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Dead End Kings by Katatonia

 

Some Nights by Fun. (a couple uses of harsh profanity in two tracks)

 

(III) by Crystal Castles

 

Hide and Seek by The Birthday Massacre

 

the last two are electronic (well, synth-rock in The Birthday Massacre's case) and contain some occasional dancey bits, but they're not club beats and there aren't a ton of them.

Well yes, obviously ThePianoGuys by ThePianoGuys. So amazingly good.

 

And also if soundtracks count, The Hobbit soundtrack definitely.

 

In terms of pop-culture music...Hmm. I haven't listened to all of it, but I liked some of Living Things, by Linkin Park. And I haven't listened to GreenDay's new albums yet, but they're probably fairly good too.

WAIT.

LL, iii, by Shiny Toy Guns technically was released in 2012! They just had a single from the album released in 2011, which is what threw me off.

That means you can officially add it to your list. : D

Edit: (And you should, btw)

Believe by Justin Bieber.

Clockwork Angels by Rush and The Afterman: Ascension by Coheed & Cambria (This one has a single song that uses profanity twice).

 

Also secondary recommendations if you really feel like it:

 

Dead Silence by Billy Talent (Profanity in a few songs but you can't really tell what he says anyway), Kids In The Street by The All-American Rejects (profanity again but only once) and Oceana by The Smashing Pumpkins. I'm not a Pumpkin's fan at all so I dunno' if it is a good album by their standards, but I enjoyed it.

 

Those are just if you really want carp to listen to lol.

Gossamer by Passion Pit is the absolute album of the year for me. A definite must-listen. Check out Take A Walk and then listen to the rest of the album if you like it.

 

Love is Greed is awesome too. The whole album is.

 

- Tilius

I've already listened to Clockwork Angels by Rush and Living Things by Linkin Park (both good albums in my opinion). I'll look into the other suggestions. Thanks for the input, guys!

Dead End Kings by Katatonia

 

Some Nights by Fun. (a couple uses of harsh profanity in two tracks)

 

(III) by Crystal Castles

 

Hide and Seek by The Birthday Massacre

 

the last two are electronic (well, synth-rock in The Birthday Massacre's case) and contain some occasional dancey bits, but they're not club beats and there aren't a ton of them.

 

Backing this Crystal Castles rec so hard

 

-Tyler

Ha, no Coheed?

Ha, no Coheed?

I'm still debating on it -- the one profane track on the album uses profanity in a rather flippant manner (in my opinion).

Agreed I suppose. They don't usually do that but I try to ignore it 'cause the rest of the album's so good.

 

If there are a couple minor curse words or a few major cusses, though, I'll probably still be cool with it.

 

 

and yet you're unsure about Coheed and didn't even bother putting Some Nights on your list

Oh, I've always thought "cuss" meant a minor impolite word (including such terms as "darn", "heck", etc.) rather than being synonymous with "curse". My bad.

 

I'd like to point out, though, that just because I seem to have ignored a recommendation does not mean I'm not considering it. I have been considering adding Some Nights to the list, and having just finished listening to Kids on the Street by The All-American Rejects, I've also been thinking about whether I should alter my content cutoff.

 

My current plans are to post my list in early January of 2013, preferably during the week subsequent to New Year's Day, so I have time to go back and cover any recommendations I missed or was previously considering.

Mumford & Sons' Babel, though one song does have a swear or two.

 

The Fray's Scars & Stories is incredible.

 

And House of Heroes' Cold Hard Want.

I've already listened to Scars & Stories, so I'll look into the other two. Thanks!

Jack White man, Jack White >=( Blunderbuss.

If punk-rock is your thing, then you may enjoy Days Go By by The Offspring.

¡Dos! by Green Day is also a good punk rock album, mixed with garage rock and pop-punk. But, if profanity is a problem for you, then ¡Dos! is not an album for you, even though if it is only for the second song.

Haha I dunno' about the other two, but ¡Uno! swears a lot.

Yeah, just found that out.

a number of songs on Days Go By also have harsh profanity among other things

 

plus it's just a bad album

I would say I've listened to more than enough albums to compose a decent top ten list for 2012. In fact, I'm considering making the list a top thirteen or top fifteen, or including ten honorable mentions, because there are a bunch of albums I don't want to leave unmentioned.

 

Thanks for all your recommendations, whether they appear on my favorites list or not!