Albums of the Year: 2011!
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Always look forward to your lists, Michele. 😎
@@NaughtyVampireGodThank you, Naughty. Likewise! 😊
Paulie Paul...The lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys & Miles Kane had a side band that was a 60s pop radio vibe called The Last Shadow Puppets. It might be fun for you to explore their two albums..The Age of the Understatement (2008) and the follow-up Everything You've Come to Expect (2016). Paulcore is alive and well. I am a Sloan guy too and there are four stone cold classic tracks on this album(Unkind, Shadow of Love, Follow the Leader, The Answer was You), so I am with you, buddy...Ok, 2011. Not a great year for my earholes, but I tracked down some deliciousness and some era goodness that may not be modern greatness, but that's how it goes...
HMs:
Cat's Eyes - s/t
Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Yeras
Dum Dum Girls - Only in Dreams
Sloan - The Double Cross
Glasvegas - Euphoric/Heartbreak
Girls - Father Son Holy Ghost
The Rapture - In the Grace of Your Love
Other Lives - Tamer Animals
Radiohead - King of Limbs
10. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
9, TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
8. The Chapman Family - Burn Your Town
7. (Tie) SCUM - Again into Eyes & Cut Copy - Zonoscope
6. Kasabian - Velociraptor
5. The Black Lips - Arabia Mountain
4. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect...
3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - s/t
2. Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
1. The Horrors - Skying
Whoa, I loved that Chapman Family album, need to revisit. Another brief one and done band lost between the cracks. Grateful at least one other person on the planet cares about TVOTR's Nine Types of Light. It deserved better.
Hi JB! Nice to see the Black Lips! I really dig their 2020 and 2022 albums but haven’t explored beyond that. I think that Horrors album is lovely but I haven’t spent as much time with that one as others. So much dang homework! 📚 Cat’s Eyes is a Faris Badwan project?! Gonna have to check that out!
Also, thank you Paul for shouting out the track Überlin off Collapse into Now..I love that song so much, and it makes me lump-throated and teary-eyed every time! It’s very bittersweet..🥹🥹🩵
You guys are so fucking adorable. Love waking up to your analysis and natter. I am now going to start doing something I wish I would have done for all the year videos in the past -- what I was listening to in 2011:
Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
Eighteen Individual Eyes, Unnovae Nights
Tom Waits, Bad as Me
Paul Simon, So Beautiful & So What
Tyler, Goblin
The Decemberists, The King is Dead
Thank you VERY much Chris 😊
ANALYSIS & NATTER…MY NEW PUNK ROCK BAND NAME!
We are definitely getting into some fallow years here... But I am still able to crank out a top ten list, though I have to admit that I am not willing to die on this hill.
10. A Woman Falling Out of Love, Aretha Franklin (If it's Aretha, the album doesn't have to be good.)
9. 21, Adele
8. Move Like This, the Cars (better than I expected it do be)
7. The Old Magic, Nick Lowe (Nick Lowe could fart into the mic for five minutes and it would still be better than most of what was released this year)
6. I Feel You, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall
5. Metals, Feist
4. Rare Bird Alert, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers (I'm not normally a fan of bluegrass, but this is pretty good stuff)
3. Let Them Talk, Hugh Laurie (brilliant comic actor who is also a very talented pianist)
2. Artificial Heart, Jonathan Coulton
1. Smile Sessions, the Beach Boys
Technically, I shouldn't include Smile Sessions, since it's a compilation, but what the hell. Sue me.
This is a damned good list!
Holy shit!!! Man, if I didn’t have a rule not to include compilations on my lists, then the SMiLE Sessions would totally be #1 for me!!!
@@curly_wyn Yeah, if it weren’t 2011 and if it were any other compilation, I wouldn’t include it, but I’m happy to make an exception for this one this year….
Hey Papa Nick! Nice to see The Cars swan song getting lotsa love in the video and in the comment section. Like i said before, sadly this was a year of at least three other final studio albums: REM, Social D, and Tom Waits.
