Year-End Lists

Robert Christgau: Top 102 Albums of 2012 (which Christgau calls “The Dean’s List”)

1. Neil Young & Crazy Horse
   Americana
2. Dabke
   Sounds of the Syrian Houran
3. Loudon Wainwright III
   Older Than My Old Man Now
4. Pink
   The Truth About Love
5. Todd Snider
   Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
6. Skrillex
   Bangarang
7. Himanshu
   Nehru Jackets
8. The Mountain Goats
   Transcendental Youth
9. various artists
   The Rough Guide to High Life
10. Bruce Springsteen
    Wrecking Ball
11. Azealia Banks
    1991
12. Chris Berry & The Bayaka of Yandoumbe
    Listen . . . Oka!
13. Lee Ranaldo
    Between the Times and the Tides
14. The xx
    Coexist
15. Fiona Apple
    The Idler Wheel…
16. Orchestra Baobab
    La Belle Époque: Volume 2 1973-1976
17. Kendrick Lamar
    good kid, m.A.A.d city
18. Karantamba
    Ndigal
19. The Human Hearts
    Another
20. Homeboy Sandman
    First of a Living Breed
21. Spoek Mathambo
    Father Creeper
22. Greenberger Greenberg Cebar
    Tell Me That Before
23. Taylor Swift
    Red
24. Saigon
    The Greatest Story Never Told: Chapter Two: Bread and Circuses
25. Serengeti
    C.A.R.
26. Miguel
    Kaleidoscope Dream
27. Homeboy Sandman
    The Good Sun
28. Omar Souleyman
    Haflat Gharbia: The Western Concerts
29. Plug
    Back on Time
30. Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby
    A Working Museum
31. Heems
    Wild Water Kingdom
32. Elle Varner
    Perfectly Imperfect
33. Standard Fare
    Out of Sight, Out of Town
34. The dB’s
    Falling Off the Sky
35. A Place to Bury Strangers
    Worship
36. Death Grips
    No Love Deep Web
37. various artists
    The Rough Guide to the Music of Ethiopia
38. Leonard Cohen
    Old Ideas
39. Japandroids
    Celebration Rock
40. Frank Ocean
    Channel Orange
41. Beach House
    Bloom
42. Etta James
    The Dreamer
43. Donald Fagen
    Sunken Condos
44. Best Coast
    The Only Place
45. Death Grips
    The Money Store
46. Ab-Soul
    Control System
47. Iris DeMent
    Sing the Delta
48. various artists
    Songs for Desert Refugees
49. Saint Etienne
    Words and Music by Saint Etienne
50. Tommy Womack
    Now What!
51. Public Enemy
    Most of My Heroes Still Don’t Appear on No Stamp
52. Big Baby Gandhi
    No1 2 Look Up 2
53. Pet Shop Boys
    Elysium
54. Staff Benda Bilili
    Bouger Le Monde!
55. Corin Tucker Band
    Kill My Blues
56. Carolyn Mark
    The Queen of Vancouver Island
57. s / s / s
    Beak & Claw
58. Thomas Anderson
    The Moon in Transit
59. Cloud Nothings
    Attack on Memory
60. Jamey Johnson
    Living for a Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran
61. various artists
    The Rough Guide to the Music of Morocco
62. Ani DiFranco
    ¿Which Side Are You On?
63. P.S. Eliot
    Sadie
64. The Coup
    Sorry to Bother You
65. Sleigh Bells
    Reign of Terror
66. Give
    Balkan Beat Box
67. Lukid
    Lonely at the Top
68. Big K.R.I.T.
    4Eva N a Day
69. Low Cut Connie
    Call Me Sylvia
70. Kid Koala
    12 Bit Blues
71. Pete Seeger
    The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960
72. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
    The Heist
73. Moreno and L’Orch First Moja-One
    Sister Pili + 2
74. Burial
    Street Halo/Kindred
75. Bhi Bhiman
    Bhiman
76. Homeboy Sandman
    Subject: Matter
77. Francis Bebey
    African Electronic Music 1975-1982
78. Nicki Minaj
    Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded: Deluxe Edition
79. Madonna
    MDNA
80. Allo Darlin’
    Europe
81. The Magnetic Fields
    Love at the Bottom of the Sea
82. Two Fingers
    Stunt Rhythms
83. The Rolling Stones
    Some Girls: Deluxe Edition
84. Dylan Hicks
    Sings Bolling Greene
85. Serengeti
    Kenny Dennis EP
86. Dobie
    Nothing to Fear
87. A Place to Bury Strangers
    Onwards to the Wall
88. Clams Casino
    Instrumental Mixtape
89. Divine Fits
    A Thing Called Divine Fits
90. Jack White
    Blunderbuss
91. Dobie
    …But Fear Itself
92. Ned Sublette
    Kiss You Down South
93. Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang
    En Yay Sah
94. Royal Band de Thiés
    Kadior Demb
95. Amadou & Mariam
    Folila
96. Andre Williams & the Sadies
    Night and Day
97. Khaira Arby
    Tchini Tchini
98. Joan Soriano
    La Familia Soriano
99. Big Baby Gandhi
    Big Fucking Baby
100. Linkoban
     Super Into On It
101. various artists
     The Original Sound of Cumbia
102. Tha Grimm Teachaz
     There’s a Situation on the Homefront