12:05 pm • 31 December 2011 • 8 notes •
You’ve seen the lists from professional music reviewers. Now here’s a list I made in my car.
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Key:
#. Artist: Album (Favorite Song)
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1. Bright Eyes: The People’s Key (Jejune Stars)
2. St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (Cruel)
3. Braids: Native Speaker (Glass Deers)
4. The Decemberists: The King is Dead (Dear Avery)
5. Radiohead: The King of Limbs (Little By Little)
6. The Antlers: Burst Apart (I Don’t Want Love)
7. Bon Iver: Bon Iver (Calgary)
8. Oh Land: Oh Land (Break the Chain)
9. Asobi Seksu: Flourescence (Leave The Drummer Out There)
10. Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost (Vomit)
11. Cut Copy: Zonoscope (Sun God)
12. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical (Hysterical)
13. Moonface: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I Hoped (Fast Peter)
14. Handsome Furs: Sound Kapital (No Feelings)
15. White Lies: Ritual (Streetlights)
16. Lady GaGa: Born This Way (Judas)
17. Adele: 21 (Rolling in the Deep)
18. Iron & Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean (Your Fake Name is Good Enough For Me)
19. The Vaccines: What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? (Wetsuit)
20. Grails: Deep Politics (Future Primitive)
21. Cults: Cults (Go Outside)
22. Battles: Gloss Drop (Sundome)
23. Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues (The Shrine/An Argument)
24. The Drums: Portamento (Days)
25. Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde (Weekend)
26. Malajube: La Caverne (Le Blizzard)
27. Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto (Hurts Like Heaven)
28. Atlas Sound: Parallax (Te Amo)
29. Gang Gang Dance: Eye Contact (Glass Jar)
30. M83: Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Midnight City)
31. YACHT: Shangri-La (Shangri-La)
32. The Horrors: Skying (Still Life)
33. Tune-Yards: WHOKILL (Gangsta)
34. Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes (Love Out Of Lust)
35. Florence + The Machine: Ceremonials (Breaking Down)
36. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead: Tao Of The Dead (Ebb Away)
37. Destroyer: Kaputt (Poor in Love)
38. TV On The Radio: Nine Types of Light (New Cannonball Blues)
39. James Blake: James Blake (The Wilhelm Scream)
40. Little Dragon: Ritual Union (Nightlight)
41. Nick Diamonds: I Am An Attic (In Dust We Trust)
42. Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo (Smoke Ring for My Halo)
43. Phantogram: Nightlife EP (Don’t Move)
44. EMA: Past Life Martyred Saints (Red Star)
45. Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne (Made in America)
46. Wu Lyf: Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (Heavy Pop)
47. John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves (Cop Killer)
48. Tom Waits: Bad As Me (New Year’s Eve)
49. Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Rewrite)
50. Justice: Audio, Video, Disco (Civilization)
When do I laugh, you ask? The eighth time Mr. Ocean mentions the sweet baby Jesus. Can’t help it. Gets me every time.
