Thanks to all the bloggers and others that do end-of-year lists and helped the Great Shankly discover more music at the end of 2011 than he did during the year itself. 

Thanks especially to Dandelion Radio for the definitive end of year list - their Festive 50 - most of which can be found below. 

The 2012 mixtapes are up next...



Dandelion Radio Festive 50 
FF #01 PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
FF #02 Lovely Eggs - Don't Look at Me (I Don't Like It)
FF #03 Chasms - The Occult Soul Review
FF #04 Darren Hayman - I Know I Fucked Up
FF #05 Allo Darlin – Darren
FF #06 Bearsuit - When Will I Be Queen
FF #07 Lana Del Ray - Video Games
FF #08 Yuck - Get Away
FF #09 Veronica Falls - Bad Feeling
FF #11 JD Meatyard - Olive Tree
FF #12 Burial - Street Halo
FF #13 James Blake – Wilhelm’s Scream
FF #15 Lets Wrestle - In Dreams Part II
FF #16 Bjork - Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Remix)
FF #17 Help Stamp Out Loneliness! - Split Infinitives
FF #18 Atomizer - Silicon Warning
FF #19 Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy In Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)
FF #20 2 Bears - Bear Hug
FF #21 John Maus - Cop Killer
FF #22 Cambodian Space Project - Chnam Oun Dop Pram Mouy (I'm Sixteen)
FF #23 Horrors - I Can See Through You
FF #24 tUnE-yArDs – Bizness
FF #25 Baxter Dury – Isabel
FF #26 PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
FF #27 Zoe Bestel - 35 Missed Calls
FF #28 Mogwai - Drunk and Crazy
FF #29 Seedhill Bruiser – TREES
FF #30 Explosions In The Sky - Last Known Surroundings
FF #31 Felice Brothers – Ponzi
FF #32 Daddfag – Candy
FF #33 Peaking Lights - All The Sun That Shines
FF #34 M83 - Midnight City
FF #35 Rosie Taylor Project – Sleep
FF #36 Seapony – Dreaming
FF #37 Wooden Shjips – Flight
FF #39 Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day
FF #40 Kurt Vile - Baby's Arms
FF #41 Orch - Ingland Strip
FF #42 Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - I Wanna Go All The Way
FF #43 Lovely Eggs - Panic Plants
FF #44 Dum Dum Girls - Coming Down
FF #45 Low - Try To Sleep
FF #46 Lord Numb & Julien Auroux – Facile
FF #48 Fall - Nate Will Not Return
FF #49 Kescho - Fly By Night

Mix 1:
1.	Portugal The Man - I'd Rather Go Blind (Etta James)
2.	Eugene McGuinness – Thunderbolt
3.	Fiction Faction - Malenky Lizards
4.	Jack White - Love Is Blindness (U2)
5.	Lana Del Rey – Video Games (Lockah Remix)
6.	James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream (R D Remix)
7.	Radiohead – Staircase
8.	Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me a Tale (Live)
9.	Irma - Watching Crap On TV
10.	Emeli Sande – Heaven
11.	Fleet Foxes Sing – Waterfalls (TLC)
12.	Cats Eyes - The Best Person I Know
13.	Grouplove - Colours (Daytrotter Session)
14.	CocknBullKid - Pure Shores (All Saints)
15.	Metronomy - The Look
16.	2 Bears - Take A Look Around
17.	Boogie Monster – Bullfrog
18.	King Q4 - Love Buzz
19.	DJ Klubbingman feat. Beatrix Delgado - Are You Ready (Club Mix)
20.	Sly Stone - Dance To The Music (Club Mix)

Mix 2:
1.	Anna Calvi - Suzanne And I (Live From Abbey Road June 2011)
2.	Destroyer - A Savage Night At The Opera
3.	Eleanor Friedberger - One-Month Marathon
4.	Joshua T Pearson - Natural Blues (Moby)
5.	Gillian Welch - The Way It Will Be
6.	RM Hubbert Ftg. Aidan Moffat & Alex Kapranos - Car Song
7.	Birdy - Skinny Love (Bon Iver)
8.	Bon Iver - I Can’t Make You Love Me (Bonnie Riatt)
9.	Mirel Wagner - No Death
10.	Skytone - Rolling Stone
11.	Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Pictures
12.	Caretakers - Flowers For Peace
13.	Bry Webb – Undertaker
14.	Lotte Kestner - I Want You (Elvis Costello)
15.	Moth & The Flame – Maker
16.	Randan Discotheque - Old & Grey
17.	Loch Awe - I Will Drift into 10,000 Streams
18.	In a Sleeping Mood - Draft
19.	Christina Vantzou – Adversary
20.	Bill Wells And Aidan Moffat - Lets Stop Here

Mix 3:
1.	Pop Will Eat Itself - Equal Zero
2.	Frightened Rabbit - Cheap Gold
3.	St. Vincent - Kerosene (Big Black)
4.	Baxter Dury – Claire
5.	Big Pauper - Blue Dawn
6.	Literature - Arab Spring
7.	Mood Rings - Indian Hills
8.	Chain Gang of 1974 - Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins)
9.	Apteka - Where Days Go
10.	Red Horses Of The Snow – Siam
11.	Jape - The Oldest Mind
12.	Wild Flag - Electric Band
13.	Easter - Somethin' American
14.	Chapman Family - Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey)
15.	Sissy & The Blisters - We Are The Others
16.	Field Mouse - You Guys Are Gonna Wake Up My Mom
17.	Post War Glamour Girls - Suburban Barbarian
18.	Milk Maid - Back Of Your Knees
19.	Sandwitches – Lightfoot
20.	Submarines - Just Like Honey (Jesus And Mary Chain)

Mix 4:
1.	Yuck - Doctors In My Bed
2.	Grass Widow - Milo Minute
3.	Dot Dash - Learn How To Fly
4.	Dementio13 - Snackshack
5.	Lets Wrestle - If I Keep On Loving You
6.	Edinburgh School for the Deaf - Of Scottish Blood And Sympathies
7.	Perhower - Spell Checker
8.	Screen Vinyl Image – Revival
9.	Blanche Hudson Weekend - The Bitterest Clash
10.	Should - Own Two Feet
11.	Year Of The Tiger - Broken Marrow
12.	Yamantaka Sonic Titan – Queens
13.	Ringo Deathstarr - Do It Every Time
14.	Caddywhompus - The Others
15.	Ghost Outfit – Tuesday
16.	Weird Era - Garage Honeymoon
17.	Shonen Knife - Perfect Freedom (English Version)
18.	Woodsman - View From The Vision Hand
19.	Alone – Fizzing
20.	Echelon Effect - With A Warmth Inside, I Walk Into The Dark