Dave's Favorite Albums of 2011 Part One: The Queue and The Preface

So here we are, the end of 2011, a brand spankin’ new year less than a week away! I know I haven’t been all that present this year on this blog and I do apologize for that. But I’ll do my best to update more in 2012. I may move over to Word Press soon! But enough of that. Just as I did last year, I wanted to give you all, the very small number of readers, a list of the albums I have listened to from the past year year. So that way, when you say “Where is The King of Limbs on your Favorite’s list?” I can say, “I didn’t listen to it, didn’t you look at the list of albums I listened to?” and you will be sad. So here it is folks in alphabetical order.


2011 Albums I listened to:
1. Adele-21
2. All Pigs Must Die-God Is War
3. ASAP Rocky-LiveLoveA$AP
4. Atmosphere-The Family Sign
5. B.o.B.-E.P.I.C. (Every Play Is Crucial)
6. Bad Meets Evil- Hell: The Sequel
7. Battles- Gloss Drop
8. Beastie Boys- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
9. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones- Rocket Science
10. The Black Keys- El Camino
11. Bon Iver- Bon Iver, Bon Iver
12. Cage The Elephant- Thank You, Happy Birthday
13. Chickenfoot- Chickenfoot III
14. Childish Gambino- CAMP
15. Childish Gambino- EP
16. Chris Brown- F.A.M.E.
17. Common- The Dreamer/The Believer
18. The Cool Kids- When Fish Ride Bicycles
19. Danny Brown- XXX
20. Death Grips- Exmilitary
21. Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows- D.R.U.G.S.
22. Drake- Take Care
23. Everlast- Songs of the Ungrateful Living
24. Evidence- Cats & Dogs
25. Foo Fighters- Wasting Light
26. Frank Ocean- Nostalgia, Ultra
27. The Go! Team- Rolling Blackouts
28. Grives- Together/Apart
29. Hail Mary Mallon- Are You Gonna Eat That?
30. J. Cole- Cole World: The Sideline Story
31. Jay-Z and Kanye West- Watch the Throne
32. Kendrick Lamar- Section .80
33. Lights- Siberia
34. Lil B- I’m Gay (I’m Happy)
35. Lil’ Wayne- Tha Carter IV
36. Limp Bizkit- Gold Cobra
37. Little Dragon-Ritual Union
38. The Lonely Island- Turtleneck and Chain
39. Lupe Fiasco- Lasers
40. Mac Miller- Best Day Ever
41. Mac Miller- Blue Slide Park
42. Manchester Orchestra- Simple Math
43. Mastodon- The Hunter
44. Patrick Stump- Soul Punk
45. Primus- Green Naugahyde
46. Pusha T- Fear of God
47. Pusha T- Fear of God II: Let us Pray
48. Raekwon- Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
49. The Roots- Undun
50. Shabazz Palaces- Black Up
51. Slaughterhouse- The Slaughterhouse EP
52. St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
53. Steel Panther- Balls Out
54. The Strokes- Angles
55. T-Pain- rEVOLVEr
56. Tech N9ne- All 6’s and 7’s
57. Thundercat- The Golden Age of Apocalypse
58. Tune-Yards- w H o K i L l
59. TV on the Radio- 9 Types of Light
60. Tyler, The Creator- Goblin
61. Wale- Ambition
62. The Weekend- House of Balloons
63. Wiz Khalifa- Rolling Papers
64. Yellowcard- When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes

The Preface:
Okay, sixty four albums this year. That’s a lot. A lot more than I’ve listened to in past years. There are some obvious ones that’ll get knocked off just because they don’t live up to the hype, or I just expected them to be bad. But this year has been a year of real musical discovery for me. Maybe it’s because I had a lot more free time over the past several months than I did in college, or maybe it’s because I’ve been reading blogs like The Needle Drop and a little Pitchfork, or watching reviews on Youtube, but I have expanded my pallet a lot more this year. But don’t let me listening to more give you the impression that these blogs and websites and vloggers have a stronger influence on how I feel about what I'm listening. I love suggestions, but I still have the same tastes I’ve had in the past. So you can say “So he listened to St. Vincent, how can he put Yellowcard or Limp Bizkit above them on a ‘best of’ list?” and I remind you this is NOT a ‘best of 2011’ list, this is my FAVORITE albums. Don’t confuse the two. You may see some albums on this list that don’t show up on others, and that’s because I love what I love. So, I hope you enjoy the list as it comes to you! It was a tough one to make!