Before 2021 ends, I wanted to put up a shout out to something that’s intrinsically tethered to the year: 2011. Many things about 2011 don’t feel like they’re ten years old, but here we are. Ten years ago, this blog was one year old, I graduated high school, my family moved states and I started college. Obviously a big year for me, personally. This was also the year I started really digging into music as it was coming out, marking release days, relentlessly posting on the blog here, training to have my own radio show and engaging in Reddit communities about music. I didn’t think I’d want to have a career in the music biz, but this seemed like a watershed year. It helped that a lot of great albums popped into the mix, making it easy to revisit.
Below you’ll find my original list of Top Albums from 2011. It went up around early December and looking at it now, it looks pretty on par with what I was actually listening to at the time, except at the bottom. In the early blog days sometimes I’d add an album that I thought was cool and would make me look cooler if I listed it, despite listening to maybe one song off of it at the time. Don’t judge me! I’ve done one other Revisiting post in the past, for 2013, because I had grown discontent about the albums that I had listed as my favorite of the year. This time around, I wanted to see how my tastes have changed ten years down the line, as well as highlight all the great albums that people may have forgotten to the sands of time that celebrated their birthdays this year.
