Our team’s full album lists of 2012
Somethingyousaid.com has already brought you it’s extensive 2012 album poll, which saw Tame Impala narrowly overcome Cat Power for the crown of Album of the Year, but we’ve had countless requests to publish all of our contributors’ individual Top 10 lists. So here they are. If you can’t see your fave contributor’s selections, it will be for one of two reasons: 1. They didn’t make a list this year or 2. They did make a list but Editor Bobby has lost it. Either way… sorry. You may also notice that the formatting of the lists is a bit wonky (some are in caps, some not, some have the album name first, some the artists name). Well, this is how we received them from our team. We thought about formatting them so they’re all the same but, you know, life’s too short for that shit. Just get stuck in….
Jemma Cole (Germany)
1. good kid, m.A.A.d city- KENDRICK LAMAR
2. Money Store- DEATH GRIPS
3. Attack on Memory-CLOUD NOTHINGS
4. Total Loss- HOW TO DRESS WELL
5. Visions- GRIMES
6.Shrines-PURITY RING
7. Cancer for Cure- EI-P
8. Until the Quiet Comes- FLYING LOTUS
9. R.A.P Music- KILLER MIKE
10. Moms- MENOMENA
Marcus Thaine (Australia)
1. TOPS – Tender Opposites
2. Sui Zhen – Two Seas
3. Grimes – Visions
4. Mac Demarco – 2
5. Collarbones – Die Young
6. Kyü – Kyü 2
7. Hiatus Kaiyote – Tawk Tomahawk
8. Tame Impala – Lonerism
9. Cat Power – Sun
10. Charli XCX – Super Ultra
11. Foe – Bad Dream Hotline
Kate Holcombe (Australia)
1. Sun – CAT POWER
2. Master of my make-believe – SANTIGOLD
3. Neck of the Woods – SILVERSUN PICKUPS
4. Outlands – DEEP SEA ARCADE
5. Reign of terror – SLEIGH BELLS
6. Blunderbuss – JACK WHITE
7. Coexist – The xx
8. Shields – GRIZZLY BEAR
9. The Carpenter – THE AVETT BROTHERS
10. A Year At Sea – WINTER PEOPLE
Neil Martin (England)
1. Royal Headache – ROYAL HEADACHE
2. Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads – DUSTIN WONG
3. The Violence – DARREN HAYMAN & THE LONG PARLIAMENT
4. Total Loss – HOW TO DRESS WELL
5. World Music – GOAT
6. Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! – GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
7. Who’s A Fuzzy Buddy? – THE BASTARDS OF FATE
8. Heavy Electric – EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS
9. Celebration Rock – JAPANDROIDS
10. Fear Fun – FATHER JOHN MISTY
Jess O’Callaghan (England)
1. What We Saw From the Cheap Seats – REGINA SPEKTOR
2. Butterknives to Razorblades – BEC AND BEN
3. Two Seas – SUI ZHEN
4. Ol’ Razzle Dazzle – MISSY HIGGINS
5. My Head Is An Animal – OF MONSTERS AND MEN
6. No Control – HOLLAND
7. Cable Mount Warning – THE MAPLE TRAIL
8. Coexist – THE XX
9. Sun – CAT POWER
Kaya Strehler (Switzerland)
1. Put Your Back N 2 it – PERFUME GENIUS
2. Life is Good – NAS
3. Born to Die – LANA DEL REY
4. Snakadaktal – SNAKADAKTAL (EP)
5. Dunerats – SEXY BEACH (EP)
6. Bloom – BEACH HOUSE
7. Le Voyage Dans La Lune – AIR
8. Mature Themes – ARIEL PINK
9. Lonerism – TAME IMPALA
10. Given to the Wild – MACCABEES
Harriet Cheney (Australia)
1. There’s No Leaving Now – Tallest Man on Earth
2. Master of My Make Believe – Santigold
3. Beard, Wives, Denim – Pond
4. The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
5. Lonerism – Tame Impala
6. Visions – Grimes
7. Kill For Love – Chromatics
8. Here – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
9. Outlands – Deep Sea Arcade
10. Fragrant World – Yeasayer
Tenley Nordstrom (USA)
1. The Idler’s Wheel – FIONA APPLE
2. Tempest – BOB DYLAN
3. Blunderbuss – JACK WHITE
4. Port of Morrow – THE SHINS
5. Mirage Rock – BAND OF HORSES
6. End of Days – DUMB DUMB GIRLS
7. Arrow – HEARTLESS BASTARDS
Liana Gow-Killingbeck (Australia)
1. Lonerism – TAME IMPALA
2. Visions – GRIMES
3. Oshin – DIIV
4. Nocturne – WILD NOTHING
5. Sweet Sour – BAND OF SKULLS
6. Shields – GRIZZLY BEAR
7. Bloom – BEACH HOUSE
8. Tender New Signs – TAMARYN
9. Here – EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
10. Circles – MOON DUO
