Favorite albums of any genre for 2011
1. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
2. Vaccines – What Did You Expect from the Vaccines
3. Real Estate – Days
4. Royal Bangs – Flux Outside
5. TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
6. M83 – Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
7. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for my Halo
8. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
9. Smith Westerns – Dye it Blonde
10. Cults – Cults
Honorable Mentions
1. British Sea Power – Valhalla Dancehall
2. Hooray for Earth – True Loves
3. Generationals – Actor-Caster
4. The Donkeys – Born With Stripes
5. Blitzen Trapper – American Goldwing
6. Wire – Red Barked Tree
7. War on Drugs – Slave Ambient
8. Joy Formidable – The Big Roar
9. WU LYF - Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
10. Waters – Out in the Light
Favorite songs
1. Cults – Abducted
2. British Sea Power – Who’s in Control
3. Cut Copy – Take Me Over
4. TV on the Radio – You
5. The Vaccines – Under Your Thumb
6. Blitzen Trapper – Love the Way You Walk Away
7. Real Estate – Green Aisles
8. Royal Bangs – Bad News Strange Luck
9. M83 – Steve McQueen
10. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
Great Tracks Highlights – Comeback artists/Veterans
1. Wire – Bad Worn Thing
2 Lindsey Buckingham - When She Comes Down
3. Magazine – Holy Dotage
4. The Mekons – Space in Your Face
5. The Feelies – Here Before
Great Indie Songs – Guitar based/ Traditional
1. Apex Manor – The Party Line
2. Smith Westerns – Smile
3. Kurt Vile- Puppet To the Man
4. Generationals – Ten Twenty Ten
5. Real Estate – Out of Tune
Great Indie Songs – Synth/Electronic Upbeat
1. Cut Copy – Blink and You’ll Miss a Revolution
2. M83 – Midnight City
3. Phantogram – Don’t Move
4. Battles – Ice Cream
5. The Go! Team – Buy Nothing Day
Great Indie Songs - Experimental/Ambient
1. Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
2. Antlers – Don’t Want Love
3. Mogwai – How to be a Werewolf
4. Gang Gang Dance – Chinese High
5. Burial – NYC
Great Songs by New Comers
1. WU LYF – Concrete Gold
2. Tennis – Long Boat Pass
3. Papercuts – Do What You Will
4. The War on Drugs – Baby Missiles
5. Waters – Take Me Out to the Coast
Great Songs by Consistent Indie Veterans
1. My Morning Jacket – Wonderful
2. Stephen Malkmus – Tune Grief
3. Okkervil River – Rider
4. Wilco – Dawned on Me
5. TV on the Radio – Second Song
Great Songs – Folk and Alt Country
1 Iron and Wine – Glad Man Singing
2 Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
3 Civil Wars – I’ve Got This Friend
4 Crooked Fingers – The Counterfeiter
5 Bon Iver – Calgary
Randy’s Hall of Fame inductees 2011 and song example
1. Be Bop Deluxe - Heavenly Homes
2. Tommy Bolin - Dreamer
3. The Chills – Frantic Drift
4. The Damned – Smash it Up (Part 2)
5. The Durutti Column – Otis
6. Felt – My Darkest Light Will Shine
7. The Teardrop Explodes –Second Head
8. The Adverts – New Church
9. The Bats – Courage
10. The Verlaines – Heavy 33
