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My Top 30 Tracks of 2011

A little late, but here’s my top 30 tracks that got the most plays on my iPod in 2011.

1 / Ice Cream (feat. Matias Aguayo) - Battles

From the album ‘Gloss Drop’ this is the most joyous racket of 2011.


2 / Natch - Cornershop

From their great album riffing on Punjabi pop; ‘Cornershop And The Double-O Groove Of’.


3 / Bone Marrow - The Black Lips

The whole album ‘Arabia Mountain’ is chock full of equally great tunes.


4 / The Look - Metronomy

Love this spare, funky, echoing sound.


5 / The Words That Maketh Murder - PJ Harvey

Not just a great song, but a genius re-use of Eddie Cochran lyrics.


6 / Gabriel (feat. Valentina) - Joe Goddard

Loved Joe Goddard’s previous album ‘Harvest Festival’ and love this. Can’t wait for more.


7 / Separator - Radiohead

‘The King Of Limbs’ was a moody grower this year and this final track is sublime.


8 / Gratisfaction - The Strokes

From their much underrated fourth album; ‘Angles’. Much better than reviews would lead you to believe.


9 / Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People

Heard this first on NME’s ‘Radar’ album in Oct 2010. Inescapable on the radio in 2011.


10 / No Homo - The Lonely Island

The Lonely Island’s 2nd album ‘Turtleneck & Chain’ got a lot of play in the Wright household.


11 / The Ends [Album Version] - Basement Jaxx

Am biased, but Basement Jaxx & Steve Price’s score was my soundtrack of the year.


12 / What’s Happenin’ - Wu Tang & Jimi Hendrix

From Tom Curuana, the man who brought you ‘Wu Tang Vs The Beatles’, this amazing track.


13 / Super Bass - Nicki Minaj

Absolutely inescapable on US radio and ridiculously catchy. Will we ever find out more about ‘the guy with the thing on his eye’?


14 / Otis (feat. Otis Redding) - JAY Z & Kanye West


15 / Last Night At the Jetty - Panda Bear


16 / Cruel - St. Vincent


17 / Go Outside - Cults


18 / If You Wanna - The Vaccines


19 / Turn It Off - The Book Of Mormon

I saw this on Broadway with a raucous second night crowd and it was incredible.


20 / Take My Hand - Matt Berry

From Matt Berry’s trippy, folky and rather splendid album ‘Witchhazel’.


21 / Goodbye Bread - Ty Segall


22 / Make Some Noise - Beastie Boys

‘Hot Sauce Committee Part II’ has some great tunes on it. This is one.


23 / Blackout - Anna Calvi


24 / Two Against One (feat. Jack White) - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Danger Mouse’s ‘Rome’ album conjured the spirit of ‘Mondo Morricone’. This is a stand out track.


25 / The Greeks - Is Tropical

This video with it’s faux gun play, psycho kids and anime blood was well up my alley.


26 / The Best Person I Know - Cat’s Eyes

Beautiful song, beautiful album.


27 / Video Games - Lana Del Rey

Another inescapable song on the radio, but with good reason, it’s truly haunting.


28 / 212 (feat. Lazy Jay) - Azealia Banks

Filthy. In a great way.


29 / Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires


30 / Civilization - Justice


31 / Honorable Mention - Mike Relm - The Scott Pilgrim Remix

Again, I’m biased, but the full remix by Mike Relm was insanely good. Mixing the 8 bit ‘Sex Bob-Omb’ with Ludacris. A superb mash up.


Favorite Album Of The Year

So many great tracks on this album. A must buy.

    ‘Arabia Mountain’ By The Black Lips



Honorable Mention

This audiobook is seven and a half hours long and contains laughs every ten seconds. Must buy.

    Audiobook Of ‘I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan’ By Alan Partridge



Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 4:01 am 
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  • Ghshd

    Edgar, “the guy with the thing on his eye”, in Super Bass is Slick Rick!

