From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #63 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, September 10 2011 Volume 10 : Number 063 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] round Andy Hamlin's three-quarter pole [Miles Goosens Subject: [loud-fans] round Andy Hamlin's three-quarter pole So we're nearly 3/4 of the way through 2011, and I haven't really done a list yet this year. So I'm doing one now. So far, 2011 hasn't been a bad musical year for me, but it's not a patch on 2009 or especially 2010. The latter was probably my favorite musical year since the '80s. Here's how I'd divide 'em up: BEST ALBUM I'VE HEARD IN TWENTY DAMN YEARS: 1) The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar CONTENDERS FOR #1 IN A YEAR WITHOUT THE JOY FORMIDABLE: 2) John Foxx and the Maths - Interplay 3) Robyn Hitchcock - Tromso, Kaptein 4) Wire - Red Barked Tree 5) Destroyer - Kaputt 6) The Features - Wilderness REALLY GOOD STUFF THAT YOU NEED TOO: 7) R. Stevie Moore - Stalactites and Stalagmites 8) The Bye Bye Blackbirds - Fixed Hearts 9) Art Brut - Brilliant! Tragic! 10) R. Stevie Moore - Advanced 11) R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now (two non-sucky R.E.M. albums in a row for the first time since 1996 or 1987 or 1985, depending on your snobbery level) 12) Sloan - The Double Cross 13) British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall 14) Teddy Thompson - Bella 15) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong 16) Jeff the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions 17) Adele - 21 THE BORING/DISAPPOINTING CORNER: 18) Gang of Four - Content 19) Foo Fighters - Wasting Light 20) The Cars - Move Like This 21) The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still And no, I don't have any of the seventeen albums Hank III released this week, though I probably will have some of them before this time next week. later, Miles ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #63 *******************************