Best album of 2011 (so far)

dena wrote:most objective look at take care tbh
http://bigghostnahmean.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-ghost-presents-take-care-review.html

17. The Ride (ft The Weeknd) - Ayo my illegally downloaded version of this muthafucka aint come wit this track par.

All the albums ive bought have been from others years, the only 2 albums from 2011 ive listened to are:

Game - The R.E.D. Album

The Throne - Watch The Throne

Eminem- Recovery.

Viva Ronaldo 7 wrote:Eminem- Recovery.

That came out in 2010

Christ, it was about the middle of 2010 as well.

Was the last new album I bought.

The only album I've listened to from last year (I think anyway) is Feist - Metals. Great voice, and great songs too.

Only bought 3 albums in 2011 and theyre mainstream as fuck

1. Ed Sheeran - +
2. Rizzle Kicks - Stereo Typical
3. Example - Playing in the shadows

Kelly Clarkson - Stronger

Torches by Foster The People is pretty good.

Mylo Xyloto. Not brilliant but I'm a Coldplay fan so ive listened to it a lot.

the strokes - angles

radiohead - king of limbs

and i personally dont like adele but i have to admit 21 is pretty good.

Heskey Time - Randolph.

Take Care

Adele - 21
Bombay Bicyle Club - A Different Kind of Fix
Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
Deaf Havana - Fools and Worthless Liars

Unsure. I'm not really into your modern day music, give or take a few artists of course. I haven't cut myself completely off. But the best albums I purchased in '11 would of been-

Arctic Monkeys- Suck It And See
Pink Floyd- The Wall(Remastered)
The Beatles- White Album
Jimi Hendrix- Voodoo Child; The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Bad Meets Evil - Hell The Sequel.

Finally decided to download and listen to Soundtrack to the Struggle by Lowkey. Great album. I will give it a few more listens before comparing it to the other albums I listened to.

Lasers and Take Care.

Lasers? Really? Lupe's worst work by far, so disappointing.

Hip-Hop: Thug Motivation 103, R.E.D Album, Bad Meets Evil- Hell the Sequel, Self Made Vol. 1

Lasers wasn't that impressive. Like Dena said, it was his worst album.

dena wrote:Lasers? Really? Lupe's worst work by far, so disappointing.

It may be his worst work, but it's not bad. That just shows you how amazing his previous work was.

I only like All Black Everything

I've erased the rest of lasers from my memory to preserve Lupe's rep to me

I didn't really understand the hype around Lasers. Sure, from a lyrical standpoint it's still a fairly strong album and Lupe does his 'conscious' thing as per usual. However, most of the powerful lyrics were almost drowned out to a point by awful/overbearing production. He was trying to experiment with too many different sounds.

What Lupe needs to do on his next album is go back to the old Lupe.

dena wrote:I only like All Black Everything

I've erased the rest of lasers from my memory to preserve Lupe's rep to me

What about...

Words I Never Said
Never Forget You
I'm Beamin'
Break the Chain
Shining Down

There are some good songs on there.

There are a few tracks that I do like but overall thought it was just too radio friendly (beats and production), and not really cohesive.

dena wrote:There are a few tracks that I do like but overall thought it was just too radio friendly (beats and production), and not really cohesive.

I agree. Blame Atlantic Records for that.

ahlycotc wrote:

dena wrote:There are a few tracks that I do like but overall thought it was just too radio friendly (beats and production), and not really cohesive.

I agree. Blame Atlantic Records for that.

Why?

damn a&r's

I guess Lupe just put out an album the label wanted him to put out, which was a radio friendly one. "The Show goes on" was fairly successful in that regard.

ilJuventino wrote:

ahlycotc wrote:

I agree. Blame Atlantic Records for that.

Why?

They had a lot of say in the production of the album this time because they wanted to sell more records. Atlantic feared that the record lacked commercial singles, and presented Fiasco with songs the label wanted him to record.

Black Keys - El Camino

Can't really think of any other albums I like from this year.

Interesting...

I guess that could explain some of things I was referring to in my previous posts, and the fact that the production team on Lasers was almost completely different from his first two LPs.