2010 Magazine's Albums Of The Year Thread For Posting Lists and Discussion

Or Pen & Pixel renderings

still not a peep from musically, btw...

try emil.y, maybe?

they did special graphics for each album

The Black Keys one made me chuckle.

Stereogum list

50 Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
49 Small Black – New Chain
48 Sharon Van Etten – Epic
47 Baths – Cerulean
46 Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave
45 Perfume Genius – Learning
44 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
43 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
42 Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement
41 Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
40 Glasser – Ring
39 Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner
38 Avey Tare – Down There
37 jj – jj nº3
36 the morning benders – Big Echo
35 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
34 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
33 MGMT – Congratulations
32 Twin Shadow – Forget
31 Warpaint – The Fool
30 Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude
29 Matthew Dear – Black City
28 Delorean – Subiza
27 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
26 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
25 ceo – White Magic
24 Tamaryn – The Waves
23 SALEM – King Night
22 Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
21 Liars – Sisterworld
20 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
19 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
18 Abe Vigoda – Crush
17 Owen Pallett – Heartland
16 The National – High Violet
15 The-Dream – Love King
14 Yeasayer – Odd Blood
13 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
12 Crystal Castles – II
11 Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
10 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
09 Wild Nothing – Gemini
08 Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights
07 Vampire Weekend – Contra
06 Sleigh Bells – Treats
05 Robyn – Body Talk
04 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
03 Beach House – Teen Dream
02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

list very much in character

ZERO decent albums in the top 10 has to be some sort of record

FUCK EVERY FUCKING CLOTH-EAR PUBLICATION THAT PUTS KANYE FIRST

I count four, though Kanye's is definitely not one of them.

02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

~headdesk~

pretty wild that this Kanye record is the first record since, like, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to really getting the indie sites to agree that the major labels sometimes make records better than we do

i like the kanye album alright but it'd be around my top 25-30 ranking or so -- no way #1

that arcade fire record = zzzzzzzzz

i would listen to the antony, robyn and beach house as i like other stuff by them but haven't yet. of what i have heard they are on a 0% average.

who is that "we" whiney?

pretty wild that this Kanye record is the first record since, like, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot to really getting the indie sites to agree that the major labels sometimes make records better than we do

"we"? speak for yourself. indie sites and indie critics are firmly over THERE, far far far from where i locate myself.

I like the Arcade Fire record, but it's pointless to stan for it in the face of conflict. You either dig it or your don't, whatevs.

lol xp!!

10 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest - decent, but not a patch on Cryptograms
09 Wild Nothing – Gemini - havent heard, most likely zzzzz
08 Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights - not a patch on I Am a Bird Now
07 Vampire Weekend – Contra - zzzzzz
06 Sleigh Bells – Treats - surprisingly decent
05 Robyn – Body Talk - top ten material, A+
04 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
03 Beach House – Teen Dream - zzzzzzzzz
02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs - zzzzzzzzzzzz
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - flawed, maybe top 30 material

lex isn't indie? when did that happen?

oh didnt notice the deerhunter, i liked that.

I thought the Deerhunter album was their best by far

09 Wild Nothing – Gemini - havent heard, most likely zzzzz

quality criticism here

this is actually a really good album though

Me too, but that's faint praise. I'm by no means a big fan. xp

i'm open to hearing it, i guess, the band name just sounds kinda snoozy

Glad this thread taught me that lex and a hoy hoy both work for powerful major label record companies

Hey ilxor, can you do a personal rundown for all 50 of Sgum's choices? thanks in advance

Is that what you meant? Do you think that Def Jam is an indie? What? Did those 30 days rob you of coherency?

I have no idea how to make my post any clearer

Glad this thread taught me that lex and a hoy hoy both work for powerful major label record companies

well, w/ref to what you actually said originally, duhhh, of course they make better music than i do - i don't make music or work for any sort of record label.

fact's 60-41 tracks are up.

shocked "wut" only came in at #41!

wut?

They mixed up the track title and audio for the Andrea entry. The text refers to "You Still Got Me."

Hey ilxor, can you do a personal rundown for all 50 of Sgum's choices? thanks in advance

i realize u are kidding, but hey

A+: emeralds, big boi, oneohtrix, jj, swans, janelle, flylo, the-dream

overrated, still decent: avey tare, liars, lcd, yeasayer

like the few tracks i've heard: warpaint, ceo, matt dear, owen p.,

fucking horrible: mgmt, salem

zzzzzz: the national, joanna newsom

havent heard everything else

already covered the top ten for ya whiney

dont worry i wont call u out on plagiarism if you tweet about these great albums on my behalf

I like that Abe Vigoda album tons

02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

we're gonna be seeing a lot of this huh

I'll never understand why modern indie ppl cosign Das Racist but go out of their way to distance themselves from Antipop Consortium and Themselves and shit

not that this has been a gr8 year for backpacky shit, save Gangrene, which no one is talking about except me it seems

you really are capt. save an anti pop consortium aren't you

they're still great, what do you want from me

maybe it's because das racist are marketed specifically towards hipsters & ppl that read stereogum?

and have a novelty song

the scott pilgrims coming over on the hip-hop mayflower

why would you market towards ppl who have a novelty song

seems like a very small niche

antipop consortium are fantastic, new record's great and they killed it when i saw em a year or two ago

lol DJP trolling, cmon

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There is a difference between "trolling" (the blatantly overstated and hyperbolic comment I made about SALEM and racism way upthread that everyone ignored) and "making a joke" (my last post) that you might want to investigate.

making a "joke"

"making" a joke

Yeah, but the second I admit to liking anything on anticon. people start accusing me of a being a PM Dawn fan.