to up it for you :)

2012 - Rate Your Music

so there is my ratings....although it is not necessarily exactly what i would put as a "top album list"...more of a guide for such a list.....certainly the new Dernière Volonté, Kiss the anus Of A Black Cat, PIGS, Ufomammut, and the Woven Hand live album, are by far my favorites so far the year

so before compiling this i downloaded this Tndersticks ya'll are blabbering about.....damn....this is seriously moving up my list.....you are 2 for 2 Pedestrian :)

Cheers, ill take the up Bob :)

give me a bit and i'll pm you the link :)