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

that's quite the li-brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

did anyone post the new york times critic lists

caramanica
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/arts/music/19caramanica.html?_r=1

Is that the only list on this entire thread to include T.Swift? If so, smh.

rolling stone, #13 & popmatters country list

didn't see the popmatters country. #13 in rolling stone seems begrudging, but ok.

don't see what's begrudging abt it. the 17 acts that placed behind her must be begrudged to the max.

rs has always reviewed her well

so this how to dress well dude's songs list is incredibly close to mine* (and quite a few other ilxors, too), i guess i should give his album a try?

*JoJo, Ciara feat. The-Dream, Wut, FILA, Alicia, etc.

The Grinch Who Nearly Stole Fester's Lucky 13
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/2010-best.jpg

Year-End Summary, Fester's Lucky 13, Top 100 and genre lists, and mix are complete! I also did horrible things to Dr. Seuss' Grinch...

01. Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat)
02. Vampire Weekend – Contra (XL)
03. LoneLady - Nerve Up (Warp)
04. Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (Rune Grammofon)
05. Teeth Of The Sea - Your Mercury (Rocket)
06. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin)
07. The Soft Pack (Kemado)
08. Kvelertak (Indie Recordings)
09. Julie Christmas - The Bad Wife (Rising Pulse)
10. New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (PIAS)
11. These New Puritans - Hidden (Domino)
12. Robyn - Body Talk (Interscope)
13. Napoleon IIIrd - Christiania (Brainlove)
14. The Chap - Well Done, Europe (Lo)
15. Yeasayer – Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
16. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma (Warp)
17. Sennen - Age Of Denial (Hungry Audio)
18. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
19. Nina Nastasia - Outlaster (Fat Cat)
20. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante (+1)
21. Ed Harcourt - Lustre (Piano Wolf)
22. Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (Epitaph)
23. Wild Nothing - Gemini/Golden Haze EP (Captured Tracks)
24. Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer)
25. Warpaint - The Fool (Rough Trade)
26. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To the Sky (Young God)
27. Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Spinefarm)
28. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Bad Boy/Atlantic)
29. High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine (Relapse)
30. Good Shoes - No Hope No Future (Brille)
31. How To Dress Well - Love Remains (Lefse)
32. Abe Vigoda - Crush (Bella Union/Post Present Medium)
33. Intronaut - Valley Of Smoke (Century Media)
34. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits (Profound Lore)
35. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist)
36. The Walkmen - Lisbon (Fat Possum)
37. Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone)
38. Maximum Balloon (Interscope)
39. Grass Widow - Past Time (Kill Rock Stars)
40. Anika (Stones Throw)
41. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer (Warp)
42. Zola Jesus - Stridulum II (Sacred Bones/Soulterrain)
43. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter (Domino)
44. White Denim - Last Day Of Summer (White Denim)
45. Rangers - Suburban Tours (Olde English Spelling Bee)
46. Shining - Blackjazz (The End)
47. Årabrot - Revenge (Fysisk Format)
48. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here? (Editions Mego)
49. Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
50. Liars - Sisterworld (Mute)
51. Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer (Big Dada)
52. Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
53. Spoon – Transference (Merge)
54. Beach House - Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
55. Dawnbringer - Nucleus (Profound Lore)
56. The Sword - Warp Riders (Kemado)
57. Forest Swords - Dagger Path (Olde English Spelling Bee)
58. Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World (Fat Possum)
59. Prins Thomas (Full Pupp)
60. Wovenhand - The Threshingfloor (Sounds Familyre)
61. Errors - Come Down With Me (Rock Action)
62. Caribou - Swim (Merge)
63. Alcest - Écailles De Lune (Prophecy)
64. Diddy Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris (Bad Boy)
65. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal (Editions Mego)
66. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti - Before Today (4AD)
67. Nachtmystium - Addicts - Black Meddle Pt II (Century Media)
68. El Guincho - Pop Negro (XL)
69. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (Nuclear Blast)
70. Twin Shadow - Forget (Red General)
71. Hot Chip – One Life Stand (EMI)
72. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can (Astralwerks)
73. Matthew Dear - Black City (Ghostly International)
74. Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar)
75. Moon Wiring Club - A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding (Geophonic)
76. Four Tet - There Is Love In You (Domino)
77. Torche - Songs For Singles EP (Hydra Head)
78. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (Drag City)
79. Jonsi - Go (XL)
80. White Hills (Thrill Jockey)
81. Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)
82. Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee)
83. Sahg - Sahg III (Indie Recordings)
84. Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP)
85. Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor)
86. Black Milk - Album of the Year (Fat Beats)
87. Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence)
88. Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (Fonal)
89. Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above)
90. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (Fat Possum)
91. Ghost - Opus Eponymous (Rise Above)
92. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (EMI)
93. Nails - Unsilent Death EP (Southern Lord)
94. Die Antwoord - $O$ (Interscope)
95. Salem - King Night (Iamsound)
96. Three Mile Pilot - Inevitable Past Is The Future Forgotten (Temporary Residence)
97. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin)
98. Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North (Roadrunner)
99. Wino - Adrift (Exile On Mainstream)
100. Actress - Splazsh (Honest Jon's)

2010 Breakdown: Top 13 Genre Lists | Shows | Movies & Books

Fuck yeah, way to big-up the Julie Christmas

That is a great list.

