Best Albums of 2011
Listed below are the best albums of 2011 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 7 hours ago).
"This was the album that this reminds me of ( a little) Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (album) by Bulgarian State Television Female Choir" Reply
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ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Another strong album from Bill Callahan. Apocalypse, is another masterpiece from one of the most intriguing songwriters of the last twenty years." Reply
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"Sure, this might be a soundtrack to a video game that will likely soon be forgotten, but the music here really is beautiful, coherent, and moving. That being said, the album itself isn't perfect. It starts and ends strong, but every few tracks or so you'll find a throwaway that is flawed by disru..." [+] Reply
"The jury is still out on this one. There are some real classic tracks like Index, Deform To Form A Star and Raider II, but the question remaining is should Mr Wilson have consolidated this onto a single disc by removing some of the tracks?" Reply
"Paul Simon delivers another excellent record. So beautiful or so what, is Simon still trying different stuff. He uses samples of old blues tracks on a few songs, including the brilliant opener, getting ready for Christmas day. The afterlife, is one of the highlights, about a guy whose just been s..." [+] Reply
"Lovely little album this. Very good infact. Possibly not cool enough for some. Their loss." Reply
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Graeme2 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Nightwish's best and most eclectic release. Sure, it's cheesy in a few places, but that's just par for the course for the genre. Song of Myself is one of the best songs in the symphonic metal genre (and easily a top-5 Nightwish track) if you exclude the lengthy poem coda (I still like that segmen..." [+] Reply
"The spinning circles of dead bodies in the night. The insistent creek in the floor boards powdered with bed crumbs. So subtle yet so disturbed. Haunted, dark and bleak. This album is a work of art while remaining true to purpose of all good music, to be enjoyed. The sparse arrangements of 'Victor..." [+] Reply
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"Here's another former "lo-fi" artist who has since embellished his work masterfully in the studio. i like the horns, especially the spazzy-jazzy horns at the end of "2011 best track" long-play nominee "your fake name is good enough for me", or the playful horns in "big burned hand"." Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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2011
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"The concept and aesthetic of this album could of easily collapsed into a self-ingulgent pretension mess, but thankfully this is not the case. A truly terrifying and brutally sincere performance." Reply
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yepyepyep | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Best Albums of 2011 composition
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| Various Artists | 5 | 1% | |
| The Weeknd | 3 | 0% | |
| Foo Fighters | 2 | 0% | |
| Kate Bush | 2 | 0% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 0% | |
| Wussy | 2 | 0% | |
| Bill Frisell | 2 | 0% | |
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476 | 48% | |
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187 | 19% | |
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55 | 6% | |
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35 | 4% | |
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30 | 3% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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21 | 2% | |
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