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Highest Rated Alternative Rock Albums of 2012
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The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
April 21, 2012
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82
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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
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79
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Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV
January 31, 2012
Score
78
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Bob Mould - Silver Age
September 4, 2012
Score
76
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Meat and Bone
September 18, 2012
Score
73
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Paul Weller - Sonik Kicks
March 27, 2012
Score
65
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Garbage - Not Your Kind of People
May 15, 2012
Score
64
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The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania
June 18, 2012
Score
63
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2:54 - 2:54
May 29, 2012
Score
60
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Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral
February 7, 2012
Score
59
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Soundgarden - King Animal
November 13, 2012
Score
59
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The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
July 24, 2012
Score
57
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Retribution Gospel Choir - The Revolution EP
March 26, 2012
Score
55
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Muse - The 2nd Law
October 2, 2012
Score
55
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The Dandy Warhols - This Machine
April 24, 2012
Score
51
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Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
May 8, 2012
Score
48
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Dinosaur Jr. - Chocomel Daze (Live 1987)
November 19, 2012
Score
45
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Nada Surf - The Stars Are Indifferent to Astronomy
January 24, 2012
Score
44
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Ben Folds Five - The Sound of the Life of the Mind
September 18, 2012
Score
35
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