P. Michael's 2011 List

Favorite Albums (with favorite song from each)

With the exception of the top three, this list changes by the day. Here is today's version.

1.  Bon Iver - Bon Iver (Holocene/Calgary (tie))
2.  Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong (The Body)
3.  Panda Bear - Tomboy (Slow Motion)
4.  Cults - Cults (Abducted)
5.  Destroyer - Kaputt (Chinatown)
6.  Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues (Sim Sala Bim)
7.  Radiohead - King of Limbs (Lotus Flower)
8.  Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Vomit)
9.  PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (In the Dark Places)
10. Wilco - The Whole Love (One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend))

Vinay Kini 2011 List

ALBUMS (no particular order)

 

nicolas jaar - space is only noise

shabazz palaces - black up

big k.r.i.t. - return of 4eva

real estate - days

the war on drugs - slave ambient

lil b - i'm gay (i'm happy)

james blake - james blake

blue sky black death - noir

nguzunguzu - the perfect lullaby

youth lagoon - the year of hibernation

the antlers - burst apart

 

SONGS

 

the weeknd - high for this

james blake - limit to your love

asap rocky - purple swag chapter 2

frank ocean - swim good

big k.r.i.t. - time machine

shabazz palaces - recollections of the wraith

gil scott-heron and jamie xx - ny is killing me

burial - street halo

the antlers - i don't want love

youth lagoon - cannons

real estate - younger than yesterday

cults - abducted

bass drum of death - nerve jamming

mikal cronin - green and blue

clams casino - waterfalls

drake - we'll be fine

the weeknd - house of balloons / glass table girls

cities aviv - fuckeverybodyhere

danny brown - monopoly

sepalcure - pencil pimp

chancha via circuito - quimey neuquen remix

Amber Friesen 2011 List

i've just listed songs this year - not albums. the album choices are
basically implicit in the song list. 

(1)  Holocene - Bon Iver
(2)  Cannons - Youth Lagoon
(3)  Amor Fati - Washed Out
(4)  I Don't Want Love - The Antlers
(5)  Punching In A Dream - The Naked & The Famous
(6)  Fracture - Bombay Bicycle Club
(7)  The Rip Tide - Beirut
(8)  Heart In Your Heartbreak - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
(9)  Parix - When Saints Go Machine
(10) All In White - The Vaccines

Matt, Laura & Henry's 2011 List

ALBUM
Days – Real Estate
Smoke Ring For My Halo – Kurt Vile
Believers – A.A. Bondy
Civilian – Wye Oak
nostalgia,ULTRA. – Frank Ocean
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Yuck – Yuck
Strange Mercy – St. Vincent
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes

HONORABLE MENTION
Mikal Cronin – Mikal Cronin
Carrion Crawler / The Dream – Thee Oh Sees
Gentle Stream – The Amazing

KIDS' ALBUM
Tumble Bee – Laura Veirs

OLD FIND
Old Joy OST – Yo La Tengo (2006)
We Were Born In A Flame – Sam Roberts (2003)
I Break Chairs – Damien Jurado (2002)


– See Dropbox for my Top 20 Singles... And if anyone is interested in any of these albums I can up them too.

D. Lucas Landis' 2011 Year End Lists

Top 10 Albums


1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
2. Hooray for Earth - True Loves
3. James Blake - James Blake
4. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
6. The Antlers - Burst Apart
7. Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting
8. Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters EP 
9. Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
10. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation


Best Songs (In No Particular Order and not featured in any of the above albums)


"Still Sound" - Toro Y Moi
"Body Mod" - Pictureplane
"Some Children" - Holy Ghost (Feat. Michael Macdonald.  nuff said)
"Assassinations" - Stateless
"Do You Need Someone" - Beth Ditto
"Car Crash" - Telekinesis
"Need You Now" - Cut Copy
"Lazy Poltergeist" - The Go! Team
"So Tired In The Morning" - Erland and the Carnival
"Pumped Up Kicks" - Foster the People
"On'n On" - Justice
"I Follow Rivers" - Lykke Li
"Keep Me There" - Nicolas Jaar
"Make Some Noise" - Beastie Boys
"The Lonely Doll" - Cass McCombs
"Never Come Around" - La Sera
"Piledriver Waltz" - Alex Turner
"Do What You Will" - Papercuts
"High For This" - The Weeknd
"Fall Creek Boys Choir" - James Blake & Bon Iver
"Blue Skies Again" - Jessica Lea Mayfield
"A Baptist Church in Georgia" - The Flashbulb
"The Look" - Metronomy
"Paradise" - Coldplay
"End of the Night" - Smith Westerns
"Give It All Back" - Noah and the Whale
"Ffunny Ffriends" - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
"Lose It" - Austra
"Snowflake" - Kate Bush
"All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" - MGMT
"We Can Make the World Stop" - The Glitch Mob
"Don't Move" - Phantogram
"Berlin" - Modeselektor
"Otis" - Kanye West & Jay-Z
"Apathy" - Mikal Cronin
"Art of Almost" - Wilco
"Best Night" - The War on Drugs
"Die Young" - Cities Aviv
"Hold On" - SBTRKT
"Waterfalls" - Clams Casino
"Constellation Dirt Bike Head" - Tobacco
"Love in Motion" - Sebastian
"Sleeping Children Are Still Flying" - Blue Sky Black Death
"Go Outside" - Cults
"Illuminine" - Thurston Moore
"Santa Clause Ain't Comin'" - Lavalier
"Jack Sparrow" - The Lonely Island
"Dear Friends" - Elbow
"Naked Cities" - Buke and Gass