Your top 2011 albums?

[MikeP]

I will get mine in before the weekend -- not sure about 150 albums even though I have listened to well over 150 albums from this year. I will be applying my iTunes ratings aggregator script again (incorporating 1/2-star ratings level of granularity) to see where the album fall. I'm too busy compiling my mega year-end MP3 comp (probably an epic 2 CDs this year)! Also need to update that damn memory-munching Amazon MP3 list in the upper right for god's sake![:D]

[djcraig]

[quote][i]Originally posted by edwardnky[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
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On another note, nobody can have 100 "Top 2001" albums.[/quote]

I didn't listen to over 20,000 songs or go to over 50 concerts either. It's impossible.

Dude, that is nothing compared to people I know.
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Stay tuned for my list of the Top 1,000 albums of December!



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[schwenko]

[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by edwardnky[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
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On another note, nobody can have 100 "Top 2001" albums.[/quote]

I didn't listen to over 20,000 songs or go to over 50 concerts either. It's impossible.

Dude, that is nothing compared to people I know.
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Stay tuned for my list of the Top 1,000 albums of December!



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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Sugoi !!!

[coop41]

1.Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday - too loud for some aging hipsters but the perfect blend of Nirvana and Marcy Playground updated for a potent, varied record that never gets dull or repetitive

2.The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar- amazing live, fell in love with these guys

3.Yuck - Yuck- 90's, ya, so what? Solid effort, excellent live

4.Gold-Bears - Are You Falling In Love? - perfect indie pop before anyone else has heard of them, this makes me much cooler than you.

5.British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall - a convert

6.Wolf Gang - Suego Faults
7.The Answering Machine - Lifeline
8.Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines
9.The Funeral Party - The Golden Age Of Nowhere
10.Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones



11-25 in order:

Friska Viljor - The Beginning Of The Beginning Of The End
The Wombats - This Modern Glitch LP,Anti D(ep),Techno Fan(ep)
Gaslight Anthem – iTunes Session
Frankie & The Heartstrings - Hunger
Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
Meat Puppets - Lollipop
Manchester Orchestra - Simnple Math
The Naked & Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
David Lowery - The Palace Guards
Yodelice – Live Pilot
Butch Walker - The Spade
Noah & The Whale - Last Night On Earth
Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh
the Black Keys - El Camino
The Alarm - The Sound And The Fury

[MikeP]

Happy 2012 everyone!!!

Okay, as promised here are my top picks. I listened to about 180 albums this year which is a record (no pun intended). Don't think I can sustain that pace for this year.[B)]

Looks like the ladies kicked some ass this year, snagging the top 3 spots![8D] I used the same methodology as last year, strictly ranking each album based on individual song ratings and averaging (out of possible 5.0). Also, 80s artists who had releases some 30 years ago made a strong comeback in 2011: Kate Bush, The Cars, Blondie, Wild Swans, Duran Duran, Wire & John Foxx!

1) Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials (4.469)
2) Adele - 21 (4.455)
3) Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (4.429)
4) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - S/T (4.4)
5) Mayer Hawthorne - How Do You Do (4.375)
6) Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys (4.364)
7) Friendly Fires - Pala (4.333)
Royseven - You Say, We Say (4.333)
9) Kraak & Smaak - Electric Hustle (4.333)
10) Destroyer - Kaputt (4.333)

11) Washed Out - Within And Without (4.333)
12) Blackfield - Welcome to My DNA (4.318)
13) Penguin Café - A Matter Of Life... (4.318)
14) Ivy - All Hours (4.318)
15) The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still (4.3)
16) White Lies - Ritual (4.3)
17) Fool's Gold - Leave No Trace (4.3)
18) Noah and the Whale - Last Night on Earth (4.3)
19) The Drums - Portamento (4.292)
20) Junior Boys - It's All True (4.278)

21) The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (4.273)
22) Cascadeur - The Human Octopus (4.273)
23) Gavin Friday - catholic (4.273)
24) Customs - Harlequins Of Love (4.25)
25) Wilco - The Whole Love (4.25)
26) VHS or Beta - Diamonds and Death (4.25)
27) Diego García - Laura (4.25)
28) Viva Voce - The Future Will Destroy You (4.25)
29) Anna Calvi - S/T (4.25)
30) WIM - S/T (4.25)

31) The Horrors - Skying (4.25)
32) Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (4.25)
33) Holy Ghost! - S/T (4.25)
34) The Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low (4.25)
35) The Submarines - Love Notes/Letter Bombs (4.25)
36) The Veils - Troubles Of The Brain - EP (4.25)
37) Gotye - Making Mirrors (4.25)
38) Active Child - You Are All I See (4.25)
39) Mirrors - Lights And Offerings (4.25)
40) Mia Doi Todd - Cosmic Ocean Ship (4.25)

