This immediately comes to mind:

Farzad Golpayegani - Six
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Hell I wasn't able to get Five either. Got One through Four and have had them for years but his new stuff is hard to track.

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Most of these appear in others' lists, but they were my favorites of 2012

-Ghost Jam

I had no idea Bob Mould had a new album out!

Yeah and it's really good, too!

Check it out.

-Husker Ghost Jam

Will dü. ;)

Good to know someone enjoys the Dirty Projectors last outing

:clap::rolleyes:

Top 25 just to get it out there, but I think I'm going to 50 when/if I finish writeups before 2013 really takes off.

25. If These Trees Could Talk - Red Forest
24. Colour Haze - She Said
23. Dave Matthews Band - Away From the World
22. The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden
21. You Slut! - Medium Bastard
20. Cloudkicker - Fade
19. Buckethead - The Shores of Molokai
18. Rush - Clockwork Angels
17. Buckethead - Electric Sea
16. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
15. Sigh - In Somniphobia
14. P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here
13. Dark Time Sunshine - ANX
12. Sula Bassana - Dark Days
11. JJ DOOM - Keys to the Kuffs
10. Why? - Mumps, Etc.
9. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata
8. Chimp Spanner - All Roads Lead Here
7. Øresund Space Collective - West, Space and Love
6. BadBadNotGood - BBNG2
5. T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
4. El-P - Cancer For Cure
3. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
2. The Coup - Sorry To Bother You
1. Aesop Rock - Skelethon

Huh, I wasn't aware The Coup had a new album out, I learn something new every day.

Uh, "Five" is there, d00d: that link you posted? :confused:
As for "Six"... a dollar twenty-eight? Farzad Golpayegani mp3 music download, all songs and new albums, discography|megaboon.com

1. Swans- The Seer (I can understand why people would hate this, though)
2. Flying Lotus- Until the quiet comes
3. Änglågard- Viljans Öga
4. Between the Buried and Me- Parallax II
5. Rolo Tomassi- Astraea
6. Rush- Clockword Angels
7. Diablo Swing Orchestra- Pandora's Pinata
8. Godspeed you! Black Emperor- Alelujah! Don't bend! Ascend!
9. Cloudkicker- Fade
10. Converge- All we love we leave behind

1. A War That You Cannot Win - All That Remains

2. Sick and Twisted Affair - My Darkest Days

3. Koi No Yokan - Deftones

4. Halcyon - Ellie Goulding

5. Bad Decisions - The Last Vegas

6. Band of Brothers - Hellyeah

7. Welcome to the Freakshow - Hinder

8. Tornado - Little Big Town

9. Blood - In This Moment

10. Tailgates and Tanlines - Luke Bryan

Wasn't too fond of this record. It's good, but certainly not as good as I expected.

I think I listened to it three times in a week with the hopes that part of it would stick in my memory, and you know what it hasn't.
I'm still meandering on my List. Waiting until everyone else gets there's in so I can listen to anything worthwhile I've missed. Obviously I take some people's opinions seriously and others with a pinch of salt.

I've held off a bit on posting my Top 10, because I wanted to do a little write-up on each. But I haven't had the time and don't see that I will in the immediate future, so I'll just post the list for now. If anyone is interested in my thoughts on anything in particular I'm happy to respond. But for now, here's the list. As always, there's plenty more I've yet to discover in 2012 so it's subject to change as time passes. Might as well commit to it for now, as every time I post it somewhere I tend to question it. Who cares, right?

1. Yeasayer - Fragrant World
2. Woods - Bend Beyond
3. Tame Impala - Lonerism
4. Disappears - Pre Language
5. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
6. Why? - Mumps, Etc.
7. Mouse on Mars - Parastrophics
8. Sunken Foal - Friday Syndrome Vol. 1
9. Grizzly Bear - Shields
10. Pinback - Information Retrieved

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The rest of my list of memorable albums, more difficult to put in any order but I tried:

Violens - True
Allah-Las - Allah Las
Django Django - Django Django
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
Jaill - Traps
Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Mrs. Magician - Strange Heaven
Royal Baths - Better Luck Next Life
The Evens - The Odds
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
Oh No - Ohnomite
Himuro Yoshiteru - Our Turn, Anytime
The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
Lorn - Ask the Dust
Wax Tailor - Dusty Rainbow From the Dark
Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
Mr. 76ix - Experiment Four
Cult of Youth - Love Will Prevail
Menomena - Moms
Wymond Miles - Under the Pale Moon

Do you take my opinions seriously, Merry? :wavey:

In no particular order...


