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

Ok after some thought I can come with the 10 I enjoyed the most. In no particular order.....

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Cystal Stilts- In Love With Oblivion

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The Jolts- 8%

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Nick 13- s/t

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Washed Out- Within and Without

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The Vaccines- What Did Expect From The Vaccines?

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Brett Dennen- Loverboy

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The Rifles- Freedom Run (Hey Dave, Weller plays on a track!)

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Frank Turner- England Keep My Bones

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Dum Dum Girls- Only in Dreams

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Phantogram- Nightlife

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Sharks- Joys Of living 2008-2010 ( I know this looks like a comp that came out in 2010 but it is not. Sharks were unsigned and only had diy eps that were sold at shows and indie stores, after they signed with a label all of their eps were collected and put out as their first album in 2011)

Best soundtrack-
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Put aside that this a sountrack for a Disney movie, Rodrigo y Gabriela destroy and Hans Zimmer is bloody brilliant.

Here Is a new catagory i would like to start: fav re-issues of the year.

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Discharge- Early Demos - March - June 1977 (I was a little kid when this came out, but it is cool to hear this stuff now)

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The Damned- The Chiswick Singles- And Another Thing [Original recording remastered] (See Above and let me add The Damned are brilliant!)

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The Smiths- Complete (I don't actually have this but I know it is great, it has everything they ever did and posters, a Dvd and other goodies, it only will set you back $500!)

And hey JD, I know what you are saying about finding new music. But there are different mags out there that can help and might I suggest you go the podcast route? There are countless ones out there, and yeah, it will take time to find the right one but there are podcasts that feature all types of new music.

Again, need to cap the number of times an artist appears on the list, this time to just once. I mean, just the Arctic Monkeys alone I saw 5 times (that's FIVE TIMES) in 2011, for chrissakes.

1. Wild Beasts @ Echoplex
2. Portishead @ Shrine
3. Arcade Fire @ Outside Lands
4. The Antlers @ The Glasshouse
5. The National @ Coachella
6. Elbow @ The Greek
7. Arctic Monkeys @ The Palladium
8. Suede @ Coachella
9. Bon Iver @ The Spreckles Theatre SD
10. Mumford and Sons @ Coachella
11. The Kooks @ Troubadour
12. The Vaccines @ The Independent SF
13. John Fogerty @ Outside Lands
14. The Joy Formidable @ Outside Lands
15. My Morning Jacket @ Santa Barbara Bowl

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Originally Posted by Kings Provisional

Here Is a new catagory i would like to start: fav re-issues of the year.

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that's funny because i wanted to list my favorite re-issues of the year. :becky:

brand new - your favorite weapon
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i'm a fan of the 2nd and 3rd albums by this band and this is the 10th anniversary reissue of the debut album. i'd never heard this one all the way through aside from songs i've heard live. it's amazing the growth they went through, changing from strictly pop punk to the post-hardcore, almost experimental masterpiece that is the devil and god are raging inside me. you would never know they were the same band.
i was glad they repressed this on vinyl because all of brand new's records aside from their 4th one (which took a dip in musical quality, too experimental) sell for at least $50, this one's original press typically going for $100-150.


thursday - full collapse
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lucero - that much further west
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jimmy eat world - bleed american
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it's called bleed american. see the colors the 3xLP set was pressed on? get it? amerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrricccccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaa, f*** ya!


h2o - s/t (15th anniversary repress)
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alkaline trio - from here to infirmary
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and now you can see why i bought about 100 records this year......


ps. nice to see frank turner in your list. i NEED to get that one.
i just listened to balance and composure's separation, which was also on my "need to listen" list. dug it. gonna need to buy it now, but i want a limited edition copy so it's gonna take some hunting.

My Top 10 albums for 2011:

Florence & The Machine
Coldplay
Jane's Addiction
The Joy Formidable
Foster the People
Young the Giant
Lykke Li
The Sounds
The Pack A.D.
The Vaccines

Best 2011 Soundtrack: Sucker Punch

Best 2011 Score: Was going to go with Hanna until I saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which might change that.

Not sure what Drive would fall under, maybe best combo, but it was great too!

I bought Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys! last week

Damn fine stuff

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A good, weird list. How come I had never even heard of that Nettle album?

Ok, here's my top 10 list. Took me some time, and I STILL haven't been able to listen to a lot of the albums from 2011 I wanted to either at all or more than once. But it's 1/10 and I've put it off too long already.

10 Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
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9 Clint Mansell - United OST
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8 Liturgy - Aesthetica
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7 Laura - Twelve Hundred Times
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6 Skinny Puppy - HanDover
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5 Giles Corey - Giles Corey
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4 Tom Waits - Bad As Me
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3 Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
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2 Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
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1 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
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Honorable mention (because I wrote them down as possibilities when I was making my list):

Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
65daysofstatic - Silent Running
A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris
Fennesz & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Flumina
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko
Omega Massif - Karpatia
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Mogwai - Earth Division EP
Yob - Atma
Xela - Exorcism

Also, it's not music, but another favorite from 2011:

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that reminds me... i still haven't picked up that Deaf Center album.

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Originally Posted by gescom

that reminds me... i still haven't picked up that Deaf Center album.

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It is quite nice.