Even though I don’t post on this site regularly, I couldn’t help but make a massive year end list of the 80-ish songs I obsessed over in 2011. The tracks are not numbered in a countdown format or even alphabetized, it’s simply a big playlist touching (I hope) on a lot of different genres of music. Also, full disclosure: two of the more popular tracks on this list I discovered and subsequently appreciated via covers by YouTube fixtures Karmin. So there. Credibility = ruined.
Chairlift – “Met Before”
Cold Cave – “The Great Pan is Dead”
The Black Angels – “Haunting at 1300 McKinley”
The Smith Westerns – “All Die Young”
Dirty Beaches – “True Blue”
Dirty Beaches – “Lord Knows Best”
Yuck – “The Wall”
Fergus and Geronimo – “Girls With English Accents”
Purity Ring – “Ungirthed”
Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
The Joy Formidable – “I Don’t Want To See You Like This”
Clams Casino – “Natural”
Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette – “Hello”
Cut Copy – “Need You Now”
The Dum Dum Girls – “Wrong Feels Right”
The Strokes – “Under The Cover of Darkness”
Frank Ocean – “We All Try”
Frank Ocean – “Songs for Women”
Lil’ Wayne ft. Cory Gunz – “6 Foot 7 Foot”
Pains of Being Pure at Heart – “Belong”
Mexicans With Guns ft. Freddie Gibbs and Bun B – “Highway to Hell”
Explosions in the Sky – “Last Known Surroundings”
The Weeknd – “House of Balloons/Glass Table Girls”
The Weeknd – “The Morning”
tUnE-yArDs – “Gangsta”
Panda Bear – “You Can Count on Me”
Jamie Woon – “Lady Luck”
Battles ft. Matias Aguayo – “Ice Cream”
XV – “That’s Just Me”
Shabazz Palaces – “Swerve…The reaping of all that is worthwhile (noir not withstanding)”
Tyler The Creator ft Frank Ocean – “She”
Ty Segall – “You Make The Sun Fry”
Fucked Up – “Queen of Hearts”
Thundercat – “For Love I Come”
Cults – “Abducted”
Handsome Furs – “Repatriated”
Cam’ron ft. Vado – “Girls Cry”
Architecture in Helsinki – “That Beep”
Laws and Paul McCartney – “Knocking at the Door”
How to Dress Well – “Suicide Dream 1 (Orchestral Version)”
WU LYF – “Heavy Pop”
Lana Del Rey – “Video Games”
Lana Del Rey – “Blue Jeans”
I Break Horses – “Winter Beats”
Kanye West and Jay-Z ft. Frank Ocean – “No Church in the Wild”
Kanye West and Jay-Z – “Otis”
Balam Acab – “Oh Why?”
Bon Iver – “Holocene”
Joker – “The Vision (Let Me Breathe)”
Small Black ft. Heems – “Two Rivers”
Azealia Banks – “212″
Com Truise – “Brokendate”
Pusha T ft. Tyler the Creator – “Trouble on My Mind”
ASAP Rocky – “Palace”
ASAP Rocky – “Peso”
Porcelain Raft – “Drifting In and Out”
Twerps – “Coast to Coast”
Drake – “Over My Dead Body”
Araab Muzik – “Streetz Tonight”
Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris – “We Found Love”
Big Troubles – “Misery”
St. Vincent – “Cruel”
M83 – “Midnight City”
Beirut – “East Harlem”
Girls – “Honey Bunny”
Antlers – “I Don’t Want Love”
Beyonce – “Countdown”
College ft. Electric Youth – “A Real Hero”
Das Racist – “Michael Jackson”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Definite Darkness”
Kendrick Lamar – “A.D.H.D.”
Surfer Blood – “Miranda”
Phantogram – “Don’t Move”
Holy Other – “Know Where”
Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes, Lil’ Wayne – “Look at Me Now”
