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My favorites for this year:

10. Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
9. The Hundred In The Hands - S/T
8. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
7. Underworld - Barking
6. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5. Liars - Sisterworld
4. The National - High Violet
3. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
2. Major Lazer and La Roux - Lazerproof
1. Four Tet - There Is Love In You

My goodness but this was a good year for music!

 

1. HIM - SCREAMWORKS (2CD)
2. RATT - INFESTATION (CD/DVD)
3. SCORPIONS - STING IN THE TAIL (CD/DVD)
4. ACCEPT - BLOOD OF THE NATIONS
5. STAN BUSH - DREAM THE DREAM
6. DIRTY YORK - SAY GOODBYE TO DIAMONDS
7. DAN REED - COMING UP FOR AIR
8. JACKYL - WHEN MOODNSHINE AND DYNAMITE COLLIDE
9. DEVO - SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
10. CRASHDIET - GENERATION WILD

 

Add- Grace Potter.

 

In no order:

Vampire Weekend – Contra
Eels – End Times
Sloan – B Sides Win
Johnny Cash – American VI
The National – High Violet
Nada Surf – If I Had A Hi-Fi
Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Mojo
Devo – Something For Everybody
Ryan Adams – Orion
Brian Wilson – Reimagines Gershwin
Rose Elinor Dougall – Without Why
Neil Young – Le Noise
Eric Clapton - Clapton

 

My favorite album this year is Ben Folds - Lonely Avenue.

 

You've sold me on this one. Great description. Thanks to everyone for the lists so far. Many discs I want to track down.

 

MOJO - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

THE UNION - Elton John & Leon Russell

LAWS OF ILLUSION - Sarah McLachlan

100 MILES FROM MEMPHIS - Sheryl Crow

 

ME TOO!!!

It was one of those albums from this year I just never got around (wanted to) to until tonight.

 

No one voted for Karen Elson's 'The Ghost Who Walks'?

That and the Eno are my top two.

Field Music,
The Villagers,
Vampire Weekend,
The Vaselines (got this one autographed),
Jenny & Johnny,
Elvis Costello,
Brian Wilson,
Shelby Lynne,
and a 2009 lp by the Band Of Skulls have also kept me entertained this year.

I wanted to like The Black Keys, Bryan Ferry and Elton John & Leon Russell albums
but couldn't because they were recorded and/or mastered so badly.

 

My list, as it stands today:

1. LCD Soundsystem "This is Happening"
2. Kanye West "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"
3. Flying Lotus "Cosmogramma"
4. Arcade Fire "The Suburbs"
5. Janelle Monae "The ArchAndroid"
6. Aloe Blacc "Good Things"
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti "Before Today"
8. Gonjasufi "A Sufi and a Killer"
9. Salem "King Night"
10. Big K.R.I.T. "K.R.I.T. Wuz Here"

My other favorites were the records from Deerhunter, Big Boi, the Foals, Gangrene, the James Blake EPs, the live LCD Soundsystem album, the Kode9 DJ Kicks album, plus some others that I'm probably overlooking for now.

 

Is the vinyl awful or just the CD? I thought about picking this one up.

 

Only now beginning to compile my list, as yet not in order... some contenders...

Songs From the Road by Leonard Cohen
Olympia by Bryan Ferry
History of Modern by OMD
End Times by Eels
Age of the Fifth Sun by God Is An Astronaut
Interpol
Who We Touch by The Charlatans

 

Adding:

 

The new Loreena McKennitt makes my list.

 

Drive By Truckers "The Big to-do
Black Country Communion

 

My pick for best album of 2010 is Charlie Haden's and Keith Jarrett's "Jasmine" on ECM.

 

1. No Age - Everything In Between
2. Menomena - Mines
3. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
4. Midnight Juggernauts - The Crystal Axis
5. UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall
6. Klaxons - Surfing The Void
7. Broken Bells
8. Editors - In This Light and On This Evening
9. Matthew Dear - Black City
10. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul

beyond my top ten...

11. Hot Hot Heat - Future Breeds
12. The Apples In Stereo - Travellers In Space and Time
13. Interpol
14. !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mojo
16. Bryan Ferry - Olympia
17. Devo - Something For Everybody
18. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
19. Wavves - king Of The Beach
20. Tokyo Police Club - Champ
21. Disco Biscuits - Planet Anthem

 

Excellent album.

 

Nice pick. Great album.

 

Glad I'm not the only one loving this one.

 

Both their albums by Midnight Juggernauts are great!

 

my top ten:

1. Caribou - Swim
2. John Grant - Queen of Denmark
3. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
4. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
5. The Black Keys – Brothers
6. The Fall – Your Future, Our Clutter
7. Giant Sand – Blurry Blue Mountain
8. Warpaint - The Fool
9. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
10. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

 

Top Twenty

It was a great year for new music. Whenever I hear people say there's nothing out now that moves them I can't believe it.

Anyway, I couldn't do just ten. These are not in order but I would put Black Keys at #1.

1. Black Keys “Brothers”
2. Eminem “Recovery”
3. Black Dub
4. Arcade Fire “Suburbs”
5. New Pornographers “Together”
6. Pavement “Quarantine”
7. Massive Attack “Heligoland”
8. Petty “Mojo”
9. Broken Bells
10. Sparklehorse/ Danger Mouse “Dark Night Of The Soul”
11. Josh Ritter “So Runs”
12. Hold Steady “Heaven Is Whenever”
13. Peter Wolf “Midnight Souvenirs”
14. Mavis Staples “You Are Not Alone”
15. Alejandro Escovedo “Street Songs of Love “
16. Walkmen “Lisbon”
17. Dead Weather “Sea of Cowards”
18. Klaxons “Surfing” (Also best cover)
19. She & Him “2”
20. Swans “My Father Will Guide Me”

Almost made the list: OMD and Shelby Lynne

Also: I don't quite know where to put this but I love it: Springsteen “Promise”

Happy New Year!
Peace-
Norm/t5

 

I'll have to think more about this, but I did initially think of five that are going to be there:

Girl Talk--All Day
Broken Bells--Broken Bells
Jamey Johnson--The Guitar Song
The Black Keys--Brothers
Richard Thompson--Dream Attic

 

Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, The Black Keys.
I also like Junip - Fields.