Deftones: Koi No Yokan
Black Light Burns: The moment You Realize You're Going To Fall
Die Antwoord: Ten$ion
Analog Rebellion: Full Frontal
†††: EP
El-P: Cure 4 Cancer
Tame Impala: Lonerism
How To Destroy Angels: An Omen
The xx: Coexist
Beach House: Bloom

Yeah, you're usually good for an indie recommendation. There's one list from someone I'm still waiting for after that, I should have a good idea of all the records I missed in 2012. Listen to them, and compare them to the ones I am already aware of.
I should have an AOTY list out by around March :laughing:

In no particular order...

Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful
Cody ChesnuTT - Landing On a Hundred
John Fullbright - From the Ground Up
Dr. Dog - Be the Void
The Jim Jones Revue - The Savage Heart
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat & Bone
Dr. John - Locked Down
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Tom Jones - Spirit in the Room
Jack White - Blunderbuss

Tempest - Bob Dylan
Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen
Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen
Blunderbuss - Jack White
Sunken Condos - Donald ***en <-- <edit> haha...MB censored F A G en
Slipstream - Bonnie Raitt
Locked Down - Dr. John
Mumford & Sons - Babel

I listened to it a few times and thought it was pretty spectacular. Though, my line for what I expect from them may be a bit lower than most seeing as I've never really been a HUGE fan. It's not that I don't like them, I just haven't taken the time to really dive into their music.

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Final list

1. Susanne Sundfør – “The Silicone Veil”
2. Beach House – “Bloom”
3. Dirty Projectors – “Swing Lo Magellan”
4. First Aid Kit – “The Lion’s Roar”
5. Lost In the Trees – “A Church that Fits our Needs”
6. Grizzly Bear – “Shields”
7. Port St. Willow – “Holiday”
8. Anaïs Mitchell – “Young Man in America”
9. Sharon Van Etten – “Tramp”
10. The Black Keys – “El Camino”

Not 100% set in stone but if I were to throw up an AOTY 2012 list currently it would look like this

1. Kendrick Lemar - Good Kid Mad City
2. Death Grips - The Money Store
3. El-P - Cancer 4 Cure
4. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
5. The Menzingers - On The Impossible Past
6. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
7. Jens Lekman -I Know What Love Isn't
8. BadBadNotGood - BBNG2
9. The Saddest Landscape - After The Lights
10. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

El Camino was released in Dec. 2011. One of my top 10 from 2011 tho.

Now you have room to add Bob Dylan's Tempest to your list. :)

Sorry, the list was from a forum where 2012 was counted december through december :p: Father John Misty - Fear Fun would be nr. 10

God I love that album so much. Most unappreciated gem of 2012

I think it's highly inconsistent. There are 3-4 really great songs, 3-4 really awful songs, and the rest are mediocre. It's too bad because I really want to like it more (and I do enjoy it more than any Fleet Foxes stuff). Maybe he'll pull off a more solid one next time.

Which songs are good, which are awful? I happen to love each track.

This is what I put in my RYM review:

The good:
Nancy From Now On ****
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings *****
O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me ****
This Is Sally Hatchet ****

The bad:
Writing a Novel *
Well, You Can Do It Without Me *
Now I'm Learning to Love the War **
Tee Pees 1-12 *
Everyman Needs a Companion **

The "just nice enough":
Funtimes in Babylon ***
Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2 ***
Only Son of the Ladiesman **

Some of the songs could move from the bad category to the "just good enough" category if not for the awful lyrics.

To each his own I suppose, I happen to love each track. They're playing at Bonnaroo this year. I'm super stoked.