Best Albums of 2010

[Fastnbulbous]

I finished the list for my site just before Xmas, sorry it took me so long to post this. I thought there might be a pre-existing thread to tack this onto, but I didn't see one. Best is not the best term of course, just my favorites.

01. Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat)
02. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
03. LoneLady - Nerve Up (Warp)
04. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (Rune Grammofon)
05. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury (Rocket)
06. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
07. The Soft Pack (Kemado)
08. Kvelertak (Indie Recordings)
09. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse)
10. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (PIAS)
11. These New Puritans - Hidden (Domino)
12. Robyn - Body Talk (Interscope)
13. Napoleon IIIrd - Christiania (Brainlove)
14. The Chap - Well Done, Europe (Lo)
15. Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
16. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
17. Sennen - Age Of Denial (Hungry Audio)
18. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
19. Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
20. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante (+1)
21. Ed Harcourt - Lustre (Piano Wolf)
22. Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Epitaph)
23. Wild Nothing - Gemini/Golden Haze EP (Captured Tracks)
24. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)
25. Warpaint - The Fool (Rough Trade)
26. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
27. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Spinefarm)
28. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
29. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine (Relapse)
30. Good Shoes - No Hope No Future (Brille)
31. How To Dress Well - Love Remains (Lefse)
32. Abe Vigoda - Crush (Bella Union/Post Present Medium)
33. Intronaut - Valley Of Smoke (Century Media)
34. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (Profound Lore)
35. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist)
36. The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
37. Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone)
38. Maximum Balloon (Interscope)
39. Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
40. Anika (Stones Throw)
41. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp)
42. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II (Sacred Bones/Soulterrain)
43. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
44. White Denim - Last Day Of Summer (White Denim)
45. Rangers - Suburban Tours (Olde English Spelling Bee)
46. Shining - Blackjazz (The End)
47. Årabrot - Revenge (Fysisk Format)
48. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)
49. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
50. Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
51. Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer (Big Dada)
52. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
53. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
54. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
55. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (Profound Lore)
56. The Sword - Warp Riders (Kemado)
57. Forest Swords - Dagger Path (Olde English Spelling Bee)
58. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World (Fat Possum)
59. Prins Thomas (Full Pupp)
60. Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor (Sounds Familyre)
61. Errors - Come Down With Me (Rock Action)
62. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
63. Alcest - Écailles De Lune (Prophecy)
64. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris (Bad Boy)
65. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Editions Mego)
66. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Before Today (4AD)
67. Nachtmystium - Addicts - Black Meddle Pt II (Century Media)
68. El Guincho - Pop Negro (XL)
69. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (Nuclear Blast)
70. Twin Shadow - Forget (Red General)
71. Hot Chip – One Life Stand (EMI)
72. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks)
73. Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly International)
74. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)
75. Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding (Geophonic)
76. Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
77. Torche - Songs For Singles EP (Hydra Head)
78. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
79. Jonsi - Go (XL)
80. White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
81. Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)
82. Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
83. Sahg - Sahg III (Indie Recordings)
84. Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP)
85. Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor)
86. Black Milk - Album of the Year (Fat Beats)
87. Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence)
88. Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (Fonal)
89. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above)
90. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
91. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Rise Above)
92. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (EMI)
93. Nails - Unsilent Death EP (Southern Lord)
94. Die Antwoord - $O$ (Interscope)
95. Salem - King Night (Iamsound)
96. Three Mile Pilot - Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
97. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin)
98. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North (Roadrunner)
99. Wino - Adrift (Exile On Mainstream)
100. Actress - Splazsh (Honest Jon's)

2010 Breakdown: Top 13 Genre Lists | Shows | Movies, Television, Books, Comics, Music Coverage

The Grinch Who Nearly Stole Fester's Lucky 13
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Every Who
Down in Who-ville
Liked Dr. Fester's Lucky 13 a lot...

But the Grinch,
Who lived just North of Who-ville,
Did NOT!

The Grinch hated lists! And the music within them!
Now, please don't ask why. How he couldn't like LCD Soundsystem.

