SH Forums Best Albums of 2010

Thanks...I'll check those out when I get home.

 

I really don't buy many albums when they come out, but I liked these a lot:

Kanye West-My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Overkill-Ironbound
Big Boi-Sir Luscious Left Foot
Robyn-Body Talk
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-The Social Network OST

 

Forgot to include- The Sadies "Darker Circles"

 

John Zorn's "The Dreamers: The Gentle Side" vinyl LP on Tzadik; mastered by Scott Hull.

Great, subtle Zorn compositions and amazing-sounding!

 

Good call on Ironbound. Great album.

 

That album is my favorite of 2010 also!!!

 

My favorites of 2010 (mostly guitar rock/hard rock/metal which is where my musical heart lies):

#1 by a very big margin:

1. Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Live in Concert 2010 (CD/DVD)



[I'm totally nuts about this relatively obscure band (except for in Denmark and Japan where they are pretty well known). That they got back together after 15 years away is a long answered prayer, even if it was just a temporary reunion.]

(rest not in particular order)

2. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
3. Black Country Communion
4. Joe Satriani - Black Swans & Wormhole Wizards
5. Horslips - Live at the O2 (CD/DVD)
6. Eric Johnson - Up Close
7. Heaven & Hell - Neon Nights Live (CD/DVD)
8. Mr. Big - What If...
9. King's X - Live Love In London (CD/DVD)
10. John Norum - Play Yard Blues



Honorable mentions & reissues:
- Black Crowes - Croweology
- Renegade Creation
- Robin Trower - Playful Heart
- Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
- Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe
- MSG - 30th Anniversary Concert Live In Japan (CD/DVD)
- Eric Johnson - Austin City Limits (1984 session CD/DVD)
- The Who - Live at Leeds Super Deluxe Edition (*for the HULL discs*)
- Jimi Hendrix - Valleys of Neptune
- Jimi Hendrix - West Coast Seattle Boy (boxset)
- Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band - 35th anniversary edition
- Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Dizzcography



My Biggest Disappointment of the year:
- Peter Frampton - Thank You Mr. Churchill

 

My twenty-five favorite albums of 2010. Why twenty-five? Well, I couldn't narrow it down to just twenty.

Various Artists - PM50 Box Set (2010) [Compilation]
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of Unconscious
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Caribou - Swim
Big Blood - Dark Country Magic
Locrian - Territories
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Four Tet - There Is Love in You
Moritz von Oswald Trio - Live in New York
Beach House - Teen Dream
Actress - Splazsh
Ga-In - Step 2/4
T-ara - Breaking Heart
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
The National - High Violet
Dødsengel - Mirium Occultum
Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent
Broken Water - Broken Water
Alva Noto - For 2
Very Truly Yours - Things You Used to Say
Bashō Bashō
Kidkanevil - Bashō Bashō
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - The Sound of Reality Dissolving
Fursaxa - Mycorrhizae Realm
Luca Brazi - Brain Food

I know it just looks like a wall of text, but if you want you can go here to see things better.

 

133 posts give about 1400 albums in total ie everything what was released this year is considered by somebody as Best album.
can somebody narrow this list to 20 most mentioned and start a poll which shows what SH Forumites really think?

 

Here's 10 of the best.

1. Tom Jones / Praise & Blame
2. Marty Stuart / Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
3. Justin Townes Earle / Harlem River Blues
4. The Secret Sisters / The Secret Sisters
5. Hank III / The Rebel Within
6. Preservation Hall Jazz Band / Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program
7. John Mellencamp / No Better Than This
8. Elvis Costello / National Ransom
9. Carolina Chocolate Drops / Genuine Negro Jig
10. Neil Young / Le Noise

A couple of observations

* If sound tracks were eligible I would probably have included both Treme and Crazy Heart

* I notice in my list there are no fewer than 3 albums produced by the great T-Bone Burnett, along with another, the Jakob Dylan album, that I really wanted to fit in but couldn't. So in terms of my tastes I'll have to declare this the year of T-Bone Burnett!!

 

I love the Justin Townes Earle and Mellencamp. I grew tired and disappointed in the Neil Young. I have meant to pick up the Costello and I have been curious about the Tom Jones.

 

6. Preservation Hall Jazz Band / Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program

Excellent choice!

 

The two albums I keep constantly turning to this year have been the Gorillaz - Plastic Beach and Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away. I'll also throw in Neulore - Apples and Eve, it's a gorgeous album.

 

We should wait until 12/31 or so then we can compile that.

 

definitely Ben Folds Lonely Avenue is in there, I'm really impressed.

 

Additionally, Mean Old Man by Jerry Lee Lewis

 

I can't keep up with you hipsters. I've got a backlog, including this Tame Impala, Black Angels, Field Music, Beach House, Los Lobos, etc. I keep hearing about.

Of the ones I've heard, these are on top:
Black Keys - Brothers
Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
Broken Bells - s/t
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
Liz Phair - Funstyle
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way

Honorable Mention to:
Court Yard Hounds - s/t
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
John Legend & The Roots - Wake Up!
Southern Culture on the Skids - Kudzu Ranch

I like songs, but not full albums of the rest I've heard (Elvis Costello, Shelby Lynne, Jakob Dylan, Sheryl Crowe, Tom Petty, Band of Horses, Delta Spirit and others)

 

Agree. Maybe even give it a few days into January so people can add or amend their lists?

 

I'm adding Fran Healy and Josh Ritter's albums to the list.

Death of a Popstar by David Banner & 9th Wonder was pretty good too.

Album of year for me: Mark Ronson and the Business International - 'Record Collection'.

 

The 30 records I enjoyed most in 2010, in alphabetical order:

Band of Horses, Infinite Arms
Belle and Sebastian, Write About Love
The Besnard Lakes, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Best Coast, Crazy For You
The Black Keys, Brothers
Blitzen Trapper, Destroyer of the Void
Dangermouse and Sparklehorse, Dark Night of the Soul
Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest
Drive-By Truckers, The Big To Do
Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be
Family Band, Miller Path Album (http://www.familybandfamily.com/index.html)
The Fresh and Onlys, Play It Strange
Harlem, Hippies
Gil Scott-Heron, I’m New Here
The Hold Steady, Heaven is Whenever
Jenny and Johnny, I'm Having Fun Now
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, I Learned the Hard Way
The Like, Release Me
Los Lobos, Tin Can Trust
The Love Language, Libraries
The Morning Benders, Big Echo
Moondoggies, Tidelands
The Mynabirds, What We Lost in the Fire We Gained in the Flood
The National, High Violet
The Soft Pack, The Soft Pack
Superchunk, Majesty Shredding
Theodore, Hold You Like a Lover (http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/theodore-concert/20032259-3738169.html)
Titus Andronicus, The Monitor
Corin Tucker Band, 1,000 Years
Warpaint, The Fool

 

Paul Weller´s Wake up the Nation is the only one that made it for me.

 

These are the ones that keep finding their way back in to the CD or MP3 player...

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela - Hands
Ralph Towner and Paolo Fresu - Chiaroscuro
Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet - Blink of an Eye
Tomasz Stanko - Dark Eyes
Broken Bells - s/t
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Crowded House - Intriguer
Warpaint - The Fool
Derek Trucks Band - Roadsongs

Surprisingly I didn't buy mouch more than that this year. Most of the year was focused on the Blue Note, Impulse Jazz SACDs and completing my Miles Davis Metal Spine boxset collection.

 

Wanted to add two more to my original list.

Fistful Of Mercy - Fistful Of Mercy
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

 

My top five for 2010 .....

1. Le Noise ~ Neil Young
2. Grinderman 2 ~ Grinderman
3. Homeland ~ Laurie Anderson
4. Dream Attic ~ Richard Thompson
5. Have One On Me ~ Joanna Newsom

 

Biggest Disappointments for 2010

Here are two titles that I had high hopes for but that left me disenchanted.

• Neil Young - Le Noise
• Robert Plant - Band of Joy