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

Very stupid.

i laughed. well, maybe not LAUGHED...

do you miss the philadelphia weekly, rockist?

what's joey sweeney up to?

i still kinda can't get over robert downey jr. playing my old pal steve lopez in a movie. too bad i will never ever watch that movie. but i have lots of love for steve.

do you miss the philadelphia weekly, rockist?

No. Don't tell me you do.

I miss having a CVS on every corner though.

i miss wawa.

oh, and my friends.

i haven't been back since i moved. so that's like...almost 8 years? my whole life was there. it wasn't much of a life, but it was there.

there was some other piece exactly like that this year that was actually kind of otm iirc?

if i were 20 that whole thing would be otm. which is why i still find it kinda funny. cuz a part of me will always be 20. the dumb part.

I don't really miss Wawa or The Welcomat. (Is there even still a Welcomat?)

Anyway, I can see how a piece like that might be potentially funny, if it had punchlines. Thing is, I did not realize Hold Steady (hey, there's a band conspicuously missing from all the year-end lists, right? deservedly, but still) were considered a frat-house band. Is that really what their audience is now? When did that happen? Or did that guy just make that up? I assumed their audience was still mostly considered "rock critics."

Pretty sure Xgau said the Roots album is his favorite of the year, fwiw. And he's not even from Philly!

i think welcomat got changed to the weekly.

i don't really miss philly that much. i did consider it my home though. i moved there when i was 19 and when i left i was in my 30s and married with a kid. i mostly just remember working a lot and drinking too much. and i left before i could hang out with any philly ilx people. but most of them left too!

greenfield will be my final resting place. i love it here so much. and you can all come and visit me. my door is always open. except when i'm closed. well, most of you can come visit me...

http://halecustomsigns.com/images/158_large.jpg

oh but anyway i always forget that interpol are still around. who listens to them? are they big in japan?

M.I.A. gone M.I.A.?

i just tried to listen to new interpol on youtube. didn't last long. what happened to that guy's voice?

btw, grapevine sez xhuxk's voting Kanye no. one p&j-wise.

As long as this thread is derailed, I'm still not sure where you are scott. Where is Greenfield? There seems to be more than one.

greenfield is in massachusetts. western mass. near northampton and amherst. and near vermont. and near new hampshire.

i actually have chuck's top five albums for the pazz & jop this year. i know he's gonna kill me, but they are so good and nobody has really talked about them here. i hope he doesn't get too mad:

1. Johnny Truck & The Motormouths – Hardly Workin’ (Countryfried Records)
2. Louella Hudsucker – Kountry Kweenz & Stone-washed Jeanz (Doowrong Records)
3. Pud Wilkinson & The Homewreckers – Same Shit, Different day (CD Baby)
4. Los Perros Sucios – Lio Partido Loco (Idiota Hijo Records)
5. The Shipyard Scene: Forgotten Pub Rock Relics From The Vuosaari Harbor Region Of East Helsinki 1972-1974 (Stone Drag Reissue)

Man, WikiLeaks wrecks everything!

Thing you gotta understand about Kanye, though, is it's a concept album. By which I mean it directly references both "21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Iron Man", two songs that at least one person older than me told me he actually used to confuse back in 1971. How did Kanye know??

Seriously though my real Pazz & Jop #1 was listed on that list-of-everybody's-#1s link from Awl, and I will be really sad if I turn out to be the only voter who gives it 30 points (unless I only give it 25, I'm starting to waver a little.)

The Shipyard Scene: Forgotten Pub Rock Relics From The Vuosaari Harbor Region Of East Helsinki 1972-1974 (Stone Drag Reissue)

But okay, I totally want this one now.

wuz gonna say - no Seeger, no thang.

and I will be really sad if I turn out to be the only voter who gives it 30 points

i'm voting for it. thanks for reminding me.

Why would you expect P&J voters to vote for bob seger as #1 album in 2010?

Good taste, maybe? (Okay, maybe too much to ask.)

haha it is the P&J!

