Top 100 Albums - 2012 edition
by 
Wasinski 
"Irk the purists!
Made strictly according to a self-inflected "just one record per band"-rule, which sadly means just one Residents or The Spits record in the chart:)"
Chart and comments originally made in 2011-2012. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now, doh! I wish.
- Chart updated: 02/17/2024 19:45
- (Created: 02/17/2024 11:10).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Kraftwerk should be more known and respected than the Beatles. (All their records 1974-1981 deserve high charting on a list like this)
[First added to this chart: 02/17/2024]
Year of Release:
1981
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3,513
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33
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My "own band" as a young teenager. And I was right.
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Year of Release:
1989
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31,991
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But I was wrong. Hardcore Canadian existentialism from a band still going strong and wrong.
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Year of Release:
1989
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1,280
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Perfect pop.
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Year of Release:
1981
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647
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Bupp-u-dupp-u-du.
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Indescent punk rock at its best
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He used to wear fedoras but now he sports a fez
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Year of Release:
1980
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2
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They never got so near perfection again.
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1982
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1,506
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Perfect pop from Ed Ball (ex Television Personalities).
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I drink, smoke, and fuck. And sometimes think.
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1989
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719
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Top 100 Albums - 2012 edition composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 9 | 9% | |
| 1970s | 40 | 40% | |
| 1980s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1990s | 19 | 19% | |
| 2000s | 6 | 6% | |
| 2010s | 5 | 5% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
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| Lee Hazlewood | 1 | 1% | |
| Thee Headcoatees | 1 | 1% | |
| Dead Kennedys | 1 | 1% | |
| The Kinks | 1 | 1% | |
| Neu! | 1 | 1% | |
| Prince Far I & The Arabs | 1 | 1% | |
| The Who | 1 | 1% | |
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| Country | Albums | % | |
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36 | 36% | |
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35 | 35% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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6 | 6% | |
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5 | 5% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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