Top 10 Albums of 2011

[Bodhi]

Hey everyone, its been a great year for music, especially rock.  Since its December, what are some of your top albums of the year? Here's mine,

1. Sum 41 "Screaming Bloody Murder"

2. Blink 182 "Neighborhoods"

3. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows "D.R.U.G.S

4. Angels and Airwaves "Love Part 1 and 2"

5. Hell or Highwater "Begin Again"

6. Sixx A.M. "This is Gonna Hurt"

7. Megadeth "Th1rt3en"

8. Foo Fighters "Wasting Light"

9. Noel Gallagher "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds"

10. A Day To Remember "What Separates Me From You"

Honorable mentions Red Hot Chili Peppers "I'm With you", Sebastian Bach "Kicking and Screaming", Black Veil Brides "Set the World on Fire", Beady Eye "Different Gear, Still Speeding", Anthrax "Worship Music" and Limp Bizkit "Gold Cobra" (that album was fun for about a week or so)

[crow316]

geez, I think I only picked up 2 albums in 2011.

1.  Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
2.  Megadeth- Th1rt3en

[axlrosegnr]

I can't pick 10......ummmmm let's see.

1. Sixx A.M. - This is Gonna Hurt
2. Korn - The Path of Totality


By default those are my top 2 because they're the only ones I bought (and I didn't buy the Korn album YET, as it doesn't come out until next week, but I will)

[Trist805]

1. Mastodon- The Hunter
2. Primus- Green Naugahyde
3. Anthrax- Worship Music
4. Buckethead- Three Foot Clearance
5. Buckethead- Empty Space
6. Buckethead- It's Alive
7. Duff McKagan's Loaded- The Taking
8. Buckethead- Look Up There
9. Scott Weiland- The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
10. Buckethead- Underground Chamber


I just filled out the list with Buckethead's albums from this year lol

[LongGoneDay]

Guess it's been a slow year for me..

Chris Cornell - Songbook
Rolling Stones - The Brussells Affair
Rolling Stones - Some Girls Deluxe Edition
David Bazan - Strange Negotiations

Kind of cheating, but Soundgarden at Mohegan Sun, CT and Jeff Beck & Imelda May Band @ the Wang were the best live shows of 2011 for me, and I was able to track down great quality bootlegs of both.

I also bought Social D, Foo Fighters and Megadeth's new albums, but haven't gotten into em yet.

Forgot Primus put out a new one, will have to check it out..

[D]

RHCP I'm With You

[Malcolm]

1. Watch The Throne - Jay-Z & Kanye West
2. Nickelback - Here & Now
3.Kid Rock - Born Free
4. 3 Doors Down - Time Of My Life
5. SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy
6. Chickenfoot - III

[Gunner80]

RHCP I'm With You

That was so bad I literally threw it in the trash can the second day I had it.   

Don't have a top ten. But the Stones Some Girls reissue bonus disc is sublime.

[AxlReznor]

10 - Star Anna And The Laughing Dogs - Alone In This Together
9 - Sixx:A.M. - This Is Gonna Hurt
8 - Dropkick Murphy's - Going Out In Style
7 - Within Temptation - The Unforgiving
6 - Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole
5 - Joss Stone - LP1
4 - Evanescence - Evanescence
3 - Tommy Stinson - One Man Mutiny
2 - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
1 - Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking

With honourable mentions going to...
Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
SuperHeavy - SuperHeavy
Jay-Z/Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Orianthi - Fire E.P.
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Go Down Under
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist

Oh, and the reissues of Gish and Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins are awesome!

[tippasaurus]

Haven't listened to a lot of new music that I would consider all that memorable, at least this year, but The Black Keys' "El Camino" would likely be at the top of my list if I tried to put one together.  Probably their best since "Magic Potion" (I wasn't a big fan of last year's "Brothers").

[journey]

I got Adele's 21 at the beginning of the year and loved it. It was the first album I was excited about buying in a long time.