It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his thong was too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his ears were two sizes too small. Continue..

 

[Fastnbulbous]

Albums I missed before I made the lists
No matter how hard I try, I always miss possible top 100 contenders. Here's some good albums I've heard in the week between Xmas and NY's.

1. Chico Mann - Analog Drift (Wax Poetics)
2. Ceremony - Rocket Fire (Killer Pimp)
3. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway (Phantom Sound)
4. Tamikrest - Adagh (Glitterhouse)
5. Yellow Swans - Going Places (Type)
6. Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega (Coptic Cat)
7. Alasdair Roberts & Friends Too Long in This Condition (Drag City)
8. Calle 13 - Entre los que Quieran (Sony U.S. Latin)
9. Choc Quib Town - Oro (Nacional Records)
10. Nico Muhly - I Drink The Air Before Me (Decca)
11. The Posies - Blood/Candy (Rykodisc)
12. Jonathan Richman - O Moon, Queen Of Night On Earth (Vapor)
13. Jaguar Love - Hologram Jams (Fat Possum)

 

[its phillip]

I'm too lazy to make a list, plus there have been a lot of 2010 releases I've yet to check out. I'll just post the 2010 albums that I listened to the most according to my last.fm:

Efterklang - Magic Chairs (4AD)
Lucidstatic - Symbiont Underground (Tympanik Audio)
Architect - Consume, Adapt, Create (Ant-Zen)
Candle Nine - The Muse in the Machine (Tympanik Audio)
Netsky - Netsky (Hospital Records)
Diaphane - Samdhya (Ant-Zen)
BT - These Hopeful Machines (Nettwerk)
Hybrid - Disappear Here (Distinct'ive Records)
Anklebiter - I Will Wait (Tympanik Audio)
The Album Leaf - A Chorus of Storytellers (Sub Pop)
Jónsi - Go (XL Recordings)
Zeller - Turbulences (Tympanik Audio)
Dryft - Ventricle (n5MD)
Reso - Temjin (Civil Music)
Delphic - Acolyte (Chimeric Records)
Talib Kweli + Hi-Tek are Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute (Blacksmith/Warner Bros)
Bonobo - Black Sands (Ninja Tune)
Totakeke - On the First of November (Tympanik Audio)
Fractional - Blood (Tympanik Audio/Brume Records)
ASC - Nothing is Certain (Nonplus Records)

I got too lazy to type any more. That's just in the order of most played, not a ranking of what I think is better. Unfortunately I can't scrobble tracks played in the car, but overall it seems like I really didn't listen to all that many new releases last year.

 

[zumbo]

TMV-Octahedron

Only one I bought.

 

[MidnightSensi2]

What a wonderful collection of albums, some I've heard some I'll check out! With such a wide range of tastes, you must do a lot of listening and searching. How cool to benefit from you guys!

I don't really have a comprehensive list, myself. Been kinda lax this year, let alone keeping track of what I've been buying.

Produced by Burial, sung by Jamie Woon, I found this tune to be one of my favorites of late 2010. Also Burial's remix of Woon's "Wayfairing Stranger" is a great track if your into that.


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Mushroom Jazz 7 came out, another addition to the wonderful mushroom jazz sets of Mark Farina. Fluid house music mixed with elements of jazz, hip-hop and always fairly chill.

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Also keep up with Magnetic Man. Skream, Benga and Artwork have combined to make some very interesting tracks:

Katy B adding lyrics that sum up the dubstep culture pretty well: subs going boom and inhaling fumes.

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On the more acoustic level, Ellie Goulding's cover of Elton John has been a favorite of this year for me:

 

[zumbo]

 

[3db]

The Von Bondies "Love Hate & Then There's You"
Tom Petty & The Heart Breakers "MOJO"

 

[jamie2112]

Leon Russell & Elton

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

I finished the list for my site just before Xmas, sorry it took me so long to post this. I thought there might be a pre-existing thread to tack this onto, but I didn't see one. Best is not the best term of course, just my favorites.

01. Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat)
02. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
03. LoneLady - Nerve Up (Warp)
04. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (Rune Grammofon)
05. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury (Rocket)
06. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
07. The Soft Pack (Kemado)
08. Kvelertak (Indie Recordings)
09. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse)
10. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (PIAS)
11. These New Puritans - Hidden (Domino)
12. Robyn - Body Talk (Interscope)
13. Napoleon IIIrd - Christiania (Brainlove)
14. The Chap - Well Done, Europe (Lo)
15. Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
16. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
17. Sennen - Age Of Denial (Hungry Audio)
18. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
19. Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
20. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante (+1)
21. Ed Harcourt - Lustre (Piano Wolf)
22. Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Epitaph)
23. Wild Nothing - Gemini/Golden Haze EP (Captured Tracks)
24. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)
25. Warpaint - The Fool (Rough Trade)
26. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
27. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Spinefarm)
28. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
29. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine (Relapse)
30. Good Shoes - No Hope No Future (Brille)
31. How To Dress Well - Love Remains (Lefse)
32. Abe Vigoda - Crush (Bella Union/Post Present Medium)
33. Intronaut - Valley Of Smoke (Century Media)
34. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (Profound Lore)
35. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist)
36. The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
37. Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone)
38. Maximum Balloon (Interscope)
39. Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
40. Anika (Stones Throw)
41. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp)
42. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II (Sacred Bones/Soulterrain)
43. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
44. White Denim - Last Day Of Summer (White Denim)
45. Rangers - Suburban Tours (Olde English Spelling Bee)
46. Shining - Blackjazz (The End)
47. Årabrot - Revenge (Fysisk Format)
48. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)
49. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
50. Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
51. Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer (Big Dada)
52. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
53. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
54. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
55. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (Profound Lore)
56. The Sword - Warp Riders (Kemado)
57. Forest Swords - Dagger Path (Olde English Spelling Bee)
58. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World (Fat Possum)
59. Prins Thomas (Full Pupp)
60. Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor (Sounds Familyre)
61. Errors - Come Down With Me (Rock Action)
62. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
63. Alcest - Écailles De Lune (Prophecy)
64. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris (Bad Boy)
65. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Editions Mego)
66. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Before Today (4AD)
67. Nachtmystium - Addicts - Black Meddle Pt II (Century Media)
68. El Guincho - Pop Negro (XL)
69. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (Nuclear Blast)
70. Twin Shadow - Forget (Red General)
71. Hot Chip – One Life Stand (EMI)
72. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks)
73. Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly International)
74. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)
75. Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding (Geophonic)
76. Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
77. Torche - Songs For Singles EP (Hydra Head)
78. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
79. Jonsi - Go (XL)
80. White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
81. Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)
82. Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
83. Sahg - Sahg III (Indie Recordings)
84. Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP)
85. Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor)
86. Black Milk - Album of the Year (Fat Beats)
87. Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence)
88. Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (Fonal)
89. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above)
90. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
91. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Rise Above)
92. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (EMI)
93. Nails - Unsilent Death EP (Southern Lord)
94. Die Antwoord - $O$ (Interscope)
95. Salem - King Night (Iamsound)
96. Three Mile Pilot - Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
97. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin)
98. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North (Roadrunner)
99. Wino - Adrift (Exile On Mainstream)
100. Actress - Splazsh (Honest Jon's)

2010 Breakdown: Top 13 Genre Lists | Shows | Movies, Television, Books, Comics, Music Coverage

The Grinch Who Nearly Stole Fester's Lucky 13
A Holiday horror brought to you by Dr. Seuss, Dr. Fester, Krampus, Santa, Satan, and the Vengeful Bastard God of Lists (Not suitable for children or adults with innocent sensibilities...those familiar with the Invisible Man's demise at the hands, and other, erm, appendage of Mr. Hyde in Alan Moore's The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen will know what I mean.)

Every Who
Down in Who-ville
Liked Dr. Fester's Lucky 13 a lot...

But the Grinch,
Who lived just North of Who-ville,
Did NOT!

The Grinch hated lists! And the music within them!
Now, please don't ask why. How he couldn't like LCD Soundsystem.

