Friday, December 21, 2012

Who loves lists?


You do. Bet you do. Here's a few...

From Fact mag...Top 40 reissues for 2012 
The 50 best record sleeves for 2012

From Elsewhere.co.nz' s Graham Reid...The best of Elsewhere, the editor's top 40 plus Reader's Choice 

Simon Grigg's list of some of his favourite music of 2012
"... Mur­ray Cam­mick turned me on to my cur­rent favourite from years past, the George Faith album Super Eight pro­duced by Lee Perry. I mean, I knew and loved his cover of Diana, but never looked beyond it..." second that, great album...

From The Corner.. Top ten moments in NZ music for 2012
and The best and the rest of 2012

Andrew Dubber's 20 albums worth checking out in 2012 

Potholes in my blog: 50 best albums of 2012

DJ Food's 2012 favourites

Apollo's Bounteous Harvest: The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2012

Soulsides: 2012 rewind - five songs that left me banging on the dashboard
plus Oliver Wang on the Bill Withers 9 CD Complete Sussex and Columbia box set that dropped this year, how did I miss that one...

Cian from Conch Records posted his faves on Facebook...

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2012 (In no particular order)
1. IG Culture - Soulful Shanghai (Kindred Spirits)
2. The Internet - Purple Naked Ladies (Odd Future)
3. Lone - Galaxy Garden (R&S)
4. Menahan Street Band - The Crossing (Daptone)
5. Greg Foat Group - Girl & Robot With Flowers (Jazzman)
6. Various Artists - Personal Space (Numero Group)
7. Mala - Mala In Cuba (Brownswwod)
8. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes (warp)
9. DJ Nature - Return Of The Savage (Golf Channel)
10. Hazel - The Lost Tapes (The Beat Down)

TOP 10 TRACKS OF 2012 (In no particular order)
1. Falty DL - Hardcourage
2. The Insomniax - Daydreaming
3. Andrew Ashong - Flowers
4. Gaslamp Killer - Nissim
5. Joey Bada$ - Where It'$ At
6. Menahan Street Band - Keep Coming Back
7. The Stepkids - Sweet Salvation
8. Kendrick Lamarr - Sing About Me, I'm Dying Of Thirst
9. Colonel Red - Spaceface
10. Hiatus Kaiyote - Nakamarra

Any lists I need to check out? Hit me up in the comments...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice. These guys LOVE lists...
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/top-ten-lists-best-albums-of-2012