Best Albums of 2010

[Splainc]

Hi y'all

For anyone interested please check out out the blog below and especially part 1 of the best albums of the year which includes Midlake and John Grant who have just been announced for the 2011 EOTR.

The blog has been going well and contains interviews with EOTR favourites such as The Low Anthem and Woodpigeon.

http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/g-man-album-of-year-2010-50-11.html'>http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/g-man-album-of-year-2010-50-11.html

http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com

[MattL80]

Hi y'all

For anyone interested please check out out the blog below and especially part 1 of the best albums of the year which includes Midlake and John Grant who have just been announced for the 2011 EOTR.

The blog has been going well and contains interviews with EOTR favourites such as The Low Anthem and Woodpigeon.

http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/g-man-album-of-year-2010-50-11.html'>http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/g-man-album-of-year-2010-50-11.html

http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com

[shoebox]

This was my top 20 submitted to another forum I post on:

1 Beach House Teen Dream

2 Allo Darlin' Allo Darlin'

3 Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

4 Belle & Sebastian Write About Love

5 Caribou Swim

6 The National High Violet

7 Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards Shakes

8 The Mary Onettes Islands

9 LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening

10 Sufjan Stevens Age Of Adz

11 Broken Social Scene Forgiveness Rock Record

12 Freelance Whales Weathervanes

13 Yeasayer Odd Blood

14 Wolf Parade Expo '86

15 Menomena Mines

16 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today

17 Wild Nothing Gemini

18 Owen Pallett Heartland

19 Phosphorescent Here's To Taking It Easy

20 Titus Andronicus The Monitor

[Unihammer]

FWIW here's a top 20 from me. Also posted originally to another messageboard

Couldn't seperate Phosphorescent and John Grant

1=. Phosphorescent -- Here's to taking it easy

1=.John Grant -- Queen of Denmark

3.Arcade Fire -- The suburbs

4.The Phantom Band -- The Wants

5.Smoke Fairies -- Through dark light and trees

6.Shearwater --the Golden Archipelago

7.The Acorn -- No ghost

8.Wolf People -- Steeple

9.Balmorrhea -- Constellations

10. The Besnard Lakes are the roaring night

11. Midlake -- The courage of others

12. Drive by truckers -- The big to do

13. Unbunny -- Moon food

14. Grasscut -- 1 inch / 1/2 mile

15. Alisdair Roberts -- Too long in this condition

16. Jane Weaver -- The fallen by watch bird

17. Surrounded -- Oppenheimer and woodstock

18. Wooden shjips -- Vol. 2

19. Gotan Project -- Tango 3.0

20. Mountain man -- Made the harbour

Reissues- only 1 to report

Next stop Soweto. Township sounds of the golden age of mbanqanga

And finally in a class of it's own

Dangermouse/Sparklehorse - Dark night of the soul (box set). A fitting

epitaph to the life and work of the much missed (at least by me anyway)

Mark Linkous.

[pelekas]

What about the Duke and The King?

[Olivedal 1904]

Shoebox: Interesting that you put Mary Onettes on your top 10. Not many outside of Sweden have heard of them I think.

My top 25:

1 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

2 Wolf Parade - Expo 86

3 Arcade Fire - Suburbs

4 The National - High Violet

5 Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking it Easy

6 Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Before Today

7 Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

8 Alcest - Écailles De Lune

9 No Age - Everything in Between

10 The Walkmen - Lisbon

11 Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago

12 Caribou - Swim

13 Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

14 Sleepy Sun - Fever

15 The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme

16 Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

17 Les Savy Fav - Roots for Ruin

18 Sleigh Bells - Treats

19 Håkan Hellström - 2 steg från Paradise

20 Surfer Blood - Astro Coast

21 Dungen - Skit i allt

22 Beach House - Teen Dream

23 Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten

24 Holy f**k - Latin

25 Band of Horses - Infinite Arms

[eagles69]

1 Arcsde Fire - Suburbs

2 The National - High Violet

3 The Tallest Man On Earth - Wild Hunt

4 Menomena - Mines

5 The Black Keys - Brothers

6 The New Pornographers - Together

7 Suckers - Wild Smile

8 Broken Bells - Broken Bells

9 Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer Of The Void

10 Joe Pug - Messenger

11 Kathryn Calder - Are You My Mother?

12 Wolf Parade - Expo 86

13 Wintersleep - New Inheritors

14 Allo Darlin - Allo Darlin

15 Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now

[Splainc]

There are so many albums I bet when I look back in a few months I will be shocked to see how low they were on my list or not even on my list. Avi Buffalo already is one such album

[Infinite Jest]

In no real order:

Beach House – Teen Dream

New Pornographers: Together

The National: High Violet

Holy f**k: Latin

Villagers: Becoming a Jackal

Frightened Rabbit – The Winter Of Mixed Drinks

Also good but may need further listening:

Everything Everything: Man Alive

The Smith Westerns: The Smith Westerns

Caribou: Swim

Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago

Phosphorescent – Here's To Taking It Easy

Arcade Fire: The Suburbs

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Before Today

Caitlin Rose:

Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM

Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here

Eels: End Times

The Emeralds – Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Grinderman – Grinderman 2

Forgot Crocodiles - Sleep Forever

Honourable mention for (a) not dying and ( having the best live show:

The Duke & The King

Pissed off it's not on Spotify:

Sun Kil Moon

Edited December 16, 2010 by Infinite Jest

[shoebox]

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with an album as I was with The Suburbs. I'm amazed at the recognition its getting in all the end of year lists.

Olivedal 1904: I think it was The Line Of Best Fit that put me on to The Mary Onettes. Amazing band, just bags of tunes.

[MattL80]

Right, now you've done the hard work and reminded me of a few more of this years album, here's my, er, top 14.

1 arcade fire the suburbs

2 phosphorescent here's to taking it easy

3 midlake the courage of others

4 laura marling i speak because i can

5 chemical brothers further

6 avi buffallo avi buffallo

7 the national high violet

8 the black keys brothers

9 blitzen trapper destroyer of the void

10 underworld barking

11 caribou swim

12 band of horses infinate arms

13 yeasayer odd blood

14 the tallest man on earth wild hunt

[ljsawyer]

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

2. Moddi - Floriography

3. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway

4. Grass Widow - Past Time

5. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

6. Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'

7. Caribou - Swim

8. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now

9. Tindersticks - Falling Down A Mountain

10. Sambassadeur - European

11. Abe Vigoda - Crush

12. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

13. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

14. Pulled Apart By Horses - Pulled Apart By Horses

15. Mountain Man - Made The Harbor

A bit of everything for me, though I think this year has been lacking in good alt. country albums other than Caitlin Roses'. Or maybe I've just missed the best ones.

Edited December 16, 2010 by ljsawyer

[Elfy]

WILL YOU ALL STOP DOING THIS???? :angry:

I've spent enough money on albums I haven't yet given a proper listen to this year without you lot giving me lists of other albums I should be sticking in my Amazon basket

On another forum, just off the top of my head, I listed these five....

Villagers - Becoming a Jackal

Wintersleep - New Inheritors

Plants and Animals - La La Land

Les Savy Fav - Root to Ruin

Wolf People - Steeple

..... but when I've had a proper listen to the other 50 of so 2010 albums I appear to have in WMP that list may change......

For example, Cherry Ghost, which we only bought last week, and Laura Marling, which I haven't even listened to yet...... and the rest....

[Elfy]

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with an album as I was with The Suburbs. I'm amazed at the recognition its getting in all the end of year lists.

[wolfamongwolves]

1 john grant - queen of denmark

2 caribou - swim

3 deerhunter - halcyon digest

4 avey tare down there

5 sufjan stevens the age of adz

6 flying lotus cosmogramma

7 yeasayer odd blood

8 gonjasufi a sufi a killer

9 ariel pink,s haunted grafitti before today

10 phosphorescent here,s to taking it easy

11 kanye west my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

12 neil young le noise

13 no age everything in between

14 jonsi go

Edited December 16, 2010 by wolfamongwolves

[Splainc]

I haven't bought or heard it yet.... keep reading about it and think I should.... now I'm not so sure

[Infinite Jest]

I lucked into their warm-up gig at a theatre in London, before the album came out. Quite wonderful, even though most of us didn't recognise the songs.

[Splainc]

Top 10 below folks for anyone bothered

http://thegmanworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/g-man-album-of-year-2010-10-1.html

[wackojackohighcliffe]

Underwhelmed at first listen I must admit but it is a grower. Not into anything special but a good album, not great. I had a ticket to see them in The O2 in Dublin two weeks ago and could not get there because of the ice. Would have liked to have heard the new songs live.

[fogged]

I missed this at the time (too much time away, clearly). I did a blog of the top 40 (perhaps overboard, but there was a LOT of listening done last year). Top 10 here: http://p15szY-a3. Joanna Newsom was waaaay out in front for me, but clearly she's comfortable making divisive albums.

I'm a teensy bit surprised at the amount of Phosphorescent love here, but then it is the EOTR forum! LA is a great song, but the rest of the album didn't do much for me (though lying around in the woods while they played on the Garden Stage was a highlight of the fest last year).

[bikergroover]

Joanna Newsom was waaaay out in front for me

[fogged]

Might I take this opportunity to reiterate the point made previously, which is quoted in the above post.

Those in the headliner thread who express love for Ys but insufficient experience/enjoyment of Have One On Me: listen to it more, it will reward you! (Especially 'In California'.)

[baroquepop]

After the obvious Newsom and Sufjan (which instantly makes 2010 a great year in my book), the next best for me was Emanuel and the Fear and their first album "Listen".

Besides la Newsom, they are my other reason for visiting Endoftheroad. Superb baroque pop band with stunning songwriting and big (11 piece) arrangements. Can't wait.