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

Maybe they're even here right now

All of Boomkat's lists are now up.

Guardian Readers' Albums of 2011

Readers' albums of 2011
https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/music/musicblog/2011/dec/22/best-albums-songs-2011-readers
20 Destroyer - Kaputt
19 Adele - 21
18 Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
17 Björk - Biophilia
16 St Vincent - Strange Mercy
15 King Creosote & John Hopkins - Diamond Mine
14 The Arctic Monkeys – Suck it and See
13 Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX - We're New Here
12 Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentlemen
11 Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
10 Metronomy - The English Riviera
9 Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
8 Katy B - On A Mission
7 The Horrors - Skying
6 Tom Waits - Bad as Me
5 James Blake - James Blake
4 Wild Beasts - Smother
3 Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
1 Matt Cardle - Letters

Readers' songs of 2011
20 St Vincent - Cruel
19 Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum
18 Azealia Banks - 212
17 Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
16 Summer Camp - Better Off Without You
15 Wild Beasts - Bed Of Nails
14 Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
13 Lady Gaga - Born This Way
12 Bon Iver - Holocene
11 Joe Goddard - Gabriel
10 SBTRKT - Hold On
9 Laura Marling - Sophia
8 Metronomy - The Look
7 Radiohead - Lotus Flower
6 PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
5 Adele - Someone Like You
4 M83 - Midnight City
3 The Horrors - Still Life
2 Lana Del Rey - Video Games
1 Matt Cardle - Starlight

Someone alert The Indie's Jonathan Owen

XXP: With the Caretaker at his best, you can't really tell what the source material is because he's made it into something new.

At his worst, it's just Glen Ponder with a load of echo.

Is Matt Cardle the fat guy from Gavin and Stacey?

think so

Julia Holter at number one on the Boomkat albums chart... :-)

http://boomkat.com/collections/charts-2011-boomkat-top-100-albums

http://boomkat.com/collections/charts-2011-boomkat-top-100-singleseps

they really should do the readers poll before the writers one

simon reynolds

11 for ‘11

Metronomy, The English Riviera
Rustie, Glass Swords
Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica
James Ferraro, Far Side Virtual
Woebot, Chunks
Maria Minerva, Tallinn At Dawn
Ekoplekz, Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1
KWJAZ, s/t
The Horrorist, Joyless Pleasure
Ursula Bogner, Sonne = Black Box
Moon Wiring Club, Clutch It Like A Gonk

the next 11

Kuedo, Severant
Jon Brooks, Music for Thomas Carnacki
Rangers, Pan Am Stories
Julia Holter, Tragedy
Various, Bangs & Works Vol 2
Kangding Ray, Or
Peaking lights, 936
tUnE-yArDs, whokill
Ford & Lopatin, Channel Pressure
Toro Y Moi, Underneath the Pine
Hacker Farm, Poundland

another 11

Tim Hecker, ravedeath 1972
Laurel Halo, Hour Logic
Andrew Pekler, Sentimental Favourites
The Deeep, Life Light
Maria Minerva, Cabaret Cixous
2562, Fever
Prince Rama, Trust Now
Charles Vaughan, Documenting the Decay
Destroyer, Kaputt
Bee Mask, Canzoni Dal Laboratorio Del Silenzio Cosmico
Clams Casino, Rainforest

tunes of '11

Dev, “In the Dark”
Maria Minerva, “A Little Lonely”
Ke$ha, “We R Who We R”
Rihanna, “Cheers (Drink to That)”
Britney Spears, “Till the World Ends”
Martin Solveig & Dragonette, “Hello”
Etta James featuring Flo Rida, “Good Feeling”
Nicki Minaj, “Super Bass”
New Boyz featuring The Cataracts & Dev’s “Backseat Driver”
Afrojack featuring Eva Simons, “Take Over Control”
LMFAO, “Party Rock Anthem”
LMFAO, “Sexy and I Know It”
Toro Y Moi, “Still Sound”
Scritti Politti, “A Day Late and a Dollar Short (unreleased new-ish track on Absolute comp)
Maria Minerva, “Hagasuxzzavol”
Rustie, “Ultra Thizz”
Lil Wayne, “How To Love”
Joker featuring Buggsy & Otis Brown, “Lost”
Big Sean featuring Nicki Minaj, “Dance (A$$)”
Chris Brown not featuring Chris Brown, “Look at Me Now (INSTRUMENTAL)”
Laurel Halo, "Head"
Kreayshawn, “Gucci Gucci”
Maria Minerva, “Ruff Trade”

inexplicably uninvolved by

Zomby
PJ Harvey
John Maus
Panda Bear
Hype Williams
James Blake

transfixed at the border twixt rapture and revulsion

Drake
Liturgy
Skrillex
Katy Perry

skrillex is the aural equivalent of necking half a bottlesworth of vodka and red bull and taking three dodgy berries. You'll probably have quite a good time, but you'll be left feeling like a terrible terrible human being for it.

skrillex should forget music and just stick to animated gifs

http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/skrillex-kim-jongil-750x400.jpg

Let me guess, Kim Jong Skril, right?

MY TRACKS http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/14617464612/my-top-120-tracks-of-2011

MY ALBUMS http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/14614655894/my-top-50-albums-of-2011

dog latin you are posting...a lot right now

lol

it's downtime in the office today...

amazing lex

> 17. PHAEDRA - The Sea

^ this beautiful thing really came into its own in the autumn - good shout Lex! Also great to see Frivolous getting more love.

so my day off tmrw will be spent copy/pasting lex's trax list into youtube. Cool! Thx Lex :) Sure beats xmas shopping.

yeah i didn't think the phaedra album was a contender and then bam, autumn happened

i actually started a youtube playlist including both album standout tracks and standalone tracks but it was taking aaaaages and i got bored http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL65FDD501BC4A3CA8

great lists lex - surprised there's no Jhene though!

