2011 FAVOURITES:

I always find it difficult to come up with a Top 10 (or 20, 30 or 40) Best Of The Year list. Below is a list of some of my favourite songs of the year 2011 in no particular order. Even harder these days is coming up with a list of Favourite Albums of the year, I've listed a few standouts for me below also. (The list could look messy, didn't have time for proper formatting and adding links).

SONGS:

City Boy - Donkeyboy

Keep The Beat In Your Heart - Smith & Thell

Wonder - The Sound Of Arrows

Hero - Verona

Lisztomania (feat. Jane Hanley) - Edwin van Cleef

In Your Blood - Computers Want Me Dead

Love U More - Sunday Girl

Radioactive (Starsmith Rework) - Marina & The Diamonds

Mirrors (Hey Champ Remix) - Natalia Kills

Hello (Echoes Remix) - Dragonette & Martin Solveig

Between the Pavement & the Stars (Edwin Van Cleef Remix) - Mighty Mouse

Odyssey - Worship

Ice Cold - Echoes

Stereo World - Frankmusik

We Can Pretend - Strange Talk

Singin' (radio edit) - Cosmonaut Grechko

Don't Stop - Tim & Jean

Control - Blackroom

Pyramid - Nightbox

Block After Block (Echoes Radio Edit) - Matt & Kim

Talk To Me - She's the Queen

Keep it to Yourself (feat. Gustaf Spetz) - 047

Society - DVAS

Montage - TMDP

Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles

Satellite - The Tapeaters

Where Are You Now (StardonE remix) - Queen Of Hearts

Live Those Days Tonight - Friendly Fires

Old Skool Daze - FM Attack

Night Is Young - Southern Shores

Galaxies - Owl City


ALBUMS:

Tim & Jean - Like What (Full of amazing feel good pop songs the duo of Tim Ayre & Jean-Christophe Capotorto did well in their native Australia with their debut, should have been a worldwide smash, record company should have got this released everywhere!)

Penguin Prison - S/T (I hope Chris Glover breaks out in 2012 with this record.)

The Sound Of Arrows - Voyage

Spoons - Static In Transmission

Darren Hayes - Secret Codes and Battleships
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