Top 66 Albums of 2011.

[ted_]

Hey, I like the idea of specifically separating out the LPs and EPs. Anyway, I might as well join in on the year-end listage fun.

LPs

1. Fucked Up • David Comes to Life LP
2. Steve Hauschildt • Tragedy and Geometry LP
3. Bad Sports • Kings of the Weekend LP
4. Dávila 666 • Tan Bajo LP
5. Mark McGwire • Get Lost LP
6. Kurt Vile • Smoke Ring For My Halo LP
7. Wild Flag • s/t LP
8. Shannon and the Clams • Sleep Talk LP
9. The Wrong Words • s/t LP
10. Thee Oh Sees • Castlemania LP
11. Ume • Phantoms LP
12. The Ettes • Wicked Will LP
13. The Sea and Cake • Moonlight Butterfly LP

EPs

1. Thee Oh Sees • Carrion Crawler EP/The Dream EP
2. Young Governor • Firing Squad 7"
3. Pujol • Nasty, Brutish, and Short 10"
4. Personal and the Pizzas • Diet, Crime & Deliquency 7"
5. Young Governor • Where It’s Quiet 10"

[Omar]

Hey, I like the idea of specifically separating out the LPs and EPs. Anyway, I might as well join in on the year-end listage fun.

EPs

5. Young Governor • Where It’s Quiet 10"

I just heard this for the first time.  What a delight!

[free plax]

Made one major ommision from my list.......

Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming

I love old, deep southern soul but I've never really dug on the Daptone stuff. This LP was an exception. I'm not sure there's a record that came out this year that sounded as good as this the first time I listened to it. It was the closest thing to seeing the good Rev. John Wilkins at Gonerfest.

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The only list that matters!

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Office of Future Plans - s/t (Dischord)
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This is the only list that matters! Finally got this.  This album is very good and available at a fair price from Dischord.

 Ex-Jawbox frontman! The band has a f*cking Cello!  And it works.

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Apache Dropout - s/t + Shot Down/Sister Burnout 7" (Family Vineyard/Trouble In Mind)
Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)
Black Lips - Arabia Mountain (Vice)
Boris - Heavy Rocks + some of Attention Please and New Album (Sargent House)
Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard + Robert Pollard - Let It Beard Boombox Demos (GBVI)
Cheveu - 1000 Mille (Kill Shaman)
Craig Wedren - WAND (Nerveland)
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand (Century Media)
Cruddy - Negative World (12XU)
Cute Lepers - Adventure Time (1-2-3-4 Go!)
Danielson - Best of Gloucester County (Sounds Familyre)
Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots (ATO)
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams + He Gets Me High EP (Sub Pop)
Eleventh Dream Day - Riot Now! (Thrill Jockey)
F'd Up - David Comes To Life + David's Town - 11 Original Hits From Byrdesdale Spa, UK! (Matador)
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)
J Mascis - Several Shades of Why (Sub Pop)
JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are The Champions (Infinity Cat)
Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid (File Under: Music)
Krallice - Diotima (Profound Lore)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For Nem Halos (Matador)
Lady Gaga - Born This Way + "The Lady Is A Tramp" w/ Tony Bennett (Interscope/Columbia)
Lemuria - Pebble (Bridge Nine)
Lifeguards - Waving at the Astronauts (Serious Business/Ernest Jenning)
Liturgy - Aesthethica (Thrill Jockey)
Low - C'mon (Sub Pop)
Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine (Bloodshot)
Marissa Nadler - s/t (Box of Cedar)
Mars Classroom - The New Theory of Everything (Happy Jack)
Mastodon - The Hunter   (Reprise)
Mikal Cronin - s/t  + Tide/You Gotta Have Someone 7" (Trouble In Mind/Goner)
Mike Watt - hyphenated-man (clenchedwrench)
Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But Youse Will (Sub Pop)
Mouserocket - Cicada Sounds (Shoulder Tap Records)
Night Beats - s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Office of Future Plans - s/t (Dischord)
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island)
Puerto Rico Flowers - 7 (Fan Death)
Robert Pollard - Lord of the Birdcage + Space City Kicks (GBVI)
Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House)
Rwake - Rest (Relapse)
Sebastian Bach - Kicking & Screaming (Frontiers)
Sloan - The Double Cross (Yep Roc)
Smart Cops - Per proteggere e servire (La Tempesta Dischi/Sorry State)
Street Eaters - Rusty Eyes and Hydrocarbons (Bakery Outlet/Plan-It-X Records)
Stuyvesant - Fret Sounds (Dromedary Records)
Thao & Mirah - s/t (Kill Rock Stars)
The Cynics - Spinning Wheel Motel (Get Hip Recordings!)
The Ettes - Wicked Will (Krian Music Group/Fond Object)
The Fall - Ersatz G.B. (Cherry Red)
The Feelies - Here Before (Bar/None)
The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck (Merge)
The Wrong Words - s/t   (Trouble In Mind)
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania + Carrion Crawler/The Dream + Total Control split (In The Red/Castle Face)
Tombs - Path of Totality (Relapse)
Thomas Keene - Behind the Parade (Second Motion)
Total Control - Henge Beat + Thee Oh Sees split (Iron Lung/Castle Face)
Ume - Phantoms (Modern Outsider Records)
Wax Museums - Eye Times (Trouble In Mind)
White Mystery - Blood & Venom (White Mystery)
Whitesnake - Forevermore (Frontiers)
Wild Flag - s/t (Merge)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage (Southern Lord)
Wussy - Strawberry (Shake It)
Wye Oak - Civilian (Merge)

ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Graveyard - Ungrateful are the Dead





Bonus Picks

Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy (Slumberland)
Lou Reed with Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)

Excuse me..(cough, cough)...Omar...I was, uh, wondering, if you know...would be so kind to...

[dave from knoxville]

Notice how people are NOT clamoring for my list. Even though I am Customer Extraordinaire at the record store that I used to shoehorn in Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, and Patton Oswald references on the Best Show DVD. But I will post it anyway.  http://discexchange.tuneportals.com/Genre/694311

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Dfk, your list looks good. I am going to check out a couple of bands I don't know. Question-- Lambchop's "Mr M" fell short for you?

[dave from knoxville]

I actually liked what I heard, but I only heard it once, and it didn't seem significantly different than earlier stuff? Like, I love Isa Woman, and Nixon's got some great stuff. I would certainly give it another try.

[Omar]

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Excuse me..(cough, cough)...Omar...I was, uh, wondering, if you know...would be so kind to...

I did it!

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