Favorite Albums of 2012

I bought 109 albums in 2012.

I decided to list every album that had average song rating greater than 4, since they would all be worthy of mentioning and buying.   I have 17 albums that earned that distinction.

Using my album formula, here is the ranking of my favorite 17 albums in 2012:

1.  Erica Freas’ Belly (Rumbletown) – 9.722

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2.  You Blew It’s Grow Up Dude (Topshelf) – 9.652

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3.  Ghost Mice’s All We Got Is Each Other (Plan It X) – 9.591

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4.  Joie De Vivre’s We’re All Better Than This (Count Your Lukcy Stars) – 9.571

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5.  The Menzingers’ On the Impossible Past (Epitaph) – 9.537

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6.  Cheap Girls’ Giant Orange (Rise) – 9.458

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7.  Downtown Struts’ Victoria (Pirates Press) – 9.447

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8.  Why the Wires’ All These Dead Astronauts (Rorschach) – 9.335

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9.  Meridian’s Aging Truths (Bandcamp) – 9.297

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10.  Hard Girls’ Isn’t It Worse (Quote Unquote) – 9.220

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11.  Luke Roberts’ The Iron Gates at Throop and Newport (Thrill Jockey) – 9.214

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12.  Coping’s Nope (Bandcamp) – 9.189

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13.  Joi De Vivre’s Breaking Up (Bandcamp) – 9.109

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14.  Dowsing’s It’s Still Pretty Terrible (Count Your Lucky Stars) – 9.089

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15.  The Smith Street Band’s Sunshine and Technology (Poison City) – 8.931

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16.  Dads’ American Radass (Broken World Media) – 8.858

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17.  Pedals on our Pirate Ships’ A Place to Stay (Say 10) – 8.785

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