Your Favorite Albums Of 2010

I must admit I really wasn't paying to much attention to music in 2010. Going through various personal stuff but I've been slowly going back and discovering music from that year. Usual stipulations- anything released between Jan 1 and Dec 31 2010 is fair game. Play if you want. List as few or as many as you wish.

Here's my favorites from the year:
1. Air Traffic Controller - The One
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Girl Talk - All Day
4. The Naked And Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You
5. The National - High Violet

Re-issues and live albums:
1. Otis Redding - Live At The Sunset Strip
2. Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy - The Complete Bremen Concert
3. The Plimsouls - Live! Beg, Borrow Or Steal

 

My highest rated album of 2010 is apparently The Waves by Tamaryn, which is brilliant but does get criticised (unfairly, as it's a silly criticism of any album) for being heavily influenced by certain early 1990s artists. I wasn't into albums in 2010 and it's not a period I've revisited so heavily in that sense, so there's lots I haven't heard.



My favourite at the time was Happiness by Hurts. I really liked the '80s influences, which were only just coming back in then. They've never bettered it, but it's not aged as well as some albums either. I also liked Fire Like This by Blood Red Shoes a lot then, which I prefer now, but it's quite a poppy alternative album and I'd acknowledge there's probably an element of my taste for that sort of thing, so I wouldn't describe it as a great album.

I also liked, at the time, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire, Tourist History by Two Door Cinema Club, A Curious Thing by Amy Macdonald and Gilgamesh by Gypsy and the Cat. Clearly, my music taste was only just taking shape at that time.

 

#1. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
#2. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

And in no particular order:

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
The Walkmen - Lisbon
Spoon - Transference
The National - High Violet
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
The Black Keys - Brothers
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The-Dream - Love King
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Usher - Raymond v. Raymond

 

Ringo Starr - Y Not

 

Grinderman 2
american slang - gaslight anthem
final frontier - iron maiden

I start to get a lot less familiar with albums around this time... Not to say there aren't good albums, just that I haven't made it to them ... I have a good number of albums from the 2010 -2018 period, but significantly less. Even some bands I know pretty well haven't gained my ear over this period much

 

Accept - Blood of the Nations
Robin Trower - The Playful Heart
Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
Scorpions - Sting in the Tail
Place of Skulls - As a Dog Returns
Armored Saint - La Raza
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Paul Gilbert - Fuzz Universe
Virgin Steele - Black Light Bacchanalia

 

I'll have to think back, but for now, I'll say that Katy Perry's Teenage Dream is a really fine album. She deservedly dominated the airwaves that year and the next.

 

Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me
The National High Violet
Beach House: Teen Dream
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
Gorillaz: Plastic Beach
Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can
Black Keys: Brothers
Sia: We Are Born
Ray LaMontagne: God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise
Belle and Sebastian: Write About Love
Daft Punk: Tron Legacy OST

Interesting year in my life. I graduated from college in May 2010.

 

Nina Nastasia is at the top of my 2010 list with Outlaster, sadly her last record before she kinda disappeared for quite a while, still hoping for something new next year since she does sing one song on the new Daniel Knox Chasescene album ...

 

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Kanye's masterpiece, as well as a fine entry point to rap for any skeptics. The album is proof that rap can truly be art

 

Infestation

 

DEVO -Something For Everbody.

Among the best albums of the decade.

 

The only new release I think I bought in 2010 is Halcyon Times by Jason and the Scorchers. It's a great album.

 

You sir, have incredible taste. I’m still obsessed with this album.

 

01 - The National - High Violet
02 - Warpaint -The Fool
03 - Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
04 - Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
05 - Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
06 - Agalloch - Marrow Of The Sprit
07 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
08 - The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
09 - Midlake - The Courage Of Others
10 - Bryan Ferry - Olympia

 

I lost some interest at the beginning of the new millennium, so I did't follow it that much. Obviously there are good albums, but I haven' t bought many the last 2 decades.

For 2010 I guess my favorite album is Brothers from The Black Keys.

 

The Soundcarriers released Celeste in 2010 too, fans of Can and the Byrds and Stereolab and Broadcast rejoiced... well, at least I did

 

Caribou - Swim
No Age - Everything in Between
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Wild Nothing - Gemini
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Women - Public Strain
Robyn - Body Talk
Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle, Part II

 

Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby Lonely Avenue
Jenny and Johnny I'm Having Fun Now
The Like Release Me
The National High Violet
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark History of Modern
She and Him Volume Two
Sting Symphonicities
Sharon Van Etten epic

 

ASIA - Omega



* Favorite re-issue: Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band 35th Anniversary (re-mastered/re-mixed).

 

Leonard Cohen Songs From The Road
Belle and Sebastian Write About Love
Ben Folds and Nick Hornby Lonely Avenue
Bruce Springsteen The Promise
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Mojo
Bob Dylan The Original Mono Recordings
Richard Thompson Dream Attic

 

Eels - End Times
Eels - Tomorrow Morning
Grinderman - Grinderman 2
Jason & the Scorchers - Halcyon Times
The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Dirty Shirt Rock 'n' Roll (comp)
Little Barrie - King Of The Waves
Ty Segall - Melted

 

Mike Keneally - Scambot 1
Mike Keneally - Evidence Of Humanity

 

Thanks, although as the name and avatar might suggest, not so much a Sir!

 

You Am I - self titled