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Highest Rated Alternative Rock Albums of 2012
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Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
March 27, 2012
Score
80
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Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil
September 11, 2012
Score
80
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...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Lost Songs
October 23, 2012
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80
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Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet on Sky
September 18, 2012
Score
80
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Muse - The 2nd Law
October 2, 2012
Score
80
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Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985
November 14, 2012
Score
70
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Green Day - ¡Dos!
November 13, 2012
Score
70
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Soundgarden - King Animal
November 13, 2012
Score
70
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Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
January 24, 2012
Score
70
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Bob Mould - Silver Age
September 4, 2012
Score
70
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Keane - Strangeland
May 8, 2012
Score
60
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2:54 - 2:54
May 29, 2012
Score
60
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The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
July 24, 2012
Score
60
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Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
February 7, 2012
Score
60
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone
September 18, 2012
Score
60
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The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
April 21, 2012
Score
60
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Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
May 8, 2012
Score
60
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Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
September 18, 2012
Score
60
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
June 18, 2012
Score
60
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Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
May 15, 2012
Score
50
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The Killers - Battle Born
September 18, 2012
Score
40
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