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Jim’s Best Of 2010
2010 was an incredible year for new music. This year not only had something for everyone; it had 27 somethings for everyone — No self respecting list should get cutoff by an arbitrary number.
Best Disc Hot Chip had a ton of competition for “best of the first half”, while Arcade Fire walked away with the “best of the second half” title with ease.
1. Arcade Fire :: The Suburbs :: 8/3/10
2. Hot Chip :: One Life Stand :: 2/9/10
Must have. I’ve assigned rankings as best I can here but mood could definitely bring any of them in front of any of the others. Loved these.
3. Hold Steady – Heaven is Whenever :: 5/4/10
4. Broken Bells :: Broken Bells :: 3/9/10
5. Apples In Stereo :: Travellers In Space :: 4/20/10
6. Eels :: End Times :: 1/19/10
7. LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening :: 5/18/10
8. The National :: High Violet :: 5/11/10
9. Violent Soho :: Violent Soho :: 5/9/10
10. Gorillaz :: Plastic Beach :: 3/3/10
11. Gogol Bordello :: Trans-Continental Hustle :: 5/7/10
12. Against Me! :: White Crosses :: 6/7/10
Well worth your money. If you haven’t given them a try… you should. All great must-have discs.
13. The Radio Dept :: Clinging To A Scheme :: 4/21/10
14. The Roots :: How I Got Over :: 6/21/10
15. Sleigh Bells :: Treats :: 6/1/10
16. Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs :: God Willin’ & The Creek Don’t Rise :: 8/17/10
17. Los Campesinos :: Romance Is Boring :: 1/26/10
18. Frightened Rabbit :: The Winter of Mixed Drinks :: 3/1/10
We’re still in “buy them if you haven’t yet” territory here.
19. Belle & Sebastian :: Write About Love :: 10/12/10
20. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club :: Beat The Devil’s Tattoo :: 3/9/10
21. Ted Leo :: Brutalist Bricks :: 3/9/10
22. Caribou :: Swim :: 4/20/10
23. Titus Andronicus :: The Monitor :: 3/9/10
24. Black Keys :: Brothers :: 5/18/10
25. Charlotte Gainsbourg::IRM :: 1/26/10
26. She & Him :: Volume Two :: 3/23/10
27. The Weepies :: Be My Thrill :: 8/31/10
I actually kept a running list of the entire year that I’ll be posting soon, so look for that as well.
…and it would make me feel all warm & fuzzy if you shared your thoughts here via comment. So… you should.
I don’t get the Hot Chip, but I’ll forgive you since you used a Ruby operator to delimit your info. Here’s my list which, as usual, has much in common in with yours.
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
The National – High Violet
The New Pornographers – Together
The Hotrats – Turn Ons
The Black Keys – Brothers
Midlake – Courage of Others
Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
The Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
I gotta second the Surfer Blood album. Also, don’t forget Mumford and Sons and Florence and the Machine.
Surfer Blood just missed this list (as you’ll see when I put out the full list in a couple days). Really liked that Hotrats disc too but DQ’d it as a “covers” disc (that’ll be on the next post too).
Mumford and Sons (and a couple from @jno’s list) are great examples of how good I thought the crop was this year. Really liked those discs but just had others that I liked better.
… and Florence and the Machine I missed, so I’ll definitely have to go back and check that out!