December 27, 201114 yr Best Albums of 2011: 1) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 2) Machinedrum - Room(s) 3) Destroyer - Kaputt 4) Shlohmo - Bad Vibes 5) Björk - Biophilia 6) Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder 7) Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow 8) Rustie - Glass Swords 9) Radiohead - The King of Limbs 10) Grouper - A I A 11) James Blake - James Blake 12) Kuedo - Severant 13) Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes :ninja: 14) AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream 15) The Weeknd - House of Balloons 16) Yuck - Yuck 17) Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise 18) BNJMN - Black Square 19) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 20) The Field - Looping State of Mind 21) SBTRKT - SBTRKT 22) Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica 23) Modeselektor - Monkeytown 24) Sepalcure - Sepalcure 25) Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie xx - We're New Here 10 Special Mentions (in alphabetical order): Andy Stott - Passed Me By EP Andy Stott - We Stay Together EP The Beach Boys - The SMiLE Sessions :heart: Burial - Street Halo EP Four Tet - FabricLive.59 James Blake - Love What Happened Here EP Jonny Greenwood - Norwegian Wood OST Lone - Echolocations EP Radiohead - TKOL RMX 1234567 Sepalcure - Fleur EP 25 albums that ultimately did not make the list (in alphabetical order): Atlas Sound - Parallax Bill Callahan - Apocalypse Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World Clams Casino - Instrumentals Drake - Take Care Cut Copy - Zonoscope Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place Kode9 & the Spaceape - Black Sun M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong Panda Bear - Tomboy Real Estate - Days Sean McCann - Sean McCann St. Vincent - Strange Mercy Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse Toro Y Moi - Underneath the Pine Washed Out - Within and Without Wild Beasts - Smother Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
December 27, 201114 yr goddammit 01 | sean mccann | sean mccann 02 | balam acab | wander / wonder 03 | clive tanaka | jet set siempre n°1 04 | grouper | a i a 05 | lucy | wordplay for working bees 06 | sandwell district | sandwell district 07 | the field | looping state of mind 08 | machinedrum | room(s) 09 | shlohmo | bad vibes 10 | the weeknd | house of balloons 11 | deadbeat | drawn & quartered 12 | araabmuzik | electronic dream 13 | tim hecker | ravedeath, 1972 14 | sean mccann | sincere world 15 | sepalcure | sepalcure or something the list above mine is great too (an ateaser, perhaps?)
December 27, 201114 yr This is the first time I've put together an actual ordered list for a year of albums, so here it is: 1. El Camino (The Black Keys) 2. Mylo Xyloto (Coldplay) 3. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (The Vaccines) 4. Angles (The Strokes) 5. Codes And Keys (Death Cab For Cutie) 6. Watch The Throne (The Throne/Kanye & Jay-Z) 7. Fallen Empires (Snow Patrol) 8. A Different Kind Of Fix (Bombay Bicycle Club) 9. Suck It And See (Arctic Monkeys) 10. The King Of Limbs (Radiohead)
December 27, 201114 yr goddammit 01 | sean mccann | sean mccann 02 | balam acab | wander / wonder 03 | clive tanaka | jet set siempre n°1 04 | grouper | a i a 05 | lucy | wordplay for working bees 06 | sandwell district | sandwell district 07 | the field | looping state of mind 08 | machinedrum | room(s) 09 | shlohmo | bad vibes 10 | the weeknd | house of balloons 11 | deadbeat | drawn & quartered 12 | araabmuzik | electronic dream 13 | tim hecker | ravedeath, 1972 14 | sean mccann | sincere world 15 | sepalcure | sepalcure or something the list above mine is great too (an ateaser, perhaps?) Great list - 10 albums we have in common! :thumbsup: Quick question though: wasn't Jet Set Siempre No. 1 technically released in 2010?
December 27, 201114 yr yes a limited cassette release having read the rules more carefully, i don't think it counts, sadly i'll post an edited list later btw, are you an ateaser? i'm pretty sure you are
December 28, 201114 yr btw, are you an ateaser? i'm pretty sure you are No I am not. Sorry to disappoint you.
December 29, 201114 yr This is the first time I've put together an actual ordered list for a year of albums, so here it is: 1. El Camino (The Black Keys) 2. Mylo Xyloto (Coldplay) 3. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (The Vaccines) 4. Angles (The Strokes) 5. Codes And Keys (Death Cab For Cutie) 6. Watch The Throne (The Throne/Kanye & Jay-Z) 7. Fallen Empires (Snow Patrol) 8. A Different Kind Of Fix (Bombay Bicycle Club) 9. Suck It And See (Arctic Monkeys) 10. The King Of Limbs (Radiohead) El Camino can't be counted though, because it wasn't released by Dec. 1st! Although to be honest, that rule seems rather pointless since it's the end of the year and still people are able to submit lists.....
