Your Top Ten Albums of 2011?

[Rod]

Here's my top ten:

10. J Mascis - Several Shades of Why
9. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
8. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
7. TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light
6. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
5. Starf**ker - Reptilians
4. Mastodon - The Hunter
3. The Black Keys - El Camino
2. Foster The People - Torches
1. The Roots - Undun

 

[CC_Eagle]

This will nearly be as stressful as the Hottest 100 voting. These were my favourites :

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs.
The Black Keys - El Camino.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Hysterical.
Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys.
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain.
Gotye - Making Mirrors.
Real Estate - Days.
Jinja Safari - Locked By Land.
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders - Hurtsville.

And either :

Bon Iver - Bon Iver.
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Kasabian - Velociraptor!

 

[roofromoz]

Haven't bought enough albums to make up a top 10, but here's 5:

1. Velociraptor! - Kasabian
2. Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
3. The Future Is Medieval - Kaiser Chiefs
4. Turtleneck and Chain - The Lonely Island
5. Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

 

[Alex28]

In no order:

Seeker Lover Keeper - Seeker Lover Keeper
Making Mirrors - Gotye
Rain On The Hummingwire - The Panics
Velociraptor - Kasabian
I Am Very Far - Okkervil River
Strange Mercy - St Vincent
Rome - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
The Whole Love - Wilco
El Camino - The Black Keys
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83

 

[RedVDave]

The Best of 2011:

Soundgarden - Live On I-5 [Live]
Chris Cornell - Songbook [Live]
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
The Vines - Future Primitive
Anthrax - Worship Music
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
Seether - Holding Onto String Better Left To Fray
Staind - S/T

Most Dissapointing In 2011:
Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra
KoRn - The Path Of Totality (I don't understand why the didn't just make a normal album and then remix it i.e. NIN Year Zero)
RHCP - I'm With You

 

[natheel]

In no particular order

Mastodon - Hunter
Dropkick Murphy's - Going Out In Style
Steel Panther - Balls Out
Sublime With Rome - Yours Truly
Letlive - Fake History
Frenzal Rhomb - Smoko at the Petfood Factory
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Mariachi El Bronx - II
Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes

 

[Jason Maher]

I can only come up with a Top 3. Any more, and I'd be guessing based on reputation and/or one or two songs.

1. Adele - 21
2. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
3. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

 

[SpaceMonkey]

In no particular order:

Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
Altar of Plagues - Mammal
Krallice - Diotima
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance
Forbidden - Omega Wave
Radiohead - King of Limbs

Edit: Forbidden and Radiohead round out the 10.

 

[perverse]

1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
2. Symphony X - Iconoclast
3. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
4. Anthrax - Worship Music

pretty much the only 4 albums to have any meaningful impact on what i listened to this year (that were released this year, that is). i find it hard to keep up with "current" albums, when there is the whole history of music for me still to explore.

 

[adamkungl]

Dream Theater is definitely my number 1. I'll look through what I listened to this year when i get home from work...

 

[Eelectrica]

1 DTP - Deconstruction
2 DT - A Dramatic turn of events
3 Symphony X - Iconoclast
4 Nightwish - Imaginaerum
5 Anthrax - Worship Music
6 Mastodon - The Hunter
7 Opeth - Heritage
8 Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
9 Iced Earth - Dystopia
10 Machine Head - Unto the Locust

 

[zombie jesus]

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
Radiohead - King of Limbs
DJ Quik - The Book of David
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
Jay-Z and Kanye - Watch the Throne
Real Estate - Days
Machine Head - Unto the Locust
The Antlers - Burst Apart

Hard to pick once I get past my top 3 or 4. A lot to leave out.

 

[LESStar58]

Social Distortion- Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Flogging Molly- Speed of Darkness
Dropkick Murphys- Going Out In Style
The Living End- The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating
Hank Williams III- Guttertown/Ghost To a Ghost

 

[Liam]

King of Limbs - Radiohead
Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me - Touche Amore
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
Suburbia - The Wonder Years
Shed - Title Fight
Watch The Throne - Jay-Z/Kanye West
Love Part 2 - Angels And Airwaves
Dream Strong - Endless Heights
Smoko At The Pet Food Factory - Frenzal Rhomb
Neighbourhoods - Blink 182

 

[adamkungl]

1 DTP - Deconstruction
2 DT - A Dramatic turn of events
3 Symphony X - Iconoclast
4 Nightwish - Imaginaerum
5 Anthrax - Worship Music
6 Mastodon - The Hunter
7 Opeth - Heritage
8 Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
9 Iced Earth - Dystopia
10 Machine Head - Unto the Locust

Good list

 

[runatme]

Title Fight-Shed
Confession-Long Way Home

 

[ElectricEelMan]

In no particular order:

The Antlers - Burst Apart
The Black Keys - El Camino
The Horrors - Skying
Jebediah - Kosciuszko
Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer
Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
Portugal. The Man - In the Mountain in the Cloud

 

[Flapper]

1)The Black Keys - El Camino
2)Bright Eyes - The People's Key
3)The Grates - Secret Rituals
4)Gomez - Whatever's On Your Mind
5)Cake - Showroom Of Compassion
6)PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
7)Panic! At The Disco - Vices & Virtues
8)Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
9)Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx II
10)Josh Pyke - Only Sparrows

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Didn't listen to enough albums to make 10 but I can do 5

1- Common - The Dreamer/The Believer
2- Game - The RED album
3- Raekwon - Shaolin vs Wu-Tang
4- Royce da 5'9" - Success is Certain
5- Reks - R.E.K.S.

 

[RedVDave]

I will add

Frenzal Rhomb - Smoko At The Pet Food Facotry
Rise Against - Endgame (I still like their older stuff 100x better but Endgame had a few good songs on it)