Tender New Signs – TAMARYN
Andy James (England)
1. good kid m.A.A.d city – KENDRICK LAMAR
2. Heaven – THE WALKMEN
3. Lonerism – TAME IMPALA
4. Clear Heart Full Eyes – CRAIG FINN
5. The Lion’s Roar – FIRST AID KIT
6. Port of Morrow – THE SHINS
7. There’s No Leaving Now – THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH
8. Shields – GRIZZLY BEAR
9. Dept. Of Disappearance – JASON LYTLE
10. Swing Lo Magellan – DIRTY PROJECTORS
Carol Bowditch (Australia)
1. Lonerism – Tame Impala
2. Something – Chairlift
3. A is for Alpine – Alpine
4. Dry Land is Not a Myth – White Arrows
5. Shields – Grizzly Bear
6. Nightshift in Blue- Jonti
7. Nootropics – Lower Dens
8. King Tuff – King Tuff
9. Azealia Banks – Azealia Banks
10. Ty Segal & White Fence – Hair
25ThC (England)
1. “Versus the drunken master” – Prince Fatty
2. “In East London” – Wrongtom meets Deemas J
3. “The Craig Charles funk and soul club” – Various Artists
4. “Ondatropica” – Ondatropica
5. “Solidarity” – Souljazz Orchestra
6. “Until the quiet comes” – Flying Lotus
7. “Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to the Pharcyde” – Amerigo Gazaway
8. “Treme OST – Season 2” – Various Artists
9. “Broken Sunlight Series 1 – 5” – DJ Numark
10. “FRMX” – Yungun & Mr Thing
Golden Lady (England)
1. Frank Ocean-CHANNEL ORANGE
2. Chairlift-SOMETHING
3. Tame Impala-LONERISM
4. Purity Ring- SHRINES
5. Steve Smyth-RELEASE
Gary Page (England)
1. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
2. Father John Misty – Fear Fun
3. Marillion – Sounds That Can’t Be Made
4. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp
5. Grizzly Bear – Shields
6. Dexy’s – One Day I’m Going To Soar
7. The Shins – Port of Morrow
8. Cian Ciaran – Outside In
9. Band of Horses – Mirage Rock
10. Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Bobby Townsend (Australia)
1. Visions – GRIMES
2. The Haunted Man – BAT FOR LASHES
3. Something – CHAIRLIFT
4. I Awake – SARAH BLASKO
5. Two Seas – SUI ZHEN
6. Release – STEVE SMYTH
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city- KENDRICK LAMAR
8. Bloom BEACH HOUSE
9. The Money Store – DEATH GRIPS
10. Language – ZULU WINTER
And our showbiz mates’ top fives were:
Isabella Manfredi from The Preatures
1. Sun – Cat Power
2. Outlands – Deep Sea Arcade
3. Lonerism – Tame Impala
4. Something – Chairlift
5. Born to Die – Lana Del Rey
Caitlin Park
1. Sun – Cat Power
2. Zammuto – Zammuto
3. Cable Mount Warning – The Maple Trail
4. Sounds of Our City – Emma Russack
5. The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit
Jim Bob
1. One Day I’m Going to Soar – Dexys
2. Born to Die – Lana Del Rey
3. The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook – Elvis Costello & the Imposters
4. Wrecking Ball – Bruce Springsteen
Ruby Frost
1. Grimes – Visions
2. Solange – True
3. Jack White – Blunderbuss
4. Tame Impala – Lonerism
5. Breakbot – By Your Side
Larry Heath from The AU Review
1. Grizzly Bear – Shields
2. Regular John – Strange Flowers
3. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
4. Metric – Synthetica
5. DZ Deathrays – Bloodstream
Fanny Lumsden
1. Joe Pug – The Great Despiser
2. First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
3. The Lumineers – The Lumineers
4. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Wreck & Ruin.
5. Sui Zhen – Two Seas
Felix from Whipped Cream Chargers
5. Max Payne 3 Soundtrack – Health.
4. Our Will EP – Brothers Hand Mirror.
3. Seeds – Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib.
2. FEZ Soundtrack – Disasterpiece.
1. Channel Orange – Frank Ocean.
If you’ve made it this far down the page then congratulations on having an attention span. And hopefully you have some new albums to check out too. Oh, and the pedants amongst you might be thinking “hang on, that album was released in 2011,” about some of the above choices. Well, don’t forget that our team are based all over the world, and albums come out at different times in different places.
