Thursday, January 12

Piratehouse Top 5 Albums of 2011



Here are the Top 5 Albums from this past year.
I’ve compiled these albums on an objective basis; that is I picked 5 (and luckily there were at least 5) albums that correspond in all the Pirates' top 20 lists (except for Riley’s because I don’t have a list from him and I’m being ultra impulsive at the moment). Also, I averaged each of the Pirates' rankings of the albums to determine where the album should go on the list (EX: Price and Tim both ranked Bon Iver #1 and I gave it a 5 - 2 #1's = #1) Below you will find the Top 5 followed by the individual Top 20’s. However, this may be taken down soon in order to give Riley a say, or for us to vote on all of our favorite albums, or to make it a Top 10 list. Yo, Ho, Ho, and a bottle a rum and all that!

PS: Pirate House is mega busy at the moment because we are finishing up principle recording on Leash Laws Mach III. And guess what its even better than the other 2 models because this one comes equipped with more Tim songs and new songs and less contry songs (mostly because those were stolen by those Bootface’d basterds). Get excited P-Fan-Allstars because we’ll have a mastered track from LLII for free download soon.

The Pirate House Objectively Tabulated Top 5 Albums of 2011
1. Bon Iver "Bon Iver"
2. Kurt Vile "Smoke Ring for my Halo"
3. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Belong”
4. Drake “Take Care”
5. Tom Waits “Bad as Me”

Price
1. Bon Iver-Bon Iver
2. Kurt Vile-Smoke Ring for My Halo
3. Destroyer-Kaputt
4. Panda Bear-Tomboy
5. The Weeknd-House of Balloons
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart-Belong
7. Low-C’mon
8. Real Estate-Days
9. Wilco-The Whole Love
10. Big K.R.I.T-Return of 4Eva
11. KORT-Invariable Heartache
12. Drake-Take Care
13. Lindsey Buckingham-The Seeds We Sow
14. Tom Waits-Bad as Me
15. Wye Oak-Civilian
16. A$AP Rocky-LIVELOVEA$AP
17. M83-Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
18. Mikal Cronin-Mikal Cronin
19. DaVinci-Feast or Famine
20. Mark McGuire/Trouble Books-Trouble Books and Mark McGuire

Here's Tim's Picks
1. Bon Iver "Bon Iver"
2. Kurt Vile "Smoke Ring for my Halo"
3. Real Estate "Days"
4. Tom Waits "Bad as Me"
5. Fleet Foxes "Helplessness Blues"
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Belong"
7. The Decemberists "The King is Dead"
8. Radiohead "The King of Limbs"
9. Adele "21"
10. Dodos "No Color"
11. TV on the Radio "Nine Types of Light"
12. Tyler, the Creator "Goblin"
13. Drake "Take Care"
14. Beyonce' "4"
15. Washed Out "Within and Without"
16. Cults "Cults"
17. Smith Westerns "Dye it Blonde"
18. Baby's "Baby's So Smoosh"
19. My Morning Jacket "Circuital"
20. Jay-Z / Kanye West "Watch the Throne"

Me
1. Breakfast Champion “Why Don’t You Stay the Night … So I Can Have You for Breakfast” EP
2. The Weeknd Mixtapes “House of Balloons”, “Thursday” & “Echoes of Silence”
3. M83 “Hurry Up! We’re Dreaming”
4. Kurt Vile “Smoke Ring for My Halo”
5. Bon Iver "Bon Iver"
6. Girls “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost”
7. Panda Bear “Tomboy”
8. Destroyer “Kaputt”
9. Big Krit “Return of 4ever”
10. Action Bronson “Dr. Lecter”
11. Smith Westerns "Dye it Blond"
12. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "Belong"
13. The War on Drugs "Slave Ambient"
14. Tom Waits “Bad as Me”
15. Cut Copy “Zonoscope”
16. Drake “Take care”
17. Jens Lekman “An Argument with Myself”
18. Feist “Metals”
19. Wilco “The Whole Love”
20. Terrius Nash “1977”