For all of you End of the Year List enthusiasts, below, find my favorite music of the last year.
Top Ten Albums:
1. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
2. Against Me! – White Crosses
3. Eminem – Recovery
4. Fitz & the Tantrums – Pickin’ Up The Pieces
5. Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
6. Cee-Lo – The Ladykiller
7. Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
8. Dessa – A Badly Broken Code
9. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
10. The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits
Honorable Mentions: Free Energy – Free Energy, Flobots – Survival Story, Bad Religion –The Dissent Of Man
Top Twenty-Five Songs:
1. Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist
2. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
3. Hockey – Song Away
4. Dan Mangan – Road Regrets
5. Eminem – Not Afraid
6. Superchunk – Digging For Something
7. The Tallest Man on Earth – Kids on the Run
8. Cee-Lo – Fuck You
9. Hole – Pacific Coast Highway
10. Bad Religion – Wrong Way Kids
11. Fitz & the Tantrums – Pickin’ Up The Pieces
12. Flobots – White Flag Warrior (Feat. Tim McIlrath)
13. Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill
14. Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
15. Keane – Stop For A Minute (feat. K’naan)
16. B.O.B. – Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams)
17. Spoon – Got Nuffin’
18. A Day to Remember – Have Faith In Me
19. Bedouin Soundclash – Elongo
20. Rival Schools – Shot After Shot
21. The Posies – The Glitter Prize
22. Drive-By Truckers – Birthday Boy
23. KaiserCartel – Minefield
24. Rooney – You’re What I’m Looking For
25. Iron & Wine – Walking Far From Home
Honorable Mentions: The Hold Steady – Soft In The Center, Lifehouse – Smoke & Mirrors, Free Energy – Bang Pop, Cold War Kids – Audience, Gruff Rhys – Shark Ridden Waters
Guilty Pleasure Song of the Year:
Nelly – Just A Dream
