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My Favourite 50 Songs in 2011

1. Birdapres - Show No Flair (Catch an L)
2. Tune-Yards - Bizness (Whokill)
3. Jamie Lidell - Enough's Enough (Compass)
4. Freestyle Fellowship - Step 2 the Side (The Promise)
5. David Bazan - Wolves at the Door (Strange Negotiations)
6. Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon) + Cut Throat (Exmilitary)
7. Beirut - East Harlem (The Rip Tide)
8. Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It (Entertainment!)
9. Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts (David Comes to Life)
10. Pete Seeger - My Children are Seven in Number (American Industrial Ballads)

11. Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths (Civilian)
12. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me (Have One on Me)
13. Bright Eyes - One for You, One for Me (The People's Key)
14. Battles - Ice Cream (Gloss Drop)
15. Doomtree - No Way (No Kings)
16. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai (Helplessness Blues)
17. Invincible - ShapeShifters (ShapeShifters)
18. Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass (Sketch on Glass)
19. Chad VanGaalen - Peace on the Rise (Diaper Island)
20. Grayskul - Fable (Thee Adventures)

21. Com Truise - Ether Drift (Galactic Melt)
22. Sole - Donald Trump in a New Gilded Age (Nuclear Winter 2 #Deathpanel)
23. Bass Drum of Death - Get Found (GB City)
24. DJ Shadow - Back to Front (Circular Logic) (The Less You Know, The Better)
25. Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds (Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle)
26. Serengeti & Polyphonic - Don't Give Up (Don't Give Up)
27. Shabazz Palaces - Blastit... (Daytrotter Session)
28. FaltyDL - Dectonomal (Rapidly Harvested Asperagus)
29. Cake - Got to Move (Showroom of Compassion)
30. Movits! - Na Na Nah! (Out of My Head)

31. They Might Be Giants - When Will You Die? (Join Us)
32. Wilco - Born Alone (The Whole Love)
33. 13 & God - Beat on Us (Own Your Ghost)
34. The Mgababa Queens - Maphuthi (Next Stop: Soweto - Township Sounds from the Golden Age of Mbaqangwa)
35. Rob Duncan - Gunfight Epiphany (Theme from Terriers)
36. Panda Bear - Last Night at the Jetty (Tomboy)
37. Zach Hill - Face Tat (Face Tat)
38. Venetian Snares - You Discovered the Secret and Juiced it for All Its Majesty (Cubist Reggae)
39. Oddisee - Still Doing It (Rock Creek Park)
40. Balam Acab - Oh, Why (Wander Wonder)

41. James Blake - Limit to Your Love (James Blake)
42. Cults - Oh My God (Cults)
43. Beastie Boys - Nonstop Disco Powerpack (Hot Sauce Committee Part Two)
44. Iron and Wine - Tree by the River (Daytrotter Session)
45. The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness (Angles)
46. The Roots - Make My (Undun)
47. Sole & the Skyrider Band - We Will Not Be Moved (Hello Cruel World)
48. White Rabbits - Percussion Gun (It's Frightening)
49. Redinho - Edge Off (Edge Off)
50. Idaho - Structure (You Were a Dick)

Bonus 10:
51. Sufjan Stevens - I Want to Be Well (The Age of Adz)
52. Andy Stott - Execution (Passed Me By)
53. Pete Rock and CL Smooth - It's Like That (Mecca and the Soul Brother)
54. Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning (Wasting Light)
55. Shabazz Palaces - Youlogy (Black Up)
56. Thundercat - Is It Love? (The Golden Age of Apocalypse)
57. P.E.A.C.E. - Prizm (Megabite)
58. Africa Hitech - Do U Wanna Fight? (93 Million Miles)
59. Bibio - Light Seep (Mind Bokeh)
60. Rusko and Caspa - Too Far (Fabriclive 37)


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My Favorite 20 Albums in 2011

1. Sole - Nuclear Winter 2 #Deathpanel/Mansbestfriend 5
2. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers/Carbonated/Sketch on Glass/Maybes
3. Clem Snide - Clem Snide's Journey
4. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
5. Tune-Yards - Whokill
6. James Blake - James Blake/Klavierwerke
7. Pete Seeger - American Industrial Ballads
8. Arthur Russell - World of Echo
9. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
10. Next Stop: Soweto - Township Sounds from the Golden Age of Mbaqangwa
11. Grayskul - Thee Adventures
12. David Bazan - Strange Negotiations
13. Doomtree - No Kings
14. Xanopticon - Liminal Space
15. Wilco - The Whole Love
16. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
17. Wye Oak - Civilian
18. Battles - Gloss Drop
20. Zach Hill - Face Tat


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My Favourite Albums in/of 2010

(In no particular order)

1. All Good Funk Alliance - Social Comment
2. Spoon - Transference
3. Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
4. Vampire Weekend - Contra
5. Sole - Plastique/The Pyre
6. jamesphoney & jamesreindeer - Rough Tongue Surfaces
7. The Age of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
8. Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude/Sit Down, Dude
9. Harlem - Hippies
10. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma/Pattern + Grid World

Honorable Mentions: AV Club Undercover Series, Can You Jack? Chicago Acid and Experimental House 1985-1995, LM1 - Blue Mountain, Celluloid - Celluloid Years 12 Inches and More, Ceschi - The One Man Band Broke Up, MIA - MAYA, Balam Acab - See Birds


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RT @remst8: @decomposure That looks fantastic! So many words! #gimmegimme 2012/02/05 11:53 pm

@adam_frey Yeah, trying a different video service now 2012/02/05 10:44 pm

Here's what a finished lyrics book for my high-end album donors looks like (second try): [link] 2012/02/05 10:43 pm

Here's what a finished lyrics book for my high-end album donors looks like: [link] 2012/02/05 10:38 pm

Apple's iPhone Business Alone is Now Bigger Than All of Microsoft: [link] 2012/02/05 3:51 am

RT @catclawtheatre: @tweetsofold And Gray wasn't even the 1st. Bizarre as it seems, the Fax Machine actually goes back to 1846: [link] ... 2012/02/04 10:25 pm

RT @remst8: @decomposure I plan to keep mine in the glovebox of my "End Oil Dependency Edition" Hummer. 2012/02/03 2:06 pm

Yes, you read that right, a "Hope Edition" handgun. #itsformurderingirony 2012/02/03 11:56 am

Take the "fight against breast cancer" literally? Koman to the rescue with a Walther P22 "Hope Edition" Handgun: [link] 2012/02/03 11:54 am

Just think: right now, someone somewhere in the world is ending a relationship, and explaining it by quoting that Matchbox 20/Santana song. 2012/02/03 11:13 am

@jayrosen_nyu But journalists aren't supposed to have ideas, they're just supposed to reword existing press releases. 2012/02/03 10:56 am

My idea of fun: perfect-binding my first lyric book. [link] 2012/02/03 2:03 am

Wow - this site about fracking is impressive on a number of levels: [link] (via @gaslandmovie) 2012/02/03 12:29 am

Another reason to love and pay for @MajorityFM - scooped up Josh Fox (@gaslandmovie) post-arrest for today's show [link] 2012/02/03 12:24 am

i could not disagree more with this "culture's not changing!1" thing. Can people seriously not tell 2012 & 1992 apart? [link] 2012/02/02 9:10 pm