It was the year of the reunion/comeback. So many big artists came back together to put out one more album. Maybe I'm just getting older and there are more bands under my belt who have the potential to reunite...but this honestly has to be the most reunions I can remember in awhile. The strongest outing by far was by The Cars...and they seemed to have the most stacked against them. Missing their key bassist/songwriter/singer, Benjamin Orr, no one thought they could really regenerate the magic the group possessed in the 80s. But of all the reunions, The Cars seemed to embody the most honest energy of all the bands. It's like they acknowledge off the bat that they couldn't do it properly without Orr...so they did everything in their power to do as good and respectable of a job as possible. And it worked. There were some good reunions this year...but The Cars came in the most low key and finished by far on top.
ATTENTION: I'm still collecting your TOP 20 LISTS. If you don't have 20 albums...that's okay. You can send as many as you want. If it's just 5 or even 1 that's fine, too. Send them in now and I'll compile an uber monster list to kick off 2012.
Here are the 55 Best Songs of 2011 (23-33):
23. Deer
Tick - Divine Province
24. Washed
Out - Within and Without
27. Death
Cab For Cutie - Codes and Keys
28. Feist
- Metals
29. The
Decemberists - The King Is Dead
30. Neon
Indian - Era Extrana
31. Justice - Audio, Video, Disco
32. The
Roots - undun
33. The
Cars - Move Like This
Buy these albums and many more best of 2011...now!!! (all for under $5)
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