The Rolling Best Albums of 2011 Thread

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:33 pm

tell us about your #2

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:37 pm

I did, here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47171&start=50

In short, it's half of the band Laddio Bolocko, playing a similar sort of intense, mathy post-rock. Very Krautrock. I'd say they're sort of like Oneida but better. Or I like them more right now, anyway.

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:02 pm

oooooh!! laddio bollocko + oneida comparisons!? got a link?

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:13 pm

I believe this is the one I used:

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rquxsl96kzn381p

Frustratingly enough, I actually bought this on vinyl and it came with a download card, but when I downloaded the album, it was at 128kbps! Cheap bastards.

(That link above is at 320 kbps.)

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:14 pm

I guess I could also say it's this year's Rangda, but I think I like it more than that.

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:15 pm

yea subsequent listens to that rangda haven't really held up for me.
thanks for the link.

k · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:19 pm

Drinky Wrote:

I believe this is the one I used:

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rquxsl96kzn381p

Frustratingly enough, I actually bought this on vinyl and it came with a download card, but when I downloaded the album, it was at 128kbps! Cheap bastards.

(That link above is at 320 kbps.)

Downloading now. Based on the videos you posted in that other thread I am looking forward to this.

Roach · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:39 pm **Posts:** 955

I think I've heard enough to do a top 15. Again, flaky, could all change.

Obsessed with that Peaking Lights record, would like recs for anything similar (doesn't have to be new).

1 - Slug Guts - Howlin' Gang
2 - UV Race - Homo (LP)
3 - Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble - The Prairie Project
4 - Peaking Lights - 936
5 - Folded Shirt - S/t
6 - Psychic Paramount - II
7 - Great Society Mind Destroyers - Spirit Smoke
8 - Moon Duo - Mazes
9 - Dan Melchior - Assemblage Blues
10 - Lumerians - Transmalinnia
11 - Earth - Angels Of Darkness, PT1
12 - Homostupids - Strawberry Orange Peach Banana
13 - Pheromoans - It Still Rankles
14 - Der Tpk - German Reggae
15 - The Dirtbombs - Party Store

Comps/other

Duchess Of Saigon - S/t
Shrinnirs
Sun City Girls - Gum Arabic
Tyvek - Third Man Live

FT · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:19 am

i've heard 20 albums released in 2011. exactly half are worthy of potential year-end consderation:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
2. hayes carll - KMAG YOYO
3. middle brother - middle brother
4. raphael saadiq - stone rollin'
5. the insomniacs - just enjoy it
6. apex manor - the year of magical drinking
7. destroyer - kaputt
8. sloan - the double cross
9. ron sexsmith - long player late bloomer
10. the baseball project - high and inside

jsh · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:46 am

Should we do a quarterly Top 5?

FT · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:58 am

jsh Wrote:

Should we do a quarterly Top 5?

add 5 at the end of each quarter?

so, top 5 for q1, top 10 for q2, top 15 for q3, and top 20 for year-end?

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

FT Wrote:

i've heard 20 albums released in 2011. exactly half are worthy of potential year-end consderation:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
2. hayes carll - KMAG YOYO
3. middle brother - middle brother
4. raphael saadiq - stone rollin'
5. the insomniacs - just enjoy it
6. apex manor - the year of magical drinking
7. destroyer - kaputt
8. sloan - the double cross
9. ron sexsmith - long player late bloomer
10. the baseball project - high and inside

im pretty down with this list, other than havent heard 4, 5, or 8. really liking that Apex Manor, especially.

FT · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:32 pm

rogneeb Wrote:

FT Wrote:

i've heard 20 albums released in 2011. exactly half are worthy of potential year-end consderation:

1. the phoenix foundation - buffalo
2. hayes carll - KMAG YOYO
3. middle brother - middle brother
4. raphael saadiq - stone rollin'
5. the insomniacs - just enjoy it
6. apex manor - the year of magical drinking
7. destroyer - kaputt
8. sloan - the double cross
9. ron sexsmith - long player late bloomer
10. the baseball project - high and inside

im pretty down with this list, other than havent heard 4, 5, or 8. really liking that Apex Manor, especially.

i probably should have included smith westerns as 10b

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:51 pm

17 Faves so far:

Oh Mercy - Great Barrier Grief
The Booze - At Maximum Volume
Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking
The Kills - Blood Pressure
Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down
Generationals - Actor-Caster
Bing Ji Ling - Shadow to Shine
Watts - On The Dial
Ponderosa - Moonlight Revival
Skybombers - Black Carousel
Nikki Sudden - Playing With Fire
Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
Yep - Once
Nicole Atkins - Mondo Amore
Dozen Dimes - Get Real Gone with the Dozen Dimes
Fleshtones (w/ Lenny Kaye) - Brooklyn Sound Solution
Sun Wizard - Positively 4th Avenue

Edit: had to make room for Fleshtones and Sun Wizard

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:15 pm

Playing downtown on Wed night. :banana:

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:20 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking

I'm seeing this on a few lists. What's the deal?

For myself, this covers all of my 2011 albums although I just realized I have yet to hear Go Go Boots.

Braids Native Speaker
Diamond Dogs The Grit & The Very Soul
Hayes Carlll KMAG YOYO
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Here We Rest
The Luyas Too Beautiful to Work
Middle Brother Middle Brother
Nicole Atkins Mondo Amore
Ponderosa Moonlight Revival
Radiohead King of Limbs
Royal Bangs Flux Outside
Ruby Coast Whatever This Is
The Rural Alberta Advantage Departing
The Sheepdogs Learn and Burn
Shotgun Jimmie Transistor Sister
The Strokes Angles
Sloan The Double Cross
TV On the Radio Nine Types of Light
Two Koreas Science Island
Yep Once
Young Galaxy Shapeshifting

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:35 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Radcliffe Wrote:

Apex Manor - The Year of Magical Drinking

I'm seeing this on a few lists. What's the deal?

Vocalist/songwriter from the Broken West, and maybe even a little better than his old band.

DumpJack Wrote:

Shotgun Jimmie Transistor Sister

This album was pretty good, in a slack '93 Pavement sorta way.

Also, I forgot all about that Fleshtones album - it's a keeper.

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:23 am

So far, I've got ( in no order yet)

Decemberists
Hayes Carll
Twilight Singers
Lucinda Williams
Middle Brother
Cowboy Junkies
Daniel Martin Moore

The rest I've listened to have been tossers.

ShamWow! · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:51 am

tentoze Wrote:

So far, I've got ( in no order yet)

Cowboy Junkies

This is the Vic Chesnutt album, no? It's on my list.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:13 am

I've had that Phoenix Foundation for quite a while now, I think it might be last year.

Mine:
Destroyer - Kaputt
Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave
Cut Copy - Zonoscope
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Loving this)
Wye Oak - Civilian
Cult Of Youth - S/T

jsh · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:28 am

FT Wrote:

jsh Wrote:

Should we do a quarterly Top 5?

add 5 at the end of each quarter?

so, top 5 for q1, top 10 for q2, top 15 for q3, and top 20 for year-end?

Yes! Exactly. Just an informal list of your top 5 for the first 3 months of the year. Always interesting to see if your initial top selects can retain their standing throughout the year.

All I need is one person to comply and I'll start the thread.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:41 am

comply!

FT · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:45 pm

Drinky Wrote:

comply!

CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT!!!

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:52 pm

is that the guy from rush?

discostu · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:56 pm

Drinky Wrote:

is that the guy from rush?

Geddy Lee

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