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

First time in years that I haven't heard the NME's top single/track. Listening now. it just sounds like one of Bloc Party's big, moody, faintly electronic numbers. Is acclaim for Foals (number one album in The Fly) the manifestation of a desperate desire for a 20something Radiohead?

people actually listen to more of bloc party than banquet? guys are definition one hit wonders, the rest of their songs have zero imagination.

same applies to kaiser chiefs, who apparently are (for whatever reason) still popular

Let me guess which country you're from...

The US actually, I just read a lot of brit mags at the bookstore...the current or last NME in which he poses upon the cover with beefy forearms calling UK to a revolution (headed under him, of course) made me want to gag the guy.

also uk-born insults are so much funner than commonalities here like "you fucking douchebag" and "dumbass bitch" and such

There may be some truth to that, but between "pissflap" and buying NME, I think you've lost your US citizenship.

I'm just fascinated by the (apparent) fact that everyone in the UK hates him and nobody in the US knows him, other than weirdo Jam fans and the like. He probably should have released the album under an alias that implied that David Bowie was behind the whole thing...

Anyway, I'm pleasantly surprised to see it popping up on year end lists, though from my cramped perspective I don't know if it's happening for good or for bad reasons.

Nice to see Field Music at least getting a few scraps of recognition on these lists.

most of my disgruntle stems from the fact that kevin shields, when he should be developing that new album in promise for over 20 years, was caught as the guitarist for weller's nme concert in which he was hailed a "godlike genius"

Bloc Party's best moment was 'Like Eating Glass'

Can't say I'm on board with NME's list the way I am to a degree with the album list. Thought that 'Tightrope' would win tbh.

Like 'Spanish Sahara' and could make the lower reaches of my singles list but is a bit of an odd #1, in fact it's the first time since 2002 that the track of the year hasn't been a nailed on indie disco floorfiller, though probably do alright in those stakes.

Thinking about it every NME track of the year back to Bitter Sweet Symphony would do a pretty good job at an indie(ish) disco, even Foals and Doves.

10. The Fall, 'Bury Pts 2+4'
9. Zola Jesus, 'Night'
8. Grinderman, 'Heathen Child'
4. Kanye West, 'Power'
3. Janelle Monae, 'Tightrope'
2. MIA, 'XXXO'

will rep for these in the top ten, but MIA belongs much lower

1. Foals, 'Spanish Sahara'

looooooool

http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/30/40-best-albums-of-2010-40-31/

FACT are counting down their list

It's definitely more interesting than the other lists so far

i always love fact's year (or decade)-end lists.

hm. i've got the disc they list at no. 38, but i don't think i've ever listened to it! must investigate.

The LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus sounds interesting.

i love the idea; i'm not as sold on the execution (tbf, i've only heard bits-and-pieces).

Just acquired the Zola Jesus/LA Vampires thing on the strength of the blurb, liking it so far. I always find something new from Fact's lists.

Not sure I was all that taken with the 'No No No' cover, but I enjoyed it on the whole.

Definitely wanna hear that Dylan Ettinger. Ooh, it's probably on eMusic amirite?

y

Yay!

Yeah, FACT's lists are always great and loaded with new discoveries for me. "Spanish Sahara" is a great great song you fools. But I don't think it would climb my top ten.

That Fact list is great - I thought I had been keeping up with new releases to some degree, but I hadn't even heard of half the albums there. Just added a bunch to my Spotify "to listen" playlist.

First listens to Dylan Ettinger and Zola Jesus/LA Vampires are positive, though I'm not sure either is bringing much new to the party.

emusic link on that dylan ettinger disc.

damn i totally thought that foals had gone the way of the klaxons & shit

This was a slightly different way of doing things;

http://thefourohfive.com/articles/4602

The 405s 45 favourite EPs of the year

1. Zola Jesus - 'Stridulum II'
2. Hold Your Horse It - 'Rammin' It Home'
3. Girls - 'Broken Dreams Club'
4. Stagecoach - 'Crash My Ride'
5. Dad Rocks! - 'Digital Age'
6. Tall Ships - 'There Is Nothing But Chemistry Here'
7. Islet - 'Wimmy'
8. Islet - 'Celebrate This Place'
9. Summer Camp - 'Young'
10. Egyptian Hip Hop - 'Some Reptiles Grew Wings'
11. Zola Jesus & LA Vampires - 'LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus '
12. Botany - 'Feeling Today'
13. Wild Nothing - 'Golden Haze'
14. Jonquil - 'One Hundred Suns'
15. Selebrities - 'Ladies Man Effect'
16. El Guincho - 'Piratas De Sudamerica'
17. Megafaun - 'Heretofore EP'
18. Sufjan Stevens - 'All Delighted People'
19. James Blake - 'Klavierwerke'
20. Guards - 'Guards'
21. Museum of Bellas Artes - 'Days Ahead'
22. Tubelord - 'Tezcatlipoca'
23. Twin Sister - 'Color Your Life'
24. Gallops - 'Gallops'
25. Girls Names - 'Don't Let Me In'
26. Spectrals - 'Extended Play'
27. Tanlines - 'Settings'
28. Dirty Projectors & Bjork - 'Mount Wittenberg Orca'
29. The James Cleaver Quintet - 'Ten Stage of A Make Up'
30. Flying Lotus - 'Pattern + Gridworld'
31. Chad Valley - 'Chad Valley'
32. Owen Pallet - 'Swedish Love Story'
33. British Sea Power - 'Zeus '
34. Memoryhouse - 'The Years'
35. Becoming Real - 'Spectre'
36. Seams - 'Tourist EP'
37. Ursine Vulpine - 'Fenrir'
38. Flats - 'EP2'
39. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - 'Nitetime Rainbows'
40. Holy Fuck - '+Ghost'
41. Active Child - 'Curtis Lane'
42. James Blake - 'CYMK'
43. Monzano - 'Apple Handsome'
44. Balam Acab - 'See Birds'
45. Los Campesinos! - 'All's Well That Ends'

