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

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Originally Posted by orpheus

This thread reminds me just how much I stopped listening to new music. I must be getting old, lol!

It's not really that, I mean all of us, maybe, are getting old, and I am far from that whole music isn't as good as it used be state of mind. It's just that following, listening, and discovering new music takes effort and time, and well, sometimes it's easy not to set time aside for such. :/

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haha, i'm pretty sure most of us are older than you, orph. ;)
it's ok. we all go through phases where we stop listening to new music. or at least i do. i stopped for a bit until this year and i kind of got caught up in it again when i started buying records again. i must've bought about 100 (old and new, singles and albums) this year alone. i don't spend as much time on the computer so i haven't been so great with listening to mp3s (and therefore i have that mini list of "stuff i've heard is fantastic but that i need to give a listen to before i buy the record"), but oh man it is way too easy to drop $$$ on various orders and ebay for vinyl and fall into a rabbit hole of acquiring more music than i meant to.

i'm sure you'll fall back onto the wagon eventually. :)

yeah... and it DOES indeed require a LOT of time and effort. i'm finding it even moreso nowadays than i used to.

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Originally Posted by KingsOvAllKings

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

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Lots of great stuff here that I didn't put on my list but I probably should.

Especially Yob (**** **** **** just how good can you get, once again Kelly's and Scheidt's vocals are killing me), Loss, Tombs and Mournful Congregation (The Waterless Streams is probably my favorite 2011 song).

I don't understand the thing people have with Altar of Plagues though. I find them quite boring.

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Originally Posted by orpheus

This thread reminds me just how much I stopped listening to new music. I must be getting old, lol!

It's not really that, I mean all of us, maybe, are getting old, and I am far from that whole music isn't as good as it used be state of mind. It's just that following, listening, and discovering new music takes effort and time, and well, sometimes it's easy not to set time aside for such. :/

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the way i find new music usually is by seeing the opening bands at shows, but i hardly went to any last year... probably cause i'm getting old

There seems to be a monstrous plague of OLD running thru these boards. Just keep repeating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2SR...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY

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Originally Posted by Vrankol

Lots of great stuff here that I didn't put on my list but I probably should.

Especially Yob (**** **** **** just how good can you get, once again Kelly's and Scheidt's vocals are killing me), Loss, Tombs and Mournful Congregation (The Waterless Streams is probably my favorite 2011 song).

I don't understand the thing people have with Altar of Plagues though. I find them quite boring.

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Even though i put the AoP album on my best of list i still think its a bit of a regression from their previous effort. I can see how they would be boring though since its very repetitive stuff. Mournful Congregation were ****ing amazing live! Doom Metal doesn't always have a strong live component but when 3 guitarists are layering and switching leads off live it makes for a great performance. Even with 3 guitarists i think they said they are still short of how many they use on their recordings which just goes to show how rich their song composition truly is.

@ Orpheus: you can get back into the swing of things starting by going on youtube and checking out tracks from albums people post on their best of lists ;)

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Originally Posted by Luc SkyBomba

the way i find new music usually is by seeing the opening bands at shows, but i hardly went to any last year... probably cause i'm getting old

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same here. i actually got into my most favorite band by seeing them open for AFI. that was about 10+ years ago though. at some point, i got (old and) more picky about which opening bands to show up for. i really would've loved to have been able to check out the entire show i went to in november though. la dispute, o'brother and moving mountains opened up for thrice and i've heard so many good things about all 3 openers. i just couldn't show up until the headliner (almost 10pm) because i got held up with my kid that night. oh well. as kingovallkings points out, there's always youtube.......

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Originally Posted by jerseydevil

There seems to be a monstrous plague of OLD running thru these boards. Just keep repeating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2SRNU955c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJ-ZLdrTwY

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also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtGvb-fW70

my kid has a t-shirt that has the graphic and song lyric from this video on it. lol.

My favorite way to find new music is music blogs. Google a band you like, find a blog that has stuff of theirs on it and then see what else is posted there.

Alternatively, you can ask certain people for recommendations. :)

Just about anytime something sounds interesting, I download it.

Like lunchie, I discover a lot of bands nowadays with my record buying. I follow smaller labels, if they release something I like, chances are they'll release similar stuff with up and coming bands.

I'm limiting it to maximum of 2 per artist, otherwise I'd have to reproduce large portions of track lists of some of my favorite albums. Listed in alphabetical order by song name, top-10 in bold.


Angel Is Broken - Atlas Sound
Anteroom - EMA
Back In The Crowd - Tom Waits
The Birds - Elbow
Blow It Up - The Vaccines
Cheerleader - St. Vincent
Codex - Radiohead
Dust Bowl III - Other Lives
End Come Too Soon - Wild Beasts
The Glorious Land - PJ Harvey
Graveyard - Feist
A Heavy Abacus - The Joy Formidable
Hold On - SBTRKT
Holocene - Bon Iver
Hounds - The Antlers
I Know Places - Lykke Li
Limit To Your Love - James Blake
Lippy Kids - Elbow
Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
The Look - Metronomy
Loop The Loop - Wild Beasts
Love Won't Be Leaving - Anna Calvi
Man Of Simple Pleasures - Kasabian
Midnight City - M83
Movie Screen - Chelsea Wolfe
No More Words - Anna Calvi
No Widows - The Antlers
On Battleship Hill - PJ Harvey
Paris - S.C.U.M.
Perth - Bon Iver
Post Break-Up Sex - The Vaccines
Re-Wired - Kasabian
Reckless Serenade - Arctic Monkeys
The Rip Tide - Beirut
Satellite - The Kills
She's Thunderstorms - Arctic Monkeys
Slow Slow Tune - My Morning Jacket
Sunloathe - Wilco
Tracks (Tall Bodies) - Chelsea Wolfe
The Twilight Hour - Still Corners
Vessel - Zola Jesus
Wait - M83
50 Words For Snow - Kate Bush