Q's Top 50 Albums Of 2011
50. Justice - Audio Video Disco49. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra48. Noah & The Whale - Last Night On Earth 47. Mastodon - The Hunter 46. SBTRKT - SBTRKT 45. Miles Kane - Colour Of The Trap 44. Death In Vegas - Trans-Love Energies43. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine42. Josh T Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen 41. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost40. Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi - Rome 39. James Blake - James Blake 38. Feist - Metals37. Washed Out - Within And Without 36. Katy B - On A Mission35. Cass McCombs - Humor Risk 34. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo 33. tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L 32. Radiohead - King Of Limbs31. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part II 30. Lady Gaga - Born This Way 29. Kasabian - Velociraptor!28. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest 27. Ed Sheeran - + 26. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes 25. Wild Beast - Smother 24. Real Estate - Days23. Bjork - Biophilla 22. White Lies - Ritual 21. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds20. The Weeknd - Thursday 19. Cass McCombs - Wit's End 18. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi 17. Metronomy - The English Riviera 16. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo 15. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup 14. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons 13. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind Of Fix 12. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know 11. The Horrors - Skying10. Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!9. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain8. St Vincent - Strange Mercy 7. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See6. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne5. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto4. Bon Iver - Bon Iver 3. Adele - 212. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake1. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
1. Connan Mockasin Forever Dolphin Love
waht is this?
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
i'm fucking livid at that paste list
― dealwithit.gif, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:48 AM (1 hour ago)
they had drake ; )
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Connan Mockasin album is decent psych-pop, but is also a 2010 album rereleased in 2011 under a different title (was previously Please Turn Me Into The Snat, so you can see how a change helped).
― if, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
glad he had a rethink on the snat before the wish anus turned up
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
How do you think the wish anus came to be?
― Ou est la showaddywaddy (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
that truly is the riddle of the sphincs
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that the decemberists placed so much farther ahead of some of my favorite records in that paste list just blows my mind
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
xp hahaha
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
o_O at Florence #1 in Q.
― Stevie T, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
My God at that Q list.
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
where is kate bush band???
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
1. Tombs - Path of Totality
haha are there really 2 metal albums named path of totality this year?
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
No – my god at that Paste list.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
are there any good lists, anywhere
― cad, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Piccadilly Records Albums of the Year
Not going to type out all 100, these are the top 20:
1. Peaking Lights - 936 (yay!)2. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo3. The Phoenix Foundation - Buffalo4. Maria Minerva - Cabaret Cixous5. Metronomy - The English Riviera6. Wooden Shjips - West7. Other Lives - Tamer Animals8. The Kills - Blood Pressures9. Black Lips - Arabia Mountain10. Widowspeak - Widowspeak11. Shimmering Stars - Violent Hearts12. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams13. Pure X - Pleasure14. Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake16. Harvey Presents Locussolus - Locussolus17. Vetiver - The Errant Charm18. J Mascis - Several Shades of Why19. Real Estate - Days20. Washed Out - Within and Without
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Only one list so far has featured Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
Funny how everyone scans over the metal list as "oh, well, they just cover metal so of course they're gonna have a list full of metal albums" yet every time something that just covers shitty indie has a list made up of shitty indie people are LIVID.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
lolyes
― Mordy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
xp but it's not even good indie :(
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say Q at least pretends to cover more than shitty indie? I guess they do include Jay-Z and Kanye to demonstrate they know about the rapping too.
