While it’s impossible to acknowledge all of the great songs and albums that come out in a year, below are my personal favorites of 2011.
For those interested, I will be sending out my Top 25 songs. Just leave a comment with your email address.
Top Albums:
1. Cold War Kids – Mine is Yours
2. Bon Iver – Bon Iver, Bon Iver
3. The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
4. Dirty Gold – Roar
5. The Vaccines – What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?
6. Social Distortion – Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes
7. Samiam – Trips
8. The Streets – Computers and Blues
9. Danny Elfman – Real Steel (Original Motion Picture Score)
10. Foo Fighters – Wasted Light
Honorable Mentions: Blink 182 – Neighborhoods, Hotels & Highways – Lost River, Awolnation – Megalithic Symphony, Noah & the Whale – Last Night on Earth
Top Songs:
1. The Americans – Gospel Roads
2. Cold War Kids – Royal Blue
3. The Horrible Crowes – Behold the Hurricane
4. The Vaccines – Norgaard
5. Bon Iver – Holocene
6. Dirty Gold – California Sunrise
7. The Mountain Goats – Damn These Vampires
8. The Strokes – Under Cover of Darkness
9. Foo Fighters – Dear Rosemary (feat. Bob Mould)
10. Face to Face – All for Nothing
11. The Knux – Run (feat. Kid CuDi)
12. Charles Bradley – The World (Is Going Up in Flames)
13. Viva Brother – Darling Buds of May
14. Blink-182 – Up All Night
15. Social Distortion – Writings on the Wall
16. The Streets – Going Through Hell
17. Brett Dennen – Sydney (I’ll Come Running)
18. Against Me! – Russian Spies
19. Gavin DeGraw – Not Over You
20. The Damnwells – Werewolves
21. Florence + the Machine – Shake it Out
22. Noah & the Whale – L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.
23. Adele – Rolling in the Deep
24. Awolnation – Jump On My Shoulders
25. Hotels & Highways – Train Whistle
Honorable Mentions: Red Hot Chili Peppers – Brendan’s Death Song, Dark Mean – Happy Banjo, Bob Geldof – Dazzled by You, tUnE-yArDs – Gangsta, The Twilight Singers – Gunshots
Best Cover:
Alkaline Trio – Movin’ Right Along
Guilty Pleasure: Daughtry – Crawling Back to You
Next Big Things of 2012:
Lana Del Rey
Gary Clark Jr
Happy Holidays.
Bo
The Indy Review 