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

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    Please enjoy a new batch of songs that I’ve been obsessed with over the last 6 months or so.  Here is a more detailed list of what you will find in the playlist at the bottom of this post.

    1) “Misunderstood” by Wilco (6:28)from Being There – 1996.
    2) “Borrowed Tune” by Neil Young (3:26) from Tonight’s The Night – 1975.
    3) “Shine A Light” by Rolling Stones (4:16) from Exile On Main Street – 1972.
    4) “Long as I Can See The Light” by Creedence Clearwater Revival (3:34) from Cosmos Factory – 1970.
    5) “I Saw The Light” by Williams, Hank (2:44) from the single of the same name – 1948.
    6) “Acuff-Rose” by Uncle Tupelo (2:35) from Anodyne – 1993.
    7) “School Days” by Wainwright, Loudon, III (3:06) from Album I – 1970.
    8) “The Mess Inside” by Mountain Goats (3:35) from All Hail West Texas – 2002.
    9) “Surrounded” by Mountain Goats & John Vanderslice (2:21) from Moon Colony Bloodbath – 2009.
    10) “Wind and the Dove” by Bill
    Callahan (4:34) from Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle – 2009.
    11) “Tape From California” by Phil Ochs (6:47) from Tape From California – 1968.
    12) “Sunny South Kensington” by Donovan (3:46) from Mellow Yellow – 1967.
    13) “Oh! You Pretty Things” by David Bowie (3:15) from Hunky Dory – 1971.
    14) “Photograph” by Ringo Starr (3:57) from Ringo – 1973.
    15) “Collect Call” by Metric (4:46) from Fantasies – 2009.
    16) “Little Bit” by Lykke Li (4:34) from Youth Novels – 2008.
    17) “Very Loud” by Shout Out Louds (4:05) from Howl Howl Gaff Gaff – 2005.
    18) “Treason” by Teardrop Explodes (2:58) from Kilimanjaro – 1980.
    19) “Talking Hotel Arbat Blues” by Handsome Furs (2:43) from Face Control – 2009.

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