Readers Poll 2011: The Shame Cauldron Decides Pt 2
Yesterday, we revealed your picks for Biggest Controversy, Best Comeback, Best New-Ish Act, Best Live Act, Best Reissue/Retrospective and Best “Indie” Label. Today, it’s your Top 50 albums of the year.
1. Royal Headache
Royal Headache
(R.I.P Society)
Some may call this voting with your feet. For others it’s redemption. Either way, few moderately negative reviews have received as much conjecture as our take on Royal Headache’s self-titled debut, which our reviewer described as a “movement with a message, and a rather mundane one at that”. On the basis of this poll, the backlash was unanimous: in a vintage year for local music, Royal Headache comfortably topped the Best Album category ahead of stellar releases by Twerps, Adalita, Total Control, HTRK and Harmony. (They also placed second behind poll-masters Wagons in the Best Live act category, while they no doubt played a huge role in helping their Sydney-based label R.I.P Society take out our inaugural Best ‘Indie’ Label of 2011).
Recorded and mixed by a garage-rock dream-team of Mikey Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Total Control) and Owen Penglis (Straight Arrows), Royal Headache is sincere, love-struck garage-soul at its best. It features ‘Girls’ and ‘Surprise’ from last year’s debut 7”, and ‘Really In Love’, a Cee Lo Green/Buzzcocks hybrid, which came in at number nine in our top 20 Tracks of the Year. – Darren Levin
2. Twerps
Twerps
(Chapter Music)
Twerps - Dreamin by ChapterMusic
3. Adalita
Adalita
(Liberation)
4. Total Control
Henge Beat
(Iron Lung/Fuse)
One More Tonight by Total Control
5. Gotye
Making Mirrors
(Eleven/Universal)
6. Dick Diver
New Start Again
(Chapter Music)
Dick Diver - Through the D by ChapterMusic
7. HTRK
Work (work, work)
(Mistletone)
8. UV Race
Homo
(Aarght!)
UV RACE - HOMO by tonyclifton III
9. Wagons
Rumble, Shake And Tumble
(Spunk!)
10. Harmony
Harmony
(Casadeldisco/Other Tongues)
09 Heartache by Solar/Sonar Records
11. Witch Hats
Pleasure Syndrome
(Longtime Listener)
12. Cut Copy
Zonoscope
(Modular)
Cut Copy - Blink And You'll Miss A Revolution by modularpeople
13. Lost Animal
Ex Tropical
(Sensory Projects)
14. The Middle East
I Want That You Are Always Happy
(Spunk!)
Jesus Came To My Birthday Party by tmemusic
15. An Horse
Walls
(Mom+Pop, Shock)
An Horse - Dressed Sharply by anhorse
16. Seekae
+Dome
(Rice Is Nice/Popfrenzy)
17. YIS
Kingdom Of Fuzz
(Independent)
"(I Feel) Repulsed" by YIS by yisyisyis
18. Oscar + Martin
For You
(Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control)
Oscar + Martin - What I Know by twobrightlakes
19. The Jezabels
Prisoner
(Independent/MGM)
The Jezabels - Endless Summer by thejezabels
20. Jack Ladder And The Dreamlanders
Hurtsville
(Spunk!)
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders - 'Cold Feet' by Jack Ladder
21. Ben Salter
The Cat
(MGM Distribution)
02 - Ben Salter - The Coward by bluebeard
22. Geoffrey O’Connor
Vanity Is Forever
(Chapter)
Geoffrey O'Connor - Whatever Leads Me To You by ChapterMusic
23. Architecture In Helsinki
Moment Bends
(Modular)
Contact High by Architecture In Helsinki
24. Kimbra
Vows
(Warner)
25. Big Scary
Vacation
(Pieater)
26. Kitchen’s Floor
Look Forward To Nothing
(Bedroom Suck)
KITCHEN'S FLOOR - 116 by bedroomsuck
27. The Grates
Secret Rituals
(Dew Process)
The Grates - Turn Me On by Goltzman*
28. Seeker Lover Keeper
Seeker Lover Keeper
(Dew Process)
Seeker Lover Keeper - Even Though I'm A Woman by dewprocess
29. Collarbones
Iconography
(Two Bright Lakes)
Collarbones - Don Juan by Shapolean
30. Teeth & Tongue
Tambourine
(Dot Dash/Remote Control)
Unfamiliar Skirts by Teeth & Tongue
31. Eagle And The Worm
Good Times
(Cotillion/Warner)
Eagle and the Worm - All i Know by Eagle and the Worm Music
32. Boy & Bear
Moonfire
(Island)
Boy & Bear- Feeding Line by MMMusic
33. Slug Guts
Howlin’ Gang
(Sacred Bones)
Slug Guts - Howlin' by sacredbones
34. No Anchor
Real Pain Supernova
(Independent)
35. The Vasco Era
The Vasco Era
(Independent)
The Vasco Era - Child Bearing Hips by engininja
36. Oh Mercy
Great Barrier Grief
(Casadeldisco/EMI)
Oh Mercy - Stay, Please Stay by PacSunMusic
37. Batrider
Piles Of Lies
(Two Bright Lakes/Inertia)
Batrider - Piles of Lies by twobrightlakes
38. Holly Throsby
Team
(Spunk!)
Holly Throsby - What I Thought of You by SpunkRecords
39. Laura Jean
A Fool Who’ll
(Chapter)
40. Ball Park Music
Happiness And Surrounding Suburbs
(EMI)
Ball Park Music - It's Nice To Be Alive by theinsound
41. Abbe May
Design Desire
(Source/MGM)
Taurus Chorus - Abbe May by sgcmedia
42. Lanie Lane
To The Horses
(Ivy League)
43. Snowman
Absence
(Dot Dash/Remote Control)
44. Pets With Pets
Saturday Aquatic Pixie Acid
(Sensory Projects)
Pets With Pets - Pixie Child by sensoryprojects10
45. Alps
Alps Of New South Wails
(Past Futures)
Alps - I Get So High by Zeugolator
46. Leader Cheetah
Lotus Skies
(Spunk!)
Leader Cheetah - Our Love by theinsound
47. Richard In Your Mind
Sun
(Rice Is Nice)
Richard In Your Mind - Vision by FBi Radio
48. Little John
Put Your Hands On Me
(Independent)
49. Little Scout
Take Your Light
(MGM Distribution)
50. Mike Noga
The Balladeer Hunter
(Other Tongues)
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hahahaha you losers actually like gotye and wagons.
don't blame me, i voted for kodos
it's the Boy & Bear placement I'm finding more troubling
i can't believe i post here
might as well get my whinge out of the way early
where is the sand pebbles album you cloth eared nits
Pretty fair list really...it's only really Wagons, Gotye, The Jezabels and Boy & Bear that are questionable, but more than just chats vote in these things.
might as well get my whinge out of the way early
where is the sand pebbles album you cloth eared nits
ARGH- un freking believeable!
I'm so upset I can't even spell.
All those complaining have to remember its not linked to forum registration or posting, it was a open internet poll, and some of those bands which seem to stand out do have large fanbases which may have been convinced to vote.
Be nice to know how many responses there were (total)
To even the predictable upcoming outrage:
What a remarkably accurate detailed list. Perfection. Well done everybody. This reflects 2011 precisely.
I'd wager Chats are a fairly small percentage of people who visit the site
What nony and dexter said. Think outside your chat bubble, folks.
Also, the Royal Headache album is a corker. Good votin'.
Vasco Era. The Grates.
I like that.
What of the days when chats voted for their favourite albums by PM? The international album poll. Did I imagine that?
only 3 out of the 50 not reviewed, nice work team m+n
something something comment about kimbra something something.
Only #13???
That both gits me daaaaiiiirr-aaiiir-aaaiiirrrrn AND gits on mah roof.
Gotye is a piece of unmitigated shit
Surprised Snowman are so low. Average record, or released so early in the year that people forgot about it?
it is nice to see YIS so high, and that it and other records from so early in the year (eg slug guts) weren't forgotten
RH is a legitimately good record, and unquestionably better than everything else in that particular list imo
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Number one and two are spot on
x2
Relevant: Vice's Top 50 albums of the year
if there was a end of year list of lists, niteshok's link there would probably win.
crazy shit
i've heard of 5 bands on that list but only heard 2 of them, and that's counting the bonds ad.
making me sweat yeah
The Vasco Era are fucking great. Nice guys who put on a fun-as-fuck rock show, AND Sid looks like a blues-rat Judd Nelson. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. I ASK YOU.
Copy and paste?
Tugboat, I started a new thread for you but the formatting kinda fucked up. http://messandnoise.com/discussions/4394436
congrats to Al, in #'s 4, 6 and 8
Al is the best
does this make Al officially the most popular figure in australian music?
Can I please request untold/animals TL:DR on this list and also trial by .gif because I have a very short attention span pls.
Thx in advance.
A reasonably pleasing result. I'm surprised Adalita didn't score higher. I voted for a bunch of these: Royal Headache, HTRK, Harmony, Witch Hats.... this is a way less pussy list than I expected.
BTW - I made the list. KISS MY ASS MIKE NOGA!!!!!
Are you Henry Wagons, BBS?
Maybe while Noga does that, you can kiss my ass for top 20ing this shit and we can get a Human Centipede type thing going.
Congrats all round! I'm stoked.
I just voted for my friends bands. My favourite Austrlian album this year was actually the Short Stack Remix one.
Blink...
And you'll miss a revolution.
Fuck me.
Check out 2011.owltapes.com. It's an interactive best albums of 2011 list that aggregates you and your friends best of 2011 lists.
At the moment the overall the top ten is:
Total Control: Henge Beat
Jonny Telafone: Ceremony
Twerps: Twerps
Geoffrey O'Connor: Vanity is forever
Real Estate: days
6: Dick Diver: New Start Again
7: The Fighting League: Tropical Paradise
8: Assassins 88: Beach People
9: Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring For my Halo
10: Cat Cat: Uralba
It's still early days, so have your say. Yeah, it's pretty canberra centric at the moment (was made in Canberra). If you register, you get a personalised top 50 based on you and your friends votes rather than by music industry types or random people on the net you could care less about.
thanks for the link, but do you have to spam every thread carpetsquare?
one link can stay.