Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: Top 50 Albums of 2012

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