I'm reviving this because I noticed how few new albums I bought in '11

I'm currently youtubing a bunch of this stuff

sextonseven said:

I listened to samples from the Something About April album because the cover looked interetsing in your post, tA. It's hot. I may get that one soon.

I did the same thing! I liked the cover and I am listening to it right now

I have not listened to all these suggestions, but this is my favorite so far. Very retro, but has a new and odd twist on the style.

'Bubbling under' my top 20:

21. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
22. Chrysta Bell - This Train: Produced by David Lynch
23. Those Dancing Days - Daydreams and Nightmares
24. The Pierces - You & I
25. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

sextonseven said:

'Bubbling under' my top 20:

21. Joan As Police Woman - The Deep Field
22. Chrysta Bell - This Train: Produced by David Lynch
23. Those Dancing Days - Daydreams and Nightmares
24. The Pierces - You & I
25. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints

I'm going to have to check these out ....

Here's the actual list of albums I've downloaded and KEPT (therefore enjoyed at least a bit) for 2011. Some albums I haven't listened to a lot yet, and are therefore still a bit unfamiliar. Some are total favorites of mine (as evoked in my first post here). Some were kinda disappointing to me but stayed on my computer because either they're from bands/artists I really appreciate, or I have a feeling they might grow on me with time.

APPARAT - 2011 - The Devil's Walk

BJÖRK - 2011 - Biophilia

CANYONS - 2011 - Keep Your Dreams

CHRYSTA BELL + DAVID LYNCH - 2011 - This Train

DAVID LYNCH - 2011 - Crazy Clown Time

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - 2011 - Codes And Keys

DISCODEINE - 2011 - Discodeine

FDELUXE - 2011 - Gaslight

FEIST - 2011 - Metals

HARUOMI HOSONO - 2011 - Hosonova

HOLY GHOST! - 2011 - Holy Ghost!

HYPERBUBBLE - 2011 - Drastic Cinematic

JILL SCOTT - 2011 - The Light Of The Sun

JOHN SCOFIELD - 2011 - A Moment's Peace

KATE BUSH - 2011 - 50 Words For Snow

KATE BUSH - 2011 - Director's Cut

KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS - 2011 - I Wake Up Screaming

KID LOCO - 2011 - Confessions Of A Belladonna Eater

LADYTRON - 2011 - Gravity The Seducer

LAMB - 2011 - 5

LEMONGRASS - 2011 - Sirius

LENNY KRAVITZ - 2011 - Black And White America

LITTLE DRAGON - 2011 - Ritual Union

LOWB - 2011 - Leap And The Net Will Appear

LYKKE LI - 2011 - Wounded Rhymes

MARC-HENRI ARFEUX - 2011 - Loire Abstraction

ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO - 2011 - Weather

METRONOMY - 2011 - The English Riviera

MICHAEL JACKSON - 2011 - Immortal

PLANNINGTOROCK - 2011 - W

RAHSAAN PATTERSON - 2011 - Bleuphoria

RAPHAEL SAADIQ - 2011 - Stone Rollin'

ROBIN GUTHRIE + HAROLD BUDD - 2011 - Bordeaux

ROBOTS IN DISGUISE - 2011 - Happiness V Sadness

SBTRKT - 2011 - SBTRKT

SNOOP DOGG - 2011 - Doggumentary

SUPERHEAVY - 2011 - Superheavy

SUSHEELA RAMAN - 2011 - Vel

THE HUMAN LEAGUE - 2011 - Credo

THE KILLS - 2011 - Blood Pressures

THE ORIGINAL 7VEN - 2011 - Condensate

THE ROOTS - 2011 - Undun

THOMAS DOLBY - 2011 - A Map Of The Floating City

UH HUH HER - 2011 - Nocturnes

URSULA RUCKER - 2011 - She Said

YELLE - 2011 - Safari Disco Club

More will obviously be added to this list with time. The last Steve Reich is on my list but I haven't downloaded it yet.

I appreciate the suggestions people make here. It's nice to see people listening to something else than Top-40 stuff (people from the Prince: Music and more forum really get me depressed sometimes ).

So if u r curious, go listen to those u don't know here's myspace pages

[Edited 1/23/12 9:05am]

The Story EP//KING

Chri$topher LP//Chri$topher

1977//Terius Nash *aka* The Dream

Take Care//Drake

I wasn't crazy about music last year

but I paid attention to these LPs

theAudience said:

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Booker T. Jones - The Road from Memphis

This is a really nice sounding album. Questlove always has a great tone to his stuff

NoVideo said:

Foster the People - Torches

I just heard another song from these guys on the radio, and both times I found myself asking "who are these guys?" Both incredibly hooky and clever songs