Finally I found the obligatory list thread!
Here's what I've got:

Between the 3 you can make one really great, really depressing holiday album. I originally ended up with the first two because Barenaked Ladies were my favorite band growing up (and their contributions here are typically excellent), but I find myself being drawn more to the more wintry and melancholy tunes 12 years…

I'll climb aboard the Raskulinecz hatewagon as well: everything about this mix is indistinct, which is regrettable approach when the players are as technically proficient as Mastodon's are. Listening to The Hunter, it's not hard to focus on one particular instrument at a time; here, it's damn near impossible.

Leviathan is probably the most representative work, but I have a soft spot for The Hunter because it's their most fun album, which is an adjective I never thought I'd get to use for Mastodon.

The Paper Mario series has always had a wonderfully batty way with storytelling, and it's too bad that SPM and Sticker Star were largely undone by gimmicks that couldn't hold up over the full course of a game.

They've come close at least once (Super Paper Mario), but the whole thing was sort of undercut by how laughably easy boss fights in that game were.

I wished for a little more "Thin Blue Flame"-like anger myself, considering the subject matter.

After SDS, I wonder who will be the first mainstream rapper to let FlyLo produce their whole album, and how richly they will be rewarded for it.

To my ears, Bitter Rivals sounded more like aborted sessions that came before Reign of Terror than a proper 3rd album.

For me there's something a little too glossy about the production on Silver Gymnasium. From Black Sheep Boy to I Am Very Far, I always felt a lot of tension both in Sheff's delivery and in how the band played, as if it was all thisclose to falling apart. That feeling is weirdly absent on Gymnasium.

Omar Hakim's breakdown on Giorgio by Moroder is probably my favorite 2 minutes of music this year.

For me, AM is a better Queens album than …Like Clockwork. At least the first 5 songs or so, anyways.

Serious ups for St. Lucia. He's found that cozy spot between Washed Out and Passion Pit that is really, really doing it for me.

25, in order:

At least with Fallon and JT we're practically guaranteed another Barry Gibb Talk Show, which for me is worth the rest of the shenanigans.

Let's also not forget Echo, which features quite possibly the only way to make yodeling sexy. Also, R. Kelly calls out sick for you! What a sweet guy.

After this and his verse when over Gangsta when Tune-Yards was on a couple years ago (http://www.playgroundmisnom…, is there anything that Black Thought can't put a respectable verse on?

Agreed, and also why I'm glad Golden Girl isn't on the album proper, since Tyler's verse on that song seems to WARP THE VERY FABRIC OF REALITY.

Of all the people I thought I'd hear shout out Pimp C, Beyonce was near the bottom of the list.

I would be more intrigued if John Hodgman took over. Oliver is probably the best choice in terms of not rocking the boat, though.