I suppose it would make a change from indie landfill or the big mainstream pop/rock. Everyone vote bob seger as #1 in a protest vote!

If Chris Bohn's opening on-air remarks on Resonant FM the other night are anything to go by, then The Wire's Rewind 2010 #1 is ACTRESS - Splazsh! Big ups all around IMHO...

Here's a fun list - our own Phil (Unperson)'s best 40 and worst 10 metal:

http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/headbang-blog.aspx

kinda want to hear that ov hell album now.

and hating on van canto is too easy. they are...something. i mean, they DO have some sort of vision. there are records that are spectacularly bad. but they're a spectacle as music group.

i like the best list though! superior album covers too. i want to hear a bunch on there. phil might be crazy, but he's got some good picks on there for a pantera fan.

That Ov Hell album isn't really awful, just plain boring. Its like black metal by numbers.

Classic Rock EOY 2010 - top 50 albums

50. Buckcherry - All Night Long
49. Spirits Of The Dead - s/t
48. Brijitte West & the Desperate Hopefuls - s/t
47. JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys - Fidelity!
46. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
45. Elton John & Leonard Russel - The Union
44. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
43. Eric Clapton - s/t
42. Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teadybear
41. Ronnie Wood - I Feel Like Playing
40. Imelda May - Mayhem
39. Steven Dale Petit - The Crave
38. Voodoo Six - Fluke?
37. Halford - Halford IV : Made of Metal
36. Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark
35. Siant Jude - Diary of a Soul Fiend
34. Night Horse - Perdition Hymns
33. Down - Diary of a Mad Band
32. Joe Bonamassa - Black Rock
31. Steeple - Wolf People
30. Black Label Society - Order of the Black
29. The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
28. Foxy Shazam - s/t
27. Paul Weller - Wake up the Nation
26. Heart - Red Velvet Car
25. Scorpions - Sting in the Tale
24. FM - Metropolis
23. Mastermind - Monster Magnet
22. Audrey Horne - s/t
21. Unruly Child - World's Collide
20. Ratt - Infestation
19. Anathema - We're Here...
18. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
17. Airbourne - No Guts, No Glory
16. Neil Young - Le Noise
15. Accept - Blood of the Nations
14. Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
13. Altar Bridge - ABIII
12. Cathedral - The Guessing Game
11. Ozzy Osborne - Scream
10. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
9. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
8. Jim Jones Revue - Burning your House Down
7. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
5. The Union - s/t
4. Robert Plant - Band of Joy
3. Black Country Communion - Black Country
2. Them Crooked Vultures - s/t
1. Slash - s/t

Slash? freakin' Slash? is this 1993 or what?

^has never read Classic Rock magazine

nice to see a list with the Chrissie Hynde record on it, it's got some killer tunes. also appreciate learning that Meat oaf released an album called "Hang Cool Teddy Bear" this year apparently.

lmfao @ "Meat oaf"

haha Meat oaf (xpost)

ha! great unintentional -- but accurate -- description.

^has never read Classic Rock magazine

haw, no i haven't. and apparently it's where the ROCK '70s/'80s went to die--sure seems to be gettin' mighty ripe around about there, too.

lol the one album in there I have been loudly stanning for since late summer ('Steeple' by Wolf People) they get the band and title backwards :(

These are both good (in fact, Ratt's album has shown up on a couple other lists I've seen, incuding Phil's metal one):

26. Heart - Red Velvet Car
20. Ratt - Infestation

But the FM who made Metropolis (#24) unfortunately turn out to not to be the same keyboard-heavy Canadian guitarless AOR/pomp power-trio who put out City Of Fear in 1980, but rather some British people.

this is actually my fave album by FM, but its kinda hard to find.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AJcpmbP_Sow/RhzwJFxegzI/AAAAAAAAAAk/RFf_SXUTsDA/s320/FM2.jpg

the old FM.

Good old Classic Rock. You always know where you are with a Classic Rock list.

1970?