Category Archives: Top 5 of 2011

DJs and staff members contribute lists of their top 5 favorite things in a particular category for 2011!

Top 5 of 2011: Adoley and Gabe's Favorite Sad Modest Mouse Songs From the '90s

Adoley is one half of The Front Porch, airing Wednesdays 3-5 pm, and Gabe hosts Majestic Jams, Saturdays 4-6 pm! They’ve worked together to bring you the best sad Modest Mouse songs:
1. “Bankrupt on Selling” – The Lonesome Crowded West
2. “Dramamine” – This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
3. “Custom Concern” – This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
4. “Sleepwalkin’” – Interstate 8
5. “It Always Rains on a Picnic” – Sad Sappy Sucker

Top 5 of 2011: John Tobias's Favorite Albums, Songs, Books, and Concerts

Rock dj John Tobias has chosen the best musical works of the year – in a number of categories.
Top 5 American albums
1. Portugal. The Man – In The Mountan In The Cloud
2. Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
3. The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
4. Washed Out – Within and Without
5. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Belong
Top Scottish album (Overall Fave of the Year!)
We Were Promised Jetpacks – In The Pit Of The Stomach
 
Top Canadian album
Sloan – The Double Cross
Top UK album
Yuck – Yuck
Top 5 Songs from other bands
1. The Smith Westerns – “Fallen In Love”
2. The Rosebuds – “Life Like”
3. Chuck Ragan – “Meet You In The Middle”
4. The Dears – “5 Chords”
5. Sleeper Agent – “Force A Smile”
Too many Honorable Mentions to mention.
Fave books about Rock and Roll
1. It’s So Easy – Duff McKagan
2. Red – Sammy Hagar
Fave concerts
1. The Civil Wars at the Troc, Philly
2. Social D at HOB, AC

Top 5 of 2011: Two Top 5s from Lauren

Lauren is the other half of the Infirmary, 8-10 pm on Friday nights! Here she gives us the songs that she heard most often this year, some by choice, others, not entirely.

Top 5 songs that started off good and ended up driving me insane because they were inescapable and played continuously everywhere in 2011:
1. “Pumped Up Kicks” – Foster the People
2. “Go Outside” – Cult
3. “Someone Like You” – Adele
4. Skrillex.
5. “Super Bass” – Nicki Minaj (okay actually… this one is still good)
 
My top 5 most played on my iTunes this year:
1. “Contact High” – Architecture in Helsinki
2. “Avril 14th” – Aphex Twin
3. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” – Paul Simon
4. “Kino” – The Knife
5. “Talamak” – Toro y Moi

Top 5 of 2011: Dan Buskirk's Top 5 Jazz Albums

Dan Buskirk hosts a jazz show from 11 am – 2 pm every Monday. Here are his favorite jazz albums of the year!

1. Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble – Inana (Pi Recordings)
2. Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnics feat. Nona Hendryx – It’s Time (Katalyst)
3. FAB Trio (Billy Bang/Joe Fonda/Barry Altschul) – History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM Records)
4. Nicole Mitchell – Awakening (Delmark)
5. Odean Pope – Universal Sounds (Porter)