Watch The Throne (decent), Burst Apart (awesome), and Helplessness Blues (ambivalent) are the only records from this year that I've listened to this year, but going by press alone, there seem to be a lot of good albums this year.
edited 7th Nov '11 8:29:51 PM by Wicked223
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!This year certainly started promisingly, but seems to have tailed off a little bit since September.
Anywho, when it comes to the end of the year I will produce a full list of my best albums of the year, but for the moment I'll just go with my top 5:
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
- Battles - Gloss Drop
- St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
- The Antlers - Burst Apart
- Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
Biggest disappointment for me was Ornaments From The Silver Arcade by an old favourite band of mine, The Young Knives. Frankly it was just a little bit shit.
Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!1. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events
2. Devin Townsend - Ghost
3. Symphony X - Iconoclast
4. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
5. Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
2-5 are pretty much interchangeable, and Haken's Visions is a recent release that could have made its way in there. The DT album is definitely number 1 though. Fanboy I may be, but that album was a tour de force even by their usual standards.
I still need to check out more of this year's ambient/post-rock releases, however, so this list may not be final.
Anyway, the chief contender for worst album of the year is pretty obvious.
That is possibly the most monumentally disappointing thing that I have ever heard in my life.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.I meant the music, not the general opinion.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Now all it needs is Brian Wilson rapping and a music video featuring Michael Jordan playing baseball. :D
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.- 1...The Hunter by Mastodon
- 2...Wasting Light by Foo Fighters
- 3...Thank You, Happy Birthday by Cage The Elephant
- 4...Surtur Rising by Amon Amarth
- 5...I'm With You by Red Hot Chili Peppers
edited 8th Nov '11 10:45:13 AM by NULLcHiLD27
There's been a thread earlier that discussed this
. Please use search next time and necro.
I actually can't remember most of the 10+ new albums I've heard this year, which probably has to do with me giving most of them only a single listen each. So I can't really make up a list.
Out of a not terribly big selection, TesseracT's debut is probably my favorite so far. It feels a bit ADD sometimes, but it does have moments of sheer brilliance. Too bad that Dan "Chief Reason for Listening to TesseracT" Thompkins left and now I probably won't be paying much attention to them any more.
TKOL is a testament to Thom Yorke's ego and a soulless, shallow album. Disappointment of the year.
As of now my list still remains largely the same. Not in particular order:
- Deconstruction by Devin Townsend Project (probably my favorite)
- The Unseen Empire by Scar Symmetry (because Scar Symmetry)
- Princess Ghibli by Imaginary Flying Machines (because Studio Ghibli + Disarmonia Mundi can only equal awesome
- εpsilon by Blood Stain Child (also participating in the previous album)
Those are probably the ones I enjoyed the most.
No regret shall pass over the threshold!@Wicked223: About the worst album of the year, you're not even close
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edited 9th Nov '11 5:07:53 PM by dxman
...@Wicked 223: I misread your comment as "disagrees"; hence, the response. But yes, incredibly disappointing on several levels.
I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.Best: La Dispute - Wildlife
Second-Best: The Antlers - Burst Apart
Worst: Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
Second-Worst: Hillsong United - Aftermath
edited 10th Nov '11 3:01:53 PM by sca_punk
They're off the streets now, and back on the road on the riot trail. http://www.last.fm/user/sca_punkFor me it'd be:
- 1. Tanzomat — And One
- 2. Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children — Voltaire
Other than that I haven't actually listened to a lot of music that came out this year. But I'm still waiting for Plastic Makes Perfect by Ayria to come out, dunno if it will come out before 2011 ends but it was supposed to be out in September. Dang Schedule Slip. And Nagash of The Kovenant said Aria Galactica was coming out at the end of this year. For some funny reason (maybe because he's said the same thing year after year since 2003), I doubt it.
edited 17th Nov '11 11:18:29 PM by Surenity
My tropes launched: https://surenity2.blogspot.com/2021/02/my-tropes-on-tv-tropes.htmlTop 5 favourite albums of this year:
- Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
- Mastodon - The Hunter
- Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
...fuck, I can't think of anything else. I haven't listened to much new music this year...
Worst album of the year goes to Opeth's Heritage, for being dull as ditchwater and a massive disappointment.
edited 18th Nov '11 2:49:26 AM by pagad
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.Best: Powder! Go Away - Laika Still Wants Go Home
Runner Up: Pain of Salvation - Road Salt Two, Devin Townsend - Ghost
Worst(Shit, does this even count?): Metallica and Lou Reed - Lulu
Worst(Not because it's necessarily bad, 2011 has been all-around a good year): Opeth - Heritage
edited 30th Nov '11 5:29:23 PM by iamathousandapples
"I could eat a knob at night" - Karl PilkingtonOK, I definitely have a worst album of the year now. Divided By by Structures is one of the greatest musical disappointments I've ever heard. I liked their debut EP a lot, reminded me of a more metalcoreish Veil Of Maya, but their full-length is just a bunch of horrible shouty brodowns punctuated by random pop-punk and electronic segments.
And I'm definitely gonna have to revise my list, since I've realized I forgot to include We's With The Stars As An Audience and I've now checked out the absolutely fantastic A Winged Victory For The Sullen.
Best:
- (*By far and away*) Amon Tobin - ISAM
- God Module - Seance
...Most of this year has been finding good older music for me, so...
The 5 geek social fallacies. Know them well.Time to revive this thread with the Official Saeglopur Top 50 albums of 2011 List. Short reviews for the top 10 as well. Yes, I'm bored, why do you ask?
- Battles - Gloss Drop
- A Winged Victory For The Sullen - A Winged Victory For The Sullen
- Snowmine - Laminate Pet Animal
- St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
- Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
- Russian Circles - Empros
- The Antlers - Burst Apart
- Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
- Dutch Uncles - Cadenza
- Three Trapped Tigers - Route One Or Die
- And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
- Nils Frahm - Felt
- The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
- Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
- Bon Iver - Bon Iver
- The Field - Looping State Of Mind
- Grails - Deep Politics
- Petrels - Haeligewiele
- The Psychic Paramount - II
- Omega Massif - Karpatia
- Youngteam - Daydreamer
- Mara Carlyle - Floreat
- LITE - For All The Innocence
- Hymns From Nineveh - Hymns From Nineveh
- Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
- Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
- Memory Tapes - Player Piano
- Vessels - Helioscope
- Harrys Gym - What Was Ours Can't Be Yours
- True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
- Belong - Common Era
- Parts & Labor - Constant Future
- *shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo
- Atlas Sound - Parallax
- Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
- Guillemots - Walk The River
- Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
- British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
- Johann Johannsson - The Miner's Hymns
- Beirut - The Rip Tide
- Quiet Evenings - Transcending Spheres
- Deaf Center - Owl Splinters
- Akron/Family - S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT
- Mark Mc Guire - Get Lost
- Whirl - Distressor
- Demdike Stare - Triptych
- Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
- Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer/Dream Loss
edited 14th Dec '11 5:15:00 PM by Saeglopur
Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!

Yes, I know, we still got almost 2 months left before the end of the year actually hits, but I don't think it's too early to talk about this. What have been your favorite and least favorite albums of 2011?
My top 5 favorite:
5.) Wilco- The Whole Love 4.) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart- Belong 3.) M83- Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 2.) The Horrors- Skying 1.) Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues