Favourite album of 2012

bonobo black sands remixed

Good album.

Deftones - Koi no yokan

I hadn't heard this, so I have been listening over the last few days - yes very very good (and its not really even my kind of music)

NME top 50 is out - Lonerism at number one - pah!

http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=147&p=13018&title=50_best_albums_of_2012&more=1&c=1

Was getting pretty raged at the comment section of the Guardians AOTY 20-11, they mostly came in three flavours:

1. "Modern music is shit" (wrong, you just don't look hard enough)

2. "Taylor Swift?? Oh how eclectic!" (Good music's good music, Girls Aloud released one of THE great pop songs in my opinion, they just happen to be on Radio One and the cover of Smash Hits)

3. "Load of indie rubbish, the best albums this year have been by Soundgarden, Deftones and Muse" (Opinion, I'm sure you'll enjoy the Kerrang AOTY a lot more chap)

I'm quite surprised to see Flying Lotus near the top of a lot of these. I thought it was a bit of a miss, maybe i need to spend more time with it.

I have rediscovered the Laurel Halo album this last week and have been enjoying the tallest man on earth's commercial breakthrough which i'd initially avoided.

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

There was a very good article about Pop music by panel in the New Yorker earlier in the year.

“You’ve got to have a hook in the intro, a hook in the pre-chorus, a hook in the chorus, and a hook in the bridge.”

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/26/120326fa_fact_seabrook#ixzz2DhiQdHHE

http://youtu.be/IQpAZ3RGECg

http://youtu.be/tt2lcSLQdgo

Couple of my favourites from this year

1. "Taylor Swift?? Oh how eclectic!" (Good music's good music, Girls Aloud released one of THE great pop songs in my opinion, they just happen to be on Radio One and the cover of Smash Hits)
   
   
   
   

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Clark - Iradelphic - not his best but not too shabby

Clark - Tooth Moves - YouTube

I liked the Squarepusher album as well, for me he's back on form

Forgot to say.
Rebirth by Jimmy Cliff-legend.
Bravest man in the universe Bobby W,
(was banging on about these months ago.)

Has does anyone see a field of autotuned r&b when then look back at 2012.

wut?

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

WUT?!? I count at least 3.. maybe 4... and a couple of great pop videos too.

glad to see this thread, I haven't listened to much new music this year all, it's been a bit of a blur. looking forward to checking some of these out.

Best album:

Carter Tutti Void - Transverse

Rest of my top ten, in no particular order:

Swans - The Seer
Vatican Shadow - Ghosts Of Chechnya
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
Lee Gamble - Diversions 1994-1996
Emptyset - Medium
Conan - Monos
Dino Sabatini - Shaman's Paths
Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

*banseightballfromhousethread

aw, you love a bit of pop too pal ;)

If you were gonna include the last 12 months, you could include the roots, undun. Otherwise pretty slim pickings.

aw, you love a bit of pop too pal ;)

Last decent pop song was Rihanna 'What's My Name'

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

isnt that 'saturday night' by whigfield?

Hadaway 'What Is Love' is ace

Yeah right >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Amenra.

/thread

Allah-Las debut LP... Stonker...

Deftones - Koi no yokan

Finally listened to it this weekend. It's good. Definite +1 from me.

agree about Girls Aloud - Sugababes had a brilliant song too - still say Toxic by Spears is one of the greatest pop records ever made

Well crafted pop is a joy, and people can be too sniffy about it.
Toxic is written by Cathy Dennis, who is a supremely talented songwriter, and not a bad singer either - she did most of the vocals on the Spears track!

Girls Aloud songs are almost all written by the secretive Xenomania partnership, who are like a creative agency for writing hit pop songs. You wouldn't believe the number of top ten hits they have written.

and I don't care if it's not cool to like it on this forum, the new Muse album is one of the best records I have heard this year. I've checked out some of the earlier suggestions in this thread, and most of them have been fucking awful. That Guardian list was shite.

So apart from Muse, I particularly liked
Richard Hawley - Standing at the Sky's Edge
The Shins - Port of Morrow
and of course
New Cassettes - Winterhead

My final list was:

1. The Raveonettes - Observator
   
2. Wild Nothing - Nocturne
   
3. TOY - Toy
   
4. Beat Connection - The Palace Garden
   
5. Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
   
6. Chain and the Gang - In Cool Blood
   
7. Blanck Mass - White Math/Polymorph
   
8. Cliff Martinez - Contagion OST
   
9. DIIV - Oshin
   
10. Emeralds - Just To Feel Anything
    
11. The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceana