Sunday, January 01, 2012

Top 100 Singles of 2011

Happy New Year from Cool Music Central! We're starting 2012 with the ultimate 2011 playlist containing no less than 100 excellent singles or EPs from the past 12 months.

The first half of our selection which makes up our official Top 50 Singles of 2011 list, has a ranking order and the rule of including just one single from each artist or group for a more varied and hopefully more interesting result. This rule does not apply for the second half of the selection which is presented in pretty much random order. All the songs here were either released as singles or EPs in the past year or given away as free mp3s which means that no album tracks were included in this Top 100. To find out some of our favorite album tracks of the year, check out our Listening Habits posts for 2011 here.

And now that you know the rules of the game, let's start the music - here's Cool Music Central's Top 100 Singles of 2011:

The Top 50

1.   The Words That Maketh Murder - P.J. HARVEY
2.   Future Crimes - WILD FLAG
3.   Blackout - ANNA CALVI
4.   Gangsta - TUNE-YARDS
5.   He Gets Me High (He Gets Me High EP) - DUM DUM GIRLS
6.   Bad Feeling - VERONICA FALLS
7.   Milkman - EMA
8.   Two Different Ways - FACTORY FLOOR
9.   Lonely Boy - THE BLACK KEYS
10. Under Cover Of Darkness - THE STROKES
11. Will Do - TV ON THE RADIO
12. Eat Yr Heart - HTRK
13. Vessel - ZOLA JESUS
14. Future Starts Slow - THE KILLS
15. My Mistakes - ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER
16. I’m His Girl - FRIENDS
17. I Follow Rivers - LYKKE LI
18. Go Outside - CULTS
19. I Heard You Say - VIVIAN GIRLS
20. It's Real - REAL ESTATE
21. Surrender - THE DUKE SPIRIT
22. Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - ARCTIC MONKEYS
23. Two Against One (feat. Jack White) - DANGER MOUSE & DANIELE LUPPI
24. Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man - GRINDERMAN
25. On The Corner - THE TWILIGHT SINGERS
26. Uberlin - R.E.M.
27. This Is Why We Fight - THE DECEMBERISTS
28. You Are A Tourist - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
29. Year Off - HIGH PLACES
30. Lazy Noon (Our Own Dream EP) - KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS
31. Rill Rill - SLEIGH BELLS
32. Kaputt - DESTROYER
33. Weekend - SMITH WESTERNS
34. Belong - THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
35. Through The Floor - CRYSTAL STILTS
36. When You Cut - MOON DUO
37. I Might - WILCO
38. Jejune Stars - BRIGHT EYES
39. Cuckoo - STILL CORNERS
40. How Deep Is Your Love? - THE RAPTURE
41. Throw Away This - TELEPATHE
42. Love Song - HUSBAND
43. The Butcher - RADIOHEAD
44. Mindkilla - GANG GANG DANCE
45. Yonkers - TYLER, THE CREATOR
46. Make Some Noise - BEASTIE BOYS
47. Post Break-Up Sex - THE VACCINES
48. Holing Out - YUCK
49. Austere - THE JOY FORMIDABLE
50. Face In The Crowd - CAT'S EYES

The Top 50 video playlist:


The next 50 in random play mode:

The Glorious Land - P.J. HARVEY
Desire - ‎ ANNA CALVI
~ (R E A L L O V E) - FACTORY FLOOR
Hauntin' Me - KEEP SHELLY IN ATHENS
Our Last Waltz - HOLD KISS KILL
Laptop Dog - THE FALL
Senator - STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
Satellite - THE KILLS
Marked - EMA
Friend Crush - FRIENDS
A Chore - TOM VEK
Gun Shy - WIDOWSPEAK
Common Burn - MAZZY STAR
Holding On To Black Metal - MY MORNING JACKET
Helplessness Blues - FLEET FOXES
Calgary - BON IVER
East Harlem - BEIRUT
Jesus Fever - KURT VILE
Repatriated - HANDSOME FURS
Two Minutes - WIRE
The Other Shoe - FUCKED UP
So High - RINGO DEATHSTARR
Buy Nothing Day - THE GO! TEAM
Chorea - ESBEN AND THE WITCH
Only The Lonely EP - UNKLE
Ego / Mirror - THOM YORKE / BURIAL / FOUR TET
Your Past Life As A Blast - OKKERVIL RIVER
Rollercoaster - BLACK MOUNTAIN
Bess St. - WHITE DENIM
The Great Pan Is Dead - COLD CAVE
Still Life - THE HORRORS
How It Ended - THE DRUMS
Young Blood - THE NAKED AND FAMOUS
Ace Of Hz - LADYTRON
Street Halo - BURIAL
San Pedro - MOGWAI
Sixteen Shades Of Black & Blue - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
Energy - SPANK ROCK
Everything Goes My Way - METRONOMY
Stilyagi - PURO INSTINCT
Mallory - THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE
Calyer - BEACH FOSSILS
The Unsinkable Fats Domino - GUIDED BY VOICES
Rope - FOO FIGHTERS
Honey Bunny - GIRLS
Singularity - BRIGHT EYES
Long Live the King EP - THE DECEMBERISTS
Covers EP - FRANZ FERDINAND
Total Decay EP - THE SOFT MOON
I’m Still In The Night EP - SALEM

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