Album of The Year - Endgame

The N+G Top 20 Albums of 2011

  1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
  2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
  3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
  4. Destroyer - Kaputt
  5. St Vincent - Strange Mercy
  6. Danny Brown - XXX
  7. Real Estate - Days
  8. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
  9. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
  10. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
  11. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
  12. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
  13. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
  14. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
  15. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up (tie 15)
  16. Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (tie 15)
  17. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra. (tie 17)
  18. Feist - Metals (tie 17)
  19. The Black Keys - El Camino (tie 17)
  20. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
 
spreddy updated!


85 will be an interesting year - lotsa sad-sack raincoat wearers in contention like the smiths, the cure, j&mc

quick look in my itunes for tagged oztrayan and kiwi albums from 1985 brings out the following antipodean options for those playing along at home and looking to hear something from down under:
  • nick cave's "first born is dead"
  • the church's "heyday"
  • divinyls' "what a life"
  • do-re-mi's "domestic harmony"
  • hoodoo gurus' "mars needs guitars"
  • inxs' "listen like thieves"
  • paul kelly's "post"
at least one of those will be top ten for me
 
Top 10 - 1985:
  1. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
  2. Sade - Promise
  3. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  4. New Order - Low-Life
  5. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
  6. The Cure - The Head On The Door
  7. Prince - Around The World In A Day
  8. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
  9. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
  10. Whitney Houston - S/T
HMs:
The Fall - This Nation’s Saving Grace
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
The Mekons - Fear And Whiskey
Pogues - Rum, Sodomy And The Lash
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
The Church - Heyday
 
1. The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
1a. woober
2. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
3. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
4. Talking Heads - Little Creatures
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Firstborn is Dead
6. The Hooters - Nervous Night
7. The Cure - The Head on the Door
8. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
9. Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
10. The Smiths - Meat is Murder


HM - The Highwaymen - Highwayman
 
My Favourite Albums from 1985:
  1. Sam Cooke – Live at the Harlem Square Club (One of the greatest live albums of all time.)
  2. Tom Waits – Raindogs
  3. Various Artists – The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
  4. Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From the Underground)
  5. The Smiths – Meat is Murder
  6. Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
  7. R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
  8. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
  9. Dire Straights – Brothers in Arms
  10. Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, Robert Cray - Showdown!
  11. Tears for Fears – Songs From the Big Chair
  12. The Cure – Head on the Door
  13. Hank Mobley – Another Workout
  14. Grant Green – Born to Be Blue
  15. The Replacements – Tim
 
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  1. The Cure - The Head on the Door
  2. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
  3. Rites of Spring - S/T
  4. Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur
  5. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
  6. The Replacements - Tim
  7. Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
  8. The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
  9. Run D.M.C - King of Rock
  10. Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
 
1 Feedtime - s/t
2 The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
3 Midnight Oil - Red Sails In The Sunset
4 Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
5 Fishbone - s/t (long ep)
6 Verlaines- hallelujah
7 Ed Kuepper - Electrical Storm
8 Orchestral Manœuvres In The Dark - Crush
9 Prince - Around The World In A Day

84 for the oils?

i'd forgotten all about the ed kuepper solo debut...add it to the list of records to be reconsidered for the next week or so...
 
1. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psycocandy
2. Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
3. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
4. New Order - Low-Life
5. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
6. Tom Waits - Raindogs
7. Microdisney - The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
8. R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
9. The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
10. Prince - Around the World in a Day
 
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