41) Real Estate - Days (4.25)
42) Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome (4.233)
43) The Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years (4.231)
44) Fountains of Wayne - Sky Full of Holes (4.231)
45) Keren Ann - 101 (4.227)
46) Blondie - Panic Of Girls (4.227)
47) Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin' (4.227)
48) Part Time - What Would You Say? (4.227)
49) The Black Keys - El Camino (4.227)
50) The Crookes - Chasing After Ghosts (4.227)

51) Okkervil River - I Am Very Far (4.227)
52) Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud (4.227)
53) Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now (4.214)
54) Einar Stray - Chiaroscuro (4.214)
55) Foster the People - Torches (4.208)
56) Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence (4.208)
57) John Foxx and The Maths - Interplay (4.2)
58) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong (4.2)
59) The Cars - Move Like This (4.2)
60) Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (4.2)

61) Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding (4.192)
62) Radiohead - The King Of Limbs (4.188)
63) The Belle Brigade - S/T (4.182)
64) Elbow - Build a Rocket boys! (4.182)
65) Glasvegas - EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\ (4.182)
66) Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup (4.182)
67) Tahiti 80 - The Past, the Present and the Possible (4.182)
68) Oh Land - S/T (4.182)
69) Cut Copy - Zonoscope (4.182)
70) Hercules & Love Affair - Blue Songs (4.179)

71) Chris Isaak - Beyond The Sun (4.179)
72) The Dears - Degeneration Street (4.179)
73) R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now (4.167)
74) Beirut - The Rip Tide (4.167)
75) The Duke Spirit - Bruiser (4.167)
76) The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart (4.167)
77) The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave (4.167)
78) Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What (4.15)
79) Bon Iver - S/T (4.15)
80) Wild Beasts - Smother (4.15)

81) Frankie And The Heartstrings - Hunger (4.15)
82) Wye Oak - Civilian (4.15)
83) Generationals - Actor-Caster (4.15)
84) Lisa Hannigan - Passenger (4.15)
85) Kaiser Chiefs - The Future is Medieval (4.15)
86) The Feeling - Together We Were Made (4.143)
87) Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some (4.136)
88) Wire - Red Barked Tree (4.136)
89) Crystal Stilts - In Love with Oblivion (4.136)
90) Kasabian - Velociraptor!

91) Loney Dear - Hall Music (4.136)
92) Motopony - S/T (4.136)
93) Scott Matthew - Gallantry's Favorite Son (4.136)
94) Duncan Sheik - Covers 80's (4.125)
95) Guillemots - Walk the River (4.125)
96) Phaedra - The Sea (4.125)
97) Tim Booth - Love Life (4.125)
98) Tapes 'n Tapes - Outside (4.125)
99) Japanese Popstars - Controlling Your Allegiance (4.125)
100) Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines (4.125)

101) Feist - Metals (4.125)
102) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (4.125)
103) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (4.125)
104) Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer (4.125)
105) Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear (4.115)
106) Panic! at the Disco - Vices & Virtues (4.1)
107) The Strokes - Angles (4.1)
108) Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting (4.091)
109) Blancmange - Blanc Burn (4.091)
110) Future Islands - On The Water (4.091)

111) Zola Jesus - Conatus (4.091)
112) Bibio - Mind Bokeh (4.083)
113) Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - It's A Corporate World (4.083)
114) British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall (4.077)
115) Howling Bells - The Loudest Engine (4.077)
116) Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (4.071)
117) Lady Gaga - Born This Way (4.071)
118) M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming (4.068)
119) The Zombies - Breathe Out, Breathe In (4.05)
120) Twin Sister - In Heaven (4.05)

121) Alexander - S/T (4.05)
122) Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean (4.05)
123) Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine (4.045)
124) The Human League - Credo (4.045)
125) All India Radio - Free Me (4.045)
126) Little Dragon - Ritual Union (4.045)
127) Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning (4.042)
128) Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City (4.042)
129) Owl City - All Things Bright and Beautiful (4.042)
130) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Mirror Traffic (4.033)

131) The Fresh & Onlys - Secret Walls EP (4)
132) Best Coast - Summer Is Forever - EP (4)
133) TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light (4)
134) Boom Bip - Zig Zaj (4)
135) The Head And The Heart - The Head And The Heart (4)
136) Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing (4)
137) Wombats - This Modern Glitch (4)
138) Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years (4)
139) Say Hi - Um, Uh Oh (4)
140) Schiller - Die Einlassmusik 7 - Klangwelten (4)

Ones that I found underwhelming this year (but by no means awful):
1) Faust - Something Dirty
2) The High Llamas - Talahomi Way
3) The Dodos - No Color
4) Class Actress - Rapprocher
5) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
6) Cults - S/T
7) New York Dolls - Dancing Backward in High Heels
Atlas Sound - Parallax
9) Metronomy - The English Riviera
10) White Denim - D

[thegoldenyear]

I gave a good listen to about 60 new records this year.

