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* * * End of Year Albums/Etc * * *

  • 07-12-2011 12:06AM
    #1
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,407 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Ahoy hoy alt/indiers

    Here are ze rules.

    Best Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.

    Best Song - Nominate no more than 3 songs

    Best Video - Just one video

    Best Irish Album - Nominate no more than 3 albums.

    Best promoter - Just the one.

    Best Gig - Confined to Ireland and no more than 3.


    I'll post up the winners at the end of the month.

    Also like to say thanks to all of you for contributing to the forum over the last 12 months, genuinely without this forum i'd barely log onto boards these days.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,851 ✭✭✭Mountainlad


    Best Album-Bon Iver-Bon Iver

    Best Song-Cults-Abducted
    Massive Attack vs Burial-Paradise Circus
    Lana Del Rey-Videogames (with thanks to Slow Show for introducing me to it :))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 400 ✭✭Dubhthamlacht


    Best Album - Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

    Best Song - Undertow - Warpaint

    Best Irish Album - Gangs - And So I Watch you From Afar

    Best Gig - And So I Watch You From Afar at Electric Picnic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 608 ✭✭✭one man clappin


    Best Album - Bon Iver

    Best Song - Holocene, Bon Iver


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭catch--22


    Best Album:

    Wild Beasts - Smoother
    Tuneyards - w h o k i l l

    Best Song:


    SBTRKT - Wildfire
    Nicolas Jarr - Always By Your Side (remix of a Sneaky Soundsystem track)
    Austra - The Beat and The Pulse

    Best Irish Album:

    ASIWYFA - Gangs
    Lisa Hannigan - Passenger

    Best Promoter:

    Foggy Notions

    Best Gig:

    ASIWYFA - Electric Picnic
    Naughty by Nature - Castlepalooza
    De la Soul - Button Factory

    Best Video:

    Only found this a few days ago...released back in June. Featuring the dance styles of Lil Buck. AMAZING.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,913 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Albums:

    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
    Metronomy - The English Riviera
    Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Captain Graphite


    Best Album:
    Feist - Metals
    Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
    M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

    Best Song:
    PJ Harvey - Written on the Forehead
    Tom Vek - Aroused
    Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce
    (wanted to include Warpaint's Undertow but it was originally released in 2010 so wasn't sure if it would count or not?)

    Best gig:
    Arcade Fire @ Electric Picnic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭FortuneChip


    Best Album -
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    The Antlers - Burst Apart
    Beirut - The Rip Tide


    Best Song -
    Bon Iver - Calgary
    Hey Rosetta! - Welcome
    Fleet Foxes - Montezuma


    Best Video - Rural Alberta Advantage - "Stamp"


    Best Gig - Bon Iver @ The Grand Canal Theatre


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Jako8


    Best Album
    Hella - Tripper
    Battles - Gloss Drop
    St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

    Best Song
    Sacred Animals vs Owensie - Cat and Mouse
    MOTHS -Summer
    Battles - Wall Street

    Best Video - Just one video
    Mastodon - Deathbound

    Best Irish Album
    Tieranniesaur - Tieranniesaur
    LaFaro - Easy Meat
    Gangs - ASIWYFA

    Best promoter - Just the one.
    +4

    Best Gig
    Adebisi Shank - The Pavillion, Cork.
    And So I Watch You From Afar - Dolans, Limerick.
    Arcade Fire, Electric Picnic.

    That was a lot harder than I expected. :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,378 ✭✭✭mosstin


    Best Album
    Feist - Metals
    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
    Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die
    (that said the best album I've listened to this year was The Smile Sessions by The Beach Boys which isn't a new album technically speaking)

    Best Song
    Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
    Death In Vegas - Your Loft My Acid
    Feist - The Bad In Each Other

    Best Irish Album
    Passenger - Lisa Hannigan

    Best Gig
    Echo and the Bunnymen - The Olympia Theatre
    North Sea Scrolls - The Sugar Club
    (A very quiet year for gigs was this)


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,894 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Best Album:
    Wild Flag - Wild Flag
    All Eternals Deck - The Mountain Goats
    Tiranniesaur - Tiranniesaur

