My Top 10 Albums of 2011

[fretshredder55]

hey... you.... you're beautiful. i love your taste <3

[bojanks15]

primus - green naugahyde

[mstammerao]

I tripped over a video of you critiquing Eddie Vedder's Ukulele Songs and was so impressed by your work/critique I looked you up. We obviously do not have the same musical taste's for the most part (however I did find Josh T Pearson's album to be extremely moving) but I did want to tell you, YOU ARE GREAT! This is the first time I have ever taken the time to comment on a youtube video, but I felt it really important to let you know. I expect to see you with your own show at some point!

[ForestBeCool]

Everyone listen to Royal Headache, upcoming band from Australia!

[secretpatterns]

I didnt even know Thursday still did music

[ThePancakeRepairman]

1 - Low - C'mon

2- Deaf Center - Owl Splinters

3 - Grails - New Politics

4 - This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

5- A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen

6 - RICHARD KNOX & FREDERIC D. OBERLAND - The Rustle of the Stars

7 - Snowman - Absence

8 - Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

9 - Black Swan - The Quiet Divide

10 - Machinefabriek - Apollo

[BlackStarKeepShining]

@ThePancakeRepairman I'm a creeper! ... lol.

[martyrofevil]

I don't have a top 10 worked out but I think my favourite album this year was probably the new Trollfest album "En Kvest for deb Hellige Gral". Very awesome flamenco inspired folk metal album.

[max888123]

the new Wilco album was pretty dope

[wutangskramz]

1- Andrew Jackson Jihad- Knife Man

2- Crash of Rhinos- Distal

3- CunninLynguists- Oneirology

4- Snowing- I Could Do Whatever I Wanted if I Wanted

5- Basement- I Wish I Could Stay Here

6- Algernon Cadwallader- Parrot Flies

7- Zomby- Dedication

8- Light Bearer- Lapsus

9- Jehst- The Dragon of an Ordinary Family

merry christmas!

[wutangskramz]

10- Owen- Ghost Town

11- Three Trapped Tigers- Route One or Die

12- La Dispute- Wildlife

13- Big K.R.I.T- Return of 4eva

14- Trap Them- Darker Handcraft

15- Title Fight- Shed

16- Sole & the Skyrider Band- Hello Cruel World

17- Touche Amore- Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me

18- Ramshackle Glory- Live the Dream

19- Into It. Over It- Proper

[wutangskramz]

20- Shabazz Palaces- Black Up 21- Beau Navire- Hours 22- Wugazi- 13 Chambers (remix/mash-up album) 23- *Shels- Plains of the Purple Buffalo 24- Death Grips- Exmilitary 25- Dads- Brush Your Teeth... Again ;) 26- Punch- Nothing Lasts (EP) 27- Defeater- Empty Days and Sleepless Nights 28- Balance & Composure- Separation 29- James Blake- s/t 30- Kontakte- We Move Through Negative Spaces

[skippingboy123]

I HATE how the indie crowd ignored Thursday's No Devolution. Its such a stellar release, I only listen to every now and then cause its a lot to "digest" for me.

[NJ609B]

OK I will listen to that Danny Brown record again (didnt like it on the 1st listen), Three you gotta check out Tech N9ne, I think both of his albums this year (All 6s & 7s, Welcome To Strangeland) were great XD

[livvi67]

@starwarriorman - So proud that those guys are British. Most bands over here still wanna sound like the Strokes. It's pretty tiresome. Very few bands make music from the heart. I'd say America are ahead of us atm, which is a sad, sad thing (no offence, transatlantic cousins ;) )

[deksterification]

1. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls 2. Sudden Fiction - Dan Michaelson 3. The English Riviera - Metronomy 4. Burst Apart - The Antlers 5. Henge Beat - Total Control 6. Dropped Pianos - Tim Hecker 7. Last Of The Country Gentlemen - Josh T Pearson 8. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes 9. Pleasure - Pure X 10. Gracious Tide, Take Me Home - Lanterns On The Lake That list took 2 hours.

