Best 100 Tracks Of 2011


BY BURAK ŞAHİN (IR/IV)
burak_s@ug.bilkent.edu.tr

After offering my choices for "best album of the year" in last week's column, this week I'm listing the best tracks of 2011. As a reminder, the list consists mostly of songs from the rock, alternative, indie, pop and electronic genres. Also, I didn't want to put the songs in any particular order, but to be honest, Lana Del Rey may have made the biggest impact with "Video Games." Anyway, here are the most magnificent tracks of 2011:

  •  Metronomy - "The Look"
  • Grouplove - "Colours"
  • Anna Calvi - "Blackout"
  • Wild Beasts - "Bed Of Nails"
  • PJ Harvey - "The Words That Maketh Murder"
  • Kasabian - "Days Are Forgotten"
  • Bon Iver - "Calgary"
  • Adele - "Someone Like You"
  • M83 - "Midnight City"
  • Howler - "I Told You Once"
  • tUnE-yArDs - "Bizness"
  • Metronomy - "The Bay"
  • Wild Flag - "Romance"
  • Justice - "Civilization
  • The Weeknd - "The Knowing"
  • Yuck - "Get Away"
  • Girls - "Vomit"
  • Piledriver Waltz - "Alex Turner"
  • Oh Land - "Wolf And I"
  • The National - "Think You Can Wait"
  • Bombay Bicycle Club - "Lights Out, Words Gone"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Did I Let You Know"
  • Bon Iver - "Holocene"
  • Girls - "Love Like A River" 
  • Cut Copy - "Need You Now"
  • Katy B - "Broken Record"
  • Lykke Li - "I Follow Rivers"
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "If I Had A Gun…"
  • Ed Sheeran - "Drunk"
  • The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - "Belong"
  • The Antlers - "Rolled Together"
  • The Black Keys - "Dead And Gone"
  • Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - "Black" (feat. Norah Jones)
  • The Vaccines - "A Lack of Understanding"
  • Cults - "Go Outside"
  • Glasvegas - "Euphoria, Take My Hand"
  • Dry The River - "New Ceremony"
  • The Drums - "Money"
  • Coldplay - "Paradise"
  • The Kooks - "Junk Of The Heart"
  • The Drums - "Days"
  • Leonard Cohen - "Show Me The Place"
  • Tom Waits - "Bad As Me"
  • Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "Critical Drain"
  • Friendly Fires - "Hawaiian Air"
  • The Rapture - "How Deep Is Your Love"
  • The Kooks - "Is It Me"
  • The Strokes - Taken For A Fool"
  • John Maus - "Believer"
  • Brazzaville - "Anabel2"
  • Arctic Monkeys - "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala"
  • Radiohead - "Little By Little"
  • Adele - "Rolling In The Deep"
  • R.E.M. - "Überlin"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Police Station"
  • Florence + the Machine - "No Light, No Light"
  • James Blake - "The Wilhelm Scream"
  • Elbow - "Open Arms"
  • James Blake & Bon Iver - "Fall Greek Boys Choir"
  • Wilco - "Whole Love"
  • Cass McCombs - "County Line"
  • Lykke Li - "Get Some"
  • Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness Blues"
  • Real Estate - "It's Real"
  • The Vaccines - "If You Wanna"
  • Austra - "The Beat And The Pulse"
  • Radiohead - "Lotus Flower"
  • St. Vincent - "Cruel"
  • SBTRKT - "Wildfire" (feat. Little Dragon)
  • Kurt Vile - "Baby's Arms"
  • TV On The Radio - "You"
  • Patrick Wolf - "Time Of My Life"
  • The Black Keys - "Lonely Boy"
  • Washed Out - "Amor Fati"
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - "The Death Of You And Me"
  • PJ Harvey - "Let England Shake"
  • The Horrors - "Still Life"
  • Lana Del Rey - "Video Games"
  • Bright Eyes - "Shell Games"
  • Foster the People - "Pumped Up Kicks"
  • Kasabian - "La Fee Verte"
  • Wye Oak - "Holy Holy"
  • Beirut - "East Harlem"
  • British Sea Power - "Living Is So Easy"
  • Azari and III - "Reckless With Your Love"
  • The Miserable Rich - "On A Certain Night"
  • Alcoholic Faith Mission - "Into Pieces"
  • Dry The River - "No Rest"
  • Florence + The Machine - "Shake It Out"
  • Young Dreams - "Young Dreams"
  • Man Man - "Piranhas Club"
  • Radical Face - "Black Eyes"
  • Snow Patrol - "This Isn't Everything You Are"
  • Various Cruelties - "Chemicals"
  • Manchester Orchestra - "Simple Math"
  • MONA - "Shooting The Moon"
  • Mumford & Sons - "Home"
  • Coldplay - "Up In Flames"
  • The Horrors - "Endless Blue"
  • Lana Del Rey - "Born To Die"