Well, while we’ve only got one year and a week more til Armageddon, it’s alright because 2011 offered an incredible year in music. In fact, we could pick a different “Song of the Day” from 2011 to soundtrack the countdown til D-Day. But we cut the list off at 57. As noted in last year’s list, not a big fan of numerating this list. Alas, here is our Favorite 57 Mp3’s of 2011 (in no particular order).
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Apes on Tape’s Favorite 57 MP3s of 2011
“County Line” | Cass McCombs
“Kimmi in a Rice Field” | Twin Sister
“Astoria” | Starfucker
“I Wrote a Song” | Pascal Pinon
“All the Sun That Shines” | Peaking Lights
“Michicant” | Bon Iver
“Parentheses” | Antlers
“You Know What I Mean” | Cults
“Pigeon” | Globes
“The Shrine/An Argument” | Fleet Foxes
“Wilhelm Scream” | James Blake
“Alsatian Darn” | Panda Bear
“Little By Little (Caribou RMX)” | Radiohead
“Gangsta” | tUnE-yArDs
“Get Away” | Yuck
“It’s Real” | Real Estate
“Vomit” | Girls
“Masters of War (Dub RMX)” | Anika
“Te Amo” | Atlas Sound
“Ice Cream” | Battles
“Little Black Submarines” | Black Keys
“Headlines” | Drake
“Wait” | M83
“Revival” | Talkdemonic
“An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum” | Shabazz Palaces
“Video Games” | Lana Del Ray
“Believer” | John Maus
“Middle of the Cake” | Das Racist
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“Yonkers” | Tyler the Creator
“I Was There” | The War on Drugs
“Cannons” | Youth Lagoon
“Such a Sad Puppy Dog” | Wu Lyf
“Baby’s Arms” | Kurt Vile
“Polish Girl” | Neon Indian
“All Die Young” | Smith Westerns
“Gucci Gucci” | Kreayshawn
“Whirring” | Joy Formidable
“Carrion Crawler” | Thee Oh Sees
“Ffunny FFriends” | Unknown Mortal Orchestra
“Crystalline” | Morning Teleportation
“Nothing But Our Love” | Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
“Blackout” | Pickwick*
“Tamer Animals” | Other Lives
“The Suburbs (Arcade Fire Cover)” | Mr. Little Jeans
“Roll One Up” | A$AP Rocky
“Motion” | Balam Acab*
“Half Moon” | Blind Pilot
“Mushroom (Remastered)” | Can
“Feels Good to Wear” | Colourmusic
“California” | EMA
“Ritual Union” | Little Dragon
“Everything Goes My Way” | Metronomy
“16 Years” | Phantogram
“Car Song” | Spank Rock ft. Santigold
“Miranda” | Surfer Blood
“Need You Now” | Cut Copy
“Sick Days” | Yourself and the Air
*Unavailable on Spotify