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Time to wrap up the year so here are my various Top Ten (sometimes fifteen) favourites in music for 2010.

Like 2009, 2010 wasn't a spectacular year but here's what stood out in my mind (ear?).

Top Fifteen Favourite New Releases

1- The Age Of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
2- Queen Of Denmark - John Grant
3- Teen Dream - Beach House
4- Practically Dead - Vapid
5- Gemini - Wild Nothing
6- Mount Carmel - Mount Carmel
7- At Echo Lake - Woods
8- Go Grey - U.S. Girls
9- Nothing Fits - Tyvek
10- 777 - Tonetta
11- Le Voyage- The Alps
12- Autre Ne Veut - Autre Ne Veut
13- Melted - Ty Segall
14- Platoon - Magic Lantern
15- High Violet - The National


Top Ten Reissues/Remasters

1- Black Tambourine - Black Tambourine
2- This Is Still It - The Method Actors
3- Music And Dreams - Robert Lester Folsom
4- Stupor Hiatus - Mike Rep And The Quotas
5- Kill City - Iggy Pop and James Williamson
6- Complete Mythology - Syl Johnson
7- Who Killed The Dragon - Vangelis
8- German Oak - German Oak
9- History Of The Units (77-83) - The Units
10- Phonography - R. Stevie Moore


Top Ten Favourite Various Artists Compilations

1- Minimal Waves Tapes Volume 1
2- Cloud Cuckooland
3- Bird Songs: Effeminate Euphony
4- Local Customs: Lonestar Lowlands
5- Cold Waves Minimal Electronics
6- Dengue Fever presents Electric Cambodia
7- Raks Raks Raks: Golden Garage Psych Nuggets From The Iranian 60s Scene
8- B-Music: Radio Galaxia
9- Absolute Belter: Mid-Med-Mod-Rock and Spanish Psychsploitation
10- California Funk: Raw Funk 45s From The Golden State


Top Ten Favourite Record Labels

1- Mexican Summer
2- B-Music
3- Woodsist
4- Siltbreeze
5- In The Red
6- Captured Tracks
7- Midheaven
8- Sacred Bones Records
9- Drag City
10- Numero Group


Top Ten Favourite Songs

1- Good Intentions Paving Company - Joanna Newsom
2- Choke - Vapid
3- Roman Holiday - Balaclavas
4- Sweet Part Of The City - The Hold Steady
5- Lying - Factory Floor
6- Fever Dreaming - No Age
7- Funeral Song - The Minks
8- Mysterious Oven - Naked On The Vague
9- The Gaudy Side Of Town - Gayngs
10- Weekends and Treehouses - Young Prisms


Top Ten Favourite Concerts

1- Owen Pallett/Diamond Rings - Thtre Outremont
2- Swans - Le National
3- Flaming Lips - Metropolis
4- Grinderman - Metropolis
5- The Hold Steady - Cabaret du Mile-End
6- Beach House - Sala Rossa
7- Joanna Newsom - Ukranian Federation
8- Thee Silver Mount-Zion Memorial Orchestra - Ukranian Federation
9- The Walkmen - Cabaret Juste pour rire
10- Deerhoof/Danielson - La Tulipe

Well that's it!

See you in 2011 maybe?