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

Gaslight Anthem placed at #2 in Kerrrang. Album is DULL though, too much mid-paced chuntering.

The idea of Los Campesinos becoming "legendary" in any context is almost so ridiculous as to not be worth a response.

xpost to Lex. That guy seems to have confused an end of year albums list with The History of the World in 100 Objects.

And huge thanks to I am using your worlds for the Spotify playlist. I've been doing so much EOY listening already that I just gave up when I got to the RA list.

i know dude and lold myself. was thinking more classic than legendary. owen p has a sword and a cape on his album cover, p legends of the relm type thing going on

btw lex did you attempt listening to the pallett? it is about as un-indie as a white boy indie album can get, and its v. pretty

ok he doesn't have a sword, must have remembered it rong

this is the extent of my interaction with o.pallett, sam: http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=2074

god i loathe los campesinos. as i was saying to alex o on fb the other day, i feel even more hatred for them because one of them was music editor of the university magazine THAT I FOUNDED. i feel like i might have inadvertently nurtured them and the consequent guilt is, i imagine, similar to that of a parent who discovers their child has grown up to be a serial sex offender.

xpost to Lex. That guy seems to have confused an end of year albums list with The History of the World in 100 Objects.

LOL. Indeed. There's nothing more dispiriting than seeing these whining canonical UNCUT readers in training. They're more depressing than Young Conservatives.

blimey

They're more depressing than Young Conservatives.

the weird thing about young tories is that they're either repulsive and weird and clammy OR incredibly hott boys #toryconferencememories

I dare say only 50% of that sentiment applies to the angry rockists who post on the DiS forum.

multiple xpost

That RA list is probably my favourite so far this year, but I'm with lex - Oni Ayhun's OAR-003B (why couldn't these tracks have easier names?) has sounded perfect in every context I've heard it or played it in this year.

guardian individual lists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/dec/03/albums-2010-guardian-music-critics

yes, i apparently managed to accidentally delete jazmine sullivan when i submitted mine ;_;

That would suck.

If you'd voted for The-Dream they might well have placed considerably higher.

Bob Stanley repping for Justin Bieber there...

man what happened to Kwith Cameron :( [via middle age]

*Keith

i should've voted for kourtney heart ft. magnolia shorty - my boy instead of cassie - fuck u silly as my #5 track. had forgotten w/this cold weather what an amazing summer jam it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hob_FNnOBgk

BTW Lex, the song from "Heartland" you want is "E Is For Estranged"

So Yelawolf is really more than a Southern Eminem?

Lol at all the Guardian comments complaining about how low the National placed. Ultimately I tend to agree with the old boring line that there's no accounting for taste. I have trouble imagining even liking the National (though perhaps I shouldn't since it mostly sounds to me like a third rate version of the post-punk I used to enjoy).

xp yes -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fn3oI6OoA0

01. Art Department - Without You

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1220

― prolego, Friday, December 17, 2010 6:03 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Art Department - Without You

That's an odd number one, it's a good record but kinda... 2002? Still, it's a nice mix of stuff I already know and like and enough tunes I haven't actually heard. No idea what Skeng is doing in there though.

― Matt DC, Friday, December 17, 2010 6:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

did a double take there because a Baltimore band that released one of my favorite local albums this year is called The Art Department. i guess it figures someone else has used that name, though, hope they don't have to change it!

let me be the first to guess at the pfork top ten without seeing anything in the top 50 or honorable mentions list, mostly based on the trax list, album rankings, and a few other factors:

- kanye west (two tracks in top 10, plus 10.0 rating, obv.)
- ariel pink (#1 track, breakout album, 9.0 rating, major chillwave influence)
- lcd soundsystem (tracks ranked at #3 and #12, 9.2 rating)
- robyn (best "pop" track of 2010, endless pfork hype, three highly rated albums/EPs)
- big boi (#5 track, most highly praised "actual hip-hop/rap" album of 2010 [kanye doesnt count])
- joanna newsom (#6 track, 9.0+ rating [9.2 maybe?])
- janelle monae (#10 track, "cold war" hot as well, most highly praised r&b album of 2010 while not being "traditional r&b")
- deerhunter (not sure why this got a 9.2, but it has two trax in top 30-40-ish area, incl. #11)

plus, two of the following three, making 10 total:

- beach house (another couple highly ranked trax, 9.0 rating, breakout album for a band pfork's been hyping for years)
- sleigh bells ("best new debut album") -- though this could fall in 11-15 and i wouldn't be surprised
- titus andronicus (great/praised album by an "albums band" despite no track in the top 15 or so)

8 outta 10 not bad, huh?

shame i didn't foresee pfork putting the three James Blake EPs together as an "album" (seems kinda lame, though), and obviously, someone pointed out vampire weekend missing from my list almost immediately

Krishnan Guru-Murthy's top 10 albums of 2010

1 Plastic Beach, Gorillaz
2 Progress, Take That
3 Recovery, Eminem
4 Come Around Sundown, Kings Of Leon
5 Body Talk, Robyn
6 The Lady Killer, Cee Lo Green
7 Wake Up The Nation, Paul Weller
8 Glee 1, The Glee Cast
9 Contra, Vampire Weekend
10 High Violet, The National

figures pfork would leave R&B and chart-ready pop outta the top ten completely, huh lex? ;)

So, I lost track of this thread a few days ago, and maybe this has already been talked about. But yesterday I noticed and slightly skimmed this end-of-year Village Voice "SOTC Roundtable" called "Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever," and I'm confused....That headline's just a joke, right? Or are there people out there who actually believe that?

