Albums and Songs of 2011

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Brad wrote: Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:28 pm Favorite Songs of 2011:
1. Weyes Blood | Storms That Breed (AT #799)
2. Sharon Van Etten | Serpents (AT #801)
3. PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
4. Lana Del Rey | Blue Jeans
5. Girls | Vomit
6. St. Vincent | Cruel
7. Kurt Vile | Jesus Fever
8. PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
9. Girls | Honey Bunny
10. The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love?
11. Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
12. Radiohead | Lotus Flower
13. Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument
14. Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
15. The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
16. Ólafur Arnalds | Fyrsta
17. Destroyer | Kaputt
18. Wilco | I Might
19. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Black
20. Destroyer | Chinatown
21. Cass McCombs | County Line
22. Beirut | Santa Fe
23. Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
24. Lana Del Rey | Video Games
25. Mogwai | Rano Pano

****EDITED! It's come to my attention that "Serpents" is being considered a 2011 song.****

Albums later... thanks!
Just FYI that I edited my list from earlier in the week.

Thanks!
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ALBUMS:



1. DESTROYER "Kaputt" (#114 of all time)
"Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME, all sound like a dream to me." Nostalgia for a time you never lived in. Dan Bejar (of New Pornographers fame) made a brilliant update of the glossy sophisti-pop sounds of the 80s, filling his album with fretless basses, airy synths and saxes and trumpets immersed in reverb, but written from the point of view of the 2000-2010s generation, with lyrics that "paint a clear picture of a world in an apocalyptic conflict, both physical and philosophical" (quoting Drew Litowitz).



2. PJ HARVEY "Let England Shake" (#168)
I was delighted at the time to see an album by a woman on her forties at the top of many end-of-year lists, including Acclaimed Music. Now I checked and there were two other cases in the past (1958 and 2008). PJ knew how to stay relevant two decades on her career with a concept album depicting vividly the horrors of war, sadly even more relevant now, more than a decade later.



3. BLACK KEYS "El Camino" (#208)
Astounding. The combined talent of Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney and Danger Mouse made a record that felt more like a greatest hits compilation than a regular album, with an addictive riff after another and a brilliant hook after another. And so consciously classic that doesn't feel like a 2010s album, it could have been released at any given year from the mid-1960s to the 2020s.

4. THE BEACH BOYS "The Smile Sessions"
5. ÓLAFUR ARNALDS "Living Room Songs"
6. THE ROOTS "undun"
7. TOM WAITS "Bad As Me"
8. FLEET FOXES "Helplessness Blues"
9. THE CARETAKER "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World"
10. KORCIA / ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE ROYAL DE LIÈGE / KANTOROW "Tchaikovsky Korngold Concertos"
11. FERNANDO ALFARO "La vida es extraña y rara"
12. LYKKE LI "Wounded Rhymes"
13. MATANA ROBERTS "Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres"
14. WILCO "The Whole Love"
15. JAMES BLAKE "James Blake"
16. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN "A Winged Victory for the Sullen"
17. COLIN STETSON "New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges"
18. ST. VINCENT "Strange Mercy"
19. ANNA CALVI "Anna Calvi"
20. THE WEEKND "House of Balloons"
21. RADIOHEAD "The King of Limbs"
22. METRONOMY "The English Riviera"
23. BON IVER "Bon Iver, Bon Iver"
24. BUGGE WESSELTOFT & HENRIK SCHWARZ "DUO"
25. TIM HECKER "Ravedeath, 1972"

SONGS:



1. PJ HARVEY "All and Everyone" (#149 of all time)
"Dark, formal and auspicious, it starts with epic gravitas and grandeur building to a controlled and inevitable finale, like death itself. The care-free singalong of the refrain: "As we advancing, in the sun, singing death to all and everyone" strikes me as soldiers meeting their ends with a tune in their heads, buoyed with love of each other and accepting their lot with a jeer. Its slowed-down delivery extends time like slow motion, a deliberate heightening of mortal last moments." (Seamus Murphy)



2. DESTROYER "Suicide Demo for Kara Walker" (#237)
Even if originally it was a rough demo with raw keyboards in the style of NYC band Suicide ("Suicide Demo," that's why), in its final version it ended as a lush affair with a long and solemn instrumental intro featuring a lovely flute and brilliant stream-of-consciuosness lyrics (co-written with painter Kara Walker), addressing racial issues and referencing Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man."

3. THE BLACK KEYS "Lonely Boy"
4. LANA DEL REY "Video Games"
5. TOM WAITS "Back in the Crowd"
6. BON IVER "Perth"
7. ÓLAFUR ARNALDS "Fyrsta"
8. FLEET FOXES "Helplessness Blues"
9. FERNANDO ALFARO "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza"
10. LYKKE LI "I Follow Rivers"
11. PJ HARVEY "The Words That Maketh Murder"
12. ST. VINCENT "Cruel"
13. ANNA CALVI "Suzanne and I"
14. MAROON 5 feat. CHRISTINA AGUILERA "Moves like Jagger"
15. GRUFF RHYS "Vitamin K"
16. DESTROYER "Kaputt"
17. ALABAMA SHAKES "Hold On"
18. WILCO "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)"
19. CHROMATICS "Kill for Love"
20. JOHN LUTHER ADAMS / STEPHEN DRURY / SCOTT DEAL "Four Thousand Holes"
21. RADIOHEAD "Lotus Flower"
22. RON SEXSMITH "Believe It When I See It"
23. THE BLACK KEYS "Gold on the Ceiling"
24. M83 "Midnight City"
25. THE ROOTS feat. BIG K.R.I.T. & DICE RAW "Make My"
26. TOM WAITS "Bad As Me"
27. THE JAYHAWKS "Cinnamon Love"
28. SONDRE LERCHE "Private Caller"
29. WILD BEASTS "Loop the Loop"
30. THE BLACK KEYS "Little Black Submarines"
31. METRONOMY "The Bay"
32. A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN "We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year"
33. TANTE HORTENSE & REVISTA DO SAMBA "Le bel amant du Berry"
34. THE CARETAKER "All You're Going to Want to Do Is Get Back There"
35. PJ HARVEY "The Glorious Land"
36. TOM WAITS "Hell Broke Luce"
37. LYKKE LI "Get Some"
38. LA CASA AZUL "Los chicos hoy saltarán a la pista"
39. THE WEEKND "Wicked Games"
40. THE ROOTS feat. BILAL OLIVER & GREG PORN "TheOtherSide"
41. KENDRICK LAMAR "HiiPoWer"
42. FLEET FOXES "The Shrine / An Argument"
43. DESTROYER "Chinatown"
44. WILCO "Art of Almost"
45. JAMES BLAKE "The Wilhelm Scream"
46. BUGGE WESSELTOFT & HENRIK SCHWARZ "Kammermusik"
47. MATANA ROBERTS "Libation for Mr. Brown: Bid 'Em In..."
48. COLIN STETSON "Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes"
49. TIM HECKER "Hatred of Music I"
50. TIMBER TIMBRE "Obelisk"






FAVOURITE COMPILATION: R.E.M. "Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011"
R.E.M.'s farewell, compilation of an almost immaculate 30-years career. Mostly heart and truth, little lies and garbage.
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My favourite Spanish song of 2011: Fernando Alfaro's "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza"




My first exposure to my favourite song of 2011 was quite memorable, at least for me. On July 2nd of 2011 I had the great pleasure (and honour) of playing guitar with one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the Spanish indie generation, Fernando Alfaro. He played at the birthday party of Víctor, a friend of mine, and after Alfaro's acoustic set when he played songs from his then last album including "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza" ("Hawaiian straitjacket") a group of friends (Víctor on bass, Eli on drums and me on guitar) joined him on the stage to play five of his songs. The experience was so positive that on the following day I wrote a glowing biographical sketch on the Old Acclaimed Music Forum. You can read it the complete "article" here but I'm going to try to summarize it now.
Fernando Alfaro has been a key artist in the transition period between the 80s "movida" and the 90s Spanish indie scene. From Albacete, a provincial city far from the hip scenes of the big cities, he created a very personal lyrical universe and a distinctive music style. His lyrics range from the most disturbing and insane to the most delicate, often in the same verse. And his trademark sound is based on his whispered voice rising from a wall of guitars.
He fronted the band Surfin' Bichos (Surfin' Bugs) from 1988 to 1994, probably the biggest non-US/UK influence of the Spanish indie generation. Their first two albums, "La luz en tus entrañas" ("The Light on Your Entrails," 1989) and "Fotógrafo del cielo" ("Photographer of Heaven," 1991), had already all the twisted elements of Alfaro's universe but can be seen today as the appetizers for their masterpiece, "Hermanos carnales" ("Carnal Brothers," 1992), the #19 Spanish album of all-time according to Rockdelux. Intended as a double album about the twins of the Cronenberg movie "Dead Ringer," with each album devoted to every twin, finally it was released as a single album with a story of incest tying some songs. Songs like "Mis huesos son para ti" ("My Bones Are for You") showed the disturbing side of the band while others ("Abrazo en un terremoto," "Embrace in an Earthquake") showed the delicate one. The most similar to a hit single that Alfaro had in his whole career was "Fuerte!" ("Strong!"). At the time they became almost popular, they even opened for Nirvana on their Spanish 1992 shows.
Surfin' Bichos disbanded after their fourth album, "El amigo de las tormentas" ("The Friend of the Storms," 1994), with the band splitting in two, Mercromina (Mercurochrome), fronted by Joaquín Pascual, a band that released five outstanding albums (with songs as gorgeous as "En un mundo tan pequeño", "In a World so Small") and Chucho (Mutt) fronted by Alfaro. Chucho went on to release four albums almost as critically acclaimed and fascinating as the Surfin' Bichos ones. After deepening into his rarified universe with their debut "78" (1997) then it came a breath of fresh air. After the birth of the first daughter, Fernando released "Tejido de felicidad" ("Tissue of Happiness," 1999), an emotional rollercoaster from happiness to despair. A highly acclaimed album (#89 Spanish album of all-time according to Rockdelux), a beautiful cover art and some of the more optimstic songs of Alfaro, exemplified by the song "Magic."
After two other great albums Alfaro disbanded again his second band to pursue a solo career. The first album under his own name was "La vida es extraña y rara" ("Life Is Strange and Weird," 2011) and and was released shortly before that birthday party. I listened for the first time the songs from the album on stripped acoustic versions that night and the song that mostly caught my attention was "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza" (I'm not exaggerating, you can check it out in the review I wrote the next day after just one listen). The song, brilliantly produced by Raül Refree, had all the characteristic traits of Alfaro style. Brilliant songwriting including clever wordplay comparing love and madness, but I'm afraid my translation of the lyrics doesn't make justice to the original and most of the idioms got lost in translation. Even the wordplay of the title is lost, in Spanish the "straitjackets" used with violent madmen are called "camisas de fuerza" (literally "shirts of force") and Fernando Alfaro gave a touch of humour having a "Hawaiian shirt of force," among cult references related to madness and isolation like the Escher staircase or the island of Elba. Musically we can find his trademark mix of sweetness (with even some bossa nova flavours) and aggressiveness with the occasional burst of electricity.
Back to that summer night, the last song we played was "Fuerte!" and I've tried to do my best with the guitar solo (something not too easy because in the original there are two simultaneous guitar solos). When we finished he smiled at me and said only two words, "¡muy bien!" ("very well!"), that coming from his mouth sounded to me better than the most laudatory speech I could have imagined.





CAMISA HAWAIANA DE FUERZA
Songwriter and performer: FERNANDO ALFARO
First release: 2011 ("La vida es extraña y rara" album)
Length: 4'40"

Cada loco con su tema
y cada loco en su isla de Elba.

Camisa hawaiana de fuerza,
así podré disimular,
porque es bastante larga
y así por fuera tapa
todo este amor que te puedo dar.

Camisa hawaiana de fuerza,
la fuerza que nos va a arrasar,
porque estas flores raras
de su estampado estampan
toda la locura que te puedo dar.

Y es que me vuelves
loco de atar.
Si tu amor me hace libre,
¿por qué no puedo irme?
Ni medio metro me puedo alejar.

Cuando por la calle andas revientan las fachadas
y se van derruyendo viviendas y comercios.
Subía de dos en dos los escalones de tu corazón,
si era una escalera de Escher me daba igual.

Le ha crecido el pelo
y la barba sin afeitar,
se ha dejado barriga
y su amiga la botella de tequila
y su isla lo arrullarán.

Camisa hawaiana de fuerza,
la fuerza de un amor total.
Camisa hawaiana para el fin de semana
o para el fin del mundo que será.

Camisa hawaiana de fuerza,
mi encadenada libertad.
Si tu amor me hace libre,
¿por qué no puedo irme?
Ni medio metro me puedo alejar.

Fin de semana como un fin del mundo,
fue una locura total
con catástrofes y tal,
sálvese cada cual.

Fin de semana como un fin del mundo,
fin de semana como un fin del mundo,
fin de semana como un fin del mundo.


HAWAIIAN STRAITJACKET

Every madman with his axe to grind
and every madman on his island of Elba.

Hawaiian straitjacket,
so I'll be able to disguise it,
because it is quite long
and so on the outside it covers
all this love I can give you.

Hawaiian straitjacket,
the force that will sweep us away,
because these rare flowers
of its print stamp
all the madness I can give you.

Cause you drive me
raving mad.
If your love sets me free,
why can't I leave?
I can't even go half a metre away.

When you walk down the street, the facades are blown off
and houses and stores collapse.
I climbed up the steps of your heart two by two,
if it was an Escher staircase I didn't care.

His hair has grown
and an unshaven beard,
he's grown a belly
and his friend the bottle of tequila
and his island will lull him to sleep.

Hawaiian straitjacket,
the strength of a total love.
Hawaiian shirt for the weekend
or for the end of the world to come.

Hawaiian straitjacket,
my chained freedom.
If your love sets me free,
why can't I leave?
I can't even go half a metre away.

Weekend like the end of the world,
it was total madness
with catastrophes and such,
every man for himself.

Weekend like the end of the world,
weekend like the end of the world,
weekend like the end of the world.





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Fernando Alfaro was born and lives in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha.


The rest of the Spanish Top 5 of 2011:
2. LA CASA AZUL "Los chicos hoy saltarán a la pista": The boys will jump today to the dance floor / and they'll take it by storm because they're not afraid to scream anymore.
3. KASE.O JAZZ MAGNETISM "Boogaloo A.K.A. Tarántula": My great pain: I saw you fly, I saw myself laugh / and bipolar, I saw me cry.
4. ANTÓNIA FONT "Calgary 88": Before going on stage you said: "Will you marry me?" / I answered: "Today we will get married if we win the gold medal."
5. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO "Toro": Neither brave nor unaware / it is the mark on our forehead.
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faves sonks from 2011
  1. Jacaszek - Dare-gale
  2. Oorutaichi - Futurelina
  3. Paavoharju - Ikkunat näkevät
  4. Jonathan Wilson - Desert Raven
  5. Other Lives - For 12
  6. Cut copy - Need you now
  7. Bill Callahan – America!
  8. Lluvia Ácida – Hidroeléctrica
  9. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
  10. Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Les Plus Beaux
  11. Gang Gang Dance- MindKilla
  12. Toro y Moi - New beat
  13. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
  14. Metronomy – The Look
  15. Metronomy – The bay
  16. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best
  17. Gang Gang Dance- Glass Jar
etc
albums
  1. Calhau! - Quadrologia Pentacónica
  2. Paavoharju - Ikkunat näkevät
  3. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
  4. Jacaszek - Glimmer
  5. Oorutaichi - Cosmic Coco, Singing for a Billion Imu's Hearty Pi
etc
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1 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
2 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy
3 | Metronomy | The English Riviera
4 | tUnE-yArDs | w h o k i l l
5 | Gotye | Making Mirrors
6 | Adele | 21
7 | C418 | Minecraft - Volume Alpha
8 | The Beach Boys | The sMiLe Sessions
9 | Björk | Biophilia
10 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons
11 | WILD FLAG | WILD FLAG
12 | Angel Olsen | Strange Cacti
13 | Anna Calvi | Anna Calvi
14 | Dum Dum Girls | Only In Dreams
15 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes
16 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
17 | Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Unknown Mortal Orchestra
18 | Foster The People | Torches
19 | The Black Keys | El Camino
20 | Wild Beasts | Smother

21 | Yuck | Yuck
22 | EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints
23 | Radiohead | King of Limbs
24 | Kate Bush | 50 Words For Snow
25 | Julia Holter | Tragedy
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Songs:

1. Ja, Panik - DMD KIU LIDT
2. Fucked Up - Queen of hearts (with the Let her rest Intro)
3. PJ Harvey - All and Everyone
4. Fotos - Porzellan
5. Radiohead - Codex
6. Stabil Elite - Krautkamerad
7. M83 - Wait
8. Planningtorock - I am your man
9. There will be fireworks - Harmonium Song
10. Low - Nothing but heart
11. Mogwai - Rano Pano
12. The Rapture - How deep is your love
13. Lana del Rey - Video games
14. Fun & Janelle Monáe - We are Young
15. Danger Mouse & Norah Jones - Season’s Tree
16. Wild Flag - Future Crime
17. Justice - Civilization
18. 13 & God - Death Minor
19. Azealia Banks & Lazy Jay - 212
20. The Go! Team - Apollo Throwdown
21. Seefeel - Sway
22. Orelsan - Suicide social
23. The Roots - The other side
24. Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
25. Burial - Street Halo
26. Car Seat Headrest - Famous Prophets (Minds)
27. Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers
28. Anna Calvi - Suzanne and I
29. Girls - Vomit
30. Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
31. Florence & the Machine - Shake it out
32. Frank Ocean - Swim God
33. Natalie Beridze - When dreams become responsibilities
34. Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistake
35. Niobe - Does he gallop o walk
36. St Vincent - Cruel
37. Lady Gaga - Yoü and me (Wild Beasts Remix)
38. New Young Pony Club - Dub Cherry
39. Thee Oh Sees - The Dream
40. Wilco - Art of Almost
41. Ölafur Arnalds - Fyrsta
42. Jai Paul - BTSTU
43. Metronomy - The Bay
44. Monostars - Dunkelrot
45. Wye Oak - Two small deaths
46. Bon Iver - Perth
47. King Krule - The Noose of Jah City
48. Nils Frahm & Anne Müller - 7Fingers
49. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call me maybe
50. Deichkind - Leider Geil

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ALBUMS

1 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
2 | The Beach Boys | The Smile Sessions
3 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact
4 | Julia Holter | Tragedy
5 | Andy Stott | Passed Me By / We Stay Together
6 | The Roots | undun
7 | Kaija Saariaho | D'OM LE VRAI SENS; Laterna magica; Leino Songs [Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo / Kari Kriikku / Anu Komsi]
8 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
9 | Unsuk Chin | Fantaisie Mécanique / Xi / Akrostichon-Wortspiel / Double Concerto [Ensemble InterContemporain]
10 | Tim Hecker | Ravedeath, 1972
11 | Peter Evans Quintet | Ghosts
12 | Fucked Up | David Comes to Life
13 | Destroyer | Kaputt
14 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy
15 | Meredith Monk | Songs of Ascension
16 | EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints
17 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
18 | Various Artists | Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010 [SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, et al]
19 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up
20 | Laura Marling | A Creature I Don't Know
21 | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse
22 | Julianna Barwick | The Magic Place
23 | The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
24 | Rustie | Glass Swords
25 | Grouper | A I A: Alien Observer
26 | Kendrick Lamar | section .80
27 | James Ferraro | Far Side Virtual
28 | Sean McCann | The Capital
29 | Weyes Blood and The Dark Juices | The Outside Room
30 | Mastodon | The Hunter
31 | Tinariwen | Tassili
32 | Kate Bush | 50 Words for Snow
33 | Death Grips | Exmilitary
34 | Amon Tobin | ISAM
35 | Metá Metá | Metá Metá
36 | Kashiwa Daisuke | 88
37 | Wilco | The Whole Love
38 | Tom Waits | Bad as Me
39 | Machinedrum | Room(s)
40 | Danny Brown | XXX
41 | Björk | Biophilia
42 | TV on the Radio | Nine Types of Light
43 | Jenny Hval | Viscera
44 | Nicolás Jaar | Space Is Only Noise
45 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
46 | Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
47 | James Blake | James Blake
48 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs
49 | Frank Ocean | Nostalgia, Ultra.
50 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes
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Hi!
2011 was a quite good year for music for me, just as 2010. This happened specially in spanish music, where we saw great records by 5 modern classics. All of them reached my top 20.

On the first place, another master piece from Polly Jean who reached #2 on my decade list.

1 - PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2 - Destroyer - Kaputt
3 - Antonia Font - Lamparetes
4 - Cunninglynguists - Oneirology
5 - Jay Z & Kanye West - Whatch the throne
6 - Sr. Chinarro - Presidente
7 - Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
8 - Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues
9 - The Weeknd - House of balloons
10 - Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
11 - Nacho Vegas - La zona sucia
12 - La Casa Azul - La Polinesia meridional
13 - Wilco - The whole love
14 - Cut Copy - Zonoscope
15 - Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
16 - The Beach Boys - The smile sessions
17 - Britney Spears - Femme fatale
18 - Fernando Alfaro - La vida es extraña y rara
19 - Wild Beasts - Smoother
20 - james Blake - James Blake
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Songs
1 | Gotye | Somebody That I Used to Know
2 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons // Glass Table Girls
3 | Lana del Rey | Video Games
4 | M83 | Midnight City
5 | Adele | Someone Like You
6 | Azaelia Banks | 212
7 | Metronomy | The Bay
8 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
9 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe
10 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
11 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
12 | Rihanna | We Found Love
13 | Metronomy | Everything Goes My Way
14 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
15 | tUnE-yArDs | Bizness
16 | The Weeknd | Wicked Games
17 | St. Vincent | Cruel
18 | EMA | California
19 | Zoé | Labios Rotos
20 | Dum Dum Girls | Bedroom Eyes

21 | Maroon 5 | Moves Like Jagger
22 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
23 | Adele | Set Fire to the Rain
24 | Wild Beasts | Bed of Nails
25 | Angel Olsen | Creator, Destroyer
26 | The Weeknd | The Morning
27 | Adele | Rumour Has It
28 | Chromatics | Kill For Love
29 | The Strokes | Macchu Picchu
30 | Real Estate | It's Real
31 | Florence + The Machine | Shake It Out
32 | tUnE-yArDs | Powa
33 | Anna Calvi | Blackout
34 | Savages | Husbands
35 | Metronomy | The Look
36 | The Weeknd | The Party & The After Party
37 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
38 | Alexander Stan | Mr. Saxobeat
39 | Angel Olsen | Some things cosmic
40 | Drake | Take Care
41 | Foster The People | Call It What You Want
42 | St. Vincent | Cheerleader
43 | Cut Copy | Need You Now
44 | Bruno Mars | The Lazy Song
45 | The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love?
46 | Battles | Ice Cream
47 | Anna Calvi | Suzanne and I
48 | PJ Harvey | The Last Living Rose
49 | Chairlift | Amanaemonesia
50 | Björk | Thunderbolts
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Holden, I've just edited my song list when I realized "Kill for Love" (the song) was released in 2011
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Re: Albums and Songs of 2011

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Honorio wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:01 am My favourite Spanish song of 2011: Fernando Alfaro's "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza"




My first exposure to my favourite song of 2011 was quite memorable, at least for me. On July 2nd of 2011 I had the great pleasure (and honour) of playing guitar with one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the Spanish indie generation, Fernando Alfaro. He played at the birthday party of Víctor, a friend of mine, and after Alfaro's acoustic set when he played songs from his then last album including "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza" ("Hawaiian straitjacket") a group of friends (Víctor on bass, Eli on drums and me on guitar) joined him on the stage to play five of his songs. The experience was so positive that on the following day I wrote a glowing biographical sketch on the Old Acclaimed Music Forum. You can read it the complete "article" here but I'm going to try to summarize it now.
Fernando Alfaro has been a key artist in the transition period between the 80s "movida" and the 90s Spanish indie scene. From Albacete, a provincial city far from the hip scenes of the big cities, he created a very personal lyrical universe and a distinctive music style. His lyrics range from the most disturbing and insane to the most delicate, often in the same verse. And his trademark sound is based on his whispered voice rising from a wall of guitars.
He fronted the band Surfin' Bichos (Surfin' Bugs) from 1988 to 1994, probably the biggest non-US/UK influence of the Spanish indie generation. Their first two albums, "La luz en tus entrañas" ("The Light on Your Entrails," 1989) and "Fotógrafo del cielo" ("Photographer of Heaven," 1991), had already all the twisted elements of Alfaro's universe but can be seen today as the appetizers for their masterpiece, "Hermanos carnales" ("Carnal Brothers," 1992), the #19 Spanish album of all-time according to Rockdelux. Intended as a double album about the twins of the Cronenberg movie "Dead Ringer," with each album devoted to every twin, finally it was released as a single album with a story of incest tying some songs. Songs like "Mis huesos son para ti" ("My Bones Are for You") showed the disturbing side of the band while others ("Abrazo en un terremoto," "Embrace in an Earthquake") showed the delicate one. The most similar to a hit single that Alfaro had in his whole career was "Fuerte!" ("Strong!"). At the time they became almost popular, they even opened for Nirvana on their Spanish 1992 shows.
Surfin' Bichos disbanded after their fourth album, "El amigo de las tormentas" ("The Friend of the Storms," 1994), with the band splitting in two, Mercromina (Mercurochrome), fronted by Joaquín Pascual, a band that released five outstanding albums (with songs as gorgeous as "En un mundo tan pequeño", "In a World so Small") and Chucho (Mutt) fronted by Alfaro. Chucho went on to release four albums almost as critically acclaimed and fascinating as the Surfin' Bichos ones. After deepening into his rarified universe with their debut "78" (1997) then it came a breath of fresh air. After the birth of the first daughter, Fernando released "Tejido de felicidad" ("Tissue of Happiness," 1999), an emotional rollercoaster from happiness to despair. A highly acclaimed album (#89 Spanish album of all-time according to Rockdelux), a beautiful cover art and some of the more optimstic songs of Alfaro, exemplified by the song "Magic."
After two other great albums Alfaro disbanded again his second band to pursue a solo career. The first album under his own name was "La vida es extraña y rara" ("Life Is Strange and Weird," 2011) and and was released shortly before that birthday party. I listened for the first time the songs from the album on stripped acoustic versions that night and the song that mostly caught my attention was "Camisa hawaiana de fuerza" (I'm not exaggerating, you can check it out in the review I wrote the next day after just one listen). The song, brilliantly produced by Raül Refree, had all the characteristic traits of Alfaro style. Brilliant songwriting including clever wordplay comparing love and madness, but I'm afraid my translation of the lyrics doesn't make justice to the original and most of the idioms got lost in translation. Even the wordplay of the title is lost, in Spanish the "straitjackets" used with violent madmen are called "camisas de fuerza" (literally "shirts of force") and Fernando Alfaro gave a touch of humour having a "Hawaiian shirt of force," among cult references related to madness and isolation like the Escher staircase or the island of Elba. Musically we can find his trademark mix of sweetness (with even some bossa nova flavours) and aggressiveness with the occasional burst of electricity.
Back to that summer night, the last song we played was "Fuerte!" and I've tried to do my best with the guitar solo (something not too easy because in the original there are two simultaneous guitar solos). When we finished he smiled at me and said only two words, "¡muy bien!" ("very well!"), that coming from his mouth sounded to me better than the most laudatory speech I could have imagined.


The rest of the Spanish Top 5 of 2011:
2. LA CASA AZUL "Los chicos hoy saltarán a la pista": The boys will jump today to the dance floor / and they'll take it by storm because they're not afraid to scream anymore.
3. KASE.O JAZZ MAGNETISM "Boogaloo A.K.A. Tarántula": My great pain: I saw you fly, I saw myself laugh / and bipolar, I saw me cry.
4. ANTÓNIA FONT "Calgary 88": Before going on stage you said: "Will you marry me?" / I answered: "Today we will get married if we win the gold medal."
5. EL COLUMPIO ASESINO "Toro": Neither brave nor unaware / it is the mark on our forehead.
Always a pleasure reading Honorio's essays about artists who, unfortunately, are hardly known outside the Spanish borders.
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Re: Albums and Songs of 2011

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Mindrocker wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:24 pm
Always a pleasure reading Honorio's essays about artists who, unfortunately, are hardly known outside the Spanish borders.
Thank you very much, Mindrocker! Your words mean a lot to me!
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Re: Albums and Songs of 2011

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I think 2010 has a strong songs in strength whilst 2011 has more good songs in quantity. Album wise, 2010 was better, song wise 2011 was better. If I had to choose which year I prefer, it would have to be 2011. The commercial songs and house compilations in 2011 were stronger than the ones from 2010.

There's a fun bouncy disco number called "Better Things To Come" in my list sitting in #57 next to Cher Lloyd's catchy "Superhero". Although "Inspector Norse" is for next year, feel free to whack on "Groundwork" by Jay J for some driving electronic instrumental. The album part, I was struggling with "50 Words For Snow" and "Ashes + Fire", Kate and Ryan did not disappoint me this year at all.

