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

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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

I'm still learning how to troll from the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqXkMpFPZnE&feature=related

he zinged himself by including limp bizkit.

dudes LULU is in my top 10, i'm clearly trolling and do not give a fuck

hey everyone LEAVE SOME DUDE ALONE

hey some dude I NO LONGER CARE if people snort or don't snort, you should see some of the stuff I left off this list that will show up on my eventual list of 200 (h/t Spotify)

hey jaymc BEST THREE BERSUIT ALBUMS: Hijos del Culo, La Argentinidad al Palo Volume 1, La Argentinidad al Palo Volume 2. Testosterona is okay, others are okay too. New one coming next year but frontman Gustavo Cordera has quit the band and the other guys, while great songwriters and maybe better singers, are nowhere near as interesting vocally. We shall see.

Damn I missed this place with its random bullshit. You're all beautiful and I love you.

As for Anthony Hamilton: forget everything else, dude is a GREAT songwriter, still just as much country as R&B. And I didn't think his earliest stuff was all that great and didn't love Ain't Nobody Worrying as much as other stuff...but yeah close enough to rubber-stamp status for me as anyone else ever.

oh you care, you care so much, but in an endearing way.

there's actually been a LOT of love for the hamilton on the R&B thread but it's just not hitting the spot for me like some other 'contemporary old school'-type soul records this year (raphael saadiq, robin thicke, marsha ambrosius).

i haven't even waded into r&b thread yet, just signed back up here on saturday. i like marsha okay but no great shakes, saadiq is like every other week with me because I find his songwriting as frustrating as his presentation is exhilarating, won't listen to robin thicke because oh I don't know why probably his hair. was excited about jill scott until i listened to the album and i think it's still that she has so much love for herself that there's no room for me to love her. beyonce is half-great half-ehhh as far as i'm concerned. so there it is with me.

nikki lynette might end up being higher on my list. she is dope-opolis.

curious which half of the Beyonce album you think is great

Like: I Care, I Miss You, Best Thing I Never Had, Love on Top, End of Time, Countdown.

Don't Really Like: 1+1, Rather Die Young, Party, Start Over, I Was Here, Girls Run the World (aka Where's That M.I.A. Disc)

Interesting breakdown! I don't know if anyone else has split it up quite like that, although yr likes include my top 4 (I Care, I Miss You, Countdown, End of Time).

Someday I'm going to "get" "Best Thing I Never Had" and will be slightly embarrassed for all of the "lol Hornsby pastiche" comments I've made. Until that day, I can only say "lol Hornsby pastiche".

yeah it would be easier to go 'yay the-dream/tricky boo everyone else' but i don't really hear it like that. occurs to me that at least two of the songs are hard for me to listen to because i have a teenage daughter and i do not like the idea of beyonce urging her to die young for a fella and/or to drip with swagoo

lol

Beyonce and Rihanna are both pretty problematic that way (ESP. Rihanna; I am enjoying the fuck out of her new album but she is kind of a disaster)

tbf your second complaint should be directed at Kanye, and no teenage girls should exposed to him

my daughter is totally uninterested in kanye and his music. she's an actress so she's showtunes all the way -- also problematic in its own way sometimes but still.

lmao @ "die young for a fella and/or to drip with swagoo"

SPIN's top 20 metal albums: http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-20-best-metal-albums-2011-plus-download-free-19-song-mixtape

without clicking Liturgy will be number 1

nice one getting bruce lamont in

lol followed by korn

The Hamilton-Scott duet is one of my favorite singles.

yup Liturgy at #1. Love that album, pretty good list whiney (with a few exceptions obviously)

16 albums from liked ok to loved, a couple i dont know and korn/megadeth.
Not bad

Actually hearing that Liturgy record described as "the Lars Von Trier of metal" makes all kinds of sense.

my thought exactly!

Why is it alright for every publication that CW works for to have click through galleries but, according to him, not mine? Serious question.

Man I can't believe I'm captain save a cw here, but he already did kind of explain the difference itt or another one. Also, fwiw I don't think he's the one who gets to decide how Spin formats its listicles.

But I do appreciate that Popmatters added a "single page" option on their lists this year.

Man I can't believe I'm captain save a cw here

fixed :)

But I do appreciate that Popmatters added a "single page" option on their lists this year.

God forbid they make it easy for people to read their lists.

Thats why I said "I do appreciate".

hey jaymc BEST THREE BERSUIT ALBUMS

Thanks! Heard a song of theirs when I was in Buenos Aires last month; made me want to check out a full album.

Some good picks in Bearded's EOY list

sorry, didn't mean to be sarcastic to you shakur!