Albums of 2012

Goat wins again, FATALITY
www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/feature.php?feature=708

I FOUND THEM FIRST, I CLAIM THEM, SOAPBOX ARTIST OF THE YEAR, BEST ALBUM EVER

Nice to see, always have big respect for Picadilly records end of year album list (even if it is posted before the bad aids day). Goat will definitely be high up in my list for sure.

I'll go to my grave maintaining that Hawley's 'Standing at the Sky's Bawsack', or whatever its called, is fucking RANK.

Amen.

WHO THA FUCK ARE YOU?

I'll never forget the look on Action Bronson's face

NME TOP 50


50 Purity Ring Shrines
49 Flying Lotus Until The Quiet Comes
48 The 2 Bears Be Strong
47 John Talabot fIN
46 Bobby Womack The Bravest Man In The Universe
45 Lana Del Rey Born To Die
44 Kendrick Lamar Good Kid, mAAd City
43 Ratking Wiki93
42 Paul Weller Sonik Kicks
41 Ty Segall Twins
40 Polica Give You The Ghost
39 Liars WIXIW
38 TEED Trouble
37 Enter Shikari A Flash Flood Of Colour
36 The Vaccines - Come Of Age
35 Metz Metz
34 Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man
33 Hot Chip In Our Heads
32 Graham Coxon A+E
31 G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer
30 Breton Other Peoples Problems
29 Mac DeMarco 2
28 Spiritualized Sweet Heart, Sweet Light
27 Jessie Ware Devotion
26 Spector Enjoy It While It Lasts
25 Ariel Pink Mature Themes
24 Merchandise Children Of Desire
23 Richard Hawley Standing At The Skys Edge
22 Beach House Bloom
21 Cat Power Sun
20 Howler America Give Up
19 Toy Toy
18 Tribes Baby
17 Grizzly Bear Shields
16 Melodys Echo Chamber Melodys Echo Chamber
15 Sharon Van Etten Tramp
14 The xx Coexist
13 DIIV Oshin
12 David Byrne & St. Vincent Love This Giant
11 Django Django Django Django
10 Jack White Blunderbuss
09 Jake Bugg Jake Bugg
08 The Cribs In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
07 Pond Beard Wives Denim
06 The Maccabees Given To The Wild
05 Alt-J An Awesome Wave
04 Crystal Castles (iii)
03 Frank Ocean Channel Orange
02 Grimes Visions
01 Tame Impala Lonerism

I for the life of me cannot see what people see in tame impala. The record just floats along so inoffensively, it's decent at best and at times is actually quite dull.

No Goat, no soul.

That's got to be the worst NME list so far this century.

I can't claim to have heard all 50 of those albums, but I know for a fact more than a third of them are below average at best.

Maybe it is one of the worst nme lists of this century but I think it's more to do with the average music that's been released this year than anything that's fundamentally wrong with their list.

Obviously it's missing the GOAT album, but so would I if I didn't post on this forum.

To an extent, but it's also a lot to do with the fact the NME doesn't bother looking past the usual established labels anymore and whatever else Pitchfork might hype up - hence no Goat.

Plus there's at least half a dozen good UK albums not included there that could have made that list.

Django Django are jank LIKE A DEFAULLLLLLT

I think that about both records tbh

a top 50 list that doesn't feature chromatics

Think I'll be doing a Top 25 this year. Tame Impala & Goat are bankers for the Top 10.

I don't know if I'm becoming an old grumpy cunt or it has been a mediocre year, but there are not many records that have made a big impression on me. I have enjoyed many, but love very few and with reluctances. Last year happened something similar, so I guess it's just me.

Youtubed songs by the odd band on that NME list to see some of what I'd missed out on this year, nothing much jumped out. Did get a couple of records on the back of half-liking some tunes though, one of which being Spector - Enjoy It While It Lasts. Pointless, boring, super cliched arsecandle of an indie record. You blew it NME, you blew it.

Yeah, the little I've heard of Spector has let me very annoyed with life and humanity.

surprised beady eye or nikki minaj never made it




^^^ proper rock n roooool