It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right.
It could be, perhaps, that his thong was too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his ears were two sizes too small. Continue..

My first reaction to this list is

blah
blah
blah
Iron Maiden
blah

Honestly no clue of any of the bands listed other that IM.

 

[its phillip]

So why not check some of the artists/bands out? Maybe you'll like em.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

So why not check some of the artists/bands out? Maybe you'll like em.

hmmm....

Some of my musical choices from 2010:

Mors Principium Est – Valley of Sacrifice, Part 1
Wintersun – Battle Against Time,Starchild,Sadness and Hate,Wintermadness
KromleK – Grim omens
Svartsot – Gravollet
Heidevolk – Saksenland
Blinded Colony – Once Bitten, Twice Shy
XIV Dark Centuries – Bragarful, Auf zur Schlacht
Týr – Hold The Heathen Hammer High
Månegarm – I evig tid
All That Remains – The Deepest Gray
Cor Scorpii – Ei fane svart
DevilDriver – Digging Up the Corpses, Clouds over California
Mistur – Skoddefjellet
Sonic Syndicate – Jailbreak
Thyrfing – Arising


more here:
http://www.last.fm/user/agisten/library/loved?sortBy=plays

 

[its phillip]

I like metal just fine, I just don't listen to very much or keep up with it. Here's my last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/user/gorb

I sent you a friend request

 

[guereellari]

новости

подскажите в каком разделе оставляют пожелания для форума?

 

[Jaferitis]

serious lack of Kanye, Big Boi and The Roots in this topic.

 

[MidnightSensi2]

serious lack of Kanye, Big Boi and The Roots in this topic.

Eh, I think most of them just don't listen to urban music.

Yeah, the Root's especially. Dear God 2.0 with Monsters Of Folk is amazing....also make sure to see the music video.

As far as Big Boi, he's always great (I still listen to ATLiens regularly btw), but a quick lookup of the one that got the most plays for me was "For Your Sorrrows":

As far as Kanye's "Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" .... I really believe he is at the best he has ever been. It's human, it's gritty.

 

[just-some-guy]

My first reaction to this list is

blah
blah
blah
Iron Maiden
blah

Honestly no clue of any of the bands listed other that IM.

A-MEN brutha.

 

[just-some-guy]

hmmm....

Some of my musical choices from 2010:

Mors Principium Est – Valley of Sacrifice, Part 1
Wintersun – Battle Against Time,Starchild,Sadness and Hate,Wintermadness
KromleK – Grim omens
Svartsot – Gravollet
Heidevolk – Saksenland
Blinded Colony – Once Bitten, Twice Shy
XIV Dark Centuries – Bragarful, Auf zur Schlacht
Týr – Hold The Heathen Hammer High
Månegarm – I evig tid
All That Remains – The Deepest Gray
Cor Scorpii – Ei fane svart
DevilDriver – Digging Up the Corpses, Clouds over California
Mistur – Skoddefjellet
Sonic Syndicate – Jailbreak
Thyrfing – Arising


more here:
http://www.last.fm/user/agisten/library/loved?sortBy=plays

lol, i have never heard of any of those, either.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

lol, i have never heard of any of those, either.

Funny enough me and my manager both into metal.. We have it constantly the speakers while working in office...
Somedays, then more cowbell required, we switch gears into a bit heavier stuff like :
Lamb of God
Pantera
Meshugah
Devil Driver
and my Fav -> Arch Enemy - If you don't know them - You must watch at-least one of their videos

 

[just-some-guy]

"Metal" these days, doesn't mean what it used too. so i know very little about it.
this is not to say i would not like it.

to me "Metal" or "Heavy Metal" is hair bands from the 80's & 90's, and some from the 70's.

 

[just-some-guy]

ok. i just checked out some of 3 arch enemy vids. the music is wicked ! the vocals are awful.
can't understand a damned thing she is saying.

my lil brother listens to that stuff. he is in his 30's. and looks just like the guys in that band.

do you listen to old metal ? like, from the 70's