53 Songs for 53 Weeks

Thanks to a tidal wave of popular demand, here are the jams that soundtracked the year for me. Before I started looking around, I had this nagging feeling that maybe 2011 was kind of a weak year somehow. I guess it was just a faulty memory on my part because once I got rolling the list could have been twice as long. (Especially since I made an effort not to throw every song from the Veronica Falls album on the list and generally shied away from adding songs from albums that made my Top 20 list so the list would be a bit more diverse.) Yeah, yeah....not diverse exactly, but maybe a little more diverse. Well...you like what you like, right? And I liked all this stuff a whole bunch!

A Classic Education – “Place a Bet on You”
Acid House Kings – “Are We Lovers or Are We Friends”
Johan Agebjörn – “The Last Day of Summer”
Air France – “It Feels Good to Be Around You”
Araab Muzik – “Streetz Tonight”
Katy B – “Katy On a Mission”
Bad Indians - "All Over Now"
Bad Sports – “Teenage Girls”
Beyonce - "Party"
James Blake - “The Wilhelm Scream”
Bleached – “Think Of You”
Body Language – “Social Studies”
Brown Recluse – “Impressions of a City Morning”
Burning Hearts – “Into the Wilderness”
Cat's Eyes - "Best Person I Know"
Chromatics – “Kill for Love”
Class Actress – “Love Me Like You Used To”
Cobra Starship – “You Make Me Feel”
Crystal Stilts – “Shake the Shackles”
The Dirtbombs – “Good Life”
The Do – “Too Insistent”
Drake – “Headlines”
Dum Dum Girls – “He Gets Me High”
Ford & Lopatin – “Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)”
Friends – “I’m His Girl”
Glass Candy – “Warm in the Winter”
Gold-Bears – “Record Store”
The Go! Team - "Ready to Go Steady"
Help Stamp Out Loneliness – “Record Shop”
Hunx & His Punx – “The Curse of Being Young”
Jacuzzi Boys – “Crush”
Kimbra - "Cameo Lover"
Lil Wayne – “6 Foot 7 Foot”
John Maus – “Believer”
Metronomy – “Everything Goes My Way”
Part Time - "Cassie (Won't You Be My Doll)"
Real Estate - "It's Real"
Rihanna - "We Found Love"
Ringo Deathstarr – “So High”
Roberts & Lord – “Oblique”
Robyn – “Call Your Girlfriend”
Shimmering Stars – “I’m Gonna Try”
Sonny & the Sunsets – “I Wanna Do It”
Still Corners – “Cuckoo”
Those Darlins – “Screws Get Loose”
Times New Viking – “Fuck Her Tears”
UV Race – “Girl in My Head”
Veronica Falls – “Bad Feeling”
Vivian Girls – “Take It As It Comes”
Wax Idols – “All Too Human”
Weekend – “Hazel”
Wild Flag – “Romance”
Yelle – “Safari Disco Club”