2012 Top Albums

[marnold]

Since we are in the last week before the world comes to an end, I thought it would be interesting to hear what everybody's favorite albums were from the year now drawing to a close. How about a top 5?

1) T&N "Slave to the Empire"
2) Joe Bonamassa "Driving Towards The Daylight"
3) Van Halen "A Different Kind of Truth" (except "Tattoo")
4) 3 Inches of Blood "Long Live Heavy Metal"
5) Firewind "Few Against Many"

Honorable mention: Dragonforce "The Power Within"

And, yes, I bought them all. Seems like a bought a lot of music this year, actually.

I really wanted to have BCC's "Afterglow" on here. I love half of the album. "Confessor" is close to replacing "Song of Yesterday" as my favorite BCC track. The problem is that the other half I'd just as soon skip over. Fozzy's "Sin and Bones" is pretty good too, but I'd rather listen to "Chasing the Grail." I like Rush's "Clockwork Angels" more than I thought I would. A couple of tracks are some of my favorite Rush songs ever.

 

[Tig]

Here's what I can think of until I remember more. Not in any order:

• Bob Mould - Silver Age
• Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live From Alabama
• Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
• Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin' LIVE
• Rush - Clockwork Angels
• Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted
• Los Lobos - Kiko Live
• Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
• Deftones - Koi No Yokan
• Bonnie Raitt - Slipstream

EDIT: Adding...

Anathema - Weather Systems (thanks for the reminder, Spud)
Gary Clark Jr - Blak and Blu

 

[Algonquin]

I haven't bought that much music this year, but I've been thrilled with the latest offering from Billy Talent!
'Dead Silence'

 

[Spudman]

PROG:

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited
Beardfish - The Void
Big Big Train - English Electric
District 97 - Trouble With Machines
Riversea - Out of an Ancient World
The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden
Overhead - Of Sun and Moon
Anathema - Weather Systems
North Atlantic Oscillation - Fog Electric
DeeExpus _ King of Number 33
Frequency Drift - Ghosts
Glass Hammer - Perilous
The Tea Club - General Winter's Secret Museum
Sebastian Hardie - Blueprint
Jadis - See Right Trough You
Panic Room - Skin


ROCK:

Black Country Communion - Afterglow
Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension
Devin Townsend - Epicloud
Field Music - Plumb
Muse - The 2nd Law
It Bites - Map of the Past
Lord of Mushrooms - Perspective
Kamelot - Silverthorn
Minus the Bear - Infinity Overhead
Paul Gilbert - Vibrato
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Sound Garden - King Animal
Steve Harris - British Lion
Slash - Apocalyptic Love
Steven Wilson - Catalogue/Preserve/Amass
Mystery - The World Is a Game
Trevor Rabin - Jacaranda
Big Wreck - Albatross
Docker's Guild - Mystic Technocracy
Headspace - I Am Anonymous
IO Earth - Moments

I'm probably missing some, but these are the ones I've been listening to. It was a really good year for music

 

[Eric]

I will put in a vote for

Flying Colors by Flying Colors

I went through a couple of months where that was the only album I listened to. I also listened to

The Church of Rock and Roll by Foxy Shazam

and

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

a fair amount.

 

[R_of_G]

12 favorites of 2012...

Lucero - Women & Work
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
Kasey Anderson & The Honkies - Let the Bloody Moon Rise
The Men - Open Your Heart
Bob Dylan - Tempest
Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live From Alabama
Menahan Street Band - The Crossing
Gary Clark Jr. - Blak & Blu
Delta Spirit - Delta Spirit
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel...
Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror

Honorable mention:

American Aquarium - Burn.Flciker.Die
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

 

[Spudman]

Prog Archive's Top 100 for 2012 list

http://www.progarchives.com/top-prog-albums.asp?syears=2012