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

Not much range there

in its own way that might be the worst collective list itt so far

dang that juno list might almost top the RA one... twice as many tracks and has some srsly killer stuff that RA did not include (there were so many vakula eps this year that i almost missed 'picture of you'! so good!)

LWE:

1. Machinedrum, Room(s)
2. Andy Stott, Passed Me By
3. BNJMN, Plastic World
4. Morphosis, What Have We Learned
5. Jonsson/Alter, Mod
6. Roman Flügel, Fatty Folders
7. Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972
8. Legowelt, The TEAC Life
9. Steffi, Yours & Mine
10. Agnès presents Cavalier, A Million Horses

(individual staff lists here)

OOR (major Dutch music magazine)

Dutch artists in bold

1. PJ Harvey - Let England shake
2. Wilco - The whole love
3. Spinvis - Tot ziens, Justine Keller
4. James Blake - James Blake
5. Adele - 21
6. Arctic monkeys - Suck it and see
7. Vaccines - What did you expect from the Vaccines?
8. Elbow - Build a rocket boys!
9. Gillian Welch - The harrow & the harvest
10. Kurt Vile - Smoke ring for my halo
11. Pete & the Pirates - One thousand pictures
12. Destroyer - Kaputt
13. Bon iver - Bon iver
14. Other lives - Tamer animals
15. Fleet foxes - Helplessness blues
16. Radiohead - The king of limbs
17. Fucked up - David comes to life
18. Tom Waits - Bad as me
19. Danger mouse & Daniele Luppi Present - Rome
20. War on drugs - Slave ambient
21. Decemberists - The king is dead
22. Zomby - Dedication
23. Alamo race track - Unicorn loves deer
24. Girls - Father, son, holy ghost
25. Miles Kane - Colour of the trap
26. Tim Knol - Days
27. Dazzled kid - Fire needs air
28. Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials
29. Ryan Adams - Ashes & fire
30. Foster the people - Torches
31. Black lips - Arabia mountain
32. John Maus - We must become the pitiless censors of ourselves
33. Real estate - Days
34. Rustie - Glass swords
35. Washed out - Within and without
36. Eefje de Visser - De koek
37. Lykke Li - Wounded rhymes
38. Marike Jager - Here comes the night
39. Smith westerns - Dye it blonde
40. dEUS - Keep you close
41. Beady eye - Different gear, still speeding
42. Little dragon - Ritual union
43. Noel Gallagher's High flying birds - Noel Gallagher's High flying birds
44. Timber timbre - Creep on creepin' on
45. Frank Turner - England keep my bones
46. Beirut - The rip tide
47. Kasabian - Velociraptor!
48. M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming!
49. Tune-yards - Whokill
50. Colin Stetson - New history warfare : vol 2 Judges

Oh cripes - I forgot that dEUS album even came out. Was it any good or was it boring?

why won't The Independent just hurry up and fucking die

SMH at that whole piece, this line leapt out as being particularly inept:

"It's a slap in the face for such music juggernauts as Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, who are conspicuous by their absence."

God I hate this shit when paid journalists get all: "EOY list/Mercury Prize is full of weird stuff no one's ever heard of like PJ Harvey".

For the latest album from the gloomy indie songstress has managed to sell barely 130,000 copies

The Independent suffered the biggest decline in circulation of any national newspaper in October, recording monthly and annual sales falls of more than a quarter ... Alexander Lebedev's daily title reported month-on-month fall in circulation of 24% to 133,449 copies, a 26.84% year-on-year fall

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/11/independent-suffers-biggest-circulation-fall

gah, fuxored formatting

Humo (Belgium) Albums EOY 2011
http://www.humo.be/muziek/60621/de-beste-cds-van-2011

25. EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints
24. Cat's Eyes: Cat's Eyes
23. Laura Marling: A Creature I Do'nt Know
22. Benny Zen & The Syphilis Madmen: Run Back To The Safety of The Town
21. The Kills: Blood Pressure
20. A.A. Bondy: Believers
19. Jonathan Jeremiah: A Solitary Man
18. Amy Winehouse: Lioness
17. Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For My Halo
16. Andy Stott: Passed Me By
15. The Antlers: Burst Apart
14. Beastie Boys: Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2
13. Amatorski: TBC
12. Radiohead: The King of Limbs
11. Holy Other: With U ep
10. tUnE-yArDs: Whokill
09. Tom Waits: Bad As Me
08. -
07. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
06. Thurston Moore: Demoished Thoughts
05. The Horrors: Skying
04. Shabazz Palaces: Black Up
03. James Blake: James Blake
02. Josh T. Pearson: Last of the Country Gentlemen
01. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake

22. Benny Zen & The Syphilis Madmen

well-payed xxp

played*

what's going on at number 8?