Paul, hear the new song by Redd Kross? Thoughts? New album comes out June 28th. I can’t wait to hear it
Yep, I've heard it. It's good classic RK
@@AsItShouldBePodcast I just listened to that track this week. A couple other things that came out yesterday you might like are The Resonars - Electricity Plus, a power pop/garage psych band formed in Tucson in 1991. This is their ninth album, still going strong. I'm trying to get more into The Lemon Twigs, also with a new album -- Shindig! mag is bananas over 'em. One of my favorite 21st century psych pop bands is The Sonic Dawn from Denmark. Their 6th album, Phantom is out next week, and will be a must hear!
Elephant Stone, Levitation Room and The Galileo 7 also released albums this year that I'd recommend for fans of Redd Cross, power pop, garage psych, etc.
Hi guys. 2011 a low decent for myself.
I agree with all the Hate lists.
Paul--- REM Collapse Into Now is just a skoch better imo. than Accelerate.
I love "hollow man" and "man size wreath" off that one.
"Uberlin"
"Everyday is yours to Win"; "Blue", and "that someone is you" were my favorites on "Collapse..."
All together considered, was an ok album to go out on. Longtime fans understood.
---I did really like many tunes off "Around the Sun" as well.
**Didnt Capitol records & The beach boys finally put out the Smile Session boxset this Year??
The Only Thing worth a darn this 2011.
i loved SMILE but i found it a bit overwhelming still awesome.
2012 see ya then🙋🥁🇺🇲✌️
Hello Marco. Accelerate was a great comeback album after three duds from one of my favorite bands of all time. I like the album a little better than Collapse into Now. Hollow Man is a top 10 song of the year for me (#7, I think).
I will check out the Pugwash! I had a visceral hatred for Arctic Monkeys when they first came out cuz the hype was ridiculous. But they started growing on me on their second album. This one was the first where they started working with Josh Homme, but the songs aren't quite there. I always have time for Sloan, great stuff. I was revisiting the Smithereens catalog, and this one is new for me.
I tried to get y'all to check out some Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Graveyard and Blood Ceremony before this episode, but I'll keep tryin! Also Syd Arthur, Fuzz Manta, Castle, The Devil's Blood, The Sand Pebbles, The Luck of Eden Hall are all great psych prog, garage psych, psych noir, etc!
I've been binging these episodes since last week so I'm kind of OD-ing and I just wanna slap Tommy. I can tell y'all get that urge nearly every time, lol. But props to him for abandoning all ego and sharing his Justin Hawkins lookalike phase. He nearly pulls it off, catsuit and all.
1. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
3. Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
4. TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
5. The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
6. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients
7. White Denim - D
8. Been Obscene - Night O’ Mine
9. Sungrazer - Mirador
10. Premonition 13 - 13
Syd Arthur - Moving World EP
Spirits Of The Dead - The Great God Pan
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Tao Of The Dead
40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room
The Feelies - Here Before
Fuzz Manta - Opus II
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Castle - In Witch Order
Witch Mountain - South Of Salem
Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street
The Devil’s Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
The Luck Of Eden Hall - Butterfly Revolutions Vol. 1 & 2
The Sand Pebbles - Dark Magic
At Devil Dirt - At Devil Dirt
Amplifier - The Octopus
Cosmic Psychos - Glorius Barsteds
Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar
Charles Bradley - No Time For Dreaming
Pete & the Pirates - One Thousand Pictures
Bubblin' under: Green & Wood, Mastodon, Tom Waits, Fellwoods, Wo Fat, SubRosa, Orchid, Rival Sons, PJ Harvey, The Black Watch, Orango, and High Spirits! High Spirits is from the genius of Chicago's Chris Black, who's involved in lots of bands including Dawnbringer. He melds the best hooks of 80s AOR with NWOBHM style riffery. Fun stuff, great live shows where they coordinate in all white jumpsuits and such.
Enjoying my deep dive of Pugwash, also wrapping up catching up on Redd Kross, Brent Cash, three Sloan albums I didn't have, God Save the Smithereens and 2011.
