Top Albums Of 2011

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  1. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Tao Of The Dead ****1/2
  2. Death Cab For Cutie Codes And Keys **** (Review)
  3. Thao & Mirah Thao & Mirah ****1/2 (Review)
  4. Boots Electric Honkey Kong **** (Review)
  5. St. Vincent Strange Mercy ****
  6. The Black Keys El Camino **** (Review)
  7. Peter Gabriel New Blood ****1/2 (Review)
  8. My Morning Jacket Circuital ***1/2 (Review)
  9. Tom Waits Bad As Me ***1/2 (Review)
  10. The Cars Move Like This ***1/2
  11. Charles Bradley No Time For Dreaming ****
  12. Foo Fighters Wasting Light ***1/2
  13. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Soundtrack) ****
  14. Primus Green Naugahyde ***1/2
  15. The Chemical Brothers Hanna (Soundtrack) ****
  16. Trap Them Darker Handcraft ****
  17. The Go! Team Rolling Blackouts ***1/2
  18. Fujiya & Miyagi Ventriloquizzing ***1/2
  19. Cliff Martinez Drive (Soundtrack) ***1/2
  20. DJ Shadow The Less You Know, The Better ***1/2
Honorable Mentions
  1. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi Rome ***1/2
  2. Edie Sedgwick Love Gets Lovelier Every Day ***1/2
  3. Radiohead The King Of Limbs ***1/2
  4. The Lonely Island Turtleneck & Chain ***1/2
  5. Cliff Martinez Contagion (Soundtrack) ***1/2
  6. Cake Showroom Of Compassion *** (Review)
  7. Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part Two ***
  8. Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean *** (Review)
  9. John Vanderslice w/ The Magik*Magik Orchestra White Wilderness ***
  10. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Marble Son ***
*The reason that some selections have higher star ratings, but lower positions has to do with replay value.

Who says that there is no good music anymore?

I thought it would be fun to include all my previous Top Albums since I started keeping track of them, when I used to work for Newbury Comics. Looking back at these, there are a bunch of titles that I would definitely shift to higher or lower positions, switch from Honorable Mentions to Top 10 and vice versa, but I decided to leave them untouched, for posterity's sake. The majority of them were spot on though, and I continue to love these albums.

