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Top ten albums of 2010 guys!!! It'll be great.
I know that some of you may be averse to ranking things and such, so don't give this too much thought or take it too seriously.

10. Delorean - Subiza

9. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

8. Foals - Total Life Forever

7. Four Tet - There is Love in You

6. Wild Nothing - Gemini

5. Future Islands - In Evening Air

4. Beach House - Teen Dream

3. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

2. The National - High Violet

1. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid

10. Hypnos 69 - Legacy
9. Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork
8. Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
7. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
6. The Saddest Landscape - You Will Not Survive
5. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
4. Kvelertak - Kvelertak
3. Matthew Dear - Black City
2. The Roots - How I Got Over
1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Out of those 20 bands, I've only heard of LCD Soundsystem. ;_;

The Monitor, really? I dug The Airing of Grievances but I couldn't get into Monitor at all. It felt the same as Grievances except all the emotion was a shtick. I know I'm not alone in this. The other two albums here I've heard, Kvelertak and Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées, didn't impress me either, but I think that's more my general lack of connection with the styles then any particular fault of the works.

I've still got a number of 2010 albums to check out and I generally disapprove of making a list before the period in question is actually over, so don't expect my rankings until early January.

10. Halcyon Digest -- Deerhunter
9. False Priest -- of Montreal
8. Brothers -- The Black Keys
7. Plastic Beach -- Gorillaz
6. Teen Dream -- Beach House
5. High Violet -- The National
4. The Bright Light Social Hour -- The Bright Light Social Hour
3. Infinite Arms -- Band of Horses
1b. Transference -- Spoon
1a. American Slang -- The Gaslight Anthem

Edited in/out a few things, including this insane local band's eponymous early-2010 album that I've slowly fallen in love with. I recommend it to any and all of you if you're looking for a fucking wild up and down listen (#4).

(Sorry Lenny!)

10. The National - High Violet

9. Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam

8. Hot Chip - One Life Stand

7. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

6. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

5. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

2. Future Islands - In Evening Air

1. Fang Island - Fang Island

Won't make my complete complete list till the end of the year, so some of these may be switch around still.

The year is not over. Stop voting.

But so far, I'd say Broken Social Scene, Kanye, and LCD Soundsystem were the only albums that I found even striking enough to be album of the year. Other albums I see on people's lists were either really standard releases from great artists (The National, Spoon) (( I have not seen Girl Talk on anyone's list, but that is the case there as well.), or worse CD's than the artist's previous work (Weezer, Vampire Weekend, Gorillaz, Arcade Fire, Joanna Newsom, Titus Andronicus)

The Gaslight Anthem album is great, too.

EDIT: Grinderman 2 is also in my top four.

10. School Of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
9. Dessa - A Badly Broken Code
8. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
7. Massive Attack - Heligoland
6. Autechre - Oversteps
5. All Day - Girl Talk
4. Mux Mool - Skulltaste
3. Underworld - Barking
2. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
1. USAO - Kick's For Liberation 2

=w= wrote:The year is not over. Stop voting.

xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:I've still got a number of 2010 albums to check out and I generally disapprove of making a list before the period in question is actually over, so don't expect my rankings until early January.

Yes, the year is not over, but it's LIST SEASON! and quite a few places are putting their lists out now. Plus:

mintnut wrote:I know that some of you may be averse to ranking things and such, so don't give this too much thought or take it too seriously.

So, make a list damnit. I like lists!

I think I overrated the new Weezer, yep. I'm sure my list will change in the next couple of weeks. I listened to Teen Dream tonight and loved it, mintnut.

(Also, I disagree with your assessment of Transference and The Monitor but whatever.)

I did not realize Teen Dream had come out this year. It shall definitely make my list.

gloomp wrote:Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées

Whoa, whoa - I didn't know there was another Les Discrets fan on here! Who recommended that to you?

yungerkid wrote:

gloomp wrote:Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées

Whoa, whoa - I didn't know there was another Les Discrets fan on here! Who recommended that to you?

They're probably the foremost French shoegaze after Alcest. They have over half a million listens on last.fm. They aren't that obscure.

yungerkid wrote:

gloomp wrote:Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées

Whoa, whoa - I didn't know there was another Les Discrets fan on here! Who recommended that to you?

Read further and see that a) I didn't like the album very much and b) toasters put it on his top ten.

mintnut has convinced me to make a draftlist

As of Dec. 6th 2010
10. Kevin Parks & Joe Foster - Acts Have Consequences
9. Schlippenbach Trio - Bauhaus Dessau
8. Martin Küchen - The Lie & The Orphanage
7. AMM - Sounding Music
6. Epsen Eriksen Trio - You Had Me At Goodbye
5. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
4. Daughters - Daughters
3. Koboku Senjû - Selektiv Hogst
2. Little Women - Throat
1. Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi

g-knobe wrote:10. Have One On Me -- Joanna Newsom

Evaluating every single artist on this page, this is the only one whom I have heard music by. Good choice!

oeuvre wrote:Out of those 20 bands, I've only heard of LCD Soundsystem. ;_;

I'm exactly the same.

I don't think I've even gotten / listened to 10 albums this year... my #1 would definitely be 'Immersion' by Pendulum, but other than that, I can't really think of anything.

Lenny wrote:

g-knobe wrote:10. Have One On Me -- Joanna Newsom

Evaluating every single artist on this page, this is the only one whom I have heard music by. Good choice!

Well ... she's off my list!

I feel bad now. :/

I'm not going to bother listing all 10, but suffice it to say that High Violet would be number one if I were to make a list.

I'm sure I've forgotten one that's really important (to me)

1. Of Montreal - False Priest
2. The Black Keys - Brothers
3. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
4. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
5. The National - High Violet
6. Interpol - Interpol
7. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
10. Spoon - Transference

Just in the order they occurred to me.

You misspelled the name of the artist of your favourite album of the year.

under_rated wrote:I'm sure I've forgotten one that's really important (to me)

1. Of of Montreal - False Priest
2. The Black Keys - Brothers
3. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
4. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
5. The National - High Violet
6. Interpol - Interpol
7. Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws
8. Beach House - Teen Dream
9. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
10. Spoon - Transference

Just in the order they occurred to me.

That's a really nice list. Not really, 1 or 9 though.

In no particular order, here are my ten:

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Enter Shikari - Tribalism
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
No Age - Everything In Between
MGMT - Congratulations
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Foals - Total Life Forever
Jónsi - Go

hairscapades wrote:You misspelled the name of the artist of your favourite album of the year.

Perish the thought.

wait sisterworld came out this year

what the fuck, people