The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2011
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The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2011
- James Ferraro – Far Side Virtual
- Rustie – Glass Swords
- Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem
- Hype Williams – One Nation
- The Beach Boys – The SMiLE Sessions
- Michael Chapman – The Resurrection and Revenge of the Clayton Peacock
- DJ Rashad – Just A Taste
- Laurel Halo – Hour Logic
- Lou Reed & Metallica – Lulu
- John Wall & Alex Rogers – Work 2006-2011
- Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi – In a Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject
- Sun Araw – Ancient Romans
- Bill Orcutt – How the Thing Sings
- Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
- Peaking Lights – 936
- Corrupted – Garten Der Unberwusstheit
- Balam Acab – Wander/Wonder
- Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer – Re: ECM
- Anti G – Presents Kentje’sz Beatsz
- Thomas Ankersmit & Valerio Tricoli – Forma II
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
- Cornelius Cardew – The Great Learning
- Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse
- Hecker – Speculative Solution
- Andy Stott – We Stay Together
- Ben UFO – Remix of Rinse 16
- Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
- Margaret Dygas – Margaret Dygas
- Jim O’Rourke – Old News #5
- Various – Bangs & Works Vol. 2: The Best of Chicago Footwork
- Ekoplekz – Intrusive Incidentalz Vol 1
- Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
- The Advisory Circle – As The Crow Flies
- Miles Davis – Live In Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1
- Alexander Tucker – Dorwytch
- Helm – Cryptography
- John Chantler – The Luminous Ground
- Ectoplasm Girls – TxN
- Cindytalk – Hold Everything Dear
- Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra
- Kuedo – Severant
- Structure – Toad Blinker
- The Fall – Ersatz GB
- Leyland Kirby – Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 1
- Patrice & Friends – Cashmere Sheets
- Zomby – Dedication
- Various – Music For Merce (1952-2009)
- Peter Evans Quintet – Ghosts
- Rrose x Bob Ostertag – Motormouth Variations
- Michael Chapman – Trainsongs: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010
Wire, those nuts. Predictably unpredictable. You knew somebody would have the cajones to throw Lulu into the mix. But there are some gems here.
Can’t take this seriously since they left out Bon Jovi self-titled. It’s ranking so high in other lists that it’s a glaring omission. Wake up, Wire.
Not Bon Jovi, you dolt. Bon Bon. It’s French.
About #9, The Wire writes:
The title has been updated to “Top 50 Releases” to reflect The Wire’s preferred terminology, as describe here.
[...] In Tanks release Far Side Virtual was on a bunch of avant-garde publication Top 10 lists (FACT, Wire, Dummy,) has a mall food court booty oriented, R & B side-project called Bebe-Tune$. And right [...]
anyone done a Spotify playlist of these? i’d imagine there’d be gaps