At the end of the year, every single music publication put out a list of their top albums. Who am I to buck the trend? So, here's my list of the ten best albums of 2011. I also included the score out of 10 for each album. Here's what those mean: 10 - Top 40 Albums of All Time 9 - Classic 8 - Album of the Year Candidate 7 - Amazing 6 - Excellent 5 - Very Good 4 - Good 3 - Passable 2 - A Few Good Songs 1 - One Good Song 0 - Entirely Unremarkable Also, here's a Spotify playlist of all the good songs from the 6 of the 10 albums below. Nostalgia, Ultra. and House of Balloons are left out because they were free mixtapes and are thus not out on Spotify. Just download them, legally and for free, using the links below. 21 and Mylo Xyloto are left out because they're making too much money to be worth putting on Spotify, so I guess you'll have to just buy them or torrent them. Now, for the list: Drake - Take Care (10/10) - One