While I SHOULD be able to get to a scanner and at the very least throw up some sketches I've been doing before the end of December, I'm not positive that this is going to happen so I'm doing this because A) I want to and B) because it'll guarantee that December is not a post-less month!
For the past two years, I've made a playlist each month featuring songs that I deem both significant and/or enjoyable. Mind you, these songs do not have to have come out in 2011, I simply have to have heard them during the calendar year. The song's from the list are usually ones that have popped up in my iTunes while drawing, but sometimes they're ones that I hear on the street blasting from someone's car or at a bar/friend's house/etc. I try to arrange these songs into a cohesive order and only allow myself to select as many songs as would fit on one CD (also allowing any given artist one entry for a given month). I look forward to doing this every month and also to subsequently narrowing things down for the end of the year as you see below.
As this is the end of the year, I've selected enough music to fit on TWO CDs. I've included in parentheses the month from which the song was pulled.
BEST OF 2011
Disc 1
1. Woods- Bon Iver (December)
2. Mujer Hermosa- Los Incomparables (March)
3. Swans- Camera Obscura (August)
4. I Can't Let my Heaven Walk Away- Stevie Wonder (October)
5. My Man's Gone Now- Nina Simone (January)
6. Adore- Prince (January)
7. McFearless- King of Leon (April)
8. Rock of Billy- Dave Douglas (September)
9. All Along the Watchtower- Dave Matthews Band Featuring Carlos Santana (January)
10. Moving Targets- Van Hunt (December)
11. Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event- Deftones (May)
12. Incesto O Pasion- Omar-Rodriguez Lopez (December)
13. Se Me Hazo Facil- Concha Buika (November)
14. Prayer- Miles Davis (October)
15. When You Were Young- The Noisettes (August)
16. Sounds of Your Lovers- Dozens (December)
DISC 2
1. New Cannonball Blues- TV on the Radio (June)
2. With You Friends- Skrillex (August)
3. Pop Culture- Madeon (November)
4. You Hand in Mine- Explosions in the Sky (August)
5. Slum Beautiful- Outkast (December)
6. Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants- Dillinger Escape Plan (October)
7. Carolyn's Fingers- Cocteau Twins (February)
8. Say You'll Go- Janelle Monae (May)
9. Pandemonium- Meek Mill featuring Rick Ross and Wale (July)
10. Track C- Group Dancers- Charles Mingus (June)
11. For Love I Come- Thundercat (May)
12. Glass- Bats for Lashes (August)
13. Kiss Me- Tom Waits (November)
14. Cruel Bloom- Converge (June)
15. Soul Machines- Northern Primitive (August)
16. Sunflower- Low (April)
17. Snake Pond- Raekwon (March)
Monthly Breakdown
January- 3
February- 1
March- 2
April- 2
May- 3
June- 3
July- 1
August- 6
September- 1
October- 3
November- 3
December- 5
