The end of the year is near. Every december around the web you can find every sort of “best of 2011” lists, including best albums, best SEO articles, best movies, best YouTube clips and on and on and on.

I mean, it’s really fun. By nature, I am more interested in lists talking about “best albums of 2011”, because I always check to know everything out there, or at least about music I am interested of.

Every year I have a look to the lists by Pitchfork , Bleep and Resident Advisor . Then I try to find lists by single artists I like the most, and at the end of this process, I start to order CDs and vinyls from Amazon (when I want to be “legal”).

So I decided to publish mine. The reason is simple. I wanted to have something that shows to my friends out there what I listened to the most during this year. I mean, it could be cool to discover new music thanks to me!

I don’t wanna make a long list of every artist and every album, so I prepare a simple collage of all the artworks, thanks to Picasa (by the way, how terrible is this software? really slow, UI is bad…but I don’t know other softwares to do neat collages without spending hours). No list, but images. Yeah, because images are content futures right? who wants to see lists of things? kinda boring.

So, here is my top 18 albums of 2011 list. (warning: there are no last Red Hot Chili Peppers’ and Coldplay’s albums…it’s not a mistake, I tried to listen to them, but I was like : WTF?). Why 18? because everyone is doing top 50 or top 20 or top 10. I wanted to be different.