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Best Albums Of 2011

January 2, 2012 • Posted by 83Music

It’s that’s time again when every music blogger, magazine and online site have published their top albums from the ending year. While we are a little late offering our entry to the onslaught of rankings, we also benefit by having no competion for the release of our list!

Once again, 83Music has chosen to only rank those albums we actually own and reside either on our hard drive or perhaps on our shelves in vinyl (a format we purchased more this year than any in recent memory). So, you may find some of your favorite 2011 album missing from this list and wonder “what the heck man!?! Why isn’t Adele ranked!?!” Well… it’s because we didn’t buy her album… we didn’t buy a lot of albums (or have them gifted to us by record labels). As usual, we tried to push forward into the year’s music offerings and didn’t spend too much time on records that were getting ample air play (or were butchered over and over again on singing competition television shows). We took into account several different concepts when deciding how to rank the albums, including how often we listened to them, how different they were from other releases we’ve heard in the past, and how complete the records were from start to finish. After reading many other end of the year lists… it’s blatantly obvious that there are a million opinions on how 2011 shaped up and what bands deserve recognition for having the year’s best albums…. Here’s ours.