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28Jan/122

Top 50 Songs of 2011

Here are 50 songs that defined 2011 for me.  This year, I only included one song per band, as I wanted to feature as many bands as possible.

Listen.  Enjoy.  Tell me what you think.

And yep, that's my ugly mug on the cover.

Given and Taken in Ink's Top 50 Songs of 2011 from gtimusic on 8tracks.

Here's the playlist:
1. Wilco - One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)
2. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway
3. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free
4. Zaac Pick - Whitewater
5. Yuck - Holing Out
6. The Tallest Man on Earth - Weather of a Killing Kind
7. Ryan Adams - Dirty Rain
8. Laura Marling - My Friends
9. The War on Drugs - Best Night
10. Bright Eyes - Shell Games
11. Radical Face - Always Gold
12. Beirut - East Harlem
13. Carter Tanton - Murderous Joy
14. Air Review - America's Son
15. Michael McGraw - Poorboy
16. The Middle East - Land Of The Bloody Unknown
17. The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep
18. Megafaun - State / Meant
19. Bon Iver - Holocene
20. Robbers On High Street - Monkey
21. The Whiskey Saints - Curtains
22. The Far West - Bound to Lose
23. Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
24. James Vincent McMorrow - Sparrow and the Wolf
25. James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream
26. Siskiyou - Twigs And Stones
27. Foo Fighters - Walk
28. The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
29. Iron & Wine - Walking Far From Home
30. Joshua Hyslop - If I Was a Better Man
31. J Mascis - Is It Done
32. Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms
33. Girls - Die
34. R.E.M. - It Happened Today
35. Fruit Bats - WACS (ft. J Mascis)
36. the august arrival - Through it all
37. Young Liars - Colours
38. Sporting Life - Immigrant
39. Alela Diane - To Begin
40. The Rest - The Last Day
41. William Fitzsimmons - The Tide Pulls From The Moon
42. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Stamp
43. Wye Oak - Civilian
44. Jim Ivins - House Of Three
45. Real Estate - It's Real
46. Snowmine - Curfews
47. David Thomas Broughton - Apologies
48. Creepoid - Old Tree
49. Cut Off Your Hands - You Should Do Better
50. The Dodos - When Will You Go

Filed under: 2011, 8tracks, Air Review, Alela Diane, Beirut, Best Songs, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Carter Tanton, City Reign, Creepoid, Cut Off Your Hands, Dan Mangan, David Thomas Broughton, Foo Fighters, Fruit Bats, Girls, Iron and Wine, J Mascis, James Blake, James Vincent McMorrow, Jim Ivins, Joshua Hyslop, Kurt Vile, Laura Marling, Megafaun, Michael McGraw, Radical Face, Real Estate, Robbers on High Street, Ryan Adams, Siskiyou, Snowmine, Sporting Life, The Antlers, the august arrival, The Black Keys, The Dodos, The Far West, The Middle East, The Mountain Goats, The Rest, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Tallest Man on Earth, The War on Drugs, The Whiskey Saints, Wilco, William Fitzsimmons, Wye Oak, Young Liars, Yuck, Zaac Pick 2 Comments
24Oct/112

8tracks: Autumn 2011 Mix

An expanded version of Given and Taken in Ink's October mix is now up on 8tracks:

Most of these songs are from autumn 2011, but I slipped a few older tracks in there (like last year's fantastic "Change of Time," by Josh Ritter):

Here's the entire playlist:

1. Radical Face - Always Gold
2. Josh Ritter - Change of Time
3. Wilco - Born Alone
4. William Fitzsimmons - The Tide Pulls From The Moon
5. The Rest - The Last Day
6. The Whiskey Saints - Karianne
7. Cut Off Your Hands - You Should Do Better
8. Fanfarlo - Replicate
9. City Reign - Anywhere Anyway
10. Crooked Fingers - Typhoon
11. Radical Face - A Pound of Flesh
12. Air Review - America's Son
13. Caveman - Decide
14. Real Estate - It's Real
15. The Far West - Bound to Lose
16. Girls - Die
17. ARMS - Fleeced
18. Cut Off Your Hands - You Still Love Me
19. Sonny Pete - Chrysanthemum Blues
20. Small Sur - Prettyboy
21. The Whiskey Saints - Curtains

Filed under: 8tracks, Air Review, ARMS, Caveman, City Reign, Crooked Fingers, Cut Off Your Hands, Fanfarlo, Girls, Josh Ritter, Radical Face, Real Estate, Small Sur, Sonny Pete, The Far West, The Rest, The Whiskey Saints, Wilco, William Fitzsimmons 2 Comments
   
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