Your Favorite Records from October

Posted by aubin on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 8:00 PM (EDT)

The results for your votes for the best albums of October are in. Leading the pack is Minneapolis, MN-based Banner Pilot.

Banner Pilot
Heart Beats Pacific

Dead To Me
Moscow Penny Ante

Star Fucking Hipsters
From the Dumpster to the Grave

La Dispute
Wildlife

Banquets
Top Button, Bottom Shelf

The Gaslight Anthem
iTunes Session

I Am The Avalanche
Avalanche United

Static Radio NJ
We Are All Beasts

Superchunk
Foolish

10.

Transit
Listen & Forgive

11.

Kite Party
Baseball Season

12.

Snowing
I Could Do Whatever I Want If I Wanted

13.

Plow United
Sleepwalk: A Retrospective

14.

We Were Promised Jetpacks
In the Pit of the Stomach

15.

Wild Flag
Wild Flag

16.

Hipshot Killer
Hipshot Killer

17.

!ATTENTION!
Another Year [7-inch]

18.

New Found Glory
Radiosurgery

19.

Thundering Asteroids!
Thudering Asteroids!

20.

Dum Dum Girls
Only in Dreams

Bands in this story

Banner Pilot

Dead To Me

Star Fucking Hipsters

We Were Promised Jetpacks

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Sliced-T (November 3, 2011)

That's weird. None of these albums are The Spits.

ughlee (November 3, 2011)

I was pretty disappointed with the new Spits, I gotta say. Seemed like their first release where style completely trumped substance.

Sliced-T (November 4, 2011)

I respectfully disagree.

UnsubstantiatedRumors (November 3, 2011)

That's weird, none of these albums are IIOI's Proper

veep (November 4, 2011)

I was going to say, I knew I'd heard at least one really good album that came out last month.

Longshot (November 3, 2011)

Soooo all the FAT releases had the same guy do the cover art?

JimmyNorville (November 3, 2011)

except Tony Sly - which didn't make the cut for this list - yes

exitenglish1208 (November 3, 2011)

on first glance i thought it was a mistake and they were all actually the same

timfromsanfrancisco (November 4, 2011)

They're all black and white if that's what you mean.

notfeelingcreative (November 3, 2011)

I find it funny that no matter how many users/commenters come and go, their always seems to be a marked preference for the fat wreck style.

telegraphrocks (November 3, 2011)

Nothing on that list (or any other list this year) is better than "Moscow Penny Ante".

JimmyNorville (November 3, 2011)

There's this record label called Red Scare that has been releasing albums.

telegraphrocks (November 3, 2011)

No shit. They didn't release "Moscow Penny Ante" though, so...

JimmyNorville (November 3, 2011)

That's kind of my point.

pricey123 (November 3, 2011)

I'm starting to love pretty much all their releases, the reaganomics especially. I did think the copyrights album was really boring though

JimmyNorville (November 3, 2011)

We're like opposite twinsys. I guess that makes us just like two people born from different parents probably at different times. I mean, I agree with the beginning of your post, but Reaganomics is one of the ones I still am having trouble getting into and I thought the Copyrights was great.

joeydevil (November 3, 2011)

I thought the new Copyrights was boring too, the first couple times I listened to it. It really grew on me though.

xavierq (November 4, 2011)

Couldn't agree more. That shit is crazy.

Wags (November 4, 2011)

Red Scare is the Midwest Fat

Heathbar (November 4, 2011)

Sounds like a step up from AAA Affiliate to me!

thermonuclearwarrior (November 3, 2011)

iTunes Sessions are so punk rock! Give me a fucking break.

ughlee (November 3, 2011)

Yeah, how anyone can take an album titled that seriously is beyond me. Brian Fallon overkill.

notfeelingcreative (November 3, 2011)

I love gaslight but have never considered them a punk band. Just good rock n roll music.

killtaker (November 4, 2011)

Absolutely...in fact I just heard American Slang as bumper music on a local sports talk show. I don't think that Fallon has ever pretended to be punk as fuck though.

Heathbar (November 4, 2011)

Ummmm, Have you seen his hand tats?

killtaker (November 4, 2011)

i don't look that closely...i am not a huge gaslight fanboy though

Heathbar (November 4, 2011)

Neither am I. Definitely enjoy the music, though. My comment was more of an attempt at a humorous indictment of "what is punk rock." You should've seen my face as I was typing it. That would've helped. We would have laughed. I know it.

killtaker (November 4, 2011)

me too...

veep (November 4, 2011)

Are you in Boston by chance? 98.5 always plays American Slang at the beginning of their Bruins coverage.

killtaker (November 4, 2011)

Pittsburgh...93.7 the FAN (i think there are a bunch of FAN stations)

damnitsderek (November 3, 2011)

I know! How dare people not like the exact same kind of music all the time! God!

karliscool (November 3, 2011)

I'm trying to get into the new La Dispute. I don't know, something just doesn't seem right with it...

sawdonkey (November 4, 2011)

I'm in the same boat. The lyrics might be intense, but the vocals just bore me. Their last one was catchy as hell, but this is just inaccessible to me.

pricey123 (November 3, 2011)

My vote is for smoko at the pet food factory, even though I imported it months ago anyway

MN_DrNick (November 3, 2011)

Pretty good month.

thenightman (November 3, 2011)

Snowing's record came out almost exactly 1 year ago..

damnitsderek (November 3, 2011)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed this.

killtaker (November 4, 2011)

These ratings are based on albums that were reviewed in Oct. I wish Punknews would explain that in the headline so it doesn't have to be explained every month in the posts.

thenightman (November 4, 2011)

I know, it's just dumb.

Blackjaw_ (November 3, 2011)

My ratings never come into play because I always remove them after I post so as not to mess up my "favourite albums" list. That's the only reason I can think of for Kite Party and WWPJ not being higher.

damnitsderek (November 3, 2011)

Heart Beats Pacific has no business being ranked ahead of Dead to Me, I Am The Avalanche, Static Radio NJ, and a number of other records this month.

thingfromuranus (November 4, 2011)

you're so angry.

Heathbar (November 4, 2011)

Awesome.

damnitsderek (November 4, 2011)

Aw.

Joeydevil (November 4, 2011)

You're right. They should put 3 blank spots after it and before Dead to Me because it's that much better than the others.

drugmoney (November 3, 2011)

i've enjoyed hearts beat pacific so much that i haven't even really listened to the new dead to me. Red Line and Intervention are some of my favorites songs not just off this record but perhaps off all there records.

RENALDO69 (November 4, 2011)

wwpj is #1 to me

kursk64 (November 4, 2011)

I think La Dispute takes it for me. Great month though.

Amoeba (November 4, 2011)

Funny how I have none of these records and don't plan to either...

Michael_Berryman (November 4, 2011)

yeah, you're a regular Billy Crystal!

Amoeba (November 4, 2011)

I'm more of a Robin Williams...

loki13 (November 4, 2011)

Problems with arm hair?