As promised, below you will find the Self-Hating Hipster’s T0p 51 Tracks of 2011 thanks to a scramble at my lake house, indirectly motivated by six girls working on their Masters theses. I actually mistakenly published the article about a week ago but quickly made it “Private” so as not to give you readers a glimpse of the SHH in his article underpants. I didn’t realize (stoopit!) what a massive undertaking this article would prove to be as a solo project. I know it’s too late, but I’m hoping that you don’t find it to be too little. I’ve been really busy with my job lately, and in the words of Garth Marenghi, “I’m not Jesus Christ…I’ve come to accept that now.”
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51. Fucked Up – “Queen of Hearts”
David Comes to Life
Fucked Up adds a cute, poppy flare to post-hardcore as evidenced by “Queen of Hearts.”
“Hello, my name is David!” Hi, David. “Let’s be together! Let’s fall in love!”
Stop yelling, David. Continue reading →
Tags: 17, 4AD, A Savage Night at the Opera, A$AP Rocky, ABBA, Abducted, Abel Tesfaye, Acid and Everything, Adult Goth, Afterburner, Alex Willner, All Alone, All Things Will Unwind, Animal Collective, Annie Clark, Anthony Gonzales, Astro Coast, Atlas Sound, Baby's Arms, Bandcamp, Beck, Belly, Bizness, Black Foliage, Black Tiles, Boards of Canada, Bon Iver, Bradford Cox, Breakers, Breezin, Brian Oblivion, Brian Wilson, Bring Me the Workhorse, Brock Berrigan, Broken Bone, Brooklyn, Carrie Brownstein, Cass McCombs, Cave Song, Chaz Bundick, Christopher Barnes, Clams Casino, Coastal Brake, Crazy Clown Time, Cruel, Cults, Dan Bejar, Daniel Lopatin, David Comes to Life, David Lynch, Daylight, Days, Demolished Thoughts, Destroyer, Dive, Drinking Problem, Dye it Blonde, El Camino, Ellery Roberts, Era Extrana, Eye Contact, Face the Truth, Father Son Holy Ghost, Fire & Ice, Fleet Foxes, Flying Nun, For Emma Forever Ago, Freaking Out EP, Fred Schneider, Fucked Up, Gang Gang Dance, Gem Club, Get Away, Ghostbusters, Girls, Glass Table Girls House of Balloons, Go Outside, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain, Good Day Today, Helium, Helplessness Blues, Honey Bunny, Humor Risk, Hunx and His Punx, Hurry Up We're Dreaming, I Might, Iceage, Illumine, Imagine Pt. 3, Instrumentals, Is This Power, Isaac Brock, It's Real, James Blake, Jesus Fever, Julia MacFarlane, Kaputt, Karen O., Kaskade, Kodachrome, Kristen Drymala, Kurt Vile, Let England Shake, LiveLoveA$AP, Liz Bougatsos, lo-fi, Looping State of Mind, Lorelai, Lover's Lane, M83, Madeline Follin, Martin Frawley, Merrill Garbus, Michicant, Midnight City, Mind Drips, Mind Eraser, Mirror Traffic, Modest Mouse, Money, Motivation, My Brightest Diamond, Neon Indian, New Brigade, Nicolas Jaar, Noah Lennox, Oneohtrix Point Never, Panda Bear, Parallax, Paul Simon, Pavement, Peeping Tomboy, Pharoahs, Pinky's Dream, PJ Harvey, Polish Girl, Portamento, Praveen Sharma, Psychic Chasms, Queen of Hearts, Real Estate, Remain in Light, Replica, Ritzy Bryan, Robin Egg Blue, Savage Night at the Opera, SBTRKT, Sepalcure, Seth Bogart, Shara Worden, Sleater-Kinney, Smith Westerns, Smoke Ring For My Halo, Sonic Youth, Space is Only Noise if You Can See, St. Vincent, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Stick Figures in Love, Strange Mercy, Surfer Blood, Talk Talk, Tarot Classics EP, Teenage Rex, Terminally Chill, The Bats, The Big Roar, The Black Keys, The Drums, The Field, The Game You Play is in Your Head, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, The Joy Formidable, The Left Banke, The Lost Boys, The Minders, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Shakes, The Weeknd, The Whole Love, The Wilhelm Scream, The Year of Hibernation, This Guy, This Night, Thundercat, Thurston Moore, Tomboy, Too Young to Be in Love, Top Tracks of 2011, Toro Y Moi, Travis Stewart, Trevor Powers, Trilla, tUnE-yArDs, Twerps, Tycho, U Don't Like Rock N' Roll, Unluck, Up, W H O K I L L, Waste Love, We Added it Up, Whirring, Wilco, Wild Flag, Witchy Woman, World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation, Wowee Zowee, WU LYF, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Youth Lagoon, Yuck
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