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2010/12/welcome_to_soun.php

Glee 1, The Glee Cast

I love Glee as much as the next guy, seen every episode, etc, but including the soundtrack on a best albums list is some serious trying to look with it nonsense.

a little surprised by the relative lack of twin shadow love. by far my most played record this year

Krishnan Guru-Murthy's top 10 albums of 2010

What was Jon Snow repping for this year?

8 outta 10 not bad, huh?

the bad part is that you couldn't wait until friday and think anyone of us give a shit about your nostradumbass predictions about How To Dress Well

28. Tony Lionni feat. Marvin Belton - Precious
26. Space Dimension Controller - Journey to the Core of the Unknown Sphere

These two are fantastic as well. Tony Lionni is such a great producer.

― Matt DC, Friday, 17 December 2010 11:13 (3 hours ago)]

haven't actually heard that lionni track for some reason, but there was a good marvin belton record out on ferris park this year, 'the letter'

I'm giving Whiney an enforced time-out that will hopefully save this thread the no doubt riveting spectacle of him and Ilxor having a big flameout about the Pitchfork top 10.

nostradumbass

keep trying, you'll get a good zing in one day

oh that was a decent zing.

welcome back, whiney g.

shrug it out with whiney g

What big UK or US publications lists are we waiting on?

Cokemachineglow's Top 50 Albums of 2010

50 :: Glasser - Ring
49 :: No Age - Everything in Between
48 :: Pop Winds - The Turquoise
47 :: Velella Velella - Atlantis Massif
46 :: Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
45 :: Baths - Cerulean
44 :: Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
43 :: Salem - King Night
42 :: Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
41 :: Ikonika - Contact, Want, Love, Have
40 :: Villagers - Becoming a Jackal

39 :: New Pornographers - Together
38 :: Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
37 :: Wolf Parade - Expo 86
36 :: Books - The Way Out
35 :: Owen Pallett - Heartland
34 :: Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
33 :: Walkmen - Lisbon
32 :: Four Tet - There is Love in You
31 :: Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

30 :: Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
29 :: Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
28 :: Grass Widow - Past Time
27 :: Freddie Gibbs - Str8 Killa EP
26 :: Robyn - Body Talk
25 :: Curren$y - Pilot Talk / Pilot Talk II
24 :: Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
23 :: Drake - Thank Me Later
22 :: Black Milk - Album of the Year
21 :: Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

20 :: Warpaint - The Fool
19 :: Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
18 :: Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
17 :: Future Islands - In Evening Air
16 :: Yellow Swans - Going Places
15 :: Grimes - Geidi Primes / Halfaxa
14 :: Sharon Van Etten - epic
13 :: Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
12 :: Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
11 :: Menomena - Mines

10 :: Blue Hawaii - Blooming Summer EP
9 :: Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
8 :: Teebs - Ardour
7 :: Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
6 :: Women - Public Strain
5 :: Frog Eyes - Paul's Tomb: A Triumph
4 :: Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
3 :: Beach House - Teen Dream
2 :: Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
1 :: Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/5816/top50albums-2010?pg=5

are there any lists without kanye west & big boi?

xps Krishnan Guru-Murthy seems to have done a good job triangulating his list between Mondeo pop, boring indie, and token hip hop. Kudos!

and beach house

the cokemachine write-up for kanye is crazy lol

Do critics who vote in these things every year just look at what everyone else is voting and do the same so that they just don't look out of the loop with what the critical consensus is that year?
The past few years all the lists look the same just in a slightly jumbled up order.

the thesis is flawed re: its analysis of 808s but this is kind of OTM:

The doubters on CMG staff question how much of this album’s strength is dependent on what we know of Kanye versus how much is intrinsic. To which I can only respond: does it matter? Kanye West loves the living shit out of music, and if you can’t hear that in every meticulously arranged note and gleefully tossed-in guest appearance (even in a misplaced Rick Ross), then you will never hear it.

You know, I hate conflict of all types but Nostradumbass is pretty funny.

haven't looked over the guardian list in much detail, just a cursory glance at the list, but the janelle monae blurb is *fantastic* and really serves to capture her appeal, i think

http://m.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/16/albums-2010-janelle-monae-archandroid?cat=music&type=article

it's also old
xp

Kanye West loves the living shit out of music, and if you can’t hear that in every meticulously arranged note and gleefully tossed-in guest appearance (even in a misplaced Rick Ross), then you will never hear it.

also, this is true -- but could easily apply just as well to, say, nickelback; are they not passionate about their music as well?

"he's passionate about his music" = "points for trying hard"

also, this is true -- but could easily apply just as well to, say, nickelback; are they not passionate about their music as well?

Yes they are, and they aren't actually as terrible as everyone says they are.