Thanks, it's a relief to be done. If I spent any more time re-listening and reconsidering most of those albums, I'd go crazy. Time for the annual massage to fix my neck. Since last night I've already learned about six more albums I would have liked to have considered, but I'm done. Apologies for anyone fond of the Grinch. I couldn't resist.

um, the grinch is a mean one iirc

Seriously though, great list. Ufomammut is def gonna make mine.

If anyone cares, my top 100 tracks are here: http://thediscography.tumblr.com/post/2390210144/michaelangelo-matoss-top-100-tracks-of-2010

Ooh yeah! Thanx! Do you have an album list anywhere?

I'm trying to figure out where to post my top 100 or 150 or however many it is albums. (Not gonna start a blog or even an ILM thread just for that purpose, but I want to put it somewhere. Maybe I'll just make it a comment on somebody else's blog, or something.)

start a thread here for it! and then start a blog.

Yeah xhuxk just paste it here.

Nah, that's not what this thread is for. I'm not a poll! Or even a magazine.

My extended singles list is such a mess I'm not even gonna attempt it. (I.e., the order's all out of whack, and hurts my head whenever I start trying to fix it, and in the past month or two I haven't even been adding new singles I liked. There's just been too many, and callibrating is starting to feel like work. Did manage a good P&J top ten, though.)

Oh pshaw. Just do it. Besides, don't you remember that rare X-Ray Spex b-side "Xhuxk is a Poll"?

Wherever you end up posting it, make sure you let us know, that is one I'll really want to see. I think you should start a thread about the blog you'll start to generate buzz website you've created that will provide links to where we can buy the book you'll publish which will feature the list you've compiled.

i think we should let anyone with the balls/deeplisteningskills to do a top 100 like chuck, matos or fastnbulb to post in this thread

Mine is coming Jan 3, btw :)

i think we should let anyone with the balls/deeplisteningskills to do a top 100 like chuck, matos or fastnbulb to post in this thread

otm

no chuck i meant start your own top 100 or whatever thread. i'd like to check it out.

here you go. if you feel like it:

XHUXK'S TOP 100+ ALBUMS OF 2010!

or, you know, start your own. i'm just trying to avoid cleaning the kitchen.

xkuxk def. needs to post his lists here, or elsewhere on ilx

gonna spend the afternoon going thru fastnbulbous/matos lists, those look fabulous at a glance

Bulbs has the first list i've seen with Islaja on it, I need to go and listen to that properly.

that realniggatumblr list is the SHIT, i'm gonna put it in a rar

if the thread is opening up to individual critics posting their own lists, here are my top 50 singles:

http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-50-singles-of-2010.html

warning: lots of cheesy pop stuff that makes whiney reflexively go "just SB'd/unfollowed you for liking that song"

also never posted this but here's the Baltimore City Paper's top 10 and local top 10 that i helped put together:

http://citypaper.com/special/topten/the-year-in-music-1.1073877

http://citypaper.com/special/topten/the-year-in-local-music-1.1073875

never saw j. cole compared to drake

bitch i got that flame... JOHNNY STORM

deej won't post this, but his list is very good

http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/12/20/davids-somanyshrimp-best-raps-2010/

god what a fucking dickface, I hope he's around so I we can argue about this shitty list!

(just kidding, deej's list is great!!)

loool didn't notice #7 last time

i love everything i know from that list (about 20% of it, naturally) and am really thrilled w/ all the youtube links: that's one of my favorite year-end formats, when i can quickly click over and check out the stuff i haven't yet heard

Love deej's choice for number one album. Probably my most listened to rap album from the year, but not hard when theres just so many songs.

JAG (I collated it) but the SOMB list is probably in it's most interesting stage (below 40) and is being counted down right now.

Has ridiculous stats like average age of voters for records etc http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=23758

al's list is fun to read but i lol @ how many blurbs they are that are like "i hate this artist & everything involved w/ him, but this was p. good"

lol yeah that probably is a pattern i could stand to avoid more

i think that's how singles lists kind of should be, though, moments where you can divorce yourself from feelings about the artist and just enjoy the song

oh i dunno its interesting bcuz you center around the charts a lot more than i do, so i miss out on decent singles by often-garbage artists ... good to have someone sorting thru the crap lol

xp yeah

as far as my album's list, i forgot twista, which was very very good i thought. sorry yo gotti u are bumped

Permalink for my Top 150 LPs, in case anybody missed it:

XHUXK'S TOP 100+ ALBUMS OF 2010!

lol @ me following some dude's blog for a long time and not knowing that was him!

haha cool