Now your turn! I think one of the problems yall are having with the, um, 21st century, is that there's so much freakin' music (100,000+ albums released a year), and when you go through whatever critic's lists or aggregate lists that you're using, most of the picks aren't up your alley so you get burned out before you get around to the ones you'd like. You need to use Rate Your Music, a community run rating site that has a ton of genre filters you can use to tailor it to what you're looking for. Paul, for example could check out one that's Psychedelic Rock & Pop/Power Pop/Baroque Pop/Progessive Pop/Garage Rock for starters. My own site, fastnbulbous, also has filters.
Bands to check out for 2012 for starters: Syd Arthur, The Honey Pot, The Galileo 7, Golden Void, Troubled Horse, Graveyard, Witchcraft, Colour Haze, Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken, Christian Mistress, Royal Thunder, Jess and the Ancient Ones, All Them Witches, Sun River, Orango.
@@Fastnbulbous1969All Them Witches, Jess and the Ancient Ones 👍👍😊
My top 10 albums of 2011:
(*and fave tracks)
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (The Glorious Land/On Battleship Hill)
2. Wild Beasts - Smother (Bed Of Nails)
3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi (No More Words)
4. Still Corners - Creatures Of An Hour (Circulars)
5. EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints (The Grey Ship)
6. Austra - Feel It Break (Beat And The Pulse)
7. Diego Garcia - Laura (Stay)
8. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials (If Only For A Night)
9. Mastodon - The Hunter (Curl Of The Burl)
10. The Rapture - In The Grace Of Your Love (How Deep Is Your Love?)
Happy Thursday Michele!! Amazing list as always!! I've heard of the acts but really didn't go deep into their catalog. Maybe I was going back to later half of the 20th century from the 60s to 90s and skipped everything else of 2011 LOL!! But I'll definitely check them out this weekend. ❤😊❤🎵🎶
What a lovely list, Michele (as always) and we share the same number two album and song from it! I saw Still Corners in there, so I’ll be checking that album out for sure after falling so heavily for this year’s ‘Dream Talk’; however, I’ll listen to that in isolation to my weekend assignment, which I have decided will be ‘Anna Calvi’. I feel like I’ve heard of her, maybe I saw her performing on a very popular live music TV show here in the UK called ‘Later… with Jools Holland’, but I can’t be sure. I’m just drawn to it somehow, so I’m going for Anna. I need to revisit that PJ album too. I know I would have listened to my friend’s copy of ‘Let England Shake’, as he was a big fan, but I honestly don’t think I bought it at the time for my own collection. A couple of other names intrigued me too, as your lists always do, but I can see it’s a rich and varied tapestry of sound you have woven this week. Hope you’re having a wonderful week yourself, Michele and I’m very much looking forward to catching up in due course 😊
PS - I tried so many times to respond to your ‘Karate Kid’ / ‘24 Hour Party People’ comment from a few days back and RUclips was having none of it! I was on a time out again, but I feel like I barely posted last week so I dunno why!
Anyway, just letting you know I tried but failed in my attempts to reply 😆
Dang...one twins moment. I like Still Corners but hadn't found them yet then. My list is fairly pedestrian, but feel free to inquire of anything you might be curious about. Always happy to single out a song to jumpstart your love...heh.
Hey Michele. We both have PJ. 😀Except for Florence + the Machine (would have been an HM if i was doing that) and Mastodon I am not too familiar w the rest of your list. I will check out some of your fave tracks and let u know. Hope you are doing well well. Talk to ya later.
Cool list, I hadn't listened to Wild Beasts in a while! How do you like the new Still Corners album?
Hey Crystal! Thanks so much for the shout out.😀 You, Paul & Tommy are outstanding hosts. You guys also care about the community and what we have to say and we truly appreciate your interaction with us. I know you all read our comments and hopefully make some discoveries (just as we make discoveries from you.) I cannot tell ya how much I enjoy discussing music w the hosts and community members (both my regular circle - you KNOW who you guys are😉 - as well as new voices). This is certainly a special place. 😎 Thx for making it all possible . .
Stepping on a soapbox for a minute here: One of the great things at the World Famous As it Should Be Studio is that community & hosts are actually interested in what each other has to say. On many other channels people are just more or less shouting to be heard or to be first or just commenting on what's hot-right-now. It's the opposite here. Lotsa luv & respect here. That's "as it should be"- - but it's unfortunately rare.
