Top Albums of 2011

So I forgot I never posted our top albums of 2011 post last year so now I'm going to do it.  The 2012 list will follow shortly.  Here were the top 50 albums of 2011 as told by the Mike and Tom Awesome Show:

Radio Show Playlist for 12/15/12 (Top Albums of 2012)

Hour 1
"Everybody Talks" - Neon Trees - Picture Show
"Sleep Alone" - Two Door Cinema Club - Beacon
"Follow the Sun" - Evermore - Follow the Sun
"Waiting Alone" - Shiny Toy Guns - III
"Absolute Zero" - Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones Part 1
"Viking Death March" - Billy Talent - Dead Silence
"I Like It" - Foxy Shazam - The Church of Rock & Roll
"Good Things" - The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past
"Headlights" - Morning Parade - Morning Parade
"Loverboy" - You Me at Six - Sinners Never Sleep

Radio Show Playlist for 12/8/12 (Threecap of '09-'11)

Hour 1
"The Downfall of Us All" - A Day to Remember - Homesick
"Know Your Enemy" - Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
"Uprising" - Muse - The Resistance
"Funny the Way It Is" - Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King
"Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
"Medicate" - AFI - Crash Love
"Tears into Wine" - Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
"Dirt Room" - Blue October - Approaching Normal
"Kings and Queens" - 30 Seconds to Mars - This is War
"Panic Switch" - Silversun Pickups - Swoon

Radio Show Playlist for 12/1/12

Hour 1
"New Divide" - Linkin Park - Transformers 2 Soundtrack
"Born to Lead" - Hoobastank - Every Man for Himself
"Pressure Zone" - Beck - Midnight Vultures
"Say It Ain't So" - Weezer - The Blue Album
"Chicago is So Two Years Ago" - Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave (REQUESTED)
"A-OK" - Motion City Soundtrack - I Am the Movie (REQUESTED)
"Cross Out the Eyes" - Thursday - Full Collapse (REQUESTED)
"The Best of Me" - The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It (REQUESTED)
"Romantic Dreams" - Deftones - Koi No Yokan
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" - Senses Fail - Still Searching (REQUESTED)
"So Cold (Acoustic)" - Breaking Benjamin - So Cold EP  (REQUESTED)
"Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Faded" - Brand New - Deja Entendu (REQUESTED)

Radio Show Playlist for 11/24/12

Hour 1
"Dirt Room" - Blue October - Approaching Normal
"Silence is the Enemy" - Papa Roach - The Connection
"The Webs We Weave" - Escape the Fate - Dying is Your Latest Fashion
"Never Too Late" - Three Days Grace - One-X
"Domino the Destitute" - Coheed and Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
"Breakdown" - Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (REQUESTED)
"Cage on the Ground" - Flyleaf - New Horizons
"Worldwide Suicide" - Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
"Young Heart" - We Are the Ocean - Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow
"Lazy Bones" - Green Day - Dos!
"Smile in Your Sleep" - Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront (REQUESTED)
"Imaginary Enemy" - Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
"Seventy Times Seven" - Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (REQUESTED)

Radio Show Playlist for 11/17/12

Hour 1
"Stuck in the Middle" - Four Year Strong - In Some Way, Shape, or Form
"Swallowed" - Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
"Big Bang Baby" - Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
"I Took a Beating" - I Am the Avalanche - I Am the Avalanche
"Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered" - Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
"Audio Blood" - The Matches - E Von Dahl Killed the Locals
"Cast No Shadow" - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
"Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
"Vices" - Silverstein - A Shipwreck in the Sand
"California Queen" - Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
"Changing" - The Airborne Toxic Event - All at Once
"Everlasting Light" - The Black Keys - Brothers

Radio Show Playlist for 11/10/12

Hour 1
"Bring 'Em Down" - Lostprophets - Weapons
"Cold (Anthem for the Damned)" - Filter - Anthem of the Damned
"Runnin' Across the Tracks" - Billy Talent - Dead Silence
"Drain You" - Nirvana - Nevermind
"Teenage Icon" - The Vaccines - Come of Age
"The Good Left Undone" - Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
"From: San Francisco" - The Spill Canvas - Gestalt
"Elevation" - U2 - All that You Can't Leave Behind
"Settle Down" - No Doubt - Push and Shove
"Love Interruption" - Jack White - Blunderbuss
"Stop and Stare" - OneRepublic - Dreaming Out Loud
"Belle of the Boulevard" - Dashboard Confessional - Alter the Ending

