Album Review 2011 – The Black Keys – El Camino Album of the Year

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Here is my review and ranking of the albums of 2011.  My methodology consisted of listening to the all of the songs and ranking them on a five star system.  The main criteria was how easy the album was to listen to.

5 Stars – The perfect song! (almost impossible to obtain)

4 Stars – In extremely heavy rotation on my iPod

3 Stars – Definitely on my iPod

2 Stars – I could listen to it again

1 Star – It didn’t hurt my ears

0 Stars – I really didn’t want to listen to the whole thing

All of the stars for an album are added together and divided by the total number of songs to get the rating.

Caveats – Many of the songs I only listened to once and the rating could have been affected by my mood on the day I listened to it.  In future, I plan to listen to all songs at least 3 times to eliminate this potential bias.

 

 

Artist/Band Album Rating
The Black Keys El Camino 2.6
Foster the People Torches 2.5
Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keys 2.3
Foo Fighters Wasting Light 2.2
Florence + The Machine Ceremonials 2.2
Bombay Bicycle Club A Different Kind of Fix 2.2
Feist Metals 2.1
Friendly Fires Pala 2.0
The Kooks Junk of the Heart 2.0
Cage The Elephant Thank You, Happy Birthday 1.9
The Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? 1.9
Young The Giant Young The Giant 1.9
Radio Head The King of Limbs 1.9
Cults Cults 1.8
The Strokes Angles 1.8
Arctic Monkeys Suck it and See 1.8
Fleet Foxes Helplisness Blues 1.8
Laura Marling The Creature I Don’t Know 1.7
Cold Play Mylo Xyloto 1.7
The Wombats …This Modern Glitch 1.7
The Horrors Skying 1.7
Youth Lagoon The Year of Hibernation 1.6
The Naked And Famous Passive Me, Aggressive You 1.6
Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost 1.5
The Boxer Rebellion The Cold Still 1.5
Noel Gallegher’s High Flying Birds Noel Gallegher’s High Flying Birds 1.5
St. Vincent Strange Mercy 1.4
Bon Iver Bon Iver 1.3
Smith Westerns Dye it Blonde 1.3
Metronomy The English Riviera 1.3
M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming 1.3
Gorillaz The Fall 0.9
P.J. Harvey Let England Shake 0.7
  • http://www.yoursite.com Hoyt Ceroni

    Very descriptive article, I enjoyed that a lot. Will there be a part 2?

  • GreyBeard

    There will be a song of the year chosen by “the CaliCanuck” and myself.