KMC's Top 10 Albums 2012

EDIT: Five years later, thread gets an update. Just for fun, pot up your personal top 10 joints of 2012. Been quite a good year, interested to see what everybody's saying.

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Hey, why not. Everyone bitches about the old list after all.

Use this thread to post your top 10's, then when we reach what we all generally agree to be a suitable amount of contributions, I'll add them up and put the final 10 in the old thread.

Commence.

1. Opeth – Orchid
2. Tool – Lateralus
3. Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
4. Massive Attack – Mezzanine
5. Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
6. Radiohead – OK Computer
7. Alice In Chains - Dirt
8. Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
9. Deftones – Around The Fur
10. Willhaven – Carpe Diem

Predictable. I'm so predictable.

Muse - Showbiz
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The Stone Roses - Self Titled
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile.

The list of my favourite albums does change quite a lot though.

björk = homogenic
massive attack = mezzanine
massive attack = 100th window
portishead = dummy
björk = medúlla
de-phazz = death by chocolate
emiliana torrini = love in the time of science
tool = aenima
deftones = around the fur
tricky = maxinquaye

Cake- Fashion Nugget
Gorillaz- Gorillaz
Tool- Lateralus
Aphex Twin- Richard D. James Album
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Audioslave- Audioslave
Jedi Mind Tricks- Violent by Design
Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack
Blackalicious- Blazing Arrow
Rage Against the Machine- Rage Against the Machine

Originally posted by Deathblow
Hey, why not. Everyone bitches about the old list after all.

Use this thread to post your top 10's, then when we reach what we all generally agree to be a suitable amount of contributions, I'll add them up and put the final 10 in the old thread.

Commence.

edit

1. Cannibal Ox- Cold Vein
2. Gza- Liquid Swords
3. Organized Konfusion- Stress the Extinction Agenda
4. Cunninlynguists- WIll Rap For Food
5. Wu Tang Clan- Enter the 36 Chambers
6. Radiohead- Kid A
7. Blackalicious- Blazing Arrows
8. Chino XL- Here To Save You All
9. Ras Kass- Soul On Ice
10. Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor

1. Jeff Buckley - Grace
2. Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
3. Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
5. Faith No More - Angel Dust
6. Mr.Bungle - Mr.Bungle
7. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
8. Tool - Lateralus
9. Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
10. Nujabes - Metaphorical Music

1. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
2. Dir en grey - Withering To Death
3. Tool - Lateralus
4. Opeth - Deliverance
5. Radiohead - OK Computer
6. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8. Muse - Absolution
9. Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
10. Led Zeppelin - IV

1. Tool - Lateralus
2. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
3. Interpol - Turn on the Bright lights.
4. Pink Floyd - The Wall
5. Tool - 10,000 Days
6. Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
7. Led Zeppelin - IV
8. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
9. Tool - Ænima
10. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti

Surprise.

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
4. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
5. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
6. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
7. Lou Reed - Transformer
8. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
9. The Stooges - Raw Power
10. Pulp - Different Class

1. Illinois by Sufjan Stevens

2. Ys by Joanna Newsom

3. Damnation by Opeth

4. 10,000 Days by Tool

5. Kid A by Radiohead

6. Delirivm Cordia by Fantomas

7. Angel Dust by Faith No More

8. Mr Bungle by Mr Bungle

9. Grace by Jeff Buckley

10. Purple Rain by Prince

1.) Glass Houses - Billy Joel
2.) Led Zeppelin IV
3.) An Innocent Man - Billy Joel
4.) Bad - Michael Jackson
5.) Hotel California - The Eagles

**I'll post 6-10 later

1. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
2. Radiohead - OK Computer
3. White Stripes - Elephant
4. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
5. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
6. Nirvana - Nevermind
7. Metallica - Black Album
8. Nirvana - In Utero
9. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
10. Thursday - War All The Time

since i'm unflaggingly rebellious, i'm making TWO top tens. eat that!

list a: what came to mind first

wilco - summerteeth
belle and sebastian - if you are feeling sinister
slint - spiderland
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
arcade fire - funeral
the beatles - revolver
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
bikeride - morning macumba
neutral milk hotel - aeroplane over the sea
olivia tremor control - dusk at the cubist castle

list b: what came to mind when i thought about it

david bowie - hunky dory
elvis costello - my aim is true
his name is alive - mouth by mouth/stars on esp
tom waits - rain dogs
mendoza line - we're all in this alone
pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain
sonic youth - daydream nation
van dyke parks - song cycles
bob drake - the skull mailbox and other horrors
built to spill - there's nothing wrong with love

Originally posted by manorastroman
since i'm unflaggingly rebellious, i'm making TWO top tens. eat that!

list a: what came to mind first

wilco - summerteeth
belle and sebastian - if you are feeling sinister
slint - spiderland
lightning bolt - wonderful rainbow
arcade fire - funeral
the beatles - revolver
fiery furnaces - blueberry boat
bikeride - morning macumba
neutral milk hotel - aeroplane over the sea
olivia tremor control - dusk at the cubist castle

list b: what came to mind when i thought about it

david bowie - hunky dory
elvis costello - my aim is true
his name is alive - mouth by mouth/stars on esp
tom waits - rain dogs
mendoza line - we're all in this alone
pavement - crooked rain, crooked rain
sonic youth - daydream nation
van dyke parks - song cycles
bob drake - the skull mailbox and other horrors
built to spill - there's nothing wrong with love

1.) Purple Rain - Prince
2.) Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five
3.) Here, My Dear- Marvin Gaye
4.) Pet Sounds- The Beach Boys
5.) Discovery- Daft Punk
6.) Joe's Garage- Frank Zappa
7.) House Arrest- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 5
8.) Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
9.) Bad- Michael Jackson
10.) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band- The Beatles

Blue - Joni Mitchell
Kid A - Radiohead
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
Deliverance - Opeth
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Angel Dust - Faith No More
Lateralus - Tool
Gracias a La Vida - Joan Baez
Blue Lines - Massive Attack

"Tool", lol they're good ❌ Wait.... Let me think, no, no, actually the aren't.

1. Meat is Murder - The Smiths
2. Yanqui U.X.O. - Godspeed You Black Emperor!
3. OK Computer - Radiohead
4. Come on feel the Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
5. Grace - Jeff Buckley
6. Funeral - The Arcade Fire
7. Blue - Joni Mitchell
8. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
9. London Calling - The Clash
10. Transformer - Lou Reed

Wow, that one was pretty hard, I had quite a few others I considered, like YS (Joanna Newsom), The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground), The Battle of Los Angeles (Rage Against The Machine), Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Godspeed You Black Emperor), Kid A (Radiohead), Strangeways Here We Come (The Smiths), Elephant (The White Stripes), The Queen is Dead (The Smiths), Renegades (Rage Against the Machine), etc.