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[eagles69]

post your top 15 here Hven't compiled mine just yet but will soon.

[eagles69]

right here we go this was hard somr gr8 albums could not make the list inc. Wilco, Kurt Vile, St Vincent, Feist, Frank Tuner and Iron and Wine.


1 My Morning Jacket - Circuital
2 Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
3 Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
4 Nathaniel Rateliff - In Memory of Loss
5 Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
6 Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
7 Yuck - Yuck
8 Wild Beasts - Smother
9 Beirut - Rip Tide
10 Black Keys - El Camino
11 Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
12 Bon Ivor - Bon Ivor
13 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14 TuneYards - WHOKILL
15 Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams

[Splainc]

Very tough this year. I will be back..

[shoebox]

Top 20:


1) Destroyer - Kaputt
2) The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
3) Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
4) Singing Adams - Everybody Friends Now
5) The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
6) Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
7) Goyte - Making Mirrors
Yuck - Yuck
9) Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
10) Total Victory - The Pyramid Of Privilege
11) Bon Iver - Bon Iver

12) Summer Camp - Welcome To Condale
13) Wild Beasts - Smother
14) Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
15) Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
16) Austra - Feel It Break
17) Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
18) Battles - Gloss Drop
19) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
20) Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

[Timberford]

In alphabetical order...

Agnes Obel - Philharmonics
Big Spider's Back - Memory Man
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Ganglians - Still Living
Girls Names - Dead To Me
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
Mechanical Bride - Living With Ants
Minks - By the Hedge
Nurses - Dracula
Pepper Rabbit - Red Velvet Snow Ball
Real Estate - Days
Tennis - Cape Dory
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Widowspeak - Widowspeak

Edited by Timberford, 08 December 2011 - 08:34 PM.

[ljsawyer]

Megafaun - Megafaun
Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
Richard Buckner - Our Blood
Josh T. Pearson - The Last of the Country Gentlemen
Hayes Carll - KMAG Yoyo
The Felice Brothers - Celebration Florida
Matraca Berg - The Dreaming Fields
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
AA Bondy - Believers
The Cave Singers - No Witch
Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Owen - Ghost Town
Treefight For Sunlight - Treefight For Sunlight
Woods - Sun and Shade

In no particular order. Really wanted to include Richmond Fontaine but I was so disappointed by that album...

[5co77ie]

Timberford, on 08 December 2011 - 01:16 PM, said:

In alphabetical order...

Agnes Obel - Philharmonics
Big Spider's Back - Memory Man
Big Troubles - Romantic Comedy
Cloud Control - Bliss Release
Ganglians - Still Living
Girls Names - Dead To Me
Jonathan Wilson - Gentle Spirit
Mechanical Bride - Living With Ants
Minks - By the Hedge
Nurses - Dracula
Pepper Rabbit - Red Velvet Snow Ball
Real Estate - Days
Tennis - Cape Dory
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
Widowspeak - Widowspeak

Heard this for the first time last night - really liked it. I'll have to check out more of your list

[riverlodge]

not sure if these are the best (unfairly subjective, and i'm probably not fit to comment) but these are the ones that i personally have enjoyed most from 2011.
approximately in order, but subject to change, possibly hourly.

let england shake - pj
whokill - tuneyards
valhalla dancehall - bsp
english riviera - metronomy
smother - wild beasts
biophilia - bjork
slave ambient - war on drugs
tamer animals - other lives
buffalo - phoenix foundation
strange mercy - st vincent
last of the country gents - jtp
burst apart - antlers
father, son and holy ghost - girls
smoke ring for my halo - kurt vile
space is only noise - nicolas jaar

[Nigey_boy]

at the moment (i'm with Riverlodge...all subject to change!):
1) lanterns on the lake - gracious tide, take me home
2) yuck - yuck
3) pains of being pure at heart - belong
4) lykke li - wounded rhymes
5) smoke fairies - through low light and trees
6) anna calvi - anna calvi
7) other lives -- tamer animals
sea of bees - songs for the ravens
9) walkmen - lisbon
10) grouplove - never trust a happy song

[Unihammer]

Can I play

Good year for music, but then I think every year is a good year for music.

1. Southeast Engine - Canary
2. Arbouretum  - The Gathering
3. Richard Buckner - Our blood
4. The Decemberists  - The king is dead
5. Other lives  - Tamer animals
6. Lanterns on the lake - Gracious tide, take me home
7. Tara Nevins - Wood and stone
8. Gillian Welch - The harrow and the harvest
9. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the country gentlemen
10. The Antlers - Burst apart
11. J. Mascis - Several shades of why
12. Drive by truckers - Gogo boots
13. Alisdair Roberts and friends - Too long in this condition
14. 30 pounds of bone  - Method
15. Herman Dune - Strange moosic
16. Low - C'mon
17 The Gentle Good - Tethered for the storm
18. Wild flag - Wild flag
19. Wooden Shjips  - West
20. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues

[killyourtv]

Am very conscious how dominated this list is by records I bought in on basis of EOTR, and how many great records from this year I'll only hear 1 or 2 years from now (only just got Agnes Obel which is great).

Anyway, Top 10 as of today;

1)  Lanterns on the Lake
2)  Unthanks
3)  Beirut
4)  Jonathan Wilson
5)  Other Lives
6)  Lykke Li
7)  King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
  Laura Marling
9)  Wooden Shjips
10)  Ryan Adams

May change mind once I've heard the Antlers, on the basis of just hearing "Hospice"

[killyourtv]

By the way, I've no idea how the smiley face relaced the number !

