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Best of Lists…2011

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Started by Simon (Simon) in Chit-Chat

Therapy? have already posted theirs… so here are mine.

GHOST - OPUS EPONYMOUS
OFF! - FIRST FOUR E.PS
FOO FIGHTERS - WASTING LIGHT
MARIACHI EL BRONX - II
PLAID - SCINTILLI
PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE
OPETH - HERITAGE
MASTODON - THE HUNTER
ANTHRAX - WORSHIP MUSIC
CHRIS CORNELL - SONG BOOK

Fav film was either Red State or The Fighter
Fave book was Duff Mckagans bio
and Gigs were Between Foo Fighters in a tiny club in Sydney or Off!

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 05:05

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#1

Bad Astronaut (Your mommy's alright, your daddy's alright....) wrote:

2011 was one of the better year for rock, if not the best after 90’s. Even movies are good after the ill fated decade. I have a high hope for 2012, I wish -Peace, Love And Understanding-for all of us. Here’s my list:

1-) Machine Head - Unto The Locust
2-) Crazy Arm - Union City Breath
3-) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
4-) Spycatcher - Honesty
5-) The King Blues - Punk & Poetry
6-) The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
7-) Kesmeşeker - Doğdum Ben Memlekette
8-) Mastadon - The Hunter
9-) Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
10-) Fucked Up - David Comes To Life

What I’m stoked for in 2012…

* Against Me!
* The Menzingers
* Off With Their Heads
* Therapy?
* The Gaslight Anthem
* Sharks
* Craig Finn

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 07:44

#2

Gav wrote:

1) …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
2) Blood Command - Hand Us The Alpha Male
3) Mastodon - The Hunter
4) Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Linage
5) Black Spiders - Sons of The North
6) Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
7) The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
8) Glassjaw - Our Colour Green / Colouring Book
9) PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
10) Janes Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
11) M83 - Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
12) Wolves Like Us - Late Love
13) Deafheaven - Roads To Judah
14) The Horrors - Skying
15) The Defiled - Grave Times
16) Trap Them - Darker Handcraft
17) Altar Of Plagues - Mamal
18) Machine Head - Unto The Locust
19) Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
20) Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer

Shit - couldn’t pick 10, its been a good year!

Suprise of the year: Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (Didn’t think they had a decent album in them any more)
Disappointment of the year: Devin Townsend (Ghost & Deconstruction - good but not great)
Notable mentions: Fen, Zola Jesus, Jesu, Opeth, Graveyard, *shels, Anathema, Red Fang, Cave In, Touche Amore, Vreid

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 08:35

#3

Dermot wrote:

Albums

1) Grouper - A:I:A / Dream Loss
2) Real Estate - Days
3) The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
4) John Maus - We Must Become The Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
5) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for my Halo

Films

1) Drive
2) The Killer Inside Me (Think it was released in 2010 but only saw it this year)
3) The Skin I live In
4) Paranormal Activity 3
5) Bobby Fisher Vs The World

Books

Think I only read 2 that were published in 2011:

The Pale King by Dave Foster Wallace
Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes

Both of which were fairly good.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 08:36

#4

MisterHoppy wrote:

1: Murmurations From A Pistol Tongue - The Mavis Krank
2: Gangs - ASIWYFA
3: Easy Meat - Lafaro
4: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will - Mogwai
5: Nothing Exists Except Atoms & The Void - Spaces
6: State Of Mind - Zion Train
7: Crucial In Dub - Prince Jammy
8: Tao Of The Dead - Trail Of Dead
9: A Glorious And Bloody Revolution - 20 Bulls Each
10: Heritage - Opeth
11: Tunnel Blanket - This Will Destroy You
12: Unapersons - The Pack AD
13: Earth Division EP - Mogwai
14: First Light - Easy Star All Stars

Best Gig: Tie between ASIWYFA, Easy Star Allstars, The Mavis Krank and Talons.

Best Track: Between Search:Party:Animal - ASIWYFA and How To Be A Werewolf - Mogwai.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 12:42

#5

MisterHoppy wrote:

^Empros - Russian Circles should have been in the albums list, Schipol is a beautiful 6 minutes!

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 12:48

#6

Citizen Erased (confused again) wrote:

I don’t think I’ve really bought/heard much new stuff this year, asde from the new Blink 182 album, so I guess that gets it by default.

Single - Tribes - We Were Children

Movies - again, not a lot jumping out at me - will go for Drive, followed by Tinker Tailor…

Books - don’t think I’ve read any new fiction this year, so will go for Sam Keen’s ‘The Disappearing Spoon’, which is a history of sorts of the periodic table

Gig - even if I’d been to more, it would probably still be The Killers at Hyde Park.

You lot make me seem v pedestrian :-p

2012 - looking forward to new albums/gigs from Tribes, Therapy?/Ladyhawke/Little Boots & hopefully The Offspring, plus The Dark Kniht Rises at the cinema

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 14:01

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chr1s (I can't remember my own name) wrote:

I’ve not bought much this year either, but Foo Fighters Wasting Light and Anthrax Worship Music were excellent. Worship Music was a big surprise actually, especially after all the Anthrax “dramas” of the last couple of years. Can’t recommend it highly enough if you haven’t heard it yet.

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes was a great film.

Best gig I saw this year was QOTSA at Glasgow Academy, and Lee Evans gets a mention for being the best comedy show I have ever seen!!

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 14:28

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Cuchulain wrote:

Machine Head and LaFaro the best albums for me.

