Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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1. Wrecking Ball
   Bruce Springsteen
2. Channel Orange
   Frank Ocean
3. Blunderbuss
   Jack White
4. Tempest
   Bob Dylan
5. The Idler Wheel…
   Fiona Apple
6. good kid, m.A.A.d city
   Kendrick Lamar
7. Here
   Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
8. !Uno!
   Green Day
9. Celebration Rock
   Japandroids
10. Psychedelic Pill
    Neil Young & Crazy Horse
11. Babel
    Mumford & Sons
12. Rebirth
    Jimmy Cliff
13. Old Ideas
    Leonard Cohen
14. The Only Place
    Best Coast
15. Locked Down
    Dr. John
16. Sun
    Cat Power
17. Born and Raised
    John Mayer
18. Life Is Good
    Nas
19. Mirage Rock
    Band Of Horses
20. R.A.P. Music
    Killer Mike
21. Attack on Memory
    Cloud Nothings
22. Slipstream
    Bonnie Raitt
23. A Thing Called Divine Fits
    Divine Fits
24. Cruel Summer
    G.O.O.D. Music
25. Sunken Condos
    Donald Fagen
26. Django Django
    Django Django
27. Blak and Blu
    Gary Clark Jr.
28. Bloom
    Beach House
29. Away From the World
    Dave Matthews Band
30. 1991
    Azealia Banks
31. Red
    Taylor Swift
32. Hospitality
    Hospitality
33. Visions
    Grimes
34. Boys & Girls
    Alabama Shakes
35. Shields
    Grizzly Bear
36. The Bravest Man in the Universe
    Bobby Womack
37. Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now
    Justin Townes Earle
38. Local Business
    Titus Andronicus
39. Gossamer
    Passion Pit
40. Escort
    Escort
41. The Carpenter
    Avett Brothers
42. Europe
    Allo Darlin’
43. Some Nights
    fun.
44. Not Your Kind of People
    Garbage
45. Rich Forever
    Rick Ross
46. The 2nd Law
    Muse
47. Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
    Todd Snider
48. Oceania
    Smashing Pumpkins
49. Folila
    Amadou & Mariam
50. Swing Lo Magellan
    Dirty Projectors