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

In my previous comment ("I count 11 that are nearly a dead lock for their top 15 albums of the year") I was referring to all of those, except I had Arcade Fire instead of Joanna Newsom.

ahh nice, i missed that, sorry, too many posts in thread :(

wouldn't be surprised if arcade fire was a bit lower this year, maybe 16-25 range. pfork didnt rate too highly, seems like "sprawl II" kinda stole all the album's attention, plus all the other crits are going nuts over arcade fire this year, so seems like a good time for pfork to dial back the hype a bit: "guys, we like the arcade fire, i mean, we basically introduced them to the world 5 yrs ago, but they've made better albums than this one"

I think Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend both have 'chances' at their top 10.

good call on vamp week, i could see that going top ten ~~~maybe~~~

cos that's my rdme day xp

did the national have a track in pfork's entire top 100? I must've missed it -- was "bloodbuzz ohio" in there at all?? (if not, major props, btw)

Someone explain "I Can Change" to me. One of my least favorite songs on the LCD Soundsystem record.

My second favourite - the backing just works for me in that 80s quirky groove vein.

Bloobuzz was #66, considerably lower than I would have expected it to be.

pfork doing the same thing w/ the national as arcade fire -- "attn all other critics: we hyped these guys back when they were making better albums"

xpost. Years ago Q used to have a little box on the reviews page where they picked out great tracks from otherwise shitty albums. I loved that. My favourite tracks in Pitchfork and Stylus were often freak standouts from albums and EPs.

see also: christgau's column, wasnt it called "choice cuts" or something?

It's criticism as public service - "I listened to this pile of average albums just so I could tell you about a couple of great songs you wouldn't otherwise have known about."

I do miss the Stylus list.

that radio dept album needs more love.

I thought Maserati & Rene Hell would have made more lists.

two huge, mainstream pop albums that haven't appeared on *any* lists yet:

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Ke$ha - Animal

tbf no one outside of Radio Disney or the AMAs is going to rank those albums

it's like how the reader's choice poll in TV Guide picked Supernatural as the season's best television show

let us hope this state of affairs continues.

xp

they're gonna place in P&J (and the Village Voice is pimping HARD for Katy Perry) -- question is, how high/low?

Katy Perry blows tbh

you could say the album is DROWNING in bad ideas

two huge, mainstream pop albums that haven't appeared on *any* lists yet:

Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Ke$ha - Animal

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Didn't "Tik Tok" have the longest streak at #1 on the Billboard charts for a female artist since the 70s or something crazy like that? IMO, the song "Teenage Dream" is definitely worthy of an indie publication's approval. I guess I don't see how "Rude Boy" and "Telephone" are much "better" objectively.

Anyone know if The Wire list is out yet?

it's upthread, there was an awesome deej 'n Whiney minishow over it

reposting:

The Wire top 50

01 Actress - Splazsh
02 Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
03 Swans - My father will guide me up a rope to the sky
04 Joanna Newsom - Have one on me
05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
06 Rangers - Suburban tours
07 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before today
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro accoustic
11 Sun City Girls - Funeral mariachi
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
14 Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer
15 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
18 Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
19 Eleh - Location momentum
20 Autechre - Oversteps
21 Helena Gough - Mikroklimata
22 Demdike Stare - Liberation through hearing
23 Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic materials
24 Bill Orcutt - Way down south
25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
26 Bellows - Handcut
27 Tilbury/Duch/Davies - Conrenius Cardew: Works 1960-1970
28 Hype Williams - s/t
29 Laurie Anderson - Homeland
30 Konono No 1 - Assume crash position
31 Zs - New slaves
32 Phew - Five finger discount
33 Sabbathh Assembly - Restored to one
34 Derek Bailey - More 74
35 Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsua
36 Tyler the Creator - Bastard
37 Moon Wiring Club A spare tabby at the cat's wedding
38 Larry Polansky - The world's largest melody
39 Alasdair Galbraith - Mass
40 Jailbreak - The Rocker
41 oOoOO - oOoOO
42 Pedestrian Deposit - East fork/North fork
43 Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadaz vol 3
44 Prins Thomas - s/t
45 These New Puritans - Hidden
46 Aldo Clementi - Works with flutes
47 Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air supply
48 Joseph Hammer - I love you, please love me too
49 Joshua Abrams - Natural information
50 Grinderman 2

Not heard of Actress. Would I like it?

if you like this, you'll probably dig the whole aesthetic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcnRT-m9MYo

Thanks! I've been in a training class, and am behind!

It doesn't seem to go anywhere but maybe It needs to be heard as an album not just 1 track.

xps, but following on from my previous post: Like, if you like the song and think it's one of the best of the year, should it get penalized because it appears on an album you think is one of the best of the year? What if the song on its own stands out in a manner differently from how it blends into the album?

