Radio K :: Top 77 Voting

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Check back Friday, December 28 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. to see the results of Radio K's Top 77 Albums of 2012 countdown! Click on the links to check out these bands the last time they were in-studio!

#77: HUNX - Hairdresser Blues - Hardly Art
#76: GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH - Chest Crawl - Dirtnap
#75: PERFUME GENIUS - Put Your Back N 2 It - Matador
#74: LEISURE BIRDS - Globe Master - Moon Glyph
#73: ROBUST WORLDS - Emotional Planet - De Stijl
#72: THE BABIES - Our House on the Hill - Woodsist
#71: TY SEGALL BAND - Melted - Goner
#70: HERE WE GO MAGIC - A Different Ship - Secretly Canadian
#69: CRYSTAL CASTLES - III - Fiction/Polydor
#68: POOLSIDE - Pacific Standard Time - Night & Day
#67: FOOD PYRAMID - Mango Sunrise - Moon Glyph
#66: DEATH GRIPS - The Money Store - Epic
#65: LOWER DENS - Nootropics - Ribbon Music
#64: FIONA APPLE - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do - Epic
#63: THE MEN - Open Your Heart - Sacred Bones
#62: THE ANTLERS - Undersea - Anti-
#61: PONY TRASH - Pony Trash - Old Blackberry Way
#60: COMMUNIST DAUGHTER - Lions & Lambs - Grain Belt
#59: DIRTY PROJECTORS - Swing Lo Magellan - Domino
#58: SIGUR ROS - Valtari - XL
#57: DIIV - Oshin - Captured Tracks
#56: PRISSY CLERKS - Bruise or Be Bruised - Forged Artifacts
#55: ICKY BLOSSOMS - Icky Blossoms - Saddle Creek
#54: CATE LE BON - CYRK - Control Group
#53: WILD NOTHING - Nocturne - Captured Tracks
#52: DINOSAUR JR. - I Bet on Sky - Jagjaguwar
#51: DEERHOOF - Breakup Song - Polyvinyl
#50: FIRST AID KIT - The Lion's Roar - Wichita
#49: THE WALKMEN - Heaven - Fat Possum
#48: LUCY MICHELLE & THE VELVET LAPELLES - Heat - Video Grandma
#47: KISHI BASHI - 151a - Joyful Noise
#46: SOLID GOLD - Eat Your Young - Totally Gross National Product
#45: THE SHINS - Port of Morrow - Capital/Aural Apothecary
#44: OBERHOFER - Time Capsules II - Glassnote
#43: ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - Lost Songs - Richter Scale/Superball
#42: BROTHER ALI - Mourning In America and Dreaming In Color - Rhymesayers
#41: AESOP ROCK - Skelethon - Rhymesayers
#40: SLEIGH BELLS - Reign of Terror - Mom & Pop
#39: DARK DARK DARK - Who Needs Who - Supply & Demand
#38: KING TUFF - King Tuff - Sub Pop
#37: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - Centipede Hz - Domino
#36: TALLEST MAN ON EARTH - There's No Leaving Now - Dead Oceans
#35: SWANS - The Seer - Young God
#34: METZ - METZ - Sub Pop
#33: METRIC - Synthetica - Mom & Pop
#32: TEENAGE MOODS - Grow - 25 Diamonds
#31: P.O.S. - We Don't Even Live Here - Rhymesayers
#30: GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! - Constellation
#29: DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT - Love This Giant - 4AD
#28: IS/IS - III - Guilt-Ridden Pop
#27: YEASAYER - Fragrant World - Secretly Canadian
#26: THE RAVEONETTES - Observator - Vice
#25: ANDREW BIRD - Eyeoneye - Mom & Pop
#24: PURITY RING - Shrines - 4AD
#23: TY SEGALL - Twins - Drag City
#22: FRANK OCEAN - channel ORANGE - Def Jam
#21: NICE PURSE - Dilly Barchords - Forged Artifacts
#20: FOUR TET - Pink - Text
#19: MIIKE SNOW - Happy To You - Downtown/Universal Republic
#18: JACK WHITE - Blunderbuss - Third Man
#17: NIGHT MOVES - Colored Emotions - Domino
#16: BAT FOR LASHES - The Haunted Man - Parlophone
#15: FLYING LOTUS - Until The Quiet Comes - Sub Pop
#14: CAT POWER - Sun - Matador
#13: FATHER JOHN MISTY - Fear Fun - Sub Pop
#12: THE XX - Coexist - Young Turks
#11: BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW - Cobra Juicy - Rad Cult
#10: TAME IMPALA - Lonerism - Modular
#9: CLOUD NOTHINGS - Attack on Memory - Carpark
#8: WIPING OUT THOUSANDS - This Came First - self-released
#7: DAN DEACON - America - Domino
#6: JAPANDROIDS - Celebration Rock - Polyvinyl
#5: GRIZZLY BEAR - Shields - Warp
#4: SHARON VAN ETTEN - Tramp - Jagjaguwar
#3: BEACH HOUSE - Bloom - Sub Pop
#2: POLICA - Give You The Ghost - Totally Gross National Product
#1: GRIMES - Visions - 4AD

We had to dig deep through the archives to find most of these lists. As you'll notice, some are scanned - others are typed. But this provides a thorough history of 17 years of opinions from Radio K listeners, DJs, staff, and volunteers about what was hot in music at the time. Enjoy!