Bring Back Glam! Best Albums of 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 12:01AM It's that time again!
It's hard to believe it's the end of the year and before you know it, we'll all be ringing in 2012. To mark the end of the year, Bring Back Glam! is happy to present the best albums of 2011. Like last year, Christian and Brian helped me compile this list. Here's the list in no real order... except for the top spot of course!
The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up (Allyson's selection)
Nickelback - Here and Now (Allyson's selection)
Anthrax - Worship Music (Brian's selection)
Primus - Green Naugahyde (Brian's selection)
Don Jamieson - Live and Hilarious (Brian's selection)
Black Veil Brides - Set the World on Fire (Christian's selection)
Chickenfoot - III (Christian's selection)
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare (Christian's selection)
Steel Panther - Balls Out (Allyson's selection)
Drumroll please...
What was the best record of 2011 (according to Allyson)? This was a no brainer. Asking Alexandria released Reckless and Relentless in April. After I saw the band at Rock on the Range (with guest performer Sebastian Bach) I was pretty much hooked. Asking Alexandria has gotten me through a lot of really hard runs these past few months and Reckless and Relentless (along with the band's other releases) has made me very happy. I haven't listened to any other album - from any year, genre or band - more than Reckless and Relentless in 2011.
Please visit these other fine websites to check out their best of 2011 lists!
The Crash Pad of Ray Van Horn, Jr. - http://www.rayvanhornjr2.blogspot.com/
All Metal Resource - http://allmetalresource.com/
Hair Metal Mansion - http://hairbangersradio.ning.com/
Hard Rock Hideout - http://hardrockhideout.com/
Hard Rock Nights - http://hardrocknights.com
Heavy Metal Addiction - http://heavymetaladdiction.com/
Heavy Metal Time Machine - http://metalmark.blogspot.com/
Imagine Echoes - http://www.imagineechoes.com/
Layla's Classic Rock - http://laylasclassicrock.blogspot.com/
Metal Excess - http://metalexcess.com/
Metal Odyssey - http://metalodyssey.wordpress.com/
The Ripple Effect - http://www.ripplemusic.blogspot.com/
Reader Comments (28)
The Biters-All chewed Up (ep)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abyOSwKgsCM
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
But since we're throing out our 2011 favorites:
Alice Cooper's "Welcome 2 My Nightmare"
Whitesnake's "Forevermore"
& Starz' Coliseum Rock - (For the 33rd year in a row... When you find a better slab of rock music, let me know...)
Michael Monroe-Sensory Overdrive is second best.
Both of these could be considered "glam". Not sure all of those on the list could be considered that genre.
Vain, Asking Alexandia, BVB, Chickenfoot, Sixx AM, Sebastian Bach, Steel Panther among others for $4.99 each. My guess is you only have a couple more days to do this but it is a great deal .
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METALBOY!'S TOP 1O ALBUMS OF 2011
1) Danger Avenue, "Long Overdue"
2) The Biters, "All Chewed Up"
3) Midnight Chaser, "Rough'n'Tough"
4) Reckless Love, "Animal Attraction"
5) Saxon, "Call To Arms"
6) Stryper, "The Covering"
7) Electric Boys, "And These Boys Done Swang"
8) Black Veil Brides, "Rebels" EP
9) Supagroup, "Hail! Hail!"
10) Steel Panther, "Balls Out"
Honorable Mention:
Wildstreet II, "Faster!...Louder!"
77, "21st Century Rock"
Down & Dirty, "Taste of Rock'n'Roll"
D.A.D., "Dic.nii.lan.daft.erd.ark"
Bullet, "Highway Pirates"
Hell In The Club, "Let The Games Begin"
Dirty White Trash, "Life In The Redlight"
Pompei Nights, "Rather Die Than Livin' Boundaries"
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METALBOY!'S TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1991
1) Four Horsemen, "Nobody Said It Was Easy"
2) Steelheart, "Steelheart"
3) Danger Danger, "Screw It!"
