Top 100 Albums of 2011

8 Comments 09 December 2011

(short and sweet and to the point; culled from listening to 501 releases—at time of publishing—from 2011. ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be drastically different, but you have to lock ‘em in sometime. click album cover for website)

Honorable Mention:

#100: Ritual Union by Little Dragon .	#99: Heartbeats and Brainwaves by Electric Six .	#98: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions in the Sky
#97: Blood Pressures by The Kills	#96: Too Young to Be In Love by Hunx and His Punx	#95: Cape Dory by Tennis
#94: Bon Iver by Bon Iver	#93: Era Extrana by Neon Indian	#92: Last Night On Earth by Noah and the Whale
#91: The Future is Medieval by Kaiser Chiefs .	#90: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will by Mogwai	#89: Ashes & Fire by Ryan Adams .
#88: Gimme Some by Peter Bjorn and John	#87: Destroyed by Moby	#86: Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
#85: Junk of the Heart by The Kooks	#84: Odd Soul by MuteMath	#83: La Liberación by Cansei de Ser Sexy
#82: Every Kingdom by Ben Howard	#81: You & I by The Pierces	#80: Holy Ghost! by Holy Ghost!
#79: Valleyheart by She Wants Revenge	#78: Burst Apart by The Antlers	#77: Slave Ambient by The War on Drugs
#76: Zonoscope by Cut Copy	#75: album by Middle Brother	#74: The People’s Key by Bright Eyes
#73: The Belle Brigade by The Belle Brigade .	#72: Hysterical by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah	#71: Lupercalia by Patrick Wolf .
#70: What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? by The Vaccines	#69: All at Once by The Airborne Toxic Event .	#68: Hello Sadness by Los Campesinos! .
#67: Cherish the Light Years by Cold Cave .	#66: Scandalous by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears	#65: Mission Bell by Amos Lee .
#64: Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay . .	#63: Only in Dreams by Dum Dum Girls . .	#62: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
#61: Bruiser by The Duke Spirit	#60: Moment Bends by Architecture in Helsinki	#59: Within and Without by Washed Out
#58: Nocturnes by Uh Huh Her .	#57: The Beginning of the Beginning of the End by Friska Viljor	#56: Different Gear, Still Speeding by Beady Eye .
#55: SBTRKT by SBTRKT	#54: Little Hell by City and Colour	#53: The Rip Tide by Beirut
#52: Lasers by Lupe Fiasco	#51: Yuck by Yuck	#50: Suck It and See by Arctic Monkeys
#49: Portamento by The Drums	#48: Metals by Feist	#47: Shadows of the Summertime by John Ralston
#46: Tripper by Fruit Bats	#45: Freedom Run by The Rifles	#44: Eureka by Mother Mother
#43: A Different Kind of Fix by Bombay Bicycle Club	#42: In Passage by Immanu El	#41: Euphoric /// Heartbreak \\\ by Glasvegas
#40: Simple Math by Manchester Orchestra	#39: Quill by Bison	#38: Skying by The Horrors
#37: Circuital by My Morning Jacket	#36: No Time for Dreaming by Charles Bradley	#35: No Color by The Dodos
#34: In Light by Givers	#33: Turn Me On by Katharina Nuttall	#32: The Head and the Heart by The Head and the Heart
#31: El Camino by The Black Keys	#30: Wounded Rhythms by Lykke Li	#29: Ceremonials by Florence and the Machine
#28: Undun by The Roots	#27: The Cold Still by The Boxer Rebellion	#26: Conatus by Zola Jesus
#25: Dye It Blonde by Smith Westerns .	#24: Candidate Waltz by Centro-matic .	#23: Departing by The Rural Alberta Advantage
#22: Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars	#21: Healthy Geometry by Vanaprasta	#20: Audio, Video, Disco by Justice
#19: 21 by Adele	#18: Siberia by Lights	#17: England Keep My Bones by Frank Turner
#16: Pala by Friendly Fires	#15: Alexander by Alexander	#14: Mountaintops by Mates of State
#13: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming by M83	#12: 100 Lovers by DeVotchKa	#11: The King is Dead by The Decemberists
#10: Torches by Foster the People	#09: Loud Planes Fly Low by The Rosebuds	#08: Cults by Cults
#07: Young the Giant by Young the Giant	#06: Mine is Yours by Cold War Kids	#05: Ritual by White Lies
#04: Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron & Wine	#03: In the Mountain In the Cloud by Portugal. The Man	#02: Mondo Amore by Nicole Atkins

