Le migliori canzoni del 2011

Categoria principale: miglior canzone da ascoltare sul divano
[main category - best tracks 2011: song to be listened on a sofa]
Radiohead - Lotus Flower
Fleet Foxes - Helplesseness Blues
Danger Mouse e Daniele Luppi - The Theme of Rome
Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Girls - Vomit    * per me pezzo dell'anno
St. Vincent - Cruel
Broken Records - Let Me Come Home



Miglior interprete maschile
[Best male vocalist]
Paul Simon - Love and Hard Times *
Bon Iver - Calgary
Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto
Tom Waits - Bad as me
Stephen Malkmus - No One Is (As I Are Be) 
Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
Butch Walker - Pretty Melody
Paul Simon - Rewrite
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Miglior interprete femminile
[Best female vocalist]
Adele - Someone like you
Kate Bush - Wildman
Joan as Police Woman - The Magic
Sarah Jarosz - Run Away
Laura Marling - The Muse  *
Lana del Rey - Video Games
Tori Amos - Carry
Lykke Li – Love Out of Lust
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Miglior spartito
[Best score]
Wilco - Black Moon
Devotchka - The Alley
Elbow - The birds
Rubblebucket –  Came Out of a Lady
Beirut - The Rip Tide
Beirut - Vagabond
St. Vincent - Cruel
Typhoon - The Honest Truth
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Miglior canzone che evoca i Beatles
[best song with a beatlesian sound]
Cake - The Winter
Cake - Sick of You
Girls - Love Like a River
Metronomy - Everything Goes My Way
Beirut - East Harlem
Girls - Honey Bunny
Okkervil - White Shadow Waltz
Arctic Monkeys - Brick by Brick
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Miglior canzone morriconesca
[Best morriconesque song]
Danger Mouse e Daniele Luppi,With broken neck
Danger Mouse e Daniele Luppi, Roman Blue  *
Fleet Foxes, Battery Kinzie
Hooverphonic, George’s Cafe
Verdena, Razzi Arpia e Fiamme
Palo Benvegnù, Achab in New York
The Gentleman’s Agreement, Kinderdijk
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Miglior canzone che non ti fa tenere fermo il piede
[Best Tap-a-Foot Song] 
Empresarios - Cumbia
Wanda Jackson - Thunder on the Mountain
Foster the People - Pumped Up kicks  *
Foster the People - Call It What You Want
The Gentlemen’s agreement - Carcarà
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Givers – Up Up Up
Metronomy - The Bay
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Miglior canzone da ascoltare in autostrada, meglio se in macchina

[Best song to be listened on the road, better if in the car]
Cage the Elephant, Right Before My Eyes
Fitz & The Tantrums – Moneygrabber
Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels
Seryn – We Will All Be Changed
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Givers – Up Up Up
Tv on the Radio - Second Song
Blitzen Trapper - Fletcher
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Miglior canzone struggente

[Best All-Consuming Song]Cake, Teenage Pregnancy
Emma’s Imagination, Focus
Decemberists - June Hymn
The Head and The Heart – Down In The Valley
Giovanni Block - La neve che accadrà
Delorean - Country Clutter
Hooverphonic - Danger Zone
Thursday - A Darker Forest

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Miglior canzone per il gioco della spazzola se tu solo avessi 13 anni
[Best Song for Slow-Dance if you only were 13]
Wilco - Open Mind
Hooverphonic, Heartbroken
Girls - Forgiveness
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Corinne Bailey Rae - Is This Love
Eric Benet - Sometimes I Cry
Decemberists - Risetome
Decemberists - Dear Avery
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