Today we begin rolling out the results of this year’s Gummy Awards: The only set of lists which are perfectly impervious to comment section backlash as they are voted upon by you, the esteemed Shut Up, Dude/Monsters’ Ball electorate. Up first is 2011′s Top 10 Tracks. The results may shock you! And they may not! It depends on how you voted, really. In any event, the ten-track spread fairly reflects the guitar/pop/rap/Del Rey year we had. Here we go:
10. Radiohead – “Lotus Flower“
9. James Blake – “The Wilhelm Scream“
8. Tyler, The Creator – “Yonkers“
7. Adele – “Someone Like You“
6. Girls – “Vomit“
5. St. Vincent – “Cruel“
4. Lana Del Rey – “Video Games“
3. Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues“
2. Bon Iver – “Holocene“
1. M83 – “Midnight City“
Congratulations on your victory, M83! More like Hurry Up, We’re WINNING. And stuff.
Stay tuned for more ‘Gum readers’ poll results in the Best New Act, Best Music Video, Best Album, Indie Rock Crush, Best Movie, Best TV Show, and Best Viral Video categories. We’ll leave you with the list in text form, for your copying and pasting pleasure:
10. Radiohead – “Lotus Flower”
09. James Blake – “The Wilhelm Scream”
08. Tyler, The Creator – “Yonkers”
07. Adele – “Someone Like You”
06. Girls – “Vomit”
05. St Vincent – “Cruel”
04. Lana Del Rey – “Video Games”
03. Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
02. Bon Iver – “Holocene”
01. M83 – “Midnight City”
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Is Vomit really everyone’s favorite track that album? I think Alex and Die are much better songs, or at least a lot more fun to listen to. Probably Honey Bunny, too.
“Die”
That song is in the running for best of 2011 in the raptor chapters.
Awesome track, but Christopher Owens’ singing ruins it for me. It’s just not right for the song.
No, “Vomit” is not my favorite track from FSHG. “Die” is my song of the year. I’m pretty sure I chose “Die” as the best song of the year.
If I’m going off play counts (which are kind of meaningless, but whatever), “Die” is my favorite song on the album, followed by “Forgiveness,” then “Magic,” then “Honey Bunny,” then “My Ma,” THEN “Vomit.”
I love “Vomit”, but I love “Magic” even more.
My Ma.
Indeed, I think Die may be my personal favorite, though Vomit is ridiculously cool even if I thought I was listening to some unknown Pink Floyd track at the end.
I think Die also fills my “listening to an unknown Pink Floyd track” needs with its ending. Die and My Ma were hands down their best songs in concert, so I would definitely pick those over Vomit (though it is an amazing song)
Die filled my “listening to a very well known wolfmother track” needs. which did not exist because wolfmother is on spotify.
Honey Bunny was my fav pick from the bunch of great songs in that great album
I think Father, Son, Holy Ghost is one of those albums where anyone could pick any song off of it and call it their favorite and I wouldn’t have a beef with it. I think people like “Vomit” because its a powerful rock ballad and we live in 2011, a time when it’s hard to find good songs like that.
yeah, it’s a good sign if everyone has a different favorite on an album
Is Jamie Marie getting no love here? I think i’m just a sucker for The Wallflower’s-esque organ finale.
love Jamie marie too! the organ solo is amazingly beautiful.
“die” is a rip of deep purple’s “highway star”
Alex was easily my favourite track from that album, and in my top 10 for the year. Overall though I’d say the album was only slightly better than “Album”.
Alex is such a great song.
Alex is my favourite for sure!
Saying I love You and Just A Song are my favorite.
My favourite is “Just a Song” – there’s a part that reminds me of “Jed’s Other Poem” from Grandaddy’s “The Sophtware Slump”.
Glad “Cruel” made it
“Cruel” is the best Sonic the Hedgehog 2 B-side.
I’m glad “Cruel” made it, but it’s not my favorite song on the album. “Year of the Tiger” is how to end an album on a perfect note, plus “Surgeon” is on some King Crimson/Talking Heads shit and makes my head spin.
Weird. 311 didn’t make the list.
Scott did not come original.
He was probably all mixed up.