 

[Bridge]

1. Florence and the Machine -- Ceremonials
2. The Sounds -- Something to Die For
3. Slash -- Live, Made in Stoke
4. Within Temptation -- The Unforgiving
5. Evanescence -- Evanescence

Those are the only ones I bought this year.  Florence's album was by far the best.  I can't stop listening to that one.

[rebelhipi]

these are the ones im most familiar with /bought  not including reissues / live dvds/blurays whatever

1 loaded - the taking (wheres the film??)

2 graveyard - hisingen blues

3 foo fighters - wasting light

4 scott weiland - the most wonderfull time of the year

5 lou reed metallica - lulu (hard to think where to put  this cause so weird stuff!!! ...but fift place for doing somethin new and creative ...a new genre of sorts)

6 megadeth - th1rteen

7 sixx am - this is gonna hurt

im gonna buy that new coldplay album soon i will edit this after ive listened it 

[Bobarcord]

Machine Head - Unto the Locust
Anthrax - worship Music
Social Distortion - Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes
Megadeth- Th1rt3en
Dropkick Murphy's - Going Out In Style
black Country Communion - 2
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Tommy Stinson - One Man Mutiny

[westcoast_junkie]

This is my favorites of the year (so far, I'm a little slow with keeping up to date, can discover "new" music, and then it's many years old):

Michael Monroe - Sensory Overdrive

Primus - Green Naugahyde

Loaded - The Taking

Social Distortion - Hard times and nursery rhymes

Tommy Stinson - One Man Mutiny

Nicke Borg - Chapter 2 (with the great Eurovision-song Leaving Home  )

[fTw777]

in no particular order
Megadeth - Th1rt3en
Sixx AM - This Is Gonna Hurt
Sebastian Bach - Kicking And Screaming
Wednesday 13 - Calling All Corpses
Children Of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever
Anthrax - Worship Music
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking
Black Veil Brides - Set The World On Fire

[metallex78]

At first I didn't think that many great rock albums came out this year, but in compiling this list, I realised that we did indeed get some gems released in 2011

Anthrax - Worship Music
Chickenfoot - III
Chris Cornell - Songbook
Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Machine Head - Unto The Locust
Megadeth - Th1rt3en
Sixx:AM - This Is Gonna Hurt
Sebastian Bach - Kicking And Screaming
Slash - Live, Made in Stoke

Honorable mention:
Metallica - Beyond Magnetic EP (their saving grace after the Lulu fiasco )

[BlowUpYourVideo]

It's not been as good a year as 2010 for me as far as albums go. Off the top of my head, the only ones I bought were the albums by Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Avril Lavigne (fuck you, I like her ), Radiohead and Evanescence. I also bought the Lou Reed/Metallica one which I haven't got around to listening to yet. I'm not sure it's going to be quite as terrible as people are making out but we'll see.

Like with most new albums, I haven't listened to them enough to rank them but I'd say that either Liam or Noel's efforts were the best.

[metallex78]

I also bought the Lou Reed/Metallica one which I haven't got around to listening to yet. I'm not sure it's going to be quite as terrible as people are making out but we'll see.

No, it's even worse than that...
I'm a huge Metallica fan, and this is the first album from them I haven't bought.

To be fair though, having seen some live performance tv appearances from them playing songs from the album, I think I kinda get what the were going for, it just doesn't translate in the studio.
Check out the Live on Jools Holland performances on youtube, Metallica are rocking really hard, and Lou Reed is just trying to keep up!

[liquidvirus]

Slash  - Live in Stoke
Rise Against - Endgame
The Lonely Island - Turtleneck and Chain
Sixx A.M. - This Is Gonna Hurt
Cicada - Sunburst
Zomboy - Game Time
Jane's Addiction - The Great Escape Artist
The Black Keys - El Camino

I think this year finally killed "the album", expect more and more singles coming up in the future.