Best of 2010

Rolling Stone

Pitchfork: Honorable Mention, Part 1, Part 2

What are yours?

Grinderman- 2

Roky Erickson- True love cast out all evil

Riverboat Gamblers- Underneath the Owl

Melvins- The Bride screamed murder

Sleep- live in Austin,TX.

Also:

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Ty Segall: Melted
Das Racist: Sit Down Man
Best Coast: Crazy For You
Titus Andronicus: The Monitor
Puffy Areolas: In The Army 1981
Boston Spaceships: Our Cubehouse Still Rocks
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today
Freddie Gibbs: Str8 Killa
Black Angels: Phosphene Dream
Dum Dum Girls: I will Be

I second the Titus Andronicus and Ariel Pink nods, but by far my favorite from this year:



John Grant: Queen of Denmark.

Grant was the frontman for The Czars, which disbanded several years ago. The band Midlake coaxed him out of hiding and recorded this album with him. It was released on Bella Union in the UK and hasn't made much of a dent stateside. Grant just finished up a tour and put on some amazing shows.



Everyone should look it up if they get the chance. The album has a 70s-ish cleanness about it, but is largely driven by Grant's vocals and piano.

John Grant at Bella Union

In no particular order:
Tom Jones- Praise and Blame
Grinderman- Grinderman 2
Willie Nelson- Country Music
Richard Thompson- Dream Attic
Elvis Costello- National Ransom
Jamey Johnson- The Guitar Song
Isobel Campbell and Marl Lanegan- Hawk
Slelby Lynne- Tears, Lies and Alibis

1. The National/High Violet
2. Kanye West/My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Sleigh Bells/Treats
4. Arcade Fire/The Suburbs
5. Brian Eno/Small Craft On A Milk Sea
6. LCD Soundsystem/This Is Happening
7. Peter Gabriel/Scratch My Back
8. Neil Young/Le Noise
9. Gorillaz/Plastic Beach
10. Vampire Weekend/Contra
11. School of Seven Bells/Disconnect From Desire
12. Robyn/Body Talk (Pts. 1-3)
13. The Dead Weather/Sea of Cowards
14. The Black Keys/Brothers
15. Eels/End Times + Tomorrow Morning
16. Deerhunter/Halcyon Digest


Honorable Mention

Best Reissue: Nine Inch Nails/Pretty Hate Machine

Dishonorable Mention: M.I.A./Maya & Liz Phair/Funstyle

The Drums, the National, XX, Girl Talk, Broken Social Scene, LCD Soundsystem

Oh, you are just going to judge me. I’m kidding – of course you are going to judge me – I don’t care. Once I find something I like I listen to it for months, so I didn’t buy much this year. Most of my favourite purchases this year were released before 2010. I know that’s cheating on a best of 2010 list.

Superchunk – Majesty Shredding
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Fucked Up – Epics in Minutes (2008)
The Aggrolites – IV (2009)
Sly and the Family Stone – Greatest Hits (year?)
The Meters – The Very Best of (1997)

I also bought the latest LPs from Spoon, Vampire Weekend, and some others, but couldn’t get into them much.

My favorites this year:

High Violet - The National
So Runs the World Away - Josh Ritter
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Thistled Spring - Horse Feathers
Hawk - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
Grinderman 2 - Grinderman
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae
Brothers - The Black Keys
Teen Dream - Beach House
Odd Blood - Yeasayer

Far and away my favourite from this year is White Crosses by Against Me! best album I've heard for years and I now consider it in my all time top five.

Honourable mentions go to:
Chamberlain Waits - The Menzingers
The Dissent Of Man - Bad Religion
Cavalcade - The Flatliners
99 Songs Of Revolution - Streetlight Manifesto
Gogol Bordello - Trans-Continental Hustle

Warpaint - The Fool

Parallels - Visionaries
Robert Hood - Omega
Hellish Crossfire - Bloodrust Scythe
Zola Jesus - Stridulum II
Lone - Emerald Island Fantasy Tracks
Burzum - Belus
Autechre - Oversteps
Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Forest Swords - Dagger Paths
Nocturnal Blood - Devestated Graves - The Morbid Celebration

Liked this too.

Dull effort after the greatness of Kala.

I wholeheartedly agree with almost 90% of this list.

Slash - RNFNR.

Murderdolls - Women & Children Last.

My top five:
Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
The National - High Violet
Owen Pallett - Heartland
Stars - Five Ghosts
aaaand the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Soundtrack.

Also forgot to add:

The Coral - Butterfly House

still to make my mind up about the Beach House album, definately like some of the tracks.

I didn't buy any albums for most of the year, but some of my favourites were:

Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
The National - High Violet
Gabby Young & Other Animals - We're All In This Together
Goldfrapp - Head First
I Am Kloot - Sky At Night
Frazey Ford - Obadiah

And I got Joanna Newsom's Have One On Me a few days ago. I've only listened to it all the way through once, but think it might be brilliant..

that joke i made about the three monks and the slipknot fan ....

1 Beach House | Teen Dream
2 Joanna Newsom | Have One On Me
3 Candy Claws | Hidden Lands
4 Flying Lotus | Cosmogramma
5 White Hinterland | Kairos

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