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

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.

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

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metal: the shitty indie it's OK to like

FACT mag 10-1
http://www.factmag.com/2011/11/30/50-best-albums-of-2011-50-41/5/

10: FRANK OCEAN - NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. (SELF-RELEASED)
09: LV & JOSHUA IDEHEN - ROUTES (KEYSOUND)
08: JULIANNA BARWICK - THE MAGIC PLACE (ASTHMATIC KITTY)
07: DRAKE - TAKE CARE (CASH MONEY / UNIVERSAL)
06: JAMES FERRARO - FAR SIDE VIRTUAL (HIPPOS IN TANKS)
05: ARAABMUZIK - ELECTRONIC DREAM (DUKE)
04: PRURIENT - BERMUDA DRAIN (HYDRA HEAD)
03: CLAMS CASINO - INSTRUMENTALS (SELF-RELEASED / TYPE)
02: RUSTIE - GLASS SWORDS (WARP)
01: THE WEEKND - HOUSE OF BALLOONS (SELF-RELEASED)

Ouch, that's a bad top ten

yeah, I'm not nuts about some of those

They really love the Drake/Weeknd axis over there

lol y'all got trolled by FACT

haha are FACT delibrately trolling ILX?

xp

i love that araabmuzik album though

Yeah that FACT list was super interesting until the top ten, then, ugh.

I <3 los kramupsinos! dn.

this Rustie album is... okay? not the second-best album of the year tho