Well, it is that time again...

List your Top 10 albums or songs or whatever for 2011.

Here's mine in no particular order. I may come back and rank later.....

Real Estate - Days


Portugal The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud


Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math


Grouplove - Never Trust


Lydia - Paint It Golden


Silversun Pickups - Seasick EP


Yuck - Yuck


Young The Giant - Young The Giant


Jenny O - Home EP


Well....Thats only 9, but that's all I could come up with that I thought was worth writing here....Maybe I will think of another later.

Gonna have to look at the cds I got this year and make a listing.

that's a pretty good list. missing a lot of stuff I'd include, but I love the inclusion of Yuck and Portugal the man. I didn't really care for the Grouplove album. Thought it started to get bland around the middle. But i did like the manchester orchestra and young the giant picks. i'll post mine later, though it'll probably be at least a top 20

decemberists- king is dead


antlers- burst apart


destroyer- kaputt


panda bear- tomboy


feist- metals


florence & the machine- ceremonials


handsome furs- sound kapital


sigur ros- inni (live album)


lykke li- wounded rhymes


kills- blood pressures


i didn't add ryan adams or ladytron or okkervil river or tv on the radio or lots of others.

Lets see here:

NEW for 2011 I got

Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Pt2
Wu Tang Clan: Legendary Weapons
The Game: The R.E.D. Album
Limp Bizkit: Gold Cobra
Evanescence: "
Korn: The Path of Totality
The Roots: Undun
*Living Colour: The Chair in the Doorway (released 2009, got in 2011)
*Brian Adams: Icon ( released ??? , got in 2011 )

****

If I were to rank them:


Beasties
The Roots
Evanescence
Limp Bizkit
Korn
Wu Tang Clan
Bryan Adams
Living Colour
The Game

IMO The Besties and New Roots are a strong T2. The game was last place no question. The new Living Colour was not up to their old standards but a decent disc. Adams was low because it was a hits disc. Evanescence sounded like their other two cds so no real ground breaking jams. LB, Korn, and Wu were all decent but not distinct enough to have a ranking exasperating them by much.

Don't feel like ranking them right now, but here's a bunch to start with:

The Decemberists- The King Is Dead


The Vaccines- What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?


Arctic Monkeys- Suck It And See


Noel Gallagher- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds


The Horrible Crowes- Elsie


The Joy Formidable- The Big Roar


We Are Augustines- Rise Ye Sunken Ships


Youth Lagoon- The Year of Hibernation


Yuck- Yuck


Viva Brother- Famous First Words


Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues


The Postelles- The Postelles


Kanye and Jay-z- Watch the Throne


Blitzen Trapper- American Goldwing


The Black Keys- El Camino


Gotye- Making Mirrors


The Farewell Drifters- Echo Boom


Foo Fighters- Wasting Light


Portugal The Man- In The Mountain, In The Cloud


Givers- In Light


The Roots- Undun


TV On The Radio- Nine Types of Light


Iron & Wine- Kiss Each Other Clean


Childish Gambino- Camp


There are probably a few more I'm forgetting

What's an "album"?

Another name for an album is record. You use them with a phonograph...

(12-27-2011 05:31 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Another name for an album is record. You use them with a phonograph...

Sarcasm. Just about everything comes in digital format these days.

(12-28-2011 09:22 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(12-27-2011 05:31 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Another name for an album is record. You use them with a phonograph...

Sarcasm. Just about everything comes in digital format these days.

well I certainly didn't buy physical for any of these. I pay $10/month for spotify

Reb, the wife and I were cleaning up yesterday, and dug up a complete Berlitz Spanish course in a box full of old records. They were still in the original boxes, and could be used at 33 1/3 on one side, or 78 on the other...

8-track tapes, cassette tapes, VHS, and Betamax are some more dead-end technologies that have popped up and died since records phased out...

(12-28-2011 10:22 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(12-28-2011 09:22 AM)Rebel Wrote:  

(12-27-2011 05:31 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Another name for an album is record. You use them with a phonograph...

Sarcasm. Just about everything comes in digital format these days.

well I certainly didn't buy physical for any of these. I pay $10/month for spotify

Love Spotify. It's pretty freakin' incredible.

But I have been buying more and more vinyl the last couple years. I listen to Spotify at work, and mostly vinyl at home these days. Just love the sound of it.

My year end list:


1. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
2. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
3. Tori Amos - Night of Hunters
4. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

6. Adele - 21
7. Robbie Robertson - How To Become Clairvoyant
8. Lucinda Williams - Blessed
9. Dave Stewart - The Blackbird Diaries
10. The Dears - Degeneration Street

11. Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
12. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
13. Wire - Red Barked Tree
14. Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
15. Foster the People - Torches

16. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
17. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
18. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
19. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
20. Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!

21. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
22. Duran Duran - All You Need is Now
23. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
24. Peter Murphy - Ninth
25. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

26. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
27. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
28. Edie Brickell - Edie Brickell
29. US Royalty - Mirrors
30. The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You

forget Bon Iver, good call. I would love to buy vinyl, but my apartment just isn't big enough for a decent set up.

DeTox....



...ohhh that is right.... it never came out this year...

(12-28-2011 04:43 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  DeTox....



...ohhh that is right.... it never came out this year...

Early 2012 supposedly. I'll believe it when it happens lol

(12-25-2011 04:52 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  Lets see here:

NEW for 2011 I got

Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee Pt2
Wu Tang Clan: Legendary Weapons
The Game: The R.E.D. Album
Limp Bizkit: Gold Cobra
Evanescence: "
Korn: The Path of Totality
The Roots: Undun
*Living Colour: The Chair in the Doorway (released 2009, got in 2011)
*Brian Adams: Icon ( released ??? , got in 2011 )

****

If I were to rank them:


Beasties
The Roots
Evanescence
Limp Bizkit
Korn
Wu Tang Clan
Bryan Adams
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ratt
Living Colour
The Game

IMO The Besties and New Roots are a strong T2. The game was last place no question. The new Living Colour was not up to their old standards but a decent disc. Adams was low because it was a hits disc. Evanescence sounded like their other two cds so no real ground breaking jams. LB, Korn, and Wu were all decent but not distinct enough to have a ranking exasperating them by much.

Wow, forgot Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I'm With You" new for '11.

I also forgot I got Ratt: "Metal Hits" in 2011.

Put them in where I'd think they'd rank.