Best of 2011

2011 was kind of a mediocre year - pretty much everything I was looking forward to music-wise has somehow slipped to 2012. Oh well, that'll just make 2012 that much more exciting! Now let's check out what DID come out in 2011...

Top Albums for 2011:

1. I Am The Avalanche - Avalanche United
2. The Subways - Money And Celebrity
3. Funeral For A Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon!
4. Cave In - White Silence
5. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
6. Drive: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (compilation)
7. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
8. Thursday - No Devolución
9. Glassjaw - Coloring Book (EP)
10. Funeral For A Friend - See You All In Hell (EP)

11. Thrice - Major / Minor
12. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
13. Bush - The Sea Of Memories
14. Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
15. Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday

The last 5 are separated because I feel there's a big difference in quality between the groups. Those last 5 are ones that either surprised me by their continued relevance but didn't stick with me too much (Bush, Foo Fighters, Lou Reed & Metallica), or were anticipated and ended up disappointing me (Thrice, Taking Back Sunday). In a stronger year, these wouldn't have made the list at all, but I didn't want to stop at just 10 this year.

So, next year.... Looking forward to new music from Every Time I Die, A Wilhelm Scream, The Bronx, Lostprophets, The Mars Volta, Queens of the Stone Age, Murder By Death, and hopefully plenty of pleasant surprises. And no slipping to 2013 goddamnit!

Best of 2010:

1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
2. Lostprophets - The Betrayed
3. Funeral For A Friend - The Young and Defenceless (EP)
4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. The Damned Things - Ironiclast
6. !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
7. Murder By Death - Good Morning, Magpie
8. Against Me! - White Crosses
9. Norma Jean - Meridional
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (compilation)
11. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
12. Sundowner - We Chase The Waves
13. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
14. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
15. The Flatliners - Cavalcade

Best of 2009:

1. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
2. A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream (EP)
3. Brand New - Daisy
4. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
5. Broadway Calls - Good Views, Bad News
6. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
7. Sabertooth Zombie - ...And Your Fathers Are Dead In The Ground
8. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
9. Cave In - Planets of Old (EP)
10. Converge - Axe To Fall
11. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
12. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
13. Thrice - Beggars
14. Defeater - Lost Ground (EP)
15. The Von Bondies - Love, Hate, And Then There's You