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
Thanks for the list – I’d like to see this more often.
A spotify playlist would be preferable, fyi.