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Fourtheye Readers Best of 2012

Over 150 votes were collected for the Fourtheye Readers Best Albums of 2012 poll and I’m happy to present the results and a little analysis. Initially I planned to make this a top 10, however voting was so close outside of the top 5, I decided to extend the list to 21.

Deftones were the clear winner, with over a third of the lists submitted containing their album Koi No Yokan.

Meshuggah‘s Koloss also polled strongly, which will surprise very few Tool fans. It wasn’t always so clear cut though – for much of the duration of the poll it was neck and neck with the next two albums, but sprinted away in the last couple of weeks.

It was no surprise to me to see Soundgarden coming in at position 3, however it was tied for that position with Noctourniquet by The Mars Volta – and album I thought was good, but not good enough to poll so highly. 90s throwbacks the Smashing Pumpkins also polled higher than I expected.

I was a little surprised and happy to see The Swans polling so highly – an excellent record but one that I consider is outside of the usual listening catalog of most readers.

Only one Aussie band made the top ranks – Tame Impala. Personally I thought the album was a pile of shit, but what do I know! Thankfully Fourtheye Readers weren’t so bad as to have voted Mumford & Sons into the list.

Enough of that, here’s the list:

1. Deftones Koi No Yokan
2. Meshuggah Koloss
3. Soundgarden King Animal
3. The Mars VoltaNoctourniquet
4. Gojira L’Enfant Savage
4. Swans The Seer
5. Baroness Yellow & Green
6. Rush Clockwork Angels
7. Katatonia Dead End Kings
8. Between the Buried and MeParallax 2: The Future Sequence
8. Godspeed You! Black EmperorAllelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend
8. Jack WhiteBlunderbuss
8. Neurosis Honor Found In Decay
8. Smashing PumpkinsOceania
8. Tame ImpalaLonerism
9. Coheed And Cambria The Afterman
9. Sigur RosValtari
9. Storm CorrosionStorm Corrosion
10. ConvergeAll We Love We Leave Behind
10. Mark Lanegan BandBlues Funeral
10. The Melvins LiteFreak Puke

Thank you to everyone that voted, and I will be publishing a full list of votes for every album that was nominated more than once in the forums shortly.

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UndKeineEier
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11 years ago

7 out of 10. Not bad.

Deftones
Meshuggah
Rush
The Mars Volta
The Melvins Lite
Baroness
Swans

They were all on my list. Though not in that order.

Croaka
Croaka
11 years ago

Tame Impala are a pile of shit.

bob
bob
11 years ago

“Looking at the top 21 there’s not many big surprises there, but the complete list that I’ve posted in the discussion thread paints a different picture. While about 50% of the votes contained the same old bands (Deftones, Meshuggah, Pumpkins, etc) there were many varied lists. Not everyone has the time and inclination to go searching for new music, and that’s one of the things that make lists like this worthwhile.” i dont see were you quote on this forum at the moment but i sometimes have issues like this. ha. anyway, were is the full list? im more interested… Read more »

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