It's that time of year again.

Mine:

5. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
4. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
3. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
2. Mumford & Sons - Babel
1. Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

What are yours?

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No it's not.

There's still over 4 weeks left in the year.

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I've heard good things about that Lumineers album. Two people said it'd be up my alley. So far:

The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
John K. Samson - Provincial
Tindersticks - The Something Rain
Regina Spektor - What We Saw from the Cheap Seats
The Magnetic Fields - Love at the Bottom of the Ocean

What's telling about this list is that these are all artists I've been pretty committed to for some time. No one new making the list. My only new album by a new artist is Tramp by Sharon Van Etten, and while I love "Serpents" and the fact that the cover is a direct homage to John Cale's Fear, I'm not all that taken with the rest of it.

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My top 5 for 2012 include:

1. Babel -- Mumford & Sons
2. As The Crow Flies -- Amos Lee
3. Lions Roar -- First Aid Kit
4. + -- Ed Sheeran
5. Human Again -- Ingrid Michaelson

Honorable Mentions -- Mirage Rock ( Band of Horses), The Carpenter ( Avett Bros.), and Field Report ( Field Report),
and The Lumineers.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Listen, granddad, nobody buys albums anymore. I pick & choose which songs I want to listen to off Livewire & listen to them on my Galaxy III. So why don't you take your 8-tracks & Hustle your way out back to the disco!

1. Animal Collective- Centipede Hz
2. Liars- WIXIW
3. Six Organs of Admittance- Asecnt
4. Beach House- Bloom
5. Guided By Voices- Class Clown Spots a UFO
6. Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
7. Nas- Life is Good
8. Oddisee- People Hear What They See
9. Blu & Exile- Give Me My Flowers While I Can Still Smell Them
10. Roc Marciano- Reloaded

Is this retro day? Stu & Bagels posting again?

So...

Stu + Bagels = Match?

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Those are some awfully long Top 5 lists.

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i do like to shop at Kohl's....

5.5 Down IV - The Purple E.P.
5. Minus The Bear - Infinity Overhead
4. Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bone Pt.1
3. Rah Rah - The Poets Dead
2. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
1. The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

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@audioidkid

I'd agree with everything here except Silversun Pickups, I'd replace that with Gaslight Anthem Handwritten.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Beach House
Japandroids
Spiritualized
Tame Impala
Gaslight Anthem/or Nada Surf.


Beach House by a land slide.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Japandroids - Celebration
Beach House- Bloom
Guided By Voices- Class Clown Spots a UFO
Cloud Nothings- Attack on Memory
JSBX - Meat and Bone

No particular order, but Japandroids probably is my #1.



This was a 'somewhat' down year for music, IMO.

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Burial
Spiritualized
Godspeed

Can't think of much else.

I've only recently gotten into them, it's a solid album...
Only other album for this year that I can think of is Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

menos el oso is my favorite minus the bear album...

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@audioidkid

That might be mine too, but I'm also partial to the way Highly Refined Pirates starts off; either way you can't go wrong.

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants

They're a must see band imo. Just really fun to watch.

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@audioidkid

Best Albums by XRT Listeners.

http://wxrt.cbslocal.com/2013/01/10/201 ... l-results/

1 Mumford & Sons – Babel
2 Jack White – Blunderbuss
3 Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
4 The Lumineers – The Lumineers
5 Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal
6 Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
7 The Shins – Port of Morrow
8 The Killers – Battle Born
9 Passion Pit – Gossamer
10 Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania
11 David Byrne & St. Vincent – Love This Giant
12 Dave Matthews Band – Away From The World
13 Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
14 Muse – The 2nd Law
15 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
16 Bonnie Raitt – Slipstream
16 Bob Dylan – Tempest
18 Gotye – Making Mirrors
19 Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana
20 John Hiatt – Mystic Pinball
21 Gary Clark Jr. – Blak and Blue
22 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Here
23 Andrew Bird – Break It Yourself
23 Beach House – Bloom
25 Glen Hansard – Rhythm & Repose
26 Van Morrison – Born To Sing: No Plan B
27 Green Day – Uno
28 Bob Mould Silver Age
29 Norah Jones – Little Broken Hearts
30 Grizzly Bear – Sheilds

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@audioidkid

YOU DON'T SAY

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Holy shit is my list off. I must have been real sick:
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
3. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
4. Mumford & Sons - Babel
5. Jack White - Blunderbuss

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Metro...and I'm going with the GF. But, we're more excited to see Rah Rah.

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3. Glen Campbell-His last album
2. Slash featuring Myles Kennedy
1. Jack White-Blunderbuss

Best song I have heard in the last 12 months:

Kix Brooks-Wish I was new to this Town

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Just to go off topic for a moment, I used to do business with a guy in Berea, Ohio named Ronnie Dunn. Whenever I would call for him and the receptionist would ask who was calling, I'd say Kix Brooks in a hillbilly accent.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Dunn has a great voice,but Brooks has had some catchy tunes.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."