Thanks Paul and Crystal and Tommy for making this possible. Again, i really appreciate that you are taking this series all the way to the present. Great chance to find new music and re-listen to existing favorites. (Sometimes my opinions change.) i know i am not alone in listening and re-listening to music the ensure lists are fresh.
I could go on and on. Thanks again Crystal for yer shout out. That was really so nice.😘BTW I am not that young (in my 50s) but it's nice to hear that at least i sound young 🙂. (I try to stay current even though my favorite time for music is late 60s, early 70s and late 70s, early 80s). Every era has its treasures. (Of course sometimes you gotta look hard . . .)
Well Awwwlright! Enough soap-boxin'. I will post my 2011 list as soon as possible (later this afternoon). 🤓
NVG/Naughty - Always at Yer Service . . 😎
Well awwwright! Thank you for the kind words, NVG!
@@AsItShouldBePodcast 😉
What an awesome post for so many reasons! Loved what you had to say here, NVG and I do sincerely hope you’re having a great week! I’ve got to be totally honest and say I thought you may have been in your mid-late thirties. You have such an exuberant style of communication, which I’ve loved since we first starting corresponding, so please do very much take this as a compliment. It’s fascinating to learn you’re a little older than I imagined, and I’m in even greater awe of your latter-day musical knowledge because you have clearly kept that musical finger very much on the pulse over a fair few decades 👏 Will there be a list sometime soon, Naughty? I would very much like to see your picks for 2011, if possible (maybe it will be tomorrow for me due to the time difference), and I commend you once again on your post here and your shoutout on the vid. Along with a few others (I’m sure you can guess), you’re one of my fave contributors to this channel, so keep playing the music and keep sharing those pearls of wisdom! Until next time, sending best wishes from the UK!
@@christianewen3227 Hello Christian. Thank you!! I certainly accept it as complement that you (and Crystal, too) assumed i was considerably younger than my actual age. 🙂 Although I am not a musician, music has always been one of my great passions since an early age and fortunately i never lost that enthusiasm. . . Needless to say you are one of my fave contributors here and I always greatly anticipate your lists and commentary. You are certainly a key member of the AISB community. . . .Very impressed with the depth of your musical knowledge, my friend. . . . Will be posting my list in the next hour so you might not see it till tomorrow. After that I am on to your list and some others. Take care, Christian. 🤓
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I actually met Cher Lloyd at a meet and greet around this time. From what I remember, she was really sweet and even gave me a kiss on the cheek (I was only 8 years old)
Well awwwright...Happy Thursday everyone!! Happy May my musical family, friends and homies. So we're doing...2011!! Now I definitely want to go back to the 60s, 70s and 80s on this one. But as a team player, I will get through this year. So I have no honorable, tolerable or any kind of mentions. I have top 8 and the worst of 2011. So let's get dangerous...we should do the best cartoons of all time. 😅😅😅
My Top 8 Of 2011:
8. Adele - 21
7. J. Cole - Cole World: The Sideline Story
6. Jill Scott - The Light Of The Sun
5. Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
4. Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
3. The Cars - Move Like This
2. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
1. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
My Worst Of 2011:
Anything by Chris Brown
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Anything by Panic! At The Disco
Patrick Stump - Truant Wave
Anything by Jennifer Lopez
Anything by Beyonce
New Boyz - Too Cool To Care
Anything by Mindless Behavior
Anything by LMFAO
Anything by Pitbull
Anything by Limp Bizkit
Anything by Theory
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Anything by Ed Sheeran
Anything by Hot Chelle Rae
And my worst of 2011 goes to:
Anything by Drake (everything y'all said last week about him makes totally sense and can't stand him at all)
Well there's my list and can't wait to see everyone else's lists
Whoooooo wheeeee!
Thank you for being a highly valued team player this week, Damar as you know how much I look forward to seeing your picks! A superb list filled with a number of names I’m familiar with 😊 I’m definitely going to check out the Stevie Nicks and Cars albums! All the best to you, my friend and I do sincerely hope you’re having a splendid week!
