Alright, let's do this again shall we?



The Rules (same as every year):

1. Post however many albums in your list you would like, but only the top 25 will be counted towards the RM Top Albums of 2011 list.

2. Order your lists please if you want them counted. I'm not going to guess. Also please format them like this: 1. Band Name - Album Title or 1. Band Name, The - Album Title if it's a "The" band. This makes my life easier when compiling hundreds of entries.

3. Scoring is based on a 35 point system (35 pts for your #1, 34 pts for your #2, 11 pts for your #25 and so on).

4. Albums can be studio, live, and of any length - as long as it was released NEW in 2011. Re-releases do not count (the exception would be if an album was released in the UK in 2010, but didn't get a release in the US until 2011).

5. Sunday Jan 8th is the deadline for submission if you want your list to be compiled in the RM Top Albums list. That gives you about 2 weeks to think about it, and also leaves room for the remaining releases of the year. I will post the results on Monday Jan 9th.


PM me your list if you want to be all secretive, or just post it in this thread. I'll compile everything after the deadline. Based on the number of submissions i'll then decide if this is a Top 100, 50, 5, etc. I like these things to display at least some sort of consensus so very likely only albums with 2 or more votes will make the final list. Feel free to discuss your lists here as well.



Past lists:
Top 50 of 2010
Top 50 of 2009
Top 50 of 2008
Top 50 of 2007
Top 100 of 2006

Well here we are again.

1. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
2. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
4. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
5. Atlas Sound - Parallax
6. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
7. Destroyer - Kaputt
8. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
9. Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
10. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Mirror Traffic

1. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
2. Feist: Metals
3. Radiohead: King of Limbs
4. Eddie Vedder: Ukelele Songs
5. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
6. Black Keys: El Camino

1. Beirut- The Rip Tide
2. Bill Callahan- Apocalypse
3. Zwischenwelt- Paranormale Aktivitat
4. Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring For My Halo
5. Blanck Mass- Blanck Mass
6. Cornershop- Cornershop And The Double ‘O’ Groove Of
7. St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
8. Dutch Uncles- Cadenza
9. Kate Bush- 50 Words for Snow
10. Feist- Metals
11. Destroyer- Kaputt
12. Bjork- Biophilia
13. Girls- Father, Son, Holy Ghost
14. Luke Haines- 9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations On British Wrestling Of The 1970's And Early 1980's
15. Tom Waits- Bad As Me


I want to rank the Bon Iver album somewhere in here, but I literally just bought and listened to it for the first time yesterday.

Revised list: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=96694&p=3488277#p3488277

The Bon Iver album is excellent. What are your thoughts so far?

I have The Rip Tide downloaded, but I need to give it a better listen.

I like it a lot so far. It's silly, but I think what kept me from listening to it was that I loved "For Emma" so much I was scared to death it'd be a massive disappointment. So I just kinda put it off for over six months. lol.

1. Feist - Metals
2. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
3. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
4. Beirut - The Rip Tide
5. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
6. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
7. TV On The Radio - Nine Types of Light
8. Tune-Yards - Whokill
9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
10. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
11. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
12. The Black Keys - El Camino
13. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
14. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
15. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

I only heard PJ Harvey about a week ago, but I'm going to put it at #2 anyways. I love it so much.

The Bon Iver album sucks. Here is my list:

1. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
2. Abigail Washburn - City of Refuge
3. Yo Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan, and Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions (good look sorting this one when you compile the entries)
4. Decemberists - The King Is Dead
5. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
6. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
7. Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
8. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
9. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Rocket Science
10. Roots - Undun
11. David Lowery - The Palace Guards
12. Dodos - No Color
13. Blackfield - Welcome to My DNA
14. Dead Man Winter - Bright Lights
15. Old 97's - The Grand Theater Vol. 2
16. Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time
17. Greensky Bluegrass - Handguns
18. Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
19. Dawes - Nothing Is Wrong
20. Head And The Heart - s/t
21. Chris Thile and Michael Daves - Sleep With One Eye Open
22. Opeth - Heritage
23. REM - Collapse Into Now
24. Noam Pikelny - Beat the Devil and Carry a Rail
25. Crooked Still - Friends of Fall

Oh yeah, "King is Dead" is from this year. I would put that somewhere in my Top 20. Probably towards the bottom. Not a fan of how formulaic and samey they've become, but I really like a few of those songs-- "Calamity Song" and "June Hymn" in particular. Also the Bon Iver album is pretty fantastic.

Most of this is just withoutrings' list, because I trust and respect his judgment. I replaced a few of his with some of the only albums that I actually bought and listened to this year, mostly to start a minor ruckus. Oh, and I loved that new Tom Waits album but he'll get enough votes on here, so I'm not listing him. Again, trying for a ruckus.

1. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
2. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
3. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
4. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
5. Atlas Sound - Parallax
6. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
7. Destroyer - Kaputt
8. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
9. Beastie Boys-Hot Sauce Committe, Part 2
10. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Mirror Traffic
11. Bright Eyes-The People's Key

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
The Black Keys - El Camino
Tom Waits - Bad as Me
The Decemberists - The King is Dead
Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
Wilco - The Whole Love
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
Stephen Malkmus - Mirror Traffic
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2
Noel Gallagher - Noe Gallagher's High Flying Birds

some of them:

1- wild flag -wild flag
2- j mascis - several shades of why
3- Foo Fighters - wasting light
4- Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce committe pt2
4- the kills - blood pressures
5- The Black Keys - el camino.
6- Jane´s Addiction- the great escape artist
7- Red hot chili peppers - im with you
8- Telekinesis 12 desperate lines
9- washed out - whitin and whitout
10 tom waits bad as me

Sure, why not:

1. Eddie Vedder, Ukulele Songs
2. Miles Davis, The Bootleg Series Vol. 1: Live in Europe 1967
3. Feist, Metals
4. Tom Waits, Bad as Me
5. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac
6. Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues
7. Radiohead, The King of Limbs
8. The Roots, Undun
9. Mogwai, Earth Division
10. Lee Konitz/Brad Mehldau/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Live at Birdland

Lots of honorable mentions--Wilco, Decemberists, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, REM, Beastie Boys, TV On the Radio, the other Mogwai, Death Cab, Live on Ten Legs, all of which fall under the "solid entries into bodies of work by artists I love" heading--but these are the ones I really found inviting repeat listens and paying off in spades each time. The Roots might well climb a few spots once I get more familiar with it.

these guys are still around

Yup. Their latest album is sweet.

1. Eddie Vedder- Ukulele Songs
2. Portugal. The Man- In The Mountain In The Cloud
3. Foo Fighters- Wasting Light
4. Black Keys, The- El Camino
5. Radiohead- The King Of Limbs
6. Noel Gallagher- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
7. REM- Collapse Into Now
8. Joy Formidable, The- The Big Roar
9. Cage The Elephant- Thank You, Happy Birthday
10. Grouplove- Never Trust A Happy Song

This list will probably end up being as bad as pitchfork's.

Man our Admins are bitter.

Man or Astroman is better.

ukelele songs is going to do well, it seems