Top Twenty Songs of 2011

2011 has been a pretty blah year musically, but I somehow managed to scrape together a couple of lists for you. First up, the 20 songs that I loved most in 2011. Including a country song, a Rihanna song, and Eurovision.

Yes, you can take my cool person card away now.

The Top Twenty Songs of 2010

I broke one of my rules. I had to. I couldn’t make the choices I needed to make, so I dumped two songs I like but was really unenthusiastic about and-

I repeated artists.

I tend not to do that, simply because I believe you should try to allow as many artists on these lists as possible. There is always someone who reads them and discovers something new. If you repeat artists, it means that some band isn’t getting a spot on a list to be found out. It pains me. There are so many great bands.

But there were two artists that each had so many songs that I just could help myself. they each have two slots. The other sixteen- well, there is a lot of overlap between this list and my albums list. The year in music was quite terrible for quality singles. That explains why “Teenage dream” is on so many of them.

The Top Twenty Albums of 2010

The year 2010 in music can be looked at in one of two ways.

It was bad.

Or-

It was really, really bad.

I’m not kidding. Most of the music was pretty mundane. Some of it was atrociously bad. But I managed to scrape together twenty albums worthy of repeated listens. I mean, some of them have been pretty regular in the iPod shuffle in my world. One of them has pretty much stayed in my CD player at home since I bought it.

So here are the twenty albums of 2010 that I consider to be totally awesome and future all time classics. Well, okay, one of them is a classic now. The other nineteen need to catch up.

The Album List: #92 Kanye West “The College Dropout”

Beary, beary good music. Sorry.

He is an enormous jackass.

He is also brilliant.

An expert beat master, a top of the line producers, a witty and smart writer, a merely competent rapper. Kanye West has an ego the size of the Pacific Jupiter the Sun the entire Milky Way. Why hold that against him?