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KoreanDream's Best of 2011
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Originally posted by SO.UNCOOL™
Girls' Generation
Funny how their best album isn't even in their native tongue
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Right? Sung in a foreign language and it far eclipses all of their Korean work.
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Wasting Light <3
Foo Fighters' albums are always amazing
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Girls' Generation
This album is way better than The Boys
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ATRL Contributor
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I have to heart tha JPOP GG album
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Originally posted by berberocka
I have to heart tha JPOP GG album
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Such a good album.
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Foo Fighters & Girls Generation good set
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DRAKE - TAKE CARE
My husband Drake soars into the countdown at #6 with his second album, Take Care, which is interestingly enough the third sophomore album to make the top 10. Noteworthy? Maybe. Anyway, Care is everything Drake promised it would be and more. A vast improvement over his debut, 2010's Thank Me Later, this #6 album is more witty, more catchy, more well-written, more strongly-produced, and more daringly emotional than his debut. To top it all off, there's a Rihanna collabo at number five on the tracklist, the beautiful "Take Care". I mean, can it get any more perfect? Well, apparently, seeing as this missed the top 5. |
The top 5 will be unveiled tomorrow!
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Member Since: 6/7/2011
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Originally posted by AshleeSimpsonFan
Foo Fighters & Girls Generation good set
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Thanks a bunch.
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/24/2009
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I don't like it
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Drake Nice, I like his singles
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I'm not really here for Drake, but I like the rest of the list.
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I'm actually not into Drake's new album, although I kinda like Headlines and The Motto.
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TAKE CARE
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Drake
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BON IVER - BON IVER
Bon Iver kick off the top 5 with their self-titled sophomore album. A total cluster-**** of pop, R&B, and rock, this album is much wilder and more experimental than their debut, For Emma. This go round, Bon Iver played with more genres, more sounds, more lyrical perspectives, and more vocal styling, and the result is indie-pop-rock perfection. Fully deserving of this top 5 placement. |
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TVXQ - KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN
As a group of five, DBSK did nothing for me. The only thing I ever acknowledged when it came to them was their immense talent, but nowhere on any of DBSK's albums does that talent shine as on TVXQ's first album as a duo, Keep Your Head Down. In case you aren't a K-pop fan, then let me do you a little filling in by explaining this: DBSK were SM Entertainment's premier boy band from 2004 to 2008. Smash tours, huge albums, and hit singles, DBSK were a force to be reckoned with not only in Korea, but in all of Asia. Then members Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu entered a dispute with SM, left the group, formed their own trio called JYJ, and the end of DBSK seemed to have arrived. That was until they came back as a duo, TVXQ, with this album. Packed full of some of the most talent and musicality ever seen on any mainstream K-pop album to date, Down is the only album I can imagine to be deserving of this #4 spot. |
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PJ HARVEY - LET ENGLAND SHAKE
PJ Harvey's tenth studio album and career opus, Let England Shake, dropped back in February but has been a favorite of mine all year, hence its top 3 position. Ethereal and soothing while still powerful and impressive, Shake is most definitely the best thing Harvey has done in her quality-studded 23-year career. Sorry, Björk. Biophilia was great, but Let England Shake did it better. |
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FLORENCE + THE MACHINE - CEREMONIALS
One of my favorite indie acts, Florence + The Machine, finally released their much-buzzed about second studio album, Ceremonials, in late October of this year. For this album, Florence Welch and the other five members of the group took the framework of debut album Lungs and maximized everything. Louder, tougher, edgier, and all-around more human, Ceremonials narrowly missed the #1 spot to a wonderful album which just barely beats it in the vocal department. #1 coming tomorrow!. |
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Originally posted by Razzle
I don't like it
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It's definitely a grower.
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ATRL Senior Member
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Ceremonials
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Ceremonials.
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Florence Nice album What The Water Gave Me is my favorite song from her, ever
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