Magazine/website/record store BEST OF 2011 end-of-year list pile-up

I don't need FACT to try to cover the immense terrain of all music in 2011. I just want them to remind me to listen to stuff I missed or skipped. Telling me what they like in their little microcosm is useful to me not boring.

i get this. my point is that paste does EXACTLY this as well, but for "uncool"/"bad" music, and it's been decried all over the internet (including by myself!).

the psychic paramount album is so good

that's the one from the top of that list that i have!

i like it, but the opening note/chord is so loud/abrasive that it sometimes is offputting.

(i am old)

the psychic paramount album is so good

Yep, this album is so great.

I'm with the Paste-defenders: I won't check out much on their list because it's far from my taste but at least it doesn't look like anyone else's offering. I much prefer seeing lists of albums I didn't know about than endlessly repeating examples of GAPDY syndrome (what's the 2011 equivalent?).

Yeah, Psychic Paramount is cool.

pp is my fave rock album this year, maybe fave period.

I'm with the Paste-defenders: I won't check out much on their list because it's far from my taste but at least it doesn't look like anyone else's offering. I much prefer seeing lists of albums I didn't know about than endlessly repeating examples of GAPDY syndrome (what's the 2011 equivalent?).

― sean doily, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 6:17 PM (5 minutes ago)

what? paste's list looks like every other indie lise

Yeah, they really went out on a limb with that Fleet Foxes-Bon Iver one two

yeah i wasn't coming out in favor of the paste list

huh on second glance you're right. I just remembered the Dale Earnhardt/Middle Brother combo (no idea who they are) and assumed there was lots more of that. Delete post.

This is not the first time deej has criticized FACT (if it is deej); I remember maybe last year comparing it to Pitchfork for Resident Advisor enthusiasts or something along those lines. Anyways, I like the FACT list bcz it has a bunch of albums on it I like and wanted to hear.

And the Psychic Paramount album is rad, though I might like the Cosmic Dead album more...

No one is playing acoustic guitar like Bill Orcutt right now. No one.

Eugene Chadbourne still playin shows iirc

1. Nicholas Szczepanik, 'Please Stop Loving Me'

this is a really good record, i think

the FACT list is p garbage btw

very controversial

veeeery controversial

why dont you childish my gambino

I've seen the light!

MOJO EOY 2011

1: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2: The Horrors - Skying
3: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
4: Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
5: Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
6: White Denim - D
7: Josh T Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
8: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
9: Tom Waits - Bad As Me
10: Wild Beasts - Smother
11: Laura Marling - A Creature I Dont Know
12: Kurt Vile - Smoke Rings For My Halo
13: Cat's Eyes - Cat's Eyes
14: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
15: Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
16: Bon Iver - Bon Iver
17: Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat - Everything's Getting Older
18: Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
19: James Blake - James Blake
20: My Morning Jacket - Circuital
21: The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
22: Beirut - The Rip Tide
23: Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
24: EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
25: The Stepkids - The Stepkids
26: Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
27: Arbouretum - The Gathering
28: Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
29: Wilco - The Whole Love
30: Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
31: Nick Lowe - That Old Magic
32: Bjork - Biophilia
33: Glenn Jones - The Wanting
34: Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
35: Tinariwen - Tassili
36: Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
37: Duane Eddy - Road Trip
38: The Sand Bag - All Through The Night
39: Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
40: Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
41: Destroyer - Kaputt
42: Booker T. Jones - The Road From Memphis
43: Gwilym Simcock - Good Days At Scholss Elmau
44: Glen Campbell - Ghost On The Canvas
45: Tuneyards - Whokill
46: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
47: Radiohead: The King Of Limbs
48: Wire - Red Barked Tree
49: Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
50: Joe Henry - Revere

people are really rating that Bjork album solely because it's Bjork IMO

i guess i'm the only one obsessed with the new Atlas Sound! :-/

eh, trying being obsessed with the new Lamb

bjork is top 20 in the guardian list

50-11 are here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/01/best-albums-2011

I'll definitely top-10 the Lamb in our poll.

At least Idolator (and only Idolator) recognized the new Oh Land, though most of their list is well marketed money-pop.

I do not see at all what ppl are getting from GSH/Jamie XX; everything about that album just screams mediocrity to me

GSH/Jamie XX votes are post-mortem tribute, methinks.

lex will be disappointed he didn't manage to bump drake into the top 10 of that guardian poll

i'm thrilled that the pistol annies album got enough votes from people-other-than-me to make the top 50

i agree with OH NOES about björk and gil scott-xx

as for drake, i have said my piece, and now i shall just sit back and JUDGE anyone who lowers themselves to rep for him

Kind of OT, but less so here than elsewhere: Johnny F, J0rdan S and I have talked (very briefly) about running the ILM EOY again since it seemed to work well last year. We'll probably wait until the post-sandbox era to start nominations, assuming said era encroaches in the next week or two. Voting from the start of January, probably.

bigger run down (top 75?) pretty please?

yes! i have been looking fwd to it all year (not even a joke)

though every time i remember how much you lot love destroyer i stop looking forward to it

Last year we did a top 77!

Yes, please wait until the end of the year proper to run the poll. I know there won't be that many December albums that make it anyway, but I like to feel like the year is finished before I do an overview of it.

Top 77 is good for me.

Last year we did a top 77!

oh shiit yes. had 40 stuck in my brain.

xp Yeah nominations will definitely be open until the end of the year.

Yeah, 77 worked great. I'm looking forward to getting the ball rolling, but agree it's best to wait until we exit the sandbox. Historically, noms have started around mid-December.

I'll definitely top-10 the Lamb in our poll.

me too. Quite a comeback record.

I think I could get into that Tinariwen album based off of the song they did on Colbert

I def have to check that oune out

http://open.spotify.com/album/6MmvqMg8G3F41F7U1LWv8p

^^^ there it is

haven't heard the jamie/heron album, but "i'll take care of u" is amazing

I do not see at all what ppl are getting from GSH/Jamie XX; everything about that album just screams mediocrity to me

agree 100%, and i thought the original GSH disc was brilliant.

BTW, tinariwen are also brilliant. the new disc is so solid, and the song with nels cline -- where cline's drone guitar sounds like an alien ship landing in the desert (his v. accurate description) -- is a stunner.

really really digging the Tinariwen album

there you go. the prior two albums are even better.

death grips not on any of these lists? the fuck out

tinariwen sounded fine on colbert but the tvotr contributions were extremely o_O . love the older records tho