1. Best Coast - Crazy For You. I listened to this SO MANY TIMES THIS YEAR. It came out in 2010 but how often can an album released in actually get enough play and attention to make it to a best of the year list? I don't need you to answer that. I am telling you, RARELY. This is probably my most favourite summer album ever. Except that I also played it all through winter too? So.. Best!
2. Jay Z & Kanye - Watch The Throne. Oh way to contradict my same year theory right away. There is so much good in this album. Otis still KILLS me after fifty billion listens and through the enthusiasm of #thronebomb king T. Fidler I have come to love Lift Off more than I originally thought I could. It is pretty rare I will listen through an entire hip-hop or rap album without skipping songs or getting bored but this one nearly always ends before I even know it.
3. All things by Phosphorescent. I think maybe Phossy might be my favourite singing dude ever hey. There is just something about that Willie Nelson covers album that I cannot dismiss. Also was Here's To Taking It Easy my top album of last year? I THINK SO. Lordy. It could pretty easily still be #1 this year. Just sayin.
4. The 1st three songs on the Drive Soundtrack. The rest of this soundtrack is preeeetty boring unless it is just background or something but the first three songs, man.. they confuse me. I am pretty against most things from the 80s or trying to be from the 80s but these songs.. I don't know. It probably has something to do with how I feel about the movie but I have only seen it once and the songs I have listened to a lot. They make me feel efficient? Unstoppable. UNSTOPPABLE! OUT OF MY WAY, EVERYTHING! YOU'RE A REAL HEROOOO, LIFE! ETC.
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs. Also a 2010 release but who is keeping count? Stop it. This is a good album.
UPDATE!
6. Oh heck I can't believe I forgot Gillian Welch's The Harrow & The Harvest. I am so sorry. This and Dave Rawlings Machine's A Friend Of A Friend are so perfect apart and together and everything in between. The Rawlings album is from 2010 but I only found it this year and it is so excellent! These two are an amazing supercouple. There's an excellent Fresh Air interview with them both from this year too, they're just lovely.
It seems unfair that probably the music I listened to the most were off various soul and motown compilations so they don't really show up in lists of number of listens but easily the #1 song of my year was You and Me by Penny & The Quarters. Putting Blue Valentine aside, it is an awesome song and has this great story to accompany it. Yaaaaay!
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