Best Alternative Rock Albums of 2012

1. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky

2. Bob Mould - Silver Age

3. The Invisible - Rispah

4. The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends

5. Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV

6. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone

7. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs

8. Soulsavers - The Light The Dead See

9. Elbow - Dead in the Boot

10. The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

11. Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral

12. Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour

13. The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

14. 2:54 - 2:54

15. Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods

16. Soundgarden - King Animal

17. Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy

18. The Killers - Battle Born

19. No Doubt - Push and Shove

20. Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind

21. Say Anything - Anarchy, My Dear

22. WZRD - WZRD

23. Alanis Morissette - Havoc and Bright Lights

24. Garbage - Not Your Kind of People

25. Keane - Strangeland

NOTE: Albums must be rated by at least 4 publications to be included in this list.