Best Rock Album in 2011


This was my favorite thread from last year, so figured I would start it afresh.

I'll start:

Foo Fighters "Wasting Light"---best album by the Foos in years

TV on the Radio "Nine Types of Light"---bit more ambient than Dear Science, but the music is first rate
keithr
Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Outstanding album and my pick for album of the year for rock.
many of the above do not RAWK

how about - Black Keys "El Camino" or Smith Westerns "The Weekend"

Destroyer "Kaputt" and the Girls album are really good, but I would not call them rocking. As for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, these do NOT rock (although are both worth a listen)

By the way, the new Wilco album, while good, does not compare to their heyday of "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "Summerteeth," both exceptional and worth a purchase
Anyone have Gregg Allman "Low Country Blues"?
I am curious about the recording quality.
I have "Low Country Blues" on vinyl.

The recording quality is fair to poor.

Sounds as if it was recorded in a closet. Very muffled and lacking dynamics.