Thread: All Things: Your music-related best of 2011 end-of-year lists

Originally Posted by gescom

man, i haven't even really given it any thought.

Me too, man I have been slackin' in regards to music this year.

Ok...No specific order. Except for #1 which is LAST MINUTE UPDATE

Sons of the North:BLACK SPIDERS/Enough Rope:VAIN*

and then

Pressure & Time:RIVAL SONS
2:BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION
Sensory Overdrive:MICHAEL MONROE
Green Naugahyde:PRIMUS
Dedicated to Chaos:QUEENSRYCHE
Juggernaut of Justice:ANVIL
Path of Totality:KORN
Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea:BLACK STONE CHERRY
III:CHICKENFOOT

special mentions to Worship Music:ANTHRAX, The Hunter:MASTODON, Song Remains NOT the Same:BLS, Call to Arms:SAXON, Welcome 2 the Nightmare:Alice Cooper...and many others.

* Just got this(thanks Classic Rock Mag.) And in 3 days it has become one of my faves of the year. Balls out 'hair metal', but good, really good.

And the best show was FAITH NO MORE. Hands down. Just a Man...I cried. Proud of that.

here you go...

1-5



Blancmange - Blanc Burn





Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Dust





Schlammpeitziger - Vorausschauende Bebauung





PJ Harvey - Let England Shake





James Blake - S/T

6-10 and hm'S




Real Estate - Days





Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structures





Roman Flügel - Fatty Folders





Skinny Puppy - HanDover





Phantogram - Nightlife




honorable mention to...

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (what i think Elbow's 'Build A Rocket...' should have been.)

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972

Ricardo Villalobos / Max Loderbauer - Re: ECM

the Antlers - Burst Apart

Rustie - Glass Swords

Kuedo - Severant

Top of 2011 for me in no particular order:

Indie/Rock

The Horrors-Skying

S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes

Still Corners-Creatures of an Hour

The Vaccines- What did you expect from the vaccines?

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- Belong

TV Ghost- Mass Dream

Foo Fighters- Wasting Light

Soror Dolorosa- Blind Scenes

Metal

Craft- Void

The Devil's Blood-The Thousandfold Epicentre

Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings

Mastodon - The Hunter

Opeth- Heritage

Yob- Atma

Disma- Towards the Megalith

In Solitude- The World, The Flesh, The Devil

Tombs- Path of Totality

Loss- Despond

Altar of Plagues- Mammal

Septic Flesh- The Great Mass

40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

Necros Christos -Doom Of The Occult

Virus- The Agent That Shapes The Desert

Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

Negative Plane- Stained Glass Revelations

I'm around half-done, but after I made a Playlist in iTunes for all 2011 music I bought (526 songs), I realized I probably hadn't played half of the songs. Oops.

Pick 6 random metal albums from the previous posts, add to that Unexpect's Fables of a Sleepless Empire and perhaps Turisas' Stand Up and Fight (yeah it's simple and cliched, but I tend to drive faster during the totally freakin' awesome crescendo after the third verse of "End of an Empire").

Concerts? Cradle of Filth rocked if only because Justin Beiber was having his movie premier next door, and I got to be graced with the presence of Canada's emperor. Rammstein was cool, too. I know I've been to other shows, but can't think of them right now. Not including Faith No More because that was soooo 2010, man.

Originally Posted by gunmetalgray

Pick 6 random metal albums from the previous posts, add to that Unexpect's Fables of a Sleepless Empire and perhaps Turisas' Stand Up and Fight (yeah it's simple and cliched, but I tend to drive faster during the totally freakin' awesome crescendo after the third verse of "End of an Empire").

Concerts? Cradle of Filth rocked if only because Justin Beiber was having his movie premier next door, and I got to be graced with the presence of Canada's emperor. Rammstein was cool, too. I know I've been to other shows, but can't think of them right now. Not including Faith No More because that was soooo 2010, man.

Wow, so I did not go to a show in 2011. Ok, apologies.

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i've peaked at various best of/top lists and holy smokes it seems like some people listed everything that came out in 2011. i guess it was a good year for music. personally, i'd have rated a few other albums into my list, but given who the artists were, this year's releases from them didn't compare to some of the older things i like by them. death cab is just one of them. i enjoyed codes and keys for the pop album it was, but hopefully since ben isn't happily married anymore, he'll go back to putting out some really powerful music again. (that sounded terribly selfish, but we all know some musicians just do better musically when life isn't all sunshine and rainbows).

i really want to get around to giving these a shot also, since they've made a lot of top lists amongst the people i know and whose musical opinions i respect:

(balance and composure - separation)






this is the only album where i've heard part of it and liked it a lot, but can't really legitimately put it into a list until i hear the whole thing:

i do love her first album, youth novels, so so so much though.