SPIN's 20 Best Songs of 2011

[djcraig]

<big>Seems a random mishmosh of arbitrary choices. What makes Britney Spears, "Till the World Ends" (#13) any better than "I Wanna Go"?

Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot" (#18) is interchangeable with a plethora of other current pop/rap songs. Nothing striking or distinctive other than the sampling from Belafonte's "Day-O" which sports arenas have already been doing for what seems like decades during time outs.

About half of these I've never even heard of including pop juggernaut Beyoncé's "Countdown" which comes in at #2 here but barely cracked the Top 40. A song that will soon be forgotten.

A song I wish I could forget is (#1) Adele's massively overplayed "Rolling in the Deep". A song you have no doubt heard countless times if you've chosen to listen to hit radio or brave any mall shopping since last Spring. She's too amazing to have this become her signature.


20. Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues"
19. Eric Church, "Homeboy"
18. Lil Wayne, "6 Foot 7 Foot"
17. Jay-Z and Kanye West, "Otis"
16. Brad Paisley, feat. Carrie Underwood, "Remind Me"
15. Girls, "Vomit"
14. The Weeknd, "Wicked Games"
13. Britney Spears, "Till the World Ends"
12. M83, "Midnight City"; College, feat. Electric Youth, "A Real Hero"
11. LMFAO, "Party Rock Anthem" (Alesso Remix)
10. TV on the Radio, "You"
9. HyunA, "Bubble Pop!"
8. Lykke Li, " Get Some"
7. Clams Casino, "I'm God"
6. Tyler, the Creator, "Yonkers"
5. Frank Ocean, "Novacane"
4. The Rapture, "How Deep Is Your Love"
3. EMA, "California"
2. Beyoncé, "Countdown"
1. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"</big>

<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[schwenko]

and Hyuna snags position #9 with "Bubble Pop"[8D]

Sugoi !!!

[coop41]

lost all credibility with the first track listed, Fleet Foxes #20? ...Please! Apparently they never heard Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger.

[plagiarism]

Pikers. I had Lykke Li's "Get Some" in my best of 2010 list.

Asshats. They made my cutting edge pick mainstream.

[ghosty]

I did pretty good. I've heard (at least partially) 6 of the top 20. None of them do anything for me although I thought "Hold It Against Me" was a better Britney single than the other ones she put out this year...and does anyone else find it strange that Lindsay Lohan is beating Britney to the pages of Playboy?

But really....the only song worth talking about here is Hyuna's "Bubble Pop" which is also the greatest video of all time!