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Top 100 Songs of 2011. (Numbers 25-1)

(Numbers 100-76)

(Numbers 75-51)

(Numbers 50-26)

25. Raphael Saadiq “Day Dreams”

Mr. Saadiq gets peppy and optimistic on this 1930s juke joint jive.

24. LIGHTS “Siberia”

The title track to LIGHTS’ second album is a bubbly slice of electropop that manages to be both relaxing and danceable.

23. Vince Gill “True Love” feat. Amy Grant

Country’s master songsmith manages to make a love song with his wife touching and understated without going into maudlin territory.

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22. The Bats “Simpletons”

The Bats sound as jangly and as 1991-college-radio as ever on this track from their eighth album (in twenty-five years).

21. Big K.R.I.T. “Another Naieve Individual Glorifying Greed and Encouraging Racism”

Southern rap’s mixtape king gets socially conscious on the closing track to his finest effort.

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Top 50 albums of 2011. (Top 10)

And here are my top 10 albums of 2011. I checked around, and only a couple of them made any official top ten lists…but all those rankings are boo-zhee anyway and this is what you really should be listening to. (Not really…this is just what I like…)

Numbers 50-31 here.
Numbers 30-11 here.

Look at this photo.

I had this revelation while listening to Emmylou Harris that I really want her to do a song with T.I. Seeing Dolly Parton next to Lil Wayne reminded me that I want that to happen. I think they’d be real cute. And T.I. did perform at Taylor Swift’s concert so it’s not totally outside of the realm of possibility. I wonder how Emmylou feels about rap music…

Weekly Charts.