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Top 10 Albums of 2011

1. Latin For Truth - Youth Crew Blues
2. The Wonder Years - Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing
3. Touché Amoré - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
4. Transit - Listen & Forgive
5. The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt
6. Stray From The Path - Rising Sun
7. Structures - Divided By
8. Man Overboard - Man Overboard
9. Living With Lions - Holy Shit
10. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights

Top 5 EP's of 2011

1. Our Life Story - I'd Rather Change Than Stay The Same
2. With The Punches - It's Not The End Of The World
3. Make Do and Mend - Part and Parcel
4. Misser - Problems. Problems. Problems.
5. Daytrader - Last Days Of Rome


Top 5 Shows of 2011

1. Vans Warped Tour 2011 (Sunday 10 July 2011 ) - The Wonder Years / Set Your Goals / The Acacia Strain / Enter Shikari / A Day to Remember

2. Pop Punk's Not Dead Tour (Saturday 5 November 2011) - New Found Glory / Set Your Goals / The Wonder Years / Man Overboard / This Time Next Year
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First, make a list of your top-20 artists of the last 12 months (or whichever you prefer). Then, for each of these artists, add the 5 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 5 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 100 represents an extremely varied one.

1. Brand New
Manchester Orchestra, Kevin Devine, Taking Back Sunday, Straylight Run, Bayside
Total: 5

2. Balance & Composure
Similar Artists: Title Fight, Transit, Tigers Jaw, Man Overboard, Such Gold
Total: 10

3. Thrice
Similar Artists: Dustin Kensrue, Thursday, The Receiving End Of Sirens, As Cities Burn, The Dear Hunter
Total: 15

4. A Day to Remember
Similar Artists: Asking Alexandria, Four Year Strong, We Came As Romans, Close Your Eyes, Pierce The Veil
Total: 20

5. P.O.S.
Similar Artists: Doomtree, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan and Lazerbeak, Dessa
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notes:
* This is sorted by plays per song, as last.fm's method of sorting by total plays is hugely biased against EPs. My method is probably biased in favor of shorter albums, and as a result #1-7 are all EPs.
* This is biased in favor of albums that came out early in the year as I've had more time to listen to them.

1. Title Fight - The Last Thing You Forget
July
Run For Cover Records
median plays per track: 46 (I am only considering the new songs, not the re-released ones)
own: CD, pea soup green 7" with special screen-printed cover, black 7" with regular cover
I love Title Fight. Everything they have released is just so incredibly epic. There is a passion in it that you don't normally find in pop punk.
favorite songs: Symmetry, Western Haikus

2. Transit - Stay Home
January
Run For Cover Records
median plays per track: 42
own: CD (special album release show version)
more epic pop punk. I can't get enough of this band. …

I haven't compiled a "seen live" list in quite some time (3 years to be exact), and honestly the list has gotten way to too long for me to remember. So I'm just looking at my top 50 overall artists and trying to remember how many times I've seen them, though I'm sure there are still errors in this.

number of times of I've seen them (bands I've never seen aren't listed)
+ means I wish it was more
- means I don't even listen to this band anymore
nothing means I'm sort of neutral

1. My American Heart x7 +
2. Saosin x4 +
3. Paramore x7
4. Fall Out Boy x2 -
5. New Found Glory x3 +
6. Set Your Goals x6 +
7. Armor for Sleep x2 +
8. Circa Survive x7 +
9. Motion City Soundtrack x2 -
10. Title Fight x2 +
12. Hit the Lights x7 +
13. Underoath x2 +
14. Transit x4 +
15. The Audition x6 -
16. The Wonder Years x2 +
17. The Starting Line x2 +
18. A Thorn For Every Heart x2 +
19. Just Surrender x7 +
20. Cartel x4 -
20. All Time Low x8 -
22. Valencia x3 +
23. Anberlin x4
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