  • http://www.facebook.com/who.is.ad.it.ya Aditya Mohana

    I haven’t heard any of the songs except for the Radiohead one, kause they’re one of my favourite bands. And I’ve only “heard of” five of the others. Anyways, loved your selection of songs on Scott Pilgrim so I’ll give these a try. Btw, looking forward to your favourite films of last year. Or are you still playing catch up? hehe! happy new year!

  • Penguizmo

    decided to play all 30 songs at once.
    not a good idea.

  • Anonymous

    Will you post your list for top 11 (or however many) Films of 2011 as Tarantino did? Loved his list, Midnight in Paris all the way. Also strongly agreed with Meek’s Cutoff as one of the worst films, stupendously dull story. Very keen to know your picks though!

  • http://twitter.com/BuckyKnaebel Bucky Knaebel

    Tom Curuana put out a Bollywood/Okayplayed remix album out this year that had some amazing tracks on it as well. Also… you somehow overlooked the best track of the year. Powa by tUnE-YarDs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e31dpx-XGfI
    I’m sure that was just an over-sight, right? Right, Edgar??!?!

    • http://www.edgarwrighthere.com Edgar Wright

      I love the OkayPlayer album. And just getting into TuneYards too.

      • http://twitter.com/BuckyKnaebel Bucky Knaebel

        I ignored tUnE-YarDs forever because I didn’t like the way they spelled their name. For that… I am boob.

  • http://twitter.com/fabricecaudron Fabrice Caudron

    Great list. What do you think about the Jon Fratelli’s album ? Psycho Jukebox.

  • AmberGrindstaff

    Great Picks! Black Lips..a fav - anything Jack White is Awesome

  • http://twitter.com/mgrobins Matthew Robinson

    A great list for sure. Arabia Mountain is criminally overlooked.

    • http://www.edgarwrighthere.com Edgar Wright

      Agreeeed.

  • Lucifer_o_lucy

    Dude, what happen with “steal yor heart away” by whitesnake, why are you mean with coverdale?
    It’s not all related to his hair, you know?:/

  • http://twitter.com/Michestellar Michestellar

    A lot of great tracks on here! I really loved Tomboy, that was probably my most played album this year. Surfer’s Hymn is especially good for when you need to take a 4 minute break from the world and just relax. I just got into Girls’ ‘Father, Son, Holy Ghost’ and that has some great tracks. I would highly recommend a listen.

    Thanks again for doing this, you always turn me on to really good music!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jay-Quinn/100003234341628 Jay Quinn

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlfJlllq5EA
    personal fav. shame they didn’t win the polaris.

  • http://www.liquidviral.com Liquid Viral

    Link to most of the tracks in just about the right order -
    http://open.spotify.com/user/crafu/playlist/28Jjdj7IffcHI5JxCi9TKy

  • Alessio Trippetta

    Wow, great songs! But I don’t see Gang Gang Dance… Try to listen something from their latest album, Eye Contact, from what I see you could like them a lot! Cheers!

    • http://www.edgarwrighthere.com Edgar Wright

      I have that album. It’s still growing on me…

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  • http://twitter.com/Enervantes Eduardo Cervantes

    Awesome list. I <3 Metronomy

  • Nelson Núñez

    And your top ten movies of 2011?

  • http://twitter.com/eratliff604 eratliff604

    That Cults video is so incredibly catchy and realllly creepy.

  • http://twitter.com/r3d_five George Katsaros

    Hope this is handy for some :)

    Edgar Wright’s Most Played Tracks Of 2011

  • http://twitter.com/pokl31 d pokl

    thank you so much you just turned me on to 3 new groups

  • Rich Bell

    Great tracks, I completely agree with number 1, though a shame to see no Destroyer in the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf-ONpLXzGs

  • Kenneth-allen

    Awesome collection, Edgar. Not just an auteur but uber cool, too!

  • http://twitter.com/JimJarmuschHair Andrew Woods

    The “guy with the thing on his eye” is Slick Rick.

    • http://www.edgarwrighthere.com Edgar Wright

      Aha!

  • http://www.facebook.com/lazercorps John Keefer

    No Bubble Pop? My world is exploding! But still, great tracks.