It’s that special time of year when media outlets begin to dictate to you what albums you were supposed to enjoy this year. Dictate! Guess nobody told them live in a democracy, man. Earlier this month you chose the leader of the free world, you can handle choosing the year’s best albums. But how about also choosing the year’s best videos, songs, new acts, indie rock crushes, TV shows, movies, and viral videos?
Welcome to the annual Gummy Awards, and as always, the Stereogum and Videogum families invite you to play a plum role in determining which artworks and humans are remembered as 2012′s finest. This year we’re sweetening the pot by giving away an iPad With Retina Display (WiFi + Cellular, 32GB) to one lucky voter selected randomly. To enter, fill out the ballot below AND share your Best Album pick in the comments. This is real. Gummys The Vote™. Here we go:
Polls close on Wednesday 12/5 at 12 PM EST. Check out last year’s winners here.
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Swans – The Seer
Put Your Back N 2 It – Perfume Genius
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel etc
Best Album: Now, Now – Threads
Best Show: Parks and Recreation
Best Movie: Silver Linings Playbook
Lotus Plaza – Spooky Action At a Distance
The Swans- The Seer
Album: Swans – The Seer
Just fantastic
Song: Zola Jesus – In Your Nature (David Lynch Remix)
Not one to usually put a remix up but damn, one of the best things I have heard in a long time.
Best Movie: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Jack White – Blunderbuss
The Rocketboys – Build Anyway
Daughn Gibson – All Hell (White Denim)
R.A.P. Music by Killer Mike for me (with El-P, Japandroids, Miguel and Stars scrapping for second place)
Best Album: Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
This year was great, i’m going with Ty Segall’s TWINS
Beach House – Bloom
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
It won’t win. But I’d like to see Screaming Females at least get a mention on the list.
There is not a single bad song on Ugly. Kudos.
DJ Baglady – Beloved
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
She’s not afraid to do/say that which comes authentically from within her. Luckily for us it always ends up sounding damn good!
Swing Lo Magellan – Dirty Projectors
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Looks like I’m going to be all alone in picking Words and Music by Saint Etienne.
dirty projectors – swing lo magellan.
Fiona a close second.
Flying Lotus “Until the Quiet Comes”
the Men – Open Your Heart
Dirty Projectors — Swing Lo Magellan
Grizzly Bear – Shields. (GB vibes 4ever. <3)
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean
Dirty Projectors….best album but completely obsessed with that Matthew E. White album.
Polls close before Big Boi’s album is even released :(
I know! It’s a shame the album is out so late in the year, but he can win stuff in 2013 :)
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Fear Fun – Father John Misty
Dirty Projectors/ Haley Dekle’s butt
Twin Shadow – Confess
Frank Ocean – Channel ORANGE
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Dirty Projectors
Swing Lo Magellan
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Frank Ocean!cool
Mac Demarco – 2
Frank Ocean-Channel Orange
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do Wolf Gang Kill Them All
Crystal Castles – III
of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks
Mac Demarco – 2
Best album: Good Kid Mad City – Kendrick Lamar / The Lion’s Roar – First Aid Kit / 1991 – Azaelia Banks
Best song : Five seconds – Twin Shadow / Lines – Big Boi, Phantogram and Asap Rocky
Best movie: Beast of the southern wild
Best tv show : Parks and Recreation , Homeland
Titus Andronicus – Local Business
Mac DeMarco – 2
Album: “The Seer” by Swans
Song: “Mladic” by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
New Act: Joey Bada$$
Crush (Female): Annie Clark
Show: Sherlock
Movie: Looper
Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do
Album: Tame Impala – “Lonerism” (tied w/Channel Orange for me)
Song: “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst” – Kendrick Lamar
Video: “Ode to Viceroy” – Mac Demarco
New Artist: Melody’s Echo Chamber
Oh, and +1 for Hot Cheetos & Takis.
I’m with you for best song, at least for the album. People can say what they want about ‘Compton’, but ‘Sing About Me…’ kicks its’ ass.
Totally agreed! That he brings in the narrative from Secion.80 and Keisha’s Song shows a ton of creativity. I feel like it’s the emotional centerpiece of the album.
Purity Ring – Shrines
White Lung – Sorry
Mount Eerie – Clear Moon
TYLER THE CREATOR: GOBLIN. BEST ALBUM OF 2012, 2011, AND EVERY OTHER YEAR.
Grizzly Bear – Shields
frank ocean – channel ORANGE
Gotta be Frank Ocean for best album. I don’t that CD ever getting old.
Frank Ocean – channelOrange
Favorite album of 2012:
Cloud Nothings: “Attack On Memory”
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Bat For Lashes
The Haunted Man
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Father John Misty — Fear Fun
Aimee Mann’s Charmer is my favorite album of the year. She’s recovered from her almost-meh albums, and made one of her best. I can’t get Labrador out of my head… especially after seeing it live.
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Gossamer – Passion Pit.
My top album is Landmark by Apollo Ghosts.
Die Antwoord – Ten$ion
Swing Lo Magellan
Chairlift – “Something”
Joy Formidable – “Cholla”
Chairlift – “Met Before”
Metz
Caroline Polachek
Breaking Bad
Drive (i realized it was a 2011 release after i submitted it)
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
It was a really close call between “Channel ORANGE”, and “good kid, m.A.A.d. city”. Picking a favorite album is like picking a favorite child.
Frank Ocean- Channel Orange
or Kendrick Lamar-Good kid M.a.a.d City!
Grizzly Bear: Sheilds
Hooray for pseudo concept albums from super talented musicians that have no money.
“The Idler Wheel…”. It was fate.
Frank Ocean – Orange
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Song: Bat for Lashes – “Laura”
Video: Scott Walker – “Epizootics!”
New Act: Holly Herndon (uncertain of what qualifies as new; otherwise, Holter or Elite Gymnastics)
Male Crush: Daughn Gibson
Female: Julia Holter (although I forgot about Denise Nouvion from Memoryhouse)
Sufjan & St. Vincent can’t win it every year folks, especially during years where they didn’t release anything (Sufjan last year). And especially when Eleanor Friedberger failed to crack the top ten last year. I take this shit seriously. It’s all I have.
Ha, I totally missed part about commenting my pick for best album. I think I went with Purity Ring’s Shrines, but I don’t remember because I submitted it like a week ago, plus it was hard to choose this year.
Best Album? “Boys and Girls” by Alabama Shakes
Also dug the Jack White and Father John Misty A LOT.
Zammuto – Zammuto
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Punch Brothers – Who’s Feeling Young Now
Chelsea Wolfe – Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
Be The Void – Dr. Dog
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Channel ORANGE, definitely
Frank Ocean – channel ORANGE
Alt-J’s An Awesome Wave
The rest of my faves are here http://adam2012.fringemusicfix.com/
Fiona Apple is my number 1 this year… but shout outs to Ty Segall and Cloud Nothings!
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Japandroids — Celebration Rock
Now gimme that iPad
so I can pull up the photos from that night
when you were already in bed said “fuck it”
got up to play Kingdom Rush with me instead
good kid, m.A.A.d. city by Kendrick Lamar. Edged out Killer Mike’s album on my list by a hair