@@christianewen3227 You're welcome Christian and thank you for the comment. I've tried my best to go for it but the 2010s was pretty much a dire decade of music...except some good ones that came out within that period. With Stevie and The Cars, their albums are pretty good. Especially the Cars since Move Like This was eventually their first without Benjamin Orr hence Ric Ocasek singing the whole entire album and their last as a band before Ric's passing years later. Glad to be part of the community with you, NVG, Michele, Papa Nicks Ernest and many others on here to share the love of music. Thank you my friend and hope you have a splendid week as well
@@UniversalBlackRocker Thanks for replying so swiftly, Damar - much appreciated my friend 🙏 I am grateful to you for the information on the album by The Cars, as it will be an emotional experience I’m sure to hear the only Cars record without Ben Orr on it 😢 What a talent he was. It’s crazy to think it’s 24 years this year since he passed away. It’s a Bank Holiday in the UK this weekend, so no work for most of us on Monday; therefore, I’m hoping to get some listening in if all goes to plan and I don’t end up being busy for someone or something instead! 😆 I echo your words entirely, in that I love being a part of this community so much, and having the opportunity to share our passion for music with like-minded people who are both keen to learn and lend their voices to discussions. Paul, Crystal and Tommy ought to be very proud of what they have accomplished with the channel thus far, as it’s just a cool place to hang out and connect. Take care of yourself my friend. It’s been great, as always, catching up with you and I know you’ll keep on rockin’! 🎶
@@christianewen3227 Yeah which is crazy because Ben died on my 18th birthday (October 3, 2000) and it was a year and 3 months after I lost my great-grandmother on her 77th birthday (July 17, 1999). That's pretty cool that you get the time listening to the albums. Thanks a lot my friend and I'll do my best to keep rockin'! And same to you as well
Favorite 2011 album :
Noel Gallagher - High Flying Birds
least favorite : Queensryche - Dedicated To Chaos !
The Horrors had a decent album with Skying that was a major departure from their earlier garage rock material. The Dutch band De Staat released their sophomore album Machinery, solid album. I agree with Tommy that Born This Way was a huge disappointment. "Judas" was a great song, though. She did "peak right out of the gate." After Born This Way I completely lost interest. 2011 was a terrible year.
10:05 This is what happens when your cast have TOO MUCH chemistry together!
LOL - it can’t be helped!
@@djcrystalclear8169 I always love watching you guys together.
Thank you for riding with us @@jacksampsonforever❤🎉❤
the 2010s get better imo, hang in there
My Top 10 Albums of 2011! A very weak year, one of the worst ever, BUT the tippy top stuff is incredible!
1. Charles Bradley - No Time for Dreaming (R.I.P. 🖤🖤)
2. Brent Cash - How Strange It Seems
3. Lamp - Tokyo Utopia Tsushin
4. Sloan - The Double Cross
5. R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
6. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
7. Miles Kane - Colour of the Trap
8. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
9. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
10. Destroyer - Kaputt
Mention: Urge Overkill - Rock & Roll Submarine
*pretty decent album, but for me it’s their second worst record behind their debut. Exit the Dragon is great, idk what you guys are talking about; yes, of course it’s definitely not as good as Saturation, but it’s still a great album. Their most recent one, Oui, is really good too! 😊 long live UO! 💙🧡
Hey, Curly! What are your thoughts on ‘The Supersonic Storybook’?
@@christianewen3227very good album! I’d be in my top 50 for ‘91 for sure, it’s a year that totally keeps on giving, including that album! 🤩
@@curly_wyn Thanks for the response, Curly! Really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and I wholeheartedly concur that’s it’s a very good album! 🙏
@@christianewen3227
You’re welcome! 😊
My Urge Overkill ranking would go:
1. Saturation (1993) *a masterpiece
2. The Stull EP (1992) *awesome
3. Exit the Dragon (1995) *great
4. Americruiser (1990) *great
5. The Supersonic Storybook (1991) *very good
6. Oui (2022) *really good!
7. Rock & Roll Submarine (2011) *decent
8. Jesus Urge Superstar (1989)*the only album of theirs I would say is bad
@@curly_wyn You did me an UO ranking! Curly, you absolute star! Cheers mate 🙏 Really cool you did that and the only ones I would swap order-wise are ‘Exit the Dragon’ and ‘The Supersonic Storybook’ 👍🏻
Haha, 2011 was a LEAN year. I only had a top 5 and that was a stretch. I know these years don't get the clicks so I'll post my list on here.
