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Reaper's Favorite Albums of 2011
Here it is, y'all. The highly-anticipated annual list of my favorite albums of the year. 2011 was an interesting year in music. There wasn't a single album that I personally rated 9/10. No great albums. But there were a ton of albums that I rated 8.5/10 to 7.5/10. Lots and lots and lots of really good albums. I struggled with the ordering of these albums; it seemed arbitrary at times. So that's why in lieu of doing honorable mentions this year I'm just going to do an ordered top 50. That's right, these are my favorite 50 albums of the year.
As always, this isn't meaning to be an objective list of best albums of the year. While I listen to over 300 new albums each year, I still don't listen to enough to feel comfortable making objective claims about quality. Do you think I snubbed some really great dubstep album? Did I miss out on a perfect bluegrass album? It's very likely that I did, but this is a list of my personal favorites. That's why you're going to see lots of metal albums on the list. It's also why you're going to see as many, if not more, hip-hop albums on this list. 2011 was a stupendous year for rap music. Anyway, I'm going to be rolling these out over the next couple of days or so as I write up little paragraphs for each album in-between working on other stuff. 50.) Tune-Yards - w h o k i l l 49.) White Willow - Terminal Twilight 48.) Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sects 47.) Blut Aus Nord - 777 The Desanctification 46.) La Dispute - Wildlife 45.) Childish Gambino - Camp 44.) Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 43.) Boris - New Album 42.) Antediluvian - Through the Cervix of Hawaah 41.) Fen - Epoch 40.) Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 39.) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 38.) Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials 37.) Wild Flag - Wild Flag 36.) Opeth - Heritage 35.) The Roots - Undun 34.) Vektor - Outer Isolation 33.) Rudra - Brahmavidya: Immortal I 32.) Tech N9ne - All 6s & 7s 31.) Lady GaGa - Born This Way 30.) Death Grips - ExMilitary 29.) Leprous - Bilateral 28.) Mr. Mother****in eXquire - Lost in Translation 27.) ASAP Rocky - LiveLoveA$ap 26.) Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages 25.) Cities Aviv - Digital Lows 24.) Big KRIT - Return of 4Eva 23.) Absu - Abzu 22.) Disma - Towards the Megalith 21.) Cunninglynguists - Oneirology 20.) Bon Iver - Bon Iver 19.) Trap Them - Darker Handcraft 18.) Das Racist - Relax 17.) Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning 16.) Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult 15.) Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All 14.) Cormorant - Dwellings 13.) Symphony X - Iconoclast 12.) Danny Brown - XXX 11.) St. Vincent - Strange Mercy 10.) Hell - Human Remains 09.) Wolverine - Communication Lost 08.) G-Side - Island 07.) Dessa - Castor, the Twin 06.) TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light 05.) Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire 04.) Sims - Bad Time Zoo 03.) Doomtree - No Kings 02.) G-Side - The One... Cohesive 01.) Astronautalis - This Is Our Science Thanks for reading and listening. Please put up your own lists in this thread if you'd like, or talk about other year-end lists, etc. Just like you guys have done for the past few years that I've done this. Per QuikSsurfer's request, here are links to previous year's list threads: http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=238651 (2010); http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=219784 (2009) (I would change the order of the top 15 around if I were to re-do this one); http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=202037 (2008). Last edited by Reaper16; 12-20-2011 at 11:00 AM.. |
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12-22-2011, 12:50 PM | #91 |
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Hey, NewChief -- just came across this interview/lecture by Clams Casino:
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This is kind of cool. A 2011 sampler. 10 "discs," 183 songs, 13 hours of music from 2011.
http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/12/flux...011-survey-mix
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12-25-2011, 10:33 AM | #94 |
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(Spoiler Alert: No Metal) Honorable Mentions: Cults - Cults Real Estate - Days PJ Harvey - Let England Shake TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light Panda Bear - Tomboy Atlas Sound - Parallax Washed Out - Within and Without The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines? Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar 20. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy 19. James Blake - James Blake 18. M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming 17. Drake - Take Care 16. The Black Keys - El Camino 15. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong 14. My Morning Jacket - Circuital 13. tUnEyArDs - WHOKILL 12. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne 11. Wilco - The Whole Love 10. Bright Eyes - The People's Key 9. Das Racist - Relax 8. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs 6. The Decemberists - The King is Dead 5. The Antlers - Burst Apart 4. Yuck - Yuck 3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silence (I cheated and put them together) 2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost 1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver |
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why do people like Watch the Throne someone please explain it to me like do they not listen to rap ever
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12-25-2011, 10:42 AM | #96 |
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I also like Kendrick Lamar, but I'm much more likely to listen to Watch the Throne. I don't know. I see it as a record that actually lived up to a massive amount of hype, which is increasingly rare of late.
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Weird. I get deeply bored whenever I try to listen to Watch the Throne. I find it rote and lacking in any sense of energy or urgency, especially when it comes to the beats. Hov's lyrics are often pretty damn good, but he delivers them with all the swagger of a mailman.
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I'm drunj off Bourbon Barrel Quad and I would like to hear arguments as to how any rap producers can be in the same realm as Block Beattaz. If you aren't Clams Casino, Kanye, or Lazerbeak then you are not at Block Beattaz' level. Listen to those two G-Side albums, you buttholes.
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12-26-2011, 11:20 PM | #100 |
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Do you like to get Crunj, per chance?
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I actually do think that rap is awesome because he rips the shit out of Chris Brown. What is not awesome is that he labels himself a "nerdy white kid" to market it. Or he'll maybe it's brilliant to do so, but it just feels like pandering.
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Yeah, that's ****ing stupid, but I guess it's the gimmick he wants.
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