Showing posts with label Alabama Shakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama Shakes. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 08, 2013

The 111 Best Albums of 2012


Thanks to all those who voted!

Here are the 111 Best Albums of 2012:


  1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (Bonus Track)
  2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange (Bonus Track)
  3. Jack White - Blunderbuss (Bonus Track)
  4. Kendrick Lamar - g.o.o.d. kid, maad city
  5. Grizzly Bear – Shields
  6. The xx - Co-Exist
  7. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
  8. Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel
  9. Sharon Von Etten - Tramp
  10. Beach House - Bloom
  11. Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits
  12. The Lumineers – Lumineers
  13. Tame Impala – Lonerism
  14. Bob Mould - Silver Age
  15. Ben Folds Five - The Sound of Life of the Mind
  16. Shins - Port of Morrow
  17. Grimes - Vision
  18. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist
  19. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
  20. Of Monsters and Men - My Head Is An Animal
  21. Soundgarden - King Animal
  22. Chromatics - Kill For Love
  23. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die/Paradise
  24. The Walkmen - Heaven
  25. Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth
  26. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
  27. Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
  28. First Aid Kit - Lion’s Roar
  29. Burial - Truant/Kindred EP
  30. Bahamas - Barchords
  31. Swans - The Seer
  32. Pinback - Information Retrieved
  33. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
  34. Bloc Party - Four
  35. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
  36. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky
  37. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
  38. Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
  39. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
  40. Bob Dylan - Tempest
  41. Fun. - Some Nights
  42. Andrew Bird - Break It Yourself
  43. TY Segall – Twins
  44. Bobby Womack - Bravest Man in the Universe
  45. Passion Pit - Gossamer
  46. Liars - WIXIW
  47. Gary Clark Jr. - Black and Blu
  48. The Corin Tucker Band - Kill My Blues
  49. Olafur Arnalds - Another Happy Day
  50. Wintersleep - Hello Hum
  51. Matt Skiba and the Sekrets - Babylon
  52. Titus Andronicus - Local Business
  53. Crystal Castles - III
  54. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
  55. Hot Chip - In Our Heads
  56. Jesse Ware - Devotion
  57. Four Tet - Pink
  58. Glen Hansard - Rhythm & Repose
  59. Sun Kil Moon - Among The Leaves
  60. Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
  61. Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
  62. The Lighthouse and the Whaler - This Is an Adventure
  63. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
  64. The Big Pink - Future This
  65. Yellowcard - Southern Air
  66. Harold Budd - Bandits of Stature
  67. Pilot to Gunner - Guilty Guilty
  68. Muse - The 2nd Law
  69. Said The Whale - Little Mountain
  70. P.O.S - We Don't Even Live Here
  71. Fang Island - Major
  72. Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
  73. Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
  74. Aesop Rock - Skeleton
  75. Delta Spirit - Delta Spirit
  76. Lambchop - Mr. M
  77. Metric - Synthetica
  78. Jon Samuel - First Transmission
  79. Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton
  80. Lostprophets - Weapons
  81. Mumford & Sons - Babel
  82. Lee Fields & the Expressions - Faithful Man
  83. Bad Veins - The Mess We’ve Made
  84. Everclear - Invisible Stars
  85. Forgetters - Forgetters
  86. Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
  87. Niki & the Dove - Instinct
  88. Classics of Love - Classics of Love
  89. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
  90. Yukon Blonde - Tiger Talk
  91. Goodnight Lights - As Far As the Moon
  92. Joel Plaskett Emergency - Scrappy Happiness
  93. Vijay Iyer Trio - Accelerando
  94. Marconi Union - Different Colors
  95. Purity Ring - Shrines
  96. Minus The Bear - Infinity Overheard
  97. Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual
  98. Field Report - Field Report
  99. Twin Shadow - Confess
  100. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
  101. Two Door Cinema - Beacon
  102. Rhett Miller - The Dream/The Interpreter Live At Largo
  103. Maus Haus - Light Noise
  104. Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
  105. Battles - Dross Glop
  106. Minilogue - Endlessness EP
  107. Amos The Transparent - Goodnight My Dear
  108. Django Django - Django Django
  109. Animal Collective - Centipede Hz
  110. Jeff The Brotherhood - Hypnotic Nights
  111. My Bloody Valentine - The EPs 1988-1991

Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Best Albums of 2012 (34-44):


If you haven't voted for the best album of the year...do it now!  Right now.

Put your twenty favorite albums in the comment section.

I've been playing around with the new Myspace this week.  I'm making some playlists so when all my readers join, you can link to me and I'll have my daily lists available to listen.  Could be very exciting.  More to come on that.  right now...it's time to vote.

Here are the Best Albums of 2012 (34-44):

34.  Action Bronson - Blue Chips (download for free)
35.  Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
36.  Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
37.  Burial - Kindred/One Two
38.  Ben Gibbard - Former Lives
39.  The Cribs - In the Belly of the Brazen Bull
40.  Joey Bada$$ - 1999 (download for free)
41.  Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames - New Multitudes (Bonus Track)
42.  Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
43.  Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
44.  Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory

Buy these albums and more!

Monday, July 02, 2012

The 11 Best Albums of 2012...so far



As you probably know from my rantings this year, finding great music has been in short supply.  I feel like I want to like more music than I actually do.  I follow the new releases pretty religiously...to the point that Tuesday is as sacred in my house as Sunday is in most of middle America.  I'm always looking for the next Bon Iver, the XX, or Arcade Fire.  But with the mediocre batch of releases this year...I'll settle for the next Motion City Soundtrack at this point.  (Okay, maybe not that)

This batch of releases is actually fairly solid...just nothing mind blowing...not yet.  Great music does have to grow on you.  And maybe some of the highly-touted releases (The Men, Torche, Kelly Hogan, Sharon Van Eten, Liars, Father John Misty, Ceremony, Daughn Gibson, Pallbearer, Dexys, Screaming Females, or The Walkmen) will grow on me.  Until then...this is what we have to work with.

Here are the 11 Best Albums of 2012...so far:

  1. The Big Pink - Future This
  2. Jack White - Blunderbuss
  3. Schoolboy Q - Habits & Contradictions
  4. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
  5. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
  6. The Cribs - In The Belly of the Brazen Bull
  7. The Shins - Port of Morrow
  8. Japandroids - Celebration Rock (only $2.99...limited time!!)
  9. Joey Bada$$ - 1999  (this one is free!!)
  10. Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
  11. Jay Farrar - New Multitudes
What are your favorites this year?