Sunday, 22 January 2012

top of the top: 2011

here we go... it's time for the yearly music rating...

what's your favourite album, track, concert of the past year?
how about sharing your own top of the pops?

post your 2011 bestofs in comment, add your name, alias, nickname to make sure the frog identifies you.
and be among the 10th batrachians to be granted a gorgeous sampler in original format legmade by the juicy frog! (an mp3 version of the sampler will be spotified soon.)


best songs the pond
1. Sound Pressure Level, Aucan, from Black Rainbow
2. In the Dark Places, PJ Harvey, from Let England Shake
3. The Lotus Eater, Sarah Kirkland Snider feat. Shara Worden and Signal, from Penelope
4. Burn This House/Hourglass, The Sand Band

best albums the pond
1. Black Rainbow, Aucan
2. All Things will Unwind, My Brightest Diamond
3. Blood Pressure, The Kills
4. Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes
5. Space is only Noise, Nicolas Jaar
6. Let England Shake, PJ Harvey
7. Everything's getting Older, Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
8. Parallax, Atlas Sound
9. Bon Iver, Bon Iver

best concerts the pond
Fleet Foxes, Columbiahalle, May
Red Snapper, Frannz, October
John Grant, Lido, September

best surprise the pond
Cinema, outsiders of 2011 Berlin Festival

best musical website the pond
starting with a p ending with a k

best label the pond
erased tapes for the polished layout of their LPs and their amazing catalogue

ugliest cover of the pond
Ventriloquizzing, Fujiya & Miyagi

most artistic cover of the pondNo Color, The Dodos

best album artwork of the pond
Inni, Sigur Rós

greatest moment of the pond
Aidan Moffat's chatting and handshaking

je-ne-sais-quoi of the pond
 byte.fm

et voilà... your turn now (until 31st January)!

2 comments:

  1. A mon tour de coasser gaiement dans la marre des best ofs de 2011 :
    Best Albums :
    1. Gloss Drop, Battles
    2. General Thoughts and Tastes, Honey For Petzi,
    3. Vs Devil, Deerhoof
    4. Let England Shake, PJ Harvey
    5. People, Skeletons
    6. S/t, Cloud Nothing
    7. Trump Harm, 31 Knots
    8. No Color, the Dodos
    9. Strange Mercy, St Vincent
    10. Nine types of light, TV On The Radio

    Best songs / best tracks :
    1. Wall Streeet, Battles
    2. Super duper rescue heads !, Deerhoof
    3. Rano Pano, Mogwai
    4. In the Dark Places, PJ Harvey
    5. Future Starts Slow, the Kills

    Best concert : the only one I saw last yeat (shame on me!) : Shugo Tokumaru at Botaniques, Bxl.

    Heu...je crois avoir à peu près fait le tour de la marre,
    La Dévouée Madame L.

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    1. Errratum (avec trois "r" car j'adore rajouter des "r")...Il fallait lire "la mare", bien évidemment, et non la Marre, par ailleurs charmante bourgade jurassienne dont on peut également aisément faire le tour, à pied ou à vélo.
      Madame L

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