5 - Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
4 - Steven Wilson - Grace for Drowning
3 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2 - Anthrax - Worship Music
1 - Rihanna - Talk That Talk
This was so difficult to get 5. Weak ass year.
I thought Michael Jackson’s bad was a great follow-up to thriller. Sometimes I think it’s better.
The CD of originals on history is pretty great too .
I remember Cher Loyd ,I first saw her as a contestant on the X factor. I thought she was pretty cool if I remember and liked a song or so.
Ohh no my fav on youtube just disappointed me. Lulu is one shit show of an album that much i true. But Songs for Drella? Crystal you are the best. But that album is a masterpiece. Songs for Drella is John Cale and Lou Reeds final farwell to their friend and mentor Andy Warhol. His death was the only thing that could bring these two into the same room and record. It was the first time since the Velvet Underground days (and never happened again). The songs are perfect. It is easy the best thing Lou Reed did after The Velvet albums plus his album Transformer. You are still my fav on RUclips tho :)
Oh Honey, I know alllllll about it.
It’s just not my bag 🤷🏽♀️
Thank you for not kicking me to the curb.
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Hey, everyone! Here’s my list for 2011…
1 - The Horrors - ‘Skying’ (‘I Can See Through You’)
2 - Wild Beasts - ‘Smother’ (‘Bed of Nails’)
3 - Yuck - ‘Yuck’ (‘Get Away’)
4 - Elbow - ‘Build a Rocket Boys!’ (‘Lippy Kids’)
5 - [British] Sea Power - ‘Valhalla Dancehall’ (‘Who’s in Control’)
HMs
Mogwai - ‘Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will’ (‘How to be a Werewolf’)
Radiohead - ‘The King of Limbs’ (‘Bloom’)
R.E.M. - ‘Collapse into Now’ (‘Walk it Back’)
The Feelies - ‘Here Before’ (‘When You Know’)
And on a totally separate note…
It’s 20 years to the day this Brit was over at Coachella - having the time of his life 🇺🇸🎶❤️
Well we hit Number 1 twins moment...that's something...lol. I hope I threw a curve into your mind with my rather pedestrian list. REM lost me finally with that one. How come you never do a top ten? I would be happy to check it out weekly...heh
Look up Cat's Eyes...trust me, mate...you'll thank me.
@@jb8280 Will do, mate! Cheers for the recommendation 🙏 Any album/song in particular to get me started?
@@jb8280 Hey, JB! Hope you’ve had a great week mate! Wow, we’ve hit #1! The ultimate twinsie moment, surely? What an album though, eh? A clear #1 for me, but I enjoy those others in the top five too. I’ll check out your list as soon as and comment accordingly. I’m always expecting to see a curveball amongst your picks, or a glaring omission on my part, so really looking forward to seeing what makes the JB cut!
I felt that R.E.M. album was a nice way for them to call time on a stellar career. Pickings for me - and onwards - will be slim, but that was an album I bought back in 2011 and enjoyed. I’m such a huge R.E.M. fan and I do remember feeling emotional they were calling it a day. It’s also a big regret of mine I only saw them live once, when I could - and should - have seen them a number of times. Ah well, shouldn’t complain. I got lots of gigs in back in the day, and for that I’m truly thankful 🙏
I’m not sure why I tend to do top fives. I enjoy the editing aspect I suppose, and my top fives only ever include picks I consider to be top tier within their year of release. I think I did 10 (maybe more) for the 1991 vid because it was ridiculous how many personal faves were put out that year, and I’m sure I did a good few for 2001 and 2003 too. It’s cool you would be happy to see more picks, so I’ll definitely bear that in mind - moving forward - if there’s more than five albums I feel are worthy of making my ‘list list’. In earlier vids I didn’t do HMs or list fave songs, which I regret a bit now, as I would have had plenty of extra albums/songs to include in my eighties and nineties lists. Hope you have a great day, JB and always a pleasure catching up!
