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i did my best to do a top 15. this'll change everyday.

1. David Bazan - Strange Negotiations

2. Cut Copy - Zonoscope

3. The Kills - Blood Pressures

4. The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love

5. Jonas Bjerre - Skysraper Soundtrack

6. Washed Out - Within And Without

7. Cold War Kids - Mine Is Yours

8. Ryan Adams - Ashes & Fire

9. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

10. The Parlor Mob - Dogs

11. The Black Keys - El Camino

12. Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine

13. Wilco - The Whole Love

14. Denison Witmer - The Ones Who Wait

15. Eisley - The valley

15. Telegram - Futuro

Best Live Sets of 2011

Best Shows/Live Sets Of 2011

The Raconteurs

The Greenhornes

The Kills

Cut Copy

Wilco

Smashing Pumpkins

The Parlor Mob

Cold War Kids

Minus The Bear

Ellie Goulding

Ra Ra Riot

Broken Social Scene

The Rapture

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Here's the best order I can come up with:

1. Algernon Cadwallader - "Parrot Flies"

2. +HIRS+ - "Worship" EP

3. Noisear - "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm"

4. Death Grips - "Exmilitary"

5. Trap Them - "Darker Handcraft"

6. Dads - "Brush Your Teeth, Again ;)" EP

7. Hella - "Tripper"

8. Animals as Leaders - "Weightless"

9. Lemuria - "Pebble"

10. Brontide - "Sans Souci"

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it's not touche amore but:

The Underground Railroad To Candyland - Knows Your Sins

Night Birds - The Other Side of Darkness

Big Eyes - Hard Life

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania/Total Control split

Panda Bear - Tomboy

Boris - New Album/Attention Please

Young Widows - In and Out of Youth and Lightness

Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off

Nazi Dust - Wretched Hour

David Vassalotti - Book of Ghosts

Merchandise - Live At the Bricks (not an official release, but a live set I recorded that I listened to a lot this year)

Honorable Mentions: Screeching Weasel, City of Ships, Post Teens, Mauser, Merchandise, Future Virgins, The Slow Death, and Banner Pilot. All of these groups had solid singles, EPs, or LPs this year. I am really looking forward to the Merchandise LP next year, as well as a 12" pressing of their first EP.

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Top Albums of 2011

1) Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim

1) The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

2) Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx II

3) Title Fight - Shed

4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

5) Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

6) Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls

7) The Horrors - Skying

8) We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach

9) Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

10) This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

11) New Found Glory - Radiosurgery

12) Funeral for a Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon

13) The Streets - Computers and Blues

TOP SINGLES/EPs OF 2011

1) Teenage Bottlerocket - Mutilate Me

2) Charlie Simpson - When We Were Lions

3) Weekend - Red e.p.

4) Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From a Young Man

5) Mogwai - Earth Division e.p.

6) Rise Against - Make It Stop (September's Children)

7) Terry Malts - Something About You

8) Beady Eye - Four Letter Word

9) McFly - That's The Truth

10) Against Me! - Russian Spies/Occult Enemies

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Top Albums of 2011

1) Charlie Simpson - Young Pilgrim

1) The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?

2) Mariachi El Bronx - Mariachi El Bronx II

3) Title Fight - Shed

4) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

5) Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

6) Veronica Falls - Veronica Falls

7) The Horrors - Skying

8) We Were Promised Jetpacks - In the Pit of the Stomach

9) Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

10) This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

11) New Found Glory - Radiosurgery

12) Funeral for a Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon

13) The Streets - Computers and Blues

TOP SINGLES/EPs OF 2011

1) Teenage Bottlerocket - Mutilate Me

2) Charlie Simpson - When We Were Lions

3) Weekend - Red e.p.

4) Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From a Young Man

5) Mogwai - Earth Division e.p.

6) Rise Against - Make It Stop (September's Children)

7) Terry Malts - Something About You

8) Beady Eye - Four Letter Word

9) McFly - That's The Truth

10) Against Me! - Russian Spies/Occult Enemies

Nice picks, I enjoyed quite a few of those. Also how did you get smited so much? Because of your user message thing?

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01. Steve Adamyk Band - Forever Won't Wait - Dirtnap

02. Title Tracks - In Blank - Windian

03. Tenement - Napalm Dream - Mandible

04. Camp Radio - Campista Socialista - Kelp

05. Your Pest Band - Ya-Ya-Ya - Snuffy Smiles

06. Crusades - The Sun Is Down And The Night Is Riding In - It's Alive

07. Royal Headache - Royal Headache - RIP Society

08. Gaye Blades - Gaye Blades - Norton

09. Cute Lepers - Adventure Time - 1234 Go

10. Boat - Dress Like Your Idols - Magic Marker

11. Barreracudas - Nocturnal Missions - Douchemaster

12. Obits - Moody Standard & Poor - Sub Pop

13. Shy Mirrors - Sailed Blanks - Big School

14. Yuck - Yuck - Fat Possum

15. High Tension Wires - Welcome New Machine - Dirtnap

16. Sundials - Never Settle - Toxic Pop

17. Bad Sports - Kings Of The Weekend - Dirtnap

18. Samiam - Trips - Hopeless

19. Let's Wrestle - Nursing Home - Merge

20. King Louie's Missing Monuments - Painted White - Douchemaster

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Top 10 of 12"

