Saturday, December 31, 2011

My Favorites of 2011


So I thought it would be interesting to see what other music Ryan Adams fans listened to from 2011? Below are all my lists, What were your favorites??

My Favorite Albums of 2011
(Based on albums that I listened to the most in 2011, and ones that I didn't have the urge to fast forward through. I highly recommend at least sampling all of these albums.)
1. Destroyer - "Kaputt"
2. Wilco - "The Whole Love"
3. Radiohead - "The King of Limbs"
4. The Decemberists - "The King is Dead"
5. Lifeguards - "Waving at the Astronauts"
6. Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"
7. Ryan Adams - "Ashes and Fire"
8. Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band - "No Time for Dreaming"
9. Thee Oh Sees - "Carrion Crawler/The Dream"
10. John Maus - "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves"
11. My Morning Jacket - "Circuital"
12. Girls - "Father, Son, Holy Ghost"


My Favorite Concerts of 2011
1. Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band - ACL Fest, Austin, TX - 9/16/11
2. Mike Watt - The Gingerman, Austin, TX - 3/18/11
3. Wilco/Nick Lowe - Moody Theater, Austin, TX - 12/1/11
4. Joanna Newsom - ACL Taping - 8/1/11
5. Coldplay - ACL Fest, Austin, TX - 9/16/11
6. The Heartless Bastards - The Ghost Room, Austin, TX - 2/11/11
7. Liam Finn at ND at 501 Studios, Austin, TX 10/12/11
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - La Zona Rosa, Austin, TX - 5/7/11


My Favorite Songs of 2011
Alexander Ebert - "Truth"
Apex Minor - "Under the Gun"
The Black Keys - "Lonely Boy"
Cave - "Wuj"
Charles Bradley - "World is Going Up in Flames"
The Civil Wars - "Barton Hollow"
The Decemberists - "Down By the Water"
Deer Tick - "Let's All Go to the Bar"
Destroyer - "Kaputt"
Eddie Vedder - "Sleeping By Myself"
Fleet Foxes - "Lorelai"
Foo Fighters - "White Limo"
Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
Gillian Welch - "The Way it Goes"
Girls - "Vomit"
Hayes Carll - "Kmag Yoyo"
Iceage - "Never Return"
The Jayhawks - "She Walks in So Many Ways"
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - "Codeine"
John Maus - "Hey Moon"
The Joy Formiddable - "Whirring"
Keren Ann - "My Name is Trouble"
Kurt Vile - "Jesus Fever"
Lee MacDougall - "Star Hotel"
Lifeguards - "Paradise is Not So Bad"
M83 - "Midnight City"
Megafaun - "Real Slow"
Middle Brother - "Middle Brother"
My Morning Jacket - "Holdin' on to Black Metal"
Thee Oh Sees - "Chem-Farmer"
Paul Simon - "Rewrite"
PJ Harvey - "On Battleship Hill"
Radiohead - "Little By Little"
Robert Pollard - "Something Strawberry"
Ryan Adams - "Ashes and Fire"
The Strange Boys - "Me and You"
The Strokes - "Two Kinds of Happiness"
Tom Waits - "Bad as Me"
Toro y Moi - "Still Sound"
Tune-Yards - "Gangsta"
Veronica Falls - "Right Side of My Brain"
Wilco - "Art of Almost"
Wye Oak - "Civilian"
Zola Jesus - "Vessel"