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Songs

The following is simply a list of all 311 songs ranked in order of my preference. Nearly their entire song catalog is represented. (Rankings last updated July 2011)

  1. Tribute
  2. Come Original
  3. Beautiful Disaster
  4. Down
  5. Transistor
  6. Visit
  7. All Mixed Up
  8. Speak Easy
  9. Sick Tight
  10. Do You Right
  11. Omaha Stylee
  12. Large in the Margin
  13. Homebrew
  14. Prisoner
  15. It's Alright
  16. Don't Stay Home
  17. Rub A Dub
  18. Gap
  19. Flowing
  20. Stealing Happy Hours
  21. Freeze Time
  22. Amber
  23. Paradise
  24. Hydroponic
  25. Feels So Good
  26. Fat Chance
  27. Hive
  28. Jackpot
  29. India Ink
  30. Count Me In
  31. Creatures (For a While)
  32. Don't Tread on Me
  33. Summer of Love
  34. Lucky
  35. Full Ride
  36. From Chaos
  37. Let the Cards Fall
  38. Use of Time
  39. 1, 2, 3
  40. Sever
  41. Weightless
  42. Misdirected Hostility
  43. Sweet
  44. Galaxy
  45. Nutsymptom
  46. Borders
  47. What Was I Thinking
  48. Wild Nights
  49. Offbeat Bareass
  50. Rock On
  51. T & P Combo
  52. It's Getting OK Now
  53. Hostile Apostle
  54. I Told Myself
  55. Eons
  56. Plain
  57. Starshines
  58. Welcome
  59. Intro
  60. Dreamland
  61. And a Ways to Go
  62. Golden Sunlight
  63. Beyond the Gray Sky
  64. Reconsider Everything
  65. You Wouldn't Believe
  66. Who's Got the Herb?
  67. Never Ending Summer
  68. No Control
  69. Champagne
  70. Time Bomb
  71. Frolic Room
  72. Seems Uncertain
  73. Daisy Cutter
  74. Give Me a Call
  75. Hey You
  76. There's Always an Excuse
  77. I Like The Way
  78. Strong All Along
  79. Get Down
  80. Random
  81. Freak Out
  82. Purpose
  83. Wake Your Mind Up
  84. Uncalm
  85. Silver
  86. Inner Light Spectrum
  87. The Continuous Life
  88. Mix It Up
  89. Long for the Flowers
  90. Mindspin
  91. I'll Be Here Awhile
  92. Dancehall
  93. Bomb the Town
  94. Salsa
  95. Sun Come Through
  96. Taiyed
  97. Love Song
  98. Something Out of Nothing
  99. How Long Has It Been
  100. Whiskey and Wine
  101. Guns
  102. Light Years
  103. Nix Hex
  104. Applied Science
  105. Juan Bond
  106. Electricity
  107. Life's Not a Race
  108. Don't Dwell
  109. Sunset in July
  110. Running
  111. Thank Your Lucky Stars
  112. Outside
  113. Waiting
  114. How Do You Feel?
  115. Jackolantern's Weather
  116. Livin' & Rockin'
  117. Trouble
  118. Still Dreaming
  119. Getting Through to Her
  120. Grassroots
  121. We Do It Like This
  122. Brodels
  123. You Get Worked
  124. Jupiter
  125. Other Side of Things
  126. Two Drops in the Ocean
  127. Solar Flare
  128. Same Mistake Twice
  129. Soulsucker
  130. 8:16 AM
  131. Can't Fade Me
  132. Lose
  133. My Stoney Baby
  134. Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais
  135. Leaving Babylon
  136. Unity
  137. My Heart Sings
  138. Too Much Too Fast
  139. DLMD
  140. Creature Feature
  141. Strangers
  142. Crack the Code
  143. Sometimes Jacks Rule the Realm
  144. This too Shall Pass
  145. Six
  146. Today My Love
  147. Right Now
  148. Slinky
  149. Rollin'
  150. First Straw
  151. Color
  152. Down South
  153. Evolution
  154. Will the World
  155. Loco
  156. Firewater
  157. Damn
  158. Tune In
Studio Albums

The following is a list of 311's studio albums (1993 to present) ranked in order of my preference. Now a word about how I ranked the albums... The formula I used to rank these albums is as follows: (average ranking of the top ten songs on an album) + (average ranking of the remaining tracks on an album) + (the average of an album's mean and median song rankings). What I think I captured by using this composite formula was to reward an album's contribution of great songs to the 311 catalogue, to penalize an album (such as Soundsystem) for having weak tracks that are a detriment to the album as a whole, and, finally, to evaluate each album overall. But then there's Transistor... To account for Transistor's extreme length, I ignored its five weakest tracks in my calculations. (Rankings last updated July 2011)

  1. Transistor*
  2. From Chaos
  3. Music
  4. Universal Pulse
  5. 311
  6. Uplifter**
  7. Soundsystem
  8. Don't Tread on Me
  9. Grassroots
  10. Evolver

* includes the "Intro" hidden track
** includes the two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of the album