Best Albums Of The Year Lists

[SteveO]

Nice list Crazy mate ! I like your "disappointing " list...for me it was Macy Gray's tribute to Stevie Wonder and the Mumford's Babel.

my end of year 'best album's list" for 2012....

these are in no particular order and i couldnt settle on 10, infact i couldnt eliminate it past 14, so fourteen it is....

one album in the list is Rodriguez's "searching for soulman" which is a compilation of his two albums released back in the day, i had to include it because without listening to that one i would never have been a fan.

THE LIST:

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "wreckin' ball"
2. ANGUS STONE "broken brights"
3. BOB DYLAN "tempest"
4. JACK WHITE "blunderbuss"
5. JASON COLLETT "reckon"
6. WINTER PEOPLE "a year at sea"
7. RODRIGUEZ "searching for soulman"
8. ALABAMA SHAKES "boys & girls"
9. NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "psychadelic pill"
10.TAME IMPALA "lonerism"
11.THE BLACK KEYS "el camino"
12.TAYLOR SWIFT "red"
13.FUN "some nights"
14.THE AVETT BROTHERS "the carpenter"

the three most dissapointing "new release" albums i bought this year were:

1. PAUL WELLER "sonik kicks" worst album of his career IMO
2. NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "americana" i expected better from CH doing a 'folk covers' album
3. PAUL McCARTNEY "kisses on the bottom" bland,boring,"cant be arsed,but lets make some money" effort from the former Beatle

albums i am looking foreward to next year include:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds one due in february

2. Neil Finn due out early next year

3. John Fogerty, should have been released a couple of months ago, so i guess it is scheduled for next year

4. Paul McCartney has a 'rock album' that has been recorded, i had heard rumours it was coming out in 2012 shortly after 'kisses...' but didnt eventuate.

either way, i look foreward to hearing a stack of new releases over the next 12 months, and hopefully a few will meet my satisfaction to purchase at some point, and also, discovering a few new or older artists though members of MD....