I'd need more money and more hours in the day to get through everything the NWO board inspires me to sample; invariably no "Best Of Year XXXX" list is ever truly "complete" on December 31st.

Here's my Top 25 Albums of 2011 list, at http://thegoldenyear.wordpress.com/2012 ... lbums2011/

[MikeP]

Cool list with half a dozen that I've never even heard of...I'll need to give those a listen!

[quote][i]Originally posted by thegoldenyear[/i]
<br>I gave a good listen to about 60 new records this year.

I'd need more money and more hours in the day to get through everything the NWO board inspires me to sample; invariably no "Best Of Year XXXX" list is ever truly "complete" on December 31st.

Here's my Top 25 Albums of 2011 list, at http://thegoldenyear.wordpress.com/2012 ... lbums2011/


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[djcraig]

88) Duncan Sheik - Covers 80's (4.125)

Interesting acoustic stuff here. Enjoying covers of "The Ghost In You", "What Is Love?" and "Love Vigilantes".

Only 90 or so more albums to go!...

I notice lots of bands I haven't heard of on these "top 2011" lists here at NWO. But Austra keeps popping up on many, including my own. Any other artists getting listed as consistently?

<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[plagiarism]

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned this, but I don't do albums. That said, I can do a top 10 list this year.

1. Hard-Fi - Killer Sounds
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
3. Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
4. Mint Julep - Save Your Season
5. The Echoing Green - In Scarlet and Vile
6. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines
7. Air Cav - Don't Look Indoors
8. French Films - Imaginary Future
9. Lowline - Lowline
10. Anne - Dream Punx

Bonus album: Various artists/Revolution in Sound 2 (a sampler from Northern Star records.

Honorable Mention:
The Exploding Boy - The Black Album
A Second of June - Psychodrama
Screen Vinyl Image - Screen Vinyl Image
Starfucker - Reptilians
Wolf Gang - Suego Falls
Young Knives - Ornaments

[thegoldenyear]

Well, I love lists. I'm poring over everything shared here. I liked Friendly Fires too (#26 on mine) - "Hurting" was maybe my favourite song from a British band this past year. And I've always liked Ivy (#41 on mine), but struggled with this one, despite my refreshed Dom Durand crush. I should stop comparing everything they do to [i]Apartment Life[/i].


Honestly, I think everybody here could benefit from scouring the Captured Tracks label roster. It's shot through with C86/goth-lite/Factory/synthpop adherents. (Craft Spells [#9], Soft Metals [#18], Blouse [#32], last year's Minks record [strong aroma of Tolhurst drum-era Cure], and so on...)

Samplers -

Craft Spells: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t3j0rp7_Os
Soft Metals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW-FYC17G7o
Blouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtm0KXobJk8
Minks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vRegTyNik

[quote][i]Originally posted by MikeP[/i]
<br>Cool list with half a dozen that I've never even heard of...I'll need to give those a listen!

[quote][i]Originally posted by thegoldenyear[/i]
<br>I gave a good listen to about 60 new records this year.

I'd need more money and more hours in the day to get through everything the NWO board inspires me to sample; invariably no "Best Of Year XXXX" list is ever truly "complete" on December 31st.

Here's my Top 25 Albums of 2011 list, at http://thegoldenyear.wordpress.com/2012 ... lbums2011/


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[djcraig]

[quote][i]Originally posted by thegoldenyear[/i]
<br>I gave a good listen to about 60 new records this year.

I'd need more money and more hours in the day to get through everything the NWO board inspires me to sample; invariably no "Best Of Year XXXX" list is ever truly "complete" on December 31st.

Here's my Top 25 Albums of 2011 list, at http://thegoldenyear.wordpress.com/2012 ... lbums2011/
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Your blog is awesome. Enjoying reading the reviews!



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[thegoldenyear]

Jeez, [i]thank you[/i]. It takes work. I'm very slow!

[quote][i]Originally posted by djcraig[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by thegoldenyear[/i]
<br>I gave a good listen to about 60 new records this year.

I'd need more money and more hours in the day to get through everything the NWO board inspires me to sample; invariably no "Best Of Year XXXX" list is ever truly "complete" on December 31st.

Here's my Top 25 Albums of 2011 list, at http://thegoldenyear.wordpress.com/2012 ... lbums2011/
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Your blog is awesome. Enjoying reading the reviews!



<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>


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[schwenko]

I don't understand[:(]
why are the lists so short?

it is supposed to be the top 2011 albums, right?

most people are stopping at 100 or less...

Sugoi !!!

[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by schwenko[/i]
<br>I don't understand[:(]
why are the lists so short?

it is supposed to be the top 2011 albums, right?

most people are stopping at 100 or less...

Sugoi !!!
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#26-133 of my list is only available to paid subscribers, sorry

[i_like_lectric_motors]

76,873 Terry Hall - The Best Of 1981-1997
76,873 (tie) Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter for a Hundred Years
76,872 way tie for #1 - everything else.