{"id":1442,"date":"2011-12-31T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2015-01-12T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:31:51","slug":"rankstravaganza-my-15-favorite-albums-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2011\/12\/rankstravaganza-my-15-favorite-albums-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Rankstravaganza: My 15 favorite albums of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The album is dead. Long live the album.<\/p>\n

Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end list-making accordingly by making My 30 Favorite Tracks of 2011<\/a> the primary entry in this year’s Rankstravaganza<\/a>. But I just can’t quite give up on the album as a format. Neither can musicians, who still insist on packaging 12 (give or take) related, stylistically similar songs together.<\/p>\n

So I am still doing an album ranking for 2011, in case there’s anybody else out there who still likes to listen to more than one track by an artist at a time. The result isn’t all that different from my top tracks\u2014the bands are the same, the order is slightly different\u2014but I can vouch that these collections are all good listens from start to finish.<\/p>\n

I posted my list in the comments section on a certain website I frequent<\/a>, and a fellow commenter called it the “soundtrack of Boulder, Colorado.” I’m pretty sure it was meant as an insult, but, hey, sometimes bros need some chill folk-rock to listen to while kicking back in the hot tub and ironically enjoying a few cheep beers, amirite?<\/p>\n

The No. 1 album will surprise absolutely no one who’s been paying any attention to this blog.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>15. 21,<\/em> Adele<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

For fans of … strong female vocalists, classic soul, Amy Winehouse, ubiquitous pop hits<\/p>\n