[baroquepop]

I try to base my list on what I've played the most during the year.

1) Tori Amos, much to my surprise. Forget the lyrics/theme, the robust chamber music backing, classical tunes and excellent recording clinches it for me. Have played this lots!
2) Other Lives, deservedly breaking through and getting good reviews (EOTR 2011)
3) Jonathan Wilson, after removing a few clunkers I'm left with an excellent 53 minutes. Bring back the early 70's!
4) tUne-YaRdS, driving on a summer's day! (EOTR 2011)
5) Daniel Lefkowitz (Futur Primitiv), minimal but varied backing and Daniel's rusty and affecting vocals, and that rare thing... actual good songwriting. (EOTR 2011)
6) Gillian Welch, not quite Time The Revelator, but still a great collection of songs.
7) Bon Iver, because he makes good records (and because being in a pub where we're trying to do his falsetto lines is funny)
8.)Fleet Foxes, a definite improvement on the debut
9) Victoire - sort of modern classical, really quite engaging
10) Unthanks, a bit hit and miss like their others but some great tracks (EOTR 2011)
11) My Brightest Diamond (Shara Worden), finally make a record in a style that suits her.
12) St Vincent, my kind of pop!
13) The Leisure Society, more of my kind of pop (EOTR 2011)
14)Cass McCombs - mellow and good
15) Josh T. Pearson, recommended to fans of Roy Harper! (EOTR 2011)

Selected other purchases, unloved it pains me to say: Destroyer, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, James Blake, Decemberists, Laura Marling

Edited by baroquepop, 21 December 2011 - 04:48 PM.

[killyourtv]

I'm with you on the PJ, baroquepop - average at best.  Guess I need to revisit Tori as I struggled there as well.

[perfectpassion]

LOW - C'mon
Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Bloomer (a bit like me really)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Metronomy- The English Riviera (a concept album about South Devon!)
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
The Miserable Rich - Miss You in The Days (Supernatural thriller and how I feel about you)
Little Dragon - Rituals
Dark Captain - Dead legs and Alibis
The Middle East - I Want That You Are Always Happy
The Wave Pictures - Beer in the Breakers
Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
The Sea and The Cake ep - Moon Butterfly
The Head and The Heart - Remastered in 2011

[RedRockRick]

Here's mine in no particular order:

Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion: Bright Examples
Matthew Ryan: I Recall Standing As Though Nothing Could Fall
Hiss Golden Messenger: Country Hai East Cotton
Richmond Fontaine: The High Country
Drive By Truckers: Go Go Boots (extra disc essential)
Joe West: Aberdeen, S.D.
The Walnut Crackers: Hey Paulie
Stewboss: Pilgrims & Runaways
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings: Kings & Queens
Eilen Jewell: Queen Of The Minor Key
Richard Buckner: Our Blood
Good Luck Mountain: Good Luck Mountain
The Strange Boys: Live Music
The Middle East: I Want That You Are Always Happy
Jeb Q. Lariat: Almost Had You
Other Lives: Tamer Animals
Glossary: Long Live All Of Us

Edited by RedRockRick, 01 January 2012 - 05:37 PM.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

1.Let England Shake- PJ Harvey
2.50 Words for Snow- Kate Bush
3.Go Tell Fire to the Mountain- WU LYF
4.Again into Eyes- S.C.U.M
5.Conatus- Zola Jesus
6.King of Limbs- Radiohead
7.Biophilia- Bjork  
8.The English Riviera- Metronomy  
9.Watch the Throne- Kanye & Jay-Z
10.Audio, Video, Disco- Justice
11.Blood Pressures- The Kills
12.SBTRKT- SBTRKT
13.El Camino- Black Keys
14.Great Escape Artist- Jane's Addiction
15.Skying- The Horrors

[GTG]

Great year for records, I thought.  Got my list down to 30 and tempted to sign up another username to post the other half but, if pressed, these would be they:


Jocie Adams - Bed Of Notions
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine
Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Feist - Metals
Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell - Kite
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Lisa Hannigan - Passenger
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
Peter Gabriel - New Blood
Unthanks - Diversions Vol. 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons
Sarah Jarosz - Follow Me Down
Ghostpoet - Peanut Butter Blue and Melancholy Jam
Jenny and Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now
Roy Harper - Songs Of Love & Loss

Edited by GTG, 03 January 2012 - 07:00 AM.

[killyourtv]

Should have waited till year-end and a the time Christmas gives you to catch-up - should defintely have had the Kate Bush and the Destroyer  (though unfathomable record) in the list.  Will never learn.

[perfectpassion]

killyourtv, on 03 January 2012 - 07:23 PM, said:

Should have waited till year-end and a the time Christmas gives you to catch-up - should defintely have had the Kate Bush and the Destroyer  (though unfathomable record) in the list.  Will never learn.

You could replace the Unthanks
Only kidding.... the title of the thread says top 15 so you could just add them KY

RRR I don't actually know many of the bands on your list at all....although I am reliably informed that Stewboss are great live and have just been told that there is a cd in the "library" so will give it a listen soon.

And welcome to Frankly!

Edited by perfectpassion, 03 January 2012 - 09:28 PM.