Out of curiosity, I compared my top 17 albums of 2012 with some of the other popular lists to see how much overlap there was.   The answer is not much.   For the second year in a row, there was only one overlap and both times it was the number one album from punk news.    So, if nothing else my list could be some new music for you.

• No overlaps with the 50 from Pitchfork.
• No overlaps with the 50 from Spin
• No overlaps with the 50 from Paste
• No overlaps with the 50 from NPR
• No overlaps with the 50 from Stereogum
• No overlaps with the 50 from GorillavsBear
• One overlap with the 20 from Punknews (Menzingers is #1 at Punk and #5 on GT)
• No overlaps with the 25 from MetaCritic