2011 Albums

So I was reading Rolling Stone the other day and it was listing these 'great' albums of 2011. I wrote some of them down, including: Radiohead, Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, Cage the Elephant, Das Racist, Panda Bear, The Roots, Yelawolf. I went home and listened to most songs on Spotify (which I recently downloaded, it's pretty cool). I was really surprised at how bad all of them were. I usually don't like the super popular radio hits, but I figured I'd at least find a few songs that I liked in there. But wow, these all sucked. Who knew out of all of those I would say that Yelawolf was my favorite? Seriously, this guy?

What a clown. But the album was way better than I thought it'd be, I guess Eminem knows talent.

Also, Troy Barnes from Community, that guy can rap too. Rap name is Childish Gambino, taken from a Wu-Tang Clan Name Generator. Camp is probably my favorite album of the year. Maybe I'm biased because I like his character on Community, but I think he is actually really talented as a rapper. Lots of metaphors, lots of clever puns. If you want to hear some of my favorite songs: Bonfire, You See Me, Sunrise, That Power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJFBGpCNvRQ

The top comment for the song is funny: 

this entire album is just a quirky nerdy guy unleashing his inner gangster rapper, and no matter how loud and dirty it gets, his inner nerd always presents itself. and holy balls is it fantastic.