Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Rick Sieber 2011 List


TOP 10 ALBUMS

1.      Parallax – Atlas Sound
2.      Let England Shake! – PJ Harvey
3.      Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
4.      Skying – The Horrors
5.      Smother – Wild Beasts
6.      Days – Real Estate
7.      Collapse Into Now – R.E.M.
8.      D – White Denim
9.      Demolished Thoughts – Thurston Moore
10.   Free All The Monsters – The Bats

Bubbling Under:

·        Kaputt – Destroyer
·        Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – M83
·        The King of Limbs – Radiohead
·        The Double Cross – Sloan
·        Smoke Ring for My Halo – Kurt Vile

TOP 40 TRACKS:

1.      “One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend) – Wilco
2.      “Loop the Loop” – Wild Beasts
3.      “Green Aisles” – Real Estate
4.      “Still Life” – The Horrors
5.      “Montezuma” – Fleet Foxes
6.      “Mona Lisa” – Atlas Sound
7.      “Jesus Fever” – Kurt Vile
8.      “Paradise Is Not So Bad” – Lifeguards
9.      “Green Gardens, Cold Montreal” – Sloan
10.   “Simpletons” – The Bats
11.   “Heart In Your Heartbreak” – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
12.   “Mine Smell Like Honey” – R.E.M.
13.   “The Words That Maketh Murder” – PJ Harvey
14.   “Red Barked Trees” – Wire
15.   “Drug” – White Denim
16.   “Killa” – tUnE-yArDs
17.   “The Party Line” – Apex Manor
18.   “Shell Games” – Bright Eyes
19.   “Senator” – Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
20.   “Mr. Bubbles” – Dengue Fever
21.   “Bed of Nails” – Wild Beasts
22.   “Bedouin Dress” – Fleet Foxes
23.   “The Answer Was You” – Sloan
24.   “Younger Than Yesterday” – Real Estate
25.   “Rising Red Lung” – Wilco
26.   “Machu Picchu” – The Strokes
27.   “Written on the Forehead” – PJ Harvey
28.   “Where I’m Going” – Cut Copy
29.   “All The Sun That Shines” – Peaking Lights
30.   “The Lonely Doll” – Cass McCombs
31.   “Car Crash” – Telekinesis
32.   “Brothers” – The War on Drugs
33.   “Surgeon” – St. Vincent
34.   “Sheiße” – Lady Gaga
35.   “Map of an Englishman” – Erland & the Carnival
36.   “Diamond Mine” – David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights
37.   “How Could I Lie” – Luke Temple
38.   “Lorelai” – Fleet Foxes
39.   “Super Duper Rescue Heads!” – Deerhoof
40.   “Something Came Over Me” – Wild Flag

BEST BASSLINE:

·        “Killa” – tUnE-yArDs

WORST ALBUM TITLE:

·        Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam – Ghostpoet

BEST CHILDREN’S ALBUM:

·        Sing Along! – Caspar Babypants

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