Favorite Music of 2011: Another Series of Lists
More lists, just like last year’s lists. Again: these are not in order, just in the order I typed them.
Favorite Albums from 2011
- The Decemberists – The King is Dead
- Doomtree – No Kings
- The Antlers – Burst Apart
- Jay-Z/Kanye West – Watch the Throne
- R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
- tUnE-YarDs – w h o k i l l
- Bon Iver – Bon Iver
- The Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck
- Damn Your Eyes – Damn Your Eyes
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
Favorite Album from 2010 that would have topped my list if it had come out in 2011 and not December 2010
- Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Favorite Albums from before 2011 that I didn’t pay attention to until 2011 (Non-Kanye Edition)
- Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
- Michael Jackson – Thriller
- The Long Winters – Putting the Days to Bed
- Ween – Live at Somerville Theater 1997 bootleg
- Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – The Social Network Soundtrack
Favorite Vinyl Purchased in 2011
- Braid – Frame and Canvas
- Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
- R.E.M. – Life’s Rich Pageant
- Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
- Split Lip – Fate’s Got a Driver
- Pixies – Doolittle
- Texas is the Reason/Promise Ring – split 7″
- Jim Croce – Greatest Hits
Favorite Albums from 1997
(As listed in my remembrance of the year in music, 1997)
- Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
- Promise Ring – Nothing Feels Good
- Built to Spill – Perfect From Now On
- Get Up Kids – Four Minute Mile
- Guilt – Further
- Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
- Ween – The Mollusk
- Snapcase – Progression Through Unlearning
- Floodplain – Eightpennygalvinized
- Radiohead – OK Computer
Favorite Hardcore Punk Albums
(As listened to during my hardcore punk renaissance this past summer)
- By the Grace of God – For the Love of Indie Rock
- Snapcase – Progression Through Unlearning
- Quicksand – Manic Compression
- 108 – Songs of Separation
- Refused – The Shape of Punk to Come
Most Disappointing Album of 2011
- Braid – Closer to Closed EP