Author Topic: Top 5 Albums of 2012 (Read 4773 times)

Cedar redaC · « **on:** January 06, 2013, 07:04:57 PM »

Well, there hasn't been any of these threads yet, so I thought I would start one.

Tied for first:
Circus Maximus- Nine
Rush- Clockwork Angels

Also:
Devin Townsend Project- Epicloud
Beach House- Bloom
Steve Vai- The Story of Light

Edit: Honorable Mention: Thrice- Anthology

Elite · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:09:51 PM »

There was this 'musical resumé of 2012' thread in which pne of the questions was to name your top 5 albums of the year..

Unlegit · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:11:22 PM »

Good idea.

1. Rush - Clockwork Angels
2. Circus Maximus - Nine
3. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
4. Neal Morse - Momentum
5. Demon Hunter - True Defiance

Honorable Mentions: The Flower Kings - Banks of Eden, August Burns Red - Sleddin' Hill, Anberlin - Vital.

LieLowTheWantedMan · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:12:21 PM »

^Yeah but I'm too lazy to fill out that thing.

EDIT: This was at Elite.

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Godspeed! You Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
3. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax 2: Future Sequence
4. Burial - Kindred EP
5. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:19:20 PM »

1: Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion
2: Devin Townsend - Epicloud
3: Katatonia - Dead End Kings
4: Periphery - Periphery II
5: Meshuggah - Koloss

Honorable Mention: Between The Buried And Me - Parallax II

wolfking · « **Reply #5 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:34:55 PM »

Blessed By A Broken Heart - Feel The Power
Circus Maximus - Nine
Eclipse - Bleed and Scream
Jeff Scott Soto - Damage Control
Harry Hess - Living In Yesterday

Honorable mentions

Tremonti - All I Was
The Faceless - Autotheism
Threshold - March of Progress
Hardline - Danger Zone
HEAT - Address the Nation
Sunstorm - Emotional Fire
Primal Fear - Unbreakable

Elite · « **Reply #6 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:39:01 PM »

1. Headspace - I Am Anonymous
2. Beyond the Bridge - The Old Man and the Spirit
3. Ørkenkjøtt - Ønskediktet
4. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost in the New Real
5. Circus Maximus - Nine

Honourable mentions to Townsend and Godspeed.

Accelerando · « **Reply #7 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:42:04 PM »

1. Childish Gambino - Royalty
2. Tremonti - All I Was
3. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
4. Robert Glasper - Black Radio
5. Alter Bridge - Live At Wembley

Honorable Mention - Muse - The 2nd Law, Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox, Kanye West Presents G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer, Elie Goulding - Lights

Adami · « **Reply #8 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:44:11 PM »

1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2. anneke van giersbergen - Everything is Changing
3. Stone Sour - House of something or other pt. 1
4. Kamelot - Silverthorn
5. Tremonti - All I Was.

Jaq · « **Reply #9 on:** January 06, 2013, 07:46:06 PM »

1. Between the Buried and Me-The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2. Ihsahn-Eremita
3. Big Big Train-English Electric Part 1
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Allejuah. Don't Bend, Ascend.
5. Headspace, I Am Anonymous

Honorable mentions: Marillion, Sounds That Can't Be Made, Circus Maximus, Nine, Dawnbringer, Into The Lair of the Sun God, Stone Sour, House of Gold and Bones pt 1.

senecadawg2 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:16:22 PM »

1 Anathema
2 Beyond the Bridge
3 Circus Maximus
4 Mumford and Sons
5 Flying Colors
6 Clockwork Angels

2 through six are interchangeable

The Letter M · « **Reply #11 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:20:50 PM »

In no particular order:

Clockwork Angels by Rush
Momentum by Neal Morse
Banks Of Eden by The Flower Kings
Sounds That Can't Be Made by Marillion
Flying Colors by Flying Colors

Honorable mentions to: Anathema (Weather Systems), Big Big Train (English Electric Part 1), Hasse Froberg & The Musical Companion (Powerplay), Muse (The 2nd Law), and Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Lost In The New Real).

2012 was a good year, full of great new music but it looks like this year will have some great ones as well!

-Marc.

Phoenix87x · « **Reply #12 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:22:13 PM »

1. Coheed and Cambria- The afterman
2. Rush-Clockwork Angels
3. Anathema- Weather Systems
4. Deftones- Koi no Yokan
5. Deadmau5 - Album title goes here

Honorable mentions:
Submotion Orchestra- Fragments
Hotline Miami soundtrack
Gotye- Making Mirrors

Nekov · « **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:23:02 PM »

1. Anathema - Weather Systems
2. Flying Colors - Flying Colors
3. Rush - Clockwork Angels
4. Neal Morse - Momentum
5. Marco Minnemann - Evil Smiles of Beauty % Sound of Crime

philmcson · « **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:24:33 PM »

Quote from: Elite on January 06, 2013, 07:09:51 PM

There was this 'musical resumé of 2012' thread in which pne of the questions was to name your top 5 albums of the year..

