I bought 134 albums in 2011, since 2009 that is a typical year for number of albums.

I decided to list every album that had average song rating greater than 4, since they would all be worthy of mentioning and buying.   I have 23 albums that earned that distinction.

Using my album formula, here were my favorite 23 albums in 2011:

1.  Damien Jurado’s Live at Landlocked (Secretly Canadian) – 9.805

2.  The Dark Mean’s Self Titled (Bandcamp) – 9.729

3.  Mixtapes’ How To Throw A Successful Party (Self Released) – 9.724

4.  The Dodos’ No Color (Frenchkiss) – 9.696

5.  Ramshackle Glory’s Live the Dream (Plan It X) – 9.648

6.  P.S. Eliot’s Sadie (Salinas) – 9.518

7.  Cloud Nothings’ Self Titled (Carpark) – 9.411

8.  The Front Bottoms’ Self Titled (Bar None) – 9.388

9.  Joyce Manor’s Self Titled (6131) – 9.377

10.   The Wooden Birds’ Two Matchsticks (Barsuk) – 9.232

11.  Al Scorch’s Tired Ghostly Town (Self Released) – 9.220

12.  High Dive’s Self Titled (No Idea) – 9.165

13.  Fionn Regan’s 100 Acres of Sycamore (Heavenly) – 9.142

14.  Michael Jordon’s Touchdown Pass’ Baby Steps (Bandcamp) – 9.113

15.  Monument’s Goes Canoeing (Tiny Engines) – 8.821

16.  Wavelets’ Athaletics (Tiny Engines) – 8.815

17.  Waxahatchee + Chris Clavin Split (Plan It X) – 8.722

18.  Signals Midwest’s Latitudes & Longitude (Tiny Engines) – 8.146

19.  The Rural Alberta Advatage’s Departing (Saddle Creek) – 8.079

20.  Time New Viking’s Dancer Enquired (Wichita) – 7.914

21.  The Hotel Year’s It Never Goes Out (Bandcamp) – 7.884

22.  Owen’s Ghost Town (Polyvinyl) – 7.720

23.  Laura Stevenson & the Cans’ A Record (Asian Man) – 7.335