Best Tracks of 2011

[K8teebug]

Because mine are different slightly from my favorite albums:

Wild Flag - Future Crimes

Mr. Driver - Black Lips

Don't Move - Phantogram

Youth Knows No Pain - Lykke Li

Why I Love You - Jay-Z and Kanye West

Crystalline - Bjork

Strange Mercy - St. Vincent

Ffunny Ffriends - Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Dawned on Me - Wilco

(I like to call these next few songs the "John Hughes" soundtrack portion of the 2011 mix)

Still Life - The Horrors

Green Aisles - Real Estate

Soothe Me - Yuck

(exit John Hughes movie)

Little by Little - Radiohead

Bizness - TuNe YaRds (I don't have time to look up how it's actually capitalized)

Seven Sisters - Tori Amos (I picked the instrumental version for those who can't deal with her voice - but my favorite record of the year - tied with PJ)

On Battleship Hil - PJ Harvey (My favorite record of the year - tied with Tori)

Baby Missles - War on Drugs

ALL THE BEST - R.E.M. (I will miss you.)

[Brian_Wallace]

Where's Bjork?  She released a typically pretentious, unlistenable album this year, didn't she?



Wow!  You bought in to it, didn't you?  I weep for your Yoni...your subscription to "Bitch"....and your "Lilith Fair" t-shirt.


Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!


Brian

[sweetcell]

the market has spoken: track of the year is "pumped up kicks".

[K8teebug]

Where's Bjork?  She released a typically pretentious, unlistenable album this year, didn't she?



Wow!  You bought in to it, didn't you?  I weep for your Yoni...your subscription to "Bitch"....and your "Lilith Fair" t-shirt.


Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!


Brian

Yup.  I happen to like three very talented women songwriters who aren't afraid to write real songs and not total crap.  You got me.

[Jaguar]

the market has spoken: track of the year is "pumped up kicks".

Never heard it and have no clue who it's by.

[Brian_Wallace]

Where's Bjork?  She released a typically pretentious, unlistenable album this year, didn't she?



Wow!  You bought in to it, didn't you?  I weep for your Yoni...your subscription to "Bitch"....and your "Lilith Fair" t-shirt.


Stuart Mackenzie: Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Tony Giardino: So who's in this Pentavirate?
Stuart Mackenzie: The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee *beady* eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
Charlie Mackenzie: Dad, how can you hate "The Colonel"?
Stuart Mackenzie: Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly, smartass!


Brian

Yup.  I happen to like three very talented women songwriters who aren't afraid to write real songs and not total crap.  You got me.

I'm calling bullshit on that.  You look at the picture and you see "Mean Girls", circa 1992.

Brian

[i am gay and i like cats]

tori looks like the party slut who loves keg stands and college football

bjork looks like that chick who hangs out at dennys too late at night drinking coffee and smoking cloves and annoying the fuck out of anybody around her.

pj look like some drug drop out who says "whhhhaaatttt?"  "huuuuhhh?" and "duddddee" a lot.   

[HoyaSaxa03]

here's a quick spotify playlist I put together of some favorites, by no means comprehensive or even that well thought out:

2011 TRAX

[Chulahoma]

Active Child - Hanging On

[James Ford]

Have to go with Homestead on this one simply because that's where the Cup was decided.

[xneverwherex]

my best of mix for 2011.

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|892l35|579476130|Best_of_11.zip|94400|R~9BE36631405B67CC9D0021D841289423|0|0

Track Listing (track/band/album):
Stay Too Long - Plan B - The Defamation of Strickland Banks (hands down -my favorite album of this past year.)
Rolling in the Deep - Adele - 21
Civilian - Wye Oak - Civilian
Anna Sun - Walk The Moon - I Want! I Wanta
Call It What You Want - Foster the People - Torches
Soldier - Nicos Gun
Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires - Pala
Santa Fe  - Beirut - The Rip Tide
Serpents - Sharon Van Etten - new single
Ignite - The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
Bigger Than Us - White Lies - Ritual
Midnight City - M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
Mary's Day - Gemini Club
Don't Fuck With My Money - Penguin Prison

[brennser]

normally do a year end best of - so may good tunes out there this year it was a double CD - my kids got in on the act this year as well hence hence Taio Cruz and Lemonade Mouth

1.   Adele, ?Rolling in the Deep?, from the album ?21?
2.   Those Dancing Days ?Can?t Find Entrance?, from the album ?Daydreams & Nightmares?
3.   Foster the People ?Pumped Up Kicks? from the EP ?Foster the People?
4.   Thirteen Sense  ?Loneliest Star?, from the single ?Loneliest Star?
5.   The Leisure Society ?Dust on the Dancefloor?, from the album ?Into the Murky Water?
6.   Thea Gilmore ?Teach Me To Be Bad?, from the album ?Teach Me To Be Bad?
7.   Acid House Kings ?Would You Say Stop??, from the album ?Music Sounds Better With You?
8.   The Generationals ?Tell Me Now?, from the album ?Actor-Caster?
9.   Cults ?Go Outside?, from the album, ?Cults?
10.   Taio Cruz ?Dynamite?, from the single ?Dynamite?
11.   The Juliets ?A Perfect Season?, from the album ?Awaited Season?
12.   The Loves  ?That Boy Is Mine?, from the album ???Love You?
13.   Lykke Li ?Rich Kids Blues?, from the album ?Wounded Rhymes?
14.   The Wave Pictures ?Little Surprise?, from the album ?Little Surprise?
15.   The Submarines ?Fire?, from the album ?Love Notes/Letter Bombs?
16.   Robbers on High Street ?Hey Unbelievers?, from the album ?Hey There Golden Hair?
17.   Givers ?Saw You First?, from the EP ?In Light?
18.   Lemonade Mouth ?Windstorm?, from the album ?Lemonade Mouth?
19.   Gillian Welch ?The Way It Goes?, from the album ?The Harrow and the Harvest?
20.   The Wooden Birds ?Too Pretty to Say Please?, from the album ?Two Matchsticks?
21.   The Head and The Heart ?Down in the Valley?, from the album ?The Head and the Heart?

1.   Robbie Robertson, ?He Don?t Live Here No More?, from the album ?How To Become Clairvoyant?
2.   Manchester Orchestra ?Virgin?, from the album ?Simple Math?
3.   Old 97s ?I?m a Train Wreck? from the album ?The Grand Theatre Vol. 2?
4.   The Civil Wars ?Barton Hollow?, from the album ?Barton Hollow?
5.   The Vaccines ?Wreckin? Bar (Ra Ra Ra)?, from the album ?The Vaccines?
6.   PJ Harvey ?The Words That Maketh Murder?, from the album ?Let England Shake?
7.   The Felice Brothers ?Fire At The Pageant?, from the album ?Celebration, Florida?
8.   The Cave Singers ?Black Leaf?, from the album ?No Witch?
9.   Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears ?Booty City?, from the album, ?Scandalous?
10.   Decibelles ?Bill Murray?, from the album ?Pedro Joko?
11.   British Sea Power ?Who?s In Control?, from the album ?Valhalla Dancehall?
12.   Florence and the Machine ?No Light No Light?, from the album ?Ceremonials?
13.   Wild Flag ?Romance?, from the album ?Wild Flag?
14.   I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in This House ?Valentine?, from the album ?Sounds of Dying?
15.   Gang of Four ?I Party All The Time?, from the album ?Content?
16.   Obits ?Naked To The World, from the album ?Moody, Standard and Poor?
17.   Yuck ?Get Away?, from the album ?Yuck?
18.   Eulogies ?Intimate Debris?, from the album ?Tear The Fences Down?
19.   Devotchka ?Contrabanda?, from the album ?100 Lovers?
20.   TV on the Radio ?Repetition?, from the album ?Nine Types of Light?
21.   The Pains of Being Pure At Heart ?My Terrible Friend?, from the album ?Belong?
22.   The Tunics ?Slaves Ride On These Waves?, from the album ?Dabblers Handbook?

[sweetcell]

for folks who wanna legally buy the tracks mentioned here, Android Market's 49-cent sale ends today (albums are $4.99).

https://market.android.com/music

(you don't need an android device, you can just download the mp3 after you purchase it)

[i am gay and i like cats]

there is only one good song all year

lmfao - sexy and i know it


word

[StoneTheCrow]

Android Market's 49-cent sale ends today (albums are $4.99).

Over already?  That sucks.