December 29, 201114 yr Final list: 1: Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver 2: Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow 3: Bill Callahan – Apocalypse 4: Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean 5: My Morning Jacket – Circuital 6: Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys! 7: Radiohead – The King of Limbs 8: Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues 9: The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh 10: Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest 11: Team Me – To the Treetops! 12: Kaizers Orchestra – Violeta Violeta Vol. 1 13: Susanne Sundfør – A Night At Salle Playel 14. Phaedra – The Sea 15: Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes 16: Six Organs of Admittance – Asleep on the Floodplain 17: Josh T. Pearson – Last of the Country Gentlemen 18: St. Vincent – Strange Mercy 19: The Decembrists – The King is Dead 20: Eleanor Friedberger – Last Summer 21: Soley – We Sink 22: Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts 23: The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar 24: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome 25: Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2 Judges Honerable mention: Six Organs of Admittance – Maria Kapel The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know Emmy the Great – Virtue The Horrors – Skying The World/Inferno Friendship Society – The Anarchy and Esctasy Greg Brown – Freak Flag Parts & Labour – Constant Future Timber Timbere – Creep on Creepin’ On Dutch Uncles – Cadenza Cuff the Duke – Morning Comes Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo – Almanac When Saints Go Machine – Konkylie Tôg - Drøm The Horrible Crows – Elsie Einar Stray – Chiaroscuro
December 29, 201114 yr Author When do we find out what album won..?I'm going to close the poll the morning (EST) of Jan 2nd. Countdown to follow soon(ish) after that (I hope...my life got too crazy lately to make promises anymore. :confused:)
December 29, 201114 yr So there's still time. THERE'S STILL TIME. Yeah, I've been putting this off. Majorly. I really mean to do it, so I shall.
December 29, 201114 yr I already voted, but I just listened to the new Gillian Welch album. DAMN it's good.
December 29, 201114 yr Its really hard to make a good list... 1. Gotye - Making Mirrors 2. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 3/4. The Black Keys - El Camino 3/4. Ed Sheeran - + 5/6. Adele - 21 5/6. Kanye West & Jay-Z - Watch The Throne 7/10: not in any specific order: Theophilus London - Timez Are Weird These Dayz Lupe Fiasco - Lasers Florence And The Machine - Ceremonials SuperHeavy -€“ SuperHeavy still so much (good!) music i haven't listen (good enough) to though.. snow patrol, m83, bon iver, But it isnt fair to post it in the list if I didnt gave it a good listen.
December 29, 201114 yr Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (Such a great album, I love it! ) Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne Adele - 21 And that is pretty much it :P
December 29, 201114 yr - Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto - Adele - 21 - Foster The People - Torches - Gotye - Making Mirrors - James Morrison - The Awaking - Young The Giant - Young The Giant - Adele - Live at Royal Albert Hall
December 29, 201114 yr No I am not. Sorry to disappoint you. oh you should def post there i think in the music forum i mean people's tastes there are p similar to yours, that's why i asked :P
December 29, 201114 yr 1) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 2) Bon Iver - Bon Iver 3) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 4) Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials 6) Radiohead - King of Limbs 7) Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 8) Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See 9) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 10) Kasabian - Velociraptor! That's my list. I honestly think that Mylo Xyloto wouldn't be in my top 10 if it was released any other year, I think that 2011 was a mediocre year for albums.
December 29, 201114 yr Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto (Such a great album, I love it! ) Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne Adele - 21 And that is pretty much it :P 1.adele-21 2.coldplay-mylo xyloto 3.Ceremonials-Florence and the machine Don't you need at least 5? On other hand as you both put in Adele leave them as they are so they don't get counted for her filler album :P
December 30, 201114 yr Final list: 1. Johnny Foreigner - Johnny Foreigner vs Everything 2. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing 3. The Antlers - Burst Apart 4. Tellison - The Wages of Fear 5. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall 6. Cécile Corbel - Arrietty (Original Score) 7. Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires 8. Tubelord - r o m a n c e 9. 65daysofstatic - Silent Running 10. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix 11. Los Campesinos! - Hello Sadness 12. The Roots - undun 13. Polinski - Labyrinths 14. We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach 15. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar 16. Russian Circles - Empros 17. Fionn Regan - 100 Acres of Sycamore 18. Maybeshewill - I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone 19. The Ambience Affair - Burials 20. The Dying Seconds - Glimmerers
January 1, 201214 yr El Camino can't be counted though, because it wasn't released by Dec. 1st! Although to be honest, that rule seems rather pointless since it's the end of the year and still people are able to submit lists..... GODDAMMIT, I forgot about that! What a bullshit rule :mean: :P I'm still not changing my list though, El Camino is definitely my favorite thing released this year and it stays in spite :lol:
January 1, 201214 yr GODDAMMIT, I forgot about that! What a bullshit rule :mean: :P I'm still not changing my list though, El Camino is definitely my favorite thing released this year and it stays in spite :lol: It means when the 2012 poll comes around people would have either forgotten about that album or not place it in the list as it's a 2011 album (which featured in quite a few "best of 2011" lists in magazines
January 2, 201214 yr Of course, here I am changing my list again, because I'd neglected to listen to listen to certain albums for too long. Here is a final list, as I have removed the previous one. Hopefully this is not TOO last minute. 1. Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Bon Iver 2. Angles - The Strokes 3. Burst Apart - The Antlers 4. What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? - The Vaccines 5. Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay 6. Strange Mercy - St. Vincent 7. The Year of Hibernation - Youth Lagoon 8. Wounded Rhymes - Lykke Li 9. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes 10. Hello Sadness - Los Campesinos! 11. Yuck - Yuck 12. The Errant Charm - Vetiver 13. Mountaintops - Mates of State 14. Program 91 - Razika 15. A Different Kind of Fix - Bombay Bicycle Club
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