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Top 5 Albums & Songs of 2011

edited December 2011 in Not Sports Related

Hey Salad, how about setting up a separate thread for 2011's songs and albums of the year?

wish .... command ....

2011 Top 5 Albums
What Did You Expect From .... The Vaccines
The Cults - The Cults
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Smoke Ring For My Halo - Kurt Vile
Own Side Now - Caitlin Rose
 
2011 Top 5 Songs
Sadness Is A Blessing - Lykke Li
Rolling In The Deep - Adele
Apartment - Young The Giant
Go Outside - The Cults
Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes


(in fairness Aloe Blacc "I Need A Dollar" should be in there but don't know which one to replace)
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  • Nice one. I will be posting shortly once mind is made up.
  • 2011 - Top 5 songs

    Whitey - Count those freaks

    Gui Boratto - The Drill

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

    Quantic Y Su Conjunto Los Miticos Del Ritmo - Nuthin' But a 'G' Thing (Dre En Cumbia)

    Hard Mix - Bright Eyed Child

     

     

     

     

  • edited December 2011
    Top Ten - 2011

    Albums


    1 - Will Haven - Voir Dire
    2 - Machine Head - Unto The Locust
    3 - Moby - Destroyed
    4 - Mastodon - The Hunter
    5 - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

    Songs

    1 - Will Haven - A Beautiful Death
    2 - Will Haven - Held To Answer
    3 - Moby - Sevastopol
    4 - Foo Fighters - Walk
    5 - Machine Head - I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
  • Brilliant list Leroy. Haven't heard the new Will Haven album, but if you rate it higher that those others (all of which I love) it must definitely be worth a listen.

  • How Suck it and See by Arctic Monkeys aren't on everyone's list is a mystery. It's a modern classic.
  • How Suck it and See by Arctic Monkeys aren't on everyone's list is a mystery. It's a modern classic.
    This
  • I sucked and I saw and I didn't like it - they were still fantastic at the Roundhouse though!
  • 2011 - Top 5 songs

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

    Not even the best song on the album*

    How Suck it and See by Arctic Monkeys aren't on everyone's list is a mystery. It's a modern classic.

    Previous album was better*

     

     

     

    *imo of course before anyone gets offended

  • I've never listened to a whole Arctic Monkeys album.

    Albums:
    1. *shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
    2. Thrice - Major/Minor
    3. Between The Buried & Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
    4. Russian Circles - Empros
    5. Sylosis - Edge of the Earth

    Mastodon and Opeth albums were both massively disappointing.
  • Blimey i know a song in salads top 5.
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  • edited December 2011
    I'm really getting old i hardly know any of these.

    For what it's worth my favourite album of the year is - Aloe Blacc - All Good Things
  • im not old and i dont know any of them. actually the Adele one i know.

    must be all rock/indie

  • METALZ
  • Albums

    1. Red Hot Chili's - I'm With You

    2. The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

    3. Scroobious Pip - Distraction Pieces

    4. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

    5. Miles Kane - Colour of the Trap

  • some links added for Curb It :-)
  • I've never listened to a whole Arctic Monkeys album.

    Albums:
    1. *shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
    2. Thrice - Major/Minor
    3. Between The Buried & Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
    4. Russian Circles - Empros
    5. Sylosis - Edge of the Earth

    Mastodon and Opeth albums were both massively disappointing.
    Granted, the Opeth album was poor, but I thought Mastodon's was great - a bit of a departure in places, but still head and shoulders above most other mainstream metal out there. What didn't you like about it?
  • Agree that it's still superior to most other metal bands. But it felt a bit safe and the songs are more formulaic, and based on all their other albums they're capable of so much better. Troy and Brent's clean singing has improved, but it's still not great so I prefer the shouty shouty stuff. So I guess my feelings stem from how highly I rate their previous material, rather than how it compares to other metal albums released this year.

    The Opeth album is woeful. I had a ticket for their most recent tour but didn't bother going.
  • 2011 - Top 5 songs

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie

    Not even the best song on the album*

    How Suck it and See by Arctic Monkeys aren't on everyone's list is a mystery. It's a modern classic.

    Previous album was better*

     

     

     

    *imo of course before anyone gets offended

    I know, there are 13 other crackers on the RHCP album but this is the one with the fat bass line that sticks in my head. Saw them live on Jools Holland a couple of weeks ago and heard the new songs ( didn't know they had an new album out this year! ).
  • edited December 2011
    I'm waiting to see what Rothko and Oakster posts.

  • edited December 2011
    Albums

    1 - A Different Kind of Fix - Bombay Bicycle Club
    2 - Zonoscope - Cut Copy
    3 - Smother - Wild Beasts
    4 - The English Riviera - Metronomy 
    5 - Suck it and See - Arctic Monkeys

    Songs

    1 - Don't sit down cause I moved your chair - Arctic Monkeys
    2 - Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
    3 - Major Minors - Coldplay 
    4 - AKA! What a Life - Noel Gallagher and the High Flying Birds
    5 - If you wanna - The Vaccines

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  • the Metronomy album could easily have been in my list too Rothko, I also like a couple of the new Bombay BC tracks too.

    I shall have to check out Wild Beasts - any particular tracks to get me started?
  • Albums

    1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    2. Beirut - The Rip Tide
    3. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
    4. The Dodos - No Color
    5. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

    Songs

    1. Bon Iver - Holocene
    2. Bon Iver - Michicant
    3. Iron & Wine- Glad Man Singing
    4. Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress
    5. Grouplove - Itchin' On A Photograph
  • I would say start with, Bed of Nails, Lion's Share and Loop the Loop
  • Top 5 Albums

    Various Artists - Nova Tunes 2.3 ( a truly eclectic mix of songs )

    Various Artists - Shapes 11:01 ( with the oddest cover version ever of Dr Dre's Nothin' but a G'Thing )

    Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You

    Gui Boratto - III

    Hard Mix - Defaults ( Not only is it good but it was free on Facebook )

  • I love these lists, being on the other side of the world where you only hear american, Korean (actually quite like the girl groups!) and chinese these lists are life savers.

    Last year I listened to a number of peoples recs and downloaded a lot of the stuff so keep it up.

     

  • Akoe Blac
    Ryan Adams
    Amy Winehouse
    Jonathan Wilson
    The Sheepdogs

    Struggled to find five new albums
  • Agreed about Metronomy, brilliant album probably would be 6th on my list. Thought this year was much better than last, could easily pick a top 10
  • edited December 2011
    The 5th place on the Albums list was a right pain in the arse to decide, flipped from the Rifles, to Miles Kane, the Antlers (exceptional album top 5 in any other year) Gruff Rhys, and even Beirut, and then stopped on the Arctics, mainly cause 99.9% bands would kill to make an album that good.
  • Not sure when these came out, but am loving these bands/albums:

    Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou - Quality First, Last and Forever
    Stealing Sheep
    Alessi's Ark


    Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou song - 'Spin me a rhyme' and its video (on you tube) are great. So good live. Seen them a couple of times now.

    Can't think of anything else. Definately been a year for going back through the back catalogue. Lost my ipod in May and not commuting for 7 months got me out of the habit of listening to new music.
  • 1.Arctic Monkeys - Suck it and see

    2. Decemberists - The King is Dead

    3. Adele - 21

    4. Tom Waits - Bad As Me

    5. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

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