The Best of the 2012 Lists: Music
When December 31st comes around, everyone on the Internet Makes a Best of List. We rounded up who picked what this year in the best of music 2012.
THEIR PICKS: The Albums Other Sites Named #1
Channel Orange by Frank Ocean.
- The AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, Billboard,
- Paste, Spin, Treble, The Guardian, Pop Matters,
- The Week, Newsday
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The Idler Wheel by Fiona Apple.
- Time,
- Spinner,
- Stereo Gum
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Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City by Kendrick Lamar.
- Pitchfork,
- BBC,
- Sonic Magazine
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The Bravest Man in the Universe by Bobby Womack.
- Clash Magazine
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Lonerism by Tame Impala:
- NME,
- Filter,
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The Wrecking Ball by Bruce Springsteen.
- Rolling Stone,
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OUR PICKS: Our 10 favorite Albums
Our Pick for the #1 Album of the Year: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do by Fiona Apple.
The rest of our picks in no particular order: Master of My Make Believe by Santigold; Celebration Rock by Japandroid; Swing Lo Magellan by Dirty Projectors; Sunken Condos by Donald Fagen, Home Again by Michael Kiwanuka, Blak and Blu by Gary Clark; The Bravest Man in the Universe by Bobby Womack; Banga by Patti Smith, Charmer by Aimee Mann.
