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

i think mainly i dislike it cuz it ain't really my bag.

oh, sorry, didn't see your "i'm being a troll" post above.

xp to myself, i guess.

i feel like everyone just anointed "runaway" after the vmas but it's really one of the least exciting songs on the CD

w/ "power" i at least grasp the bigness of it, even if i don't think the song is really all that

Yeah, "Power" feels so much more like a single to me that "Runaway".

TIME

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

a bold stance

I can see why people would be going apeshit for Beach House but really this is not my bag at all.

Basically I would play this if I wanted to psych myself up into a stabbing fury, only I would then run out and stab Beach House.

not going near Sufjan because lol Sufjan, my opinion on him is very clear and unlikely to change unless someone replaces him with, like, Fluke

why do the kings of leon make these lists.

these lists need more Drums.

wow I hate The Black Keys a lot, too

I thought I sort of liked them...? Or am I thinking of The Black Kids?

oh no, I just played the wrong song, "Tighten Up" is the one I sort of like

i agree, but why did you capitalize drums? (xpost)

those Black bands all look alike to you, huh

okay I feel compelled to adore Yeasayer just for this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1y1wJduCo

xp: and THAT's how we alley-oop *high-five*

as a long time black keys fan, this album is meh for me. i guess i only like thickfreakness and the big come up.

and i agree with Dan on the Deerhunter....don't get it.

top 20 tracks list, courtesy of a lolindie friend of mine --

20. Crystal Castles - I Am Made of Chalk
19. Drake - Karaoke
18. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
17. Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
16. Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer
15. Future Islands - In the Fall
14. Justin Beiber - U Smile (800% slower)
13. Cee-lo Green - No One's Gonna Love You
12. The Cults - Go Outside
11. Toro y Moi - Blessa
10. Best Coast - When I'm With You
9. Wavves - Linus Spacehead
8. Broken Bells - High Road
7. Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa
6. Surfer Blood - Swim
5. Small Black - Search Party
4. Crystal Castles - Empathy
3. JJ - My Life
2. Beach House - Silver Soul
1. Deerhunter - Helicopter

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14. Justin Beiber - U Smile (800% slower)

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lol, i'm sorry i'm being such a troll on this thread this morning, i'll stop

― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3WDCHF1vDE

bieber > wavves

the original "u smile" > most everything on that list

I definitely would have had Voice Of The Seven Thunders in my end of year lists had I heard it at the time. Starting the depressing business of finding out what else I've missed today.

Doran, Voice of the Seven Thunders is my number 1 for the year. Amazing record, and having months and months with it only makes it better.

Yeah, someone played it to me at ATP and sheared the top of my head off.

Hmmm, checking out "The Burning Mountain" and immediately liking the middle eastern flavored electric guitar.

try "Kommune"

I'm going to try the whole album. That song was the only one on their myspace.

It's all on youtube.

http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/music/What-Your-Favorite-Albums-Say-About-You.html

Kinda stupid but whatever.

Very stupid.

i laughed. well, maybe not LAUGHED...

do you miss the philadelphia weekly, rockist?

what's joey sweeney up to?

i still kinda can't get over robert downey jr. playing my old pal steve lopez in a movie. too bad i will never ever watch that movie. but i have lots of love for steve.

do you miss the philadelphia weekly, rockist?

No. Don't tell me you do.

I miss having a CVS on every corner though.

i miss wawa.

oh, and my friends.

i haven't been back since i moved. so that's like...almost 8 years? my whole life was there. it wasn't much of a life, but it was there.

there was some other piece exactly like that this year that was actually kind of otm iirc?

if i were 20 that whole thing would be otm. which is why i still find it kinda funny. cuz a part of me will always be 20. the dumb part.

I don't really miss Wawa or The Welcomat. (Is there even still a Welcomat?)

Anyway, I can see how a piece like that might be potentially funny, if it had punchlines. Thing is, I did not realize Hold Steady (hey, there's a band conspicuously missing from all the year-end lists, right? deservedly, but still) were considered a frat-house band. Is that really what their audience is now? When did that happen? Or did that guy just make that up? I assumed their audience was still mostly considered "rock critics."

Pretty sure Xgau said the Roots album is his favorite of the year, fwiw. And he's not even from Philly!

i think welcomat got changed to the weekly.

i don't really miss philly that much. i did consider it my home though. i moved there when i was 19 and when i left i was in my 30s and married with a kid. i mostly just remember working a lot and drinking too much. and i left before i could hang out with any philly ilx people. but most of them left too!

greenfield will be my final resting place. i love it here so much. and you can all come and visit me. my door is always open. except when i'm closed. well, most of you can come visit me...

http://halecustomsigns.com/images/158_large.jpg

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.