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My favourite albums of the decade so far (without cover art this time):

8. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy (2011)
Best track: Cruel

7. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (2010)
Best track: Kingfisher

6. Destroyer - Kaputt (2011)
Best track: Kaputt

5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs (2010)
Best tracks: The Suburbs / Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)

4. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (2010)
Best track: Tightrope

3. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz (2010)
Best track: Impossible Soul

2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011)
Best track: Towers

…and the winner:
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
Best track: POWER

Yeah, 2010 wins over 2011.

In no particular order, I list my favorite albums:

Untrue by Burial
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Silent Shout by The Knife
xx by The xx
Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
Fabulous Muscles by Xiu Xiu
Ys by Joanna Newsom
Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices
Since I Left You by The Avalanches
The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse
Kid A by Radiohead
Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Teen Dream by Beach House
Is This It by The Strokes
Nouns by No Age
Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
Hunky Dory by David Bowie
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
Led Zeppelin II by Led Zeppelin
Blood On the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes
Person Pitch by Panda Bear
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
Kaputt by Destroyer
Funeral by Arcade Fire

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Favorite Albums of 2011

1. The Dead Milkmen - The King In Yellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HiABy938sU

2. Mother Mother - EUREKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTLe7jWKK50

3. The Grates - Secret Rituals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZgRkNTlfU

4. Eisley - The Valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXbRueS_Tw

5. Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gzKwOcCOYA

6. I’m From Barcelona - Forever Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il3zSiUoFAI

7. The Belle Brigade - The Belle Brigade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-HLG7Dxec

8. Mates of State - Mountaintops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3hdlvJzEQ0

9. Lake - Giving and Receiving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO4ZA7ezlEg

10. Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MnpD5_4GI

11. Black Francis - The Golem
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TOP 100
SINGLES
2011
My 100 favourite officially released singles of 2011

001 Austra Beat And The Pulse
002 Adele Someone Like You
003 Light Asylum Dark Allies
004 Planningtorock The Breaks
005 Crystal Stilts Shake The Shackles
006 Hurts Sunday
007 Kanye West All Of The Lights
008 Austra Lose It
009 Robyn Call Your Girlfriend
010 Lady Gaga Marry The Night

011 Creep feat. Romy Madley Croft Days
012 Ladytron Mirage
013 Patrick Wolf The City
014 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know
015 P.J. Harvey The Glorious Land
016 White Lies Strangers
017 Patrick Wolf House
018 The Vaccines All In White
019 S.C.U.M. Faith Unfolds
020 When Saints Go Machines Church And Law

021 Yuksek On A Train
022 Beth Ditto I Wrote The Book
023 Lykke Li I Follow Rivers
024 Lola Kite Everything's Better
025 The Raveonettes Recharge And Revolt
026 renkas Christabella
027 Ladytron White Elephant
028 Coldplay Paradise
029 Sef De Leven
030 The Kills Future Starts Slow

031 Battlekat All The Useless Things
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Best albums not from 2011 that I discovered/warmed up to in 2011:
Papa M - Live From a Shark Cage / Whatever, Mortal
Loren MazzaCane Connors - Airs
Early Day Miners - Let Us Garlands Bring
Julian Lynch - Mare
Yellow Swans - At All Ends / Psychic Secession
William Tyler - Behold the Spirit
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Nancy & Lee
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - The Breadwinner / Air Supply
Loren Connors & Jim O'Rourke - Are You Going to Stop...In Bern?
Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
Austere - Curio
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
The The - Soul Mining
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Arthur Russell - World of Echo
Doveman - With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
Martin Siewert & Martin Brandlmayr - Too Beautiful to Burn


Top 50 Artists Overall as of Jan. 1, 2012:
1The Microphones 1,454
2Radiohead 1,381
3Animal Collective 1,374
4Thanksgiving 1,356
5Neil Young 1,131
6Mount Eerie 1,011
…

How much of a loser does it make me that I've actually been looking forward to being able to do this for a couple weeks now? Clearly, I have no life.

If, understandably, you choose to skip over this nonsense (sorry if you followed this link from some artist or track page thinking it would be something substantial), I'm currently partway through counting down my top twenty albums of the year here with download links and overly-wordy reviews and junk.

And now, as per usual, my fifty most played artists. With play counts and position changes from last year. Bolded were not within last year's top fifty. Underlined are artists I hadn't properly listened to before this year.

1. Deas Vail (731 plays)
2. Grizzly Bear (622 plays)
3. Wye Oak (592 plays)
4. Laura Marling (569 plays) DOWN 2
5. Bombay Bicycle Club (502 plays)
6. Eisley (434 plays)
7. The Antlers (415 plays) UP 11
8. Sarah Slean (401 plays) UP 42
9. Bright Eyes (384 plays) UP 31
10. Fleet Foxes (379 plays)
11. The Rosebuds (375 plays)
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10.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
80%
Sheperd's Bush
London, United Kingdom
15.2.2011

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/36533705/Polite+Sleeper+++Cafe+Kopfeck.jpg

9.
Polite Sleeper
80%
Bar 69
Jindrichuv Hradec, Czech republic
12.2.2011

http://www.viceland.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/foot-village.jpg

8.
Foot Village
80%
Creepy Teepee festival
Kutna Hora, Czech republic
30.7.2011

http://www.visiblevoice.net/storage/dirty-beaches-big-enough-630x353.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1301871162456

7.
Dirty Beaches
80%
Creepy Teepee festival
Kutna Hora, Czech republic
31.7.2011

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uk6NKPKF_7U/TVG7gV8gc0I/AAAAAAAADi4/CtWYRIbuSFc/s640/Image.jpg

6.
Melvins
85%
Lucerna Music Bar
Prague, Czech republic
13.10.2011

http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/wp-content/media/2010/08/hnic_live.jpg

5.
Her Name is Calla
85%
007
Prague, Czech republic
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