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“The Bad in Each Other,” Feist
“Cold War,” Janelle Monae
“I Feel It All,” Feist
“Best Friends, Right?” Amy Winehouse
“Took You Two Years to Win My Heart,” Final Fantasy
“Dreamworld: Marco De Canaveses,” David Byrne & Caetano Veloso
“A Thousand Kisses Deep,” Leonard Cohen
“Il Pleure Dan Mon Coeur,” Dawn Upshaw
“Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” Euan Morton (Taboo OCR)
“Soft,” Lemon Jelly
“Bewitched,” Daniel Barnett and Richard Sisson (The History Boys OST)
“Electric Chapel,” Lady GaGa
“Rigoletto: Scena Ed Aria, Gualtier Malde & Caro Nome,” Joan Sutherland
“Gotta Have Someone,” Teddy Thompson
“Warm,” the Four Freshmen

“An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum,” Shabazz Palaces
“Two Hearts,” Ryan Adams
“Jean,” Tindersticks (L’Intrus/Vendredi Soir OST)
“In the Mood for Some Killing (Glenn Miller & His Orchestra vs. Rage Against the Machine),” DJ Schmolli
“Rough Design,” Inara George
“Closing,” Tindersticks (Rhums OST)
“The Man Who Isn’t There,” Oren Lavie
“Soda Shop,” Jay Brannan
“Fire on Babylon,” Sinead O’Connor
“Midnight Marauders Tour Guide,” A Tribe Called Quest
“Still Fighting It,” Ben Folds Presents University A Capella: The Washington University in St. Louis’s Mosaic Whispers
“Extraordinary,” Liz Phair
“Ya eres mia. Reposa con tu sueno en mi sueno (And now you’re mine. Rest with your dream in my dream),” Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
“Take It All,” Adele
“Rajaswala-Sampak,” Ki Purbo Asmoro
“Snowed in at Wheeler Street,” Kate Bush featuring Elton John
“Spechol-Analog,” Shabazz Palaces featuring Dougie

“Happy Lovers at Last United,” Morrissey
“E. Watson,” the Decemberists
“Fair,” Ben Folds University A Capella
“Red Bats with Teeth,” Angelo Badalamenti (Lost Highway OST)
“East Harlem,” Beirut
“Goodnight, California,” Kathleen Edwards
“Love I’ve Never Known,” John Legend
“Harrowdown Hill,” Thom Yorke
“Lymph Nodes,” Dennis Cooper/Chris Cochrane (Them OCR)
“Stickin’ It to Myself,” Jonathan Coulton
“It’s Been So Long,” Ernest Tubb
“Dynamite,” Taio Cruz
“Swizzle Stick,” T-Bone Burnett
“Sea Lion Woman,” Feist
“Come Into My House,” Queen Latifah (Precious OST)
“And It Rained All Night,” Thom Yorke
“Alive in Us,” Darkness Falls
“Homeward These Shoes,” Iron & Wine
“Mingusings,” Of Montreal
“Cocoon,” Bjork
“Soy Loco Por Ti, America,” Los Van Van & Carlinhos Brown
“Snow White in Appalachia,” David Sylvian
“Come on Home to Me,” Tracey Thorn
“Cloud of Unknowing,” Rickie Lee Jones
“Always,” Edie Brickell
“New Orleans,” Emmylou Harris
“Late Late Show,” Sutton Foster
“Complaint Department,” Lykke Li
“Throb,” Janet Jackson

“The Park,” Feist
“Dear Someone,” Sarah Gazarek
“Honey Honey,” Feist
“Locked in a Room,” Oren Lavie
“Donna non vidi mai” (from Manon Lescaut), Vittorio Grigolo
“Sweet Blindness,” Judy Kuhn
“White Material,” Tindersticks
“Bless This Space,” Brian Eno
“Follow the Lights,” Ryan Adams
“Shine,” Joni Mitchell
“Roses Blanches,” Kate & Anna McGarrigle
“Friend of Mine,” Liz Phair
“Harbour,” Peter Allen
“Solomon,” Meshell Ndegeocello
“Calgary,” Bon Iver
“Rhumba Club,” Laurie Anderson
“Take Your Shoulder from the Wheel,” Mark Weigle
“Change of Heart,” Teddy Thompson
“Closer to You,” Cassandra Wilson

Satisfying eclecticism is what I look for in a playlist, and lately I’ve been enjoying letting iPod shuffle through this string comprising some (though not all) of my favorite new albums of 2011:

Walls, Apparat
Bon Iver
Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes
The Social Network OST, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
21, Adele
Hard Bargain, Emmylou Harris
Standing On the Rooftop, Madeleine Peyroux
Sacred Songs, Renee Fleming
Shawn Colvin Live
Around the Well, Iron & Wine
The Harrow & The Harvest, Gillian Welch
Tell My Sister, Kate & Anna McGarrigle (the bonus CD of demos and unreleased recordings)
Biophilia, Bjork
Aabenbaringen over Aaskammen, Casiokids
The Twilight Saga: New Moon OST (the tracks by Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, and Grizzly Bear)