My Top 5 CD's for 2011

The way I listen to music has dramatically changed since the internet. When I was young, my exposure to music was the radio, magazines, the record store promotional displays and word of mouth. MTV changed that a lot but it was still very hard to find music. That was part of the charm and fun of being a fan of music back then. My other music nerd friends would trek all over Baltimore, in search of that rare music find. Sometimes we were successful, sometimes we weren’t but it was always fun. When I finally found what I was looking for, I would bring it home and play it until I either A, got sick of it or B, hated it. I knew whole albums from beginning to the end. Now, with so much access to music and the shuffle option on my ipod, I don’t get to know albums through and through like I used to. I’m torn as to what is better. I do love the access I have to more and more music and have found so many great songs that I would have never come to know back in the day.

These are my favorite 5 CD’s for 2011

5              Goo Goo Dolls – Something for the Rest of Us

 Key Tracks - Home, Not Broken and Still Your Song

 4              Tim Booth – Love Life

 Key Tracks - As Far As I Can See, All About Time and Harbour, The Garden Rules and

 3              Snow Patrol – Fallen Empires

Key Tracks - Called Out In The Dark, The Weight Of Love, This Isn't Everything You Are and  New York

2              Mat Kearny – Young Love

 Key Tracks - Hey Mama, Count on Me, Sooner or Later, Chasing the Light, Down and Young Dumb and in Love

1              The Airborne Toxic Event – All At Once

Key Tracks - All at Once, Numb, Changing, Doesn't Mean A Thing, Strange Girl, Half of Something Else and All I Ever Wanted




Honorable Mention

Ha Ha Tonka - Death of a Decade
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart