Top Songs and Albums of 2011

28 Jan

Yes, this is a TV blog.  But it’s a Saturday so readers get bonus music coverage with a quick look at my top songs and albums of 2011.

You can listen to my top 40 songs at 8tracks.

Top 40 songs of 2011

1.  The Weeknd – The Morning

2.  The Smith Westerns – Weekend

3.  Cults – Abducted                                                                               .

4.  The Drums – Money

5.  EMA – California

6. Tune-yards – Bizness

7. Girls – Honey Bunny

8. Martin Solveig feat. Dragonette – Hello

9.  Metronomy – The Look

10.  Lykke Li – Love Out of Lust

11.  Kanye West – All of the Lights

12. Drake – Headlines

13.  Avril Lavigne – What the Hell

14.  Katy B – Katy On A Mission

15.  Yuck – Shook Down

16. The Wombats – Tokyo (Vampires and Werewolves)

17.  WU LYF – Spitting Blood

18.  Fountains of Wayne – The Summer Place

19.  Telekinesis – I Cannot Love You

20.  Avicii – Levels

21.  Dawes – If I Wanted Someone

22.  John Maus – Head for the Country

23.  Wiz Khalifa – Black and Yellow

24.  Dum Dum Girls – Bedroom Eyes

25.  Childish Gambino – Fire Fly

26.  Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks

27.  The Joy Formidable – I Don’t Want To See You Like This

28.  Dev – In the Dark

29.  Karen O with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song

30.  Kelly Rowland feat. Lil Wayne – Motivation

31.  LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and Goonrock – Party Rock Anthem

32.  The Black Keys – Lonely Boy

33.  Selena Gomez and the Scene – Bang Bang Bang

34.  Rihanna – S&M

35.  The Antlers – I Don’t Want Love

36.  Cut Copy – Need You Now

37.  Nicki Minaj – Super Bass

38.  Elbow – Lippy Kids

39.  Chris Brown – She Ain’t You

40.  Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx – I’ll Take Care Of You

Top 30 Albums

1. Cults – Cults

2. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes

3. Tune-yards – W H O K I L L

4. The Weeknd – House of Balloons/Thursday

5. Telekinesis – 12 Desperate Straight Lines

6. Katy B – On a Mission

7. Drake – Take Care

8. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Belong

9. Dum Dum Girls – Only in Dreams

10. Yuck – Yuck

11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – It’s a Corporate World

12. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost

13. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

14. Fountains of Wayne – Sky Full of Holes

15. The Smith Westerns – Dye It Blonde

16. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints

17. Washed Out – Within and Without

18. Friendly Fires – Pala

19. Childish Gambino – Camp

20. The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar

21.  Cut Copy – Zonoscope

22. WU LYF – Go Tell Fire to the Mountain

23. Metronomy – The English Riviera

24. Frank Ocean – Nostalgia, Ultra

25. Beirut – The Rip Tide

26. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake

27.  Selena Gomez and the Scene – When the Sun Goes Down

28.  Real Estate – Days

29.  The War on Drugs – Slave Ambient

30.  Destroyer – Kaputt

One Response to “Top Songs and Albums of 2011”

  1. E Newvz February 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm #

    Thanks for the list – I’d like to see this more often.

    A spotify playlist would be preferable, fyi.

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