Music Forum / Your Top 10 albums of 2011

I like to make these lists so I figured others would like to as well. Just share your personal top 10 albums of 2011.

My list consists of mainly harcore/metal bands but here you go:

10. Emmure - Speaker of The Dead


9. August Burns Red - Leveler


8. Gideon - Costs


7. Elevation Worship - For The Honor


6. A Plea For Purging - The Life and Death


5. Oh, Sleeper - Children Of Fire


4. Blessthefall - Awakening


3. We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be


2. The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne


1. Emery - We Do What We Want


Honorable mentions: The Human Abstract - Digital Veil, Hillsong - God is Able, Passion: 2011 - Here For You, Drake - Take Care, Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne, Braille - Native Lungs, Adele - 21, Lady Gaga - Born This Way, Of Mice & Men - The Flood.

Please no bashing of others musical tastes. This is their top 10 not yours.

I like your taste in music Top Gun.

My list goes as follows...


10. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - D.R.U.G.S.


9. The Plot In You - First Born


8. Set Your Goals - Burning at Both Ends


7. The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt


6. Silverstein - Rescue


5. Blink 182 - Neighborhoods


4. The Swellers - Good For Me


3. Of Mice & Men - The Flood


2. We Came As Romans - Understanding What We've Grown To Be


1. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with you

1. Ever After - Marianas Trench

2. Lucky Street - Go! Radio

3. American Tragedy - Hollywood Undead

4. Dirty Work - All Time Low

5. Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

6. Blue Slide Park - Mac Miller

7. Turtleneck & Chain - The Lonely Island

8. I'm With You - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Not exclusively albums that came out in 2011, but albums that I "discovered" this year. In no order:

Anthropocentric - The Ocean
Eivør Pálsdóttir - Eivør Pálsdóttir
Heritage - Opeth
Holon:Hiberno - The Hirsch Effekt
Kid A - Radiohead
Money For All - Nine Horses
Stop Pause Play - Lampshade
Fear of Fours - Lamb
Visions of a landscape - Ira
Wooden Arms - Patrick Watson

@Chorkiel You really think Blue Slide Park was good? Like top 10 worthy? That CD was terrrrrible haha

I don't really have a top 10 so I will just share my 3 favorite cds from this year.
3. CunninLynguists - Oneirology - The cd was brilliantly produced. Anyone that hasn't checked them out before should check them out http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Ng9pCSkTZ54
2. blink-182 - Neighborhoods - While slightly disappointing, the cd still has some great songs like http://www.youtube.c...h?v=6f4KU7h6I70
1. Drake - Take Care - I used to hate Drake SO much, but now he is one of my favorites out there. The first half of the CD(excluding Headlines) consists of my 5 favorite songs of the year. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=N-OMhv8BwnU

Unlike most people, I love this generation of music AS WELL AS the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s.

^I didn't like enough albums for a top10
But I don't get what people don't like about blue slide park, I mean not all songs are great but most of it was pretty good. a lot of the songs actually grow on you when you listen them more.
Donald Trump is still my favorite though.

I guess I'm just not the biggest fan of Mac Miller haha

However, Donald Trump, Knock Knock, The Spins, and Senior Skip Day are all really awesome(none of which are on Blue Slide Park)

1. Mastodon - the Hunter
2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
3. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two
4. Opeth - Heritage
5. Machine Head - Unto the Locust

"MFG"

1. Electroman - Benny Benassi

The seven comedy albums I bought that were released this year, because that's more fun than the hipster shit I listen to. From favorite to not as favorite, but they're all fantastic, because I have incredible taste in everything.

1. Marc Maron- This Has to be Funny
2. Louis CK- Hilarious
3. Rory Scovel- Dilation
4. Patton Oswalt- Finest Hour
5. Eddie Pepitone- A Great Stillness
6. The Sklar Brothers- Hendersons and Daughters
7. Pete Holmes- Impregnated With Wonder

The 2011 harvest is decent, but none of the albums stands out. This is not really my style, but I cannot pick my favourite album this year. Five albums are tied at #1. Each album is totally different, and all are either on the edge of my personal taste or have some major flaws that keep them from standing out. All fun albums, but none is groundbreaking.

1. The Devin Townsend Project - Ghost (because it's so goddamn peaceful. Sometimes too minimal for my liking.)



1. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction (because it's so goddamn crazy. Sometimes too heavy for my liking.)



1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (because it has some seriously fascinating tunes)



1. Symphony X - Iconoclast (because it's 50% filler and 50% cool and it has more keyboards than their previous album)



1. Alestorm - Back Through Time (because they don't take themself too serious... which is evident in the music. Pure fun.)




(gap)


6. Nightwish - Imaginaerum (not at #1 because they became too emo over the last few albums and there's more orchestra than band. No keyboards = no colour)



Everything after #6 is forgettable.




Hopefully 2012 will have some GREAT albums again.

In no particular order:

Kasabian - Velociraptor!
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
The Strokes - Angels
dEUS - Keep You Close
Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Das Pop - The Game
The Black Box Revelation - My Perception
Intergalactic Lovers - Greetings & salutations

From a purely hip hop perspective:

1. Watch the Throne - Kanye West & Jay-Z
2. Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
3. The Dreamer, The Believer - Common
4. Goblin - Tyler, The Creator
5. Hell: The Sequel - Bad Meets Evil
6. LASERS - Lupe Fiasco
7. The R.E.D. Album - Game
8. Blue Slide Park - Mac Miller
9. Finally Famous - Big Sean
10. Take Care - Drake
(Honrable Mention: Tha Carter IV- Lil Wayne)

This list is only studio albums and excludes mixtape albums

Actually posted a somewhat extensive review of my top 10 for 2011 on my tumblr.

1. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
3. Animals as Leaders - Weightless
4. Tesseract - One
5. Born of Osiris - The Discovery
6. Obscura - Omnivium
7. Opeth - Heritage
8. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
9. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
10. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous

Actually posted a somewhat extensive review of my top 10 for 2011 on my tumblr.

1. The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
2. The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
3. Animals as Leaders - Weightless
4. Tesseract - One
5. Born of Osiris - The Discovery
6. Obscura - Omnivium
7. Opeth - Heritage
8. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
9. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
10. Protest the Hero - Scurrilous

You listen to Devin Townsend a lot?

I'll have to add Grace for Drowning by Steven Wilson, even though I only got it a few days ago.
Nice to see Heritage so often in these lists. You, Liampie, might also want to give it a try if you havent already.

Cam, I will definately check out some of the albums of your list.
Great to see you still around!

"MFG"

01. Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math


02. The Dangerous Summer - War Paint


03. Foster The People - Torches


04. Radiohead - The King Of Limbs


05. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum


06. Transit - Listen & Forgive


07. Young The Giant - Young The Giant [s/t]


08. The Black Keys - El Camino

You, Liampie, might also want to give it a try if you havent already.

I did... I really anticipated that album, but once I got it I couldn't sit through. The lack of structure and stuff made the whole album sounds like one big boring blur. In the end I didn't listen to it enough to include it in my list. Maybe I should try to get into the album song by song? Listening to Folklore now!