Mhm, it was

Okay, once again, in no particular order:

Rush - Clockwork angels
Accept - Stalingrad
Flying colors
Gojira - L'enfant sauvage
Infernal Tenebra - New formed revelations

close: Kreator - Phantom antichrist

AND I'LL ADD MY MOST ANTICIPATED ALBUMS OF 2013 *trollface*

Slayer
James LaBrie
DT
Portnoy/Sheehan/Kotzen
Motörhead
Gojira - Sea Shepherd EP

jingle.boy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:27:25 PM »

Thought we did this already, but here it is again.

Beyond the Bridge - Old Man and the Spirit
Affector - Harmagedonn
Threshold - March of Progress
Blessed By A Broken Heart - Feel The Power
Flying Colors - s/t

Way too many #6's

Shattered Glass · « **Reply #16 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:34:13 PM »

Dinosaur Jr - I bet on sky
Coheed and Cambria - the Afterman
Beardfish - The Void
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - Lost Songs
Katatonia - Dead End Kings

HM's OSI - Fire Make Thunder, Rndm - Rndm, Meshuggah - Koloss, Rush - Clockwork Angels,

Cedar redaC · « **Reply #17 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:37:26 PM »

I really need to get the Beyond the Bridge album. The parts of it I've heard sound so epic!

PuffyPat · « **Reply #18 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:37:35 PM »

1. Ambassadors - Litost
2. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
3. Jack White - Blunderbuss
4. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
5. Maps & Atlases - Beware and Be Grateful

Accelerando · « **Reply #19 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:50:36 PM »

Quote from: Adami on January 06, 2013, 07:44:11 PM

1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2. anneke van giersbergen - Everything is Changing
3. Stone Sour - House of something or other pt. 1
4. Kamelot - Silverthorn
5. Tremonti - All I Was.

Ooh nice call on that Stone Sour. I remember thoroughly enjoying it when I first gave it a listen.

adace · « **Reply #20 on:** January 06, 2013, 08:56:35 PM »

1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud
2. Threshold - March of Progress
3. Enslaved - Riitiir
4. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
5. Kamelot - Silverthorn

Nel · « **Reply #21 on:** January 06, 2013, 09:04:44 PM »

So much good came out. So many good debut albums by little indie folk bands, and so many great singles by new bands in general, but mostly none of those made it into my list. My 2011 list wasn't in order but this one will be.

MOAR THAN 5 GOOOOO!

12)Deftones - Koi No Yokan
11)The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
10)Tetrafusion - Horizons EP
9)Foreign Fields - Anywhere But Where I Am
8)The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
7)Rush - Clockwork Angels
6)Serj Tankian - Harakiri
5)Muse - The 2nd Law
4)Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods
3)Coheed And Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
2)Yeasayer - Fragrant World
1)Gazpacho - March Of Ghosts

We also had some great debuts by Walk The Moon, The Lumineers, Imagine Dragons and Of Monsters And Men, but while those albums have great songs I didn't feel the albums as a whole were good enough to break into my list. I've also yet to listen to several albums from 2012 I was interested in, such as Julien-K's We're Here With You. I liked what I heard of Beardfish's The Void, but unfortunately I haven't gotten around to the second half of the album. Also of note is that the Red Hot Chili Peppers have been releasing singles+b-sides of songs from their I'm With You sessions that didn't make that album since about last fall, but it's not technically an album.

Biggest disappointment of the year was The Fray's Scars & Stories. I know this band gets a lot of flak to begin with, but I really liked their first two albums. While this one had the same sound, I felt it lacked any of the memorable hooks and choruses they had before, and the whole thing just came off as very soulless and by the numbers.

FlyingBIZKIT · « **Reply #22 on:** January 06, 2013, 09:05:19 PM »

1. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
2. Anathema - Weather Systems
3. Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman
4. OSI - Fire Make Thunder
5. Flying Colors - Flying Colors

Lolzeez · « **Reply #23 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:38:08 PM »

Hmmm is 10 good enough?