4) Junkyard, "Sixes, Sevens & Nines"
5) Great White, "Hooked"
6) Guns'n'Roses, "Use Your Illusion II"
7) Skid Row, "Slave To The Grind"
8) Motorhead, "1916"
9) Britny Fox, "Bite Down Hard"
10) Tuff, "What Comes Around Goes Around"
Honorable Mention:
Nirvana, "Nevermind"
Ozzy Osbourne, "Diary of a Madman"
Sweet F.A., "Temptation"
MSG, "One Night At Budokan"
Southgang, "Tainted Angel"
XYZ, "Hungry"
Vain, "All Those Strangers"
Kingdom Come, "Hands of Time"
White Lion, "Main Attraction"
Casanova, "Casanova"
Alice Cooper, "Hey Stoopid"
Guns'n'Roses, "Use Your Illusion I"
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METALBOY!'S TOP 10 HOLY GRAILS OF 1991
1) Cleavage, "Demo"
2) Pharoah, "On Your Knees"
3) K.K. Wilde, "Cocaine Cowboys"
4) NVS, "NVS"
5) Adrenalin Kick, "Bad Reputation"
6) Os-Lo, "Os-Lo"
7) Pleezer, "Pleezer"
8) Cadillac Bratz, "Fasten Your Seatbelts"
9) Touris, "Big Plans"
10) Simon Says, "Spin This"
p.s. Kidz -- Do yourself a favor! Bust out of from the pack of sheep and venture out into a whole other world of the great unknowns! Great Rock and Roll is out there most of you may have never heard before and I can tell you, get ready to be pleasantly surprised. If you really want to Bring Back Glam!, go on YouTube and check out the music of the above bands from '91. As you listen, you may begin to wonder as I have that if the internet had existed 20 years ago, these bands may very well have made it.
Also, if anybody can think of any stuff I missed on my lists, I am all ears (yuck, yuck) cuz I want to listen to what else is out there others think is good.
p.s. Al! I just listened to the entire "Light Me Up" album from The Pretty Reckless! Absolutely stunning! -- particularly, the title track! Killer!
I would also through out Head Cat - Walk the Walk Talk the Talk and Black Spiders - Sons of the North. Neither would be considered Glam but I enjoyed them both a lot this year.
Regarding 77, 21st Century Rock is actually their first album. Their new one is High Deicibels. They will be playing here in Barcelona (their home town) at the end of Jan. Cant wait.
Also, since we're nearing year's end, I just wanted to say to all, "THANK YOU for putting up with me!", particularly Allyson, who, I guess, hasn't figured out how to block me from this site (hahaha!!!). Thanks for letting me hang out here. As you can see, I have no real life... Hahaha!!! Just kiddin', folks! I got one. It's just not nearly as METAL as it is on this site!
I've learned SOOOO much from y'all on here. So many great tips about great bands. You can probably see ones Al did a post on or one of you lovely hooligans spoke of in the Rogue's Gallery of
the Comments section.
I feel like it's the last day of Shiprocked! or sumthin'. I'm cryin' mercury tears and usin' tin foil Kleenex! But, alas, we have a new frontier ahead of us in 2012! More Eddie Chump statements to complain about! More facts left out or distorted by Sam What's-His-Ass on "Metal Evolution"! More IRON MAIDEN or RUSH fans to argue with (Alright! Alright! I like SOME of it!) about how Rock'n'Roll they are as you throw up your hands when I tell ya I like Pretty Boy Floyd better! More shows to miss and more baked bean sandwiches to eat because I blew my last $$$ on a Holy
Grail.
More... Hey, wait a minute! I guess my life is more Metal than I thought! Here's to you all for helpin' to make it so and to all I wish you The METALLEST of New Years as we continue our never ending quest our lovely Allyson Bring Back Glam!
p.s. Kenny O! Shadow! Gary! Bob! KixRules! Him! Fletch! Mom2Ross, Kiki Chrome (Where art though?), The Nirves, and all the other characterz usually on here! Where the h*ll are those lists?