The Hype Machine’s Music Blog Zeitgeist 2011 compared to The Dropp

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The Hype Machine is an MP3 blog, which aggregates posted songs from nearly 1,500 music blogs. In the past few years, the site has implemented an end-of-the-year list called the Zeitgeist. Basically, they process more than 400 audio blogs’ Top 10 lists, weigh each album based on its ranking, and then come up with their “master” list of 50 albums. It’s like the Metacritic of the music world.

On Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012, The Hype Machine released their “Music Blog Zeitgeist 2011.” Here at The Dropp, we took a look at their cumulative list to see how our “Best Albums of 2011” compared. Below is the full list from Hype Machine’s website with our albums in bold:

50 Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
49 Gillian Welch – The Harrow And The Harvest
48 Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde
47 Cults – Cults
46 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
45 Wild Beasts – Smother
44 Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra.
43 WU LYF – Go Tell Fire To The Moutain
42 Wye Oak – Civilian
41 Beyoncé – 4
40 Panda Bear – Tomboy
39 Feist – Metals
38 Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
37 Lady Gaga – Born This Way
36 Cut Copy – Zonoscope
35 Metronomy – The English Riviera
34 Mastodon – The Hunter
33 Youth Lagoon – The Year Of Hibernation
32 Drake – Take Care
31 Florence & The Machine – Ceremonials
30 Wild Flag – Wild Flag
29 The Horrors – Skying
28 Washed Out – Within & Without
27 Foster The People – Torches
26 The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
25 The Roots – Undun
24 Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
23 The Antlers – Burst Apart
22 Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
21 Yuck – Yuck
20 The Weeknd – House Of Balloons
19 Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
18 Tom Waits – Bad As Me
17 Real Estate – Days
16 The Black Keys – El Camino
15 Radiohead – The King Of Limbs
14 Destroyer – Kaputt
13 Wilco – The Whole Love
12 Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
11 Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne
10 St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
09 James Blake – James Blake
08 The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
07 Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
06 Adele – 21
05 tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
04 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
03 M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
02 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
01 Bon Iver – Bon Iver

So 19 out of our top 25 made the list. Not bad. But apparently we missed out on Foo Fighters and Mastodon (???) and most people didn’t agree with us on M83 for the No. 1 spot . . . their loss, right?

Here are the rest of the albums that made our final list, which apparently separates us from 400+ lists across the blogosphere (Go against the grain!):

Toro Y Moi Underneath the Pine
Liturgy Aesthethica
The Rapture In the Grace of Your Love
SBTRKT SBTRKT
Colin Stetson New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
Bill Callahan Apocalypse