[maxfieldmartin]

Top however many bands I put down

1.Funerery-Pulling Teeth

2.War Hungry-War Hungry

3. Trash Talk- Awake

4. Darker Handcraft- Trap Them

5. Roads to Juda-Deafheaven Thanks!

6. Maelstrom-Oathbreaker



[maxfieldmartin]

Top however many bands I put down

1.Funerery-Pulling Teeth

2.War Hungry-War Hungry

3. Trash Talk- Awake

4. Darker Handcraft- Trap Them

5. Roads to Juda-Deafheaven Thanks!

6. Maelstrom-Oathbreaker

[kalvolencia]

THURSDAY ?!? dude its not 2002 anymore.

[0000sensei]

Have you heard of Jamie T? He is current and has two albums so far, both of which are amazing. He has been my favorite male solo artist for almost three years. Every song on his albums, every single, and even every collab he has ever done has been absolutely brilliant. I can (and have) listened to his albums over and over without ever getting tired of any of it. The lyrics are fantastic, as is the sound. Please check out his music if you haven't already!

[twin5152]

My Top Ten albums would be -Sepalcure (self titled) -Days by Reall Estate -Looping State of Mind by The Field -David Comes to Life by Fucked Up -XXX by Danny Brown -Hurry Up were dreaming by M83 -The Year of Hibernation by Youth Lagoon -Humor Risk by Cass McCombs -If You're Young by The Static Jacks -The Octopus by Amplifier This is in No particular order. I couldn't choose which were my favorites but I managed to get a top ten:)

[Adrianovaz2007]

Your list is lacking on ATR's Is This Hyperreal?, you gave it a really high score (and you sounded like loved it as fuck).

[livvi67]

Mine be: 1. And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

2. Crash of Rhinos - Distal

3. Amplifier - The Octopus

4. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die

5. Maybeshewill - I Was Here For a Moment, Then I Was Gone

6. Araab Muzik - Electronic Dream

7. Oxygen Thief - Destroy It Yourself

8. TesseracT - One

9. The Paper Scissors - In Loving Memory

10. Sparrow & the Workshop - Spitting Daggers

[starwarriorman]

@livvi67 Crash of Rhinos!? Brofist. Great album.

[wutangskramz]

@starwarriorman Crash of Rhinos is definitely my 2nd favourite album of the year. 3 WAY BROFIST

[Eziokilla9595]

1. Section.80

2. Elmatic

3. Armor of God

4. Honkey Kong

5. For The Record

[shoey920]

my top 10: 1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

2. La Dispute - Wildlife

3. Arctic Death - Arctic Death

4. Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing

5. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

6. Danny Brown - XXX

7. Hella - Tripper

8. Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me

9. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

10. Childish Gambino - Camp

[xxSolidxxx]

Knife Man is my #1

[MrStubenhocker]

An album you might enjoy is 'The Octopus' by Amplifier. A wonderful prog record, albeit a bit too long (3 1/2 hours).

[carlitox10000]

va, escuchare tu lista, aver que onda

[JGCSOUND]

Blunt after blunt after blunt after blunt after blunt after Blunuuunt!!!

Danny Brown and Death Grips are exacty what i've been waiting for in hip hop.

Great list Broseph!

[Alex703rockstar]

YES DANNY BROWN XXX FOR ME TOO! Holy fuck I flipped out when that was first.

[manubetancourt]

You just called me creeper! :-O

[pleasesir]

My top 10 1. PJ Harvey- Let England Shake 2.Tom Waits- Bas as me 3. Gillian Welch- The harrow and the harvest 4. Bon Iver- Bon Iver 5. Wilco- The whole love 6. Ryan Adams- Ashes and fre 7. Charles Bradley- No time for dreaming 8.Raphael Saadiq- Stone Rollin' 9. Black Keys- El Camino 10. Isreal Nash Gripka- Barn doors and concrete floors

[Arian545]

Chuck Ragan - Covering Ground Rival Sons - Pressure & Time Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials Blink-182 - Neighborhoods Staind - Staind Lower Than Atlantis - World Record the Black Keys - El Camino John Olav Nilsen & Gjengen - Det nærmeste du kommer Radiohead - The King of Limbs Djevel - Dødssanger There was alot else i enjoyed too.

[MoonchildMindaugas2]

Hello, I'm new to the channel.

And I'm a quite picky guy.