To everyone who voted for 311 in EVERY category: Ha (?)
There weren’t enough of you, unfortunately (fortunately).
Dissapointed is the color of their energy…woahoh
We did not come full range with our voting
Great thread, you’re all winners. What a beautiful disaster.
311 jokes are the best. If you guys need me, I’ll be here awhile.
Ummm, Amber is the color of your energy?
…I’m really sorry
One time I drank too much bourbon and listened to Lotus Flower. Thom made me reconsider everything.
You spelled ‘LSD’ wrong.
My vote did not make it, but I really had no hope for Trash Talk cracking the top 10 to begin with haha
Michael Underscore, I love how much you love Trash Talk lately. They are brutally awesome.
Agreed.
The Awake EP rips so hard.
I’m actually in agreement with most of this list.
List needs more niggas in paris
Yea, this list is much better than the stereogums album list. Not how I would do it, I think Battles – Ice Cream needs to be on here somewhere, as well as 1 or 2 others, but not bad.
More Ice Cream!
more ice cream?
I totally agree. Vive la démocratie!
well it looks like my vote for A.D.H.D. by Kendrick Lamar didn’t really help.
That’s a damn good song but “HiiPower” tops all hip hop songs this year.
This is a great list, and although I would prefer if Real Estate’s Green Aisles made it over Video Games, it is still pretty agreeable.
This is a great list, indeed.
I do hope someone else thinks “Sleep Forever” by Portugal. The Man deserves some list action.
Lots of good tracks on that album. Deserves more attention for sure.
Yes yes yes yes yes! I was pleasantly surprised to find In the Mountain in the Cloud sneak into Paste’s end of the year list (I think it was Paste?). Solid album, for sure.
This list disappointed me for two main reasons. 1) None of these people were ever Gumby. And second of all, the #2 Gumby is probably Pokey. This list is wrong, all wrong.
This guy is the number 1 gumby for sure
The year-end reader poll is never really a good indication of the good music that the writers put forth in front of us throughout the year. All their efforts in covering Bands to Watch and other sorts of deep digging — out the door, and replaced by a popularity contest between whomever got their name out the most in the press this year.
Scott, Amrit, Tom and Corban, I’m sorry to inform you that even by delivering each Lana Del Rey report with a bit of backhand, you’ve managed to turn readers into actual fans of her music. Nice job, guys. Really nice fucking job…
It is pretty condescending to assume that everyone except for you decides their favorite songs based on availability instead of thorough listening and some thought. Maybe people just like the song. Gorilla vs. Bear has “Video Games” a place higher than this list, and I don’t think that’s because they saw a few live clips of her on Stereogum.
I can respect anyone’s personal tastes, but my point is that the list above reads like a bunch of songs that would appear on “Now That’s What I Call Mainstream Indie!” compilation. Not all the best songs that were released this year were singles. I just think people should take more effort and time to explore the non-single tracks, because as the first comment here notes, “Vomit” wasn’t really the best track off Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
If that were true, where’s “Pumped Up Kicks”?
I can’t reply on Stephen’s comment for some reason, but I’m pretty sure that “Pumped Up Kicks” came out in 2010.
awww you got me
Michael_,
EXACTLY!!! “Yonkers” aside, and considering the fact that I don’t listen to Adele or LDR, I can pick a song that I personally like more from every album from which 1-10 derive, especially M83 (Steve McQueen is better in my opinion, but opinions are like assholes).
I like your style Michael_, plus we have the best name on the planet, so that’s just an added bonus. I’m just sad “( )” by The Men didn’t make it, or “Bataille,” or anything from Leave Home.
“I Mind” blows “Willhems Scream” out of the water in my opinion, but my opinion doesn’t really matter. “The Shrine / An Argument” is also the most “experimental” FF have ever gotten, so that would be my pick from Helplessness Blues (thought I think “The Shrine” is now a single).
Anyway, I’ll end on that note.
Yes, you’re right, but remember that this isn’t an objective (or even subjective) compilation of the best songs of 2011, but just a song popularity contest. So it’s no surprise that the more mainstream indie songs appear on this list, because the “good” obscure bands are less popular than the mainstream bands (!) Similarly, lead tracks and singles will be more popular than “better” album tracks
I’ll sit here and talk to you all day about how Pure X’s Pleasure is by far the greatest release of this year, but for each such fanatic for an obscure band, you could find twenty people willing to argue the same for M83, Bon Iver, Girls and so on.
