BEST ALBUMS OF 2012


 This list is in no particular order.

These are the best albums of 2012, not some ridiculous list with 'art' albums. This is real music that real people enjoy. So enjoy.




Fun. "Some Nights"















The Mars Volta "Noctourniquet"















Future "Pluto"

B.O.B.  "Strange Clouds"

Usher  "Looking 4 Myself"

Maroon 5  "Overexposed"

Frank Ocean  "Channel Orange"

The Used  "Vulnerable"

Neon Trees  "Picture Show"

Nas  "Life Is Good"

Passion Pit  "Gossamer"

2 Chainz  "Based On A T.R.U. Story"

Bloc Party  "Four"

Minus The Bear  "Infinity Overhead"

Imagine Dragons  "Night Visions"

Asap Rocky "Long Live Asap"

Dave Matthews Band  "Away From The World"

Pink  "The Truth About Love"

The Killers  "Battle Born"

GOOD Music  "Cruel Summer"

Mumford and Sons  "Babel"

Taylor Swift  "Red"

Kendrick Lamar  "Good Kid, m.a.a.d. city"

Rihanna "Unapologetic"

Grizzly Bear  "Shields"

Keane  "Strangeland"

EMT Love

I don't know where to start or how to put this in perspective;
Go on offensive and form a directive, however ineffective;
My chest seems heavy, hand so steady;
For anything, and any reason I just seem so ready.
I could dig in and massage my beating heart,
destroy anything attempting to pull us apart.
If I look you in your eyes and tell you I love you more,
so much more than before,
would i just be a bore?
add to routine and feel like a chore?
I can feel excitement emptying from every pore.
You're keeping me alive, just be my paramedic;
Or better yet, my nurse;
I'm just being playful, trust me, i'm not trying to perverse;
You can't perverse perfection;
or misinterpret misdirection.
I'd rather thank you for loving me without exception;
Without expectation
I just want to return the favor;
I could eat you up, you're such a life saver.
I'm struggling to put this correctly;
Do you even get it if I don't tell you directly?
I feel so strongly, the words just fall apart;
so I guess we'll just go back to the start.
Cuz I love the part where you're the one holding my heart.

Passed away

My mind is thoughtless, finally clear;
This year, so secure, with you here.
You've questioned me, you've doubted me, re-routed me.
Eyes forced open, Finally well enough to see.
I'm not going back to dark times;
I'm running toward the light.
Not giving into past crimes;
I'm putting up a fight.
I'm boxing denial, tackling pain.
Life is so worthwhile, passed trying to maintain.
I'm growing with each moment, following my heart;
Ripped it from my sleeve to find a fresh new start.
I can't thank you enough, no possible way;
So I'll show you, each and everyday.
Love you without condition;
No use for suspicion or hateful ammunition.
I never would have thought I could be here;
I've triumphed over hatred, moved passed all the fear.
I'm ready for forever, I'm loving you more;
More with each new minute, more than I ever have before.

Love Sick

It starts with your head,
Congested with desire.
It pulls at your eyes,
Burdened with beauty.
It scratches at your throat,
Pained with your taste.
It clings to your body,
Shaking with disaster.
It coarses through your veins,
Polluted with isolated thoughts.
It passes through your heart,
Attacked with absence.
It lives in your brain,
Kidnapped with hope.
Love. Sick.

Mindlessly Educated

Delaying reality through registration;

Temporary vacation from vocation,

Only to return, mindless education;

Admiration for corporation,

Building foundation for general frustration;

Filtered through university,

Subjected to subject piversity.

Fleeting dreams, yet focused goals;

Lost on youth; newly uninspired souls.

A welcomed castration;

A standing ovation;

It's the dissertation of graduation;

It's the misinterpretation lost in translation;

The hesitation of an entire generation;

Falling short of parental adoration;

It's an impossible deviation from exploitation;

It's an ignorance for the correlated consternation.

Decline the invitation for uninspired innovation;

Demand a transformation of legislation,

A misguided, seemingly divided communication.

Take a temporary vacation from vocation,

Only to delay reality through registration.

Lost Sheep--->Lost Sleep

I'm counting sheep;

1, 2, 3,

I'm craving sleep;

4, 5, 6,

I'm dreaming of dreaming,

7, 8, 9,

My mind left silently screaming;

10, 11, 12

I'm better than this, I swear;

13, 14, 15

I swear, as if you really care.

I've finished counting on anything but me,

Fuck the sheep, I"ll let them be.

And as I do, my eyes close slow yet steady;

I learn what I thought that I knew already.

I'd hold you now, I'd hold you then,

I'll be what I thought I've always been.

Filled with emotion, ready for you.

Dreaming of dreaming, it almost seems true.

Your smile ends all of this fear;

If only tonight you were here,

Just long enough to see me through,

I'd still be counting, but only on you.

Backwards Thinking For a Forward TIme

Reparations of emancipations;

Misguided misfortunes fueled by forward thought.

What should be, shouldn't be, ought not be, ought not.

We're all depressed, we're all suffering in the same way.

We don't all win, America won't let us, not today...

Not tomorrow, while we make up for yesterday.

It's backward thinking for forward thinkers,

Liberal campaigns with a liberal agenda;

Misguided youth swallowing spoon-fed referenda.

When white fades to black;

Only then do we give back.

When men morphs to women;

It's even steven.

The terms are blurred toward discrimination;

A downright constitutional OBAMA-nation.

We'll fight the fight 'til we lose self-respect;

Convince ourselves as we reflect;

Connect the dots that we must dissect,

Push forward with misinterpreted dialect.

Only then, are our wrongs corrected,

And old problems newly resurrected.

We'll look in the mirror and see our reflection;

A direction without protection from unjust rejection.

Only now, we feel what they felt,

Helplessly praying, knees bleeding as they knelt.

Only now, do we finally see, we finally know how it truly will be.

Through civil authority of the moral majority;

We've all just become one complaining minority.