Everyone is forgetting ROMANCE IS BORING :(

NPR alt-Latin top 10 albums

http://www.npr.org/blogs/altlatino/2010/12/01/131593815/alt-latino-best-albums-2010

Everyone is forgetting ROMANCE IS BORING

All we can do is try, goddamn it. All we can do is try.

That FACT list is amazing.

NPR has multiple lists here

http://www.npr.org/series/131394847/the-best-music-of-2010

They like Arcade Fire best but they also like my Malian fave singer Khaira Arby

Oops, actually Arcade Fire is just one of the 50 faves of NPR staff. There's also a best jazz and best classical list.

Recommended by NPR Music Staff

Thomas Ades, Tevot

Agalloch, Marrow Of The Spirit

Aloe Blacc, Good Things

Khaira Arby, Timbuktu Tarab

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return Of The Ankh

Big Boi, Sir Lucious Leftfoot...The Son Of Chico Dusty

The Black Keys, Brothers

Brooklyn Rider, Dominant Curve

Buke & Gass, Riposte

Carolina Chocolate Drops, Genuine Negro Jig

Regina Carter, Reverse Thread

Chancha Via Circuito, Rio Arriba

Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest

Issac Delgado, Love

Joyce DiDonato, Rossini: Colbran, The Muse

Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma

Four Tet, There Is Love In You

Vittorio Grigolo, The Italian Tenor

Gyptian, Hold You

Hilary Hahn, Higdon & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos

Mary Halvorson Quintet, Saturn Sings

Rita Indiana, El Juidero

Jamey Johnson, The Guitar Song

Jonsi, Go

Seu Jorge And Almaz, Seu Jorge And Almaz

King Sunny Ade, Baba Mo Tunde

Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs, God Willin' And The Creek Don't Rise

LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening

Lower Dens, Twin Hand Movement

Alexander Melnikov, Shostakovich

Janelle Monae, The ArchAndroid

Jason Moran, Ten

Carla Morrison, Mientras Tu Dormias

The National, High Violet

Owen Pallett, Heartland

Sondra Radvanovsky, Verdi Arias

Josh Ritter, So Runs The World Away

Robyn, Body Talk

Kermit Ruffins, Happy Talk

Christian Scott, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here

Sleigh Bells, Treats

Esperanza Spalding, Chamber Music Society

Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone

Sufjan Stevens, The Age Of Adz

The Tallest Man On Earth, The Wild Hunt

Titus Andronicus, The Monitor

Sharon Van Etten, Epic

Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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that Zola Jesus EP was just not that good.

A few EPs that 405 missed (a couple of which were maybe marketed as "albums," but they're 25 minutes or less, so they qualify.)

Art Museums – Rough Frame (Woodsit)
Chrome Dome – Chrome Dome (Lexicon Devil)
Major Lazer – Lazers Never Die EP (Interscope/Downtown/Mad Design)
The Sediment Club – The Sediment Club (Softspot)
Colt Ford – Country Is As Country Does (Average Joe’s)
Herpes – Das Kommt Von Kussen (Tapete)
Screaming Females – Singles (Don Giovanni)

that Zola Jesus EP was just not that good.

i liked her other 2010 ep better (the one with poor animals on it).

that Major Lazer EP is aggressively mediocre

also I keep forgetting to check out that Esperanza Spalding album

A publicist keeps sending me e-mails re Buke & Gass, but I haven't listened to it/them(?) yet.

loooooool @ Agalloch on NPR's year end top 50

Q is getting a bit too hip and "indie". It needs to bring back some of their old writers and get a bit more soft rock oriented again.

Never change, Geir. Never change.

