My name is Pascal Cheng and have been living in the Burlington area for the past 30 years. I have gotten to hear a lot of great music over the years here, both live and through Pure Pop’s always varied selection of CD’s and lp’s. My top five for 2011 includes artists who I grew up listening to as a teen in New York City and now in their sixties and seventies are still producing vital music. In their 2011 albums, they have drawn on elements of their early work but have recast them to express their current views on life and world events. There are many contemporary musicians and bands like Tune-Yards, Feist, Wilco, Fleet Foxes, and the Decembrists, to name a few, whose albums could easily be in my top five but I have chosen to dedicate this list to these legends of pop music. I should also add that this list is vinyl centric as I have listened to all of these in the lp format.