Culture Brats Top 10 Best Of The Rest Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

So far, we've given you our ten most popular Ranked! columns of 2011, our ten most popular interviews of 2011, and our ten most popular reviews of 2011. Today, we're looking back at the best of the rest:




10. SmackTalk Victim: Meital Dohan's "Yummy Boyz"

9. Solitaire: The Movie

8. The Most Awesomest Skee-Lo T-Shirt Ever

7. SmackTalk Victim: Avil Lavigne, "What The Hell"

6. SmackTalk Victim: Ke$ha, "Blow"

5. SmackTalk Victim: Die Antwoord, "Rich Bitch"

4. SmackTalk Victim: Bag Raiders, "Sunlight"

3. Friends, '80s Style

2. SmackTalk Victim: LMFAO, "Sexy And I Know It"

1. John Hughes, Jerk

Culture Brats Top 10 Most Popular Reviews Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

Today, we're looking back at our 2011 reviews. Here are the top ten:




10. DVD Review: Primal Scream, Screamadelica Live

9. Music Review: George Michael, Faith (Deluxe Edition)

8. CD Review: Styx, Regeneration Volume I & II

7. CD Review: Angels & Airwaves, LOVE Part Two

6. DVD Review: Counting Crows, August And Everything After: Live At Town Hall

5. Book Review: Henry Rollins, Occupants

4. Musical Review: Rock Of Ages, Curran Theatre

3. Movie Review: Level Up

2. Concert Review: Prince's Welcome 2 America Tour

1. Concert Review: Glee Live! 2011 Tour

Culture Brats Top 10 Most Popular Interviews Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

Today, we're looking back at our 2011 interviews. It's hard to believe, but we did forty-seven interviews this year. Crazy, huh? Here are our ten most popular interviews of 2011:

10. The Science Of The Floating City: Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby spoke with us about his upcoming album, his online game, his past collaborations, the early days of MTV, how MTV gave his career a boost and nearly killed it, and Jessie J.

9. Last Indie Standing: Troma's Lloyd Kaufman

The co-founder of Troma Entertainment and writer/director of The Toxic Avenger and Class Of Nuke 'Em High talked about the TromaDance Film Festival, indie filmmaking, and the remake of The Toxic Avenger.

8. We're With The Band: Get Scared

Get Scared's Bradley Lloyd discussed touring in a van, their inspiration, their new album, and whether or not he can do a cartwheel.

7. Sunglasses On Airplanes: The Naked And Famous

David Beadle of The Naked And Famous spoke with us about the band, music videos, his musical influences, Nine Inch Nails, jeans, Andrew W.K., life on the road, and rock star moments.

6. Back To Where It All Started: The Human League's Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey spoke with us about The Human League's new album Credo, the band's early videos and MTV, touring, remaining a force for over thirty years, and how the US may have the wrong impression of The Human League.

Culture Brats Top 10 Most Popular Ranked! Columns Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

To kick things off, here are the 10 most popular Ranked! columns of 2011:




10. Top 20 Saturday Night Live Skits

9. Top 16 Bill Murray Roles

8. Top 20 Football Movies

7. Top 16 Movies About Prostitutes

6. Top 25 Musicians Turned Actors

5. Top 16 Winona Ryder Roles

4. Top 13 Shark Movies

3. Top 25 Atari 2600 Games

2. Top 20 Movie Prom Scenes

1. Top 17 Mockumentaries

Culture Brats Top 20 Movies Of 2011

Today, we're wrapping up our look at the the best of pop culture in 2011 with a look at the year's best movies:




20. The Guard
19. Take Shelter
18. Rango
17. The Adjustment Bureau
16. Hanna
15. Fright Night
14. Super 8
13. The Help
12. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
11. Midnight In Paris

Culture Brats Top 30 TV Shows Of 2011

We're still counting down the best of 2011! Today, we're highlighting the best television shows of 2011:




30. The Amazing Race
29. Awkward.
28. South Park
27. Torchwood
26. Haven
25. American Pickers
24. Smallville
23. Hell On Wheels
22. Sons Of Anarchy
21. American Horror Story
20. Justified
19. Homeland
18. Archer
17. Pan Am
16. Boardwalk Empire
15. Workaholics
14. Breaking Bad
13. Tosh.0
12. True Blood
11. How I Met Your Mother

Culture Brats Top 35 Albums Of 2011

It's that special time of year when every pop culture site in the world takes a look back at the previous year, tries to make sense of it all, and compiles lists upon lists. Not wanting to be left behind, we're doing the same thing. Today, we're taking a look back at the best albums of 2011.




See? We even made a fancy graphic for it. That's how serious we are about this, folks.

By the way, even though all thirty-five of our favorite albums appear in that graphic, they are not in the correct order. So feel free to guess our #1. Or you could just continue reading.

The Culture Brats Top 35 Albums Of 2011

35. Ben Folds, The Best Imitation Of Myself: A Retrospective
34. Tom Waits, Bad As Me
33. The Black Keys, El Camino
32. Coldplay, Mylo Xyloto
31. R.E.M., Collapse Into Now
30. White Lies, Ritual
29. Cloud Nothings, Cloud Nothings
28. The Sounds, Something To Die For
27. Ellie Goulding, Lights
26. Dynasty Electric, Golden Arrows
25. Kurt Vile, Smoke Ring For My Halo
24. Tally Hall, Good & Evil
23. Raphael Saadiq, Stone Rollin'
22. The Decemberists, The King Is Dead
21. Paul Simon, So Beautiful Or So What

So far so good, right? Onward to the Top 20!