Best Albums of 2011

Listed below are the best albums of 2011 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 6 hours ago).
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2011 year summaryThe best artists of 2011 were Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, PJ Harvey, The Beach Boys, Radiohead, The Black Keys, Destroyer, M83, Adele and St. Vincent.
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"This album is almost entirely folk music with a little bit of rock thrown in and it’s very good. Lyrically it is well written, the songs are enjoyable and, aside from one or two slow parts, the album is very solid."  Reply
- RockyRaccoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Rock reinvented. Great guitar-only prog rock album. Minion's song, planet of insects and interstellar are the top tracks. The latter provided the highlight of my gig-going last year (2011)"  Reply
- FieryGunHand | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This is great, how come I've only just found out about it. Lucky guys getting to record with these legendary musicians and I'm not on about white and jones, although they are good on here."  Reply
- Graeme2 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This wasn't nearly as bad as I had hoped it would be. In fact, there's a few songs I actually liked. I actually repeated Iced Honey twice and caught my head bouncing around a bit. But one question still lingers. Between this album and Tyler The Creator's Goblin, why is everyone suddenly proclaimi..."  [+]  Reply
- ShaneSpear | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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Best Albums of 2011 composition

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6. The Joshua Tree by U2
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8. Thriller by Michael Jackson
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