#01:

Wilderness
by
The Features

Tags: Adele, Alexander, Amos Lee, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Beady Eye, Beirut, Ben Howard, Bison, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Centro-matic, Charles Bradley, City and Colour, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold Cave, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, Cults, Cut Copy, DeVotchKa, Drake, Dream Theater, Dum Dum Girls, Electric Six, Eskimo Joe, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, Fleet Foxes, Florence and the Machine, Foster the People, Fountains Of Wayne, Frank Turner, Friendly Fires, Friska Viljor, Fruit Bats, Givers, Glasvegas, Holy Ghost!, Hunx and His Punx, Hurricane Bells, Immanu El, Incubus, Iron & Wine, J Mascis, John Ralston, Justice, Kaiser Chiefs, Katharina Nuttall, Kurt Vile, Ladytron, Lenny Kravitz, Little Dragon, Los Campesinos!, Lupe Fiasco, Lykke Li, M83, Manchester Orchestra, Mates of State, Mayer Hawthorne, Middle Brother, Moby, Mogwai, Mother Mother, MuteMath, My Morning Jacket, Neon Indian, Nicole Atkins, Noah and the Whale, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Okkervil River, Patrick Wolf, Peter Bjorn and John, Portugal. The Man, Release the Sunbird, Ryan Adams, SBTRKT, She Wants Revenge, Smith Westerns, Tennis, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Antlers, The Belle Brigade, The Black Keys, The Boxer Rebellion, The Civil Wars, The Dear Hunter, The Dears, The Decemberists, The Dodos, The Drums, The Duke Spirit, The Features, The Head and the Heart, The Horrors, The Kills, The Kooks, The Pierces, The Rifles, The Roots, The Rosebuds, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sorry Kisses, The Sounds, The Strokes, The Vaccines, The War on Drugs, Thirteen Senses, Toro Y Moi, Tyler Ramsey, Uh Huh Her, Vanaprasta, VHS or Beta, Washed Out, We Are Augustines, We Were Promised Jetpacks, White Lies, Wilco, Young the Giant, Yuck, Zola Jesus

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Dave says:

2011/12/10 at 8:28 pm

This list is the biggest crock of $#!+ I have ever seen.

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- Jared Mobarak says:
  
  2011/12/11 at 9:22 am
  
  thank you for your eloquent response …
  all top 10 lists are shit if you didn’t make them … yes, you can actually use the word
  
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John says:

2011/12/18 at 6:18 pm

Nice job Jared! While our tastes are dissimilar, I’m glad to see In The Mountain In The Cloud high up there. Kinda disappointed that Justice’s album was #20. I was not impressed with it at all.

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- Jared Mobarak says:
  
  2011/12/18 at 7:54 pm
  
  really? i liked it a lot. Civilization and Newlands both made my top 100 songs list.
  
  look forward to seeing what you put on your list, always great seeing picks i’d never even think to listen to due to our disparate tastes.
  
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  - John says:
    
    2011/12/21 at 8:49 am
    
    I guess I was disappointed it wasn’t “Cross” again. 2012, I’m going to have to step up my game and get on more albums early.
    
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Leah says:

2012/01/04 at 10:49 am

Some great albums on here and new discoveries. Oh look, Moby came out with a new album this year- apparently I was living under a rock! I love Florence and the Machine, Lights (what a talented Canadian!), and Adele.
So fun!

….Haha, I wonder why people like Dave bother posting. I usually just delete posts from dumb people who have time to write stuff like that.

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- Jared Mobarak says:
  
  2012/01/04 at 10:56 am
  
  i remember not being impressed with Lights’ first album, but i liked this one so much i’m definitely going to give it another look.
  
  as for posters like Dave, i enjoy having them on record to see if they respond again …
  
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