Radio Show Playlist for 11/3/12

Hour 1
"Hello Hurricane" - Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane
"Hurricane" - Panic! at the Disco - Vices and Virtues
"Hurricane" - Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
"Hurricane" - 30 Seconds to Mars - This is War
"Song for Jacob" - The Bravery - Stir the Blood
"The Sticks" - Mother Mother - The Sticks
"Little Death" - You Me at Six - Sinners Never Sleep
"No Light, No Light" - Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials
"Midnight Show" - The Killers - Hot Fuss
"Uberlin" - R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
"Dumpster World" - Band of Horses - Mirage Rock
"Powerless" - Linkin Park - Living Things

Radio Show Playlist for 10/20/12 (Covers Show)

For the covers show, I'm altering how I show the playlist slightly.  For this show, the playlist will look like this:

"Song Covered" - Artist Covering - Artist Covered

Hour 1
"Disturbia" - The Cab - Rihanna
"Just Like Heaven" - Gatsby's American Dream - The Cure
"Paint It Black" - VersaEmerge - The Rolling Stones
"Free Fallin'" - The Almost - Tom Petty
"Sugar We're Goin' Down" - You Me at Six - Fall Out Boy
"Salvation" - Senses Fail - The Cranberries
"Since U Been Gone" - A Day to Remember - Kelly Clarkson
"Need You Now" - Sparks the Rescue - Lady Antebellum
"Love Song" - Four Year Strong - Sara Barielles
"Drain You" - Aiden - Nirvana
"Renegades of Funk" - Rage Against the Machine - Afrika Bombisaataa
"Losing My Religion" - Lacuna Coil - R.E.M.
"Beautiful" - Bayside - Sean Kingston

Radio Show Playlist for 10/13/12

Hour 1
"My Life for Hire" - A Day to Remember - Homesick
"Brain of J" - Pearl Jam - Yield
"Lies of the Beautiful People" - Sixx:A.M. - This is Gonna Hurt
"Fortune Faded" - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits
"You're So Last Summer" - Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
"Redesign Me" - VersaEmerge - Fixed at Zero
"Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" - My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
"Sunday Sunday" - Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
"Firefly" - Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (REQUESTED)
"What It is to Burn" - Finch - What It is to Burn (REQUESTED)
"Anthem of Our Dying Day" - Story of the Year - Page Avenue (REQUESTED)
"Seventy Times Seven" - Brand New - Your Favorite Weapon (REQUESTED)
"Howl" - The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

Radio Show Playlist for 10/6/12

Hour 1
"So Far Away" - Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Carwash
"The Valley" - Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
"Breaking the Yearlings" - Shearwater - Animal Joy
"Nobody but You" - The Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space & Time
"The Neoliberal Anthem" - Anti-Flag - The General Strike
"It's Not Over Yet" - Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
"Beetlebum" - Blur - Blur
"Lay Down" - Priestess - Hello Master
"Love/Hate Heartbreak" - Halestorm - Halestorm
"Lion's Den" - Eve 6 - Speak in Code
"Intoxicated" - Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
"Goin' Down" - The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
"Miracle" - Nonpoint - Nonpoint

Radio Show Playlist for 9/29/12 (The Joshua Tree Show)

Hour 1
"Me & My Friends" - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uplift Mofo Party Plan
"Just Like Heaven" - The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
"Strangelove" - Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
"Alex Chilton" - The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
"Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" - Def Leppard - Hysteria
"Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake - Whitesnake
"Welcome to the Jungle" - Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
"Bad" - Michael Jackson - Bad
"Girls Girls Girls" - Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
"We Care a Lot" - Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
"The One I Love" - R.E.M. - Document

Radio Show Playlist for 9/22/12

Hour 1
"Rusty Cage" - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
"Wish You Were Here" - Incubus - Morning View
"Rise" - Parabelle - Your Starry Eyes Will Never Make Us Even
"Already Over" - Red - End of Silence
"Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
"Invincible" - OK Go - Oh No
"Hopeless Romantic" - The Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic
"My Doorbell" - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
"Luckie St." - Cartel - Chroma
"The Great Salt Lake" - Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
"It's Thunder and It's Lightning" - We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
"Schism" - Tool - Lateralus

