I’m a movie man. I
understand film. Music, I love even though I don’t understand it. This is not a
music criticism site, but I love music so much that each year I feel the need
to let people know what music I loved best that year. Here’s this year’s list
of my favorite albums.
1.
Smoke Ring for My Halo
by Kurt
Vile
Matador Records
Dropped March 8
2.
No Help for the Mighty Ones
by Subrosa
Profound Lore
Dropped March 1
3.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost
by Girls
True Panther Sounds
Dropped September 13
4.
Deep Politics
by Grails
Temporary Residence
Dropped March 8
5.
‘Drive’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
score by Cliff Martinez
songs by Various Artists
Lakeshore Records
Dropped October 11
6.
Undun
by The Roots
Def Jam
Dropped December 6
7.
‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack
by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Null Corporation
Dropped December 9 (digital) December 27 (CD)
8.
‘Sucker Punch’ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
by Various Artists
WaterTower Music
Dropped March 22
9.
What I Became
by Matt Valentine
Woodsist
Dropped June 14 (digital & vinyl only)
10.
Hisingen Blues
by Graveyard
Nuclear Blast America
Dropped April 19
11.
Shoot!
by Hedvig Mollestad Trio
Rune Grammofon
Dropped November 8
I put together a
downloadable digital mix a couple years back, but that was a hell of a lot of
work for someone who doesn’t do that type of thing all the time. So, here’s a
list of individual tracks I loved this year. I’ve included their source albums.
Go find ‘em.
28 Tracks of 2011
“Immigrant Song” Trent
Reznor, Atticus Ross, Karen O (from The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“Party Boy” Boris (from New Album)
“House Carpenter” Subrosa
(from No Help for the Mighty Ones)
“Rocky” The Lonely Island
(from Turtleneck & Chain)
“Jesus Fever” Kurt Vile
(from Smoke Ring for My Halo)
“Rise Above” Reeve Carney
featuring Bono & The Edge (from
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Original Broadway Cast Recording)
“Ladies” Lee Fields &
The Expressions (from My World)
“Hanna’s Theme (vocal
version)” The Chemical Brothers (from Hanna
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“Solitaire” Yes (from Fly From Here)
“Without You” Eddie Vedder
(from Ukulele Songs)
“Make My” The Roots featuring
Big K.R.I.T & Dice Raw (from Undun)
“Little Black Submarines”
The Black Keys (from El Camino)
“Zombie Christmas” Emmy the
Great & Tim Wheeler (from This Is
Christmas)
“Deep Snow” Grails (from Deep Politics)
“Stone’s Gone Up” David
Lynch (from Crazy Clown Time)
“Speak Into the Rose” Wilco
(from Speak Into the Rose EP)
“The Keeper” Chris Cornell
(from Songbook and Machine Gun Preacher Original Motion
Picture Soundtrack)
“Forgiveness” Girls (from Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made of
This)” Emily Browning (from Sucker Punch
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“Common Burn” Mazzy Star
(from untitled 2012 studio album)
“On a Plain” The Album Leaf
(from Come As You Are: 20th
Anniversary Tribute to Nirvana’s Nevermind)
“Hisingen Blues” Graveyard
(from Hisingen Blues)
“New Year’s Eve” Tom Waits
(from Bad As Me)
“Redford/Possibility/Will to
Power/Finality” The Roots (from Undun)
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