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PFU’s Best of 2011

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USE: Examining/enjoying the past year by the music it inspired.

PFU #021 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 1]

  1. Felt Letters – 600,000 Bands
  2. YACHT – Shangri-la
  3. The Cars – Free
  4. Eleanor Friedberger – My Mistakes
  5. Kanye West & Jay-Z – That’s My Bitch
  6. Emily Bell – Back To The Way I Was
  7. Thee Oh Sees – Dead Energy
  8. Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band – Stay Away [Nirvana Cover]
  9. Miami Horror – Holidays
  10. The Black Lips – Modern Art
  11. The War on Drugs – Baby Missiles
  12. Chain & The Gang – Detroit Music [Pt. 1]
  13. The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?
  14. Patton Oswalt – The Vestibule of Dreams
  15. DJ Shadow – Run For Your Life
  16. Justice – Newlands
  17. The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
  18. Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary [ft. GZA & U-God]
  19. Wire – Please Take
  20. SebastiAn – Tetra
  21. Telekinesis – Please Ask For Help
  22. Dirty Beaches – Sweet 17
  23. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Tiger
  24. Four Tet – Locked
  25. Jacuzzi Boys – Zeppelin
  26. David Lynch – Good Day Today
  27. Veronica Falls – Stephen
  28. Moon Boots – Gopher It
  29. The Generationals – Dirty Mister Dirty
  30. Young Hunting – Into Yr Mind
  31. King Krule – Bleak Bake
  32. Okay Colour! – (Caribbean) Dreams
  33. The Caretaker – All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There
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PFU #022 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 2]

  1. The Archers of Loaf – Web In Front
  2. Cut Copy – Need You Now
  3. Dom – Some Boys [ft. Emma]
  4. Dr. Dre – Kush [ft. Snoop Dogg & Akon]
  5. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Wrong Time Wrong Planet
  6. Kids At The Bar – Young Ones [ft. Glasnost]
  7. Gospel Music – Let’s Run
  8. Lykke Li – Jerome
  9. Modest Mouse – That’ll Be The Day [Buddy Holly Cover]
  10. Night Beats – Puppet On A String
  11. Nicolas Jaar – I Got A Woman
  12. My Morning Jacket – Victory Dance
  13. Big K.R.I.T. – Dreamin’
  14. Radiohead – Lotus Flower
  15. Real Estate – Barely Legal [Strokes Cover]
  16. Stornoway – Zorbing
  17. Thurston Moore – Benediction
  18. Tom Waits – Kiss Me
  19. Tyler, The Creator – Yonkers
  20. M.I.A. – 27 [Amy Winehouse Tribute]
  21. Washed Out – Soft
  22. Widowspeak – In The Pines
  23. Wu-Tang Clan – Only The Rugged Survive [ft. RZA]
  24. The Strange Boys – Me & You
  25. Deerhoof – Super Duper Rescue Heads!
  26. Cults – Never Saw The Point
  27. Chain & The Gang – Not Good Enough
  28. Paul Simon – Rewrite
  29. Wild Beasts – End Come Too Soon
  30. Youth Lagoon – July
  31. YACHT – Tripped and Fell in Love
  32. Yuck – Georgia
  33. Puro Instinct – Luv Goon
  34. Bosco Delrey – The Afterlife
  35. Charles Bradley – How Long?
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PFU #023 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 3]

  1. Little Dragon – Little Man
  2. Peaches – Turn It On [Franz Ferdinand Cover]
  3. Edwyn Collins – Come Tomorrow, Come Today
  4. Explosions in the Sky – Trembling Hands
  5. Fujiya & Miyagi – Yoyo
  6. The Generationals – Please Be It
  7. Guided By Voices – Chocolate Boy
  8. Holy Ghost! – Wait and See
  9. I Break Horses – Winter Beats
  10. Mikal Cronin – Apathy
  11. Night Beats – High Noon Blues
  12. Radiohead – Morning, Mr. Magpie
  13. Toro Y Moi – Still Sound [Glasnost Remix]
  14. Okay Colour! – Tropical Fleetwood
  15. Ty Segall – My Head Explodes
  16. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Ffunny Ffriends
  17. Lana Del Ray – Video Games
  18. M83 – Midnight City
  19. Atlas Sound – Terra Incognita
  20. Kanye West & Jay-Z – Niggas In Paris
  21. Justice – On’n’On
  22. Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire – Huzzah! [Remix] [ft. Despot, Das Racist, & El-P]
  23. Royal Headache – Wilson Street
  24. The Soft Pack – Answer To Yourself
  25. Thee Oh Sees – Chem-Farmer
  26. WU LYF – Dirt
  27. Wild Flag – Electric Band
  28. Phantogram – 16 Years
  29. Cat’s Eyes – Over You
  30. Toro Y Moi – I Can Get Love
  31. The Drums – Money
  32. Widowspeak – Fir Coat
  33. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
  34. Danny Brown – EWNESW
  35. Chairlift – Wrong Opinion
  36. Jacuzzi Boys – Glazin’
  37. Johnny Falstaff – Honky Tonk Blood
  38. Marc Maron – Working Out Their Daddy Issues
  39. Marc Maron – “Stop Talking!”
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PFU #024 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 4]

