Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Best Albums of 2011... so far

One thing that I look forward to at the end of the year is to compile a list of what my favorite albums were, and compare them with friends. Well, it's hard to wait that long, so I decided to do a list here at the midpoint of 2011. I enlisted a few of my music-loving friends to contribute their mid-year lists. Please feel free to share your favorite albums of 2011 in the comments section.

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Bret Helm
Life On This Planet Blog, Audra singer

Top Ten Albums (in no particular order)
01.  Low - C'mon
02.  Peter Murphy - Ninth
03.  TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
04.  Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy - White Magic
05.  The Raveonettes - Raven In The Grave
06.  Tim Booth - Love Life
07.  R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
08.  The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
09.  Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
10.  Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

Top 9 Songs That Aren't On Any Album Above (in no particular order)
01.  White Lies - Bigger Than Us
02.  Emmylou Harris - The Road
03.  Social Distortion - Still Alive
04.  Cold Cave - Villains Of The Moon
05.  Eddie Vedder - Without You
06.  Moby - The Day
07.  Iron & Wine - Tree By The River
08.  Radiohead - Codex
09.  Bret Helm - I've Wasted So Much Time (shameless promotion)


Jason DeWolfe Barton
Music Enthusiast, Drummer of Audra

Top Ten Albums (in no particular order)
01.  Jesu - Ascension
02.  Altar Of Plagues - Mammal
03.  Origin - Entity
04.  Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
05.  R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
06.  Woe - Quietly, Undramatically
07.  Krallice - Diotima
08.  Peter Murphy - Ninth
09.  Rotten Sound - Cursed
10.  Radiohead - The King Of Limbs



Jaymz Todd
Born on the day John Lennon died.

Top Ten Albums (not in order)
01.  Wild Beasts - Smother
02.  Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
03.  SSION - Bent
04.  Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
05.  The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
06.  Colourmusic - My ____ Is Pink
07.  1,2,3 - New Heaven
08.  Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
09.  Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital
10.  Dag For Dag - Boo


Sarah Quarrie
Sister from another Mr.

Top Ten Albums (in alphabetical order)
01.  Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
02.  Austra - Feel It Break
03.  Chad Valley - Equatorial Ultravox
04.  The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
05.  Cults - Cults
06.  Lamb - 5
07.  Metronomy - The English Riviera
08.  Naked & Famous - Passive Me Aggressive You
09.  White Lies - Ritual
10.  Wild Beasts - Smother

Looking Forward To These Five Albums
01.  Active Child - You Are All I See (8/23)
02.  Erasure - Tomorrow's World (10/4)
03.  Memory Tapes - Player Piano (7/12)
04.  Pictureplane - Thee Physical (7/19)
05.  Washed Out - Within And Without (7/12)


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