Since it is that time of year, I might as well put up a list. Let it be known I feel browbeaten into it. If you do not feel like reading my dumb list, I also made a Spotify playlist you can get here.

Favorite Albums of 2011 (in no particular order):
The Decemberists – The King is Dead
Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High/Only In Dreams
Cults – Cults
The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
The Mountain Goats – All Eternal’s Deck
Vivian Girls – Share The Joy
Awkward Terrible – I Feel Asleep
Jonathan Coulton – Artificial Heart
MC Frontalot – Solved
Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
Supercommuter – Products of Science

These three albums I loved, but only about half of the album for each:
St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
Beirut – The Rip Tide
Wild Flag – Wild Flag

My favorite individual songs of the year (again in no particular order) were:
St. Vincent – Surgeon
The Decemberists – Calamity Song
Vivian Girls – Take It As It Comes
Cults – Go Outside
Jonathan Coulton – Nemeses
Dum Dum Girls – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
The Joy Formidible – Cradle
Beirut – Sante Fe
Supercommuter – It is Splendid!

I also spent a large portion of the year listening to albums that did not come out this year, the main ones were:
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor (shocking, I know)
Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
The Like – Release Me

According to my Last.fm profile, the three artists I listened to the most this year were:
1. The Mountain Goats
2. Titus Andronicus
3. Robyn

I am gonna try to write a separate posts about live shows I saw this year as there were so many.

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