badronald

Tis the season for lists so here are my music-related lists for 2011.

Top 15 Favourite Albums

1- Kaputt - Destroyer
2- Apocalypse - Bill Callahan
3- Peer Amid - Skull Defekts
4- Burst Apart - The Antlers
5- S/T - K-Holes
6- S/T - Apache Dropout
7- Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls
8- Through Donkey Jaw - Amen Dunes
9- Goodbye Bread - Ty Segall
10- C'Mon - Low
11- Underneath the Pines - Toro Y Moi
12- Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
13- S/T - Life Partners
14- No Witch - The Cave Singers
15- S/T - The Soft Moon

Top 10 Favourite Reissues/Remasters

1- 20 Jazz Funk Greats - The Throbbing Gristle
2- The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
3- 1982-89 - Tara Cross
4- Sessions 1981-83 - Void
5- Who's Gonna Save the World - Father's Children
6- Reflections - Chalk Circle
7- Looks Like Rain - Mickey Newbury
8- 1977-1983 - Kleenex/Liliput
9- Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina
10- Mehul - Erkin Koray

Top 10 Favourite Various Artist Compilations

1- Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love : Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973
2- The Hidden Tapes : A Compilation of Minimal Wave from Around the World '79-85
3- Titan : It's All Pop! (originally released in 2008 but finally released on vinyl in 2011)
4- Local Customs : Lone Star Lowlands
5- Those Shocking Shaking Days : Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 70-78
6- Eccentric Soul: The Nickel and Penny Labels
7- Said I Had a Vision : Songs and Labels of David Lee
8- The Sound of Siam : Leftfield Luk thung, Jazz & Molam in Thailand 1964-1975
9- Peruvian Funk
10- Tobacco A-Go-Go : North Carolina Rock and Roll in the 60s

Top 10 Favourite Songs

1- Video Games - Lana Del Rey
2- Music is Hard - Life Partners
3- Vomit - Girls
4- After the Moment - Craft Spells
5- Witches - Low
6- Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey
7- When You Cut - Moon Duo
8- Psychic Driving - Soft Metals
9- Surf & Turf/Math Tags - Mazes
10- On the Corner - Twilight Singers

Top 10 Favourite Record Labels

1- Numero Group
2- Captured Tracks
3- 4AD
4- Sacred Bones
5- Minimal Wave
6- Merge
7- Sub Pop
8- Vinyl On Demand
9- Mexican Summer
10- Siltbreeze

Top 10 Favourite Live Shows

None because I didn't see any live shows this year.

I normally see between 50 and 60 live shows a year but the music promoters in this city are scum-sucking, scene-killing assholes (yes I'm talking to you BSTB and others of your ilk) who book shows in horrible venues, with late start times and too many opening bands (3 openers on a week night when doors open at 10, fuck you) so I am choosing to no longer support live music in this city.