My top 10 favorite cds of 2011..what's yours???

[jw4833]

Hello Everyone:

As this year is coming to a close, I compiled a list of my favorite CDs for 2011. I have to say that although I do have many additional favorites than those I've chosen, these happen to stay on my playlist on a continuous basis. I would love for you all to share your favorites with me as well. Let me thank you in advance for sharing them.

My top ten list:

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2. Beyonce - 4
3. Jill Scott - The Light of the Sun
4. Eric Benet - Lost In Time
5. El DeBarge - Second Chance
6. Keyshia Cole - Calling All Hearts
7. Adele - 21
8. Kelly Price - Kelly
9. KEM - Intimacy: Album III
10. Ledisi - Pieces of Me

BONUS PICK: Chris Brown - F.A.M.E.

 

[c750dt]

The only CD I picked up tin the past year that was actually released this year would be 311 - Universal Pulse. It was pretty good; I like it a bit though, IMO, Transistor will always be their best album.

EDIT: Just picked up Sublime with Rome - Yours Truly which I believe was released this past summer. I like it quite a bit. The general sound of the album kinda made me think of Slightly Stoopid.

Well, I guess Universal Pulse and Yours Truly are my favorites of this year since they're the only ones I picked up.

 

[RefixnarcisM]

Not much I guess. Since mostly I'm buying digitaly on amazon.
1. Ayumi Hamasaki - Five
2. Ayumi Hamasaki - Ayu-mi-X 7 version Acoustic Orchestra
3. Ayumi Hamasaki - Ayu-mi-X 7 presents Ayu Trance 4
4. Adele - 21 (Deluxe version)
5. Foster The People - Torches (Best Buy bonus track)

 

[JonnyFantastico]

I'm actually compiling a set of blogs that expose my top 11 albums of 2011... I've only shared entries 11-5, though... the rest will come later.

Good choices, people.

 

[8oclockcoffee]

Only a few new albums came out in 2011 that interested me:

Howard Shelley - Beethoven's Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra (he conducts the orchestra and plays the piano solo) on Chandos (24/96 flac download from their website, the CD boxed set isn't available on Amazon.com yet)

Howard Shelley is the greatest pianist of the modern/recording age. His Rachmaninov is unmatched for virtuosity and artistry, likewise his Chopin. Normally, I can't take much Beethoven, but in Shelley's hands it is marvelous. He hasn't recorded any Liszt, however. Such a shame he is virtually unknown, while many a lesser light gets all the publicity.

Nikolai Lugansky - Nikolai Lugansky Plays Liszt

If anyone will be the heir to Howard Shelley, it is Lugansky. Although on direct comparison, Howard Shelley is a greater artist, if not a greater technician at the keyboard.

Chris Isaak - Beyond the Sun

I love Chris Isaak--he is one of a tiny number of popular artists that I bother with. I hate most of the "music" being churned out these days.

LeAnn Rimes - Lady & Gentlemen

This is her best album in years, in my opinion. I am listening to it right now, as a matter of fact! Sixteen Tons is my favorite track.

Thanks to Amazon.uk, I was able to acquire a few European CD releases by Gary Graffman (Chopin sonatas and ballades) that hadn't been in print since the days of LP.

 

[ritsuka]

These didn't all come out in 2011, but they're the albums I listened to the most this year:
1. The White Birch - Come Up For Air
2. Ashram - Shining Silver Skies
3. Robin Guthrie - Emeralds
4. Raised By Swans - No Ghostless Place
5. The Fatales - Great Surround
6. The White Birch - Star is Just a Sun

individual songs:
7. Helen stellar - our secrets
8. Her Name is Calla - long grass
9. Highspire - skies you climb
10. Patrick Wolf - divine intervention

 

[jai20]

Lady Gaga - Born This Way.....all the way for me

 

[cavonzia]

For album:
1.Namie Amuro - CHECKMATE
2.BIGBANG - BIGBANG 2
3.alan - JAPAN PREMIUM BEST
4.Kana Nishino - Thank you LOVE
5.Kalafina - After Eden
6.YUI - How Crazy Your Love
7.Kumi Koda - Dejavu
8.Kaela Kimura - 8EIGHT8
9.Miliyah Kato - M BEST
10.Ayumi Hamasaki - FIVE

For single:
1.Namie Amuro - Sit!Stay!Wait!Down!/Love Story
2.Meisa Kuroki - Wired Life
3.Kumi Koda - 4 TIMES
4.Namie Amuro - NAKED/Fight Together/Tempest
5.Anna Tsuchiya - UNCHAINED GIRL
6.Miliyah Kato - DESIRE/BABY!BABY!BABY!
7.Meisa Kuroki - Woman's Worth/Breeze Out
8.Kumi Koda - Love me back
9.YUI - Green.a.live
10.2PM - Take off