10)Anathema-Weather Systems
9)Swans-The Seer
8)Fiona Apple-The Idler Wheel
7)Rush-Clockwork Angels
6)The Latest Godspeed You! album (too lazy to type on phone)
5)Ian Anderson-Thick As A Brick 2
4)Deftones-Koi No Yokan
3)Dirty Three-Toward The Low Sun
2)Grizzly Bear-Shields
1)Focus-X

HarlequinForest · « **Reply #24 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:43:17 PM »

1. Anathema - Weather Systems
2. Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Ame
3. Anglagard - Vijlars Oga
4. Circus Maximus - Nine
5a. Enslaved - RIITIIR
5b. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

lonestar · « **Reply #25 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:46:27 PM »

1- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
2- Speaking to Stones- Elements
3- Marillion- Sounds that Can't be Made
4- Secret Sphere- Portrait of a Dying Heart
5- Mystery- The World is a Game

jingle.boy · « **Reply #26 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:51:06 PM »

Quote from: lonestar on January 06, 2013, 10:46:27 PM

1- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
2- Speaking to Stones- Elements
3- Marillion- Sounds that Can't be Made
4- Secret Sphere- Portrait of a Dying Heart
5- Mystery- The World is a Game

5 pretty amazing albums right there. Amazing how - 6 months later - Stargate doesn't even make the top 5!?!!?

Dark Castle · « **Reply #27 on:** January 06, 2013, 10:54:39 PM »

1. Grimes - Visions
2. Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
3. Baroness - Yellow & Green
4. Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions: Volume 1
5. A Life Once Lost - Ecstatic Trance

6. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
7. Enslaved - Riitiir
8. Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
9. Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
10. Woods of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Lights

lonestar · « **Reply #28 on:** January 06, 2013, 11:04:18 PM »

Quote from: jingle.boy on January 06, 2013, 10:51:06 PM

Quote from: lonestar on January 06, 2013, 10:46:27 PM
1- Beyond the Bridge- The Old Man and the Spirit
2- Speaking to Stones- Elements
3- Marillion- Sounds that Can't be Made
4- Secret Sphere- Portrait of a Dying Heart
5- Mystery- The World is a Game

5 pretty amazing albums right there. Amazing how - 6 months later - Stargate doesn't even make the top 5!?!!?

Speaking to Stones pushed it out, it would have two weeks ago.

The King in Crimson · « **Reply #29 on:** January 06, 2013, 11:19:49 PM »

1) Anathema - Weather Systems
2) Coheed and Cambria - The Aftermath: Ascension
3) Ihsahn - Eremita
4) High On Fire - Der Vermiis Mysteris
5) Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata

6) Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
7) Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I
8) Muse - The 2nd Law
9) Meshuggah - Koloss
10) Between the Buried and Me - Future Sequence

Phantasmatron · « **Reply #30 on:** January 07, 2013, 12:41:39 AM »

1. The Pineapple Thief - All the Wars
2. Linkin Park - Living Things (Shut up. And I'm hoping Super Dude will back me up on this.)
3. The Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
4. OSI - Fire Make Thunder
5. Anathema - Weather Systems

? · « **Reply #31 on:** January 07, 2013, 12:57:31 AM »

1. Katatonia - Dead End Kings
2. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
3. Storm Corrosion - s/t
4. OSI - Fire Make Thunder
5. Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name
honorable mentions:
6. Anathema - Weather Systems
7. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

Zantera · « **Reply #32 on:** January 07, 2013, 04:02:25 AM »

1. Swans - The Seer
2. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
4. Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II: Future Sequence
5. Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory

Mladen · « **Reply #33 on:** January 07, 2013, 04:13:50 AM »

Quote from: lonestar on January 06, 2013, 10:46:27 PM

5- Mystery- The World is a Game

Nice pick, that's a cool album.

Anyway:

10. Storm Corrosion - Storm corrosion
9. Neal Morse - Momentum
8. Ian Anderson - Thick as a brick 2
7. Unisonic - Unisonic
6. Aerosmith - Music from another dimension
5. Flying Colors - Flying colors
4. Muse - The 2nd law
3. of Montreal - Paralytic stalks
2. Rush - Clockwork angels
1. Stone Sour - House of gold and bones 1

Lowdz · « **Reply #34 on:** January 07, 2013, 05:08:33 AM »

1 Rush- Clockwork Angels
2 Dynazty- Sultans Of Sin
3 HEAT- Address The Nation
4 Mob Rules- Cannibal Nation
5 Testament- Dark Roots Of Earth

next 5

6 Circus Maximus- Nine
7 Joe Bonamassa- Driving Towards The Daylight
8 Threshold- March Of Progress
9 Halestorm- Strange Case Of
10 Devin Townsend- Epicloud

News: Fall Into the Light, official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFxH4kky6z4

Author Topic: Top 5 Albums of 2012 (Read 4773 times)