Tom Waits??

uh oh...

thx BW - i like jhené but as i was putting the lists together i kinda realised i don't love her yet? i did not feel compelled to return to her music as much as i expected to. if i wanted to be a bit mean i'd say i preferred cassie the first time round and w/o the slight drake taint.

great lists lex - surprised there's no Jhene though!

^^^ + no kandi either?

jaymx use ur xls! i am not explaining my love of tom waits for the 93085034th time in my years in ilx.

re: this album specifically - i'd actually given up on him, he seemed to finally lurch into self-parody about a decade ago, but i like the casualness of the affair - it's tom happily doing what tom does w/o trying too hard about it but enjoying himself and getting some good shots at the outside world in, and several moments of resonant emotional truth

kandi = 2010 even if i didn't hear it til 2011 and thus never got to rep for it in any EOY list ;_;

I've had the same disinterest in Waits for years, and this album broke through for the same reasons.

dreadful year-end list from popjustice as to be expected:

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Will Young - Echoes
3. The Sound of Arrows - Voyage
4. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Make A Scene
5. Susan Boyle - Someone To Watch Over
6. Pnau - Soft Universe
7. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella’s Eyes
8. Rihanna - Talk That Talk
9. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
10. Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
11. Jennifer Lopez - Love?
12. Cut Copy - Zonoscope
13. Adele - 21
14. Monarchy - Around The Sun
15. Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
16. Christophe Willem - Prismophonic
17. Cher Lloyd - Sticks + Stones
18. Nerina Pallot - Year Of The Wolf
19. Example - Playing In The Shadows
20. The Saturdays - On Your Radar
21. Beyonce - 4
22. Frankmusik - Do It In The AM
23. Vanbot - Vanbot
24. Patrick Stump - Soul Punk
25. Jessie J - Who You Are
26. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
27. Natalia Kills - The Perfectionist
28. Katy B - On A Mission
29. Lights - Siberia
30. One Direction - Up All Night
31. Same Difference - The Rest Is History
32. CocknBullKid - Adulthood
33. David Guetta - Nothing But the Beat

lack of Jhene in Lex's track list is redeemed by his #79 track...

Susan Boyle????

Didn't really want to start a new thread for this, but last night I picked up some 2011 albums based on praise from various ilxors in their personal year-end wrap-ups.

So, Ned and Adrien, I am holding each of you personally responsible if the Active Child and Cold Cave albums, respectively, suck. ;)

In all seriousness, the write ups you guys did for those two inspired me to pick up on some stuff I skipped over this past year.

boomkat charts are making my head spin

i want all of peter rehberg's list and him too

Fuck yeah, I was hoping they were going to do their guest list thing again this year...
http://boomkat.com/collections/boomkat-charts-2011

nice to see the rene hell record getting some mentions itl

lots and lots of good stuff in the dude from digitalis' list

For you, Lamp:

SPIN's top 20 Avant albums!
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-20-best-avant-albums-2011

Libération - 2011, sélection super hotte
http://next.liberation.fr/culture/01012378598-2011-selection-super-hotte

Rock
The Kills - Blood Pressures
Sallie Ford (& The Sound Outside) - Dirty Radio
Jeff Bridges - s/t

Hi-fi
Hanni El Khatib - Will The Guns Come Out
Danger Mouse et Daniele Luppi - Rome
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin’ On

Pop folk
Josh T. Pearson. - Last of the Country Gentlemen
James Blake - s/t
Fránçois & The Atlas Mountains - O Volo Love

Larsen
Crystal Fighters - Star of Love
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
Real Estate - Days

Platines
DJ Rashad - Just a Taste
Africa Hitech - 93 Million Miles
Kourosh Yaghmaei - Back From the Brink

Slowcore
Low - C’mon
Wye Oak - Civilian
Ema Past Life - Martyred Saints

Jazz
Anthony Joseph and The Spasm Band - Rubber Orchestras
Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Tigran Hamasyan - A Fable

Chamanique
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
Mirel Wagner - s/t
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

World
Lucas Santtana - Sem Nostalgia
Magnifico - Magnification
Debademba - s/t

I don't know whether I'm lolling more about Jeff Bridges being their third best rock record of the year or them having a Slowcore chart in 2011

Whiney, you have some nice picks in there. Out of the ones I don't know, Shinji Masuko sounds pretty interesting.

thanx for the list dealwithit.gif. have heard just over half of the stuff you listed with 'summvs' and 'owl splinters' being partic standouts to me

i tried listening to the 'garden of the forking paths' record but it was too much for me tbh

yeah, owl splinters is a huge standout for the year. what a cool record

Trying to be a big boy and not resent lex for rendering my own list redundant.

Excellent lists obv!

ha, I doubt it will be redundant. I'm still waiting for someone to tell me which Denyque track is best

I loved Garden Of Forking Ways when I first heard it but I've developed tinnitus since and can't go near it now. Good list though.

whiney as much shit as ive given you on ilx honest thanx for recommending the hauschka record this is like tailor made for me

haha here is a weird thing http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/12/nba_preview_miami_heat_bon_iver.php

haha awesome