Matt Cardle's Run for you life is high on my list

 

It's rather excellent pop-song

I'll change this at some point

 

 

 

1. The National - Exile Vilify

2. Iron & Wine - Rabbit Will Run

3. Gillian Welch - The Way It Goes

4. Arcade Fire – Culture War

5. Radiohead – The Butcher

6. Elbow – The Birds

7. The Decemberists – Down by the Water

8. The Low Anthem – Smart Flesh

9. Bon Iver – Perth

10. Fleet Foxes – Bedouin Dress

11. Soley – Kill the Clown

12. Team Me – Weathervanes and Chemicals

13. Radiohead – Lotus Flower

14. My Morning Jacket – Holding on to Black Metal

15. Bill Callahan - Drover

16. Kaizers Orchestra - Hjerteknuser

17. The Low Anthem – Boeing 737

18. The Mountain Goats – Age of Kings

19. Iron & Wine – Your Fake Name is Good Enough For Me

20. The Joy Formidable – A Heavy Abacus

21. Bon Iver – Calgary

22. Emily Barker and the Red Clay Halo – Witch of Pittenweem

23. Emmy the Great – Paper Forest (In the afterglow of Rapture)

24. Josh T. Pearson – Honeymoon’s Great, Wish You Were Her

25. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – A journalist fall in love with death row inmate #16

26. Fleet Foxes – Lorelai

27. Eleanor Friedberger – Inn of the Seventh Ray

28. Parts and Labour – A Thousand Roads

29. Those Poor Bastards – Hauntings

30. Phaedra – The First to Die

Okay, here's my list for now.

 

 

1. Bon Iver - Holocene
   
2. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
   
3. Wye Oak - Civilian
   
4. Fleet Foxes - The Plains / Bitter Dancer
   
5. The National - Exile Vilify
   
6. Laura Marling - Sophia
   
7. Feist - The Bad in Each Other
   
8. Active Child - Johnny Belinda
   
9. Beirut - Port of Call
   
10. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Ffunny Ffriends
    
11. Wild Beasts - Loop the Loop
    
12. The Dodos - Companions
    
13. Florence + The Machine - Strangeness and Charm
    
14. Washed Out - Far Away
    
15. Other Lives - As I Lay My Head Down
    
16. Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans
    
17. Youth Lagoon - Montana
    
18. Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
    
19. Grimes - Vanessa
    
20. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
    
21. Bjork - Crystalline
    
22. My Brightest Diamond - Be Brave
    
23. Apparat - Goodbye
    
24. Modeselektor - Shipwreck
    
25. Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day
    
26. Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
    
27. tUnE-yArDs - Gangsta
    
28. Twin Sister - Daniel
    
29. The Strokes - Machu Picchu
    
30. Mesita - Somewhere Else
    

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My final list. FYI: I decided to limit my selections to 1 song per artist (not including collaborations) to increase awareness of some really great songs.

 

Best Songs of 2011:

1) Radiohead - Bloom

2) Massive Attack vs. Burial - Paradise Circus

3) Björk - Cosmogony

4) xxxy - Ordinary Things

5) Lana Del Rey - Video Games

 

6) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

7) Balam Acab - Oh, Why

8) Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar

9) M83 - Midnight City

10) Mazzy Star - Common Burn

 

11) Bon Iver - Holocene

12) James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream

13) Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day :ninja:

14) The Field - Then It's White

15) Cut Copy - Need You Now

 

16) Burial - Stolen Dog

17) Machinedrum - Come1

18) PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder

19) AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight

20) Jacques Greene - Another Girl

 

21) Jamie Woon - Night Air

22) Air France - It Feels Good to Be Around You

23) Kendrick Lamar - HiiiPower

24) St. Vincent - Surgeon

25) Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror

 

26) Blawan - Getting Me Down

27) The Weeknd - Wicked Games

28) Wilco - One Sunday Morning

29) Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (ft. Ester Dean)

30) Girls - Vomit

 

31) Azealia Banks - 212 (ft. Lazy Jay)

32) Daphni - Ye Ye

33) The Dream - Fuck My Brains Out

34) Modeselektor - Shipwreck (ft. Thom Yorke)

35) Frank Ocean - Novacane

 

36) Jamie xx - Far Nearer

37) Katy B - Broken Record

38) Rustie - Ultra Thizz

39) Drake - Marvins Room

40) Four Tet - Locked

 

41) Deadboy - Wish U Were Here

42) Jonny Greenwood - また会いに来るからね

43) Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie xx - I'll Take Care Of U

44) Actress - Harrier ATTK

45) Grimes - Vanessa

 

46) Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood & DOOM - Retarded Fren

47) Grouper - Vapor Trails

48) Caribou - Little By Little Rmx

49) Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa

50) Bill Callahan - Riding for the Feeling

 

50 songs that ultimately did not make the list (in alphabetical order):

 

 

 

Adele - Someone Like You :ninja:

Andy Stott - Posers

Anstam - I Shouldn't Even Be Here

Battles – Ice Cream (ft. Matias Aguayo)

Beyoncé - 1+1 :ninja:

 

BNJMN - Open the Floodgates

Boris - Spoon

Britney Spears - Till The World Ends :ninja:

Charli XCX - Stay Away

Class Actress - Keep You

 

Cults - Abducted

Destroyer - Kaputt

EMA - California

The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day (ft. Bethany Cosentino)

Hyetal - The Chase

 

I Break Horses - Winter Beats

Instra:mental - Thomp

Jay-Z/Kanye West - Otis

John Maus - Believer

Julianna Barwick - Prizewinning

 

Kahn - Like We Used To

Kode9 & the Spaceape - Otherman

Laura Marling - Sophia

Lone - Dolphin

Lucy - Ter

 

Morphosis - Wild in Captivity

Neon Indian - Polish Girl

Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See

Objekt - CLK Recovery

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

 

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty

Pearson Sound - Hawker

Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come

Phantogram - Don't Move

 

The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?

Real Estate - It's Real

Rihanna - We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris) :ninja:

SBTRKT - Pharaohs (ft. Roses Gabor)

Sepalcure - Pencil Pimp

 

Surgeon - Radiance

Thundercat - For Love I Come (George Duke cover)

Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop

Toro Y Moi - New Beat

tUnE-yArDs - Bizness

 

Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers

Washed Out - Amor Fati

Wild Beasts - Loop the Loop

Yuck - Get Away

Zomby - Natalia's Song

 

 

16) Burial - Stolen Dog

19) AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream

20) Jacques Greene - Another Girl

25) Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror

26) Blawan - Getting Me Down

27) The Weeknd - Wicked Games

36) Jamie xx - Far Nearer

48) Caribou - Little By Little Rmx

 

very good

1. Holocene - Bon Iver

2. Lippy Kids - Elbow

3. Charlie Brown - Coldplay

4. Sophia - Laura Marling

5. Still - Bombay Bicycle Club

6. Think You Can Wait - The National

7. The Peacock - Beirut

8. That's Where You're Wrong - Arctic Monkeys

9. Grown Ocean - Fleet Foxes

10. Perth - Bon Iver

11. Lotus Flower - Radiohead

12. A Candle's Fire - Beirut

13. The Look - Metronomy

14. Escape - Apparat

15. Up With The Birds - Coldplay

16. Exile Vilify - The National

17. I Can't Make You Love Me/Nick Of Time - Bon Iver

18. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club

19. Beth/Rest - Bon Iver

20. The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala - Arctic Monkeys

21. Call It What You Want - Foster The People

22. Call Me Back - The Strokes

23. Codex - Radiohead

24. All In White - The Vaccines

25. Hurting - Friendly Fires

...tbh at first I only had Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver in my top 10. :|

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
   
2. Bon Iver - Holocene
   
3. Bon Iver - Towers
   
4. Youth Lagoon - The Hunt
   
5. The National - Exile Vilify
   
6. Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
   
7. Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
   
8. Beirut - A Candle's Fire
   
9. The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight
   
10. Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror
    
11. Bon Iver - Perth
    
12. Bright Eyes - Jejune Stars
    
13. The Vaccines - Wetsuit
    
14. Foster the People - Waste
    
15. Youth Lagoon - Afternoon
    
16. Young the Giant - Cough Syrup
    
17. Bon Iver - Calgary
    
18. Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
    
19. Other Lives - As I Lay My Head Down
    
20. Dry the River - No Rest
    
21. Youth Lagoon - Montana
    
22. St. Vincent - Cruel
    
23. Wye Oak - Civilian
    
24. Alex Turner - Glass in the Park
    
25. M83 - Midnight City
    
26. Beirut - Goshen
    
27. Bombay Bicycle Club - How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep
    
28. Foster the People - Call It What You Want
    
29. Noah and the Whale - Just Me Before We Met
    
30. Butcher the Bar - Cradle Song
    
31. Ben Howard - Old Pine
    
32. Givers - Ceiling of Plankton
    
33. Fleet Foxes - Sim Sala Bim
    
34. Beirut - The Rip Tide
    
35. The War on Drugs - Brothers
    

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
   
2. Bon Iver - Holocene
   
3. Bon Iver - Towers
   
4. Fleet Foxes - Blue Spotted Tail
   
5. The National - Exile Vilify
   
6. Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle
   
7. Beirut - A Candle's Fire
   
8. The Decemberists – This Is Why We Fight
   
9. Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror
   
10. Bon Iver - Michicant
    
11. Bright Eyes - Jejune Stars
    
12. Foster the People - Waste
    
13. Young the Giant - Cough Syrup
    
14. Bon Iver - Calgary
    
15. Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
    
16. Other Lives - As I Lay My Head Down
    
17. Youth Lagoon - Montana
    
18. St. Vincent - Cruel
    
19. Wye Oak - Civilian
    
20. Alex Turner - Glass in the Park
    
21. Beirut - Goshen
    
22. Noah and the Whale - Just Me Before We Met
    
23. Butcher the Bar - Cradle Song
    
24. Givers - Ceiling of Plankton
    
25. Beirut - The Rip Tide
    
26. Foster the People - Call It What You Want
    
27. Blind Pilot - Half Moon
    

 

:bigcry: Dry the River didn't even make it to the list? :angry:

 

:disappointed:

1. Another Girl - Jacques Greene

2. Ego - Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke

3. Marvins Room - Drake

4. Stolen Dog - Burial

5. Anticipate (Netsky Remix) - Skream

6. The Zone - The Weeknd

7. Rendezvous - dBridge

8. Ultra Thizz - Rustie

9. Yes - SebastiAn

10. I'm On One (feat Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne) - DJ Khaled

11. Aquatic Family Affair - 2562

12. The Morning - The Weeknd

13. Bloom - Radiohead

14.Locked - Four Tet

15. Perth - Bon Iver

 

finalll

:bigcry: Dry the River didn't even make it to the list? :angry:

 

:disappointed:

 

 

I have no idea which of the songs are the 2011 ones :shame:

I have no idea which of the songs are the 2011 ones :shame:

 

The singles they've released this year: New Ceremony / No Rest / Weights & Measures

Added. :wacko:

My final list. FYI: I decided to limit my selections to 1 song per artist (not including collaborations) to increase awareness of some really great songs.

 

Best Songs of 2011:

1) Radiohead - Bloom

2) Massive Attack vs. Burial - Paradise Circus

3) Björk - Cosmogony

4) xxxy - Ordinary Things

5) Lana Del Rey - Video Games

 

6) Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

7) Balam Acab - Oh, Why

8) Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar

9) M83 - Midnight City

10) Mazzy Star - Common Burn

 

11) Bon Iver - Holocene

12) James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream

13) Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day :ninja:

14) The Field - Then It's White

15) Cut Copy - Need You Now

 

16) Burial - Stolen Dog

17) Machinedrum - Come1

18) PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder

19) AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight

20) Jacques Greene - Another Girl

 

21) Jamie Woon - Night Air

22) Air France - It Feels Good to Be Around You

23) Kendrick Lamar - HiiiPower

24) St. Vincent - Surgeon

25) Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror

 

26) Blawan - Getting Me Down

27) The Weeknd - Wicked Games

28) Wilco - One Sunday Morning

29) Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (ft. Ester Dean)

30) Girls - Vomit

 

31) Azealia Banks - 212 (ft. Lazy Jay)

32) Daphni - Ye Ye

33) The Dream - Fuck My Brains Out

34) Modeselektor - Shipwreck (ft. Thom Yorke)

35) Frank Ocean - Novacane

 

36) Jamie xx - Far Nearer

37) Katy B - Broken Record

38) Rustie - Ultra Thizz

39) Drake - Marvins Room

40) Four Tet - Locked

 

41) Deadboy - Wish U Were Here

42) Jonny Greenwood - また会いに来るからね

43) Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie xx - I'll Take Care Of U

44) Actress - Harrier ATTK

45) Grimes - Vanessa

 

46) Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood & DOOM - Retarded Fren

47) Grouper - Vapor Trails

48) Caribou - Little By Little Rmx

49) Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa

50) Bill Callahan - Riding for the Feeling

 

