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I'm still working on mine because I put effort into such things for some reason, but I feel the topic should be here.

I still want to listen to a few things, but yes, I do have a list squirreled away somewhere and will post it some time relatively soon.

I was planning on it, but I want to what others put down first.

Okay, I'm pretty satisfied with my list now. Here are the albums from 2011 that I think you should listen to, as of 2011:

top ten

1. Prurient - Bermuda Drain
2. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
3 .Boris - New Album
4. Fuck The Facts - Die Miserable
5. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
6. Richmond Fontaine - The High Country
7. Taku Unami & Takahiro Kawaguchi - Teatro Assente
8. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
9. The Men - Leave Home
10. The Necks - Mindset

honorable mentions

Kreng - Grimoire
Bill Orcutt - How the Thing Sings
Anne Guthrie - Perhaps A Favorable Organic Moment
Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
Peter Evans Quintet - Ghosts
Raspberry Bulbs - Nature Tries Again
Toshimaru Nakamura - Maruto
John Wiese - Seven Of Wands
John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves
The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/TwilightS ... 011_albums

That's all of the new albums I listened to this year. I like the top 18, don't like the other 12.

No idea there was a new Necks album this year.

You're missing out, man! It is pretty good.

Oh, I forgot. I just scanned the list of 2011 albums, and fuck did I miss a lot (Bad As Me, firstly). Anywho:

1. Angles - The Strokes c
2. Bon Iver, Bon Iver - Bon Iver i
3. Megalithic Symphony - AWOLNATION r
4. Mine Is Yours - Cold War Kids c
5. Thank You, Happy Birthday - Cage the Elephant u
6. The People's Key - Bright Eyes i
7. So Beautiful or So What - Paul Simon t
8. Kiss Each Other Clean - Iron & Wine a
9. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes l
10. w h o k i l l - tUnE-yArDs ?

HM: Endgame - Rise Against; The King is Dead - The Decemberists; The King of Limbs - Radiohead

EDIT: I completely forgot Circuital and now I'm not really sure where it should go -- list fixed to represent this

Yahoozy wrote:No idea there was a new Necks album this year.

Oh shit, I somehow forgot to add that to mine. I agree with gloomp; it's solid.

I've made absolutely no effort to stay up-to-date with new music this year, and making a top albums list would be ridiculous. Instead, here are ten songs from 2011 that were pretty okay:

THE J. ARTHUR KEENES BAND Foe Paw
STARSCREAM Space
BORIS Black Original
BRIGHT EYES Triple Spiral
RADIOHEAD Separator
PERFUME 不自然なガール
モーニング娘。 この地球の平和を本気で願ってるんだよ！
BUONO! 雑草のうた
DIGITALISM Circles
LES INCOIFFABLES All Or Nothing (The East Is Red)

noisℯtte wrote:LES INCOIFFABLES All Or Nothing (The East Is Red)

hey ortsz if you would make an actual album i would include it in my list

boustrophedon wrote:
noisℯtte wrote:LES INCOIFFABLES All Or Nothing (The East Is Red)
hey ortsz if you would make an actual album i would include it in my list

EPs 4 lyfe.

noisℯtte wrote:
boustrophedon wrote:
noisℯtte wrote:LES INCOIFFABLES All Or Nothing (The East Is Red)
hey ortsz if you would make an actual album i would include it in my list
EPs 4 lyfe.

2 song, 14 minute EPs

centerƒire wrote:
noisℯtte wrote:
boustrophedon wrote:hey ortsz if you would make an actual album i would include it in my list
EPs 4 lyfe.
2 song, 14 minute EPs

If you do the maths, that's pretty good value per song, bitch.

As promised:

An album list

Top 25 Albums (Ranked)

1. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
2=Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
2=The Strokes - Angles
4. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5. The Horrors – Skying
6. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
7. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
8. Yuck – Yuck
9. Radiohead – The King of Limbs
10. Cults – Cults
11. The Roots – Undun
12. Childish Gambino - EP / Camp
13. Justice – Audio, Video, Disco
14. Beirut – The Rip Tide
15. Cat’s Eyes – Cat’s Eyes
16. tUnEyArDs – w h o k i l l
17. Lady Gaga – Born This Way
18. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
19. Kanye West & Jay-Z – Watch the Throne
20. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
21. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
22. Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage
23. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
24. The Black Keys – El Camino
25. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto

A song list:

Top 20 Songs (Unranked)

Beyonce – Love on Top
The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
Childish Gambino - L.E.S.
Coldplay – Paradise
Cut Copy – Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution
Cut Copy – Hanging Onto Every Heartbeat
Fleet Foxes – Lorelai
Foo Fighters – Walk
Fucked Up – The Other Shoe
The Horrors – Endless Blue
The Horrors – Still Life
The Joy Formidable – The Ever Changing Spectrum of a Lie
Justice – On’n’on
M83 – Midnight City
M83 – OK Pal
Mogwai – Mexican Grand Prix
Radiohead – Lotus Flower
St. Vincent – Surgeon
The Strokes – Machu Picchu
tUnEyArDs - Bizness

A maestro list

Top 2 EPs by ortsz (Ranked)

1. Chicken Fever in Fukuoka
2. Deuxième
Deuxième is second because it's shorter. Make an album already!

EDIT: Edited in Childish Gambino

noisℯtte wrote:If you do the maths, that's pretty good value per song, bitch.

like, free?

yeah

Like always, I haven't heard enough 2011 albums to have a proper and almost definitive list, but oh well.
I actually had to modify the original list to only have one song from each album, for the top tracks.

Top 23 tracks (kind of sorted; this varies a lot within short lapses of time)

1 - Adrift - Dive -- Tycho
2 - Separator - The King of Limbs -- Radiohead
3 - Last Night at the Jetty - Tomboy -- Panda Bear
3 - Michicant - Bon Iver -- Bon Iver
4 - It's Real -Days -- Real Estate
5 - Money - Portamento -- The Drums
7 - Hounds (Feat. Nicole Atkins) - Together -- The Antlers
8 - High Priestess - You Are All I See -- Active Child & Hanging On too, because it's soooo good.
9 - Rises Silent - Dreams Come True -- CANT
10 - You Should Close The Door - Idle Labor -- Craft Spells
11 - Montana - The Year of Hibernation -- Youth Lagoon
12 - Never Look Back - Paradise -- Slow Club
13 - Corinne - English Riviera -- Metronomy
14 - Helplessness Blues - Helplessness Blues -- Fleet Foxes
15 - Constant Now - Keep You Close -- dEUS
16 - Rolled Together - Burst Apart -- The Antlers
17 - I've Been Lost - Chromatic -- You Can't Win, Charlie Brown
18 - I just wanted to make you something beautiful - Chapter 1: Had We Known Better -- Industries of the Blind
19 - Mão na Música - Mútuo Consentimento -- Sérgio Godinho
20 - Then It's White - Looping State of Mind -- The Field
21 - Rockets - Destroyed -- Moby
22 - Santa Fe - The Rip Tide -- Beirut
23 - Get Lost - Bad As Me -- Tom Waits

Top 10 albums (same as top tracks on the sorting

1 - You Are All I See -- Active Child

2 - Dive -- Tycho

3 - Bon Iver -- Bon Iver

4 - Tomboy -- Panda Bear

5 - Days -- Real Estate

6 - Portamento -- The Drums

7 - Burst Apart -- The Antlers

8 - Dreams Come True -- CANT

9 - The King Of Limbs -- Radiohead

10 - The Year of Hibernation -- Youth Lagoon

Can't stress enough how these lists vary over time.

hello

1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. OFF! - First Four EPs
3. The Men - Leave Home
4. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
5. The Necks - Mindset
6. Boris - New Album
7. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
8. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
9. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
10. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres

!!!!!!!!!!! wrote:hello

2. OFF! - First Four EPs

December 2010, IDIOT.

Good calls otherwise though in general. Haven't heard the Mogwai but I sort of assumed it would be as mediocre as Take Care, Take Care, Take Care.

Meh, December's close enough, and they released a live album last year, so whatev'. Yeah, the Mogwai album is actually pretty damn good. I usually woe the vocal tracks on Mogwai albums, but one in particular is too damn catchy to groan over.

Donfuy wrote:2 - Dive -- Tycho

Such a good album.

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will was pretty good but not as awe-inspiring as Mogwai's older stuff

good music everybody! it was a fun year

1. Bright Colors ( Tano*C Release )

2. Tunnel Blanket by This Will Destroy You

3. Old Raves End by Swarms

4. Within Without by Washed Out

5. Total by Sebastian

6. Epsilon by Blood Stain Child

7. Hardcore Syndrome 5 ( Tano*C Release )

8. Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron

9. The Terminal Symphony by Rene Hell

10. Dive by Tycho

PALEMOON wrote:good music everybody! it was a fun year

9. The Terminal Symphony by Rene Hell

hey i listened to an album by this guy from last year

have we ever listened to the same obscure artist independent of each other's influence before

i don't know

in no particular order

Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
Satanik Steaks - Dabbling In The Occult
Prurient - Bermuda Drain
Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs
Mamaleek - Kurdaitcha
Body & Head - Fractured Orgasm
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs
Ulaan Khol - La Catacomb
Veronica Maggio - Satan I Gatan

runner ups

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - From The Stairwell
Kammerflimmer Kollektief - Teufelskamin
Terror Bird - Human Culture
UUUUUU - Of The Xerophytic Blooming

Dabbling In The Occult is cool also because it's the first and probably the last net release of Magik Crowbar and I feel very insecure about this list, I never bother to catch up with recent stuff

I did a uh, top 60, a few months ago. I doubt anyone's still bothered about 2011 lists but here goes - hardly anyone's heard of my #1 so hopefully this will turn people on to it?

http://decemberembers.wordpress.com/201 ... s-of-2011/

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