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

glad FACT continues its reign of making more british / more dance versions of the same lists everyone else does.

hey guys!! that big boi album isnt all that

they were the only ones people in the white music industry cared about, yes

not sure why this is unexpected or shocking DJP

Please post the lists from the non-white industry

is it really? every sample i heard this year sounded pretty shit

Depends what you're looking for, they're straight-up functional bangers by and large, so they're not really going to sound their best on a streamed sample. House Girls 6 is better than House Girls 1 though, takes the metallic clanks from Dennis Ferrer's Hey Hey and just clatters away all over the top.

deej, exactly how many different records do they have to feature before they stop being a version of everyone else's list?

And please someone, recommend some great neglected 2010 hip hop albums instead of complaining about their absence.

Spin's Top 40 albums of 2010 (don't think anybody's posted this yet); I'll let somebody else do the scrolling and listing:

http://www.spin.com/gallery/40-best-albums-2010

swag cru -- POX year end song recommendations

also

WAKA
Curren$y
Lil B's various tapes
OFGWKTA
Starlito
Yelawolf

Ta

great neglected hip-hop albums: waka flocka flame, yelawolf (mixtape and album), the jacka & laroo, rah digga, gucci mane's jewelry selection mixtape. i think the big boi is more than worthy of a place on these lists, though i wouldn't rank it that highly - it grew off me quite a lot, though "shutterbugg" is still one of the singles of the year.

Depends what you're looking for, they're straight-up functional bangers by and large, so they're not really going to sound their best on a streamed sample. House Girls 6 is better than House Girls 1 though, takes the metallic clanks from Dennis Ferrer's Hey Hey and just clatters away all over the top.

the clip i heard of house girls 6 was even worse, just an over-cluttered mess that made me want to listen to "hey hey" instead.

oh yeah that digga is doooooope. didnt really care for any of gucci's 2010 tapes but i didnt give them enough time.

i gave both curren$y albums a listen and they were ok enough but didn't really grab me. i love the idea of lil b and in the right mood can totally vibe to his music, but i get bored after a medium-sized dose of him.

what's the deal with the odd future wolf gang thing? i can't bring myself to click on any thread with so many answers.

dope teenage crew from the westcoast = 200 new answers. dope teenage crew who also have rape jokes in some of their lyrics = a million new answers. best place to start lex is the mellow hype record lex, i think you'll really enjoy it.

jewelry selection is a terrific mixtape, esp its second half, but i've kind of given up on gucci mane ever getting it together to fulfil his potential on a proper album, and i basically can't be bothered to particularly rep for artists whose careers are basically just them dribbling on to the internet without any sort of editorial process and leaving their fans to actually curate their shit into some sort of sense

Are there any 2010 dancehall or roots reggae albums that have gotten any attention? Will its more high-profile crossover status from some years back ever return?

Stay tuned.

lol @ Spin putting Teenage Fanclub at #40

never change, you crazy guys

busy signal's d.o.b. is a terrific dancehall album - several songs that were quite old to me but if you haven't been following him i def recommend it

Does Gyptian count? That album has popped up in a few lists.

the clip i heard of house girls 6 was even worse, just an over-cluttered mess that made me want to listen to "hey hey" instead.

By all means pass this judgement but listen to the record first!

what i've heard has not motivated me to spend £££ to listen to the record

"This minimal techno record sounded like shit based on the 30second sample I heard on Juno".

lol @ Spin, Drake did not release the 16th best album of the year

(although thank you for not putting it in the top 10, and for leaving Eminem down in the low 30s)

i basically can't be bothered to particularly rep for artists whose careers are basically just them dribbling on to the internet without any sort of editorial process and leaving their fans to actually curate their shit into some sort of sense

to clarify i mean this w/r/t artists of a certain status - obv i'm totally happy to do this for emerging artists at the start of their career, but gucci mane should be well beyond it, and it actively pisses me off that he can't get a grip on his career.

Surprised by Teenage Fanclub placing on so many lists. One of my favourite groups ever, but this album seemed very moderate to me. A nostalgia vote from people who suspect it might be their last album?

The Spin list:

40. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
39. Caribou - Swim
38. Eminem - Recovery
37. The Walkmen - Lisbon
36. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
35. Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
34. Against Me! - White Crosses
33. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Brutalist Bricks
32. Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. Wuz Here
31. Spoon - Transference
30. The Black Keys - Brothers
29. Sleight Bells - Treats
28. Neil Young - Le Noise
27. Glasser - Ring
26. The National - High Violet
25. Of Montreal - False Priest
24. Wavves - King Of The Beach
23. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
22. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
21. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
20. MGMT - Congratulations
19. No Age - Everything In Between
18. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
17. Beach House - Teen Dream
16. Drake - Thank Me Later
15. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
14. Best Coast - Crazy For You
13. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son Of Dusty Chico
12. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
11. Vampire Weekend - Contra
10. Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
9. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager
8. MIA - M/\Y/\
7. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
6. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
5. Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
4. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
3. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

jewelry selection is a terrific mixtape, esp its second half, but i've kind of given up on gucci mane ever getting it together to fulfil his potential on a proper album, and i basically can't be bothered to particularly rep for artists whose careers are basically just them dribbling on to the internet without any sort of editorial process and leaving their fans to actually curate their shit into some sort of sense

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, December 6, 2010 11:15 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

o_O you were nicki's biggest backer //// lol rockist

xxxp well that clarifies things slightly @ lex

deej read my clarification - nicki is actually the perfect counterexample - and also wtf does "rockist" even mean in this context, is it 2004 again in your mind?

oh god xp

i basically can't be bothered to particularly rep for artists whose careers are basically just them dribbling on to the internet without any sort of editorial process and leaving their fans to actually curate their shit into some sort of sense to clarify i mean this w/r/t artists of a certain status - obv i'm totally happy to do this for emerging artists at the start of their career, but gucci mane should be well beyond it, and it actively pisses me off that he can't get a grip on his career.

