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

o_O surprise surprise lol

A- plot twist

I don't understand why Kate Bush made only one top ten. I believe it to be an absolute work of high art. It's without question the best album i heard in 2011. Idiot Press.

The Elton John track is shit. That's why.

it fell in my estimation slightly after being spellbinding initially, because really there aren't that many reasons to carry on listening after the first three songs (as incredible as they are)

cibuloid should obviously REPLACE all existing top 100 lists w/his own

Are we all in agreement to ban BIFFA from the ILx list this year?

yes! sadly someone already nominated Fucking Drake, no repeat of ilx's triumph in roundly ignoring his first album to the extent of not even nominating the stupid thing

What is BIFFA?

Bon
Iver
Fleet
Foxes
Adele

It's kind of dumb to ban albums from the nomination process just because you think they're boring or whatever; that is why we have a vote.

Kate Bush has been on two top 10s posted itt, plus #11 on another, and lower on like three others. if that's the most critically neglected album you loved this year then boo fucking hoo.

plus people will be too scared to vote for them as they will be outed and mocked and shot in front of their families by jeremy clarkson

xp

anyway I just looked and both Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes had already been nominated, so I just nominated Adele

http://ianlewis2007.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/kingham-bin-store-3-05-july-2009.jpg

anyway I just looked and both Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes had already been nominated, so I just nominated Adele

― OH NOES,

lol, dan

you wont go as far as voting for them will you?

Only posting the top 40, full list here:

Juno top 100 tracks
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/12/09/best-of-2011-top-100-trackseps/

1 Cosmin TRG - A Universal Crush EP
2 Omar S - Here’s Your Trance Now Dance
3 Julio Bashmore - The Battle For Middle You EP
4 Floating Points - Shadows EP
5 FaltyDL - Mean Streets EP
6 Four Tet - Pyramid/Locked
7 Factory Floor - R.E.A.L. L.O.V.E.
8 Levon Vincent - Man Or Mistress EP
9 Mosca - Bax/Done Me Wrong
10 Blondes - Lover/Hater
11 Virgo Four - It’s A Crime (Caribou Remix)
12 Jacques Greene - Another Girl
13 Blawan - Gettin Me Down
14 Ital - Ital’s Theme
15 Shackleton - Deadman
16 FunkinEven - Roland’s Jam
17 Vakula - Picture Of You
18 Objekt - Objekt 1
19 Dexter - Great Northern Diver
20 Steve Summers - In The Mode For Love EP
21 Caribou/Daphni - Ye Ye
22 Todd Terje - Ragysh EP
23 John Swing - Rollin
24 John Talabot - Families EP
25 Timothy J. Fairplay - Cleopatra Loves The Acid
26 John Heckle - The Fourth Dimension EP
27 Heatsick - Dream Tennis
28 Auntie Flo - Oh My Days!
29 Joy O - Jels/Wade In
30 Kevin Reynolds - Liaisons EP
31 Mike Dehnert - Bricolage EP
32 Braille - The Year 3000
33 Gerry Read - We Are
34 Dam Mantle - We EP
35 Vessel - Nylon Sunset EP
36 Chairman Kato - Science & Romance
37 Burial - Street Halo EP
38 Untold - Little Things Like That
39 Instra:mental - Thomp
40 Tropic Of Cancer - Be Brave

please lets not do "BIFFA" or any other acronym this time/ever again

GAPDY was classic but it is a little forced to try to recapture that magic

I think BIFFA's a better acronym just for the link to the esteemed waste management company. The magic of GAPDY passed me over.

I def was being less than serious about banning albums from the countdownand obv believe that people shd vote for whichever albums they want

Also am actually think about checking out the FF album more fully due to a couple ppl in here saying it is better than expected

some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2) --- the most critically neglected album...

So great, it's on 5 out of what, 50 lists here? For someone as accomplished as Kate Bush to release such a bracketed slice of music as Snow is a gift in itself. If it's divisive, then i have yet to encounter any reasonable descenting opinion (and, Doran, as colorful as The Elton John track is shit statement is, doesn't quite pass muster). Is it that the press believe she didn't wait the requisite decade before releasing new material, or that the year just had too many other superior offerings?

