Music Blog

It's that time of year again! Time to take stock of the musical year that was and deliver the results in handy list form. So we want to know: what moved/soothed/grooved you?

Whatever your criteria, whatever your tastes, we want your top ten choices for 2011. The rules are simple, but important: 1) We're talking new releases out in the calendar year 2011 (i.e. none of those reissues that had us sometimes trying to figure what year this was, exactly-- there were a lot of them!). 2) Try to limit choices to full-length releases from individual artists-- no EPs or compilations (though you're certainly welcome to highlight any of those that caught your fancy in addition to the ten full-lengths on your list).

Seems to us it was a big year. local and otherwise, and we wouldn't want you to forget anything. So take your time-- we'll accept your submissions up until Friday, December 23rd, crunch the numbers and once again present them back to you in a convenient audio/visual format at the end of the month. You can submit in the comments below or via email to opbmusic@opb.org (you may be embarrassed to be including Lulu on your list, after all).

Here are some resources to help jog your memory a bit. And here's the way we were: last year's listener list.

Tagged: Best of 2011