Top 5 albums of 2012?

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What are you top 5 albums of this year?

Mine are:
1) Frank Ocean -Channel Orange
2) Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D.
3) Chromatics - Kill for Love
4) Miguel - Kaleidoscope
5) The XX - Coexist

I know I'm missing a lot of other good albums that came out this year but this is what I could think of at the top of my head.
 
1. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City
2. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
3. Rihanna - Unapologetic
4. Pink - Truth About Love
5. Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
 
1- Roc Marciano - Reloaded

2- Melanin 9 - Magna Carta

3- Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers

4- Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid Maad City

5- Domo Genesis - No Idols / Skyzoo - Dream Deferred
 
1. Beach House - Bloom
2. Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire
3. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
4. Kendrick Lamar - good kid, maad city
5. Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
 
AOTY...
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good kid, maad city
control system
habits & contradictions
jesus piece
live from the underground
 
I'm not respecting a list that doesn't have GKMC at number 1.
It really crazy how hard people are riding for this album, its like its the Blueprint 1 or something. Never thought I'd see something like this in this day and age.
 
It really crazy how hard people are riding for this album, its like its the Blueprint 1 or something. Never thought I'd see something like this in this day and age.

yea man its crazy but damn joints a classic....

1.good kid maad city

2-5 any order

channel orange
life is good
cruel summer
stoned immaculate


honorable mentions

jesus piece


thats al from top of my head so anything besides 1 is strait from there lol #1 is set in stone
 
Haven't really gotten a chance to listen to too many albums this year due to my computer being broken. But based off the albums I've heard...

1. Bloom (AOTY no question)
2. GKMC
3. Life Is Good
4. Channel Orange
5. Uhhh idk I guess Trilogy or The 2nd Law
 
1. Julia Holter - Ekstasis
2. Holly Herndon - Movement
3. Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
4. Swans - The Seer
5. Actress - R.I.P.
 
1. Actress- RIP
2. Swans- The Seer
3. Burial - Kindred and Truant/Rough Sleeper
4. Terrence Dixon- From the Far Future Part 2
5. Ty Segall and White Fence- Hair
 
1. Kendrick Lamar - GKMC
2. Grizzly Bear - Shields
3. Death Grips - The Money Store/ No Love Deep Web
4. Nas - Life Is Good
5. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
 
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good kid, M.A.A.D. city
Life Is Good
Channel Orange
Control System
Live From The Underground

Honorable mentions -

The Stoned Immaculate
Cruel Summer
Jesus Piece
 
Channel Orange
GKMC
Life is Good
Jesus Piece
Trouble Man

Honestly I didn't listen to a lot of non-hip-hop albums this year outside of Channel Orange, so it is what it is.

Honorable mentions to God Forgives, I Don't, O.N.I.F.C., Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors.
 
beach house-bloom

kendrick lamar-gkmc

killer mike-RAP album

lianne la haves-is your love big enough

frank ocean-channel orange
 
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers
Sean Price - Mic Tyson
Kendrick Lamar - GKMC
Killer Mike - RAP
 
No specific order: Selected 10 though haha

- Macklemoore & Ryan Lewis: The Heist
- Kendrick Lamar: GKMC
- Tanlines - Mixed Emotions
- Grimes - Visions
- John Mayer - Shadow Days
- Chromatics - Kill For Love
- Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
- B.O.B. - Strange Clouds
- Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
- Santi Gold - Master of My Make-Believe
 
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