My Favorite Songs of 2011 (in no particular order)

Here are my favorite songs of 2011.  A lot of people thought that 2011 was a down music year and I agree to some extent, but there are always gems out there.  These aren't in any particular order, but the tracks by m83 are #1 and #2.  Hurry Up We're Dreaming was a really special album.


"Lotus Flower" - Radiohead

"Midnight City" - m83

"Steve McQueen" - m83

"Baby's Arms" - Kurt Vile

"Postcard from 1952" - Explosions in the Sky

"It's Real" - Real Estate

"Cannons" - Youth Lagoon

"Over My Dead Body" - Drake

"Gold on the Ceiling" - The Black Keys

"Novacane" - Frank Ocean

"Cruel" - St. Vincent

"Vomit" - Girls

"Baby Missiles" - War on Drugs

"Holocene" - Bon Iver

"Beth/Rest" - Bon Iver

"Circuital" - My Morning Jacket

"Grown Ocean" - Fleet Foxes

"Need You Now" - Cut Copy

"Surfer's Hymn" - Panda Bear

"Whirring" - The Joy Formidable

"The Morning" - The Weeknd

Covers:


Bon Iver - "I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)"

James Blake - "A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)"

James Blake - "Limit to Your Love (Feist)"

Frank Ocean - "Strawberry Swing (Coldplay)"

The Weeknd - "Dirty Diana" (Michael Jackson)"