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I don't know if I should be surprised or not by the fact that the albums I most anticipated turned out to be the ones I liked the most, but I kind of am. I hope this is not because I'm growing older and less open minded, but because the established artists actually created the best music. Anyways, my favorite albums of 2011:


Album of the Year: Feist - Metals

Radiohead - The King of Limbs

The Roots - Undun

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome

Kurt Vile- Smoke Ring for My Halo

Real Estate - Days

Austra - Feel It Break


I'll update when I find out more about which of my favorite music of 2011 was actually released in 2011.


Favorite discoveries of 2011 (not released in 2011):

Jonathan Richman
Gonzales
Talk Talk
Bohren & der Club of Gore
Onra
MF DOOM


Releases I look especially forward to in 2012:

Outkast
Regina Spektor
The Knife
The xx
Look out for March 6th: Bowerbirds and Andrew Bird


Ignore this part:

My 2011 scrobbling statistics (Because I like statistic):
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I should really be doing my university assignments, but I get so easily distracted and here I find myself writing a journal. I need to focus! After this, after this. Basically, I thought I would write a little journal on how I discovered my top 15 artists (by plays) on last.fm. Pretty much because I thought it would be interesting and because I want to.

The Birthday Massacre (1,955 plays)
Discovered while dossing in college back in the middle of 2010. Me and my friend (cassidy_akira) were in the library, on the computers and watching videos on YouTube. After watching an AMV, another video titled The Birthday Massacre MEP was listed in the related section at the side. So I clicked on that and the rest is history. This is the video.

Nightwish (1,586 plays)
This is going back quite some time, many, many years ago. I most likely discovered Nightwish through music channels on televison or just the internet in general.

Crystal Castles (1,396 plays)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8a4iiOnzsc

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