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

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?

8. Jim Jones Revue - Burning your House Down

Good to see this turn up somewhere, it's a blast and massively underrated, if a bit hammy in places.

It's not quite up there with Classic Rock's list from 2008:

10. Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
9. Journey - Revelation
8. Big Linda - I Loved You
7. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad
6. Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge
5. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
4. Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition
3. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
2. Metallica - Death Magnetic
1. AC/DC - Black Ice

^^^ Does exactly what is says on the tin.

Whitesnake!!!!

Honestly willing to believe that Classic Rock list is better than most of the lists we've seen on this thread.

As long as you need ever hear any of the albums?

One of my favorite's of the year is on that Classic Rock list. In fact, the album I'm voting #1 in the metal poll is on it.

i like that the classic rock list doesnt feel the need to incorporate albums outside its milieu just because theyre critically acclaimed. no kanye, no arcade fire, no bullshit

lol that Hold Steady fits perfectly in that list. Wonder why the Walkmen and the National arent jockeying for posish too

I've written for Classic Rock for about seven years (I'm mainly their go to guy for "mad stuff" like The Fall) and if I voted for albums outside its milieu (say Fabric55 by Shackleton for the LOLs) they would probably consider it a sacking offence. Quite right too.

Xhuxk OTM about the Heart album!!!!! It soundtracked my 1,000 trips to the storage unit during our move this summer, and the 999 trips back.

Soon going to have to do a list of my top 101 albums of the year, many of which are unsurprisingly not here. LOL do people still read blogs?

If viacom hadn't removed all The State's MTV skits from youtube, the "Slash" sketch would have been a nice video right about here.

All of these lists are so good. Can't wait to see more.

Would read again.

Pitchfork Top 100 Tracks of 2010
numbers 100-51:

100. These New Puritans - "We Want War"
99. Gayngs - "The Gaudy Side of Town"
98. Male Bonding - "Year's Not Long"
97. Ramadanman - "Don't Change for Me"
96. Diplomats - "Salute"
95. Ty Segall - "Girlfriend"
94. Kelis - "Acapella"
93. Freddie Gibbs - "National Anthem (Fuck the World)"
92. Matthew Dear - "You Put a Smell on Me"
91. Liars - "Scarecrows on a Killer Slant"
90. Abe Vigoda - "Crush"
89. Usher [ft. Nicki Minaj] - "Lil Freak"
88. DOM - "Burn Bridges"
87. Perfume Genius - "Mr. Peterson"
86. Glasser - "Apply"
85. Wavves - "Post Acid"
84. Gil Scott-Heron - "New York Is Killing Me"
83. Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"
82. Spoon - "Written in Reverse"
81. Forest Swords - "Rattling Cage"
80. The Radio Dept. - "Heaven's on Fire"
79. Delorean - "Real Love"
78. Die Antwoord - "Enter the Ninja"
77. Rihanna [ft. Drake] - "What's My Name?"
76. Here We Go Magic - "Collector"
75. Toro Y Moi - "Blessa"
74. Sade - "Soldier of Love"
73. Wild Nothing - "Chinatown"
72. No Age - "Glitter"
71. Salem - "King Night"
70. NDF - "Since We Last Met"
69. Woods - "Suffering Season"
68. Kingdom [ft. Shyvonne] - "Mind Reader"
67. Drake - "Over"
66. The National - "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
65. Dum Dum Girls - "Jail La La"
64. Alicia Keys - "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"
63. Broken Social Scene - "World Sick"
62. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "Bottled in Cork"
61. Tyler the Creator [ft. Hodgy Beats] - "French"
60. Panda Bear - "Slow Motion"
59. Twin Sister - "All Around and Away We Go"
58. Oneohtrix Point Never [ft. Antony] - "Returnal"
57. The Fresh & Onlys - "Waterfall"
56. Joker - "Tron"
55. Lady Gaga [ft. Beyoncé] - "Telephone"
54. Vampire Weekend - "White Sky"
53. Kendal Johansson - "Blue Moon"
52. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Lovesick"
51. Smith Westerns - "Weekend"