Here's my top 5, and even these aren't all 5-star albums to me (only the first two), and as you can see, some entries are controversial, unexpected - but it's my choice :) :

Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding - full on

The Strokes - Angles - I always find a way to love TS

Art Brut - Brilliant! Tragic! - really, check them out

Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra - return of the year

Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On - listen in the rain

[aromaofyou]

Pianos Become the Teeth -"The Lack Long After"

Seahaven -"Winter Forever"

State Lines -"Hoffman Manor"

Defeater- "Empty Days & Sleepless Nights"

Basement- "I Wish I Could Stay Here"

Raein- "Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti"

Minority Unit- "Minority Unit"

Joyce Manor -"Joyce Manor"

I'm gonna leave it at 8 before I get carried away...this isn't really in order, but the Pianos release is by far my favorite.

[K1dCharlemagne]

i didn't put them in any order, but for me these are my favorites of 2011 (for now, i think) brothertiger "point of view" work drugs "summer blood" teams vs star slinger "teams vs star slinger" wiseblood "these wings" destroyer "kaputt" john maus "we must become the pitiless censors of ourselves" generationals "actor-caster" junior boys "it's all true" penguin prison "penguin prison" 18 carat affair "vintage romance"

[BAClyricism]

10) Atmosphere - The Family Sign

9) Bon iver - Bon Iver

8) Manchester Orchestra- Simple Math

7) Dessa - Castor, The Twin

6) Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That?

5) The Black Keys - El Camino

4) Blueprint - Adventures in Counter Culture

3) Sims - Bad Time Zoo

2) Grieves & Budo - Together/Apart

1) Doomtree - No Kings

[Radiohead17321]

Knife Man by Andrew Jackson Jihad is my favorite album of 2011 for sure

[TheAlphabetPony011]

@Radiohead17321 totally agree!!!

[skippingboy123]

@Radiohead17321 same here! watch my top 5 album review ITS in there. such great lyrics

[TheSim1derful]

Yay! You're still doing this.

[igotacos64]

My #1 was either undun by the roots or section 80

[dhanycz]

PSYCHED to see Blood Lust on your list man, great stuff. gonna do my list up soon too. and yes it's definitely gonna be my #1 (not to give anything away, haha) ps. I bought mine right on release for $40, I just said it was worth and selling for $600+ after the fact. I've never pay that, haha! Thanks for the mention though man, glad you like that album so much. Gonna have to check out that Danny Brown album, I'm just not that big into hip-hop. Cheers have a good holiday man. -Dan in Canada

[ThePuddleJumpr]

y u no snowing

[TheMusicalInquiry]

This is my list that I've come up with. From greatest to least. Kaputt House of Balloons XXX Helplessness Blues Bon Iver Creep on Creepin On Wildlife David Comes to Life Blue Suicide Exmilitary James Blake Knife Man Burst Apart Thursday Eye Contact Turtleneck and Chain

[MonMccool123]

@TheMusicalInquiry Horray for Kaputt. an album I'll always remember 2011 for.

[MrSchulze04]

please continue reviewing albums! we miss you!

[theironmic]

#INCOMETAXSWAG

[fish5141]

my top 10: 1. Ben Howard - Every Kingdom 2. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum 3. The Black Keys - El Camino 4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 5. La Dispute - Wildlife 6. Wilco - The Whole Love 7. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix 8. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow 9. Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday 10. The Features - Wilderness

[HotbagelsProject]

XXX was way too long in my opinion. 19 tracks, a little too much. I won't list all 10, but I'll say that Knife Man by Andrew Jackson Jihad.

[jakhayter]

XXX is my number 1 too bro. It had the hugest initial impact when I first listened to it and it still hasn't worn off.

[BlackStarKeepShining]

Hey! Common's album hasn't come out yet!

[MonMccool123]

My top 10 (probably an electronic bias, but that's what I've been into lately.) 1. Dominik Eulberg – “Diorama” 2. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake 3. Shlohmo – “Bad Vibes” 4. Peaking Lights – “936” 5. Ford & Lopatin – “Channel Pressure” 6. Andy Stott – “Passed Me By” 7. Destroyer – “Kaputt 8. The Haxan Cloak – “The Haxan Cloak” 9. Robag Wruhme – “Thora Vukk” 10. G-Side – “One Cohesive”

[MonMccool123]

Cool List Austin (great to see you making a top 10. I like that Giles Corey album a lot, I have no idea why I haven't come back to it again.