Kate Bush is a true master, no matter how inventive (i imagine) you find this years debut of Yuck.

that the year just had too many other superior offerings?

Yes. Also: she's recorded at least three stronger albums.

I'm not going to bother arguing further with the aptly named.

x-post: That shouldn't be held against her if the current one can compete with the other albums out there this year (and for me it does). Not that I'm particularly worried about it not being higher in more lists. It's not as good as Aerial but it's still a strong followup to that.

When does an undebated disagreement become the equivalent of "argument" - this is exactly what's wrong with society; no discussion, just lines in the sand.

also, thank you to Lord and Rudi for their reasoned entries.

yeah, the world would be way better if everyone just engaged in fair and honest debates about kate bush

. . . And banned BIFFA from consideration in year-end polls. Breaches of this policy shall constitute a second-degree felony. Our a capital crime. Haven't worked out that part yet.

Try fair and honest debate about anything... media and politics has mostly been reduced to taking sides and pointing fingers. Uncultured vultures.

FWIW I'm a Kate Bush fan and Aerial is probably my joint favourite of her albums but 50WFS doesn't quite pass muster as an outstanding album in my book.

What do you think of the PJ Harvey album?

Has NYT been done yet?

I love that Ratliff finds a way to get Jason Moran in once again even though he didn't have an official release, and of course there's a metal album in there, but this is still a nice-looking list: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/arts/music/pistol-annies-yob-deaf-center-paul-simon.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=ratliff&st=cse

I like that Caramanica digs Pistol Annies too, and Action Bronson (even if he isn't really top 10).

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/arts/music/from-retro-yuck-to-foodie-rap.html?ref=music

and of course there's a metal album in there, but this is still a nice-looking list:

how dare someone include a metal album!

I still haven't heard the Craig Taborn album I wanted to hear that made two of the NYT lists.

(Solo piano can be good. No cymbal tapping.)

What do you think of the PJ Harvey album?

I've been a fan of PJ since day 1. I lost track of her around Stories but she stormed back to me with White Chalk (which is the album i believe equipped her with the tools that makes England Shake so much. PJs album is more important in the social sense, and it was my #1 until i started listening to Snow about a month back.

how dare someone include a metal album!

I know, right? He's a superfan.

Yob's album is the best on that list. IMO etc.

OTM

how dare someone include a metal album!

has ghost's album (opus eponymous) been on many of these lists? feels like it's been unfairly neglected all year. people call it "death-metal," but -- lyrics aside -- the songs are too catchy and the vocal harmonies too lush to be "death metal." really they're the new blue-oyster-cult, and that's okay with me. the lyrics are kinda death-metal-y, i'll grant you; still . . .

poor satan. gets no respect from music writers.

It's well loved in the 'metal community'. I think Terrorizor, Hammer, Kerrang! and Rock Sound in this country all loved it.

Ghost album was out last year. It was in the ILM Metal Poll.
It certainly isn't death metal though.

north american release was january 2011 (according to wiki)

I'm completely surprised the Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats album has been ignored in metal and non-metal lists.

I'm not that into very retro sounding heavy rock/metal and there was only room for one in my end of year list - Uncle Acid, but Ghost, Black Spiders and Gentleman's Pistols all released good cider and spliff LPs this year.

XP: The Quietus can't be the only magazine who've picked up on it. I feel that it will probably feature next year because of the CD issue coming out then.

Hopefully Terrorizer will have it. I think a lot of non-metal fans on ilm would love it if they heard it. It's psychedelic rock with lots of good melodies. Or as someone out it If The Beatles had continued and been influenced by Black Sabbath

no hyperbole there! It's a nice album but that's about it.

well that was how someone (not me) on ilm described it

The influence of The Beatles and Black Sabbath is pretty clear to be honest and it's better than just nice. Without the tunes, riffs and hooks it would be just another good head nodder. Also, the production is evil.

to each their own.

npr best 'outer sounds' albums of 2011

1. Nicholas Szczepanik, 'Please Stop Loving Me'

went to high school w this guy, he wore the same hail to the thief shirt every day