This makes sense, and I have this argument every year with myself. The other dilemma: ranking a single whose album made your top ten last year.

"The House That Built Me"?

XXP: There's a lot to admire in that album but it doesn't have a grip on my heart.

and "American Saturday Night."

xpost

Treblezine - The Top 50 Albums of 2010

Back to class *sigh*. Stupid work is getting in the way of my listening to the several dozen albums I haven't gotten around to yet!

TIME Magazine - Top 10 Albums

* Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
* Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
* LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
* The National, High Violet
* Drake, Thank Me Later
* Sufjan Stevens, Age of Adz
* The Black Keys, Brothers
* Yeasayer, Odd Blood
* Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
* Beach House, Teen Dream

much more interesting:

TIME Magazine - Top 10 Buzzwords

* Vuvuzela
* Top Kill/Junk Shot/Static Kill/Top Hat
* Bedbugs
* Eyjafjallajokull
* Austerity
* Anchor Babies
* Mama Grizzlies
* Release the Kraken!
* Double-dip
* Bunga bunga

okay seriously, I didn't even know Yeaseayer or Beach House EXISTED before these lists

I knew music existed before I read these lists.

* Top Kill/Junk Shot/Static Kill/Top Hat
* Anchor Babies
* Release the Kraken!
* Bunga bunga

^^what the shit are these

My ILM passwords.

SRSLY -- wish we had those kinda surprises on year-end lists too!

xp to lex

xps, but following on from my previous post: Like, if you like the song and think it's one of the best of the year, should it get penalized because it appears on an album you think is one of the best of the year? What if the song on its own stands out in a manner differently from how it blends into the album?

This makes sense, and I have this argument every year with myself. The other dilemma: ranking a single whose album made your top ten last year.

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yeah, i can't really argue with that either, but that's also precisely why i think it's more interesting/rewarding to do a tracks list that's geared towards covering singles, whether it's chart fodder or stuff in non-album formats or single-driven genres, etc. if it's nearly all the same artists as your corresponding albums list it's kind of pointless.

lex -- answers here:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2034745,00.html

i mean deej makes fun of me for putting songs on my P&J ballot the year they're hits even if it's the year after they first surface, but that's just how i roll. i might be one of the only P&J voters whose whole top 10 tracks have charted on the Hot 100 most years. (xpost)

* Top Kill/Junk Shot/Static Kill/Top Hat

this was a Sonic Youth song, I think it was on Sister -- not sure why it's on a 2010 list

lex -- answers here:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2035319_2034745,00.html

haha three of those were actually really useful & interesting to know, fuck a wacky film catchphrase tho

Didn't "Tik Tok" have the longest streak at #1 on the Billboard charts for a female artist since the 70s or something crazy like that?

I think for a debut single only. (I'm guessing the precedent was "You Light Up My Life.")

great top 100, even better writing:

http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_songs_of_2010.php

TIME Top 10 New Species

Beaked Toad
Darwin's Bark Spider
High-Altitude Tree Ant
Mossula Katydid
Pea-Sized Pitcher Plant Frog
Ecuadorean Glass Frog
Giant Woolly Rat
Tube-Nosed Fruit Bat
Bluetooth Tarantula
Five-Foot Penguin

Boston Phoenix's 100 Essential Hip-Hop Songs of 2010: http://thephoenix.com/Boston/music/112769-100-essential-hip-hop-tracks-for-2010/. I'll C+P the list in a sec.

wonder if we could think of musicians/albums that match up well to those species names

could make a great list

xp

Full Boston Phoenix 100 Essential Hip-Hop Tracks of 2010 list:

100. Rae, Ghost & Meth - "Gunshowers"
99. Moe Pope & Rain - "Rock Me"
98. Black Rob - "Just Holler At Me First"
97. 7L & Esoteric featuring Inspectah Deck - "12th Chamber"
96. J. Cole - "Before I'm Gone"
95. Akrobatik - "Rap Royalty" (RIP Guru)
94. Asher Roth - "Muddy Swim Trunks"
93. Crown Royale - "Get It Up"
92. Grand Daddy IU - "The Veteran"
91. Reflection Eternal - "Ballad of the Black Gold"

90. Homeboy Sandman - "Calm Tornado"

89. Necro - "Asshole Anthem"
88. Nottz featuring Mayer Hawthorne - "I Still Love You"
87. Vinnie Paz - "Role of Life"
86. Mickey Factz - "Good Morning New Orleans"
85. Q-Unique - "Crack Era"
84. RADIx - "Say Yes"
83. Rakaa - "C.T.D."
82. Reef the Lost Cauze & Guns-N-Butter - "Get Me Outta Here"
81. Reks - "This or That"

