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

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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

did we do filter?

http://filtermagazine.com/index.php/news/entry/filters_top_10_of_2011_staff_picks

1. M83 : Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
2. Bon Iver : Bon Iver
3. Fleet Foxes : Helplessness Blues
4. Mayer Hawthorne : How Do You Do?
5. The Weeknd : House of Balloons
6. Adele : 21
7. Elbow : Build a Rocket, Boys!
8. Black Lips : Arabia Mountain
9. Washed Out : Within and Without
10. A$AP Rocky : LIVELOVEA$AP

Honorable Mentions:

(11) James Blake, James Blake
(12) Ryan Adams, Ashes & Fire
(13) Lykke Li, Wounded Rhymes
(14) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
(15) Tom Waits, Bad As Me
(16) Little Dragon, Ritual Union
(17) Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
(18) Radiohead, The King of Limbs
(19) Fucked Up, David Comes To Life
(20) Justice, Audio, Video, Disco

so far theres been one decent list itt

funny that no one in the editorial side of FILTER voted for asap rocky, at least according to those indiv lists

???? xp

funny that no one in the editorial side of FILTER voted for asap rocky, at least according to those indiv lists

not sure which of the goon squad u r but what do u think the chances of spaceghostpurrp getting much eoy love??

very little

i havent really seen his name brought up that much this year outside of lumping him in w/ the general 'scene' -- i don't think his actual music has been a big galvanizing force of any sort tho

at least not yet

i downloaded that album but for some reason it doesn't play on my ipod

i think you downloaded a cassette

really really digging the Tinariwen album

Yeah, it's great. I'd only heard a stray track or two in the past, but I liked this immediately.

Once more, Mastodon plays the part of the requisite metal album in the indie lists, despite being a fairly middle-of-the-road release for them.

Spaceghostpurrp hasn't produced anything substantial yet. Certainly not the kind of thing that would show up on these lists

Yeah, it's great. I'd only heard a stray track or two in the past, but I liked this immediately.

glad you dig this. they're a special band.

The thing with the Mastodon album is that its easily the most accessible album they've done and I can totally see why this would be one that indie kids eat up. I was more surprised when the proggy-epic ones showed up.

Q Tracks

20 Beady Eye 'The Morning Sun'
19 Example 'Changed The Way You Kissed Me'
18 Cat's Eyes 'Best Person I Know'
17 Wretch 32 'Traktor'
16 Ghostpoet 'Cash and Carry Machine'
15 Florence + The Machine 'Shake It Out'
14 Fleet Foxes 'Helplessness Blues'
13 Rihanna 'Man Down'
12 Chase & Status 'Blind Faith'
11 Jack White 'Love Is Blindness'
10 Lykke Li 'Get Some'
9 The Strokes 'Under The Cover of Darkness'
8 Tyler The Creator 'Yonkers'
7 Aloe Blacc 'I Need A Dollar'
6 The Vaccines 'If You Wanna'
5 Lady Gaga 'The Edge of Glory'
4 Foster The People 'Pumped Up Kicks'
3 KREAYSHAWN 'GUCCI GUCCI'
2 Lana Del Rey 'Video Games'
1 Adele 'Someone Like You'

Uncut Reissues / Comps / Boxsets

30 Suede - Suede
29 Nirvana - Nevermind
28 V/A - Delta Swamp Rock
27 Phil Spector - The Phillies Album Collection
26 Mercury Rev - Deseter's Songs
25 Richard Thompson - Live at The BBC
24 Donovan - Sunshine Superman
23 Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink
22 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
21 The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real / Handpicked Songs 1955-1962
20 U2 - Achtung Baby
19 Manic Street Preachers - National Treasures: The Complete Singles
18 Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Tell My Sister
17 The Kinks - Kinks Kontroversy
16 Neil Young and The International Harvesters - A Treasure
15 V/A - Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973
14 Kate Bush - Director's Cut
13 Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide
12 Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor
11 Roy Harper - Stormcock
10 Jim Ford - Harlan County
9 Can - Tago Mago
8 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
7 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
6 Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs
5 The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
4 Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
3 The Smiths - Complete
2 Mickey Newbury - An American Trilogy
1 The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions

no. 2's an interesting choice on that reissues list.