 

[whatthef__k]

Well, I don't have 10 and it's kind of hard to put them in an order, but I think I'll go with this one:

• Adele - 21
• Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
• Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne

I also rediscovered some LPs (released previous to 2011) I somehow neglected for a while, these are:

• Gossip - Music for Men (2009)
• Drake - Thank Me Later (2010)
• Keyshia Cole - A Different Me (2008)
• Medina - Welcome to Medina (2010)

 

[SophieSweets]

Mmmm... not sure If I'll get 10 either... But off the top of my head.

Radiohead - King of Limbs (Now my fave album of all time)
Amon Tobin - Isam
Funki Porcini - On
Spenface - Haunted Forest
3 Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die

and... ermmmm... will have to think on that one I guess... most of the stuff I bought was a bit older...

 

[Whisper]

I think only one of these are from 2011, but these are the ones I listened the most (in random order):

1. Nightwish: Imaginaerum
2. Nightwish: Dark Passion Play
3. Dimmu Borgir: Abrahadabra
4. Dimmu Borgir: In Sorte Diaboli
5. Dimmu Borgir: Death Cult Armageddon
6. Shade Empire: Intoxicate O.S.
7. Amoral: Wound Creations
8. MUCC: Gokusai
9. Shinedown: Sound of Madness
10. Disturbed: Indestructible

And then some songs:
- Shade Empire: Bloodstar
- Woodkid: Iron
- Turmion Kätilöt: Tirehtööri
- Static-X: Love Dumb
- Buck-Tick: Coyote
- Gackt: Black Stone
- Shinee: Ring Ding Dong

and so much more...

 

[RefixnarcisM]

Gonna add another one.
6. Soundtrack Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part.1

 

[custyslut]

1. Femme Fatale - Britney Spears
2. Lioness: Hidden Treasures - Amy Winehouse
3. Sticks + Stones - Cher Lloyd
4. As If! - Sky Ferreira
5. Talk That Talk - Rihanna
6. 2NE1 2ND MINI ALBUM - 2NE1
7. Hurry Up, We're Dreaming - M83
8. Evanescence - Evanescence
9. 4 - Beyonce
10. The Night the Sun Came Up - Dev

 

[seemejax]

Adele---without a doubt

 

[blueway]

Adele - 21
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
The Wanted - Battleground
One Direction - Up All Night
The Saturdays - On Your Radar
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat
Rihanna - Loud
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Josiah Leming - Another Life (I know this makes it 11, but oh well.)

 

[JonnyFantastico]

Almost forgot about this one... here are my top 11. (If you want to read the reviews for each, let me know and I'll post them.) The albums were released from November of 2010 to November of 2011.

11. Fastlife - Joe Jonas
10. Love? - Jennifer Lopez
9. Greatest Hits... So Far!!! - Pink
8. Show Me Your Tan Lines [EP] - Jessie and the Toy Boys
7. Cannibal [EP] - Ke$ha
6. 21 - Adele
5. (tie) Loud / Talk That Talk - Rihanna
4. Born This Way - Lady GaGa
3. Femme Fatale - Britney Spears
2. R∆ (RA) - Simon Curtis
1. Body Talk - Robyn​

And thanks to whatthef__k for taking the time to read and comment on some of the blogs! :heart:

 

[socrates]

My list:

1. The Ark - Arkeology
2. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
3. Gaga - Born This Way
4. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm With You
5. Pearl Jam - Live On Ten Legs
6. Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
7. Korn - The Path Of Totality
8. Philip Sayce - Ruby Electric
9. Black Country Communion - II
10. Roddy Woomble - The Impossible Song And Other Songs

 

[kurt]

I only buy albums that I really love so here goes:

1. Adele-21 (I see we'll all agree to this)
2. Christina Perri- Lovestrong
3. James Morrison- The Awakening

But most of all Jessie J~~!! How come her name is not mentioned yet? She's dope! xD

 

[232356]

I can't think of all the great music that came out last year but here are a few In no particular order:

1. Panic! at the Disco - Vices and Virture
2. We are the in Crowd - Best Intentions
3. Adele - 21
4. Florence + the Machince - Ceremonials
5. The Ready Set - Feel good now
6. Breathe Carolina - Hell is what you make it
7. Go radio - Lucky Street
8. Maroon 5 - Hands all over

 

[miki1992]

Adele - 21 and Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto