Another little post over on the work blog. If you’d like to know what the Indie Pool folk have been listening to this year, you can check it out here.

My personal top 10 list is as follows:

• Adele – 21
• The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
• A Toys Orchestra – Midnight (R)evolution
• The Black Keys – El Camino
• Tom Waits – Bad As Me
• Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
• PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
• Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
• Cotton Jones – Paranoid Coccoon
• Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops and Hooligans

Bit of a weird list for me this year, I’ve never had so much Top 40 on my top 10. Either I’m getting old or popular music is getting better. I like to think music is getting better.

Keep reading to see the collective list.

2011 is drawing to a close, so it’s time to tally the results and find out what the Indie Pool crew has been listening to this year.

Our list is a little different than some, as we don’t follow the rule that albums on this list must have been released in 2011, instead we ask everyone which records they have been listening to and digging the most this year.

After plenty of arguments and some terribly complicated mathematical equations, we present the combined Indie Pool Staff Top 10 list of 2011.

1. Adele – 21
2. MuteMath – Odd Soul
3. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
4. The Black Keys – El Camino
5. Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
6. A Toys Orchestra – Midnight (R)evolution
7. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
8. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys
9. The Kills – Blood Pressures
10. Feist – Metals

Read more to see the individual lists…

 

GREGG:

1. Adele – 21
2. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
3. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys
4. Sleigh Bells – Treats
5. Cults – Cults
6. Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee
7. Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
8. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
9. A Toys Orchestra – Midnight (R)evolution
10. Civil Wars – Barton Hollow

TREVOR:

1. Feist – Metals
2. Glasvegas – Euphoric Heartbreak
3. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys
4. MuteMath – Odd Soul
5. Adele – 21
6. The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
7. Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
8. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
9. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
10. Jay-Z and Kanye West – Watch The Throne

LINDSAY:

1. Adele – 21
2. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
3. A Toys Orchestra – Midnight (R)evolution
4. The Black Keys – El Camino
5. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
6. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
7. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
8. Kate Bush – 50 Words For Snow
9. Cotton Jones – Paranoid Coccoon
10. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops and Hooligans

JENN:

1. Levi Lowery – I Confess I Was A Fool
2. Sugarland – The Incredible Machine
3. James Hoffmann – The Union
4. Joe Bonnamassa – Dust Bowl
5. Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
6. Adele – 21
7. Cee-Lo Green – Ladykiller
8. Monkeyjunk – To Behold
9. MuteMath – Odd Soul
10. Bon Jovi – Greatest Hits

BRETT:

1. MuteMath – Odd Soul
2. The Kills – Blood Pressures
3. Iggy Pop & James Williamson – Kill City (Remastered)
4. Cotton Jones – Paranoid Coccoon
5. Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
6. The Strokes – Angles
7. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
8. Feist – Metals
9. Cults – Cults
10. Radiohead – King of Limbs

JORDAN:

1. Dave Hause – Resolutions
2. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
3. Teenage Kicks – Rational Anthems
4. Adele – 21
5. The Mark Inside – Nothing To Admit
6. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All…
7. Living With Lions – Holy Shit
8. Monster Truck – The Brown EP
9. The Black Keys – El Camino
10. Much Music – Much Dance 2011

CARRIE:

1. Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
2. Angus and Julia Stone – Down The Way
3. Adele – 21
4. Lhasa De Sela – The Living Road
5. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
6. The Black Keys – El Camino
7. Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
8. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Dollface Honey
9. MuteMath – Odd Soul
10. Elbow – Build A Rocket Boys

HEIDI:

1. Foster the People – Torches
2. A Toys Orchestra – Midnight (R)evolution
3. MuteMath – Odd Soul
4. Adele – 21
5. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
6. Band of Skulls – Baby Darling Dollface Honey
7. Girl Talk – All Day
8. The Black Keys – El Camino
9. Lykki Li – Wounded Rhymes
10. Miles Kane – Colour of the Trap

MIKE:

1. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
2. MuteMath – Odd Soul
3. Yelawolf – Trunk Muzik 0-60
4. Taylor Swift – Speak Now
5. Lights – Siberia
6. Blink 182 – Neighborhoods
7. Sublime With Rome – Yours Truly
8. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops and Hooligans
9. Four Year Strong – In Some Way, Shape or Form
10. Angels & Airwaves – Love 2

ZJ:

1. Cee-Lo Green – Ladykiller
2. Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon II
3. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
4. Good Lovelies – Let the Rain Fall
5. Audio Bullys – Higher than the Eiffel Tower
6. Woodhands – Remorsecapade
7. Sleigh Bells – Treats
8. Ida Maria – Fortress Round My Heart
9. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops and Hooligans
10. Meaghan Smith – The Crickets Orchestra

VIK:

1. The Black Keys – El Camino
2. Justice – Civilization
3. The Whip – Wired Togetehr
4. M82 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
5. The Kills – Blood Pressures
6. Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years
7. Cults – Cults
8. Skrillex – More Monsters and Sprites
9. Tom Waits – Bad As Me
10. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

There you have it! What have you been listening to this year? Tell us what we missed!