Artist	Song
PJ Harvey	Let England Shake
from Let England Shake (2011) `England's dancing days are done/Another day for you to come home and tell me of indifference that is won, won, won'
Okkervil River	Wake And Be Fine
from I Am Very Far (2011) `Embracers meet with more embracers on the street. They say, "Hold me, dear stranger. Grab on to me. We're carrying our years around us, or they're chasing down us. We're all here at the same time. Can we wake and be fine? Have we still got time to wake and be fine?"'
Mogwai	George Square Thatcher Death Party
from Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will (2011)
Camp Dwarf	Receipts
from Thee English Teeth EP (2011) `And when I sleep, Luella, I'll slip with ease between the crowds that crush me in these streets, the kids that get beneath my feet'
Wild Beasts	Reach A Bit Further
from Smother (2011) `It's a peculiar stance; it's me reaching for the olive branch'
Death Cab For Cutie	You Are A Tourist
from Codes And Keys (2011) `Because when you find yourself a villain in the story you have written, it's plain to see/That sometimes, the best intentions are in need of redemption - would you agree?'
Big Deal	Distant Neighbourhood
from Lights Out (2011) `I'll wish you well, and I'll wish you away'
Roddy Woomble	Leaving Without Gold
from The Impossible Song And Other Songs (2011) `We need a little more help than what we had when we started, because what we had when we started, we only helped to find'
Maybeshewill	Critical Distance
from I Was Here For A Moment, Then I Was Gone (2011)
Yuck	Georgia
from Yuck (2011) `I'm so tired; fall asleep when I speak to you tonight'
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart	Heart In Your Heartbreak
from Belong (2011) `An ambulance goes by, and you wonder why/It never stops when you want it to/It never stops when you need it to take you away'
The Naked & Famous	Girls Like You
from Passive Me, Aggressive You (2011) `Don't you know people write songs about girls like you?'
The Joy Formidable	The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade
from The Big Roar (2011) `This childish heart won't wait; it dances, keeps me awake to think on, to think on/You're the greatest light, the greatest shade'

Comment:

There were quite a few contenders for this year's title, but it went to a line from a conversation that, thinking about it, probably can't be summed up adequately in a few lines - or rather, it probably can, but it won't seem as amusing as I feel it ought to. Essentially, it's about being able to ignore something until a certain point, at which time it becomes more urgent than anything's ever been. That almost makes it seem like it isn't scatalogical. Imagine.

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