Year-End Lists

Jim DeRogatis: 40 Favorite Albums of 2011, as posted by WBEZ and aired on Sound Opinions

1. Le Butcherettes
   Sin Sin Sin
2. Wild Flag
   Wild Flag
3. Das Racist
   Relax
4. The Feelies
   Here Before
5. Danger Mouse & Daniel Luppi
   Rome
6. Fucked Up
   David Comes to Life
7. Bewitched Hands
   Birds & Drums
8. Tune-Yards
   Whokill
9. The Decemberists
   The King is Dead
10. The Go! Team
    Rolling Blackouts
11. Shabazz Palaces
    Black Up
12. Wilco
    The Whole Love
13. Ponytail
    Do Whatever You Want All the Time
14. Raphael Saadiq
    Stone Rollin’
15. Fleet Foxes
    Helplessness Blues
16. The Cool Kids
    When Fish Ride Bicycles
17. Beastie Boys
    Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
18. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
19. Kate Bush
    50 Words for Snow
20. Mastodon
    The Hunter
21. Van Hunt
    What Were You Hoping For?
22. Sons & Daughters
    Mirror Mirror
23. Lucinda Williams
    Blessed
24. Drive-By Truckers
    Go-Go Boots
25. Gorillaz
    The Fall
26. Lydia Loveless
    Indestructible Machine
27. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
28. Lupe Fiasco
    Lasers
29. Radiohead
    The King of Limbs
30. Damon & Naomi
    False Beats and True Hearts
31. Steven Wilson
    Grace for Drowning
32. Trombone Shorty
    For True
33. Wye Oak
    Civilian
34. Mannequin Men
    Mannequin Men
35. Lykke Li
    Wounded Rhymes
36. Beats Antique
    Elektrafone
37. Smoking Popes
    This Is Only A Test
38. North Mississippi Allstars
    Keys to the Kingdom
39. Marketa Irglova
    Anar
40. Smith Westerns
    Dye It Blonde