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Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby blir » Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:28 pm

Here are mine, uninventive as they may be, leaning mostly toward hooks, melodies and toe-tapping...

Rank - Score - Band - Album
001 - 9.0 - M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
002 - 8.5 - The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
003 - 8.5 - Yuck - Yuck
004 - 8.5 - Airship - Stuck In This Ocean
005 - 8.5 - The Answering Machine - Lifeline
006 - 8.0 - British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
007 - 8.0 - Air Cav - Don't Look Indoors
008 - 8.0 - Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
009 - 8.0 - Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin
010 - 8.0 - The Horrors - Skying
011 - 8.0 - The Amsterdams - Electromagnetica
012 - 8.0 - S.C.U.M. - Again Into Eyes
013 - 8.0 - Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
014 - 8.0 - Magazine - No Thyself
015 - 8.0 - The Smithereens - 2011
016 - 8.0 - Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
017 - 8.0 - Wye Oak - Civilian
018 - 8.0 - Pete and The Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
019 - 8.0 - Beirut - The Rip Tide
020 - 8.0 - Wolf Gang - Suego Faults
021 - 7.5 - Holy Ghost! - Holy Ghost!
022 - 7.5 - Atlas Sound - Parallax
023 - 7.5 - Cut Copy - Zonoscope
024 - 7.5 - Destroyer - Kaputt
025 - 7.5 - Telekinesis - 12 Desperate Straight Lines

And my bottom 10...

147 - 4.0 - Ladytron - Gravity The Seducer
148 - 4.0 - Tahiti 80 - The Past, the Present and the Possible
149 - 4.0 - Vetiver - The Errant Charm
150 - 3.5 - The Pipettes - Earth vs. The Pipettes
151 - 3.0 - Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
152 - 3.0 - Ganglians - Still Living
153 - 3.0 - Kate Bush - Director's Cut
154 - 3.0 - Kindest Lines - Covered In Dust
155 - 2.0 - Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
156 - 2.0 - The Generationals - Actor-Caster
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby david power » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:11 pm

In true t.v elimination style.....In no particular order my top ten

Joy Formidable - Roar
S.C.U.M - again into eyes
Braids - Native speaker
I break horses - Hearts
Chapel club - Palace
Ringo deathstarr - Color trip
Still corners - Creature of the hour
We were promised jetpacks - In the pit of the stomach (Newcomer)
Yuck - S/T
Pink playground - Destination ecstacy

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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby hibster » Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:12 pm

dave - what do you mean when you say newcomer?
I know you're aware this isn't their first album
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby david power » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:26 pm

I didn't make that very clear............

I only got it a couple of weeks back, I hate putting new albums in any top 10 generally because I always think you need to listen and gestate them for a period of time. I've played it every day so far except Sunday when I was nursing my head and it's every bit as good as their first album, which I also love to bits.
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby nickracerx » Tue Dec 13, 2011 4:56 pm

Arrgggh David - mine is going to be very similar to yours - how can that be???? :shock:

I Like Trains wil have to stay bubbling under as that was released in 2010 I do believe...unless you refer to the lovely download (only) of the Leeds live album :wink:
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby hibster » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:15 pm

nursing your head? why was that dave? ;-)
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby donogh » Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:09 pm

Blir, why not the full list separated into categories like last year?

I'm off work for the holidays next Wednesday, I'll start compiling my list then!!
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby blir » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:56 am

I have the whole list like that Donogh. It would kinda swamp this thread and the formatting would be all weird. I'm trying to get it all on a wordpress or maybe just one of those list sites.
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby hibster » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:40 pm

after much deliberation i've come up with this

01 | antlers | burst apart
02 | the joy formidable | the big roar
03 | lanterns on the lake | gracious tide, take me home
04 | p j harvey | let england shake
05 | st vincent | strange mercy
06 | I break horses | hearts
07 | we were promised jetpacks | in the pit of the stomach
08 | lykke li | wounded rhymes
09 | pete & the pirates | one thousand pictures
10 | kate bush | 50 words for snow
11 | low | c'mon
12 | peter, bjorn & john | gimme some
13 | cults | cults
14 | juliana hatfield | there's always another girl
15 | pink playground | destination ecstacy
16 | m83 | hurry up, we're dreaming
17 | veronica falls | veronica falls
18 | damon & naomi | false beats and true hearts
19 | blouse | blouse
20 | mirrors | lights & offerings
21 | cut copy | zonoscope
22 | ringo deathstarr | colour trip
23 | half man half biscuit | 90 bisodol (Crimond)
24 | braids | native speaker
25 | stricken city | losing colour
26 | still corners | creatures of an hour
27 | papercuts | fading parade
28 | washed out | within & without
29 | the pains of being pure at heart | belong
30 | the drums | portamento
31 | chapman family | burn your town
32 | chapel club | palace
33 | wooden shjips | west
34 | telekinesis! | 12 desperate straight lines
35 | josh t pearson | last of the country gentlemen
36 | wild beasts | smother
37 | british sea power | valhalla dancehall
38 | the fall | ersatz g.b.
39 | 65daysofstatic | silent running
40 | the raveonettes | raven in the grave
41 | elbow | build a rocket boys
42 | girls | father, son, holy ghost
43 | slow club | paradise
44 | spotlight kid | disaster tourist
45 | bearsuit | the phantom forest
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby courageschild » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:36 pm

Excellent list hibster and some that I've missed that are still to be garnered! I'll wait until till the actual end of year! ;)
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby blir » Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:38 am

Ditto...like it hibster!
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby blir » Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:07 pm

donogh wrote:Blir, why not the full list separated into categories like last year?

Here we go Donogh for all to scorn...

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/blirbis/top_albums_2011
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby donogh » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:56 pm

Very well laid out Mike and also a great list, thanks - theres always a few on these lists that give me extra listening and push me to re-listen to over Christmas!

Same to you Hibs!

After this week it's time to shuffle though the ipod and start compiling! It's been too much of a work based year for me which is my resolution to change for the new year!
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby hibster » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:11 pm

i tend to set up a smart playlist that automatically groups things together by year, so can just go to the year when seeing hwat albums there were
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Re: Your 2011 top album lists?

Postby courageschild » Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:59 pm

Really digging that Lanterns on the Lake record, reminds me of a band called The Honeymoon in their less poppy moments obviously! Anyone ever hear "Dialogue"? I thought it was a great if relatively overlooked record...
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