Best ( photo ) book by a mile: Where Were You? - Dublin Youth Culture & Street Style 1950-2000

Most memorable moment of the year : Partizan Belgrade - Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 15:32

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Epitome (Dave) wrote:

1. Amplifier - The Octopus
2. Paradox - Corporate Pollution
3. Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
4. Bush - The Sea of Memories
5. Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
6. *Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo
7. Bloodiest - Descent
8. The Dreaming - Puppet
9. Machine Head - Unto the Locust
10. Ancestors - Invisible White
11. Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
12. No Made Sense - New Season / New Blues
13. Blackfield - Welcome To My DNA
14. US Christmas - The Valley Path
15. Joey Cape’s Bad Loud - Joey Cape’s Bad Loud
16. Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine - Enhanced Methods of Questioning

Then there are a couple of albums I’ve got, but not had time to listen to that are probably worthy of the list - Astrohenge and Mogwai.
And a whole bunch of albums that came out that I expect will be very good but I haven’t bought yet: Nick 13, Chuck Ragan, Alkaline Trio, Memories of Machines, Laika Dog, Terrorvision, Jasta, Ghost Brigade, The Emergency Room… and a bunch more I can’t remember right now.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 15:50

#10

Epitome (Dave) wrote:

Oh, and I checked out Altar of Plagues a while back (noticed it in Gav’s list) and that sounded really good, so I might look into them more one day.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 15:52

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MisterHoppy wrote:

The *shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo would have been in mine as well, but they’ve yet to actually send my copy from the states so that’s going to be a 2012 album for me, if it ever arrives :-(
I Was Here For A Minute Then I Was Gone - Maybeshewill was another I forgot earlier.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 16:32

#12

Epitome (Dave) wrote:

Well, Plains of the Purple Buffalo is something for you to look forward to at least ;-) Really good album!

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 17:04

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fatboy wrote:

Not including reissues here, but I enjoyed the following:

Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style
Evile - Five Serpents Teeth
Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

There were other albums that came out this year that I liked, though the Metallica/Lou Reed album is more miss than hit

Gigs - hard to choose but Gallows were amazing at Sin City. One of Frank’s last gigs with the band and took me agaes to get over it and I don’t say that easily. Maiden in Cardiff, what’s to say but amazing. BTW, met Janick Gers in a pub afterwards. The Specials were awesome too but that Gallows gig, fucking, check the you tube footage…and see if you can spot a bald tattooed fella wearing glasses in the crowd.

Films - Red State but Rise of the Planet of The Apes had a great story and wasn’t depended on special effects to make a great move. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was something out of my comfort zone but worth viewing none the less.

Books - Bloodaxe’s Being Human anthology, Hate by Matthew Collins and Niall Griffiths’ Ten Pound Pom were excellent.

Posted on Wed, 21 December 2011 at 23:18

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mfgeorge wrote:

best stuff i’ve procured in 2011, regardless of year released:

C.R. Avery - Hobo Erotic
Dirty Beaches - Badlands
Grant Green - Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark
Junior Wells’ Chicago Blues Band - Hoodoo Man Blues
Kanye/Jay Z - Watch the Throne
Kurt Vile - God Is Saying This To You
The Only Ones - s/t
The Roots - Undun
The Sheepdogs - Learn & Burn
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Wugazi - 13 Chambers

Posted on Thu, 22 December 2011 at 03:32

#15

Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

Metallica and Lou Reed - Lulu

Just kidding! x’)

(Totally biased)

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Iron Mask - Black As Death
Bush - The Sea of Memories (THEY’RE BACK)

Posted on Thu, 22 December 2011 at 12:41

#16

Gav wrote:

Totally fogot to check out the Bush one - will have to have a look on Spotify later.

I’ve also missed out on the new Megadeth so far.

Posted on Thu, 22 December 2011 at 14:29

#17

Standinline wrote:

Some of the best albums / E.P:s 2011 that I can mention:

01 - SIR REG (Irish/Swedish CelticFolkPunk) - “A Sign Of The Times” CD/LP
02 - TREVOLT - “Stanna Upp” (EP)
03 - ATALS LOSING GRIP - “State Of Unrest” CD
04 - MOGWAI - “Hardcore Will never Die, But You Will” CD / LP
05 - 93 MILLION MILES FROM THE SUN (Postrock / Ambient) - Northern Sky (2011) CD
06 - MARIACHI EL BRONX - “El Bronx II” (2011) CD/LP
07 - and so many many more…

Posted on Thu, 22 December 2011 at 14:44

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Epitome (Dave) wrote:

The new Bush album is great. Although the general sound of it is probably not what you’d be expecting, so if you’re a bit put off at first, I say stick with it. The songs are great. It’s quite different from all other Bush stuff (softer) but I suppose it’s most like Golden State (which is my favourite).

Posted on Thu, 22 December 2011 at 15:21

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buffalo-boy wrote:

Albums:
Skindred, Union Black
Megadeth - Thirteen

Book:
Lee Child - The Affair

Movie:
Limitless

TV:
The Apprentice
Have I Got News For You

Porn:
xhamster
bulktube

Posted on Mon, 26 December 2011 at 21:39

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realityfuck (Jar lath) wrote:

Filter – The Trouble With Angels (a 2011 album for me)
Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Soundgarden - Live on I-5
Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Primus - Green Naugahyde
The Rubberbandits - Serious About Men

Posted on Tue, 27 December 2011 at 18:50

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Thefanthattriedtostrangleitslf wrote:

I forgot

UDO - Rev Raptor

Posted on Wed, 28 December 2011 at 13:17

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