Ampere - Like Shadows

Beau Navire - Hours

Daniel Striped Tiger - No Difference

Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

Deadverse - Caution To The Wind

Raein - Sulla linea d’orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti

Retox - Ugly Animals

Russian Circles - Empros

This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket

Touche Amore - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me

Top 10 of 7"

Bâton Rouge - Amer b/w Contrepied, Contretemps

Calculator - New Forms

Mahria - Mahria

No Sir - Holy Land

Punch - Nothing Lasts

Sabertooth Zombie - Human Performance III

Self Defense Family - I Heard Crime Gets You Off b/w To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Suffix & Beau Navire - Split

The Saddest Landscape & We Were Skeletons - Split

Whirr - June

I think that's about it. Overall, I have to say this was a really good year for music. I was introduced to a lot of new stuff and intensively started collecting records in 2011.

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my stupid list

1. Grouper - A I A (Yellowelectric)

2. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)

3. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)

4. Royal Headache - Royal Headache (RIP Society)

5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)

6. Yuck - Yuck (Fat Possum)

7. Mr. Oizo - Stade 2 (Ed Banger)

8. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)

9. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)

10. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)

11. Julia Holter - Tragedy (Leaving)

12. Bee Mask - Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico (Spectrum Spools)

13. Washed Out - Within & Without (Sub Pop)

14. Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstasy (Mexican Summer)

15. Sleep ∞ Over - Forever (Hippos In Tanks)

16. Gold-Bears - Are You Falling In Love? (Slumberland)

17. Neon Indian - Era Extraña (Mom & Pop)

18. YACHT - Shangri-La (DFA)

19. Bryter Layter - Two Lenses (Students Of Decay)

20. Keep Shelly In Athens - Campus Meritus (Planet Mu)

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ok so heres mines in no particular order

-Opeth - Heritage

-Yob - Atma

-The Wounded Kings - In The Chapel of the Black Hand

-Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

-Whitehorse - Progression

-Moab - Ab Ovo

-Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Blood Lust

-Radiohead - The King of Limbs (Live From The Basement as well)

-Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole

-Portugal. The Man - In The Mountains In The Clouds

-O'Brother - Garden Window

-Mournful Congregation - The Book Of Kings

-Mastodon - The Hunter

-Mars Red Sky - S/T

-John Zorn - A Dreamers Christmas

-Hank III - Attention Deficit Domination

-Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

-Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell 2011

-Enth - I

-Dredg - Chuckles And Mr. Squeezy

-Danava - Hemisphere Of Shadows

-Cianide - Gods Of Death

-The Atlas Moth - An Ache For The Distance

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Balance and Composure- Separation

Thrice- Major/Minor

Moving Mountains- Waves

Title Fight- Shed

Touche Amore- Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me

City and Colour- Little Hell

Bright Eyes- People's Key

Horrible Crowes- Elsie

Tycho- Dive

Fireworks- Gospel

Thursday- No Devolucion

Death Cab for Cutie- Codes and Keys

Transit- Listen and Forgive

Polar Bear Club- Clash Battle Guilt Pride

La Dispute- Wildlife

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my stupid list

1. Grouper - A I A (Yellowelectric)

2. Zola Jesus - Conatus (Sacred Bones)

3. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)

4. Royal Headache - Royal Headache (RIP Society)

5. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (Mute)

6. Yuck - Yuck (Fat Possum)

7. Mr. Oizo - Stade 2 (Ed Banger)

8. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD)

9. Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven (Acephale)

10. Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)

11. Julia Holter - Tragedy (Leaving)

12. Bee Mask - Canzoni dal Laboratorio del Silenzio Cosmico (Spectrum Spools)

13. Washed Out - Within & Without (Sub Pop)

14. Puro Instinct - Headbangers In Ecstasy (Mexican Summer)

15. Sleep ∞ Over - Forever (Hippos In Tanks)

16. Gold-Bears - Are You Falling In Love? (Slumberland)

17. Neon Indian - Era Extraña (Mom & Pop)

18. YACHT - Shangri-La (DFA)

19. Bryter Layter - Two Lenses (Students Of Decay)

20. Keep Shelly In Athens - Campus Meritus (Planet Mu)

So much good stuff on here - I've heard the Grouper record rules. I wanted to like Shangri-La more than I did but I loved See Mystery Lights and Your Magic's Real... so much that it just bummed me out a bit.

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1. Old Man Markley - Guts N' Teeth

2. Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man

3. Nothington - Borrowed Time

4. Larry & His Flask - All That We Know

5. City & Colour - Little Hell

6. Dave Hause - Resolutions

7. Elway - Delusions

8. Nick 13 - S/T

9. Austin Lucas - A New Home In The Old World

10. Banner Pilot - Heart Beats Pacific

11. Chuck Ragan - Covering Ground

12. Pour Habit - Got Your Back

13. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

14. Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

15. Scorpios - S/T

16. Jon Snodgrass - 5 State Record

17. Joyce Manor - S/T

18. Craig's Brother - The Insidious Lie

19. The Horrible Crowes - Elsie

20. Adele - 21

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