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Top 5 punk:

Morning Glory - Poets were my Heroes

Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak out!

Off - S/T

Classics of Love - S/T

Menzingers - On the Impossible Past

 

Top 5 ska/reggae:

The Pinstripes - I

The Forthrights - S/T EP

Obi Fernandez - Confessions, Waves and the Garden State

The Skints - Part and Parcel

The Gramophone Allstars - Levant Deriva

 

Honorable mentions:

Flatfoot 56 - Toil

Mr. T Bone and the Young Lions - Nothing to Lose

The Slackers - The Radio

The Fundamentals - Get Alright

 

And there's several I haven't heard yet, such as Madness, The Beatdown, The Bandulus, Masked Intruder, and several more.  I may update once I have access to a computer I can download music on again and can go get some of this stuff...

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Top 5:

 

Column Of Heaven - Mission From God

Infernöh - War Tjard

D-Clone - Creation And Destroy

Loma Prieta - IV

Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead

 

 

rounding out the top 10:

 

Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Criminal Code - Cold Thought

M. Akers - Tough To Kill

Criaturas - Oscuridad Eterna

Outer Space - II

 

 

best album from 2011 that I didn't hear until 2012:

 

Crusades - The Sun Is Down...

 
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LPs

Grabass Charelstons - Dale And The Careeners

Propagandhi - Failed States

Dikembe - Broad Shoulders

Family Cat - Dealing With Depression

Toys That Kill - Fambly 42

 

EPs 

Post Teens - Heat

Rose Cross - Rose Cross

Black God - II

Dicks - Hate The Police reissue

Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired.... (It's an EP DAMMIT)

 

Singles 

Red Dons - Auslander

Big Eyes - Back From The Moon

Dead Milkment - Dark Clouds Over Middlemarch

Torche - Harmonslaught

Post Teens/Mauser - Fest Flexi

 

Best Demo and most excited for SPRINGTIME check 'em

Best Live FEST OBVIOUSLY... but Propagandhi and F.Y.P. reunion were the highs

 

Biggest disappointment - Forgetters LP 

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This little guy right here is the best album of 2012. Its the Frozen Teens self-titled and its fucking great. FFO: The Marked Men, The Bananas, Shang-A-Lang, etc. I know Youtube sucks for listening to music on, but if you dig it even a little you can get it here.
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Full-lengths

 

Propagandhi - Failed States (Far and away the best LP of 2012 for me)

Hot Water Music - Exister

Minus The Bear - Infinity Overhead

Luther - Let's Get You Somewhere else

Anchors - Lost At The Bottom Of The World

 

EPs (in no particular order)

 

Gates - You Are All You Have Left To Fear

The Stereo State - Crossing Canyons

Cleave - The Circle

Daylight - The Difference In Good And Bad Dreams

Restorations - A/B

 

There were good albums this year, but not many that blew me away. 2013 I think is going to be much better.

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This is clearly more than 5 but I made a list for some friends of mine and I figured I'd post it here. The placement isn't set in stone outside of the top 5 but these are my top 25.

LPs


  1. David Crowder Band - Give Us Rest or (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys])
  2. Freelance Whales - Diluvia
  3. Yellow Ostrich - Strange Land
  4. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom
  5. Taylor Swift - Red
  6. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
  7. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist
  8. alt-J - An Awesome Wave
  9. Passion Pit - Gossamer
  10. The xx - Coexist
  11. Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal
  12. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
  13. Sigur Ros - Valtari
  14. Fun. - Some Nights
  15. Jack White - Blunderbuss
  16. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
  17. Tame Impala - Lonerism
  18. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
  19. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
  20. Beach House - Bloom
  21. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
  22. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
  23. Caspian - Waking Season
  24. Purity Ring - Shrines
  25. Grimes - Visions
EPs
  1. Ben Howard - The Burgh Island EP
  2. The Griswolds - Heart Of A Lion
  3. Atlas Genius - Through the Glass EP
  4. All Sons & Daughters - The Longing
  5. Winter People - Gallons
  6. Punch Brothers - Ahoy!
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i just wanna yell about how great the icky blossoms are for a moment...

y'know when you hear a new band for the first time and you think "oh lord, all of my friends must hear this band... surely they have been discussed on VC!!"

well, i used the search function. no one is talking about them. so now i am. whaddup?

saw them open for The Faint earlier this month and have been rocking that shit since.

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My Top 10:

1. Fun. - Some Nights

2. Jack White  - Blunderbuss

3. Jeff the Brotherhood - hypnotic Nights

4. Pujol - United States of Being

5. Say Anything - Anarchy My Dear

6 Alabama Shakes - Brothers and Sisters

7 Muse - 2nd Law

8 The Killers - Battle Born

9 The Shins - Port of Morrow

10 D. Watusi - Dark party

 

 

http://stl-ben.blogspot.com/2012/12/best-lps-of-2012.html

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In no particular order:

 

Matt & Kim - Sidewalks

 

Suburban Legends - Day Job

 

Reel Big Fish - Candy Coated Fury

 

NOFX - Self Entitled

 

Apologies, I Have None - S/T

 

 

and for singles/EPs, I really loved:

 

 

Blink 182 - Dogs Eating Dogs
 
Gorillaz - DoYaThing
 
My Chemical Romance - Conventional Weapons Release #3 (The World is Ugly / The Light Behind Your Eyes)
 
 
Favorite shows of the year:
 
Streetlight Manifesto in Sacramento, NOFX/TBR in Sacramento, Reel Big Fish in San Francisco, and Toh Kay in San Francisco :)
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Top 6 because I was originally going to leave out TGA, but that album got the most plays in my iTunes this year.

 

6. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
5. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
4. mewithoutyou - Ten Stories
3. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
2. Good Old War - Come Back As Rain
1. Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves

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