Hey Christian. Another outstanding list! I am liking The Horrors but they still remain a "bubbling under" band for me. 🙃 (So far i enjoyed this album more than their others.) . . . I actually put Yuck on my listen list but unfortunately ran out of time. From what i read, it sounds like I'd like 'em! . . Still not entirely into Sea Power but continuing to investigate.. . . Elbow I am familiar with but not a big fan . . . Don't know much about Wild Beasts.
As to your HMs, I am - of course - glad to see REM and the Feelies - two favorite bands of mine - represented. 😎
I hope you are enjoying yer Friday, my friend. Talk to you soon. 🤓
Well, alrighty then! Another video where Crystal, Paul and Tommy (alphabetical) moan about how mediocre or bad the year is musically, but still give us stuff they like anyway. ;) And of course, I'm willing to chime in myself, but before I go any further, I wanna correct a mistake I made in the comment I left in the 2010 video. I made this same mistake a few times before in this series and hoped I wouldn't again, but I guess I'm a human being (not a robot as much as certain websites seem to wanna believe) and of course human beings aren't perfect AT ALL. So, the mistake is that I left an album off my 2010 list. It'd be ranked right below Janelle Monae's ArchAndroid, and the album is........ Nobody's Daughter by Hole. Yeah, a lot of people don't really care for this album. People say it's really a Courtney Love solo album, not a "Hole" album, and they're probably right about that, but whoever/whatever the artist name is, it's good, I dig it.
So now, onto 2011, and like Crystal and Tommy, I have a top 4 for the year, so here goes:
4. Collapse Into Now - R.E.M. (Meant to be their last album, and I guess it shows. Ha. Not a great album but not bad. A decent way for them to go out, and I wish bands would go out the way they did. R.E.M. and the White Stripes anyway.)
3. Born This Way - Lady Gaga (In hindsight, this was her peak. The peak of her popularity and maybe even the peak of her creativity. I started to respect her during this time too. The song You And I and her showing up at the MTV Awards that year as her "male alter ego" Jo Calderone sold me. She'd move on to do other things, because it turns out she just has the talent and drive to do so, but as far as her albums go, this remains her "statement" if you will. Or if you won't. Ha. And yeah, the title track does sound like Madonna's..... Hung Up, which sounds like Express Yourself. Am I the only one that's noticed that? Nevermind.)
2. So Beautiful Or So What - Paul Simon (His last really good album. There, I said it.)
1. Strange Mercy - St. Vincent (Been interested in her for quite a while and so far, this is the only album I've heard from her, but WOW. Very interesting and quite amazing. She might turn up in my future lists. We'll see.)
I got that Smithereens 2011 album around the time it came out, but have yet to hear the whole thing. I'm sure it's good, though. It's an "honorable mention" then. Ha! They were around for the previous decade or so up to this point, but they were making covers albums. Meet The Smithereens, which was a literal cover of Meet The Beatles (and it's how I got to see them play and meet a few of them at a Fest For Beatles Fans which I commented about some videos ago in this series) which was followed by ANOTHER Beatles covers album, then an album where they did the Who's Tommy in full (yep, that happened) and then a Xmas album and THEN the 2011 album. Almost as if they owed their fans an album of all new original material after all the covers stuff they were doing. Thankfully, they did because it'd be even more depressing if Pat died before they got a chance to do it.
I'll tell you exactly how that Lou Reed/Metallica collaboration came to be, and it starts with the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Perhaps if you need further proof of how shitty that organization is or can be. Ha. In 2009, they were celebrating their 25th anniversary and decided to put together two big concerts, two nights in a row, at Madison Square Garden with VERY impressive bills. Night 1 had Crosby Stills and Nash, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. Night 2 had Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica and U2. Each act would have special guests on and do a few songs with them. During Metallica's set, they had Ozzy (makes sense), Ray Davies (a bit odd but interesting and "sort of" makes sense considering the history of hard rock and all), and then...... Lou Reed. At this point, you know it wasn't exactly Metallica themselves picking the special guests, it was someone else and Metallica just went along with it respectfully. They did Sweet Jane and White Light/White Heat with Lou, and I guess Lou was impressed with them enough that he asked them to record this project he was working on with him. Could've been worse. When Lou played the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame museum in 1995, he played with Soul Asylum. Imagine how that album would've sounded. Now that I think about it, maybe better than how Lulu turned out, but still.
