Best of 2010 Music Releases

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

I didn't find 10 albums I enjoyed enough to put on the list. This is all I got, in no particular order:

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
Liars - Sisterworld
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
The National - High Violet

Ignoble Mention: The third Interpol album left me queasy, and their 4th release this year confirmed that they're done.

Here's hoping 2011 brings more from The Knife and Radiohead. The withdrawal is getting hard to manage.

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

The National - Makes me want to shave my wrists, with a noose around my neck and my head inside an oven.

So you're saying it's not that bad?

[Cyclops]

Pretty sure most of these were released this year.

Kings Of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
Sleigh Bells
The Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World
Ray Lamontagne And The Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise
Sean Carey - All We Grow
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
The National - High Violet
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

[GreenLantern]

Got a good listen to the new Kanye album tonight. I haven't been a huge fan of the person but I definitely know he is talented and he makes really good music. Won't be surprised when we see this as album of the year.

[Dion]

No love for the Kings of Leon?

[HotHotHeat]

Someone has me on their ignore list.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Dion

No love for the Kings of Leon?

I'm usually happy to see bands I love become successful, but they've become such huge divas since hitting it big, that they're now dead to me. I won't even bother listening to their new one.

[Ramsayfarian]

Wow, Jason and the Scorchers have new music. I have some of their stuff on vinyl. I'm going to hunt that down. Thanks.

Originally Posted by troutman

My early list, in no particular order:

New Pornographers - Together
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Paul Weller- Wake Up The Nation
Mark Sultan - $
The Roots - How I Got Over
MGMT - Congratulations
Land Of Talk - Cloak And Cipher
Bryan Ferry - Olympia
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
Jason & The Scorchers - Halcyon Times
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Dion

No love for the Kings of Leon?

IMO their new album was okay. Some good songs but for the most part the album was pretty uninspiring.

[Weiser Wonder]

The National's High Violet is top of the list for me, I love that album. Although I haven't heard that much new music this year.

[Ron Duguay's Hair]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

First draft.. non youtube list..


Top 10 albums of 2010
(10) Inspectah Deck - Manifesto
(9) Wintersleep – New Inheritors
(8) Band of Horses – Infinite Arms
(7) Vampire Weekend – Contra
(6) Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
(5) The Black Keys – Brothers
(4) Ra Ra Riot – The Orchard
(3) Jezabels – Dark Storm
(2) Arcade Fire – Suburbs
(1) Tokyo Police Club – Champ

You know, I could never really put my finger on it but I really didn't enjoy Contra. Maybe I'm one of those people that pines for what a bad did on their previous record, so this one didn't work for me. I loved their first record, though. Maybe it's "horchata" and the fact that they named a song after a beverage I've never tasted. One can never be certain.

[icarus]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

Fenech Soler(self titled)

Favorite track: The Great Unknown

Ha, pretty cool to see that. We've seen them several times over the past couple years and met them a couple times. Went to an unofficial gig of theirs on Halloween last year that was basically in a warehouse in the East End that a bunch of people were living in. Saw them again a few weeks ago for their first official sold out headline show in London. Their album is very good if you like electro and they are great live. Glad to see they are getting their name out and finding success.

For me, my top album of the year is Arcade Fire. Went to the concert last night at the O2 and they were great as they always are live. Love The Suburbs.

Another of my favourite albums this year is Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record. Some excellent tracks on that one.

[troutman]

Grammy nominees for best album of 2010 (what an odd mix):

http://stereogum.com/590261/arcade-f...r-grammy/news/

• Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
• Eminem – Recovery
• Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
• Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
• Katy Perry – Teenage Dream

[troutman]

Decibel, Top 40 albums of 2010:

http://stereogum.com/588101/decibel-...ng-the-chapel/

10 The Austerity Program – Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
09 Nails – Unsilent Death
08 Thou – Summit
07 Ludicra – The Tenant
06 Torche – Songs for Singles
05 Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini
04 Dawnbringer – Nucleus
03 Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones
02 Watain – Lawless Darkness
01 Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit

[troutman]

50 most anticipated in 2011:

http://stereogum.com/582501/50-most-...es/listomania/

• 01 Aphex Twin – TBA
• 02 Fiona Apple – TBA
• 03 The Avalanches – TBA (via Modular)
• 04 Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Vol. 2 (via Capitol)
• 05 James Blake – James Blake (2/07 via Atlas/A&M)
• 06 The Cars – TBA
• 07 The Cave Singers – No Witch (2/22 via Jagjaguwar)
• 08 Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (1/24 via Carpark)
• 09 Cut Copy – Zonoscope (2/08 via Modular)
• 10 Death Cab For Cutie – TBA (via Atlantic)
• 11 The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (1/18 via Capitol)
• 12 Destroyer – Kaputt (1/25 via Merge)
• 13 Dr. Dre – Detox (February via Aftermath/Interscope)
• 14 Fleet Foxes – TBA
• 15 Foo Fighters – TBA

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by troutman

50 most anticipated in 2011:

http://stereogum.com/582501/50-most-...es/listomania/

• 01 Aphex Twin – TBA
• 02 Fiona Apple – TBA
• 03 The Avalanches – TBA (via Modular)
• 04 Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee, Vol. 2 (via Capitol)
• 05 James Blake – James Blake (2/07 via Atlas/A&M)
• 06 The Cars – TBA
• 07 The Cave Singers – No Witch (2/22 via Jagjaguwar)
• 08 Cloud Nothings – Cloud Nothings (1/24 via Carpark)
• 09 Cut Copy – Zonoscope (2/08 via Modular)
• 10 Death Cab For Cutie – TBA (via Atlantic)
• 11 The Decemberists – The King Is Dead (1/18 via Capitol)
• 12 Destroyer – Kaputt (1/25 via Merge)
• 13 Dr. Dre – Detox (February via Aftermath/Interscope)
• 14 Fleet Foxes – TBA
• 15 Foo Fighters – TBA

30 My Morning Jacket – TBA (ATO)

YES!!!!

[macker]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I hate Mumford and Sons, mainly because of overplay, but I hate hate hate The National. They need some crack or something in their diet.

Makes me think of the lyrics to "Afraid of Everyone".

"But I don't have the drugs to sort, I don't have the drugs to sort it out, sort it out".

I read that Matt Berninger wrote this song about being a new father. The sound is somewhat different and sounds at times like the Crash Test Dummies. Maybe that is why so many people hate them?

[Weiser Wonder]

People don't like the National because they are terribly awkward and Berninger's lyrics seem at first blush to be pathetic. But he wins you over with an odd, unrelenting conviction in everything he writes.

[AC]

Originally Posted by troutman

Decibel, Top 40 albums of 2010:http://stereogum.com/588101/decibel-...ng-the-chapel/

Thanks for this. Try as I might, almost all the bands and albums mentioned so far in this thread do absolutely nothing for me.

The only exception being The Black Keys, which I loved... and to a lesser extent, Vampire Weekend.

I guess I just don't get popular music.

[OilKiller]

Originally Posted by troutman

Bryan Ferry - Olympia

Really?

I am a HUGE Ferry and Roxy Music fan but I found this album awful. Put me to sleep. Nothing memorable on it at all.