    Best Song:
    Romance - Wild Flag
    Estate Sale Sign - Mountain Goats
    Paper Forest (In the Afterglow of Rapture) - Emmy the Great

    Best Video:
    ****ed Up - Queen of Hearts


    Best Irish Album:
    Tiranniesaur - Tiranniesaur

    Best Gig:
    Owen Pallett - Whelans
    The Mountain Goats - Whelans
    Emmy The Great - Kilkenny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Best Album:
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    The Antlers - Burst Apart

    Best song:
    Bon Iver - Holocene
    Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle

    I never post but I do read from time to time...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭ElaElaElano


    Best Album:
    Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
    Mogwai- Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will
    Bon Iver- S/T

    Best Song:
    Real Estate- It's Real
    Bon Iver- Holocene
    Grails- Deep Politics

    Best Irish Album:
    ASIWYFA- Gangs

    Best Gig:
    Villagers & Beach House- Marlay Park
    Bon Iver- Grand Canal Theatre
    Yo La Tengo- Forbidden Fruit


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭Namlub


    Best Album - M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Metronomy - The English Riviera
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    Best Song - M83 - Midnight City
    Phantogram - Don't Move
    The Antlers - I Don't Want Love
    Yeah, I lurk mainly...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    Best Album
    Emperor X - Western Teleport
    Weedeater - Jason... The Dragon
    Future Islands - On The Water

    Best Song
    Big'n - Seaworthy
    Earth - Descent to the Zenith
    Death Grips - Guillotine

    Best Video


    Best Irish Album
    Tieranniesaur - Tieranniesaur

    Best promoter
    U:MACK

    Best Gig
    WHY?/Serengeti - Button Factory
    Magic Band - Button Factory
    Mike Watt - Crawdaddy
    lordgoat wrote: »
    Also like to say thanks to all of you for contributing to the forum over the last 12 months, genuinely without this forum i'd barely log onto boards these days.

    It's been emotional :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Best Album:
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    Best Gig:
    Sufjan Stevens - Olympia Theatre
    Bon Iver - Grand Canal Theatre


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    Best Album

    The Decemberists - The king is dead
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

    Best Song

    M83 - Wait
    Beirut - Sante Fé
    WU LYF - LYF

    Best Video

    Without a doubt this:



    Best Irish Album

    Exit: Pursued by a bear
    Lisa Hannigan - Passenger
    ASIWYFA - Gangs

    Best Gig

    Lisa Hannigan Caoimhín Ó Raghaillaigh & James Vincent McMorrow - Mitchelstown Caves
    Fleet Foxes - The Marquee Cork
    Joanna Newsom & Bert Jansch - Marley Park


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭Edal


    Best Album

    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

    Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

    Gillian Welsh - The Harrow and the Harvet

    Best Video



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    My top 10 LPs of 2011

    01 Sandra Cross - The MMs Bar Recordings
    02 The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies
    03 Half Man Half Biscuit - 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
    04 Moon Wiring Club - Somewhere A Fox Is Getting Married
    05 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
    06 Citizen Fish - Goods
    07 Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks
    08 Rustie - Glass Swords
    09 The Fall - Ersatz G.B.
    10 Jean-Claude Vannier - Roses Red Rouge


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,979 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Best Album:
    Yuck - Yuck
    The Big Roar - The Joy Formidable
    King Of Limbs - Radiohead

    Best Song:
    Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - Arctic Monkeys
    Still Life - The Horrors
    Whirring - The Joy Formidable

    Best Video:
    Circulation - Thurston Moore


    Best Irish Album:
    100 Acres Of Sycamore - Fionn Regan

    Best Gig:
    Thurston Moore at the Button Factory


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭Stompbox


    Best Album:
    • Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    • The Horrors - Skying
    • Yuck - Yuck

    Best Song:
    • You're So Right - The Strokes
    • Ice Cream - Battles
    • Albatross - Wild Beasts

    Best Video:
    • Tom Vek - Aroused

    Best Irish Album:
    • Squarehead - Yeah, Nothing
    • And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs

    Best promoter:
    • Popical Island

    Best Gig:
    • Bon Iver - Grand Canal Theatre
    • Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Button Factory
    • Battles - Button Factory


  • Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Best Album
    The Kills - Blood Pressures
    Kasabian - Velocirapter
    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

    Best Song
    Miles Kane - Rearrange
    The Kills - Nail in My Coffin
    The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts

    Best Irish Album
    Sounds of a System Breakdown - Bandcamp


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Captain Graphite


    Best Album:
    Feist - Metals
    Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
    M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

    Best Song:
    PJ Harvey - Written on the Forehead
    Tom Vek - Aroused
    Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce
    (wanted to include Warpaint's Undertow but it was originally released in 2010 so wasn't sure if it would count or not?)

    Best gig:
    Arcade Fire @ Electric Picnic

    Ok I'd now like to nominate best video too, if that's ok?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭RichTea


    Best Album:
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
    Metronomy - The English Riviera

    Best Song:
    M83 - Midnight City
    St Vincent - Cruel
    Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (ft Santigold)

    Best Video:
    Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise


    Best Irish Album:
    Tieranniesaur - Tieranniesaur!

    Best Gig:
    Bon Iver - Grand Canal Theatre


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭sink


    Best Album:
    The Antlers - Burst Apart
    M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    Best Song:
    Yuck - Rubber
    The Antlers - I Don't Want Love
    M83 - Wait


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 4,726 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gonzovision


    Best Album:

    Wild Beasts - Smoother
    M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    Best Song:

    The Antlers - Putting the dog to sleep
    Bon Iver - Holocene
    M83 - Wait

    Best Irish Album:

    ASIWYFA - Gangs

    Best Gig:

    Wild Beasts - The Academy
    Sufjan Stevens - The Olympia
    Fleet Foxes - The Marquee

    Best Video

    Fleet Foxes - The Shrine/An Argument



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Best Album:
    Yuck - Yuck
    M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

    Best Song:
    Yuck - 'Get Away'
    The Horrors - 'Still Life'
    Asobi Seksu - 'Perfectly Crystal'

    Best Video:



    Best Irish Album:
    Altar of Plagues - Mammal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Best Album:

    Bon Iver - Bon Iver
    Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
    Low - Cmon

    Best Song:

    Low - Try To Sleep
    Cut/Copy - Take Me Over
    BellX1 - Nightwatchmen

    Best Video:



    Best Irish album:
    Jape - Ocean Of Frequency


  • Subscribers Posts: 8,325 ✭✭✭Scubadevils


    I decided today that I was going to buy that latest Tim Hecker, walked down to Tower Records after work all set to make my purchase to find it out of stock :( The planned spend however certainly did not go to waste, ended up with this instead which is just shockingly good and absolutely in with some of the best music I've heard this year!

    Blanck Mass – Blanck Mass [ambient/drone - questionable as to its place in this forum :pac: ]



    Some other new album highlights for me this year [that don't have any unz, unz, unz]...

    M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Nicolas Jaar - Space is the Only Noise
    Low - C'Mon
    Peaking Lights - 936
    John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

    Reissue of the year goes to the amazing 'Life is Full of Possibilities' by Dntel - how I missed it first time around ten years ago is beyond me.

    Finally, the album I'm pretty excited about but haven't got it yet is 'In Dust' by Roll The Dice - I have the vinyl & CD box set on the way as a gift at Christmas, cannot wait to drop the needle on it sometime Christmas day with a glass of wine in hand and tin of quality street nearby...

    Roll The Dice - Calling All Workers

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQ3hd8-MZk

    Oh finally, and I know this is most likely against the grain but there is one track that has really annoyed me this year and that's 'The Glorious Land' by PJ Harvey - I absolutely hate the frequent burst of bugle, very annoying!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭MeetReality


    Best Album:
    Nicolas Jaar- Space Is Only Noise
    The Field- Looping State of Mind
    Modeselektor- Monkeytown


    Best Song:
    PJ Harvey- On Battleship Hill
    Radiohead- Codex
    SBTRKT- Wildfire

    Best gig:
    **** Robot- Electric Picnic
    Santigold- Electric Picnic
    SBTRKT- Wormans Club


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