2011 was the year Spotify went big stateside, effectively taking the age-old process of making mixed tapes into the modern age. 

As our contributors' ballots came in I added their "favorite song" nominees to my first-ever Spotify playlist, appropriately titled "NadaMucho.com's Best of 2011."

Here's a list of the songs it includes. (Scroll down to subscribe to the list on Spotify.) 

Abe Vigoda – “Throwing Shade”

Adele – “Rollin' In The Deep”

Adele – “Rumor Has It”

Amy Winehouse – “Our Day Will Come”

The Antlers – “Putting the Dog To Sleep”

I have no shame in waiting until the first day of 2012 to finalize our 2011 year-end coverage.

Doing so gave us a chance to wade through countless other opinions on the year’s best music, movies and television programs. In sharing as many links to 2011 year-end lists as we could find through our Twitter and Facebook pages, we were reminded about stuff we fell in love with earlier in the year and got a chance check out some things we missed. The holidays afforded us extra time off from work to catch up, and ultimately we were more informed when we weighed in with our final votes.

What follows are the twenty-five favorite albums of about twenty contributors to NadaMucho.com. I’m eternally grateful to have so many cool people participating and apologize to each of them in advance if my comments on their selections seem flip. I won’t pretend to be intimate with each of these albums and, when I’m not, I’ll say so. Hopefully some of you will join me in checking out some more of 2011's best as 2012 begins. 

West Seattle is my home town and I love it.

Many people in "Seattle proper" are still clueless as to happenings west of the bridge, which is good. I'm in no hurry to have a bunch of upwardly mobile singles moving in and dumbing down the culture of the West. 

For those of you currently living and playing in West Seattle, you already know that the West is the SHIT, right? So why not have our own best of 2011 list?

Here are five examples of just how amazing the music community it is over here.

Seattle gets all the hype, but there are some great bands from "the City of Suckerpunch." Here are my top ten Tacoma acts of 2011. 

10. Basemint
Excellent, traditional surf rock in a big way.

9. Helms Alee
Will Tacoma bands never tire of coming up with great nautical reference band names? Love the new record.

8. Pioneers West
These guys got passion and will travel. Watch for them.