(unlike Q)

GORILLA VS. BEAR’s ALBUMS OF 2010

01 Beach House – Teen Dream
02 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
03 Shabazz Palaces – Of Light/Shabazz Palaces
04 James Blake – CMYK/Klavierwerke
05 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
06 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
07 Lower Dens – Lower Dens
08 Games – That We Can Play
09 White Denim – Last Day of Summer
10 Girls – Broken Dreams Club
11 Toro y Moi – Causers of This
12 Earl Sweatshirt – EARL
13 Twin Sister – Color Your Life / Alternates
14 Big K.R.I.T. – wuz here
15 Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
16 Grimes – Geidi Primes
17 The Samps – The Samps
18 Harlem – Hippies
19 Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
20 Twin Shadow – Forget
21 Frankie Rose & the Outs – Frankie Rose & the Outs
22 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
23 Tennis – Tennis (cassette)
24 The Walkmen – Lisbon
25 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh
26 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
27 Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
28 Caribou – Swim
29 Shackleton – Fabric 55
30 Ty Segall – Melted

Good to see Games on the top 10

yeah at the Lower Dens ending up at number 7 as they are my latest addiction. such a great album.

Paste

50. Marnie Stern: Marnie Stern [Kill Rock Stars]
49. Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma [Warp]
48. Local Natives: Gorilla Manor [Frenchkiss]
47. Yeasayer: Odd Blood [Secretly Canadian]
46. The Black Keys: Brothers [Nonesuch]
45. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest [4AD]
44. Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky [Young God]
43. Stornoway: Beachcomber’s Windowsill [4AD]
42. Wavves: King of the Beach [Fat Possum]
41. Anaïs Mitchell: Hadestown
40. Free Energy: Stuck on Nothing [Astralwerks]
39. Sarah Jaffe: Suburban Nature [Kirtland]
38. Josh Ritter: So Runs the World Away [Pytheas]
37. Big Boi: Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty [Def Jam]
36. Spoon: Transference [Merge]
35. Grinderman: Grinderman 2 [Mute Records/ANTI-]
34. Girl Talk: All Day [Illegal Art]
33. Blitzen Trapper: Destroyer of the Void [Sub Pop]
32. Carolina Chocolate Drops: Genuine Negro Jig [Nonesuch]
31. The Roots: How I Got Over
30. She & Him: Volume Two [Merge]
29. Freelance Whales: Weathervanes [Frenchkiss]
28. Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can [Astralwerks]
27. Vampire Weekend: Contra [XL]
26. Lissie: Catching a Tiger [Fat Possum]
25. Various Artists: Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall [Megaforce]
24. Beach House: Teen Dream [Sub Pop]
23. Laura Veirs: July Flame [Raven Marching Band]
22. The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt [Dead Oceans]
21. Jamey Johnson: The Guitar Song [Mercury Nashville]
20. Suckers: Wild Smile [Frenchkiss]
19. Elizabeth Cook: Welder [31 Tigers]
18. Cee Lo Green: The Lady Killer [Elektra]
17. Jónsi: Go [XL]
16. Mavis Staples: You Are Not Alone [Anti-]
15. Justin Townes Earle: Harlem River Blues [Bloodshot]
14. Band of Horses: Infinite Arms [Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia]
13. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings: I Learned the Hard Way [Daptone]
12. Bruce Springsteen: The Promise: The Lost Sessions of Darkness on the Edge of Town [Columbia]
11. The National: High Violet [4AD]
10. Frightened Rabbit: The Winter of Mixed Drinks [Fat Cat]
9. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz [Asthmatic Kitty]
8. Phosphorescent: Here’s to Taking It Easy [Dead Oceans]
7. Arcade Fire: The Suburbs [Merge]
6. Sleigh Bells: Treats [Mom + Pop]
5. Titus Andronicus: The Monitor [XL]
4. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [Def Jam/Roc-a-Fella]
3. Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More [Glassnote]
2. Janelle Monáe: The ArchAndroid [The Wondaland Arts Society/Bad Boy]
1. LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening [EMI/DFA]

a boring & predictable list from beyond the grave

paste magazine meeting room:

"man fuck this year end list shit, i dont wanna put more than like 20 minutes into this"

"hmmmm okay. how about we just write down lots of mid-tier indie bands and stuff that indie ppl like?"

"gotcha. how will we decide what gets on the list?"

"how about, anything that got over 7.0 on pfork and was written about on lots of indie blogs?"

"okay! what's #1 gonna be, that is an important choice"

"lcd soundsystem duh. he pleases the indie kids and the dance/electronic kids at the same time"

"sounds good. how do we order the other stuff?"

"are you fuckin kidding me, no one cares about the order after #1"

"k. lets draw straws or something"

(.......15 minutes pass.......)

IN TODAY'S ISSUE: PASTE MAGAZINE 2010 YEAR END BEST ALBUMS LIST

I don't see what's so mindblowing about Fact's list. Sure it's got some records you wont see in other lists but have you guys listened to the records theyre pimping? Bunch of boring, run-of-the-mill albums with terrible production.

Different =/= interesting.

Before you come barking at me I mean the albums that few if any other lists have mentioned and which sound awful from what I've heard so far: DYLAN ETTINGER, DJ RASHAD, FRANK (JUST FRANK), DJ ROC, SOLAR BEARS, AUTRE NE VEUT.