Wilco - The Whole Love
The Decemberists - The King is Dead (started listening in 2011, I think it is a 2010 album though)
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (also 2010?)
It's getting close enough to the end of the year to start compiling my personal favorite albums list for 2011. I figured I'd do a Top 11 this year (see what I did there?) but after these 10 I think I'll leave that 11th space for the forthcoming Black Keys album because I'm sure it'll belong there.
-Tom Waits - "Bad As Me"
-Kasey Anderson & the Honkies - "Heart of a Dog"
-Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - "Here We Rest"
-Steve Earle - "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive"
-Star Anna & the Laughing Dogs - "Alone In this Together"
-Wilco - "The Whole Love"
-Bill Frisell - "All We Are Saying"
-Explosions in the Sky - "Take Care Take Care Take Care"
-Those Darlins - "Screws Get Loose"
-Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - "Scandalous"
And the rest of you?
Which albums were top of of the 2011 class?
"I happen to have perfect situational awareness, Lana. Which cannot be taught, by the way. Like a poet's ... mind for ... to make the perfect words." - Sterling Archer
Wilco - The Whole Love
The Decemberists - The King is Dead (started listening in 2011, I think it is a 2010 album though)
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light (also 2010?)
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
My world in 2011 was made a little more pleasant by listening to these albums released this year:
Beardfish - Mamoth
Karmakanic - In a Perfect World
Agents Of Mercy - The Black Forest
Pallas - XXV
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Wobbler - Rites At Dawn
Haken - Nocturnal Conspiracy
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Neal Morse - Testimony 2
Black Country Communion 2
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
You guy's lists make it easy for me!
Not in any order...
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
Wilco - The Whole Love
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
Tom Waits - Bad As Me
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - How I Go
Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa - Don't Explain (biggest surprise of the year)
Mastodon - The Hunter (very prog-ish, mixed with metal)
Rush - Time Machine 2011 Live In Cleveland
Almost top 10:
Warren Haynes - Man In Motion
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Here We Rest
Johnny Winter - Roots
Moreland & Arbuckle - Just a Dream
Pallas - XXV
Opeth - Heritage
Lady Antebellum - Own The Night (really)
BCC2
George Lynch--Kill All Control
The first 3/4 of Anthrax--Worship Music
There would be more if I could include albums I discovered in 2011 but weren't released then.
Axen: Jackson DK2M, Fender Deluxe Nashville Telecaster, Reverend Warhawk 390, Taylor 914ce, ESP LTD Surveyor-414
Amphen: Jet City JCA22H and JCA12S cab, Carvin X-60 combo, Acoustic B20
Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
"I wish Imagine Dragons would be stuck in an Arcade Fire for an entire Vampire Weekend."--Brian Posehn
"I happen to have perfect situational awareness, Lana. Which cannot be taught, by the way. Like a poet's ... mind for ... to make the perfect words." - Sterling Archer
I forgot about Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit - Here We Rest.
It easily fits in my top 2011 albums.
My list.
+ Adele's 21
+ Megadeth's TH1RT3EN (probably my favourite of the year).
+ Cake's Showroom of Compassion (saw them in concert too, awesome!)
Last minute add-ins:
The Black Keys - El Camino
The Aristocrats -The Aristocrats
One more:
Death Cab For Cutie -Codes And Keys
The Black Keys album is a late add to my list as well. Figured it would be. I love those guys and this album is chock full of rock.
A few others that I picked up after I made this list that I really enjoyed are Glossary's "Long Live Us All" and American Aquarium's "Small Town Hymns"
"I happen to have perfect situational awareness, Lana. Which cannot be taught, by the way. Like a poet's ... mind for ... to make the perfect words." - Sterling Archer
"I happen to have perfect situational awareness, Lana. Which cannot be taught, by the way. Like a poet's ... mind for ... to make the perfect words." - Sterling Archer
Man In Motion - Warren Haynes
Fidelis - Pat Travers
Chief - Eric Church
Long Line Of Heartaches - Connie Smith
Turns out I was right on the year. Those are still my top three then. And I got Revelator, Tedeschi Trucks Band, for my wife for Christmas, and we are really enjoying that. I want to check out a few more that have been listed here, and also want to check out George Benson's release from last year.
Album: http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Man-Geo.../dp/B005F6NA5G
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson
I enjoyed the new Foo Fighters, August Burns Red, Incubus, Primus, Tom Waits, and Jamie Cullum the most this past year. Although I just recently started listening to the new Primus and Tom Waits shortly after Christmas I guess.