No you were right the first time. MYSTIQUE and QUALITY CONTROL, people. I know the former has kind of gone out of the window in the Twitter age but still. Although given what happens when major label rap artists start giving up control over the editorial process maybe it's the lesser of two evils.

Also srlsy fuck Spin for coining the phrase "art-soul" and then using it about YEASAYER.

a proper album

if only he could get it together & release a proper album like paris hilton

No you were right the first time. MYSTIQUE and QUALITY CONTROL, people. I know the former has kind of gone out of the window in the Twitter age but still. Although given what happens when major label rap artists start giving up control over the editorial process maybe it's the lesser of two evils.

Also srlsy fuck Spin for coining the phrase "art-soul" and then using it about YEASAYER.

― Matt DC, Monday, December 6, 2010 11:28 AM (37 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if u are arguing this you never 'got' gucci mane in the 1st place

i could probably put together 15 gucci mane tracks from 2010 - not just off jewelry selection - that could be an album of the year contender, like top 5 of the year. why the fuck can't he do it, then? why are some of his best tracks not even on mixtapes? still?

jewelry selection is a perfectly fine album & better rap LP than the nicki record for just one example

just reading the phrase 'proper album' has me rmde

aw, I was just posting the Spin top 10

Spin really makes me lol; I disagree with over half their choices yet still somehow as an aggregate they manage to continue to rep 80% of my overall musical aesthetic better than anyone else

Angst Music For Sex People: The Quietus Albums Of 2010

1. Liars - Sisterworld
2. Salem - King Night
3. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
4. These New Puritans - Hidden
5. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
6. Walls - Walls
7. Lindstrom and Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
8. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury
9. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist
10. UFOmammut - Eve
11. Gayngs - Relayted
12. Electric Wizard - Black Masses
13. Cathedral - The Guessing Game
14. Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night
15. Grinderman - Grinderman II
16. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II
17. The Body - And All The Waters Of The Earth Shall Turn To Blood
18. Pan Sonic - Gravitoni
19. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
20. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Leftfoot: Son Of Chico Dusty
21. Anika - Anika
22. FM Einheit - No Apologies
23. Barn Owl - Ancestral Star
24. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
25. Shining - Blackjazz
26. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
27. I Like Trains - He Who Saw The Deep
28. Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave
29. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
30. Lonelady - Nerve Up
31. Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watchbird
32. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
33. Napoleon III - Christiana
34. Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here
35. Arabrot - Revenge
36. Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté - Ali and Toumani
37. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
38. Demdike Stare - Symbiosis
39. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Steps Ahead

LCD are getting crazy love in this year's polls. Don't quite get it, much as i love 2 or 3 tracks on the album.

Well, I think it's in large part because of the three albums, it's the most cohesive; regardless of whether you think the individual songs work, they do ebb and flow very nicely into each other. (Personally, I think it's the best thing he's done that I've heard by leaps and bounds.)

Nice to see the Mulatu Astatke album turning up in the Quietus list, it's not world-changing but it's an enjoyable listen and deserves to be mentioned.

thanks for posting that Spin list, their website drives my up the wall.

click… click… click (x40)

Sean from Drowned.. mentions 'a strange but apparent death of consensus' in the spiel that accompnies the DIS list and i think Reynolds' piece from last year about a lack of overall consensus between crits as the last decade progressed, and why that has happened, is even more relevant than a year ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/07/musically-fragmented-decade

how in the world can anyone possibly argue that there's been a death of consensus in the last two years when ALL THESE LISTS ARE BASICALLY IDENTICAL

well sure, if you view all these indie rock acts as essentially the same, the lists can be considered "basically identical". Whereas those people who, you know, like and listen to indie rock hear big differences between Deerhunter and Titus Andronicus and see lists with one or the other at the top as anything but basically identical.

still, it's basically the same 50-75 albums that show up over and over...it would be nice to have a little more variety

God you guys would have hated the lists back in 1968 when there was only like 50 albums to choose from anyway.

Yes but you can safely assume from the words "Sean from Drownedinsound mentions..." that everything that follows is going to be overexcitable bollocks with no basis in reality.

We’ll be listing them in groups of ten, so today it’s entries 100 to 81, on Tuesday it’s 80-61, Wednesday 60-41, Thursday 40-21, and finally 20-1 on Friday.

lol at this ^^ on the FACT tracks list; these are NOT groups of ten u idiots!

Our list doesn't have that much in common with the others. Cathedral, High On Fire, Pansonic, Mulatu Astatke, Demdike Stare, Shining, The Body, Arabrot, Jane Weaver, Napoleon III, Electric Wizard, UFOmammut, Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, I Like Trains, Barn Owl, Anika... I mean, I'm not going to start pretending I like really obscure records just to make it even more diverse than it already is.

are you from fact? i was being kinda troll-y with that, obv, but i do believe that FACT's lists arent really that difft in terms of the values / aesthetics they favor than pfork is ... just less trad indie, less folk, more idm, more dubstep, more eurotechno

its sorta like, take a pfork list & center it around burial instead of animal collective (by switching each artist's placements)

i mean, this basically is "Fact music" so im not really criticizing this approach on its own terms, just arguing that its not nearly as refreshingly unexpected as ppl sometimes present it

Well, yeah but I'm helpless in the face of trolls... it's my achille's heel. No, I'm from the Quietus. I like FACT's list but I'm more into industrial/ metal/ drone/ noise etc than dance music, hence the weighting on ours.