I agree wholeheartedly that this list is an amazing summation of the year, and looking at it in ten years time I could say “oh yeah, that was what made 2011,” even though I would only have Wilhelm in my personal top ten.
god, every time i see that cover…thank you, evil jim henson, for the nightmare
i voted for “july” by youth lagoon…the climax is epic
if i’d never let go then only god knows where i would be now
i made a bridge between us then i slowly burnt it
5 yrs ago, in my backyard i sang love away
little did i know, that real love had not quite yet found me…….
gets me every time
I really love Baby Missiles by War on Drugs – my happy tune of the year!
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So is 53%. That is crazy average, that average.
This comment is below average.
I thought everyone just had some type apriori love for Midnight. It’s like when people hate on “Odessa” the Caribou track, er “You saved my life” by Cas Mccombs. It’s a reaction I just don’t really get…
Mean or Median?
i wished we lived in a world where midnight city was “average”
This year I couldn’t get enough of that track “Pleasure Moans” by Your Mom.
that’s a kick-ass Top 10.
Although none of these songs are in my top 10 I very much like what is on this list. A strong year for singles.
This means I’m on the same page as other stereogum folk. Sweet!
Lists like this make me so proud of the internet’s collective musical intellect. So much so that I finally registered for a stereogum account just so I could send all you gummy voters some digital love. Aw. Nicely done, you.
good idea
This was surprisingly similar to my top ten which caught downvotes on one of the other threads but maybe people just don’t like lists being posted. Anyway, the crucial difference was that I had M83 at number 2 and Azealia Banks’ – 212 at number one, simply because I couldn’t stop listening to it.
I had completely forgotten about Tyler, The Creator until I saw this.
Well done, ‘Gum.
Yes. I am Thom Yorke on a Unicorn.
Christ “someone like you” isn’t even the best Adele song released this year.
Rolling In the deep should take that honor. either the original or the jamie xx shuffle version would be just fine.
this list is so gorgeously guessable. Perfectly predictable. Very good summation!
Couldn’t agree more with #1 and 2! M83 made the album of the year in my opinion…
I gotta say this is a pretty good list. Pat on the back to stereogum readers.
good list. i do like “intro” a bit more but the whole album is great.
Humbug, no love for ‘Amor Fati’. That was my 2K11 jam hands down.
really becomes irrelevant when you think of all the songs influenced by my boy JC. Timeless, unlike this ‘filth’.
JC Chasez
donnytilla,
Are we done complaining about Shabazz Palaces not making any of these lists? Or is it just because every song on Black Up is perfect?
Riding for the Feeling by Bill Callahan is one of the best songs this year. Certainly better than any of the songs on that list.
Just saw the Pitchfork list. Way to go, gang! We got the first two right!
psh, a barely top 30 album gets a top 10 song?? And who even ARE ‘the radio heads??’ fucking new bands…(wah wahhhhhh)
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oh BOO MEEE ripping on shit vocals n keepin it real, we don’t wanna hear it!! (lalalalaal) M83 is the best band on the planet duuude!! haha minus 1 minus 1 !!! The real song of the year should probably be Separator anyway:)
man i swear, it’s like M83 fans are even more rabid that FTP fans…course theres a good chance all the minus 1′ers ARE M83 themselves…and probably is haha.
I love SHIT VOCALS, espesh their first EP.
How does it feel to match up so well with Pitchfork?
OH NO PEOPLE WHO LIKE SIMILAR THINGS AGREED ON A FEW THINGS WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE
Do you have anxiety disorder, friend?
Same top 2 as Pitchfork
No Gauntlet Hair songs? “Keep Time” is so fucking good.
Agreed.
I actually can’t really complain. It’s what I would expect this list to look like. It doesn’t add the occasional hip/different choice to spice things up. It just makes sense. I like it. Nice work everyone.
I’m a little surprised that Tune-Yards didn’t make it, but overall It’s good!
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