They forgot to list one.

it's considered unlucky in Belgian culture

Not much range there

― Another Suburbanite, Monday, December 19, 2011 6:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

unlike the RA, FACT and metal lists..

also lol

No matter, for the result is from the annual HMV Poll of Polls, officially announced tomorrow – a ranking drawn from 35 polls by magazines, national newspapers and websites.

Don't expect to see any big names, let alone ones you might recognise. For Britain's music critics have outdone themselves in finding some bands so obscure they wouldn't even be famous in their own homes.

One, tUnE-yArDs (sic), has sold just a few thousand copies of its Whokill album. And the back catalogues of acts such as Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Wild Beasts, Kurt Vile, James Blake and the Horrors are not exactly troubling the bestseller charts.

It's a slap in the face for such music juggernauts as Coldplay, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, who are conspicuous by their absence.

yet here everyone complains the lists are predictable. We really are detached from the real world that's out there. aren't we?

lol

But whatever Christmas bonus Harvey reaps from "serious" music fans rushing out to buy her album, it will be small change to Adele.
In the Top 10 that really counts – sales – her first two albums have sold more than any other record in Britain this year.

I like the bit where they talk about PJ Harvey being "thankful for the exposure" as if Polly Jean stares out the window all day going "One day - one day I'll be as famous as Bruno Mars - just gotta lighten up a bit and get my name out there".

Punters vs Pundits Poll

actually i fucked that one up. this one is the punters vs pundits options. (the 1st one is the actual albums chosen)
Punters vs Pundits Poll (2nd Edition)

Guardian top 40 tracks of the year:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/dec/19/best-songs-2011

That's a pretty definitive Top 3 I reckon. I thought the Yonkers video was excellent and the album paled in comparison. Video Games and 212 are also very high on my list of "great songs by artists whom I've heard nothing else by and would be happy not to".

Lots and lots of R'n'B/Hip-hop near the top, which is good to see. The St Vincent song should've been Cruel instead of Surgeon. They picked the correct James Blake song. The wrong Radiohead song. Good to see Rustie in there. Oh and Gang Gang Dance.

Compared to the rather dull albums list (rockist comments trolling aside) that's pretty good IMO.

Actually I'd probably be pretty happy if the ILX top 3 had those songs in it.

That's hilarious. That last Bon Iver album sold like hundreds of thousands of copies

39 Canibus – Brainwash Reversal Remix

lol everything about that one

Did anyone post the Pfork honorable mentions? Much better than their top 50. http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/8730-albums-of-the-year-honorable-mention/

Stoner Hive is rolling out a top 20 album countdown that's quite fun - http://www.stonerhive.blogspot.com/

fuckers didnt ask for my vote this year

Its usually the case that I find more to love on the Forks' honorable mention list.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ e.g., the dirty beaches disc!

Quietus compilations, mixes, reissues, odd and sods list:
http://thequietus.com/articles/07602-quietus-reissues-compilations-of-the-year-2011

someone asked for this but I'm not done yet, here are top 31 candidates for top 10 spaces, might change this as there are a few more knocking on the door. in approximate but not final order:

Anthony Hamilton, Back to Love
The Original 7ven, Condensate.
Invisible System, Street Clan.
Lauren Pritchard, Wasted in Jackson.
Louis C.K., Hilarious.
Vusi Mahlasela, Say Africa!
El Gran Silencio, Revolusound Contra Systema.
The Gift, Explode.
CSS, La Liberación.
Charles Bradley, No Time for Dreaming.
Nikki Lynette: Roses N Guns 2: the BADDER ASSED mixtape that rocks.
Killer Mike, Pl3dge.
Over the Rhine, The Long Surrender.
Vijay Iyer/Prasanna/Nitin Mitta, Tirtha.
The Mountain Goats, All Eternals Deck.
Susheela Raman, Vel.
Lee “Scratch” Perry, Rise Again.
Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver. (hi Lex)
Das Racist, Relax.
Celso Piña, Sin Fecha de Caducidad.
Book of Mormon soundtrack.
Amir ElSaffar, Inana.
Cornershop, Cornershop & the Double O Groove of.
Battles, Gloss Drop.
Dub Colossus, Addis Through the Looking Glass.
Wizard, …Of Wariwulfs and Bluotvawes.
Slagwerk den Haag, Michael Gordon: Timber
Katy B, On a Mission.
C.J. Chenier, Can’t Sit Down.
Zun Zun Egui, Katang.
Cankisou, Fayt.

oh and forgot Radio Moscow, The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz.

Condensate! Happy to see that on your list. Surprisingly strong.

Given that I only started adding the long lists at the end of our EOY stuff because some people on ILX complained, I'm posting our reissues list here:

1 Throbbing Gristle – Heathen Earth
2 SunnO))) and Nurse With Wound – The Iron Soul Of Nothing
3 Ben UFO - Rinse 016
4 King Midas Sound – Without You
5 Chris and Cosey – A Mix For The Quietus
6 Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma
7 The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace Omnibus Edition
8 The Black Dog - Liber Chaos
9 Cloaks - Versions Grain
10 Demdike Stare – Triptych
11 Various Artists – Hessle Audio 116 And Rising
12 K-S.H.E (Terre Thaemlitz) - Routes Not Roots
13 Drexciya - Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller
14 AR - Wolf Notes
15 John Fahey – Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You: The Fonotone Years
16 Autechre - EPs 1991 – 2002
17 UFOmammut – Snailking
18 Suede - Dog Man Star reissue
19 Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide
20 Desert Island Dicks/Where Woodwose Walk – Clearance Sale
21 Swans - Live at ATP via NPR
22 Dinosaur L - 24>24 Music
23 Various Artists – Invasion Of The Mysteron Killer Sounds
24 Can - Tago Mago
25 Mark McGuire - A Young Person's Guide
26 Oneida - The Ocropolis Live at ATP via NPR
27 Various Artists – Twenty Fucking Years Of Planet E: We Ain't Dead
28 AME - A Mix For FACT
29 Jane Weaver - The Watchbird Alluminate
30 The Units – Connections
31 Pentagram – Be Forwarned
32 Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
33 Various Artists – Life Is Dance
34 Gary Numan - Dead Son Rising
35 Various Artists - Sofrito
36 Opika Pende – Africa At 78 RPM
37 Various Artists - Disco Discharge: Disco Fever USA
38 Lucy - A Mix for Resident Advisor
39 Tandy Love - Turk Jerk
40 Various Artists - Bangs & Works Vol 2
41 Orchestre Poly Rhythmo de Cotonou - The First Album
42 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Let Love In
43 Various Artists - Cartegena
44 LFO – Frequencies
45 The Juan Maclean – Everybody Get Close
46 Leonard Cohen - Box Set
47 The Kelly Twins - A Mix For Bass Music Blog
48 Paul McCartney - McCartney II
49 Queen – News Of The World
50 Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs

Just listened to 'El Tren Fantasma', absolutely astonishing. If the rest of the stuff on the Quietus list is as good I'm going to be very happy.

Well, if you're hoping to hear any more recordings of trains I think you'll be very disappointed but in a lot of ways I think our reissue chart is better than our albums chart. Certainly covers more ground.

Interesting-looking list, Cibuloid.

cibula always seems disappointed if people don't snort condescendingly at his taste, i should get in some "anthony hamilton rubberstamp" jibes

some dude always seems disappointed if he can't condescendingly assume what others intend with their lists

Off-topic, Cibuloid, but what is the best Bersuit Vergarabat album?

I mean, a guy who actually puts a 2011 Limp Bizkit record on his EOY list shouldn't cast any stones related to snorting at people's tastes.

jon i have hung w/ cibula IRL and we have had silly arguments about him liking anthony hamilton more than me in the past, so maybe you chill on valiantly defending him from an evil internet bully?

oh come on, I wasn't trying to defend him, it was more just an excuse to zing you for your Bizkit inclusion