Albums:
#1: St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
#2: Bjork - Biophilia
#3: Ryan Adams - Ashes + Fire
#4: Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
#5: Cher Lloyd - Sticks + Stones
#6: Kelly Rowland - Here I Am
#7: Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
#8: Julia Holter - Tragedy
#9: Ed Sheeran - +
#10: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Make A Scene
#11: Com Truise - Galatic Melt
#12: Beyonce - 4
#13: Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
#14: PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
#15: Atlas Sound - Parallax
#16: Emma's Imagination - Stand Still
#17: Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know
#18: Lady GaGa - Born This Way
#19: Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
#20: Rebecca Ferguson - Heaven
#21: Above & Beyond - Group Therapy
#22: Tycho - Dive
#23: Rihanna - Talk That Talk
#24: James Blake - Enough Thunder EP
#25: Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing
#26: Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
#27: James Blake - James Blake
#28: Crazy P - When We On
#29: Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
#30: Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
#31: Adele - 21
#32: The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
#33: Katy B - On A Mission
#34; Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
#35: Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!
#36: Black Keys - El Camino
#37: Beth Ditto - EP
#38: War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
#39: Digitalism - I Love You Dude
#40: Jessie J - Who You Are

Songs:
#1: Kate Bush - Moments Of Pleasure (Director's Cut Version)
#2: Ben Westbeech - Falling
#3: Jean Claude Ades & Sam Obernik - Work Of Art
#4: Crazibiza & Kevin Prise - Reach Out
#5: Knife Party - Internet Friends
#6: Redroche ft Mone - All I Need
#7: Rebecca Ferguson - Shoulder To Shoulder
#8: Lana Del Rey - Video Games
#9: The Layabouts ft Shea Soul - Perfectly
#10: Joey Negro & Gramophedzie ft Shea Soul - No Sugar
#11: Jay J - Groundwork
#12: Afrojack - Doing It Right
#13: Bonnie Bailey - The Little Things
#14: Take That - Love Love
#15: Rebecca Black - Friday
#16: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Magic
#17: Marina & The Diamonds - Fear + Loathing
#18: Funkagenda & Adam K - Drift
#19: Yasmin - Finish Line
#20: Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
#21: Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
#22: Melissa Indot - China (Eric Kupper's Extended Anthem)
#23: The Saturdays - Notorious
#24: Azealia Banks - Grand Scam (Lyrical Exercise)
#25: Lady GaGa - You + I
#26: Tara McDonald - Generation 24/7 (Nathan C & Carl Hanaghan Piano Mix)
#27: Beyonce - Love On Top
#28: Mario Basanov ft Miss Bee - Just Thinking About It
#29: Lady GaGa - The Edge Of Glory
#30: Pitch Dark - San Trancisco
#31: Stooshe - Fuck Me
#32: Cover Drive - Lick Ya Down
#33: Crazy P - Changes (Mario Basanov Remix)
#34: Tommy Bones & Lydia Rhodes - What I Feel
#35: Kings Of Tomorrow ft April Morgan - Take Me Back
#36: Nicole Scherzinger - Say Yes
#37: Ruff Loaderz & The Hayman - Anthem
#38: Ryan Adams - Chains Of Love
#39: Rihanna - Where Have You Been?
#40: Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets
#41: St. Vincent - Dilettante
#42: Madelin Zero - Love The Love
#43: Kate Bush ft Albert McIntosh - Snowflake
#44: Florrie - I Took A Little Something
#45: St. Vincent - Neutred Fruit
#46: Vanessa Daou - Heart Of Wax (Emjae Club Mix)
#47: Micky More ft Angela Johnson - Too Late (Rasmus Faber Remix)
#48: Kelly Rowland - I'm Dat Chick
#49: Loreen - Sober
#50: Cover Drive - Twilight

#51: Radiohead - Seperator
#52: Enrique Iglesias ft Nicole Scherzinger - Heartbeat (Rudi Wells' Open Heart Remix)
#53: DJ Fresh ft Sian Evans - Louder
#54: Florence & The Machine - No Light, No Light
#55: Friendly Fires - Hurting (Tensnake Remix)
#56: Erick Morillo & Eddie Thoneick ft Shawnee Taylor - Stronger
#57: Joey Negro pts Mistura ft Kadija Kimara - Better Things To Come
#58: Cher Lloyd - Superhero
#59: Tom De Neef ft Keithen Carter - Yupiter (I Want You) (Lifelike Remix)
#60: Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica
#61: Christina Perri - Arms
#62: Lana Del Rey - Lolita (Demo)
#63: Yasmin - On My Own
#64: Emeli Sande - Heaven
#65: Bjork - Mutual Core
#66: Fleet Foxes - The Plains / Bitter Dancer
#67: Emma's Imagination - Drive
#68: Lady Gaga - Poker Face (Bahi Slav's Google Translate Edition)
#69: Jessie J - Nobody's Perfect
#70: Nicole Scherzinger - Casualty
#71: John Dahlback ft Terri B - Flirt
#72: Teej - Switch
#73: Human Life - In It Together
#74: Ryan Adams - Kindness
#75: Bjork - Thunderbolt
#76: In The Screen ft Rachael Starr - We Are The Night (Erick Morillo, Harry Choo Choo Romero & Jose Nunez Mix)
#77: Gigamesh ft Induce - When You're Dancing (Cassian Remix)
#78: Crazy P - The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
#79: Chris Coco - Summer Sun
#80: Ryan Adams - Rocks
#81: Kate Bush - Lake Tahoe
#82: Ziggy Funk ft Taliwa - Everyday (Yass Classic Mix)
#83: Nicole Scherzinger - Right There
#84: Leona Lewis & Avicii - Collide
#85: Beyonce - I Care
#86: Avi Elman & Danny J ft Nuwella - What's The Point
#87: Spit & Cozi - Better Without You (Greg Cerrone Remix)
#88: Lloyd ft Andre 3000 - Dedicated To My Ex (Miss That)
#89: Nicola Roberts - Beat Of My Drums
#90: DSK - I Must Be Doing Something Right
#91: Lady GaGa - Judas
#92: Laura Marling - The Beast
#93: In The Screen vs Ron Seikaly ft Craig David - Fly Away (Erick Morillo & Harry Choo Choo Romero Remix)
#94: Bonnie Bailey - Fall Into My Heart
#95: Danism - Love The Way (Crazy P Remix)
#96: Supermen Lovers ft Herr Styler & Christine - C'est Bon
#97: Ferdrik Nyberg ft Awa Menneh - Breaking Up (Don & Palm Remix)
#98: St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
#99: Emma's Imagination - Brighter Greener
#100: Nightriders - Hey (Chris Lake & Marco Lys Re-Edit)

#101: Example - Changed The Way You Kiss Me
#102: Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull - On The Floor
#103: Felix Leiter - Sky High
#104: Wynter Gordan - Buy My Love
#105: Haze & Full Intention - Signification
#106: Templecloud - One Big Family
#107: Elbow - The Birds
#108: Block & Crown ft Kevin Bryant - I'm Alive (Balearic Club Mix)
#109: Luciana - I'm Still Hot
#110: Daddy's Groove - Wild World
#111: Azealia Banks ft Lazy Jay - 212
#112: Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
#113: Florence & The Machine - Shake It Out
#114: Gotye ft Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (Tiesto Remix)
#115: Cher Lloyd - Want U Back
#116: Abel The Kid & Luis Ponce ft Nalaya - Cuba
#117: Soraya Vivian vs Digital 96 - When I'm Dancing (Oxford Hustlers Club Mix) (Lenny Williams Cover)
#118: Beyonce - Countdown
#119: Kaskade ft Skylar Grey - Room For Happiness
#120: Julia Holter - Goddess Eyes 1
#121: Sak Noel - Loca People
#122: Kate Bush - Misty
#123: Hercules & Love Affair ft Shaun J Wright - My House (Tensnake Remix)
#124: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Dial My Number
#125: Atlas Sound - Terra Incognita
#126: Chris Coco ft Samantha Whates - Holiday
#127: Nero - Promises
#128: Rita Campbell & Chris Tall - Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair)
#129: Florence & The Machine - What The Water Gave Me
#130: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Homewrecker
#131: AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
#132: Will.I.Am ft Jennifer Lopez & Mick Jagger - THE (The Hardest Ever)
#133: Kate Bush - This Woman's Work (Director's Cut Version)
#134: Coyote - Corona
#135: Cher Lloyd ft Mike Posner - With Ur Love
#136: Lana Del Rey - Off To The Races
#137: Cher Lloyd ft Busta Rhymes - Grow Up
#138: St. Vincent - Northern Lights
#139: Coldplay - Paradise
#140: Reza ft Max'C - Put It On
#141: Matt Aubrey & Holevar ft Larae Starr - Let Me Go (StoneBridge's Classic Mix)
#142: PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill
#143: Florence & The Machine - Lover To Lover
#144: The Saturdays - All Fired Up
#145: The Weeknd - What You Need
#146: Darkness Falls - The Void
#147: Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
#148: Sam Walker & Teej - Lifted
#149: Diamond Life - You Changed My World (Bit Funk Remix)
#150: Ryan Adams - Come Home

#151: Salon Society - Voices
#152: Alex Gaudino ft Kelly Rowland - What A Feeling
#153: Lana Del Rey - Kinda Outta Luck
#154: Nicole Scherzinger - Wet
#155: Will Young - Jealousy
#156: PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
#157: Gramophonedzie - Yeah Yeah
#158: Ed Sheeran - Wake Me Up
#159: Atlas Sound - Te Amo
#160: James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
#161: Nicola Roberts - Take A Bite
#162: Ed Sheeran - The A Team
#163: Lady GaGa - Government Hooker
#164: Patrick Wolf - House
#165: Lady GaGa - Born This Way (Zedd Remix)
#166: Richard Grey & Maboo Inc ft Cosmo Klein - Turn This World Around
#167: Shapeshifters ft C-Dock - Nothing But Love For You
#168: Felguk - Jack It
#169: PJ Harvey - England
#170: Beyonce - I Miss You
#171: St. Vincent - Surgeon
#172: Adele - Someone Like You
#173: Bart Baker - Party Rock Anthem (Parody)
#174: Jessie J - Domino
#175: Alex Kassel ft Adam Joseph - Chasing The Dream
#176: Tristian Garner - Overdrive
#177: Wynter Gordan - Dirty Talk
#178: Paul Morrell ft Katherine Ellis - That Ain't The Way (To Show Me Love)
#179: Nightriders - Get Hooked
#180: Adele - One & Only
#181: Bjork - Virus
#182: Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah - Earthquake
#183: Mind Electric - The Night (Digital Lab Remix) (Cyndi Lauper Cover)
#184: Nicola Roberts - Gladiator
#185: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Make A Scene
#186: Crazy P - Open For Service
#187: Timo Juuti & Hector 87 - I Know It
#188: Armand Pena ft Kelly Davis - Tonight
#189: Beth Ditto - Good Night, Good Morning
#190: Adrian Mezsi & Jared Dietch - Ouufff
#191: John Dahlback - Pheonix
#192: Spiritchaser - Sueno Latino
#193: Edwin Van Cleef ft Gemini Club - Never Be Alone At Night
#194: James Blake - I Never Learnt To Share
#195: Tonite Only - Haters Gonna Hate (Nicky Romero's Out Of Space Remix)
#196: Steve Forte Rio ft Lindsey Ray - Slumber (Tommy Trash Remix)
#197: Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger
#198: Michael Calfan - Ressurection (Axwell's ReCut)
#199: Lana Del Rey - You Can Be The Boss
#200: Colton Ford - Let Me Live Again (WAWA Extended Mix)

Extra 50 cause there was just so many good songs in 2011:
#201: Sean Paul ft Alexis Jordan - Got 2 Luv U
#202: Nicole Scherzinger - Tomorrow Never Dies
#203: Michael Woods ft Duvall - Last Day On Earth
#204: Sgt. Slick - That's What This Love Is
#205: Joylon Petch - My Heart
#206: Elecktrik Disco ft Katherine Ellis - Nothin But Luv (Joylon Petch's Guitar Mix)
#207: Ghost Of Venice - Don't Stop The Music
#208: Kelly Rowland ft Lil Wayne - Motivation (Diplo Remix)
#209: DJ Meme ft Tracey K - Love Is You
#210: Phantom's Revenge - Charlie (Vandalism Disco Rub)
#211: Franz Novotny - Crunch
#212: Serge Devant ft Coyle Girelli - On Your Own
#213: Carl Louise & Martin Danielle - I'm Coming Home With You
#214: Maya Jane Coles - Nobody Else
#215: Junior Sanchez - Feel It (At The Warehouse)
#216: Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress
#217: Julia Holter - Finale
#218: Miguel Campbell ft A. Millis - Something Special
#219: Nathan C - One Night In Eivissa
#220: Andrew Bayer - Distractions (Movement 4)
#221: Wishbone ft Junior Parkinson Williams - Good Life (Jim Breese Sax Mix)
#222: War On Drugs - I Was There
#223: Kate Bush ft Elton John - Snowed In At Wheeler Street
#224: Adele - Don't You Remember?
#225: Third Party - Duel
#226: Ultra Nate - Turn It Up (WAWA Club Mix)
#227: Nicola Roberts - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (The Korgis Cover)
#228: Lady GaGa - Bloody Mary
#229: James Doman & Pete Gooding ft Heather Bright - Back To Life (Afterlife Remix)
#230: Emma's Imagination - Soul Of Oceans
#231: Julia Holter - The Falling Age
#232: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Under Your Touch
#233: Ed Sheeran - U N I
#234: Kate Bush ft Stephen Fry - 50 Words For Snow
#235: Ed Sheeran - Grade 8
#236: Nicole Scherzinger - Try With Me
#237: Rebecca Ferguson - Run Free
#238: Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
#239: Black Keys - Gold On The Ceiling
#240: Florence & The Machine - Never Let Me Go
#241: Peyton vs DJ Kolya & Mutaya - How To Love (Eric Kupper Mix)
#242: Ed Sheeran - Drunk
#243: The Wanted - Lightning
#244: Rihanna - You Da One
#245: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Starlight
#246: Kelly Rowland - Turn It Up
#247: Dirty South & Thomas Gold ft Kate Elsworth - Alive
#248: JLS - Take A Chance On Me
#249: Rebecca Ferguson - Mr. Bright Eyes
#250: Beth Ditto - I Wrote The Book

It was painful having to leave "Blue Jeans" out of the Top 20 but "Falling" was just coming in so strong with its synth stab and soaring vocals, it's clear "Falling" had a good reason to make it in the Top 20 for me. I had a hard time choosing between two blood filled ballad "Shoulder To Shoulder" vs "Video Games" and two deep atmospheric vocal house "Changes" vs  "What I Feel". It's even spooky listening to Rebecca Ferguson knowing it's not Aretha Franklin hijacking Amy Winehouse's smoky voice and some of Adele's squeal.
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Re: Albums and Songs of 2011

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Albums:
1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
2. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
4. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
5. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
6. Destroyer - Kaputt
7. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
8. Regina - Soita mulle
9. Radiohead - The King of Limbs*
10. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
11. Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1
12. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
13. Battles - Gloss Drop
14. Siinai - Olympic Games
15. Mirel Wagner - Mirel Wagner
16. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
17. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
18. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
19. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
20. Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement may be the best "album" of the year. Without that the official album would not be in my top 20.
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Songs:
1 | Fucked Up | Queen of Hearts
2 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
3 | M83 | Midnight City
4 | Peaking Lights | Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)
5 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe
6 | Fucked Up | One More Night
7 | Andy Stott | Intermittent
8 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
9 | Wilco | Art of Almost
10 | Rustie | Ultra Thizz
11 | Azealia Banks | 212
12 | Cold Cave | The Great Pan is Dead
13 | EMA | The Grey Ship
14 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream
15 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
16 | M83 | Outro
17 | Chromatics | Kill For Love
18 | Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
19 | TV On the Radio | Second Song
20 | Gang Gang Dance | Glass Jar
21 | Zomby | Natalia's Song
22 | Clams Casino | Illest Alive
23 | Balam Acab | Expect
24 | Andy Stott | Execution
25 | Beirut | Santa Fe
26 | Julianna Barwick | Prizewinning
27 | Arnaud Rebotini | The First Thirteen Minutes of Love
28 | Laura Marling | Sophia
29 | Sharon Van Etten | Serpents
30 | araabMuzik | Streetz Tonight
31 | Shabazz Palaces | Are You…Can You...Were You… Felt?
32 | The Roots | The OtherSide
33 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
34 | Balam Acab | Oh, Why
35 | Tune-Yards | Bizness
36 | Destroyer | Kaputt
37 | Machinedrum | Come1
38 | The Caretaker | Camaraderie at Arms' Length
39 | Peaking Lights | Hey Sparrow
40 | Grimes | Vanessa
41 | Fucked Up | Ship of Fools
42 | Charli XCX | Nuclear Seasons
43 | Eleanor Friedberger | My Mistakes
44 | Kendrick Lamar | HiiiPower
45 | Chairlift | Amanaemonesia
46 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me
47 | Fucked Up | Running on Nothing
48 | Mosca | Bax
49 | Gotye | Somebody That I Used to Know
50 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Nassau
51 | Tyler, The Creator | Yonkers
52 | Lana Del Rey | Blue Jeans
53 | Wild Flag | Romance
54 | Girls | Vomit
55 | Chairlift | Sidewalk Safari
56 | The Roots | Tip the Scale
57 | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Belong
58 | Smith Westerns | Smile
59 | Peaking Lights | All the Sun That Shines
60 | Psychic Paramount | DDB
61 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
62 | Clams Casino | I'm God
63 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
64 | Florrie | I Took a Little Something
65 | White Denim | Bess St.
66 | Blawan | Getting Me Down
67 | Destroyer | Chinatown
68 | Frank Ocean | Novacane
69 | Omar S | Here's Your Trance, Now Dance!
70 | Django Django | Default
71 | iamamiwhoami | ; john
72 | La Dispute | Harder Harmonies
73 | The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love?
74 | Cut Copy | Need You Now
75 | Burial | Street Halo
76 | araabMuzik | Electronic Dream
77 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
78 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
79 | Tune-Yards | My Country
80 | Avicii | Levels
81 | Julio Bashmore | Battle For Middle You
82 | Wire | Please Take
83 | Washed Out | Amor Fati
84 | John Maus | Hey Moon
85 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling
86 | Andy Stott | Cracked
87 | Cults | Abducted
88 | The Antlers | I Don't Want Love
89 | Thee Oh Sees | Carrion Crawler
90 | The Drums | Money
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Albums
1 | Fucked Up | David Comes to Life
2 | The Roots | Undun
3 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
4 | Peaking Lights | 936
5 | Andy Stott | Passed Me By / We Stay Together
6 | Balam Acab | Wander/Wonder
7 | Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise
8 | Rustie | Glass Swords
9 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
10 | James Blake | James Blake
11 | araabMUZIK | Electronic Dream
12 | Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
13 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me
14 | TV On the Radio | Nine Types of Light
15 | Julianna Barwick | The Magic Place
16 | The Caretaker | An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
17 | Laura Marling | A Creature I Don't Know
18 | The Psychic Paramount | II
19 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact
20 | Machinedrum | Room(s)
21 | Zomby | Dedication
22 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
23 | Austra | Feel it Break
24 | Kuedo | Severant
25 | tune-yards | w h o k i l l
26 | EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints
27 | Destroyer | Kaputt
28 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de Couleur Libres
29 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
30 | Kendrick Lamar | Section.80
31 | White Denim | D
32 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up
33 | La Dispute | Wildlife
34 | Wild Flag | Wild Flag
35 | Julia Holter | Tragedy
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SONGS

1 | Gang Gang Dance | Glass Jar
2 | Matana Roberts | Song for Eulalie
3 | Julia Holter | The Falling Age
4 | Andy Stott | Execution
5 | Fucked Up | Queen of Hearts
6 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
7 | Sharon Van Etten | Serpents
8 | Tim Hecker | In the Fog, pts. 1-3
9 | Kendrick Lamar | HiiiPower
10 | Destroyer | Kaputt
11 | Laura Marling | Sophia
12 | Peter Evans Quintet | …One to Ninety-Two
13 | Weyes Blood | Storms That Breed
14 | TV on the Radio | Second Song
15 | The Roots | Redford Suite
16 | Bill Callahan | One Fine Morning
17 | St. Vincent | Cruel
18 | Julia Holter | Finale
19 | Matana Roberts | Kersaia
20 | Amon Tobin | Journeyman
21 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
22 | Sean McCann | This Was Nearly Mine
23 | Wilco | Art of Almost
24 | Grouper | Alien Observer
25 | Rustie | Ultra Thizz
26 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe
27 | Mastodon | The Sparrow
28 | EMA | The Grey Ship
29 | Radiohead | The Daily Mail
30 | Azealia Banks | 212
31 | The Bad Plus | Seven Minute Mind
32 | Girls | Vomit
33 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
34 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
35 | Shabazz Palaces | Swerve...The Reaping of All That Is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)
36 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
37 | Thee Oh Sees | The Dream
38 | The Caretaker | Camaraderie at Arm's Length
39 | The Roots | The OtherSide
40 | Fucked Up | One More Night
41 | Machinedrum | Come1
42 | Matana Roberts | Pov Piti
43 | M83 | Midnight City
44 | Tom Waits | Hell Broke Luce
45 | Beyoncé | Countdown
46 | Julianna Barwick | Flown
47 | Björk | Crystalline
48 | Andy Stott | Intermittent
49 | Chromatics | Kill for Love
50 | Clams Casino | Illest Alive
51 | Tyler, the Creator | Yonkers
52 | Metá Metá | Vale do Jucá
53 | Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument
54 | Balam Acab | Oh, Why
55 | Eleanor Friedberger | My Mistakes
56 | Death Grips | Takyon (Death Yon)
57 | Radiohead | Codex
58 | Kate Bush | Snowflake
59 | Gang Gang Dance | MindKilla
60 | James Ferraro | Starbucks, Dr. Seussism, and While Your Mac Is Sleeping
61 | Julia Holter | Celebration
62 | Danny Brown | Die Like a Rockstar
63 | Burial | Street Halo
64 | Frank Ocean | Novacane
65 | Jenny Hval | Portrait of the Young Girl as an Artist
66 | Kendrick Lamar | A.D.H.D
67 | Nicolás Jaar | Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
68 | Andy Stott | Passed Me By
69 | Charli XCX | Nuclear Seasons
70 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
71 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream
72 | St. Vincent | Surgeon
73 | Battles | Ice Cream
74 | The Divine Comedy | Napoleon Complex
75 | Tim Hecker | Hatred of Music: I
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1 | Eefje de Visser | Hartslag
2 | The Black Keys | Little Black Submarines
3 | Azealia Banks & Lazy Jay | 212
4 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
5 | Spinvis | Oostende
6 | M83 | Midnight City
7 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling
8 | Florence + The Machine | Shake It Out
9 | Elbow | Lippy Kids
10 | Jay Z & Kanye West | Niggas in Paris
11 | Django Django | Default
12 | Spinvis | Kom terug
13 | De Staat | Sweatshop
14 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
15 | Gotye ft. Kimbra | Somebody That I Used to Know
16 | Radiohead | Lotus Flower
17 | Eefje de Visser | Afdwaalt
18 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On
19 | Jay Z & Kanye West | Otis
20 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder

21 | Beastie Boys | Make Some Noise
22 | Daughter | Youth
23 | Fleet Foxes | Battery Kinzie
24 | alt-J | Tessellate
25 | Bill Calahan | Riding For the Feeling
26 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
27 | Bon Iver | Calgary
28 | Ben Howard | The Wolves
29 | Boy & Bear | Milk & Sticks
30 | Roosbeef | Twijfelaar
31 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream
32 | M83 | Reunion
33 | Emma Louise | Jungle
34 | The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love?
35 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
36 | Ben Howard | Keep Your Head Up
37 | Jonathan Jeremiah | Happiness
38 | Björk | Crystalline
39 | Tune-Yards | Bizness
40 | St. Vincent | Cruel
41 | De Staat | I'm a Rat
42 | Beastie Boys ft. Santigold | Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win
43 | Adele | Set Fire to the Rain
44 | Bombay Bicycle Club | Shuffle
45 | Frank Ocean | Novacane
46 | Coldplay ft Rihanna | Princess of China
47 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe
48 | Bon Iver | Perth
49 | Destroyer | Kaputt
50 | Beyoncé | Countdown
51 | The Maccabees | Pelican
52 | dEUS | Constant Now
53 | Lana Del Rey | Blue Jeans
54 | TV On the Radio | Second Song
55 | Miles Kane | Come Closer
56 | Foo Fighters | Walk
57 | Frank Ocean | Swim Good
58 | St. Vincent | Surgeon
59 | Cass McCombs | County Line
60 | Matt Corby | Brother
61 | Fink | Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us
62 | Foo Fighters | Rope
63 | Sef | De leven
64 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
65 | Coldplay | Paradise
66 | Tom Waits | Hell Broke Luce
67 | The Horrors | Still Life
68 | Drake ft Rihanna | Take Care
69 | Metronomy | The Look
70 | Tune-Yards | Gangsta
71 | Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx | I'll Take Care Of U
72 | Coldplay | Major Minus
73 | Beth Ditto | I Wrote the Book
74 | Adele | Someone Like You
75 | Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris | We Found Love
76 | The Weeknd | High For This
77 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way
78 | Tyler, The Creator | Yonkers
79 | A$AP Rocky | Peso
80 | Arctic Monkeys | Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
81 | David Guetta ft Sia | Titanium
82 | Destroyer | Chinatown
83 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls
84 | Cut Copy | Need You Now
85 | Bon Iver | Holocene
86 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi ft Jack White | Two Against One
87 | Ja, Panik | DMD KIU LIDT
88 | Macklemore & Ruan Lewis ft Ray Dalton | Can't Hold Us
89 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
90 | Ben Howard | Old Pine
91 | Cults | Abducted
92 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | The Death of You and Me
93 | Foo Fighters | These Days
94 | Kurt Vile | Jesus Fever
95 | Feist | How Come You Never Go There
96 | Kubus & Rico | De freak de flow
97 | Metronomy | The Bay
98 | Avicii | Levels
99 | Coldplay | Charlie Brown
100 | Adele | Rumour Has It
101 | Skrillex ft Sirah | Bangarang
102 | Beyoncé | Love On Top
103 | Arctic Monkeys | Brick by Brick
104 | The Vaccines | If You Wanna
105 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me
106 | Coldplay | Every Teardrop is a Waterfall
107 | Calvin Harris | Feel So Close
108 | Seasick Steve | You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
109 | Blawan | Getting Me Down
110 | Real Estate | It's Real
111 | Lana Del Rey | Born to Die
112 | Kasabian | Re-Wired
113 | Low | Nothing But Heart
114 | John Maus | Believer
115 | Ryan Adams | Lucky Now
116 | The Strokes | Under Cover of Darkness
117 | Beirut | Santa Fe
118 | Beyoncé | 1+1
119 | Washed Out | Amor Fati
120 | Dazzled Kid | Embrace
121 | Little Dragon | Ritual Union
122 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
123 | Kurt Vile | Baby's Arms
124 | Of Monsters and Men | Little Talks
125 | Adele | Turning Tables
126 | Grouplove | Tongue Tied
127 | Wilco | I Might
128 | DeWolff | Pick Your Bones Out of the Water
129 | Chromatics | Kill for Love
130 | Fleet Foxes | Grown Ocean
131 | DJ Khaled ft. Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne | I'm On One
132 | Girls | Vomit
133 | Emeli Sandé | Heaven
134 | Lescop | La forêt
135 | Chairlift | Amanaemonesia
136 | Nicki Minaj | Super Bass
137 | Girls | Honey Bunny
138 | Yuck | Get Away
139 | Foster the People | Houdini
140 | Beyoncé | Run the World (Girls)
141 | Jai Paul | BTSTU
142 | Boef en de Gelogeerde Aap | Wij zijn
143 | Calvin Harris ft. Kelis | Bounce
144 | The Weeknd | The Morning
145 | Charli XCX | Nuclear Seasons
146 | The Vaccines | Post Break-Up Sex
147 | Neon Indian | Polish Girl
148 | Mosca | Bax
149 | Glass Candy | Warm in the Winter
150 | fun. ft. Janelle Monáe | We Are Young
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ALBUMS:

1. Within Temptation | The Unforgiving
2. CunninLynguists | Oneirology
3. Austra | Feel It Break
4. Evanescence | Evanescence
5. Nighwish | Imaginaerum
6. Moonwagon | Night Dust
7. The Beach Boys | The SMiLE Sessions
8. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome
9. PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
10. The Black Keys | El Camino
11. Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices | The Outside Room
12. She Wants Revenge | Valleyheart
13. Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
14. Tom Waits | Bad as Me
15. Kendrick Lamar | Section.80
16. Adele | 21
17. Kate Bush | 50 Words for Snow
18. The Weeknd | House of Balloons
19. Metronomy | The English Riviera
20. Gotye | Making Mirrors
21. Tim Hecker | Ravedeath, 1972
22. Andy Stott | Passed Me By / We Stay Together
23. The Caretaker | An empty bliss beyond this world
24. Julia Holter | Tragedy
25. Rebecca St. James | I Will Praise You
26. Kasabian | Velociraptor!
27. Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver
28. Radiohead | The King of Limbs
29. tUnE yArDs | w h o k i l l
30. The Roots | Undun
31. Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
32. Ólafur Arnalds | Living Room Songs
33. Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact
34. Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
35. Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes
36. Frank Ocean | Nostalgia, Ultra
37. Björk | Biophilia
38. Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch the Throne
39. Destroyer | Kaputt
40. Grimes | Darkbloom

SONGS:

1. Wye Oak | Civilian
2. Within Temptation | Shot In the Dark
3. Nightwish | Rest Calm
4. Snow Patrol | Called Out In the Dark
5. Within Temptation | Fire and Ice
6. Girls | Vomit
7. Kate Bush | Wild Man
8. Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices | Storms That Breed
9. Andy Stott | Submission
10. Gang Gang Dance | Adult Goth
11. Evanescence | Erase This
12. She Wants Revenge | Take the World
13. Oneohtrix Point Never | Power of Persuasion
14. Metronomy | The Look
15. The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love?
16. Evanescence | Oceans
17. Zoé | Labios Rotos (Unplugged)
18. Within Temptation | Stairway To the Skies
19. Imogen Heap | Minds Without Fear
20. Moonwagon | Oceans Away
21. Within Temptation | Lost
22. Lana Del Rey | Video Games
23. Disparition | The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt
24. Dr. Dre F/ Eminem & Skylar Grey | I Need a Doctor
25. The Weeknd | Wicked Games
26. Gotye F/ Kimbra | Somebody That I Used To Know
27. PJ Harvey | In the Dark Places
28. Kasabian I Hear Voices
29. PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
30. CunninLynguists F/ Freddie Gibbs | Hard As They Come (Act One)
31. Austra | The Choke
32. PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
33. Within Temptation | Murder
34. Coldplay F/ Rihanna | Princess of China
35. Four Tet | Locked
36. Matana Roberts | Kersaia
37. Evanescence | What You Want
38. Rebecca St. James | Shine Your Glory Down
39. Luke Bryan | I Don’t Want This Night to End
40. Lykke Li | Rich Kid Blues
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Albums:
1. Hubert-Felix Thiefaine - Suppléments de mensonge
2. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
3. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
4. The Black Keys - El Camino
5. Blood Orange - Coastal Grooves
6. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
7. tUnE-yArDs - w h o k i l l
8. Metronomy - The English Riviera
9. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
10. Yuck - Yuck
11. Portugal The Man - In the Mountain, In the Cloud
12. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
13. The Kills - Blood Pressures
14. Kasabian - Velociraptor!
15. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
16. Daniel Darc - La Taille de mon âme
17. Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo
18. Foster the People - Torches
19. Francois & The Atlas Mountains - E Volo Love
20. Cage the Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
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Songs
1. Radiohead - Codex
2. Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
3. Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
4. Metronomy - The Look
5. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
6. PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land
7. Bon Iver - Holocene
8. Destroyer - Kaputt
9. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
10. Battles feat. Matías Aguayo - Ice Cream
11. Bon Iver - Perth
12. Explosions in the Sky - Postcards from 1952
13. TV on the Radio - All Falls Down
14. tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
15. Kurt Vile - In My Babys Arms
16. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
17. Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know
18. Burial - Street Halo
19. Destroyer - Chinatown
20. Earth - Old Black
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Favorite Albums of 2011:
1. Arbouretum | The Gathering
2. Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3. PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
4. The Beach Boys | The SMiLE Sessions [Archival]
5. Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer
6. Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch The Throne
7. Swans | We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun in Our Head
8. Bright Eyes | The People's Key
9. Cass McCombs | Wit's End
10. Real Estate | Days
11. Wilco | The Whole Love
12. Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
13. Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices | The Outside Room
14. M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
15. Nicolás Jaar | Space is Only Noise
16. Crystal Stilts | In Love With Oblivion
17. Parts and Labor | Constant Future
18. Woods | Sun And Shade
19. Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
20. The Weeknd | House Of Balloons
21. Vivian Girls | Share The Joy
22. Radiohead | The King Of Limbs
23. Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
24. The Antlers | Burst Apart
25. Metronomy | The English Riviera

Thanks!

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I'm gonna skate to one song and one song only.

Songs :

I didn't include songs from Twin Fantasy and will keep them for 2018, I think the 2018 version is the better one (plus the year is weaker so it balances things out)

1) Low - Especially Me
2) Orelsan - Suicide Social
3) Low - Witches
4) The Roots - The OtherSide
5) The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?
6) Jay-Z - Niggas in Paris
7) Frank Ocean - Strawberry Swing
8) Wugazi - Another Chessboxin' Argument
9) Frank Ocean - Swim Good
10) Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
11) Azealia Banks - 212
12) Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire (feat. a whole bunch of people) - The Last Huzzah!
13) Childish Gambino - Freaks and Geeks
14) EMA - The Grey Ship
15) Frank Ocean - Novacane
16) Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
17) Beyoncé - Countdown
18) Gang Gang Dance - Mindkilla
19) The Roots - Tip the Scale
20) Bill Callahan - Drover
21) Wugazi - Suicide Surprise
22) Frank Ocean - Lovecrimes
23) Beyoncé - Love On Top
24) Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise
25) tUnE-yArDs - Gangsta
26) Lana Del Rey - Video Games
27) Orelsan - RaelSan
28) The Weeknd - The Morning
29) The Weeknd - Wicked Games
30) Metronomy - The Look

I'm a f***ing walking paradox ; no I'm not.

Albums :
For some reason I had convinced myself that Watch the Throne was bad and never had listened to it in full, and that Girls wouldn't be for me, I was wrong on both fronts !

1) Wugazi - 13 Chambers (greatest mashup album ever, it doesn't even come close)
2) Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra.
3) Childish Gambino - Camp
4) Low - C'mon
5) The Roots - Undun
6) Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
7) Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
8) Orelsan - Le Chant des Sirènes
9) Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
10) Danny Brown - XXX
11) Wye Oak - Civilian
12) The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
13) Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
14) Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
15) Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

Beach House is still not my cup of tea but I can't deny that a lot of Bloom songs feel like classics that have been around for a long while.

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Saving the best for last! xx

Albums
1. Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning
2. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
3. Beyonce - 4
4. Rihanna - Talk That Talk
5. Ed Sheeran - +
6. Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
7. Olly Murs - In Case You Didn't Know
8. Cher Lloyd - Sticks & Stones
9. Gotye - Making Mirrors
10. Nicole Scherzinger - Killer Love
11. Rizzle Kicks - Stereo Typical
12. Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby
13. Nicola Roberts - Cinderella's Eyes
14. Skrillex - Bangarang
15. Chris Brown - F.A.M.E.
16. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons
17. Kelly Rowland - Here I Am
18. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
19. Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
20. Clare Maguire - Light After Dark
21. Low - C'mon
22. The Weeknd - Thursday
23. Alexis Jordan - Alexis Jordan
24. The Saturdays - On Your Radar
25. Andy Stott - We Stay Together
26. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
27. Metronomy - The English Riviera
28. One Direction - Up All Night
29. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
30. Adele - 21
31. Pixie Lott - Young Foolish Happy
32. Jessie J - Who You Are
33. Katy B - On A Mission
34. Alex G - Winner
35. The Weeknd - Echoes Of Silence
36. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
37. Take That - Progressed
38. Shakira - Sale El Sol
39. Jennifer Lopez - Love?
40. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
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"Yesterday was thursday, today it is friday". There will never be a song like Friday and there's never ever going to be! So sad :cry: xx

Songs
1. Rebecca Black - Friday
2. Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - On The Floor
3. Nicole Scherzinger featuring 50 Cent - Right There
4. Labrinth featuring Tinie Tempah - Earthquake
5. Skrillex with The Doors - Breakin' A Sweat
6. Steven Wilson - Remainder The Black Dog
7. Dev - In The Dark
8. Booty Luv - This Night
9. Ed Sheeran - Lego House
10. Lana Del Rey - Video Games
11. LMFAO - Sexy & I Know It
12. Sean Paul featuring Alexis Jordan - Got 2 Luv U
13. Rebecca Ferguson - Shoulder To Shoulder
14. The Weeknd - Coming Down
15. Willow featuring Nicki Minaj - Fireball
16. Tyga - Rack City
17. Cover Drive - Twilight
18. Pitbull featuring Chris Brown - International Love
19. Jay Z & Kanye West - Niggas In Paris
20. Pixie Lott featuring Pusha T - What Do You Take Me For?
21. Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
22. Fun featuring Janelle Monae - We Are Young
23. Jessie J - Domino
24. Templecloud - One Big Family
25. Cldplay - Paradise
26. Steven Wilson - Deform To Form A Star
27. Skrillex featuring Sirah - Bangarang
28. Katy B - Easy Please Me
29. Avril Lavigne - Push
30. Steven Wilson - Index
31. Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes - Look At Me Now
32. Beyonce - Love On Top
33. M83 - Ok Pal
34. Stooshe featuring Travie Mccoy - Love Me / Fuck Me
35. The Weeknd - House Of Balloons / Glass Table Girls
36. Nicola Roberts - Sticks & Stones
37. The Weeknd - Rolling Stone
38. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
39. Avril Lavigne - Wish You Were Here
40. Kelly Rowland featuring Lil Wayne - Motivation
41. Britney Spears - Don't Keep Me Waiting
42. Luicana - I'm Still Hot
43. Britney Spears - Till The World Ends
44. Cher Lloyd - Want U Back
45. Dev featuring The Cataracs - Bass Down Low
46. Take That - Love Love
47. Lloyd featuring Andre 3000 - Dedicated To My Ex
48. Kelly Rowland - Feeling Me Right Now
49. M83 - New Map
50. Amy Winehouse - Our Day Will Come
51. Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight
52. Jennifer Lopez - Papi
53. Steven Wilson - No Part Of Me
54. Calvin Harris - Feels So Close
55. Jason Derulo - It Girl
56. Loick Essien - Me Without You
57. Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory
58. Steven Wilson - Secretarian (Instrumental)
59. Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts
60. Jennifer Lopez featuring Lil Wayne - I'm Into You
61. Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath
62. Yasmin - Finish Line
63. Flo Rida - Good Feeling
64. Lana Del Rey - Born To DIe
65. Wynter Gordon - Buy My Love
66. Alexis Jordan - Good Girl
67. Metronomy - Corinne
68. Charli XCX - Nuclear Seasons
69. Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
70. Lan Del Rey - Blue Jeans
71. Rihanna - You Da One
72. Rebecca Black - Person Of Interest
73. The Weeknd featuring Drake - The Zone
74. Rizzle Kicks - When I Was A Younger
75. David Guetta featuring Usher - Without You
76. James Morrison - I Won't Let You Go
77. Jessie J featuring B.O.B. - Price Tag
78. Cher Lloyd featuring Mike Posner - With Ur Love
79. Shakira featuring Pitbull - Rabiosa
80. Wynter Gordan - Dirty Talk
81. Alexis Jordan - Hush Hush
92. Low - Witches
83. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem
84. Rizzle Kicks - Down With The Trumpets
85. Ed Sheeran - The A Team
86. Noah & The Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
87. Olly Murs featuring Rizzle Kicks - Heart Skips A Beat
88. Loick Essien featuring Tanya Lacey - How We Roll
89. The Wanted - Gold Forever
90. The Saturdays - Notorious
91. M83 - Intro
92. Low -You See Everything
93. Clare Maguire - The Sheild & Th Sword
94. Wretch 32 featuring Josh Kumra - Don't Go
95. Ed Sheeran - Grade 8
96. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
97. Professor Green featuring Emeli Sande - Read All About It
98. Britney Spears - I Wanna Go
99. Parade - Louder
100. Karmin - Crash Your Party

10 runner ups:
101. Maverick Sabre - Let Me Go
102. Jodie Connor featuring Wiley - Now Or Never
103. Lenka - Everything At Once
104. The Weeknd - Valerie
105. Pixie Lott - All About Tonight
106. One Direction - Gotta Be You
107. Julianna Barwick - Keep Up The Good Work
108. Beth Ditto - I Wrote The Book
109. JLS featuring Dev - She Makes Me Wanna
110. Little Boots - Shake
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I am going to take a step back and not do the songs this time. But I had a great time doing albums!
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Edre Peraza wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 3:35 pm I am going to take a step back and not do the songs this time. But I had a great time doing albums!
Oh go on Edre, it'll be interesting to see which songs made your list. If not for 2011 maybe another go for 2012? :happy-partydance: xx
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Pepperami wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:32 pm Saving the best for last! xx

I have to say Pepperami, I'm conflicted on whether or not to include your lists
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Holden wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 5:43 pm
Pepperami wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 2:32 pm Saving the best for last! xx

I have to say Pepperami, I'm conflicted on whether or not to include your lists
If you still think you can't trust me Holden, then you really don't have to. I did enjoyed exploring different music I haven't heard this month and combining them with the old albums, old hits I like from the UK charts and those Now That's What I Call Music cds. It was a fun March for me anyway 💋😊 xx
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Albums
Everything I'd give an 8/10 or higher (I won't have a songs list).
1. The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
2. Minecraft: Volume Alpha - C418
3. Exmilitary - Death Grips
4. House of Balloons - The Weeknd
5. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
6. Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
7. Kaputt - Destroyer
8. 21 - Adele
9. Undun - The Roots
10. Born this Way - Lady Gaga
11. Nostalgia, Ultra - Frank Ocean
12. James Blake - James Blake
13. Take Care - Drake
14. Lulu - Metallica & Lou Reed
15. Wasting Lights - Foo Fighters
16. Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
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Albums:
1. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
2. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
3. Washed Out - Within and Without
4. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
5. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
6. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
7. EMA - Past Life, Martyred Saints
8. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
9. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
10. TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
11. Rustie - Glass Swords
12. Black Keys - El Camino
13. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
14. Roots - Undun
15. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
16. Rainbow Arabia - Boys and Diamonds
17. Tycho - Dive
18. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
19. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest
20. Austra - Feel It Break
21. Tom Waits - Bad As Me
22. Adele - 21
23. M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
24. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
25. The War on Drugs - Slave Ambient
26. REM - Collapse Into Now
27. Wilco - The Whole Love
28. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
29. Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
30. Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials

Feel free to move these all up by one if I got one wrong...
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Not sure if it's too late to change, but added Real Estate:
1. Arbouretum | The Gathering
2. Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost
3. PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
4. The Beach Boys | The SMiLE Sessions [Archival]
5. Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer
6. Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch The Throne
7. Swans | We Rose From Your Bed With the Sun in Our Head
8. Bright Eyes | The People's Key
9. Cass McCombs | Wit's End
10. Real Estate | Days
11. Wilco | The Whole Love
12. Mogwai | Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
13. Weyes Blood and the Dark Juices | The Outside Room
14. M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
15. Nicolás Jaar | Space is Only Noise
16. Crystal Stilts | In Love With Oblivion
17. Parts and Labor | Constant Future
18. Woods | Sun And Shade
19. Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica
20. The Weeknd | House Of Balloons
21. Vivian Girls | Share The Joy
22. Radiohead | The King Of Limbs
23. Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres
24. The Antlers | Burst Apart
25. Metronomy | The English Riviera

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albums

1 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
2 | Melingo | Corazón y hueso
3 | Ry Cooder | Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down
4 | The Roots | Undun
5 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me
6 | Seu Jorge | Musica para churrasco vol.1
7 | Raphael Saadiq | Stone Rollin'
8 | Hazmat Modine | Cicada
9 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact
10 | The Decemberists | The King Is Dead
11 | The Black Keys | El Camino
12 | JuJu (Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara) | In Trance
13 | Anthony Joseph & the Spasm Band | Rubber Orchestras
14 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
15 | The Milk Carton Kids | Prologue
16 | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse
17 | Drake | Take Care
18 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
19 | Adele | 21
20 | Wilco | The Whole Love
21 | Charles Bradley | No Time For Dreaming
22 | Gillian Welch | The Harrow & The Harvest
23 | Camille | Ilo Veyou
24 | Seun Kuti | From Africa With Fury : Rise
25 | Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost
26 | Kouyaté - Neerman | Skyscrapers & Deities
27 | Ramshackle Glory | Live the Dream
28 | Tinariwen | Tassili
29 | June Tabor & Oysterband | Ragged Kingdom
30 | Hayes Carll | Kmag Yoyo (& Other American Stories)
31 | Arnaldo Antunes, Edgard Scandurra & Toumani Diabaté | A Curva da cintura
32 | James Leg | Solitary Pleasure
33 | Cascadeur | The Human Octopus
34 | Treefight For Sunlight | Treefight For Sunlight
35 | Smith Westerns | Dye It Blonde
36 | Ibrahim Maalouf | Diagnostic
37 | Hanni El Khatib | Will The Guns Come Out
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songs

1 | Fleet Foxes | Montezuma
2 | Fleet Foxes | Blue Spotted Tail
3 | Melingo | El dia que te fuiste
4 | Ry Cooder | El Corrido de Jesse James
5 | Ry Cooder | No Hard Feelings
6 | Melingo | Corazón & hueso
7 | Tante Hortense & Revista do Samba | Le Bel Amant du Berry
8 | The Roots | Make My
9 | Seu Jorge | Amiga Da Minha Mulher
10 | Ry Cooder | No Banker Left Behind
11 | Gillian Welch | Dark Turn Of Mind
12 | Tinariwen | Walla Illa
13 | Tom Waits | New Year's Eve
14 | Gang Gang Dance | Glass Jar
15 | M83 | Midnight City
16 | Wilco | Art of Almost
17 | Kendrick Lamar | HiiiPoWeR
18 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
19 | Adele | Someone Like You
20 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
21 | Fleet Foxes | Bedouin Dress
22 | Fleet Foxes | Lorelai
23 | Anthony Joseph | Generations
24 | Tom Waits | Hell Broke Luce
25 | The Roots | Kool On
26 | JuJu (Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara) | Nightwalk
27 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On
28 | Hugo Kant | This Old Tune
29 | Bon Iver | Holocene
30 | Gotye | Somebody That I Used to Know
31 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
32 | Kurt Vile | Jesus Fever
33 | Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument
34 | tUnE-yArDs | Powa
35 | PJ Harvey | The Last Living Rose
36 | Bill Callahan | America!
37 | M83 | Splendor
38 | Jonathan Wilson | Gentle Spirit
39 | Drake | HYFR
40 | The Roots | I Remember
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Albums:
1 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2 | The Black Keys | El Camino
3 | Adele | 21
4 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way
5 | Eric Church | Chief
6 | The Beach Boys | The SMILE Sessions
7 | Foo Fighters | Wasting Light
8 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
9 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch the Thone
10 | The Decemberists | The King is Dead

Songs:
1 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
2 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way
3 | Bon Iver | Holocene
4 | Florence + the Machine | Shake It Out
5 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe
6 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On
7 | Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris | We Found Love
8 | M83 | Midnight City
9 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | N*****as in Paris
10 | Beyonce | Love On Top
11 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
12 | Foo Fighters | Walk
13 | Adele | Somebody Like You
14 | Bon Iver | Perth
15 | Lana Del Rey | Blue Jeans
16 | Calamity Song | The Decemberists
17 | Lady Gaga | Edge of Glory
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Albums
1 | Tom Waits | Bad as Me
2 | Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol.2*
3 | Moon Hooch | Moon Hooch
4 | The Black Keys | El Camino
5 | Eye-D and DJ Hidden | Peer to Peer Pressure
6 | Sound of Rum | Balance
7 | Emalkay | Eclipse
8 | The Go! Team | Rolling Blackouts
9 | Young Fathers | TAPE ONE
10 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
11 | Death Grips | Exmilitary*
12 | JAY-Z and Kanye West | Watch the Throne
13 | Andy Stott | Passed Me by EP
14 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy
15 | Anna Calvi | Anna Calvi
16 | KOAN Sound | Funk Blaster EP
17 | Car Seat Headrest | Twin Fantasy (Mirror to Mirror)
18 | Laura Marling | A Creature I Don't Know
19 | Chase and Status | No More Idols
20 | Burial | Street Halo EP
21 | Pusha T | Fear of God II: Let Us Pray
22 | Frank Turner | England Keep My Bones
23 | SBTRKT | SBTRKT
24 | Buraka som sistema | Komba
25 | Cubic Nomad | Light Errant
26 | Gillian Welch | The Harrow and the Harvest
27 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes
28 | Beth Ditto | EP
29 | Ghostpoet | Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam
30 | Ja, Panik | DMD KIU LIDT*
31 | tricot | 爆裂トリコさん EP
32 | SuperHeavy | SuperHeavy
33 | Icicle | Under the Ice
34 | J. Cole | Cole World: The Sideline Story
35 | Giles Corey Giles Corey*
36 | The Decemberists | The King Is Dead
37 | bob hund | Det Överexponerade Gömstället*
38 | U.S. Girls | U.S. GIRLS ON KRAAK
39 | Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Tile | The Goat Rodeo Sessions
40 | Xi | Parousia
41 | Thy Catafalque | Rengeteg
42 | Tyler, the Creator | Goblin*
43 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
44 | Kendrick Lamar | Section.80
45 | Danny Brown | XXX
46 | Joker | The Vision
47 | Car Seat Headrest | My Back Is Killing Me Baby
48 | Gotye | Making Mirrors
49 | Rise against | Endgame
50 | Parenthetical Girls | Privilege, Pt. III: Mend and Make Do EP
51 | Tinariwen | Tassli
52 | Rodrigo Leão | A montanha mágica
53 | Steffi | Yours and Mine*
54 | NERO | Welcome Reality
55 | WU LYF | Go Tell Fire to the Mountain*
56 | Cults | Cults*
57 | Example | Playing in the Shadows
58 | Rustie | Liquid Swords
59 | Katy B | On a Mission
60 | Kangding Ray | OR

Compilations/ineligible albums by my criteria
1 | MegaDub/The Megadubbers | Better Late than Never [recorded in 2011, no commercial release until 2020]
2 | Four Tet | Fabriclive 59 DJ Mix*
3 | Uncle Dave Macon | Intro: Uncle Dave Macon EP
4 | The Beach Boys | The SMILE Sessions
5 | Various Artists | Calypso Carnival 1935-1937
6 | Frank Turner | The Second Three Years
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Underrated year.

Albums:
1 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
2 | Panda Bear | Tomboy
3 | The Decemberists | The King Is Dead
4 | Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise
5 | The Beach Boys | The Smile Sessions
6 | Cults | Cults
7 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
8 | Okkervil River | I Am Very Far
9 | Destroyer | Kaputt
10 | Iron and Wine | Kiss Each Other Clean
11 | Rome | Die Æsthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit
12 | Widowspeak | Widowspeak
13 | Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
14 | The Field | Looping State of Mind
15 | Eddie Vedder | Ukulele Songs
16 | Boy & Bear | Moonfire
17 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome
18 | Grouper | A I A: Alien Observer
19 | Grouper | A I A: Dream Loss
20 | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse
21 | Sidi Touré | Sahel Folk
22 | Marissa Nadler | Marissa Nadler
23 | The Decemberists | Long Live The King [EP]
24 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes
25 | Fatoumata Diawara | Fatou
26 | Richard Dawson | The Magic Bridge
27 | Julia Holter | Tragedy
28 | Youth Lagoon | The Year of Hibernation
29 | Darkside | Darkside (EP)
30 | James Blake | James Blake
31 | Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring For My Halo
32 | Jonathan Wilson | Gentle Spirit
33 | Peter Bjorn and John | Gimme Some
34 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs
35 | The Antlers | Burst Apart
36 | Tim Hecker | Ravedeath, 1972
37 | Gillian Welch | The Harrow & The Harvest
38 | They Might Be Giants | Join Us
39 | Feist | Metals
40 | Gotye | Making Mirrors

Songs:
1 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
2 | Nicolas Jaar | With Just One Glance
3 | Fleet Foxes | The Plains / Bitter Dancer
4 | St. Vincent | Cruel
5 | Panda Bear | Alsatian Darn
6 | Pepe Deluxé | The Storm
7 | Fleet Foxes | Bedouin Dress
8 | Fleet Foxes | Sim Sala Bim
9 | Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument
10 | Destroyer | Suicide Demo For Kara Walker
11 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
12 | Nicolas Jaar | Space Is Only Noise If You Can See
13 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
14 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream
15 | Jessica Lea Mayfield | Our Hearts Are Wrong
16 | Cults | You Know What I Mean
17 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
18 | Nicolas Jaar | Keep Me There
19 | Rome | To Teach Obedience
20 | Panda Bear | Surfer's Hymn
21 | Fleet Foxes | Montezuma
22 | Fleet Foxes | Battery Kinzie
23 | Cults | Never Heal Myself
24 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers
25 | They Might Be Giants | When Will You Die
26 | Blood Orange | Champagne Coast
27 | Widowspeak | In the Pines
28 | The Decemberists | This Is Why We Fight
29 | Kurt Vile | Baby's Arms
30 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | The Rose With the Broken Neck
31 | Nicolas Jaar | Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust
32 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
33 | Sleep ∞ Over | Romantic Streams
34 | Iron and Wine | Rabbit Will Run
35 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Black
36 | The Decemberists | Calamity Song
37 | Fleet Foxes | Lorelai
38 | Panda Bear | Afterburner
39 | Tennis | Marathon
40 | Okkervil River | White Shadow Waltz
41 | Radiohead | Lotus Flower
42 | Kurt Vile | Jesus Fever
43 | tUnE-yArDs | Bizness
44 | Fleet Foxes | Grown Ocean
45 | Best Coast | Gone Again
46 | Colin Stetson | Red Horse (Judges ll)
47 | The Decemberists | Rox In The Box
48 | Bon Iver | Calgary
49 | Boy & Bear | Feeding Line
50 | Gotye | Somebody That I Used to Know
51 | Okkervil River | The Valley
52 | Fleet Foxes | Blue Spotted Tail
53 | Cults | Never Saw The Point
54 | Gruff Rhys | Shark Ridden Waters
55 | Taylor Swift | Safe & Sound
56 | Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny | Dodecahedron
57 | Daughter | Youth
58 | The Beach Boys | Do You Like Worms (Roll Plymouth Rock)
59 | Jonathan Wilson | Desert Raven
60 | Eddie Vedder | Sleeping By Myself
61 | Ry Cooder | No Banker Left Behind
62 | Wye Oak | Civilian
63 | The Field | Then It's White
64 | Feist | A Commotion
65 | Destroyer | Chinatown
66 | PJ Harvey | Written On The Forehead
67 | Robin Pecknold | I'm Losing Myself
68 | Fleet Foxes | The Cascades
69 | Nicolas Jaar | Variations
70 | Cults | Abducted
71 | Busby Marou | Biding My Time
72 | Fatoumata Diawara | Bakonoba
73 | How To Dress Well | Us in the Sense of Forever
74 | Peaking Lights | All The Sun That Shines
75 | Chairlift | Amanaemonesia
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Songs
1 | JAY-Z and Kanye West | Paris
2 | Tom Waits | New Year's Eve
3 | The Black Keys | Nova Baby
4 | Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay | 212
5 | SBTRKT feat. Little Dragon | Wild Fire
6 | Colin Stetson | Red Horse (Judges II)*
7 | Phace and Misanthrop | What's Wrong
8 | The Go! Team | Apollo Throwdown
9 | Car Seat Headrest | Bodys (Mirror to Mirror Version)
10 | KOAN Sound | Funk Blaster
11 | Sound of Rum | Prometheus
12 | Eye-D and DJ Hidden | Instinct
13 | Emalkay | Weapons of Mass
14 | Wretch 32 feat. L | Traktor
15 | Chase and Status feat. Liam Bailey | Blind Faith
16 | Lady Gaga | Yoü and I
17 | Moon Hooch feat. Alena Spanger | Mega Tubes
18 | Vril | UV*
19 | Emili Sandé | Heaven
20 | Beth Ditto | I Wrote the Book
21 | Tom Waits | Hell Broke Luce
22 | Little Dragon | Ritual Union
23 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling
24 | Lena | Taken by a Stranger
25 | Tyler the Creator | Yonkers*
26 | MegaDub | Should've Stayed at Home
27 | Death Grips | I Want It I Need It (Death Heated)*
28 | Wilco | Art of Almost*
29 | SuperHeavy | Miracle Worker
30 | Example | Changed the Way You Kissed Me
31 | Spor | Pacifica (Chasing Shadows Remix)
32 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | AKA...What a Life!
33 | NERO | Me and You
34 | St. Vincent | Cruel
35 | CunninLynguists | Get Ignorant
36 | J. Cole | Work out
37 | Mr. B | Little Acid People (Cragga Remix)
38 | Chase and Status feat. Tendayi | No Problem
39 | Adele | Rumour Has It
40 | Gotye and Kimbra | Somebody That I Used to Know
41 | Kreayshawn | Gucci Gucci
42 | Chairlift | Amanaemonesia*
43 | First Aid Kit | The Lion's Roar
44 | Enter Shikari | Gandhi Mate, Gandhi
45 | WU LYF | We Bros*
46 | Ja, Panik | DMD KIU LIDT*
47 | Anna Calvi | The Devil
48 | Young Fathers | Deadline
49 | Laura Marling | The Muse
50 | Wretch 32 | Let Yourself Go
51 | Gillian Welch | The Way It Goes
52 | JAY-Z and Kanye West | Otis
53 | SuperHeavy | Never Gonna Change
54 | Pusha T feat. Pharrell and 50 Cent | Raid
55 | J. Cole feat. Trey Songz | Can't Get Enough
56 | Immortal Technique feat. Killer Mike, Chuck D and Brother Ali | Civil War
57 | Switch and Andrea Martin I I Still Love You
58 | Burial | Street Halo
59 | Katy B | Witches' Brew
60 | Moon Hooch | Number 8
61 | MegaDub | Conspiracy
62 | Lykke Li | Rich Kids Blues
63 | Sound of Rum | Balance (Interlude)
64 | Danny Brown | Pac Blood
65 | Frank Turner | I Still Believe
66 | The Go! Team | Ready to Go Steady
67 | Car Seat Headrest | My Boy (Mirror to Mirror Version)
68 | PJ Harvey | Bitter Branches
69 | Metronomy | The Look
70 | Cos-Ber-Zam | Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
71 | Buraka som sistema | Tira o pé
72 | Gotye | State of the Art
73 | Girls | Die*
74 | SBTRKT feat. Roses Gabor | Pharaohs
75 | Kendrick Lamar | Ronald Reagan Era
76 | Example | Skies Don't Lie
77 | Thy Catafalque | Holdkomp
78 | bob hund | Stumfilm
79 | U.S. Girls | (The) Island Song
80 | tricot | bitter
81 | Tim Hecker | In the Air II
82 | Ruins Alone | Ahftsivespha
83 | Andy Stott | Dark Details
84 | St. Vincent | Surgeon
85 | NERO | Promises
86 | Young Fathers | Remains
87 | Ghostpoet | Gaaasp
88 | Xi | Pariousia
89 | Cubic Nomad | Amaury
90 | Metronomy | Some Written
91 | Sissy Spacek | Fibrous
92 | Icicle feat. SP:MC | Dreadnaught
93 | Zedd | Shave It
94 | Pepe Deluxe | The Storm*
95 | Rodrigo Leão | A revolta
96 | Floating Points | Sais (Dub)
97 | Bubblegum Octopus | Betrayal is okay.
98 | Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Tile | Quarter Chicken Dark
99 | Giles Corey | Blackest Bile*
100 | Enter Shikari | Sssnakepit
101 | Pusha T feat. Ab-Liva and Rick Ross | I Still Wanna
102 | Anna Calvi | Desire
103 | Laura Marling | My Friends
104 | tricot | slow line
105 | Phace and Spor | Out of Focus
106 | Thy Catafalque | Minden test fü
107 | CunninLynguists feat. Rick Warren | Stars Shine Brightest (In the Dark)
108 | Justin Martin and Ardalan LEZGO (VIP Version)
109 | Death Grips | Takyon (Death Yon)
110 | Eye-D and DJ Hidden |Break You
111 | J: Kenzo | The Roteks
112 | Kryptic Minds feat. Alys Blaze | Can't Sleep
113 | Xi | Halcyon
114 | Burial | Stolen Dog
115 | Frank Turner | Wessex Boy
116 | Anti-G | Bubbling Cause Trouble
117 | Cubic Nomad | Infected
118 | Kendrick Lamar feat. Ab-Soul | Ab-Souls Outro
119 | Ghostpoet | I Just Don't Know
120 | Nas | Nasty
121 | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Soldier Boys and Jesus Freaks
122 | SpectraSoul | Reminiscence
123 | The Bats | Fingers of Dawn*
124 | AVTechNo | CRYONICS
125 | Rise against | Endgame
126 | Lykke Li | Silent My Song
127 | Gillian Welch | Hard Times
128 | Cults | Abducted*
129 | Buraka som sistema feat. Blaya | LOL Y POP
130 | Tinariwen | (Tili)aden Osamnat
131 | Rustie | Death Mountain
132 | Ja, Panik | Bittersweet*
133 | Colin Stetson | Judges*
134 | Danny Brown feat. Chip$ | Detroit187
135 | Kangding Ray | Mirrors
136 | Icicle | Top of the Page
137 | Andy Stott | Passed Me by
138 | Gerry Buikman and His Orchestra | Yossel yossel
139 | Giles Corey | Buried above Ground*
140 | Shabazz Palaces | Swerve...the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)*
141 | PJ Harvey | The Colour of the Earth
142 | U.S. Girls | Peotone
143 | Emalkay | Fabrication
144 | bob hund | I hammens öga*
145 | R.E.M. | Discoverer
146 | Parenthetical Girls | The Pornographer
147 | The Roots feat. Greg Porn | Stomp
148 | Low | Something's Turning over*
149 | Tyler, the Creator feat. Hodgy | Sandwitches*
150 | Bluejuice | Cheap Trix*
151 | High Contrast | Fearful Symmetry
152 | Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Tile | Less Is Moi
153 | WU LYF | Spitting Blood*
154 | Steffi | Manic Moods*
155 | Girls | Jamie Marie*
156 | Ruins Alone | Equesspaldho
157 | The Front Bottoms | The Beers*
158 | Rodrigo Leão | O fio da vida
159 | Rise against | Disparity by Design
160 | Sissy Spacek | Felt
161 | Joyce Manor | Constant Nothing*
162 | Tinariwen | El Huria Telitwar
163 | John Maus | Hey Moon*
164 | Tim Hecker | Hatred of Music II
165 | Lady Gaga | Fashion of His Love
166 | R.E.M. | That Someone Is You
167 | Rustie | After Light
168 | Future feat. Juicy J | I'm Trippin
169 | Gerry Buikman and His Orchestra | Zemer atik
170 | J:Kenzo feat. Rod Azlan | Ruff House
171 | Little Dragon | Little Man
172 | Emalkay | Massive
173 | Car Seat Headrest | p.o.w.
174 | DJ Hidden | Scintillate
175 | Sinden and SBTRKT | Grazed

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Penny and the Quarters | You and Me [released in 2011, recorded 197?]

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I didn't have enough time to listen to a ton of albums so here are my top 7 at this point. Please note the top 2 are SIGNIFICANTLY ahead of the rest for me..at least at this moment.

9 | Beyoncé | 4
8 | After Edmund | TIMES HAVE CHANGED EP
7 | Paul Simon | SO BEAUTIFUL OR SO WHAT
6 | Theocracy | AS THE WORLD BLEEDS
5 | Kerosene Halo | KEROSENE HALO
4 | Peter Furler | ON FIRE
3 | The Beach Boys | THE SMILE SESSIONS
2 | Adele | 21
1 | Jay Z & Kanye West | WATCH THE THRONE
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I know a couple years ago I was another person saying that 2011 was my least favorite year of the decade but I’ll admit that the the stuff that was good was absolutely essential.

However, this was still the year that LMFAO got really big, that gives a pretty good indication for how awful pop music was around then…

Albums:

1. The Roots - undun
2. The Weeknd - House of Balloons
3. Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L
4. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
5. The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
6. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
8. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life
9. Danny Brown - XXX
10. The Black Keys - El Camino
11. Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told
12. James Blake - James Blake
13. Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
14. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
15. Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2
16. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
17. Iceage - New Brigade
18. Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
19. Wilco - The Whole Love
20. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
21. Paul Simon - So Beautiful or So What
22. Bomb the Music Industry! - Vacation
23. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
24. Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin’
25. The Field - Looping State of Mind
26. Russian Circles - Empros
27. Mastodon - The Hunter
28. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch the Throne
29. Kendrick Lamar - Section.80
30. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler / The Dream
31. The Horrors - Skying
32. Destroyer - Kaputt
33. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
34. The Weeknd - Thursday
35. Thursday - No Devolución
36. Frank Ocean - Nostalgia, Ultra
37. 9th Wonder - The Wonder Years
38. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
39. Wild Beasts - Smother
40. Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
41. Young Fathers - TAPE ONE
42. Battles - Gloss Drop
43. Wild Flag - Wild Flag
44. A$AP Rocky - Live Love A$AP
45. Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow
46. Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse
47. Miranda Lambert - Four the Record
48. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I Am Nothing
49. SBTRKT - SBTRKT
50. Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
51. Wye Oak - Civilian
52. Beyoncé - 4
53. Björk - Biophilia
54. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome
55. Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
56. M83 - Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
57. Death Grips - Exmilitary
58. Nils Frahm - Felt
59. Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest
60. Low - C’mon
61. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
62. Drake - Take Care
63. Sepalcure - Sepalcure
64. Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
65. Three Trapped Tigers - Route One or Die
66. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
67. La Dispute - Wildlife
68. Ry Cooder - Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
69. The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
70. Adele - 21
71. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
72. Atlas Sound - Parallax
73. TV On the Radio - Nine Types of Light
74. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
75. Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials
76. Feist - Metals
77. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen
78. Drive-By Truckers - Go-Go Boots
79. Explosions in the Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
80. Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
81. Cage the Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday
82. Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi
83. Future Islands - On the Water
84. Burial - Street Halo
85. Ambrose Akinmusire - When the Heart Emerges Glistening
86. Lydia Loveless - Indestructible Machine
87. Laura Marling - A Creature
88. Tinariwen - Tassili
89. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul Time!
90. The Antlers - Burst Apart
91. Slow Club - Paradise

Songs:

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts
3. The Weeknd - The Knowing
4. Danny Brown - Die Like a Rockstar
5. Alabama Shakes - Hold On
6. Tune-Yards - Bizness
7. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
8. The Roots - Make My
9. Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
10. Azealia Banks - 212
11. Bon Iver - Holocene
12. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
13. The Weeknd - House of Balloons / Glass Table Girls
14. Danny Brown - Pac Blood
15. Wilco - I Might
16. Bomb the Music Industry! - Campaign for a Better Weekend
17. Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortus
18. The Horrors - Still Life
19. Tom Waits - Bad as Me
20. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise
21. Beyoncé - Countdown
22. Destroyer - Kaputt
23. Shabazz Palaces - Swerve…the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)
24. James Blake - Unluck
25. Iceage - White Rune
26. Kendrick Lamar - A.D.H.D.
27. SBTRKT - Never Never
28. Wye Oak - We Were Wealth
29. M83 - Midnight City
30. Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
31. The Roots - Sleep
32. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Otis
33. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
34. Tune-Yards - Powa
35. The Roots - The OtherSide
36. Tyler, The Creator - Yonkers
37. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
38. The Black Keys - Gold on the Ceiling
39. Frank Ocean - Swim Good
40. PJ Harvey - In the Dark Places
41. The Weeknd - Wicked Games
42. Fleet Foxes - Montezuma
43. Tune-Yards - My Country
44. Wild Beasts - Reach a Bit Further
45. Fleet Foxes - Bedouin Dress
46. Saigon - Come on Baby
47. James Blake - Measurements
48. St. Vincent - Cruel
49. The Weeknd - High for This
50. Fucked Up - Under My Nose
51. Battles - Ice Cream
52. Laura Marling - I Was Just a Card
53. 9th Wonder - Now I’m Being Cool
54. Foo Fighters - Rope
55. Danny Brown - XXX
56. Radiohead - Separator
57. The Field - Looping State of Mind
58. The Roots - Lighthouse
59. Fleet Foxes - The Shrine / An Argument
60. Tom Waits - Chicago
61. St. Vincent - Cheerleader
62. The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines
63. Frank Ocean - Novacane
64. Nicolas Jaar - Colomb
65. Paul Simon - Getting Ready for Christmas Day
66. Raphael Saadiq - Good Man
67. Elbow - The Birds
68. Wild Flag - Romance
69. The Weeknd - D.D.
70. Saigon - Too Long
71. Fleet Foxes - The Cascades
72. Beastie Boys - Too Many Rappers
73. Danny Brown - DNA
74. Fleet Foxes - The Plains / Bitter Dancer
75. The Roots - One Time
76. The Weeknd - What You Need
77. The Weeknd - The Zone
78. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Ni**as in Paris
79. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Primetime
80. Mastodon - Creature Lives
81. Young Fathers - Dar-Eh Da Da Du
82. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Season’s Trees
83. Miranda Lambert - Fine Tune
84. St. Vincent - Chloe in the Afternoon
85. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
86. Wye Oak - Civilian
87. Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop
88. Thee Oh Sees - The Dream
89. Thundercat - Is it Love?
90. Miranda Lambert - Mama’s Broken Heart
91. Beyoncé - 1+1
92. Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
93. Lykke Li - Youth Knows No Pain
94. Florence + The Machine - Shake it Out
95. Slow Club - Two Cousins
96. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
97. The Weeknd - The Party & The After Party
98. Danny Brown - Monopoly
99. Tune-Yards - You Yes You
100. Bon Iver - Perth
101. The Weeknd - Initiation
102. Wilco - Art of Almost
103. Shabazz Palaces - An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
104. Kendrick Lamar - Hiiipower
105. Tune-Yards - Es-so
106. Kate Bush - Wild Man
107. Jay-Z & Kanye West - That’s My Bitch
108. Tune-Yards - Riotriot
109. The Roots - Kool On
110. Jay-Z & Kanye West - New Day
111. Foo Fighters - White Limo
112. Jay-Z & Kanye West - No Church in the Wild
113. The Black Keys - Money Maker
114. Fleet Foxes - Someone You’d Admire
115. Tune-Yards - Gangsta
116. A$AP Rocky - Peso
117. Tune-Yards - Doorstep
118. Fucked Up - The Other Shoe
119. Danny Brown - Radio Song
120. Jay-Z & Kanye West - The Joy
121. Beastie Boys - Say It
122. Foo Fighters - These Days
123. Radiohead - Codex
124. Thursday - Sparks Against the Sun
125. Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning
126. The Black Keys - Run Right Back
127. M83 - Wait
128. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
129. Saigon - Bring Me Down, Pt.2
130. The Black Keys - Sister
131. The Weeknd - XO / The Host
132. The Weeknd - Thursday
133. Tom Waits - Satisfied
134. Tune-Yards - Wooly Wolly Gong
135. The Weeknd - Outside
136. Beyoncé - Love on Top
137. Miranda Lambert - Easy Living
138. Drake - Take Care
139. Adele - Someone Like You
140. Three Trapped Tigers - Drebin
141. The National - Exile Vilify
142. Kendrick Lamar - F*ck Your Ethnicity
143. Saigon - The Greatest Story Never Told
144. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
145. The Black Keys - Hell of a Season
146. James Blake - I Never Learnt to Share
147. Fucked Up - Life in Paper
148. The Roots - I Remember
149. Miranda Lambert - Safe
150. The Wonder Years - Local Man Ruins Everything
151. Pistol Annies - Hell on Heels
152. Chromatics - Kill for Love
153. The Roots - Tip the Scale
154. The Black Keys - Dead and Gone
155. St. Vincent - Dilettante
156. Fleet Foxes - Battery Kinzie
157. Tune-Yards - Killa
158. St. Vincent - Surgeon
159. PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
160. Death Grips - Guillotine
161. Low - You See Everything
162. Tom Waits - Talking at the Same Time
163. The Weeknd - Life of the Party
164. The Weeknd - Lonely Star
165. Wilco - Born Alone
166. Radiohead - Give Up the Ghost
167. Radiohead - Little by Little
168. Death Grips - Beware
169. Tom Waits - Raised Right Men
170. Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
171. The Weeknd - The Morning
172. Fucked Up - One More Night
173. The Weeknd - Loft Music
174. The Field - Then It’s White
175. Russian Circles - Mlàdek
176. Elbow - Neat Little Rows
177. Gillian Welch - Scarlet Town
178. Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
179. Fucked Up - Let Her Rest
180. Thundercat - Daylight
181. Nils Frahm - Keep
182. St. Vincent - Northern Lights
183. Danny Brown - I Will
184. Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa
185. The Roots - Stomp
186. Wilco - Dawned on Me
187. The Weeknd - The Birds Pt. 1
188. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)
189. Mastodon - Curl of the Burl
190. Mastodon - Blasteroid
191. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Gotta Have It
192. Jay-Z & Kanye West - Why I Love You
193. Foo Fighters - A Matter of Time
194. Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
195. Foo Fighters - Walk
196. Beyoncé - I Care
197. Fucked Up - Turn the Season
198. Danny Brown - Detroit187
199. The Weeknd - Next
200. Danny Brown - Outer Space
201. St. Vincent - Year of the Tiger
202. Danny Brown - 30
203. Saigon - Clap
204. The Weeknd - Gone
205. Nicolas Jaar - Space is Only Noise if You Can See
206. Kendrick Lamar - Ronald Reagan Era
207. Beyoncé - Run the World (Girls)
208. Adele - Set Fire to the Rain
209. Atlas Sound - Te Amo
210. Nils Frahm - Familiar
211. Iceage - You’re Blessed
212. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
213. Paul Simon - The Afterlife
214. Danny Brown - Party All the Time
215. Fucked Up - Serve Me Right
216. Danny Brown - EWNESW
217. Danny Brown - Lie4
218. Fucked Up - Running on Nothing
219. St. Vincent - Hysterical Strength
220. Saigon - The Invitation
221. Saigon - Enemies
222. Drake - Lord Knows
223. Sepalcure - Pencil Pimp
224. Bon Iver - Beth/Rest
225. St. Vincent - Neutered Fruit
226. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
227. Saigon - It’s Alright
228. TV on the Radio - Will Do
229. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Thuggin’
230. The Field - Is This Power
231. Cage the Elephant - Aberdeen
232. Cage the Elephant - Shake Me Down
233. Future Islands - Balance
234. Lydia Loveless - Crazy
235. Sharon Van Etten - Serpents
236. Saigon - Believe It
237. Paul Simon - Rewrite
238. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Black
239. Colin Stetson - Lord I Just Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes
240. The Black Dahlia Murder - A Shrine to Madness
241. St. Vincent - Champagne Year
242. The Black Keys - Mind Eraser
243. Low - Witches
244. Iceage - Remember
245. Bomb the Music Industry! - Vocal Coach
246. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears
247. Fucked Up - Truth I Know
248. Tom Waits - Pay Me
249. Danny Brown - Bruiser Brigade
250. Fucked Up - A Slanted Tone
251. The Weeknd - Montreal
252. Fucked Up - The Recursive Girl
253. Nicolas Jaar - Specters of the Future
254. Fucked Up - I Was There
255. Tom Waits - Face to the Highway
256. The Weeknd - The Birds Pt. 2
257. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Two Against One
258. The Weeknd - Coming Down
259. Wilco - Standing O
260. The Weeknd - Heaven or Las Vegas
261. Bill Callahan - Riding for the Feeling
262. Saigon - What the Lovers Do
263. Saigon - Friends
264. Fucked Up - Remember My Name
265. Saigon - Preacher
266. Saigon - Give It to Me
267. James Blake - Give Me My Month
268. Three Trapped Tigers - Cramm
269. Tim Hecker - Hatred of Music I
270. James Blake - Lindisfarne II
271. Bon Iver - Michicant
272. Bon Iver - Calgary
273. The Black Keys - Nova Baby
274. Bon Iver - Towers
275. Beastie Boys - Ok
276. Elbow - Lippy Kids
277. Wye Oak - Holy Holy
278. Tinariwen - Tenere Taqhim Tossam
279. Adele - Rumour Has It
280. Ry Cooder - Baby Joined the Army
281. Beastie Boys - Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win
282. La Dispute - St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church Blues
283. Burial - Street Halo
284. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
285. Four Tet - Pyramid
286. Björk - Crystalline
287. Fucked Up - Ship of Fools
288. Burial - Stolen Dog
289. Tom Waits - Kiss Me
290. Wolves in the Throne Room - Thuja Magus Imperium
291. The Weeknd - Same Old Song
292. Feist - How Come You Never Go There
293. The Weeknd - The Fall
294. Anna Calvi - No More Words
295. Iceage - New Brigade
296. Iceage - Collapse
297. Danny Brown - Blunt After Blunt
298. Ambrose Akinmusire - Confessions to My Unborn Daughter
299. The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
300. Danny Brown - Scrap or Die
301. The Weeknd - Rolling Stone
302. James Blake - To Care (Like You)
303. Tim Hecker - In the Fog I
304. Tim Hecker - In the Fog II
305. James Blake - I Mind
306. Explosions in the Sky - Human Qualities
307. Tim Hecker - In the Air I
308. Bon Iver - Minnesota, WI
309. Bon Iver - Wash.
310. Paul Simon - Dazzling Blue
311. Wilco - Black Moon
312. Shabazz Palaces - Are you…Can you…Were you? (Felt)
313. Tom Waits - New Year’s Eve
314. The Antlers - I Don’t Want Love
315. The Black Keys - Stop Stop
316. Björk - Thunderbolt
317. Danny Brown - Fields
318. Danny Brown - Nosebleeds
319. Beastie Boys - Long Burn the Fire
320. Beastie Boys - Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
321. Tim Hecker - In the Air III
322. Beastie Boys - Lee Majors Come Again
323. M83 - My Tears Are Becoming a Sea
324. Beastie Boys - Here’s a Little Something for Ya
325. Shabazz Palaces - Youlogy
326. Saigon - Better Way
327. Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)
328. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Ain’t No Chimneys in the Projects
329. Drive-By Truckers - Mercy Buckets
330. Saigon - And the Winner Is…
331. Danny Brown - Adderall Admiral
332. Fucked Up - Inside a Frame
333. Tom Waits - Last Leaf
334. Shabazz Palaces - Yeah you
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The results for 2011:

Albums
1 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 35 | 1206
2 | The Beach Boys | The Smile Sessions | 19 | 616
3 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | 22 | 615
4 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy | 22 | 557
5 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 20 | 550
6 | The Black Keys | El Camino | 21 | 482
7 | Adele | 21 | 16 | 425
8 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 18 | 408
9 | Tom Waits | Bad as Me | 15 | 403
10 | James Blake | James Blake | 16 | 374