I'll leave my top 10 list above for shits and giggles. I'll probably make a video in a month or two so this list will probably be a lil different by then. I like hearing what all the critics have to say (that including the Youtube community as well :-) I a good winter's break Austin

[fix3db]

Not really done yet because there's a lot I still want to listen to, but.. 1. Destroyer - Kaputt 2. Grouper - AIA 3. Yuck - Yuck 4. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man 5. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 6. Crash of Rhinos - Distal 7. Big K.R.I.T. - ReturnOf4Eva 8. British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall 9. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2 10. Blink-182 - Neighborhoods

[quinn959]

In no particular order mine are: Kendrick Lamar - Section 80 Drake - Take Care Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne The Roots - Undun Bon Iver - Bon Iver Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues King Krule - King Krule The Weeknd - House of Balloons The Weeknd - Thursday J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story

[joao88]

wait no lil wayne tha carter 4...just kidding. great list Austin! i agree with danny brown and kendrick lamar both stayed in rotation since their release. other favorites include liturgy-aesthetica (i know you hate that band), st. vincent, shabbazz palaces, balam acab, panda bear, and thundercat

[UniversalMind08]

haha it's been a metal and hip-hop year for threecreation.

[mrselfdestruct23]

Cool list. There's a lot of albums I'm going to have to check out like Death Grips. My list definitely has a theme going on: 1. Trap Them 'Darker Handcraft', 2. Tombs 'Path of Totality', 3. Blut Aus Nord '777- Sect(s), 4. Mitochondrion 'Parasignosis', 5. Opeth 'Heritage', 6. Beyond Creation 'The Aura', 7. The Axis of Perdition 'Tenements (of the Anointed Flesh)', 8. Mastodon 'The Hunter', 9. Ulcerate 'The Destroyers of All', 10. Wolves in the Throne Room 'Celestial Lineage'. Theme: heavy. :D

[runnerjma]

Awesome list, fantastic that you put Deafheaven and Trap Them in there. And Danny Brown has such an amazing flow, so entertaining. Same for Death Grips, can't wait to get my top 20 ready bub :D

[jgil1966]

hate u but i miss u ):

[Yaksniffer]

Yayy, you did it!! Great list buddy, I knew DB was gonna be your #1.

[crookedtimber30]

I forgot about Fucked Up......I'm fucked up shit. Lol

[000theUnforgiven000]

I really enjoyed the new puscifer. Completely caught me by surprise

[DJtelekinesis]

1. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

3. Bon Iver - s/t

4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

6. Destroyer - Kaputt

7. Dumbo Gets Mad - Elephants At the Door

8. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams

9. Real Estate - Days

10. JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions

[huamanJR]

Returnof4eva-Big KRIT, Exmilitary-Death Grips, Wasting Lights-Foo Fighters, XXX-Danny Brown, Leap Year-Hoodie Allen. Those are just my top 5 I was hoping for better Rock, but it just didn't come our way this year.

[ThaMuzeekEnthuziest]

1.James Blake- James Blake 2.Danny Brown- XXX 3.Pj Harvey- Let England Shake 4.Oneohtrix Point Never- Replica 5.Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues 6.Girls- Father Son Holy Ghost 7.Real Estate- Days 8.Destroyer-Kaputt 9.Battles-Gloss Drop 10.Crystal Stilts- In love with Oblivion

[columthealmighty]

yes! ASIWFA!

[deadlanguageMA]

Trap Them is absolutely fucking amazing!

[coreyjayy]

St Vincent - Strange Mercy, Feist - Metals, EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints, PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know, Panda Bear - Tomboy, Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation, Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes, James Blake S/T, Veronica Falls S/T

[AProudAtheist]

Ooh... DeathGrips- Exmilitary Patrick Wolf- Lupercalia Arctic Monkeys- Suck it and see Laura Marling- A creature I don't know James Blake- James Blake Tyler the Creator- Goblin Ben Howard- Every Kingdom Bjork-Biophilia Gorillaz- The Fall

[crookedtimber30]

some I ENJOYED but didn't pick (Seefeel Seefeel/ Gay For Johnny Depp What Doesn't Kill You, Eventually Kills You/ Soul Glimpse (Recollections)/ A Winged Victory For The Sullen S/T/ Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will/ Zomby Dedication/ Wilco The Whole Love/ White Bear Inanimate Incarnate/ Deaf Heaven Roads to Judah (well any ways Bandcamp has been huge for me this year and plus The YouTube Reviewing Comunity when it comes to finding new music so.

