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WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011

The year-end countdown (2011) from WRSI 93.9 The River in Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA ranks 93 songs, with “Need You By My Side” by Sun Parade at number one. The list features 70 different artists; The Decemberists has the most entries with four songs.

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Fan transcription; the blogger calls it the station's listener survey. Obvious misspellings corrected (#7 "Pagent", #48 Lana Del Rey, #78 "ron & Wine", #90 Gary Clark Jr.). Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 Need You By My Side Sun Parade 1 #1
2 Came Out Of A Lady Rubblebucket 2 #2
3 Hard Times Gillian Welch 1 #3
4 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
5 Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes 27 #5
6 Sophia Laura Marling 8 #6
7 Fire At The Pageant The Felice Brothers 1 #7
8 Chicago Tom Waits 1 #8
9 Stone Rollin' Raphael Saadiq 8 #7
10 Dawned on Me Wilco 10 #10
11 Towers Bon Iver 2 #11
12 June Hymn The Decemberists 4 #12
13 Paper Airplane Alison Krauss & Union Station 1 #13
14 Nobody Beg You Femi Kuti 1 #14
15 The Words That Maketh Murder PJ Harvey 3 #15
16 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
17 Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Coldplay 34 #4
18 Miss K Deer Tick 3 #18
19 The Way it Goes Gillian Welch 10 #19
20 This Is Why We Fight The Decemberists 36 #2
21 Back In the Crowd Tom Waits 3 #21
22 Options Gomez 8 #17
23 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
24 The Afterlife Paul Simon 11 #8
25 Rumor Has It Adele 28 #3
26 Down By The Water The Decemberists 36 #8
27 Change The Sheets Kathleen Edwards 10 #19
28 I've Got This Friend The Civil Wars 2 #28
29 Ashes & Fire Ryan Adams 1 #29
30 Calamity Song The Decemberists 26 #6
31 Day Dreams Raphael Saadiq 2 #31
32 I Still Believe Frank Turner 6 #7
33 Whole Love Wilco 1 #33
34 Stay Young, Go Dancing Death Cab for Cutie 20 #28
35 Windows Are Rolled Down Amos Lee 26 #1
36 Santa Fe Beirut 14 #24
37 Apothecary Love Low Anthem 1 #37
38 Moneygrabber Fitz and the Tantrums 37 #3
39 How Come You Never Go There Feist 12 #12
40 The Walk Mayer Hawthorne 24 #4
41 Wonderful (The Way I Feel) My Morning Jacket 5 #41
42 So Beautiful or So What Paul Simon 7 #20
43 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
44 I Might Wilco 15 #8
45 Called Out In The Dark Snow Patrol 14 #13
46 Tree by the River Iron and Wine 18 #9
47 Calgary Bon Iver 16 #25
48 Blue Jeans Lana Del Rey 6 #48
49 How Far We've Come Dawes 1 #49
50 Little Bird Kasey Chambers 1 #50
51 Go Outside The Cults 14 #13
52 Warning Signs Eilen Jewell 1 #52
53 Hey, All You Hippies Low Anthem 1 #53
54 Virginia The Deep Dark Woods 1 #54
55 All I Know Matt the Electrician 1 #55
56 Don't Stop (Color On The Walls Foster The People 22 #15
57 She Walks in So Many Ways The Jayhawks 10 #16
58 Bedouin Dress Fleet Foxes 1 #58
59 I'm Satisfied NRBQ 1 #59
60 Black Metal My Morning Jacket 1 #60
61 Lucky Now Ryan Adams 16 #6
62 Barton Hollow The Civil Wars 16 #6
63 My Best Friend's Girl Kris Delmhorst 1 #63
64 Na Na Nothing Mike Doughty 3 #59
65 Will Do TV on the Radio 24 #5
66 Dazzling Blue Paul Simon 2 #43
67 First Light My Morning Jacket 1 #67
68 Not Enough J Mascis 1 #68
69 Different Ximena Sarinana 3 #31
70 High Cotton Dennis Crommett 1 #70
71 Representing Memphis Booker T. & the MG's 1 #71
72 You've Got the Love Florence And The Machine 13 #19
73 Richie and Rubin Fountains of Wayne 1 #73
74 You Were Never There Diego Garcia 8 #2
75 Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) Portugal. The Man 20 #22
76 High Hawk Season The Mountain Goats 1 #76
77 Adios To California John Hiatt 3 #56
78 Glad Man Singing Iron and Wine 1 #78
79 Longing to Belong Eddie Vedder 10 #30
80 Electrified Ben Sollee 1 #80
81 Waitin' on the Sky Steve Earle 2 #44
82 Looking For A Fight Sweetback Sisters 1 #82
83 Honda Civic The Felice Brothers 1 #83
84 Fletcher Blitzen Trapper 1 #84
85 Cruel St. Vincent 12 #17
86 (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care Cee-Lo Green 1 #86
87 Simple Girl Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. 2 #62
88 Portable Television Death Cab for Cutie 1 #88
89 The Bad in Each Other Feist 3 #70
90 Don't Owe You A Thang Gary Clark Jr. 5 #27
91 Lonesome Hunter Timber Timbre 1 #91
92 There's A Starbucks Where The Starbucks Used To Be John Wesley Harding 1 #92
93 I Confess K.D. Lang & The Siss Boom Bang 1 #93

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About this countdown

WRSI Top 93 Songs of 2011 was voted by WRSI 93.9 The River’s listeners (Northampton / Pioneer Valley, MA) in 2011. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Indie & Adult Alternative rankings.

Source: We Want Airwaves (fan blog), "WRSI Top 93 of 2011".

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