Open letter to all Tuesdays in 2011 that are not Tuesday, September 13th

[Nel]

Plus Staind finally returned to their heaviness with yesterday's new album. Thank god.

And I would agree that The King Is Dead is a top ten album. That album really grows on you. Like, REALLY grows on you.

[skydivingninja]

Matt, you would call The King is Dead a top album from this year? I didn't think it was very good at all...

That album is fantastic!!

Agreed.  I didn't think it was THAT great when it came out, but I listened to it again over the summer and it really clicked for me.  Its just as good as Picaresque and Hazards, and just below The Crane Wife.

[Ravenheart]

I wish Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy was better. 

[Nick]

Oh, was it?  I lost track.  And the fact that the guy in charge of the 2011 release date thread refuses to keep it current doesn't help.

With so few releases on it, it should have been far easier to spot Static Impulse on 2010's calendar then.

[lordxizor]

I wish Chuckles and Mr. Squeezy was better. 

Me too.

My list so far (I'll leave it at five for now):

1. Thrice - Major/Minor
2. Dream Theater - A Dramtatic Turn of Events
3. Fair to Midland - Anchors & Arrows
4. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
5. The Decemberists - The King is Dead

[KevShmev]

Matt, you would call The King is Dead a top album from this year? I didn't think it was very good at all...

That album is fantastic!!

Agreed.  I didn't think it was THAT great when it came out, but I listened to it again over the summer and it really clicked for me.  Its just as good as Picaresque and Hazards, and just below The Crane Wife.

    Sorry, man, I cannot agree with that.

The King Is Dead does have a few songs I really like, but it is easily my least favorite studio album of theirs, and considering what a strong year it has been for music, it doesn't have a prayer of making my top 10.

[jsem]

Derek Sherinian - Oceana
Devin Townsend - Ghost

Those two albums are miles ahead of anything else I've heard so far this year.


Edit:
Add Flaming Row - Elionore to that..

[faemir]

This year has been a goldmine. Below are my rough rankings so far, and there is so much to still come, i'm excited

protest the hero - scurrilous
fair to midland - arrows & anchors
devin townsend project - deconstruction
dream theater - a dramatic turn of events
the human abstract - digital veil
eisley - the valley
between the buried and me - the parallax
devin townsend project - ghost
amaranthe - amaranthe
lady gaga - born this way
blackfield - welcome to my dna
amorphis - the beginning of times
aperture science psychacoustics laboratory - portal 2: songs to test by
thomas giles - pulse
in flames - sounds of a playground fading
trivium - in waves
Michael mccann - deus ex human revolution
alestorm - back through time
nero - welcome to reality
3 doors down - time of my life
dredg - chuckles and mr squeezy


I still need to listen to these albums more to rank them:

pirates of the caribbean 4
within temptation - the unforgiving
unexpect - fables of the sleepless empire
ulver - war of the roses
radiohead - king of limbs
scale the summit - the collective
stream of passion - darker days
symphony x - iconoclast
scar symmetry - the unseen empire
riverside - memories in my head
neal morse - testimony 2
the dear hunter - the color spectrum
opeth - heritage
thrice - major/minor
mogwai - hardcore will never die, but you will
yes - fly from here
covenant - modern ruin
anathema - falling deeper