Best of 2012.

[bright lights, big city]

so you like NOTHING in this whole thread.

[DJR]

so you like NOTHING in this whole thread.

Well i like Crosses obviously...i was thinking more in terms of albums as a whole really. Crosses is an Extended Play...and i like plenty of songs from bands this year. Just cant really pinpoint a full length record that is like WOW!

[only pieces remain]

you need a new set of ears if nothing has tickled your fancy in 2012. One of the best years for new music in a long ass time.

[DJR]

you need a new set of ears if nothing has tickled your fancy in 2012. One of the best years for new music in a long ass time.

I probably just havnt searched well enough i guess.... as i said, plenty of songs that have been incredible but no full releases that have excited me . Sorry guys

[DAFTPUNK87]

THIS

[DJR]

THIS

EXACTLY!!!!

[sing blue silver]

For me, it's this.

[bright lights, big city]

KNY is definitely up there for me. It is getting to be that time of year though, what else is scheduled to come out this year? Anything?

[Velvet Tongue]

in alphabetical order by album title.

FUCKING AWESOME, KEEPS GETTING BETTER
Lost in the Trees: A Church That Fits Our Needs
A Forest of Stars: A Shadowplay for Yesterdays
The Great Old Ones: Al Azif
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Addaura: Burning For the Ancients
Meshuggah: Koloss
Periphery: Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
fun.: Some Nights
mewithoutYou: Ten Stories
Woman is the Earth: This Place That Contains My Spirit
Omega Centauri: Universum Infinitum

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
My Dying Bride: A Map of All Our Failures
Hypno5e: Acid Mist Tomorrow
Ragana: All's Lost
Converge: All We Love We Leave Behind
Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Azure Ray: As Above So Below
Deerhoof: The Break-up Song
Galaktik Cancer Squad: Celestia
Necro Deathmort: The Colonial Script
Blut aus Nord: 777 - Cosmosophy
Dodecahedron: Dodecahedron
Ea: Ea
Devil Sold His Soul: Empire of Light
Galaktik Cancer Squad: The Gathering
School of Seven Bells: Ghostory
Bat for Lashes: The Haunted Man
Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay
Clark: Iradelphic
Panopticon: Kentucky
Gojira: L'enfant sauvage
7Vortex: Leave in Past
Love Sex Machine: Love Sex Machine
Mal Etre: Medication
Saltillo: Monocyte
Monolithe: Monolithe III
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace: Nadir
Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden
Black Sheep Wall: No Matter Where It Ends
Be'lakor: Of Breath and Bone
Monarch: Omens
The Flashbulb: Opus at the End of the World
Bend the sky: Origins
Ufomammut: oRo
The Caretaker: Patience (After Sebald)
Between the Buried and Me: The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Ne Obliviscaris: Portal of I
Taylor Swift: Red
Swans: The Seer
Sinistro: Sinistro
Mondstille: Seelenwund
Galaktik Cancer Squad: Strange Spheres of Hyperborea
Wavelength:Satan: Time-blood Theory
Author & Punisher: Ursus Americanus
Vattnet Viskar: Vattnet Viskar
Sky Burial: Where Four Rivers Flow
Year Of No Light / Altar Of Plagues: Year of No Light / Altar of Plagues

[spoiler=other things i've listened to from this year]
DECENT, NEED MORE LISTENS
Chimp Spanner: All Roads Lead to Here
Les Discrets: Ariettes oubliées
Irreversible: Ashes
P.H.O.B.O.S.: Atonal Hypermnesia
Mumford & Sons: Babel
Brume D'Automne: Brume d'Automne
Ides of Gemini: Constantinople
El-P: Cure 4 Cancer
Botonist: III: Doom in Bloom
Abigail Williams: Becoming
Anthony Green: Beginnings
Axis of Light: By the Hands of the Consuming Fire
Kalya Scintilla: Dance the Spiral Never Ending
Architects: Daybreakers
Barren Earth: The Devil's Resolve
Yppah: Eighty One
Demdike Stare: Elemental
Swallow the Sun: Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Mutilation Rites: Empyrean
Blue Sky Black Death: Exalted (feat. Nacho Picasso)
Clark: Fantasm Planes
Tilly and the Wall: Heavy Mood
Holy Other: Held
Eluveitie: Helvetios
Pg. Lost: Key
Alcest: Les voyages de l'Âme
Gojira: L'enfant Savage
Alkerdeel: Morinde
Soap&Skin: Narrow
Triste L'Hiver: New Illusions
Old Man Gloom: No
Bérangère Maximin: No One is an Island
Wreck and Reference: No Youth
Be'lakor: Of Breath and Bone
Lustre: Of Strength and Solace
Triste L'Hiver: Once Again
Comus: Out of a Coma
Mares of Thrace: The Pilgrimage
Arbor: The Plutonian Shore
If These Trees Could Talk: Red Forest
Sleigh Bells: Reign of Terror
Murder Construct: Results
Secrets of the Moon: Seven Bells
Grizzly Bear: Shields
Purity Ring: Shrines
Morgue of Saints: Sleep​/​Death
Snowgoons: Snowgoons Dynasty
Sadgiqacea: Submerged in Manichea
7 Horns 7 Eyes: Throes of Absolution
The Mountain Goats: Transcendental Youth
Njiqahdda: Towers and Tides
Sigur Ros: Valtari
Eternum: Veil of Ancient Darkness
Grouper: Violet Replacement
In Mourning: The Weight of Oceans
Laster: Wijsgeer & Narreman
Dead Fader: Work it, No
Unsane: Wreck

NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE
Om: Advaitic Songs
Those Poor Bastards: Behold the Abyss
Beach House: Bloom
Mount Eerie: Clear Moon
Cyclopian: Cyclopian
Ahab: The Giant
Monuments: Gnosis
Passion Pit: Gossamer
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes: Here
Fang Island: Major
Deastro: Incinerator
Snowblink: Inner Classic
Crushed Stars: In the Bright Rain
Goats Of Doom: Lost In Time And Void
Band of Horses: Mirage Rock
Mnemic: Mnemesis
Autumn, Leaves, Scars: Negative
Art By Numbers: Reticence: The Musical
Bellows: Reelin'
The Cranberries: Roses
Drapsnatt: Skelepht
Wizard Rifle: Speak Loud Say Nothing
Storm Corrosion: Storm Corrosion
Circa Survive: Violent Waves
Datsik: Vitamin D
Turing Machine: What is the Meaning of What
Punch Brothers: Who's Feeling Young Now?
Lovedrug: Wild Blood
Celldweller: Wish Upon a Blackstar


FUCKING GARBAGE
lotus circle: Caves
Behold! the Monolith: Defender. Redeemist
BlackBurner: Feel the Burn
Hail Spirit Noir: Pneuma
Aidan Baker: Spectrum of Distraction
Arcane Roots: Left Fire
Cursive: I Am Gemini
Twilight Fauna: The Silence of a Blackening Abyss
Klank: Urban Warfare
Begrime Exemious: Visions of the Scourge
[/spoiler]

[sing blue silver]

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

[Jacob]

long list of albums

did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?

[bright lights, big city]

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.

Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.

[sing blue silver]

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.

Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.

Haha. Yeah I can dig some pop records from time to time but Taylor Swift is one that just gets under my skin. Her schtick wore out like 5 years ago.

[only pieces remain]

THIS

I concur

[DAFTPUNK87]

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.

Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.

Yeah.. I liked Lana Del Rey's album a lot. Check out Lykki Li she rocks, and so does Frankie Rose

and if you think he listens to a lot.. I wish you could see  my iTunes Library..

[thenoiboi]

THIS

I concur

yeah.

[black coffee]

long list of albums

did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?

Let me play this through. On a normal day I work 9-10 hours, sleep 7-8 hours, and let me pretend I could use every single minute of my free time for listening to music, then its absolutely possible.

[Velvet Tongue]

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

did i stutter?

long list of albums

did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?

not even close. i had notifications set up to see everything that's uploaded to a certain website from 2012, and then i scan through and bookmark/download everything that looks interesting, and then mix it into the queue of everything else i'm listening to (in order of download. i'm only about 1000+ albums and two years behind on that).

as to getting the "full experience", i'll admit that i probably don't digest a lot of this stuff as much as i could. but i'm ok with the trade off. i never delete anything, and use rym extensively to help keep my thoughts straight about something. i will eventually revisit it, and it might be a nice little gem to discover in my library, or it might remain in the "eh" category...but maybe next time it will click with me. i just really love music, and i want to hear as much of it as possible. proper digestion will happen if i like something enough, don't you fret.

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.

Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.

i'm not afraid to admit when i like something. i like what i like, and that's that. i will say that i really tried not to like taytay for a long time, but i just can't help it. she's like that little sister that is sometimes annoying, but you love her to death and would do anything for her, and you want to keep her safe. i've come to terms with that.

and like i said, i like to keep things wide open music-wise. i just started doing a metal radio show at a local college though, so my metal intake has definitely bumped up recently.

PRETTY GREAT, MAY GET BETTER WITH TIME
Taylor Swift: Red

wat?

Hey can't a bro dig a pop album here and there? I gave that shit a listen, but it didn't click with me as it did Velvet Tongue. I liked KP's Complete Confection and Lana Del Rey's Born To Die much better.

Oh and Velvet, it seems you may the only person I can think of that listens to more music than I do. And more genres, too. Christ man that's a lot of freakin' music.

Yeah.. I liked Lana Del Rey's album a lot. Check out Lykki Li she rocks, and so does Frankie Rose

and if you think he listens to a lot.. I wish you could see  my iTunes Library..

challenge accepted.

i will also note that everything in my itunes library has been listened to, i don't add things to my itunes until i'm ready to listen to them.

long list of albums

did you listen to every release of this year, or what? can you really sink into an album properly with that many to listen to?

Let me play this through. On a normal day I work 9-10 hours, sleep 7-8 hours, and let me pretend I could use every single minute of my free time for listening to music, then its absolutely possible.

yup that's about right. i listen to music all day at work.

at home i have a policy to only listen to albums that i physically own.

my car i can listen to whatever i want, but lately i've just been picking one CD to have on repeat there for a few weeks at a time, and rotate it as needed.

[Jacob]

much respect to you. I used to have an unhealthy love for music and would use every wake hour to listen to something, finding new bands all the time etc. but somewhere along the road that kinda got lost and now I'm usually sitting comfortably with the same old stuff. rarely getting into new artists these days, which really sucks. but honestly, I find most of the new things I hear rather uninteresting and uninspired. and I've never been one to try to force myself to like something.

[Flowb]

Deftones
Smashing Pumpkins
Silversun Pickups
Meshuggah
Gojira