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Best Albums of 2011
#41
from spin

back in the day, my favorite music mag

1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
4. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
5. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
6. Danny Brown - XXX
7. The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
8. G-Side - The One...Cohesive
9. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
10. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
11. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
12. Telekinesis - Desperate Straight Lines
13. The Weeknd - House of Balloons/Thursday
14. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
15. The Men - Leave Home
16. Das Racist - Relax
17. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
18. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
19. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
20. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

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#42
PJ's album is overrated IMO...got it, head it, barely like it!
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..."  -  Me 2014.


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#43
I have a whopping 7 on this list !!!!!
 The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
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#44
SteveO Wrote:I have a whopping 7 on this list !!!!!

that's 7 more than I have

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#45
gues I'll wrap this thread up with this one
thanks to all who viewed it

from popmatters

1) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3) Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
4) Tune-Yards - Whokill
5) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
6) Weeknd - House Of Ballons
7) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
8) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
9) Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
10) Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
11) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
12) Adele - 21
13) Decemberists - The King Is Dead
14) James Blake - James Blake
15) Yuck - Yuck
16) Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
17) Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
18) Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band - American Legacies
19) Tom Waits - Bas As Me
20) Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

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#46
I love PJ Harvey, but yeah, that album was pretty weak by her standards

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:PJ's album is overrated IMO...got it, head it, barely like it!
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#47
The albums from 2011 I find myself listening to most are Alice Cooper's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare", Leslie West's "Unusual Suspects", and Social D's "Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes".
You can live in staunch denile and mark me as your enemy, but I'm just a voice among the throng who want a brighter destiny, and say with me, "We are the New America!" -Greg Graffin
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#48
from "today" magazine:

the top ten albums of the year as listened to and reviewed by Simon Collins(the only music reviewer i bother to listen to and read in Australia)

1. THE PANICS "rain on the humming wire"

2. HANDSOME FURS "sound kapital"

3. THE GRATES "secret rituals"

4. THE VACCINES "what did you expect from the vaccines?"

5. KD LANG & THE SISS BOOM BANG "sing it loud"

6. SEEKER LOVER KEEPER "seeker lover keeper"

7. THE BLACK KEYS "el camino"

8. PJ HARVEY "let england shake"

9. WILCO "the whole love"

10.THE VASCO ERA "the vasco era"


i only have three of these: PJ Harvey, The Panics, Seeker Lover Keeper

have posted: The Panics and Seeker Lover Keeper on the site...like both of them.
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..."  -  Me 2014.


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#49
One of the ten best albums of 2011 is, 'Bitches Brew Live,' by Miles Davis, released in February of the year. It is, of course, a live version of the 1970 masterpiece, Bitches Brew. The album is comprised of two shows of Miles Davis---the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

I received this as a Christmas present from one of my best friends and colleagues. I have to say, this album is phenomenal, and sucks you back to the seventies and tricks your mind into believing you are at the show at the time. You experience Mr. Davis at his best.

I will admit, I am a little bias regarding the issue. While most will say 'Kind of Blue' is Davis' best work, 'Bitches Brew' has always been, not only my favorite Miles' work, but my favorite jazz album of all-time.

I certainly recommend this album to any jazz or Miles Davis fan.
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#50
my top 10 albums for 2011:

ADELE "21"
COLDPLAY "mylo xyloto"
BOY & BEAR "moonfire"
CEE LO GREEN "the lady killer"...released last week of december 2010 here
THE PANICS "rain on the hummingwire"
FLORENCE & THE MACHINE "ceremonials"
DECEMBERISTS "king is dead"
GOTYE "making mirrors"
FOO FIGHTERS "wasting light"
PAJAMA CLUB "pajama club"
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..."  -  Me 2014.


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