Friday, December 30, 2011

My Top 20 Albums of 2011

Here are my choices for the Top 20 Albums of 2011:




#20 - Drake - Take Care
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Label: Young Money/Cash Money Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Make Me Proud (Featuring Nicki Minaj)
- Over My Dead Body
- Take Care (Featuring Rihanna)
- We'll Be Fine (Featuring Birdman)
- Crew Love (Featuring The Weeknd)


#19 - Beyonce - 4
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Label: Columbia Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Party (Featuring Andre 3000)
- End of Time
- Run The World (Girls)
- Rather Die Young
- Countdown


#18 - Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Label: Island Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Like Smoke (Featuring Nas)
- Body and Soul (Featuring Tony Bennett)
- Our Day Will Come
- Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
- A Song For You


#17 - Bjork - Biophilia
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Label: One Little Indian


5 Standout Tracks:
- Moon
- Crystalline
- Thunderbolt
- Virus
- Cosmology 


#16 - Florence + the Machine - Ceremonials
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Label: Island Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Shake it Out
- No Light, No Light
- What the Water Gave Me
- Spectrum
- Only If For a Night 


#15 - Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Label: Self Released


5 Standout Tracks:
- Bloom
- Lotus Flower
- Little By Little
- Morning Mr. Magpie
- Give Up The Ghost 


#14 - Spank Rock - Everything is Borning & Everyone is a Fucking Liar
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Label: Downtown Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Birfday
- Nasty (Featuring Big Freedia)
- Car Song (Featuring Santigold)
- #1 Hit
- Ta Da 


#13 - Britney Spears - Femme Fatale
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Label: Jive Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Till The World Ends
- Inside Out
- How I Roll
- (Drop Dead) Beautiful (Featuring Sabi)
- Criminal 


#12 - Grace Jones - Hurricane Dub (North American Release)
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Label: Wall of Sound


5 Standout Tracks:
- Corporate Cannibal
- This Is
- William's Blood
- Love You to Life
- Devil in My Life


#11 - Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Label: LL Recordings


5 Standout Tracks:
- I Follow Rivers
- Sadness is a Blessing
- Rich Kid Blues
- Get Some
- Jerome


#10 - Oh Land - Oh Land
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Label: Fake Diamond Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Perfection
- Son of a Gun
- White Nights
- Break the Chain
- Voodoo


#09 - Metric - Fantasies Flashbacks
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Label: Metric Music International 


5 Standout Tracks:
- Help I'm Alive (Danger Denial Anger Acceptance Mix)
- Gimme Sympathy (Dubstep Remix)
- Twilight Galaxy (Death to the Throne Remix)
- Stadium Love (Freakquincy Remix)
- Satallite Mind (Fried Funk Remix)


#08 - Rihanna - Talk That Talk
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Label: Def Jam Recordings


5 Standout Tracks:
- Red Lipstick
- Where Have You Been
- We Found Love (Featuring Calvin Harris)
- Cockiness (Love It)
- You Da One


#07 - David Guetta - Nothing But the Beat
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Label: Virgin Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Night of Your Life (Featuring Jennifer Hudson)
- Titanium (Featuring Sia)
- Crank it Up (Featuring Akon)
- Turn Me On (Featuring Nicki Minaj)
- I Just Wanna Fuck (Featuring Timbaland & Dev)


#06 - The Throne - Watch the Throne
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Label: Roc-a-Fella Records, Roc Nation, Def Jam Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Who Gon Stop Me
- That's My Bitch (Featuring Elly Jackson)
- Ni**as is Paris
- Why I Love You (Featuring Frank Ocean)
- H.A.M.


#05 - Dev - The Night the Sun Came Up (UK Release)
Release Date: September 5, 2011
Label: Universal Republic


5 Standout Tracks:
- In The Dark
- Breathe
- In My Trunk
- Lightspeed
- Kiss My Lips 


#04 - Adele - 21
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Label: XL Recordings


5 Standout Tracks:
- Set Fire to the Rain
- Someone Like You
- Turning Tables
- Rolling in the Deep
- Rumour Has It


#3 - Lady GaGa - Born This Way - The Remix
Release Date: November 21, 2011
Label: Streamline, Interscope Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Bloody Mary (The Horrors Remix)
- Judas (Goldfrapp Remix)
- Americano (Gregori Klosman Remix)
- You and I (Metronomy Remix)
- Scheibe (Guena LG Club Remix)


#2 - M.I.A. - Vicki Leekx Mixtape
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Label: Self Released


5 Standout Tracks:
- Gen N-E-Y-
- Bad Girls
- Marsha/Britney
- Get Around
- You My Love (Featuring Rosaly)


#1 - Lady GaGa - Born This Way
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Label: Streamline, Interscope Records


5 Standout Tracks:
- Government Hooker
- Bloody Mary
- Heavy Metal Lover
- Electric Chapel
- The Edge of Glory 

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