11 | The Roots | undun | 13 | 362
12 | Destroyer | Kaputt | 13 | 354
13 | Nicolás Jaar | Space Is Only Noise | 15 | 313
14 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | 12 | 302
15 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch the Trone | 11 | 281
16 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons | 15 | 277
17 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact | 8 | 245
18 | tUnE-yArDs | Whokill | 8 | 201
19 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 6 | 191
20 | Low | C'mon | 6 | 181

21 | Lykke Li | Wounded Rhymes | 7 | 166
22 | The Decemberists | The King Is Dead | 8 | 162
23 | Beyoncé | 4 | 6 | 161
24 | Fucked Up | David Comes to Life | 6 | 157
25 | Kate Bush | 50 Words for Snow | 7 | 148
26 | Wilco | The Whole Love | 10 | 143
27 | Oneohtrix Point Never | Replica | 8 | 140
28 | Colin Stetson | New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges | 7 | 134
29 | Florence + The Machine | Ceremonials | 6 | 133
29 | Kendrick Lamar | Section.80 | 6 | 133
31 | C418 | Minecraft: Volume Alpha | 4 | 127
32 | Death Grips | Exmilitary | 6 | 126
33 | Tim Hecker | Ravedeath, 1972 | 7 | 121
34 | Björk | Biophilia | 4 | 117
35 | Ry Cooder | Pull Up Some Dust and SIt Down | 4 | 116
36 | Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost | 7 | 112
36 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 5 | 112
38 | TV on the Radio | Nine Types of Light | 6 | 107
39 | Metronomy | The English Riviera | 6 | 106
39 | Real Estate | Days | 4 | 106
41 | Bill Callahan | Apocalypse | 7 | 100
42 | Julia Holter | Tragedy | 3 | 98
43 | Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome | 4 | 97
44 | Danny Brown | XXX | 7 | 94
45 | Gotye | Making Mirrors | 4 | 92
46 | Austra | Feel It Break | 3 | 85
47 | Anna Calvi | Anna Calvi | 5 | 84
48 | Frank Ocean | Nostalgia, Ultra. | 4 | 83
49 | CunninLynguists | Oneirology | 2 | 81
49 | The War on Drugs | Slave Ambient | 4 | 81
51 | Foo Fighters | Wasting Light | 4 | 78
52 | Laura Marling | A Creature I Don't Know | 6 | 74
53 | Evanescence | Evanescence | 2 | 72
54 | Ja, Panik | DMD KIU LIDT | 2 | 70
55 | Raphael Saadiq | Stone Rollin' | 3 | 68
56 | Bright Eyes | The People's Key | 2 | 67
56 | Wild Flag | Wild Flag | 4 | 67
56 | Shabazz Palaces | Black Up | 5 | 67
59 | Drake | Take Care | 6 | 63
60 | Katy B | On a Mission | 2 | 59
60 | Rome | Die Æsthetik der Herrschaftsfreiheit | 2 | 59
62 | Andy Stott | Passed Me By | 4 | 58
63 | Nicola Roberts | Cinderella's Eyes | 4 | 56
64 | Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring for My Halo | 3 | 55
65 | Peter Evans Quintet | Ghosts | 2 | 54
65 | Cher Lloyd | Sticks + Stones | 2 | 54
67 | A$AP Rocky | LiveLoveA$AP | 3 | 52
67 | Arctic Monkeys | Suck It and See | 2 | 52
69 | Ólafur Arnalds | Living Room Songs | 2 | 51
69 | Ed Sheeran | + | 2 | 51

Perhaps predictably, dominated by Let England Shake. I know I didn't do this last time, but it probably is interesting, so here's our end of year 2011 poll results:
01 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake
02 | Tom Waits | Bad As Me
03 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver
04 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues
05 | Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost
06 | Destroyer | Kaputt
07 | James Blake | James Blake
08 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs
09 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
10 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy
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Songs

1 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games | 26 | 836
2 | M83 | Midnight City | 21 | 730
3 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy | 19 | 502
4 | Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay | 212 | 18 | 482
5 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder | 18 | 407
6 | Bon Iver | Holocene | 14 | 350
7 | Adele | Someone Like You | 14 | 338
8 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | 12 | 305
9 | St. Vincent | Cruel | 13 | 272
10 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe | 13 | 226

11 | Destroyer | Kaputt | 10 | 223
12 | Gang Gang Dance | Glass Jar | 8 | 214
13 | Gotye feat. Kimbra | Somebody That I Used to Know | 12 | 210
14 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land | 10 | 204
15 | Beyoncé | Love on Top | 6 | 195
16 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers | 10 | 194
17 | Tyler, the Creator | Yonkers | 11 | 193
18 | Jay-Z and Kanye West | Niggas In Paris | 8 | 178
18 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On | 11 | 178
18 | Fucked Up | Queen of Hearts | 5 | 178
21 | Girls | Vomit | 7 | 161
22 | Fleet Foxes | Montezuma | 4 | 156
23 | Florence + The Machine | Shake It Out | 7 | 150
24 | Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris | We Found Love | 7 | 149
25 | Radiohead | Lotus Flower | 9 | 148
26 | Low | Nothing But Heart | 6 | 138
27 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling | 7 | 132
28 | PJ Harvey | All and Everyone | 4 | 126
28 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream | 7 | 126
30 | Lana Del Rey | Born to Die | 6 | 125

31 | Frank Ocean | Novacane | 6 | 121
32 | Bon Iver | Perth | 5 | 111
33 | tUnE-yArDs | Bizness | 6 | 108
34 | Ja, Panik | Dmd Kiu Lidt | 3 | 106
35 | Radiohead | Codex | 4 | 103
36 | The Rapture | How Deep Is Your Love | 7 | 102
37 | iamamiwhoami | ; john | 2 | 100
37 | Kate Bush | Moments of Pleasure | 2 | 100
39 | Nicolás Jaar | Space Is Only Noise If You Can See | 7 | 97
40 | Lady Gaga | Born This Way | 3 | 94
41 | Adele | Rumour Has It | 4 | 93
42 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls | 4 | 92
43 | Julia Holter | The Falling Age | 2 | 90
43 | Low | Especially Me | 2 | 90
45 | Sharon Van Etten | Serpents | 3 | 89
46 | St. Vincent | Surgeon | 3 | 85
46 | Washed Out | Amor Fati | 2 | 85
46 | Matana Roberts | Song for Eulalie | 2 | 85
49 | Adele | Set Fire to the Rain | 4 | 84
49 | Weyes Blood | Storms That Breed | 3 | 84
51 | Metronomy | The Bay | 4 | 83
52 | The Black Keys | Little Black Submarines | 3 | 80
53 | Raphael Saadiq | Stone Rollin' | 3 | 78
54 | Kendrick Lamar | HiiiPower | 3 | 77
55 | Wilco | One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) | 3 | 74
55 | Laura Marling | Sophia | 3 | 74
57 | Cut Copy | Need You Now | 3 | 72
58 | Fleet Foxes | The Shrine / An Argument | 4 | 71
59 | Metronomy | The Look | 4 | 70
59 | The Horrors | Still Life | 4 | 70
61 | Of Monsters and Men | Little Talks | 3 | 65
61 | Bill Callahan | America | 2 | 65
63 | Wilco | Dawned On Me | 2 | 64
63 | Jay-Z and Kanye West | No Church in the Wild | 2 | 64
65 | Destroyer | Suicide Demo for Kara Walker | 2 | 61
66 | Rebecca Black | Friday | 2 | 60
67 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 3 | 59
67 | Chromatics | Kill For Love | 6 | 59
69 | Tom Waits | Back in the Crowd | 3 | 58
69 | Fleet Foxes | Grown Ocean | 2 | 58
71 | Tom Waits | New Year's Eve | 2 | 57
72 | Fleet Foxes | The Plains / Bitter Dancer | 2 | 56
72 | The Roots feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Dice Raw | Make My | 3 | 56
74 | Lady Gaga | The Edge of Glory | 3 | 54
75 | PJ Harvey | The Last Living Rose | 4 | 53
75 | Wilco | Art of Almost | 4 | 53
77 | The Decemberists | Don't Carry It All | 2 | 52

Results from our EOY Poll:
01 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy
02 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land
03 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games
04 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder
05 | Girls | Vomit
06 | M83 | Midnight City
07 | TV on the Radio | Second Song
08 | Adele | Rolling in the Deep
09 | James Blake | The Wilhelm Scream
10 | Lykke Li | I Follow River
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Wild Cards! Below is an approximation of current albums/songs that will make the final poll, though it is subject to change.

Albums
1 | PJ Harvey | Let England Shake | 2011 | 24.6
2 | Kanye West | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | 2010 | 23.7
3 | Janelle Monáe | The ArchAndroid | 2010 | 22.3
4 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | 2010 | 21.5
5 | The National | High Violet | 2010 | 19.6
6 | LCD Soundsystem | This Is Happening | 2010 | 19.0
7 | Beach House | Teen Dream | 2010 | 16.5
8 | Sufjan Stevens | The Age of Adz | 2010 | 13.4
9 | The Beach Boys | The Smile Sessions | 2011 | 12.6
10 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | 2011 | 12.6
11 | Robyn | Body Talk | 2010 | 11.5
12 | St. Vincent | Strange Mercy | 2011 | 11.4
13 | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2011 | 11.2
14 | Deerhunter | Halcyon Digest | 2010 | 10.0
15 | The Black Keys | El Camino | 2011 | 9.8
16 | Joanna Newsom | Have One on Me | 2010 | 9.8
17 | Adele | 21 | 2011 | 9.2
18 | Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma | 2010 | 8.4
19 | Gorillaz | Plastic Beach | 2010 | 8.3
20 | M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming | 2011 | 8.3
21 | Tom Waits | Bad as Me | 2011 | 8.2
22 | James Blake | James Blake | 2011 | 7.6
23 | The Roots | undun | 2011 | 7.4
24 | Destroyer | Kaputt | 2011 | 7.2
25 | Nicolás Jaar | Space Is Only Noise | 2011 | 6.4
26 | Vampire Weekend | Contra | 2010 | 6.2
27 | Radiohead | The King of Limbs | 2011 | 6.2
28 | Anaïs Mitchell | Hadestown | 2010 | 6.2
29 | Sleigh Bells | Treats | 2010 | 6.1
30 | Jay-Z & Kanye West | Watch the Trone | 2011 | 5.7
31 | The Weeknd | House of Balloons | 2011 | 5.7
32 | Big Boi | Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty | 2010 | 5.1
33 | Gang Gang Dance | Eye Contact | 2011 | 5.0
33 | Owen Pallett | Heartland | 2010 | 5.0
35 | The Black Keys | Brothers | 2010 | 4.2
36 | tUnE-yArDs | Whokill | 2011 | 4.1
37 | Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011 | 3.9
38 | The Roots | How I Got Over | 2010 | 3.8
39 | Foals | Total Life Forever | 2010 | 3.8
40 | Tame Impala | Innerspeaker | 2010 | 3.7

Songs
1 | Lana Del Rey | Video Games | 2011 | 17.4
2 | Robyn | Dancing on My Own | 2010 | 16.1
3 | M83 | Midnight City | 2011 | 15.2
4 | The National | Bloodbuzz Ohio | 2010 | 13.3
5 | Arcade Fire | Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) | 2010 | 12.7
6 | Kanye West feat. Pusha T | Runaway | 2010 | 12.5
7 | Adele | Rolling in the Deep | 2010 | 11.6
8 | Janelle Monáe | Cold War | 2010 | 11.3
9 | LCD Soundsystem | Dance Yrself Clean | 2010 | 11.2
10 | The Black Keys | Lonely Boy | 2011 | 10.5
11 | Azealia Banks feat. Lazy Jay | 212 | 2011 | 10.0
12 | Janelle Monáe feat. Big Boi | Tightrope | 2010 | 8.8
13 | PJ Harvey | The Words That Maketh Murder | 2011 | 8.5
14 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs | 2010 | 7.9
15 | Bon Iver | Holocene | 2011 | 7.3
16 | Joanna Newsom | Good Intentions Paving Company | 2010 | 7.2
17 | Adele | Someone Like You | 2011 | 7.0
18 | Caribou | Odessa | 2010 | 6.7
19 | Kanye West | Power | 2010 | 6.7
20 | Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues | 2011 | 6.4
21 | Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver | Monster | 2010 | 6.0
22 | Arcade Fire | Ready to Start | 2010 | 5.9
23 | Cee Lo Green | Fuck You! | 2010 | 5.9
24 | LCD Soundsystem | I Can Change | 2010 | 5.8
25 | St. Vincent | Cruel | 2011 | 5.7
26 | Gorillaz | On Melancholy Hill | 2010 | 5.2
27 | Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe | 2011 | 4.7
28 | Destroyer | Kaputt | 2011 | 4.6
29 | Crystal Castles feat. Robert Smith | Not in Love | 2010 | 4.5
30 | Gang Gang Dance | Glass Jar | 2011 | 4.5
31 | Gotye feat. Kimbra | Somebody That I Used to Know | 2011 | 4.4
32 | PJ Harvey | The Glorious Land | 2011 | 4.3
33 | Sleigh Bells | Rill Rill | 2010 | 4.1
34 | Beyoncé | Love on Top | 2011 | 4.1
35 | Lykke Li | I Follow Rivers | 2011 | 4.0
36 | Tyler, the Creator | Yonkers | 2011 | 4.0
37 | Beach House | Zebra | 2010 | 3.8
38 | Alabama Shakes | Hold On | 2011 | 3.7
38 | Jay Z & Kanye West | Niggas In Paris | 2011 | 3.7
38 | Fucked Up | Queen of Hearts | 2011 | 3.7
41 | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Round and Round | 2010 | 3.7
42 | Beach House | Take Care | 2010 | 3.5
43 | Girls | Vomit | 2011 | 3.4
44 | Foster the People | Pumped Up Kicks | 2010 | 3.3
45 | Beach House | Silver Soul | 2010 | 3.3
46 | LCD Soundsystem | All I Want | 2010 | 3.3
46 | Fleet Foxes | Montezuma | 2011 | 3.3
48 | Katy Perry | Teenage Dream | 2010 | 3.2
49 | Florence + The Machine | Shake It Out | 2011 | 3.1
50 | Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris | We Found Love | 2011 | 3.1
51 | Radiohead | Lotus Flower | 2011 | 3.1
52 | Anaïs Mitchell | Why We Build the Wall | 2010 | 3.1
53 | Deerhunter | Desire Lines | 2010 | 3.0
53 | Jaga Jazzist | Toccata | 2010 | 3.0
55 | Sufjan Stevens | Age of Adz | 2010 | 2.9
56 | Yeasayer | O.N.E. | 2010 | 2.9
57 | Low | Nothing But Heart | 2011 | 2.9
58 | Foals | Spanish Sahara | 2010 | 2.9
59 | Sufjan Stevens | Impossible Soul | 2010 | 2.8
60 | The Black Keys | Gold on the Ceiling | 2011 | 2.8
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Thank you Holden. Does this mean I can take part in 2012? xx
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Pepperami wrote: Sun Apr 02, 2023 9:56 pm Thank you Holden. Does this mean I can take part in 2012? xx
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Can you guys believe that in our original EOY poll for 2011, The Glorious Land finished as the #2 overall song, ahead of both Video Games and Midnight City (Lonely Boy was #1, a surprise at the time)?

I'm happy to see Queen of Hearts make the top 20!
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Jackson wrote: Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:13 am Can you guys believe that in our original EOY poll for 2011, The Glorious Land finished as the #2 overall song, ahead of both Video Games and Midnight City (Lonely Boy was #1, a surprise at the time)?

I'm happy to see Queen of Hearts make the top 20!
That shocked me too! One of the more unconventional results we've had in a yearly poll.

Queen of Hearts was a little outside my top 20, but I'm happy to see it there too.
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