50 Best Albums Of 2012

New Music Express ^ | 11/20/12 | Luke Lewis

[GSWarrior]

Yowzers, it's been a good year for music. Music so good it made us want to lick the packaging it came in. Music so bad we had a bonfire piled high with it. Music so weird it made us question whether it was even music. After countless hours of in-office arguing, we've boiled the lot of it down to the 50 choicest cuts of 2012

[softwarecreator]

I’ve only heard of 2 of the artists, and none of the music

I recognize the name Jack White but have never heard anything by him (or the White Stripes"). I have heard some stuff by Bobby Womack and David Byrne but nothing in this century (or even 15 years before that).

[softwarecreator]

Don't you just love when people take the time to click on an article they "don't care about", read it, and then take the time to write "who cares".

Unreal.

[SoFloFreeper]

Was Adele’s 21 released this year? Good album.

[GSWarrior]

21 was released Jan. 19, 2011.

[Fledermaus]

I’m surprised they could list 50. I haven’t bought a CD or “album” in years. Most all is crap.

[GSWarrior]

I download 95 percent of the music I purchase these days.

[SoFloFreeper]

Thanks.

I have enjoyed listening to Bob Dylan’s “Tempest”...that was released a month or two ago, IIRC.

[Osage Orange]

One of the most disappointing and dumb posts I’ve seen on FR.

[Fiji Hill]

I have my Sirius/XM preset to 50's, 60's, 70's...

I have mine preset on "fifties on five," but it seems as though more than half of what they play is from the sixties.

[GSWarrior]

It’s just frivolous fun.

[visualops]

nevermind 50, don’t have time to look through all I would have bought could I have afforded it, but I can say recent purchases -
RUSH
FLAMING ROW
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION
TARJA TURUNEN (Live DVD)
BLIND GUARDIAN
NIGHTWISH
WITHIN TEMPTATION
Anathema (select songs)
Poets of the Fall (select songs)

There’s a lot of great music out there
I recommend aiiradio.net to listen to independent bands and musicians

[zzeeman]

Yeah, I recognized David Byrne (but not the woman with him) and Paul Weller (The Jam). That was it.

[softwarecreator]

I have mine preset on "fifties on five," but it seems as though more than half of what they play is from the sixties.

The 60's station seems to play a lot of 50's & 70's stuff too, especially when "Cousin Brucie" is on. Plus he has lousy jokes and plays some pretty bad songs.

[softwarecreator]

I recognized David Byrne (but not the woman with him)

yeah, I have no idea who she is either. I used to like a lot of the old Talking Head stuff, but don't know anything from Byrne's solo work.