Top 20 Albums of 2011

# Artist Album Label
1. Wooden Birds Two Matchsticks Barsuk |Listen|Buy|
2. Fruit Bats Tripper  Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
3. Joy Formidable The Big Roar Atlantic |Listen|Buy|
4. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Mirror Traffic Matador |Listen|Buy|
5. Decemberists The King Is Dead Capitol |Listen|Buy|
6. Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Acony |Listen|Buy|
7. Dodos No Color Frenchkiss |Listen|Buy|
8. Richard Buckner Our Blood Merge |Listen|Buy|
9. Mates Of State Mountaintops Barsuk |Listen|Buy|
10. Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo Wichita |Listen|Buy|
11. Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues Sub Pop |Listen|Buy|
12. Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 Capitol |Listen|Buy|
13. Cults Cults Columbia |Listen|Buy|
14. Sloan The Double Cross Yep Roc |Listen|Buy|
15. Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes Atlantic |Listen|Buy|
16. Iron & Wine Kiss Each Other Clean Warner Bros. |Listen|Buy|
17. Vaccines What Did You Expect From The Vaccines Columbia |Listen|Buy|
18. Gang Of Four Content Yep Roc |Listen|Buy|
19. Feist Metals Interscope |Listen|Buy|
20. Lonely Island Turtleneck & Chain Republic |Listen|Buy|

Honorable Mention:

 Peter Bjorn & John – Gimme Some (Almost Gold)
 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake (Vagrant)
 Yuck – S/T (Fat Possum)
 Phantogram – Nightlife EP (Barsuk)
 Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital (Sub Pop)
 Head & The Heart – S/T (Sub Pop)
 Thao & Mirah – S/T (Kill Rock Stars)
 Sondre Lerche – Sondre Lerche (Redeye)
 Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Belong (Slumberland)
 Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations – S/T (Bedroom Classics)
 Rubblebucket – Omega La La (Megaforce)
 Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum)

Please see also: my “selections from” playlists for the top 20 list and the honorable mentions. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

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  • Considering the faltering legal status of my usual go to music playlist site Grooveshark.com, I am also including a link to the playlist through Spotify.

    Selections from Top 20 Albums of 2011

    Until its future demise I will continue embedding playlists from Grooveshark.

    If you do not see the embedded playlist below please follow this link or check it on Spotify through the link above.

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    ating: Track: Sound Code: Track Title: Length:
    *** 1. MH Who Said We’re Wack? 1:17
    **** 2. MH Santana DVX (featuring E-40) [FCC] 2:36
    ***** 3. M Jizz In My Pants 2:32
    ***** 4. MH I’m On A Boat (featuring T-Pain) [FCC] 2:37
    *** 5. M Sax Man (featuring Jack Black) [FCC] 2:07
    ***** 6. MH Lazy Sunday (featuring Chris Parnell) 2:20
    **** 7. Spoken Normal Guy (Interlude) [FCC] 1:05
    *** 8. M Boombox (featuring Julian Casablancas of The Strokes) [FCC] 3:14
    * 9. MH Shrooms (Interlude) 0:35
    ***** 10. MH

    Like A Boss [FCC]

    1:47
    *** 11. M We Like Sportz 2:05
    *** 12. M Dreamgirl (featuring Norah Jones) 3:14
    **** 13. M Ras Trent 2:06
    ***** 14. M Dick In A Box (featuring Justin Timberlake) [FCC] 2:42
    * 15. M The Old Saloon [FCC] 1:06
    ** 16. MH Punch You In The Jeans [FCC] 2:48
    ** 17. M Space Olympics [FCC] 2:56
    ***** 18. MH Natalie’s Rap (featuring Natalie Portman) [FCC] 2:28
    ** 19. MH Incredibad 2:55

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    Most will probably already know of the existance of some of these songs through the “Digital Shorts” on Saturday Night Live.  The ones that are responsible for such ridiculous fun are SNL cast member Andy Samberg, and his friends from all the way back in Junior High:  Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer.  Not exactly the most highbrow sophisticated comedy out there but it doesn’t matter because it’s fucking hilarious.  Definitely a fun listen… in addition to the classics such as “Dick In A Box” and “Lazy Sunday” you will find funny tracks like “Santana DVX” featuring rapper E-40, “Sax Man” featuring Jack Black, and one of my favorites the “Normal Guy” interlude.

    You will find the tracks above that were produced as Digital Shorts are linked to the video on Hulu.com.  Also check out the most recent Lonely Island jam – the uncensored version of “Motherlover” featuring Justin Timberlake here.

    Check out the album below in its entirety, if embedded content does not appear follow this link.

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