Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.
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2012
All Movies Music Books Poetry

2012 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Les Inrocks

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Treble

50 Albums of the 2012 Gigwise

Top 100 Albums of 2012 musicOMH

Top 20 Albums of 2012 Resident Advisor

25 Best Albums of 2012 Slant

75 Favorite Albums of 2012 Quietus

The Top 100 Albums of 2012 Crack Magazine

25 Best Albums of 2012 A.V. Club

75 Best Albums of 2012 PopMatters

Top 25 Albums of 2012 BBC Music

50 Favorite Albums of 2012 NPR Music

10 Best New Albums of 2012 Idolator

50 Best Albums of 2012 Spinner

50 Best Albums of 2012 Fact

Top 25 Albums of 2012 Magnet

Top 40 Albums of 2012 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

Top 10 Albums of 2012 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Top 10 Albums of 2012 Time: Douglas Wolk

Top 40 Albums of 2012 Decibel

Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum

Top 50 Albums of 2012 The Wire

Top 10 Albums of 2012 KCRW: Jason Bentley

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.