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Justin Sowers





Justin's  Best Of 2011
White Fence - Is Growing Faith
Woods - Sun & Shade
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dreamer
Oh Sees - Castlemania
Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
Thou - Archer And The Owls
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
War On Drugs - Slave Ambient

Top 20 of All Time (in alphabetical order):
Beatles - Revolver
Beck - Mellow Gold
Dead Meadow - s/t
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker
Gerbils - Are You Sleepy?
Hickey - Various States of Disrepair
Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Monks - Black Monk Time
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In
Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Dusk At Cubist Castle
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates of Dawn
Queens of the Stone Age - s/t
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
Songs:Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Velvet Underground & Nico - s/t
Woods - Songs of Shame
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

Travis Searle

 

 

 

Travis's Best Of 2011

3.  Tune-Yards - Whokill
5.  UV Race - Homo
1.  Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
2.  St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
4.  Other Lives - Tamer Animals
6.  Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
8. War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
14. Black Keys - El Camino
12.  Ebo Taylor - Life Stories (reissue)
7.  Shitty/Awesome - S/T
10.  Real Estate - Days
9.  Spits - S/T 5
13. Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
11. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream


Favorites of All Time (6/1/2010 version):
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Ramones - S/T
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Thee Oh Sees - Help
Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Mika Miko - We Be XUXA
Replacements - Let It Be
David Bowie - Scary Monsters

Will Muir







Will's Best Of 2011
tune-yards – whokill
dum dum girls - only in dreams
bright eyes - the people's key
youth lagoon - year of hibernation
wu lyf - go to fire to the mountain
washed out - within & without
the oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream ep + castlemania
other lives - tamer animals
thao + mirah - thao + mirah
veronica falls - veronica falls


Top 20 All Time (at least so far):
Prince - Dirty Mind
New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies
Morrissey - Years Of Refusal
Velvet Underground - S/T
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over The Sea
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
The Cure - Japanese Whispers
The National - Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Stone Roses - S/T
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Caberet
New York Dolls - S/T

 

Jon Lambeth





2011
bachs - out of the bachs - time-lag
charalambides - exile - kranky
grouper - a i a - yellow electric
king blood - eyewash silver - permanent
sean mccann - the capital - aguirre
lee noble - no becoming - sweat lodge guru
oh sees - carrion crawler - in the red
jakob olausson - morning & sunrise - de stijl
sic alps - napa asylum - drag city
wooden wand - briarwood - mad monk
...on youtube

2010
bardo pond - bardo pond - fire
paul cary - ghost of a man - stankhouse
fraction - moon blood - mexican summer
les rallizes denudes - heavier than a death in the family - phoenix
mv & ee - liberty rose - arbitrary signs
robedoor - burners - important
sun araw - on patrol - not not fun
twells & christensen - coasts - digitalis
wooden wand - death seat - young god
yellow swans - going places - type
...on youtube

 

Tom Goheen

 

 

 

Tom's Best Of 2011

13&God – Own Your Ghost
Akron/Family – S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT
Bon Iver – Bon Iver
Chad VanGaalen – Diaper Island
Clams Casino – Rainforest EP
Deaf Center – Owl Splinters
Derek Rogers – Populist Context
Dozens – Ultrasematic
Golden Retriever – Light Cones
Grouper – A|A LP and Water People single
Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed – Visiter EP
Higuma – Pacific Fog Dreams
James Blake – S/T
James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual
Josephine – You Are Perfect Today
Kawabata Makoto – The Tales of the Dream Planet
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
Lee Noble – Horrorism
Mountains – Air Museum
Owen – Ghost Town
Pulse Emitter – Forest, Mountain, Valley
Real Estate – Days
Sean McCann – The Capital
Shitty/Awesome – S/T
Six Organs of Admittance – Asleep on the Floodplain
Stephan Mathieu – A Static Place
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972

Favorite Albums (in no order):
The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
Unwound - New Plastic Ideas and Future of What and Repetition
Thanksgiving - Thanksgiving
Billy Bragg - Workers Playtime
Kind of Like Spitting - Thrill of the Hunt
Stars of the Lid - And the Refinement of Their Decline
Growing - The Sky's Run Into the Sea
Why? - Alopecia
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... 
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
OCS - S/T (Orinoka Crash Suite)
Joan of Arc - How Memory Works and The Gap
Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Built To Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Bedhead - Beheaded
Mount Eerie - Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie
Odd Nosdam - Burner
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Elliott Smith - Self-Titled
Pedro the Lion - It's Hard to Find a Friend
The New Year - The End Is Near
The Party of Helicopters - Please Believe It
The Bananas - Forbidden Fruit
Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
American Football - S/T Album + EP
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon
Shellac - At Action Park
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Tiny Hawks - Fingers Become Bridges
Wipers - Is This Real?
Windy & Carl - Consciousness
Hickey - Self-Titled
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Ween - The Pod
Papa M - Whatever, Mortal
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Sonic Youth - Dirty or Sister
J Church - Nostalgic For Nothing (singles collection)
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
Descendents - Milo Goes to College
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
Beck - Sea Change
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

 

Dustin Overby

 

 

 

 

Dustin's Top 10 Favorites of 2011

Wye Oak - Civilian
Peaking Lights - 936
Wooden Shjips - West
Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
People's Temple - Sons of Stone
Grouper - A I A; Dream Loss/Alien Observer
Hunx & His Punx - Too Young To Be In Love
Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Pure X - Pleasure
Thurston Moore - Demolished Thought

 

Staley's Best Of 2011
Tune-Yards-WhoKill
Wu Lyf- Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Oh Sees-Castlemania
Youth Lagoon-Year of Hibernation
Kendrick Lamar- section.80
Shitty/Awesome- S/T
Shabazz Palaces- Black Up
Girls- Father, Son, Holy Ghost
Shannon and the Clams- Sleep Talk
Mikal Cronin- Trouble in Mind

Mixtapes:
The Weeknd-House of Balloons
A$AP Rocky- LiveLoveA$AP
Mr. Mothafuckin eXquire- Lost in Translation

Honorable Mentions: Peaking Lights, Washed Out, Clams Casino, Kurt Vile, Other Lives, Drake

 

Joey's Best Of 2011
Fucked Up - "David Comes To Life"
Ty Segall - "Goodbye Bread"
Thee Oh Sees - "Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP"
Thee Oh Sees - "Castlemania"
The Spits - "V"
Hunx and his Punx - "Too Young To Be In Love"
Red Fang - "Murder The Mountains"
Neon Indian - "Era Extraña"
YOB - "Atma"
UV Race - "Homo"
Stuff that got reissued or just barely didn't make it:
Ty Segall - "Singles 2007-2010"
The Reatards - "Teenage Hate"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Siamese Dream"/"Gish"
JD McPherson - "Signs and Signifiers"
tUnE-yArDs - "w h o k i l l"
Black Lips - "Arabia Mountain"
White Hills - "H-p1"
King Blood - "Eyewash Silver"
Broncho - "Can't Get Past The Lips"
Shitty/Awesome - "S/T" (Yeah, I put that shit on here...what? WHAT? DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.)

Aaron's Best Of 2011
Dirty Beaches – Badlands
King Blood – Eyewash Silver (Hey, it was re-issued in 2011! That counts?)
Moon Duo – Mazes
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania
Thee Oh Sees – Carrion Crawler / The Dream EP
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
The People’s Temple – Sons of Stone
Ty Segall – Goodbye Bread
Ty Segall – Spiders 7”
Ty Segall – Singles 2007-2010
Shitty/Awesome – Shitty/Awesome
True Widow – As High as the Heavens... (See Justin’s picks for full title)
Weekend – Red
Weyes Blood And the Dark Juices – The Outside Room

Matt's Best Of 2011
fucked up - david comes to life
thee oh sees - carrion crawler/the dream
ty segall - goodbye bread
liturgy - aesthethica
trash talk - awake
main attrakionz - 808s and dark grapes ii
wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972
lil b - i'm gay (i'm happy)
iceage - new brigade
real estate - days
kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
james blake - s/t
wooden shjips – west

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