Lord Dweedle Wrote:Eric Church - Cheif

Nickelback - Here and Now

Toby Keith - Clancys Tavern

Music Head Wrote:from Metacritic

1) P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
2) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3) Adele - 21
4) Horrors - Skying
5) Metronomy - The English Riviera
6) Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
7) Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
8) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
9) Weekend - House Of Balloons
10) Elbow - Build A Rocket Blues
11) Wilco - The Whole Love
12) M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
13) Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
14) Wild Beasts - Smother
15) Peaking Lights - 936
16) My Morning Jacket - Circuital
17) Tombs - Path Of Totality
18) TV On The Radio - Nine Types Of Light
19) Modeselektor - Monkeytown
20) Antlers - Burst Apart

SteveO Wrote:Pretty decent list ! ...haven't heard them all

Music Head Wrote:wow! a site devoted to alternative music, yet I have only heard of a few of these
guess my age is starting to show

from altmusic

1) Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
2) Panda Bear - Tomboy
3) Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
4) EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
5) P.J. Harvey - Let England Shake
6) Tune Yards - Whokill
7) Destroyer - Kaputt
8) Bon Iver - Bon Iver
9) James Blake - James Blake
10) Active Child - You Are All I See
11) Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
12) Atlas Sound - Parallax
13) Sleep Over - Forever
14) Grimes/d'Eon - Dark Bloom
15) Braids - Native Speaker
16) Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work
17) Korallreven - An Album By Korallreven
18) Little Dragon - Ritual Union
19) Class Actress - Rapprocher
20) Toro y Moi - Underneath The Pine

TraceNspace Wrote:What's cool is if you follow the link you can listen to songs from each album. http://www.npr.org/2011/12/05/142853012/50-favorites-from-a-b

Recommended by NPR Music Staff

Adele, 21

Alexandre Tharaud, Scarlatti: Sonatas
Antlers, Burst Apart

Ashton Shepherd, Where Country Grows
Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal, Chamber Music
Beirut, The Rip Tide
Beyonce, 4
Bombino, Agadez
Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Book Of Mormon, Cast Recording
Bright Eyes, The People's Key
Brooklyn Rider Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
Captain Black Big Band, Captain Black Big Band
Civil Wars, Barton Hallow
Colin Stetson, New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges
Cormorant, Dwellings
Davila 666, Tan Bajo
Demdike Stare, Tryptych
Donnacha Dennehy, Gra Agus Bas
Ebene Quartet, Fiction
Eric Church, Chief
Frank Ocean, Nostalgia, Ultra
Fucked Up, David Comes To Life
Girl In A Coma, Exits And All The Rest
Glenn Jones, The Wanting
Gretchen Parlato, The Lost And Found
James Blake, James Blake
Joseph Calleja, The Maltese Tenor (Decca)
Julianna Barwick, The Magic Place
June Tabor, Ashore
Kendrick Lamar, Section.80
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine
La Vida Boheme, Nuestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony 2 (Mahler, Jurowski)
Los Rakas, Chancletas Y Camiseta Bordada
Miguel Zenon, Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake
Radiohead, King Of Limbs
Roots, undun
Shabazz Palaces, Black Up
Sonny Rollins, Road Shows Vol 2
St. Vincent, Strange Mercy
STS, The Illustrious
Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972
Tom Waits, Bad As Me
Tommy Guerrero, Lifeboats & Follies
tUnE-yArDs, w h o k i l l
Wilco, The Whole Love
Wye Oak, Civilian

Music Head Wrote:Did this last year, so why not
All of these best of lists start coming out now, even though the year is not over.
Stupid imo, but they're all afraid you'll look at someone else's list before theirs.
I will post a list when I come across one.
Some are genre specific, others are overall.
I will stick to the top 20 or 25 albums.
Feel free to post your own favorite site (sourcing it) or even your own list if you wish.
Please try and stick close to the format I have used.
Most sites you can't just copy and paste, you may have to type.
For any newbies, if you post in this thread and it is not what the thread specifies, it will be deleted.
thank you