Best of 2011: Favorite Songs of the Year

Best of 2011: Songs

BEST OF 2011: Songs | Albums (soon) | EPs/Singles | Discoveries/Heavy Rotation | Photos

1. Beyonce – “Love on Top”
2. Beyonce – “Countdown”
3. Little Scream – “The Heron and the Fox”
4. Real Estate – “It’s Real”
5. St. Vincent – “Cruel”
6. Minks – “Cemetery Rain”
7. Craft Spells – “You Should Close The Door”
8. High Highs – “Flowers Bloom”
9. Toro y Moi – “How I Know”
10. College (ft. Electric Youth) – “A Real Hero”

11. Pageants – “Ediblerust”
12. Smith Westerns – “Weekend”
13. Jill Andrews – “Blue Sky”
14. Chad VanGaalen – “Sara”
15. Junior Boys – “Banana Ripple”
16. Jens Lekman – “An Argument with Myself”
17. Big Troubles – “Make It Worse”
18. Lia Ices – “Love Is Won
19. Eleanor Friedberger – “Roosevelt Island”
20. North Highlands – “Bruce”

21. Lana Del Rey – “Video Games”
22. Big Moves – “Groundbreaking Studies”
23. Twin Sister – “Stop”
24. Sondre Lerche – “Domino”
25. Alessi’s Ark – “Kind of Man”
26. Seeker Lover Keeper – “Even Though I’m a Woman”
27. Puro Instinct – “Lost at Sea”
28. Laura Marling – “I Was Just a Card”
29. Ravens & Chimes – “Division St.”
30. R.E.M. – “We All Go Back To Where We Belong”

31. Widowspeak – “Hard Times”
32. Bill Callahan – “Riding for the Feeling”
33. Little Scream – “The Heron and the Fox” (Work Drugs remix)
34. Radiohead – “Give Up the Ghost”
35. LA Font – “Lipsmack”
36. Jay-Z & Kanye West – “Otis”
37. Summer Camp – “Better Off Without You”
38. Little Horn – “Bridges Break”
39. Masxs – “Chairman Gou”
40. ARMS – “Dog Days”

41. Lemuria – “Pleaser”
42. Anna Calvi – “Blackout”
43. In One Wind – “Water’s Looking Fine”
44. Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
45. Brave Irene – “No Fun”
46. Atlas Sound – “Te Amo”
47. Dolorean – “Thinskinned”
47.5 Bon Iver – “Holocene”
48. Zachary Cale – “Noise of Welcome”
49. Terius Nash – “Wedding Crasher”

50. Beach Fossils – “Plastic Flowers” (The Wake cover)
51. Bos Angeles – “Beach Slalom”
52. Wild Beasts – “Lion’s Share”
53. Kreayshawn – “Gucci Gucci”
54. A$AP Rocky – “Out of This World”
55. The Go! Team – “Buy Nothing Day”
56. Dear Marje – “Long Letters”
57. Wilco – “I Might”
58. Selebrities – “Times”
59. Pepper Rabbit – “The Annexation of Puerto Rico”
59.5. Blouse – “Videotapes”
60. Beirut – “East Harlem”

61. Eagle and Talon – “For the Bond”
62. Dude York – “David”
63. Shugo Tokumaru – “Lahaha”
64. Tyler, The Creator – “She” (ft. Frank Ocean)
65. Out Go the Lights – “Pericles”
66. Taylor Swift – “Ours”
67. Chelsea Wolfe – “Mer”
68. Tennis – “Take Me Somewhere”
69. Hi Ho Silver Oh – “Showers Without Warning”
70. Idaho – “You Were a Dick”

71. Hannah Peel – “Song for the Sea”
72. Iceage – “Broken Bone”
73. J. Irvin Dally – “Sun Room”
74. The National – “Exile Vilify”
75. Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell – “A Special Day”
76. Sampha – “Indecision”

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