best of 2011: songs

I’ve finally completed my favorite “best of” list – the songs.  As much as I enjoy creating (and reading) best album lists, the truth is that I’ll probably never go back and listen to all 30 of my favorite albums from 2011 in succession.

However, I will go back and listen to my “best of” mix – aka my favorite tracks of 2011.  It’s a musical time capsule.  You can return to your past best of mixes and get a sense where you were musically, personally, emotionally.

Unlike my other “best of” lists, they’re not ranked in order.  Rather, they’re arranged in a way that I think works as a complete playlist.  If you want to hear it, you can check it out here on Spotify.

Tracklisting after the jump.

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best of 2011: songs

1. tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
2. The Kills – Future Starts Slow
3. Lykke Li – Youth Knows No Pain
4. Little Dragon – Little Man
5. Phantogram – Don’t Move
6. Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High
7. Cults – You Know What I Mean
8. The Antlers – I Don’t Want Love
9. Bon Iver – Holocene
10. Owen Pallett – Hard To Explain
11. Beirut – East Harlem
12. The Mountain Goats – Damn These Vampires
13. EMA – California
14. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
15. Times New Viking – Fuck Her Tears
16. Wild Flag – Romance
17. Roky Moon & BOLT – Hot Saturday Night
18. TV Girl – Lizzy Come Back to Life
19. Tennis – Cape Dory
20. Army Navy – Ode To Janice Melt
21. Young Girls – Party Tape
22. The Strokes – Under Cover of Darkness
23. Dirty Gold – California Sunrise
24. Youth Lagoon – Seventeen
25. Alabama Shakes – Hold On
26. Summer Camp – Better Off Without You
27. Cut Copy – Take Me Over
28. Born Gold – Lawn Knives
29. Cold Cave – The Great Pan Is Dead
30. M83 – Midnight City

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Also, check out my favorite albums and EPs of 2011.