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Rounder Records (Brighton) top 50:
1.THE HORRORS - "Skying" (XL)2.SUUNS - "Zeroes QC" (Secretly Canadian)3.THE WAR ON DRUGS - "Slave Ambient" (Secretly Canadian)4.PJ HARVEY - "Let England Shake" (Island)5.HYETAL - "Broadcast" (Special Branch)6.FORD & LOPATIN - "Channel Pressure" (Software)7.NEON INDIAN - "Era Extrana" (Transgressive)8.JOHN MAUS - "We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves" (Upset The Rhythm)9.MOON DUO - "Mazes" (Souterrain Transmissions)10.PEAKING LIGHTS - "936" (Weird World)11.THURSTON MOORE - "Demolished Thoughts" (Matador)12.SBTRKT - "SBTRKT" (Young Turks)13.METRONOMY - "The English Riviera" (Because)14.YUCK - "Yuck" (Mercury)15.MAYER HAWTHORNE - "How Do You Do" (Universal Republic)16.CAT'S EYES - "Cat's Eyes" (Polydor)17.BOOKER T JONES - "The Road From Memphis" (Epitaph)18.THE FIELD - "Looping State Of Mind" (Kompakt)19.STEPHEN MALKMUS - "Mirror Traffic" (Domino)20.VERONICA FALLS - "Veronica Falls" (Bella Union)21.WILD FLAG - “Wild Flag” (Wichita)22.JOHN TEJADA - "Parabolas" (Kompakt)23.JUSTICE - "Audio, Video, Disco" (Edbanger)24.BEASTIE BOYS - "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two" (Capitol)25.JAMIE WOON - "Mirrorwriting" (Interscope)26.MEMORY TAPES - "Player Piano" (Something In Construction)27.LOCUSSOLUS - "Locussolus" (International Feel)28.NO JOY - "Ghost Blonde" (Mexican Summer)29.GUI BORATTO - "III" (Kompakt)30.WIDOWSPEAK - "Widowspeak" (Captured Tracks)31.MOGWAI - "Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will" (Rock Action)32.MARTYN - "Ghost People" (Brainfeeder)33.ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER - "Last Summer" (City Slang)34.J.MASCIS - "Several Shades Of Why" (Sub Pop)35.TORO Y MOI - "Underneath The Pine" (Carpark)36.THE KILLS - "Blood Pressures" (Domino)37.WASHED OUT - "Within & Without" (Weird World)38.RINGO DEATHSTARR - "Colour Trip" (Club AC30)39.DENNIS COFFEY - "Dennis Coffey" (Strut)40.EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - "Take Care Take Care Take Care" (Bella Union)41.GRUFF RHYS - "Hotel Shampoo" (Ovni)42.TOM WAITS - "Bad As Me" (Anti)43.MODESELEKTOR - "Monkeytown" (Monkeytown)44.HOLY GHOST - "Holy Ghost" (DFA)45.RUSTIE - “Glass Swords” (Warp)46.KITTY, DAISY & LEWIS - "Smoking In Heaven" (Sunday Best)47.WOODEN SHJIPS - "West" (Thrill Jockey)48.BALAM ACAB - "Wander/Wonder" (Triangle)49.ST. VINCENT - "Strange Mercy" (4AD)50.BLOOD ORANGE - “Coastal Grooves” (Domino)
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ decent list
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say Q at least pretends to cover more than shitty indie?
Q doesn't even cover very much shitty indie. They cover old man rock music.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
I want to check out the Suuns record from that list, it sounds pretty interesting.
SBTRKT album is coming up a lot - any good?
― pomplamau5, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
emil.y: http://www.myspace.com/suuns_
btw the Blanck Mass album over in FACT is really good
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
container album on the fact list is excellent too. check out the track 'dissolve' cos that is a banger
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
Also the Haxan Cloak album, though I do need to listen to it a bit more.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
truth
― diamonddaze85 (ok), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – It’s A Corporate World
this... this is a real album?
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
FACT list looks cool, though I've only heard two albums so far. But to be fair, I've only heard 5-10% on most of these lists...
― sean doily, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
i need to hear that Haxan Cloak album, actually
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's okay but not all that great - the roly porter record makes a better fist of the strings plus menacing ambience thing imo
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh, I haven't heard that.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
ha, well even that one gets a bit boring too
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Holy cow JEHST made a record? In 2011? That made a list? I was just assuming he was working at an twenty four hour petrol station being annoyed at the kids these days.
Or to sum it up, lol.
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yes.
The pre-album EP was really good, but the album doesn't hang together so well.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
ha maybe my next poll will be Suuns vs. Death Grips
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
35: JON BROOKS - MUSIC FOR THOMAS CARNACKI VOL. 1
This sounds like total emil.y bait:
This remarkable, digital-only album by Jon Brooks – best known for his work as The Advisory Circle on Ghost Box – might just be the last word in hauntology. Under a title that nods to the supernaturally-attuned detective of William Hope Hodgson’s pre-war fantasy fiction, Brooks presents 27 perfectly-formed miniatures of occult ambience, queer-pitched radiophonics and pseudo-classical whimsy. An absolute delight.
― don't fear the (pomplamau5), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yes! I was surprised that I hadn't actually heard that this year. Unless the mister has surreptitiously played it - he's at least as big a Ghost Box fan as me, if not even more.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
That Suun album actually came out back in 2010 in the States, its hit or miss tbh. Some really great tracks, but a lot of filler iirc.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
what is moon duo like
― smh, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking awesome. Its a side project of a Wooden Shjips dude, but more emphasis on keyboards. Some fucking jams on that new album.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
~shrugs~
Looks like a Paste list.
― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
CKotm
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I see that's been covered.
― Louis C.K. Williams (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I really like the Moon Duo record. Don't dig the Doors-isms of Wooden Shjips, but MD are groovy synthy shiz.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Meh, I liked the WS album this year more than the MD album
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I liked them both, but I felt like the Shjips record was them on cruise control - fine, but nothing they hadn't done already. The Moon Duo record was a leap from the previous stuff though, but he best thing they did this year was "Sickener" on the Horror Tour thing.
― I left my login in El Sandboxo, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
Terrorizer top 40 albums list cos I was asked nicely
1 Mastodon - The Hunter2 Autopsy- Macabre Eternal3 Trap Them - Darker Handicraft4 Devin Townsend - Ghost / Deconstruction5 Amebix - Sonic Mass6 Altar of Plagues - Mammal7 Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage8 Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients9 Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult10 In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil11 Today Is The Day - Pain Is A Warning12 Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand13 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room14 The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre15 Solstafir - Svartir Sandar16 Fucked Up - David Comes To Life17 Tombs - Path of Totality18 Machine Head - Unto the Locust19 Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations20 Vallenfyre - A Fragile King21 Ancient Vvisdom - A Godlike Inferno22 Opeth - Heritage23 Craft - Void24 Sonne Adam - Transformation25 Brutal Truth - End Time26 Disma - Towards The Megalith27 Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore28 Yob - Atma29 All Pigs Must Die - God is War30 Cave In - White Silence31 Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning32 Will Haven - Voir Dire33 Decapitated - Carnival is Forever34 Obscura - Omnivium35 Rwake - Rest36 Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift37 Maim - Deceased To Exist38 Absu - Abzu39 Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance40 Shining - VII: Fodd Forlorare
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
not a bad list imo, plenty of stuff I don't care about but it doesn't seem manipulated or focusgrouped in whatever way
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks!!
Surprised Mastodon won yet I couldn't see else in the list who would win. Yet again Uncle Acid have been ignored. Maybe next years lists will see them mentioned once its out in the USA.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
wasn't the Uncle Acid an edition of a couple of hundred? Not surprising that lots of people overlooked it.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 31 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
apparently ppl download stuff nowadays or so I'm told
I've still not heard it cos I was so IA at the eBay disposable income prickery / standard Rise Above dick moves
seems like something I'd dig tho
― Extreme Lifestyle, Saturday, 31 December 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
it is
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
popjustice readers have spoken
beyonce's 4 was the 3rd worst album of 2011.
http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5928&Itemid=9
― uberweiss, Saturday, 31 December 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the YOB album would be higher in the Terrorizer poll actually. Pleased to see Today Is The Day in high.
― Anyone need a (Jimmy Riddle), Saturday, 31 December 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
they hate party rock anthem? fuck them
― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Saturday, 31 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
My top 100 of 2011, yalllll
http://bit.ly/whogivesashiiiiit
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
pistol annies! :)
i would never ever have thought you were into nicolas jaar
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha why not!
― uncle bannmee who can recall his past logins (dealwithit.gif), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
too tasteful, too pretty maybe? idk
still think he's maybe one of the artists i've discovered in the past 14 months who's most blown me away but if i was to put together a list of reasons/tracks why, the album would not constitute many of them.
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Pistol Annies album is so tuff.
― Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 31 December 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
Glad to see Seun Kuti sneak on on there. I've been listening to the Matana Roberts this week, and it's definitely fascinating, though parts are also excruciating.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Lex OTM wrt the Jaar album.
― Tim F, Sunday, 1 January 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney, Bob Boilen from NPR radio/website All songs Considered site, and the afropop.org site all chose the nice understated kora and cello duet album Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal - Chamber Music (Mali and France) - (on Six Degrees)
It's growing on me but I went elsewhere with my African music choices
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
Orchestre Poly- Rythmo-Cotonou Club (Strut)
Jon Pareles at the NY Times also went with this one
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
That should be Orchestre PolyRythmo
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
If they had gone with the full TuneYards style lettering they could have made more lists
― Another Suburbanite, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
POX nico jaar:
wouha time for usmarksthe bees - winter rose (nicolas jaar remix)ellen allien - flashy flashy (nicolas jaar remix)space is only noise if you can seelove you gotta lose againrussian dollsel bandidono regular play - owe me (nicolas jaar remix)
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
maybe every artist should do this for lols?
pIsToL aNnIeS - h e l l o n h e e l s
tIm HeCkEr - r a v e d e a t h , 1 9 7 2
etc.
― ilxor, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
It took two hours to compose that post didn't it
― Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
Brainwashed.com's reader's poll results
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Monday, 2 January 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link