80. Roc Marciano - "Raw Deal"
79. Frankie Wainwright - "Bodies Everywhere"
78. Super Chron Flight Brothers - "Reggie Miller"
77. Jaysaun - "On Your Job"
76. Kil Ripken - "Not You"
75. Gangrene - "Take Drugs"
74. Freeway & Jake One featuring Young Chris - "Microphone Killa"
73. Time Crisis featuring partyboobytrap - "Heaven"
72. Fat Joe - "I'm Gone"
71. Factor - "Lawson Graham"

70. Eternia & Moss - "Any Man"
69. Dubb Sicks - "Tha Anthem"
68. Fresh Vetz - "Hard Hatz"
67. Amadeus the Stampede - "Scars of Life"
66. Cymarshall Law & The Beatnikz - "Believe This"
65. Nas & Damian Marley - "As We Enter"
64. Dark Time Sunshine featuring Qwel, Xperience, & Solillaquists of Sound - "Instructions to Numb"
63. Click Animosity - "Via Frontlines"
62. N.B.S. - "Who Are We?" (Celtics Anthem)
61. Ceschi - "Bad Jokes"

60. Celph-Titled & Buckwild - "Where I Are"
59. Canibus - "Merchant of Metaphors"
58. Ill Bill & DJ Muggs featuring Vinnie Paz & B-Real - "Kill Devil Hills"
57. J the S - "Middle of the Storm"
56. Kidz in the Hall - "Bougie Girls"
55. Marco Polo & Ruste Juxx - "Death Penalty"
54. Dessa - "Matches to Paper Dolls"
53. Moe Green - "Iced Out Lifestyle"
52. Trademark da Skydiver - "Dead Fool"
51. Slaine featuring Jaysaun - "Goin' Down"

50. Omar Offendum - "Destiny"
49. Singapore Kane - "Tom & Jerry"
48. B. Dolan - "Marvin"
47. Tom Caruana/Method Man (Wu-Tang vs. The Beatles) - "Uh Huh"
46. MC Paul Barman - "Props"
45. Hybrid Thoughts featuring Craig G - "Back Then"
44. Snowgoons featuring M-Dot & KrumbSnatcha - "Hate on Me"
43. ChocQuibTown - "De Donde Vengo Yo"
42. Skipp Whitman - "Famous"
41. Statik Selektah & Termanology featuring Styles P - "Tell Me Lies"

40. Black EL x Durkin - "100 Miles"
39. Chiddy Bang - "Truth"
38. Public Enemy - "Say It Like It Really Is"
37. Rip Shop - "Hood Luv"
36. TruthLive - "It's Easy"
35. Masta Killa - "Brain"
34. El Da Sensei & The Returners featuring Reks & John Robinson - "Toxic Words"
33. Freddie Gibbs featuring Tek & Sean Price - "The Ghetto" (Remix)
32. Virtuoso - "Propaganda"
31. Hell Razah featuring R.A. the Rugged Man - "Return of the Renaissance"

30. M-Dot & Jean Maron featuring Masta Ace - "You Don't Know About It"
29. Eminem - "Untitled" (Recovery Bonus Track)
28. Slaine, ILL Bill & Q-Unique - "Science of the Trife"
27. Blacastan featuring Colombeyond - "Martyrs"
26. Elemental Zazen - "Lockjaw"
25. Pace Won & Mr. Green - "Liquor & Drugs"
24. The High Life - "We Came To Rock"
23. Black Milk featuring Royce da 5'9" & Elzhi - "Deadly Medley"
22. Evidence - "To Be Continued..."
21. Sage Francis - "The Best of Times"

20. E the Real featuring Louie Gonz (a/k/a Spit Supreme) - "The Network Game"
19. C-Rayz Walz - "Destroy"
18. Atmosphere - "The Best Day"
17. Capone-N-Noreaga - "Favor for a Favor"
16. KRS-One & Tru Master featuring Cappadonna - "Street Rhymer"
15. The Roots - "How I Got Over"
14. Big Boi - "General Patton"
13. Warghosts - "Chase the Dragon"
12. V8 & Shortrock - "Los Edwardos"
11. Devin the Dude - "What I Be On"

10. Defcon & Outwrite - "Superfly"
9. Ana Tijoux - "Sube"
8. Army of the Pharaohs - "Bust 'Em In"
7. Donwill - "Laura's Song"
6. Ron Contour - "Glad"
5. Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Ice da Don, Inspectah Deck - "All Flowers"
4. El-P - "Lab Rat Bravely Escapes on Hovercraft Only To Crash Directly Outside of Gates"
3. Sean Price - "Sabado Gigante"
2. A.G. - "Henne Berri Daquiri"
1. Nas - "Foul Breeze"

i like that list. that list is me on youtube when i go home tonight.

Five-Foot Penguin

That's a lot of feet!!