[crookedtimber30]

Top 20 continued- My Morning Jacket Circuital/ Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues/ Radiohead The King of Limbs Live From the Basement/ The Caretaker An Empty Bliss Beyond This World/ Ursula Bogner Sonne=Blackbox/ Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972/ Panda Bear Tomboy/ John Maus We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves/ and My #1 is Wye Oak Civilian what a great Year it's been.

[crookedtimber30]

Crookedtimber30's Top 20 [Modeselektor Monkeytown/ James Blake Enough Thunder/ The Drums Portamento/ All Pigs Must Die God Is War/ Bad Bad Not Good BBNG/ Pyha Play Backfires/ Lil B I'm Gay (I'm Happy)/ The Kills Blood Pressures/ Foo Fighters Wasting Light/ Cold Cave Cherish The Light Years/I Hate Our Freedom Seriously/ to be continued-

[andrewburton12345678]

Thank god you didn't put Fleet Faggots or Bitch Iver on your list!

[xTheOxx]

The Psychic Paramount - II The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid The Men - Leave Home Yob - Atma Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness sebastiAn - Total Psychedelic Horseshit - Laced The Field - Looping State of Mind Snowman - Absence Zomby - Dedication And I'd add a 2010 album I slept on until last summer: Deathspell Omega - Paracletus I purposely ignored Danny Brown so far, but fuck it, you've convinced me. I'll give it an honest shot.

[dgmcl3284]

Helplessness Blues?

I agree that Danny Brown's album is brilliant.

[Ludamage]

My electronic/chill TOP 10 of 2011 - /watch?v=PZujJEZeOdQ

[deksterification]

1. Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls

2. The English Riviera - Metronomy

3. The Last Of The Country Gentlemen - Josh T Pearson

4. El Camino - The Black Keys

5. Sudden Fiction - Dan Michaelson

6. Burst Apart - The Antlers

7. The Rip Tide - Beirut

8. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes

9. Henge Beat - Total Control

10.Last Night On Earth - Noah & The Whale

[ThatMusicShowJP]

Excellent wordplay haha I bet he'd love that. Phenomenal list dude!

[RobinVDR]

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues Nicolas Jaar - Space is only noise zomby - Dedication SBTRKT - SBTRKT CIVIL CIVIC -"title" dEUS - Keep you close M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming Rustie - Glass swords Atlas Sound - Parralax Big K.R.I.T mixtape Explosions in the Sky -'title' don't really have an order, although Don't really know the order, but the first 5 should be my very favorites

[beatear]

my personal top 10 is

5. DPC buckmister

4. grouplove never trust a happy song

3. the black keys el camino

2. wu lyf go tell fire to the mountain

1. Bomb the Music Industry! vaction

[maalbe987]

And it looks like our lists only have 1 album in common.

[maalbe987]

I'm gonna make a top 12 list within the next month or so & I'll make it a video response to this.

[maalbe987]

@maalbe987 On second thought I'll just send it to you. I think I'll make it a response to RIO!B's video since that'll probably get more views.

[ecksonik]

Excellent list! Here's my picks: 1. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 2. Big K.R.I.T. - Returnof4eva 3. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 4. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica 5. Death Grips - Exmilitary 6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues 7. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee, Pt. 2 8. Elzhi - Elmatic 9. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will 10. BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG It's been a great year for hip hop!

[ecksonik]

@ecksonik Oh God, YouTube sure fucked up the formatting here. Eeeeeek! :-<

[jsaf7]

really good man.. i like it alot!

[45nothings]

Very, VERY solid list. I hope to see more of you next year!

[adamgergich96]

good list mate! mine, not in order... James Blake - S/T Shabazz Palacess - Black Up Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See Braids - Native Speaker Ernest Ellis & The Pannamas - Kings Canyon Kendrick Lamar - Section 80. Rustie - Glass Swords Art vs Science - The Experiment Boy & Bear - Moonfire Twerps - S/T (vveeerrryyyy under-rated)

[HighRoad001]

Great list. Needed moar Radiohead though