Merry Listmas 2011: The Music

For me, music highlights this year included: a tribute to poet Langston Hughes, visits from a milkman, a Shakespearean sonnet, the strangeness of seeing your face on television, finding Gatorade in the wrong section at Wal-Mart, Bibles coated with tropical fruit and drunk simians who refuse to jump. Of course, this is only the tip of the proverbial cupcake (all of these songs aren’t from 2011, but that is when I came across them).

My actual top fifteen would look like this:

1. Fucked Up-The Other Shoe
2. Skizzy Mars-Profound
3. E-Dubble featuring Kom-My Last Dream
4. Macklemore and Lewis-My Oh My
5. Fucked Up-Queen of Hearts
6. The Raveonettes-Forget That You Were Young
7. EMA-California
8. Secret Music-T.O.Y.S
9. Tiger Bones-Kill Them
10. Cold Cave-The Great Pan is Dead
11. The Joy Formidable-Whirring
12. Foster the People-Houdini
13. Tuneyards-Bizness
14. Forbidden Friends-Tiny Hands
15. Digit Dealer-Homoeroticism in the Fall Out Boy Canon

Other Songs Worth Mentioning:

Song that best illustrates being human in a world of drunk primates:

Best song for making a car crash sound desirable and fun:

Song Most Likely to Screw Up Your Family Tree:

Best Tropical B-Side from a band lost in the wrong decade:

Anti-Dismemberment Coalition Theme Song:
All of me by Frida & Doe

Best attack on consumerism by a hip hop artist:

Best song for an antacid commercial:
Kyla La Grange – Walk Through Walls by Stayloose

Best Video (and Song) for Channeling Shakespeare:

Sweetest song about a MindF***:

Best song for trashing the hipsters who think I’m gay:

Best song for making a vegan’s gut hurt:

Best History Lesson disguised as a song:

Best song for Ace Ventura like short attention spans:

Best name drop of a movie that doesn’t deserve it (Major Payne):

Best Diss of a Drum Machine:

Best Use of a Camera Obscura Member:

Best song to illustrate inflation:

Best Two Words Uttered in Succession (Devour Me):
School of Seven Bells – The Night by snipelondon

The Best Ego Check of the Year:
“Please Excuse Me” – Scout by PlanetaryOnlinePR

Best Right Said Fred Impression:

Best Original Song that was also sampled by E-Dubble:

Song I would want playing in the background to fill those awkward silences:

Song Most Likely to Have me Dancing in a One Room School House:

The Carson Daly Finally Gets Music Right Award:

Have a great New Year, see you in 2012. Cacao!

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