THE LANDLORD LANDRY MEMORIAL BEST ALBUMS OF 2011 THREAD

My appetite for new music has dwindled in the last couple of years, but Joanna Newsom's Have One On Me is one of the very best albums I've ever heard.

 

Beady Eye!

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These are some of the albums I enjoyed this year(not ranked):

Radiohead - The King of Limbs
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Wilco - The Whole Love
The Black Keys- El Camino

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(top 2 most played tunes on winamp for me)

 

Your love is calling my name- One of my favorite songs of the year:

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[FIRST TIER]
Panda Bear - Tomboy. I was stuck on this album for months. Not near as experimental as the first, but strong melodies and great soundscapes.
Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!. The album's too short, but it is perfect for the genre: It makes me want to dance... and I hate dancing.
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. Still digesting, but I love 3/4 of it.

[SECOND TIER]
Justice - Audio, Video, Disco. I appreciate and even enjoy the new direction, even if it's not as epic a release as their first.
Cut Copy - Zonoscope. I loved "Take Me Over" but the rest of the album was in the vein of their previous stuff, which while still enjoyable, is disappointing for new material.
Foster The People - Torches. I'm embarrassed to have a major-label backed and presumably manufactured band on here, but I can't deny it -- this was a solid album from start to finish. They out-MGMTed MGMT.
The Very Best - Super Mom Mixtape. It's just a mixtape, and not his best release, but I have a soft spot for this stuff.
Starf***er - Reptilians. Great solid sophomore release.

I can't even get 10 albums for a list -- it was a crappy year for music I think... and I have numbers to prove it! The last couple years, I would get around 40 albums each, but this year, I've only grabbed 20! Sure there's lots of stuff I checked out online per usual but not near as much music that I wanted to own and listen to repeatedly...

Also notable, I have no rock/metal or rap/hiphop on this list... I don't even have any folk and/or baroque pop holdovers from last year. When did I get so electronic?!?

 

I think that was star****er's 3rd album, not second, if thats what you mean by "sophomore"

 

I wasn't sure either, but I checked... and I'm right. INYOURFACE. Haha, They have a couple longish EPs, but this is definitely their second full-length.

 

Kimmi in a Rice Field, one of my favorite videos of the year:

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Im not a music expert or anything thing, but I picked up The Black Keys new album yesterday and I am really enjoying it.

 

Still a lot of **** I haven't checked out yet but so far my picks -

Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Neon Indian - Era Extrana


My top tracks of the year -

1.) Radiohead "Codex"
2.) Youth Lagoon "Montana"
3.) M83 "Wait"

 

2011 was definitely a banner year for music; here is my top 50:

1 - Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
2 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3 - Bon Iver - Bon Iver
4 - Panda Bear - Tomboy
5 - M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
6 - Wilco - The Whole Love
7 - Yuck - Yuck
8 - Tom Waits - Bad As Me
9 - Atlas Sound - Parallax
10 - Cults - Cults
11 - Neon Indian - Era Extrana
12 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
13 - Destroyer - Kaputt
14 - The Antlers - Burst Apart
15 - St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
16 - The Vaccines - What Else Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
17 - WU LYF - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
18 - The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
19 - Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
20 - Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Part Two
21 - Washed Out - Within And Without
22 - Asobi Seksu - Fluorescence
23 - Battles - Gloss Drop
24 - Zola Jesus - Conatus
25 - Lee "Scratch" Perry - Rise Again

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Here is 26-50
26 - The Strokes - Angles
27 - The Weeknd - The House of Balloons
28 - Radiohead - The King of Limbs
29 - Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
30 - Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
31 - Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
32 - TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Different Light
33 - Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
34 - Tennis - Cape Dory
35 - Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
36 - Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
37 - Bjork - Biophillia
38 - Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
39 - The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
40 - Cut Copy - Zonoscope
41 - EMA - Past Martyred Saints
42 - James Blake - James Blake
43 - NewVillager - NewVillager
44 - Foster the People - Torches
45 - Friendly Fires - Para
46 - Wire - Red Barked Tree
47 - Bright Eyes - The People's Key
48 - Eleanor Friedberger - Last Summer
49 - Low - C'mon
50 - Feist - Metals

 

Don't feel like putting them in order or anything.

War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Wilco - The Whole Love
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears- Scandalous
The Black Keys - El Camino
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
The Strokes - Angles


Honorable Mentions:
Gary Clark Jr - Bright Lights EP (how about a full album please)
Locksley - Locksley (love these guys, but this new album is mostly the last album and older songs as well, don't know if they switched labels or what)
Foster the People - Torches (might have put it on the list if the singer could actually sing live)

 

I could probably put together a strong list for this year about 5 more years down the road; but as it stands, these few most stand out.

The Rifles - Freedom Run
Beady Eye - Different gear still Speeding
The Dum Dum Girls - Only dreams
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Black Keys - El Camino

 

albumgasm

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all the rest I've heard this year

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54.) Goblin (Tyler, The Creator)
53.) Collapse Into Now (R.E.M.)
52.) Angles (The Strokes)
51.) Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang (Raekwon)
50.) Brilliant! Tragic! (Art Brut)
49.) Several Shades of Why (J. Mascis)
48.) Tomboy (Panda Bear)
47.) Mirror Traffic (Stephen Malkmus)
46.) Audio, Video, Disco (Justice)
45.) Black Up (Shabazz Palaces)
44.) Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Beastie Boys)
43.) David Comes To Life (****ed Up)
42.) Thursday (The Weeknd)
41.) Gloss Drop (Battles)
40.) Go-Go Boots (Drive-By Truckers)
39.) The People's Key (Bright Eyes)
38.) The King of Limbs (Radiohead)
37.) Fluorescence (Asobi Seksu)
36.) Blessed (Lucinda Williams)
35.) James Blake (James Blake)
34.) Wild Flag (Wild Flag)
33.) Days (Real Estate)
32.) Zonoscope (Cut Copy)
31.) Watch The Throne (Jay-Z)

30.) The Hunter (Mastodon)
29.) Suck It And See (Arctic Monkeys)
28.) Raven In The Grave (The Raveonettes)
27.) W H O K I L L (tUnE-yArDs)
26.) Sound Kapital (Handsome Furs)
25.) Helplessness Blues (Fleet Foxes)
24.) New Brigade (Iceage)
23.) The Greatest Story Never Told (Saigon)
22.) Belong (The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart)
21.) Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (M83)
20.) Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (Mogwai)
19.) Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Girls)
18.) Slave Ambient (The War On Drugs)
17.) The Whole Love (Wilco)
16.) Let England Shake (PJ Harvey)
15.) Build A Rocket Boys! (Elbow)
14.) Circuital (My Morning Jacket)
13.) Nine Types Of Light (TV On The Radio)
12.) Cults (Cults)
11.) Hello Sadness (Los Campesinos!)
10.) Burst Apart (The Antlers)
9.) Strange Mercy (St. Vincent)
8.) The Rip Tide (Beirut)
7.) The King Is Dead (The Decemberists)
6.) Dye It Blonde (Smith Westerns)
5.) Yuck (Yuck)
4.) The Year Of Hibernation (Youth Lagoon)
3.) Kaputt (Destroyer)
2.) Bon Iver (Bon Iver)
1.) House of Balloons (The Weeknd)

 

Just want to say I miss LLL.

 

I miss him too.


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QFMFT.

 

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