Like every self-respecting blogger, time for my best of list of the year.
Bones - Male Bonding
I generally lack the dedication, attention or time to listen to a whole album now (my favourite album was a re-issue of an 1989 album from Pretty Wicked Head, the only band to ever sign to a major label from my home-town, the only albums I listened to a lot being the Weeknd and PJ Harvey's) so it would be disingenuous to make a list of my favourite albums. Instead, here’s 50 of my favourite songs of 2011, some cringe-worthy, like the Selena Gomez song that got trapped in my psyche by my wife overplaying it in the car and at home (at least, I can be thankful that her Justin Bieber fetish didn't break me down). Most of the other songs are cherry-picked from web-sites and albums. The only artist to appear twice is Lana Del Rey- I couldn’t separate her two entries and the backlash against her (she was a failed pop singer called Lizzy Grant who changed her name as well as her lips in order to succeed) failed to deter me from her charms. There's a home-town bias (three of the fifty are by New Zealand artists) and a notable, almost complete lack of heavy tracks (only a track from Liturgy who have been nailed hard by their scene as sell-outs) and a preponderance of female singers (like the aforementioned Lana Del Rey, St. Vincent, Lykke Li and PJ Harvey to name a few). Maybe I’m getting melancholic in my old age.
Here's my list (in alphabetical order by song-title)
A.D.H.D - Kendrick Lamar
Abducted - Cults
A Part of Me - The Adults
Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Bizness - TunE-yArDs
Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey
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| Lana Del Rey:only artist to have two entries. |
California - EMA
Cold Feet - Liam Finn
Countdown - Beyonce
Dirt - WU LYF
Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - Arctic Monkeys
Don’t Play No Game That I Can't Win - Beastie Boys (ft. Santigold)
Far Nearer - Jamie XX
FFunny Frends - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Freaks And Geeks - Childish Gambino
Generation - Liturgy
Get Away - Yuck
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| Liturgy: Band under attack. |
Gucci Gucci - Kreayshawn
Holocene - Bon Iver
I Don't Want Love - The Antlers
I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li
I Wanna Meet Dave Grohl - Wavves
I'm God - Clams Casino
I’m On One - DJ Khaled Ft Lil Wayne, Drake, Rick Ross
It's Real - Real Estate
Jesus Fever - Kurt Vile
John - Lil Wayne (feat. Rick Ross)
Love You Like a Love Song - Selena Gomez
Midnight City - M83
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| Selena Gomez: Horrific case of my taste being influenced by marital over-exposure. |
Monopoly - Danny Brown
My God - Pusha T
Need You Now - Cut Copy
No Church In The Wild - Jay-Z & Kanye West (feat. Frank Ocean)
Novacane - Frank Ocean
Out Getting Ribs - Zoo Kid
Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People
Pure Radio Cosplay - ....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
She Found A Way Out - Cant
Some Children (Ft Michael McDonald) - Holy Ghost!
Street Halo [Hyperdub] - Burial
Surgeon - St. Vincent
The Last Huzzah - Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire ft. Despot, Das Racist,
Danny Brown and EL-P
Danny Brown and EL-P
Video Games - Lana Del Ray
Vomit - Girls
Wicked Games - The Weeknd
Winter Beats - I Break Horses
The Words That Maketh Murder - PJ Harvey
Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator
