Year-End Lists

Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011

1. Adele
   21
2. Jay-Z and Kanye West
   Watch the Throne
3. Paul Simon
   So Beautiful or So What
4. Fleet Foxes
   Helplessness Blues
5. Radiohead
   The King of Limbs
6. Lady Gaga
   Born This Way
7. The Decemberists
   The King is Dead
8. Wilco
   The Whole Love
9. Wild Flag
   Wild Flag
10. Robbie Robertson
    How To Become Clairvoyant
11. My Morning Jacket
    Circuital
12. The Black Keys
    El Camino
13. Tune-Yards
    Whokill
14. Beastie Boys
    Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
15. Cage the Elephant
    Thank You, Happy Birthday
16. R.E.M.
    Collapse Into Now
17. TV on the Radio
    Nine Types of Light
18. Feist
    Metals
19. Eric Church
    Chief
20. Foo Fighters
    Wasting Light
21. Bon Iver
    Bon Iver
22. Drake
    Take Care
23. Tom Waits
    Bad as Me
24. Frank Ocean
    Nostalgia, Ultra
25. Beyoncé
    4
26. St. Vincent
    Strange Mercy
27. Florence + The Machine
    Ceremonials
28. Das Racist
    Relax
29. Pistol Annies
    Hell on Heels
30. Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman
    World Wide Rebel Songs
31. Miranda Lambert
    Four the Record
32. Big K.R.I.T.
    Return of 4Eva
33. Josh T Pearson
    Last of the Country Gentlemen
34. SuperHeavy
    SuperHeavy
35. Dawes
    Nothing is Wrong
36. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
    Mirror Traffic
37. Panda Bear
    Tomboy
38. Mastodon
    The Hunter
39. Kurt Vile
    Smoke Ring for My Halo
40. Gary Clark Jr.
    The Bright Lights
41. Little Dragon
    Ritual Union
42. Destroyer
    Kaputt
43. Kills
    Blood Pressures
44. Raphael Saadiq
    Stone Rollin’
45. Tedeschi Trucks Band
    Revelator
46. White Denim
    D
47. PJ Harvey
    Let England Shake
48. Charles Bradley
    No Time for Dreaming
49. Wavves
    Life Sux
50. The Lonely Island
    Turtleneck & Chain