Radio Show Playlist for 9/15/12

Hour 1
"The Everlasting Gaze" - The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machine of Gods
"Electrify" - Mutemath - Armistice
"Lyla" - Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
"Shell Games" - Bright Eyes - The People's Key
"All that I've Got" - The Used - In Love and Death (REQUESTED)
"Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" - Brand New - Deja Entendu (REQUESTED)
"The Diary of Jane" - Breaking Benjamin - Phobia (REQUESTED)
"And the Hero Will Drown" - Story of the Year - Page Avenue
"Arrows" - Fireworks - Gospel
"Girlfriend" - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
"When It Dies" - The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
"Sleepwalker" - The Wallflowers - Breach
"Vindicated" - Dashboard Confessional - Spider Man 2 OST

Radio Show Playlist for 9/8/12

Hour 1
"Battle Lust" - 10 Years - Minus the Machine
"Dirty Magic" - The Offspring - Days Go By
"Gravity" - Soul Asylum - Delayed Reaction
"Panic & Run" - P.O.D. - Murdered Love
"In Sleep" - The Bouncing Souls - Comet
"About to Die" - Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo, Magellan
"You Tonight" - Lit - View from the Bottom
"The Lottery" - Circa Survive - Violent Waves
"Hard Times" - Empires - Garage Hymns
"Goals in Slow Motion" - Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense
"Maps" - These United States - These United States
"Moonjock" - Animal Collective - Centipede Hz

Radio Show Playlist for 9/1/12

Hour 1
"I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" - My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
"River Below" - Billy Talent - Billy Talent
"This Time" - The Verve - Urban Hymns
"Amaze Us" - Fightstar - One Day Son, This Will All Be Yours
"White Unicorn" - Wolfmother - Wolfmother
"Wait a Minute" - The Hives - Lex Hives
"Teddy Picker" - Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
"NJ Falls Into the Atlantic" - Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You
"Headful of Ghosts" - Bush - Golden State
"Show Me How to Live" - Audioslave - Audioslave
"Hit Me Down Sonny" - The Ting Tings - Sounds from Nowheresville
"Everything is Alright" - Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory

Radio Show Playlist for 8/25/12

Hour 1
"DOA" - Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
"Gone Away" - The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
"Stinkfist" - Tool - AEnima
"Head Like a Hole" - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
"Bite My Tongue" - You Me at Six - Sinners Never Sleep
"The Wrong Way" - Bayside - Killing Time
"Lucky" - Make Do and Mend - Everything You Ever Loved
"Like the Angel" - Rise Against - Revolutions per Minute
"One Foot" - fun. - Some Nights
"Poppin' Champagne" - All Time Low - So Wrong, It's Right
"Chicago is So Two Years Ago" - Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
"Dead!" - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
"In Currents" - The Early November - In Currents

Radio Show Playlist for 8/11/12

Hour 1
"Hey Boys and Girls (Truth of the World Part 2)" - Evermore - Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show
"Fire" - Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
"Satellite" - Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun
"The One I'm Waiting For" - Relient K - Mmhmm
"Sunday Drive" - Ladyhawke - Anxiety
"The Verge" - There for Tomorrow - The Verge
"Child" - The Maccabees - Given to the Wild
"Crashin'" - Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
"Sins of My Youth" - Neon Trees - Habits
"My Life" - Best Coast - The Only Place
"Hands" - The Almost - Monster Monster
"Sick of You" - Cake - Showroom of Compassion
"Where the Streets Have No Name" - U2 - The Joshua Tree

Radio Show Playlist for 8/4/12

Hour 1
"Bat Country" - Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
"Darkest Days" - Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
"I'll Run" - The Cab - Whisper War
"Fought to Fight It" - Matthew Good - Vancouver
"West Coast Rock Steady" - P.O.D. - Murdered Love
"Echo" - Trapt - Trapt
"The Royal We" - Silversun Pickups - Swoon
"Little Sister" - Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
"New Disaster" - I Am the Avalanche - I Am the Avalanche
"Seven Days a Week" - The Sounds - Living in America
"The Stone" - Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
"The Final Blow" - Escape the Fate - Escape the Fate

Radio Show Playlist for 7/28/12

Hour 1
"Testify" - Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
"Splinter" - Sevendust - Cold Day Memory
"Thrash Unreal" - Against Me - New Wave
"The Hand that Feeds" - Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
"Lights" - Editors - The Back Room
"Guernica" - Brand New - Deja Entendu
"Santa Ana Wind" - Everclear - Invisible Stars
"When I'm Gone" - 3 Doors Down - Away from the Sun
"The World at Large" - Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News
"Heavy in Your Arms" - Florence and the Machine - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse OST
"Godspeed" - Anberlin - Cities
"Anastasia" - Slash - Apocalyptic Love
"Stay Together for the Kids" - Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket