Saturday October 26 – Harbor Haunt – Philadelphia, PA Top Tunes Of 2011
People steady complain that no good music comes out anymore and I really have to vehemently disagree with them – There was so much amazing music that came out this year that it was almost impossible to stay on top of all of it! I did my best, with my somewhat-monthly Top Ten Mix series, but even with that you can see that it didn’t really hit on everything. So I compiled a list of some of my most favorite songs of 2011. These are the tunes that really moved me, and who know… Knowing how things are with me, I may just add another dozen or so songs to this list by January 1st. Either way, check these tunes out, jam out them, and most importantly, go buy the music and / or support the artists!
This entire post was inspired partly by watching everyone’s “best of” lists all up and down Twitter, and me wanting to hop on the bandwagon. But it truly was inspired by my friends at the Brazil-based website AVolta.com. They asked me to do a write up similar to this and so I banged out for my homies. You can check the whole entry right here.
Metronomy “The Look“
Poolside “Harvest Moon”
The Hackney Colliery Band “Africa”
Oliver $ “Doin’ Ya Thang (Original Mix)”
James Brown “There Was A Time (Whiskey Baron Edit)”
Lykke Li “I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix)”
Headman “Voices (Hannulelauri Dub)”
Daft Punk “Derezzed”
Big Sean “Dance (A$$) (Remix feat. Nicki Minaj)”
Graveyard “Ungrateful Are The Dead”
Anna Calvi “No More Words”
Riton “Dark Place feat. Shani Cuppcake”
Storm Queen “It Goes On”
Cassius Slay “Bouncer”
Frank Ocean “Swim Good”
Rihanna “We Found Love feat. Calvin Harris”
Hang Glider “Glide Time”
Swizz Beatz “Everyday (Coolin’) feat. Eve”
TV On The Radio “Will Do” (XXXChange Remix)”
Jeremy Glenn “New Life (Perseus “Summer Of 83” Remix)”
Grandtheft “Let Me Out feat. Alixe Turner”
Sheen Bros “It’s So Hot feat. Greg Nice” (The Miracles Club Remix)”
James Blake “The Wilhelm Scream” (Paul Raffaele Bootleg)”
Kanye West & Jay-Z “Ni**az In Paris”
Cassius “The Sound Of Violence (Aeroplane Remix)”
Kon & The Gang “Sunlight (Dub)”
Spank Rock “Energy”
Michna “Real Hero”
Sir Nenis “Freaks (Wax Motif & Neoteric Remix)”
Bon Iver “Holocene” (and video of the year IMO #Iceland)
Willy Moon “I Wanna Be Your Man (Drop The Lime Mix)”
The Death Set “Can You See Straight”
Lupe Fiasco “Out Of My Head (Feat. Trey Songz)”
Terius Nash “1977 (Miss You Still)”
Todd Terje “Ragysh”
Florence + The Machine “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (Leo Zero Remix – Greg Wilson Edit)”
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. “Record Collection (Plastic Plates Remix)”
Little Dragon “Ritual Union”
Win Win “Releaserpm feat. Lizzi Bougatsos”
Lovebirds “Want You In My Soul feat. Stee Downes”