I was kind of out of it this year, so I spent a couple weeks going through several best of 2011 lists to bring myself up to speed: Pitchfork, Allmusic, Popstache, AV Club, Spin, Rolling Stone, Q magazine and several more. The Village Voice's Pazz and Jop was especially helpful (with 600 singles ranked!). And I've put together a list of my 100 favorite tracks.
I don't think 2011 was an especially strong year for albums. There wasn't even one record that I was thought was great from start to finish, but there were many great singles and album tracks. Here's my pick for the year's top 10 songs:
1. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
2. Weekend - Smith Westerns
3. Gay Pirates - Cosmo Jarvis
4. Lovers Lane - Hunx & His Punx
5. Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) featuring Andre 3000 - Lloyd
6. Sydney (I'll Come Running) - Brett Dennen
7. Smile - Smith Westerns
8. Lay of the Last Survivor - Okkervil River
9. Kmag Yoyo - Hayes Carll
10. Machu Picchu - The Strokes
And here's the rest of the top 100, in no particular order:
11. Someone Like You - Adele
12. Amor Fati - Washed Out
13. Get Some - Lykke Li
14. With Love - Elbow
15. Out Of Touch - Charlotte Gainsbourg
16. No Widows - The Antlers
17. Another Like You - Hayes Carll
18. Seafarer - Tennis
19. You Are A Tourist - Death Cab For Cutie
20. 9 - Planningtorock
21. Turning Tables - Adele
22. Second Chance - Peter Bjorn and John
23. You Know What I Mean - Cults
24. Two Against One (feat. Jack White) - Danger Mouse
25. Holdin on to Black Metal - My Morning Jacket
26. My Mistakes - Eleanor Friedberger
27. Girls Like You - The Naked And Famous
28. Mary, Don't You Weep - Bodies Of Water
29. Nightingale - Low
30. Stranger Me - Amy LaVere
31. Get To Know You - Mayer Hawthorne
32. And Counting... - LIGHTS
33. Midnight City - M83
34. Kept - Matt Nathanson
35. Not Anymore - Jessica 6
36. Cold Comfort Flowers - Fountains of Wayne
37. Give It Another Day - Edie Brickell
38. Robin Egg Blue - Cass McCombs
39. Call Your Girlfriend - Robyn
40. Suzanne and I - Anna Calvi
41. Lorelai - Fleet Foxes
42. Baggage Claim - Miranda Lambert
43. Gucci Gucci - Kreayshawn
44. Jejune Stars - Bright Eyes
45. Limit To Your Love - James Blake
46. Oh Cristina - Ladybug Transistor
47. Rumour Has It - Adele
48. Motivation featuring Lil Wayne - Kelly Rowland
49. It's Beyond Me - Vetiver
50. Black (feat. Norah Jones) - Danger Mouse
51. Born This Way - Lady Gaga
52. Crystal Meth Christian (feat. The Flaming Lips) - Teddybears
53. Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO
54. Taiwanese Boots - Fujiya & Miyagi
55. Right Before My Eyes - Cage The Elephant
56. Galactic Tides - The Dears
57. Love Out Of Lust - Lykke Li
58. Walk At Night - Cults
59. I'll Be Waiting - Adele
60. Good Man - Raphael Saadiq
61. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry
62. Tears On My Tuxedo - Robin Thicke
63. Try to Sleep - Low
64. I Am Your Man - Planningtorock
65. Buried Alive - Cass McCombs
66. Towers - Bon Iver
67. Memoir - Charlotte Gainsbourg
68. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
69. Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes
70. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
71. One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) - Wilco
72. The Shrine / An Argument - Fleet Foxes
73. Take Care Featuring Rihanna - Drake
74. D.i.s.c.o - Young Professionals
75. Miss K. - Deer Tick
76. Lonely Boy - The Black Keys
77. Gone, Gone, Gone - Nikki Lane
78. Until You Remember - Tedeschi Trucks Band
79. Rise To Me - The Decemberists
80. High Ideals - Elbow
81. Hard Out Here - Hayes Carll
82. Get It Wrong, Get It Right - Feist
83. Counting Down The Days - Miles Kane
84. Movin Away - My Morning Jacket
85. Dangerous - Robin Thicke
86. Coming Down - Dum Dum Girls
87. Bobby In Phoenix (feat. Bobby Womack) - Gorillaz
88. What The Water Gave Me - Florence & The Machine
89. Mean - Taylor Swift
90. Holocene - Bon Iver
91. Problem Queen (feat. Norah Jones) - Danger Mouse
92. Most Wanted - Cults
93. Go To Hell - Raphael Saadiq
94. Sour Times - Marsha Ambrosius
95. Black Moon - Wilco
96. Give Up the Ghost - Radiohead
97. Sun Of A Gun - Oh Land
98. Money - The Drums
99. No Church In The Wild featuring Frank Ocean - Jay-Z
100. Strange And Unproductive Thinking - David Lynch
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