The 111 Best albums of 2011

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Here they are.  The 111 Best Albums of 2011 as voted on by you my readers.  If you don’t like the results…then vote for something better next year.

I personally, always like the results of this list much better than most critic lists.  This list is always more honest to me.  While Adele dominated most lists…she only cracks the top 40 here.  Or the Decemberists who barely made it on many critic lists jumped up high here because the people just liked the album.

Here are the 111 Best Albums of 2011:

  1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
  2. The Black Keys – El Camino
  3. The Decemberists – King Is Dead
  4. Yuck – Yuck
  5. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
  6. Death Cab For Cutie – Codes and Keys
  7. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
  8. Radiohead – King of Limbs
  9. Wilco – The Whole Love
  10. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
  11. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
  12. The Weeknd – House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silence
  13. Manchester Orchestra – Simple Math
  14. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
  15. Wye Oak – Civilian
  16. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
  17. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne
  18. The Strokes – Angles
  19. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
  20. R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now
  21. Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
  22. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
  23. Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
  24. Middle Brother – Middle Brother
  25. Telekinesis – 12 Desperate Straight Lines
  26. Destroyer – Kaputt
  27. War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
  28. Wild Flag – Wild Flag
  29. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
  30. Tune-Yards – Who Kill
  31. Foster The People – Torches
  32. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
  33. Real Estate – Days
  34. Beirut – Rip Tide
  35. Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire
  36. Rural Alberta Advantage – Departing
  37. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
  38. Adele – 21
  39. Gomez – Whatever’s On Your Mind
  40. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical
  41. Raveonettes – Raven in the Grave
  42. James Blake – James Blake
  43. Stephen Malkmus – Mirror Traffic
  44. Alexander (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) – Alexander
  45. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
  46. Tapes N Tapes – Outside
  47. Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What
  48. Class Actress – Rapproacher
  49. Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong
  50. My Morning Jacket – Circuital
  51. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams
  52. Ersatz G.B. – The Fall
  53. Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
  54. Atlas Sound – Paradox
  55. Explosions in the Sky – Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
  56. Rival Schools – Pedals
  57. Sigur Ros – Inni
  58. Battles – Gloss Drop
  59. Dustin O Halloran – Lumiere
  60. Sam Roberts Band – Collider
  61. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part 2
  62. Drake – Take Care
  63. Washed Out – Within and Without
  64. Feist – Metals
  65. Jason Isbell – Here We Rest
  66. Fountains of Wayne – Sky Full of Holes
  67. Grouplove – Never Trust a Happy Song
  68. Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
  69. Childish Gambino – Camp
  70. Low – C’mon
  71. Crooked Fingers – Breaks in the Armor
  72. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing
  73. Deer Tick – Divine Providence
  74. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
  75. Hey Rosetta! – Seeds
  76. SBTRKT – SBTRKT
  77. The Head and the Heart – The Head and the Heart
  78. The Roots – undun
  79. Noah and the Whale – Last Night On Earth
  80. Mates of State – Mountaintops
  81. New Found Glory – Radiosurgery
  82. Gillian Welch – Harrow and Harvest
  83. Anna Calvi – Anna Calvi
  84. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – Scandalous
  85. Found – Factorycraft
  86. Metronomy – The English Riviera
  87. Library Voices – Summer of Lust
  88. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
  89. The Kills – Blood Pressures
  90. Juliana Barwick – The Magic Place
  91. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
  92. We Were Promised Jetpacks – In The Pit Of Our Stomachs
  93. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
  94. Tennis – Cape Dory
  95. Cults – Cults
  96. The Antlers – Burst Apart
  97. Friendly Fires – Pala
  98. Bombay Bicycle Club – A Different Kind of Fix
  99. J. Mascias – Several Shades of Why
  100. Tyler the Creator – Goblin
  101. Noah Gallagher – High Flying Birds
  102. Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer
  103. We Are Augustines – Rise Ye Sunken Ships
  104. The Airborne Toxic Event – All At Once
  105. And You Will Know us By The Trail of Dead – Tao of the Dead
  106. The Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida
  107. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
  108. Okkervil River – I Am Very Far
  109. Glossary – Long Live Us All
  110. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
  111. The Deep Dark Woods – The Place I Left Behind

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