2001 (Holy good year for albums!)
  1. Spoon Girls Can Tell
  2. Shiner The Egg
  3. Juno A Future Lived In Past Tense
  4. Fugazi The Argument
  5. Death Cab For Cutie The Photo Album
Honorable Mentions
  1. Sunshine Necromance
  2. Cake Comfort Eagle
  3. The (International) Noise Conspiracy A New Morning, Changing Weather
  4. Scissorfight Mantrapping For Sport And Profit
  5. Gorillaz Gorillaz
  6. Andrew W.K. I Get Wet
  7. Aphex Twin Drukqs
  8. The Faint Danse Macabre
  9. The Strokes Is This It
  10. Tenacious D Tenacious D
2002
  1. Mirah Advisory Committee
  2. Spoon Kill The Moonlight
  3. The Casket Lottery Survival Is For Cowards
  4. Queens Of The Stone Age Songs For The Deaf
  5. Foo Fighters One By One
Honorable Mentions
  1. The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
  2. Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
  3. DJ Shadow The Private Press
  4. Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
  5. Enon High Society
  6. Tom Waits Alice
  7. Tom Waits Blood Money
  8. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers The Last DJ
2003
  1. Starlight Mints Built On Squares
  2. My Morning Jacket It Still Moves
  3. Placebo Sleeping With Ghosts
  4. Kings Of Leon Youth And Young Manhood
  5. Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism
  6. Nada Surf Let Go
  7. The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
  8. The Thermals More Parts Per Million
  9. Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
  10. Coachwhips Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine
Honorable Mentions
  1. The Fiery Furnaces Gallowbird’s Bark
  2. Aphex Twin 26 Mixes For Cash
  3. Pearl Jam Lost Dogs
  4. Cursive The Ugly Organ
  5. Guitar Wolf UFO Romantics
  6. The Twilight Singers Blackberry Belle
2004
  1. John Vanderslice Cellar Door
  2. The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives
  3. The Thermals Fuckin A
  4. Poster Children No More Songs About Sleep And Fire
  5. The Helio Sequence Love And Distance
  6. Interpol Antics
  7. Blonde Redhead Misery Is A Butterfly
  8. Mirah C’mon Miracle
  9. Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
  10. Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter Oh, My Girl
Honorable Mentions
  1. Coachwhips Bangers Vs Fuckers
  2. Cake Pressure Chief
  3. Turing Machine Zwei
  4. Secret Machines Now Here Is Nowhere
  5. The Faint Wet From Birth
  6. Viva Voce The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
  7. Pinback Summer In Abaddon
  8. Iron And Wine Our Endless Numbered Days
2005
  1. Kings Of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
  2. Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze
  3. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Worlds Apart
  4. Spoon Gimme Fiction
  5. My Morning Jacket Z
  6. The Life And Times Suburban Hymns
  7. John Vanderslice Pixel Revolt
  8. Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
  9. Supergrass Road To Rouen
  10. Nada Surf The Weight Is A Gift
Honorable Mentions
  1. Beck Guero
  2. Foo Fighters In Your Honor
  3. M.I.A. Arular
  4. Edie Sedgwick Her Love Is Real…But She Is Not
  5. Boards Of Canada The Campfire Headphase
  6. Gorillaz Demon Days
  7. Coachwhips Peanut Butter & Jelly Live At The Ginger Minge
  8. Death Cab For Cutie Plans
2006
  1. Eagles Of Death Metal Death By Sexy…
  2. Beck The Information
  3. Starlight Mints Drowaton
  4. Radio 4 Enemies Like This
  5. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead So Divided
  6. Channels Waiting For The Next End Of The World
  7. Scissorfight Jaggernaut
  8. The Sword Age Of Winters
  9. Snowden Anti-Anti
  10. Placebo Meds
Honorable Mentions
  1. Pearl Jam Pearl Jam
  2. Zombi Surface To Air
  3. Goldfrapp Supernature
  4. Wolfmother Wolfmother
  5. The Album Leaf Into The Blue Again
  6. The Flaming Lips At War With The Mystics
2007
  1. Queens Of The Stone Age Era Vulgaris
  2. The Hives The Black And White Album
  3. St. Vincent Marry Me
  4. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  5. Nine Inch Nails Year Zero
  6. Band Of Horses Cease To Begin
  7. Trans Am Sex Change
  8. Enon Grey Geysers…Carbon Clouds
  9. John Vanderslice Emerald City
  10. Rilo Kiley Under The Blacklight
Honorable Mentions
  1. Radiohead In Rainbows
  2. Blonde Redhead 23
  3. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Baby 81
  4. Kings Of Leon Because Of The Times
  5. Dizzee Rascal Maths + English
  6. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights
  7. Rogue Wave Asleep At Heaven’s Gate
  8. Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
  9. Dungen Tio Bitar
  10. Dinosaur Jr. Beyond
2008
  1. My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
  2. Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On
  3. Beck Modern Guilt
  4. Goldfrapp Seventh Tree
  5. Nine Inch Nails The Slip
  6. Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
  7. Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs
  8. Edie Sedgwick Things Are Getting Sinister And Sinisterer
  9. The Faint Fasciination
  10. The Sword Gods Of The Earth 
Honorable Mentions
  1. Cat Power Jukebox
  2. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend 
2009
  1. John Vanderslice Romanian Names
  2. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Century Of Self
  3. Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
  4. St. Vincent Actor
  5. Pearl Jam Backspacer
  6. Mirah (a)spera
  7. Starlight Mints Change Remains
  8. Zombi Spirit Animal
  9. Flight Of The Conchords I Told You I Was Freaky
  10. Erin McKeown Hundreds Of Lions 
Honorable Mentions
  1. Metric Fantasies
  2. Placebo Battle For The Sun
  3. The Flaming Lips Embryonic 
2010
  1. Spoon Transference
  2. Massive Attack Heligoland
  3. Goldfrapp Head First
  4. The Black Keys Brothers
  5. The Sword Warp Riders
  6. Maserati Pyramid Of The Sun
  7. Gorillaz Plastic Beach
  8. The Chemical Brothers Further
  9. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross The Social Network (Soundtrack)
  10. Nigel Godrich Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Score)
Honorable Mentions
  1. Six Finger Satellite A Good Year For Hardness
  2. Clint Mansell Black Swan (Soundtrack)
  3. Trans Am Thing
  4. UNKLE Where Did The Night Fall
  5. Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back
  6. Electric Six Zodiac
  7. Vampire Weekend Contra
  8. Blonde Redhead Penny Sparkle
  9. Eels Tomorrow Morning
  10. Eels End Times

Comments

  1. Anonymous2/13/2012

    I would definitely rearrange all of your lists, and add a ton of hip hop to them!

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