Best albums so far of 2012

[dorkrockcorkrod]

^ I'm a big fan of Self-Entitled: still haven't heard that Title Fight record yet, nor the Shook Ones EP: should get on that this week.

Self Entitled is indeed awesome!
And the new TF and Shook Ones releases are great too - listen to 'em as soon as you can.

Also...more to add!
Propagandhi - Failed States
MXPX - Plans Within Plans
Basement - Colourmeinkindness

[Outerspaceman21]

Here is my final list of the year. Not much else for me to look forward too right now, but if something comes up I'll add it.

What I really liked/loved/can't stop listening to:
The Offspring - Days Go By
No Trigger - Tycoon
Propagandhi - Failed States
Metric - Synthetica
Dead Sara - Dead Sara
Bob Mould - Silver Age
Soundgarden - King Animal
Bad Brains - Into The Future

What I thought was okay/wasn't that great:
Such Gold - Misadventures
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living
Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
Pennywise - All or Nothing
Anti-Flag - The General Strike
Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Hot Water Music - Exister
The Mars Volta - Nocturniquet
Toys that Kill - Fambly 42
Muse - The 2nd Law

Albums I would like check up when they come out/haven't gotten to yet:
Melvins - Freak Puke
Municipal Waste - The Fatal Feast
Garbage - Not Your Kind of People

I wanted to get these last three out of the way, but I just got a job and I've been working like crazy.

[cool 2 hate 681]

New Less Than Jake album is good but they should have waited to release those songs instead of putting them on 2 EP's last year

Anti-Flag - The General Strike

I thought that album had some good songs on it I like the music video where they are tortured by muppets haha

[RageAndLov]

Heard NOFX - Self Entitled. While listening I thought "Huh, this was a decent song, when will the shitty ones come?". But there weren't any shitty ones. I was very surprised. Not all the songs were great, but they were all at least okay. This was better than Coaster, which had three great songs and a lot of shit. Self Entitled is more darker than most NOFX albums, and I like them that way. That's why Wolves in Wolves' Clothing was one of the better NOFX albums.

Self Entitled is a bit short in regards of NOFX standard, which usually is about 45 mins. If Fat Mike didn't think he had good enough material to have a 45 min long album, I am glad he cut it down to 30. All in all, this will probably be one of the better albums I've heard this year, if only because of the fact that NOFX didn't produce any shit like they usually do.

[SapoCocas]

I can't even make a top 5 of albums I listened this year, but here's my top 4 plus Pennywise's new album:

1-The Offspring - Days Go By (Very solid album made with completely different types of songs. 6-7 awsome songs, three of them that reminded me of the of Ignition/Smash times, which is great, and two of the new era punk rock/alternative type with big intensity and meaning.

2-Serj Tankian - Harakiri (After the snooze of Imperfect harmonies, this album is a complete wake up call. Good melodys, 4 or 5 great songs and the others were also good. On the other hand, Serj experiments too much, and sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't. Meaningfull lyrics, as always.)

3-NOFX - Self Entitled (Prefer the 00's NOFX to the 90's NOFX. Solid album with 2-3 very good songs. Still, lyrics are just completely loonatic and weird sometimes.)

4-Green Day - Uno (Surprised me. Wasn't expecting much from it but they decided to do some things they haven't done in a long time. It's not great, though.)

9464135212564961351- Pennywise - All or Nothing (I chose nothing. Boring as always, every song sounds the same. It's like listening to AC/DC, but in this case, every song is bad.)

[jacknife737]

My final lists, in no particular order. Was a great year for folkish stuff.

Top 10 Albums

The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
The Offspring – Days Go By
Masked Intruder – S/T
The Sidekicks – Awkward Breeds
Teenage Bottlerocket – Freak Out
NOFX – Self Entitled
The Holy Mess – Cande Ru Las Degas
Real Mckenzies – Westwinds
John K Samson – Provincial

Honorable Mentions
Skinny Lister – Forge and Flagon
The Dopamines – Vices
Forgetters – S/T
Make Do and Mend – Everything You’ve Ever Loved
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal


Favorite Eps
Elway – Hence my Optimism
Old Man Malarkey – Blood on my Hands
Shook Ones – MerriweatherPostPavilion
The Sidekicks - Grace

[cool 2 hate 681]

The Offspring - Days Go By
Pennywise - All or Nothing
Eve 6 - Speak in Code
Billy Talent - Dead Silence
Anti-Flag - The General Strike
Lit - The View from the Bottom
Bob Mould - Silver Age
No Trigger - Tycoon
Matt Skiba and the Sekrets - Babylon
Hotel Diablo - The Return To Psycho, California
Less Than Jake - Greetings and Salutations from Less Than Jake

Biggest disappointments

The Offspring - Days Go By
Reel Big Fish - Candy Coated Fury

favorite EP's
The Hell - Sauve Les Requins
Mercy Street EP


Albums where I could not get past the first song

Linkin Park - Living Things
Everclear - Invisible Stars


Favorite singles from albums I didn't hear

Gaslight Anthem - 45
Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long

Honorable Mentions

Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!
The Bouncing Souls - Comet
NOFX - Self Entitled
Propagandhi - Failed States (only liked 2 or 3 songs)

[Vera]

Lupe Fiasco's latest.

[jacknife737]

I'd also like to give an "honorable mention" to Cheap Girls - Giant Orange.

Fantastic record.

[holland25]

I would like to add these albums into my list:

Destruction - Spiritual Genocide
Bad Brains - Into the Future
All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win
Cradle of Filth - Manticore and Other Horrors
Rihanna - Unapologetic
Nightwish - Imaginareum: The Score
Pain - We Come in Peace
Scooter - Music for the Big Night Out