Year in Pictures
Part one of the Big Picture’s year in pictures.
Pitchfork’s 100 Tracks
Pitchfork’s top 100 tracks of 2011.
Rap 2011
The best rap songs of 2011 (featuring “Gucci Gucci” at number 50).
Worst Films
AV Club’s worst movies of 2011.
Best TED Talks
Best TED Talks of 2011.
Ebert’s Best Films
Roger Ebert’s best films of 2011.
2011: The Cinescape
2011: The Cinescape.
A Year in Reading
The Millions year in reading.
Top Twenty Top Ten Commenters
The 20 unhappiest people you meet in the comments sections of year-end lists. [via]
6. The Read A Book Guy. “Not one of these movies is as good as reading a book.” On a list of books, by the way, he will say none of the books is as good as books used to be. He also hates Kindles, which he may or may not mention.
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10. Harry The Hipster-Hater, Who Really, Really Hates Hipsters. “This is all hipster music. I guess it’s okay for hipsters, but I’m not enough of a hipster to like hipster picks like this. Too bad I’m not hipster enough. Maybe I’d like it better if I were more of a hipster.” [His username: “notahipstersorry.”]
TIME Person of the Year
The 2011 TIME Person Of the Year: Still not me, though I suppose if I’d occupied something, it totally could have been.
Give Me Something to Read
Give Me Something to Read’s best long reads of 2011. [via]
Miscellaneous Best Of Lists
Other 2011 best-of lists: Best of Longform.org, the Atlantic’s best TV episodes, the New Yorker’s best and worst scandals, Paste’s best viral videos and RWW’s epic tech fails.
Talk of the Town
Best of the New Yorker’s “Talk Of the Town” section in 2011.
Best New Blogs
Bygone Bureau’s best new blogs of 2011.
Pitchfork Lists
The Pitchfork lists have started with best music videos and worst album covers.
