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Omar

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Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« on: December 27, 2011, 11:05:17 PM »
The only list that matters!

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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)

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Graveyard - Ungrateful are the Dead





Bonus Picks

Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy (Slumberland)
Lou Reed with Metallica – Lulu (Warner Bros.)
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM »
Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.

Neither made your list, Omar.
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2011, 11:34:51 PM »
A lot of my favorites from this year are listed but he Total Control and Mikel Cronin albums are fantastic and I haven't seen them get much love anywhere else.
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Omar

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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2011, 11:37:06 PM »
Quote from: fonpr on December 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM
Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.

Neither made your list, Omar.

Kurt did!

If the Reigning Sound release you're referring to is Abdication...For Your Love, I didn't include it because it's an EP.  I only included LPs and then noted a single or EP if an LP-releasing band also released merit-worthy material in another format, e.g., Dum Dum Girls.
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Omar

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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2011, 11:40:21 PM »
Quote from: jbissell on December 27, 2011, 11:34:51 PM
A lot of my favorites from this year are listed but he Total Control and Mikel Cronin albums are fantastic and I haven't seen them get much love anywhere else.

I was surprised to see Total Control make Rob Sheffield's list in Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/the-10-best-albums-of-2011-20111221
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2011, 11:43:36 PM »
Quote from: fonpr on December 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM
Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.


Hey, Fredericks, I thought you were a Waits man.

Yeah, the only 2011 releases I bought, I think, were Waits, PJ and F Tup--but they all made my top 10!
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2011, 11:45:01 PM »
1. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
2. Destroyer – Kaputt
3. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
4. Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts
5. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
6. The Barreracudas – Nocturnal Emissions
7. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
8. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest
9. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
10. Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler/The Dream

This year crushed last year, IMO
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2011, 11:57:47 PM »
OK, I just checked and other 2011 releases I bought (not including reissues) were:

Wire, Red Barked Trees
David Kilgour, Left By Soft
Dirty Beaches, Badlands
Jonsi & Alex, Riceboy Sleeps
Wooden Shjips, West
David Lynch, Crazy Clown Time
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lulu

They all made my Top 20 for new 2011 releases, bringing my Top 20 up to a total of 11. A banner year!
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2011, 12:08:22 AM »
Quote from: Omar on December 27, 2011, 11:37:06 PM
Quote from: fonpr on December 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM
Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.

Neither made your list, Omar.

Kurt did!

If the Reigning Sound release you're referring to is Abdication...For Your Love, I didn't include it because it's an EP.  I only included LPs and then noted a single or EP if an LP-releasing band also released merit-worthy material in another format, e.g., Dum Dum Girls.
Right you are Omar.
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2011, 12:11:16 AM »
Quote from: cavorting with nudists on December 27, 2011, 11:43:36 PM
Quote from: fonpr on December 27, 2011, 11:25:19 PM
Prince Rama, The Reigning Sound and Kurt Vile are the only 2011 albums I purchased this year.


Hey, Fredericks, I thought you were a Waits man.

Yeah, the only 2011 releases I bought, I think, were Waits, PJ and F Tup--but they all made my top 10!
I like Tom Waits quite a bit, Nudie.  However, I don't run out and buy every new thing.  I wait and cherry-pick.
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2011, 03:20:45 AM »
One of my favorites was The Weeknd - House of Balloons
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Omar

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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2011, 08:26:10 AM »
Quote from: cavorting with nudists on December 27, 2011, 11:57:47 PM
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lulu

I forgot to include this!  I got quite a kick out of it.  I'll add it.
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2011, 10:21:27 AM »
Wow, I only got 6 right.
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Re: Top 66 Albums of 2011.
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