  1. The Sounds – It’s So Easy
  2. Real Estate – Out of Tune
  3. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – New Whaling
  4. Motel Aviv – The Unknown
  5. YACHT – Paradise Engineering
  6. Youth Lagoon – Daydream
  7. Battles – My Machines [ft. Gary Numan]
  8. Washed Out – A Dedication
  9. The Rapture – In The Grace of Your Love
  10. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
  11. People Like Us – I’m Dreaming Too
  12. Phantogram – Don’t Move
  13. Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Ring The Alarm
  14. Andre Williams – My Time Will Come
  15. Anthony Jeselnik – Seduction
  16. Big K.R.I.T. – American Rapstar
  17. Bitch Perfect – Holiday in America
  18. Boris – Attention Please
  19. Beastie Boys – OK
  20. The Feelies – Nobody Knows
  21. Eleanor Friedberger – One Month Marathon
  22. Four Tet – Pinnacles
  23. Brian Lopez – Montjuic
  24. John Maus – The Crucifix
  25. Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
  26. Major Lazer – Original Don
  27. Man Man – Spookie Jookie
  28. The Go! Team – Ready To Go Steady
  29. Adele – Rolling in the Deep
  30. Jacuzzi Boys – Los Angeles
  31. Veronica Falls – The Box
  32. The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
  33. Frank Ocean – Thinking About You
  34. The Roots – The OtherSide [ft. Greg Porn & Bilal Oliver]
  35. Candles of Paradise – In The Chapel
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PFU #025 – The Best of 2011 [Pt. 5]

  1. The Caretaker – Libet’s Delay
  2. Christmas – Pyong
  3. Clams Casino – Natural
  4. Crystal Fighters – At Home
  5. Dirty Beaches – Lord Knows Best
  6. Kavinsky & Lovefoxxx – Nightcall
  7. Charlotte Gainsbourg – All The Rain
  8. Fleet Foxes – Grown Ocean
  9. The Psychic Paramount – Isolated
  10. Katy B – Disappear
  11. The Strange Boys – Over the River and Through the Woulds
  12. J. Viewz – Salty Air
  13. Cat’s Eyes – Face in the Crowd
  14. David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream
  15. Vockah Redu – Lay Wit U [J-Dawg Mix]
  16. Adele – Rumour Has It
  17. Raphael Saadiq – Good Man
  18. Atlas Sound – Mona Lisa
  19. Lauren Wood – Summer Skin [ft. Haley and Abby]
  20. Austra – The Noise
  21. Southern Backtones – Forever
  22. TV on the Radio – Caffeinated Consciousness
  23. Wale – Chain Music
  24. Wilco – The Whole Love
  25. Lindsey Buckingham – Rock Away Blind
  26. Freddie Gibbs – Heaven Can Wait
  27. Ghostface Killah – Purified Thoughts [ft. GZA & Killah Priest]
  28. Girls – Vomit
  29. Tom Waits – Talking At The Same Time
  30. Toro Y Moi – New Beat
  31. Nerves Junior – Champagne & Peaches
  32. Night Beats – Ain’t Dumbo
  33. Radiohead – Little By Little [Caribou Remix]
  34. My Morning Jacket – Movin’ Away
  35. SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross
  36. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Witchhunt Suite for World War III [9/11 10th Anniversary]
  37. Chain & The Gang – Music’s Not For Everyone

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PFU’s Favorite Videos: 2010-2011 (and a couple trailers)

El Guincho - Bombay

Hey kids. The Best of 2011 cavalcade will be posted tomorrow, but in the meantime I thought I would share some of my favorite videos of the last couple years. They are probably not any new news to anyone, but they are great and posted again here for your enjoyment. Spike Jones directed 2 of them, and they are playful and fun but, the best by far and actually my favorite music video of all time is “Bombay” by El Guincho. It is absolutely staggaring in how well made and how successfully ambitious it is. I hardly noticed the first time I watched it because it’s tone is so modest. I doubt I’ll see something do this much this well for a long time. My favorite from last year is by far the “Yonkers” video by Tyler, The Creator. Who knows if those Odd Future kids will make as lasting a mark as they initially seemed, but their entrance was undeniably spectacular. This video (and their Tonight Show appearance) were instrumental in their overnight rocket to stardom. The video does what any great video should do: it perfectly represents their style so that it further defines it, but still leaves them mysterious, AND the video is a great piece on its own. I don’t think I’ve been so unnerved and so charmed at the same time. The only problem is..now they have a lot to live up to.

Oh yeah, and Thee Oh Sees video is brilliant, the Cults video is a small landmark (and kind of offensive too), the Adele video makes me ok with her selling 11 trillion albums, and the Jacuzzi Boys managed to inspire their female fans to make a video using only their vaginas…that might just be rock and roll. I warned you…Enjoy.

Also, at the end I threw in 3 of my favorite indie trailers of 2011. The last of which (Rainbow’s End) was described as “a remaking of the Muppet Movie in east Texas…as a documentary…with cock-fighting.” Just watch it.

NOTE: THE JACUZZI BOYS VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN  (and replaced with something lame?) BUT IT WAS GIVEN ITS OWN SITE: http://jacuzzigals.com/          DO IT. SERIOUSLY.