50 songs that ultimately did not make the list (in alphabetical order):

 

 

 

Adele - Someone Like You :ninja:

Andy Stott - Posers

Anstam - I Shouldn't Even Be Here

Battles – Ice Cream (ft. Matias Aguayo)

Beyoncé - 1+1 :ninja:

 

BNJMN - Open the Floodgates

Boris - Spoon

Britney Spears - Till The World Ends :ninja:

Charli XCX - Stay Away

Class Actress - Keep You

 

Cults - Abducted

Destroyer - Kaputt

EMA - California

The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day (ft. Bethany Cosentino)

Hyetal - The Chase

 

I Break Horses - Winter Beats

Instra:mental - Thomp

Jay-Z/Kanye West - Otis

John Maus - Believer

Julianna Barwick - Prizewinning

 

Kahn - Like We Used To

Kode9 & the Spaceape - Otherman

Laura Marling - Sophia

Lone - Dolphin

Lucy - Ter

 

Morphosis - Wild in Captivity

Neon Indian - Polish Girl

Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise If You Can See

Objekt - CLK Recovery

Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica

 

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong

Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty

Pearson Sound - Hawker

Peverelist - Dance Til The Police Come

Phantogram - Don't Move

 

The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love?

Real Estate - It's Real

Rihanna - We Found Love (ft. Calvin Harris) :ninja:

SBTRKT - Pharaohs (ft. Roses Gabor)

Sepalcure - Pencil Pimp

 

Surgeon - Radiance

Thundercat - For Love I Come (George Duke cover)

Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop

Toro Y Moi - New Beat

tUnE-yArDs - Bizness

 

Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers

Washed Out - Amor Fati

Wild Beasts - Loop the Loop

Yuck - Get Away

Zomby - Natalia's Song

 

 

Adele - Someone Like You :ninja:

:nod:

2) Massive Attack vs. Burial - Paradise Circus

4) xxxy - Ordinary Things

16) Burial - Stolen Dog

17) Machinedrum - Come1

19) AraabMUZIK - Streetz Tonight

20) Jacques Greene - Another Girl

21) Jamie Woon - Night Air

23) Kendrick Lamar - HiiiPower

25) Four Tet/Burial/Thom Yorke - Mirror

26) Blawan - Getting Me Down

27) The Weeknd - Wicked Games

28) Wilco - One Sunday Morning

29) Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (ft. Ester Dean)

31) Azealia Banks - 212 (ft. Lazy Jay)

33) The Dream - Fuck My Brains Out

35) Frank Ocean - Novacane

36) Jamie xx - Far Nearer

37) Katy B - Broken Record

38) Rustie - Ultra Thizz

39) Drake - Marvins Room

40) Four Tet - Locked

41) Deadboy - Wish U Were Here

44) Actress - Harrier ATTK

45) Grimes - Vanessa

46) Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood & DOOM - Retarded Fren

47) Grouper - Vapor Trails

48) Caribou - Little By Little Rmx

 

Beyoncé - 1+1 :ninja:

Hyetal - The Chase

Kode9 & the Spaceape - Otherman

Lone - Dolphin

Objekt - CLK Recovery

Pearson Sound - Hawker

SBTRKT - Pharaohs (ft. Roses Gabor)

Zomby - Natalia's Song

best music taste on this whole god damn board

best music taste on this whole god damn board

 

I'm glad you approve of my picks :thumbsup:

 

BTW, I made some minor edits so there might be a few more tracks you like.

I guess this is mine, but I might change it later. I decided to only allow for one song per artist.

 

 

1. towers - bon iver

2. life is simple in the moonlight - the strokes

3. putting the dog to sleep - the antlers

4. wetsuit - the vaccines

5. us against the world - coldplay

6. seventeen - youth lagoon

7. surgeon - st. vincent

8. the shrine / an argument - fleet foxes

9. baby I got the death rattle - los campesinos!

10. suicide policeman- yuck

11. I follow rivers - lykke li

12. shuffle - bombay bicycle club

13. falling asleep - painted palms

14. bonfire - childish gambino

15. waste -foster the people

16. wonder why - vetiver

17. *****s in paris - jay z & kanye west

18. still life - the horrors

19. sway - mates of state

20. lemonade - braids

The first 5 are definete...then after that it is all wrong, i will be changing it, but I think those are roughly the songs I want in my list...

