The Least Definitive List of the 25 Best Tracks of 2011

Let's not pretend with each other. You and I both know that we share the same opinion about end of the year lists. We consider them extremely self-indulgent and sometimes outright obnoxious. Yet, we still look. It's the car-wreck, reality-TV, Kardashian moment of indie music blogging, the biggest instance among other narcissistic feats of glory. And, oh, how you hate that pretentious blogger for that definitive list ... and you still can't turn away until you've had a chance to determine that he/she is in fact a prattling moron on the other end of the interwebs. You think, "Yeah ,I guess so. I did like that track. Ha! But that idiot totally left out the killer track by [ ]. What a freaking joke!"

Here we are, dear reader, at an impasse. I have my list on one side of the e-clouds, and you have your universal, pre-disposed, predilection for rolling your electronic eye on the other side. So, let's get on with it. Let's just own the shit out of it while we do this.

Praise be to egomania! Here's my list of my 25 favorite tracks (alpha by band name). Suck it! Read it! Then, tear it a new one.

Artist	Track
Apache Relay	Home Is Not Places
Blackbird Blackbird	Overboard
Destroyer	Chinatown
Dreamers of the Ghetto	Tether
Dum Dum Girls	Coming Down
Elbow	With Love
Generationals	Ten-Twenty-Ten
Girls	Lawrence
Hooray for Earth	No Love
Leisure	Green Light
Little Dragon	Ritual Union
Not in the Face	Downtown Girl
Sun Wizard	World’s Got a Handle
The Antlers	I Don’t Want Love
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart	Belong
The War on Drugs	Come to the City (or Brothers .. I cant decide)
tUnEYarDs	Powa
Typhoon	Summer Home
U.S. Royalty	Equestrian
Washed Out	Call It Off
WU LYF	We Bros
Wye Oak	The Alter
Yellow Ostrich	Mary

And a few honorable mentions .....

Artist	Track
Clock Opera	Belongings
Cults	Oh My God
Gotye	Somebody That I Used to Know
I Break Horses	Winter Beats
M83	Steve McQueen
Pure X	Dry Ice
Ringo Deathstarr	Imagine Hearts
Summer Camp	Better Off Without You
The Naked and Famous	Young Blood
Tin Sparrow	From the Boat