"For people who don't like music". Well, according to Lou's widow (the GREAT) Laurie Anderson, David Bowie told her that it's his "greatest work" and a "masterpiece". David Bowie said that, apparently.
Sly Stone put out his autobiography/memoir last year where, among other things, he said he's been sober for quite a while now. Should we believe him? Well, I hope we can. Hopefully, he made a lot of money with the book too.
"Intern job"? Paul, dude, I thought you OWNED the As It Should Be Studios! That "academy award" you held up looks more like the Frank Sinatra award since it resembles a drinking glass filled with Jack Daniels. Ha.
'Lotta male/female duos in 2011. The influence of the White Stripes was still strong then.
Billy Ray Cyrus putting out an album in 2011. Obviously trying to cash in on his daughter's success there.
Truth be told, if Eddie Vedder does a Xmas album, I'd be interested, but Scott Weiland, rest his soul, not so much.
Raphael Saadiq is the dot at the bottom of the exclamation points in Tony! Toni! Tone! Small, but HUGELY important. ;)
Wait, isn't Tommy's wife's name Melissa? Is he insinuating that she lives a double life as Avril Lavigne's lookalike? Hmm.
Blakeface sounds like it could be a reference to Blake Edwards, and Julie Andrews is the frontwoman. If she still had that voice of hers, I think it'd be pretty awesome. And Come Black sounds like a dangerous medical condition, but nevermind.
Oh yeah, I will be back for 2012. Got my top 5 ready. Ha! Could be a top 4. We'll see. See y'all then. And I'm sure I can speak on behalf of all the viewers and/or commenters when I say I appreciate you doing and putting up the videos. And very sweet of you to say you appreciate our comments as well. :)
Hey my friend!! Great list as always. As much as I haven't really got deep into latter R.E.M. albums (post-Monster), I really want to check out everything they done from New Adventures In Hi-Fi to Collapse Into Now. Though I've heard the songs from those albums before, I would sleep on the whole discography. And with Lady Gaga, it took me a minute to get into her and it wasn't until I saw The Edge Of Glory video with her and Clarence Clemons that really got my attention and I went back and check out the other stuff from the Fame/The Fame Monster albums. Still don't like Telephone because of Beyonce...ugh! But I agree with everything you said about the Born This Way album. With Paul Simon, like R.E.M., haven't really listened to Paul's latter day albums after The Rhythm Of The Saints. Really want to take a deep dive into Paul Simon's catalog. And St. Vincent, I only knew her with the album she did with David Byrne...Love This Giant! And seen her on number occasions but never heard of her discography except the David Byrne collaboration album. But other than that, amazing picks. Who knows how many I would do for 2012...probably 5 or 6 LOL!!
Ernest, we will be groaning for a while longer, 😝
Hi Ernest! I like St. Vincent but wouldn’t consider myself at fangirl level (yet!) She has some incredible songs and I was happy to see you mention her. She may very well make a future list of mine. She just released a new album too! There’s an acoustic version of “Cheerleader” on Spotify that is very pretty. I look forward to seeing if her self-titled or Masseduction albums rank highly for you.
@@michelewiese48 Yep, I'm aware she has a new album. Like I said, Strange Mercy is the only album I've heard from her thus far, but will definitely check those other ones out when we get there and see how they'll rank. She also released a few albums before 2011, but obviously, we're too late there. Ha!
@@djcrystalclear8169 I figured as much. 😉
@djcrystalclear8169 Crystal, can I politely ask who is on your T-shirt? The face looks familiar, but can’t place him🙏
Why, that is none other than the late-great Sherman Hemsley (a.k.a - Mr. George Jefferson), himself. Glad I could be of some assistance on this ponderable.
@@seandodd6388 ‘Ponderable’ - fantastic word and usage, Sean! 👏 Really appreciate the information and sending best wishes from the UK🙏
@@christianewen3227 Likewise and cheers mate!