Employee Picks (Best of 2011)

Best of 2011

According to the
Cactus Records Staff

Bueno:

1. The Kills "Blood Pressure"

2. The Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2”

3. Dessa “Castor the Twin”

4. Sims “Bad Time Zoo”
5. Tom Waits “Bad As Me”

6. The Black Keys “El Camino”

7. Nick Lowe “Old Magic”

8. Foster the People “Torches”

9. Danger Mouse & Danielle Loupi “Rome” 

10. Imelda May “Love Tattoo”

Honorable Mentions:
Hanni El Khatib “Will the Guns Come Out”
Wild Flag “Wild Flag”

Ryan:

1. Gillian Welch "Harrow & the Harvest"
2. Decemberists "King Is Dead"
3. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
4. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
5. "Weird Al" Yankovic "Alpocalypse"
6. Black Keys "El Camino"
7. Fountains of Wayne "Sky Full of Holes"
8. They Might Be Giants "Join Us"
9. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"

10.Various "The Green Album: Muppets Tribute Album"

Chelsea:

1. Chris Thile and Michael Daves  "Sleep With One Eye Open"
2. Gillian Welch "The Harrow and the Harvest"
3. Ma, Meyer, Thile, and Duncan "The Goat Rodeo Sessions"
4. The Kills "Blood Pressures"
5. The Decemberists "The King is Dead"
6. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
7. Steve Earle "I'll Never Get out of This World Alive"
8. Sarah Jarosz "Follow Me Down"
9. Abigail Washburn "City of Refuge"
10. Dj Numark "Take Me With You"

Doc: 

1. Adele "21"

2. Betty White & the Roots "Betty Wright: The Movie"

3. Chris Thile and Michael Daves  "Sleep With One Eye Open"

4. Gillian Welch  "The Harrow and the Harvest"

5. Imelda May "Mayhem"

6. My Brightest Diamond "All Things Will Unwind"

7. North Mississippi Allstars "Keys to The Kingdom"

8. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"

9. Ma, Meyer, Thile, and Duncan "The Goat Rodeo Sessions"

10. Various  "Treme: Original Television Soundtrack"

R.E.D.

1. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
2. Scott H Biram "Bad Ingredients"
3. Black Joe Lewis "Scandalous"
4. Wanda Jackson "Party Ain't Over"
5. Hanni El Khatib "Will The Guns Come Out"
6. Kills "Blood Pressure"
7. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
8. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
9. PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
10. Gillian Welch "The Harrow & the Harvest"  

Klaralyn:

1. Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi "Rome"
2. The Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2”
3. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
4. Foo Fighters "Wasting Light"
5. Black Joe Lewis "Scandalous"
6. Chemical Brothers "Hanna Soundtrack"
7. Aloe Blacc "Good Things"
8. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
9. Foster The People "Torches"    

10. OK Go "180/365" 

Tol:

1. Cedric Kewlow "Sol"
2. Kimya Dawson Thunder Thighs"
3. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
4. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
5. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
6. They Might Be Giants "Join Us"
7. Dead Milkmen King in Yellow"
8. Various "The Green Album: Muppets Tribute Album"
9. B.U.T. "Assorted B.U.T.  Demos"
10. B.U.T. "I Love B.U.T."