 

1. Bon Iver- Perth

2. Alex Turner- Piledriver Waltz

3. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds- Dream On

4. Arctic Monkeys- Black Treacle

5. Frank Turner- I Am Disappeared

6. Cage The Elephant- Shake Me Down

7. Kasabian- Le Fee Verte

8. Bon Iver- Holocene

9. Coldplay- Up With The Birds

10. Coldplay- Hurts Like Heaven

11. The Strokes- Machu Picchu

12. Arctic Monkeys- All My Own Stunts

13. The Vaccines- Norgaard

14. Alex Turner- Stuck On The Puzzle

15. White Lies- Bigger Than Us

16. Alex Turner- Hiding Tonight

17. Radiohead- Lotus Flower

18. Cage The Elephant- Indy Kidz

19. Foster The People- Call It What You Want

20. Kasabian- Re-Wired

21. Elbow- Lippy Kids

22. Young the Giant - Cough Syrup

23. Glasvegas- The World Is Yours

24. Ed Sheeran- You Need Me, I Don't Need You

25. The Vaccines- All In White

26. Miles Kane- Come Closer

27. Charlie Simpson- Cemetary

28. Jon Fratelli – Santo Domingo

29. The King Blues – 5 Bottles of Shampoo

30. The Drums – Money

31. The King Blues- Everything Happens For A Reason

32. Ed Sheeran- Small Bump

33. The Strokes- Under Cover Of Darkness

34. Snow Patrol- Fallen Empires

35. Snow Patrol- Life-ning

36. Bombay Bicycle Club- Shuffle

37. Arctic Monkeys – Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair

38. Coldplay- Moving To Mars

39. Codplay- Charlie Brown

40. Coldplay- Major Minus

41. Coldplay- Paradise

42. Arctic Monkeys- Suck It And See

43. The Vaccines – Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra)

44. Noah And The Whale- Life Is Life

45. Bon Iver – Michicant

46. Jamie Woon- Night Air

47. James Blake- Limit To Your Love

48. The Horrors- Still Life

49. Jamie Hartman- Happy New Year

50. Kasabian- Let's Roll Like We Used To

Coldplay - Charlie Brown

Coldplay - Paradise

Coldplay - Moving To Mars

R.E.M. - Oh My Heart

R.E.M. - Everyday Is Yours To Win

R.E.M. - Blue

R.E.M. - We All Go Back To Where We Belong

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Foster The People - Chin Music For The Unsuspecting Hero

Mumford And Sons - Roll Away Your Stone

Mumford And Sons - The Cave

Mumford And Sons - Dust Bowl Dance

Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

Florence + The Machine - What The Water Gave Me

Mutemath - Blood Pressure

Mutemath - Odd Soul

Mutemath - All Or Nothing

Elbow - Lippy Kids

Kaiser Chiefs - Little Shocks

Kaiser Chiefs - Coming Up For Air

Radiohead - The Daily Maii

lThe Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness

edited my list

I just had to include *****s in paris

I have no idea what I was thinking when I didn't include it

I feel like I really need to edit my list, keep putting it off though.

 

And just to remind everyone: if you want your list to count, please rank the songs numerically.

I was a bit crazy last year over Jonas Bjerre's solo material :bigcry:

 

1. Jonas Bjerre – The Story Of a Would-Be traffic Light

2. White Lies – Turn The Bells

3. Jonas Bjerre – Kids Don’t Fight

4. Thirteen Senses – Answer

5. Jonas Bjerre – Running (Oh No Ono Remix)

6. Lana Del Rey – Videogames

7. De Eneste to – Den Lige Vej (Carsten Heller Remix)

8. M83 – Midnight City

9. The Antlers – Hounds

10. Jeniferever – Silesia

11. Coldplay – Charlie Brown

12. The Antlers – No Widows

13. Apparatjik – Your Voice Needs Subtitles

14. Gotey – Somebody That I Used To Know

15. Florence and The Machine – Remain Nameless

16. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die

17. Radiohead – Codex

18. The Pierces – You’ll Be Mine

19. Tori Amos – Shattering Sea

20. M83 – Splendor

21. Coldplay – Moving To Mars

22. Jonas Bjerre – Until Tomorrow Finds You

23. Coldplay – Don’t Let It Break Your Heart

24. Jonas Bjerre – In a Small Town

25. Phaedra – Death Will Come

 

I'm not happy with the list, but for now it should do. I think I forgot some important songs and feel like randomly ranking them :|

I can't do this :blank: