2010 - The Year In Music

thomnottom

Alright, the first year end lists are starting to come through. For those that want more than just Daytripper's I figured another dedicated thread for the music bloggers, etc. would work. First up is Rough Trade, which was linked to over there:

1. Caribou - Swim
2. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
3. These New Puritans - Hidden
4. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now
5. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
6. Darkstar - North
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
8. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
9. Wild Nothing - Gemini
10. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
11. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
12. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
13. The National - High Violet
14. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?
15. Beach House - Teen Dream
16. Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders
17. Perfume Genius - Learning
18. Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
19. The Black Keys - Brothers
20. The Morning Benders - Big Echo / Foals - Total Life Forever
21. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
22. Salem - King Night
23. Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
24. Dylan Leblanc - Paupers Field
25. Joanna Newson - Have One On Me
26. Matthew Dear - Black City
27. Warpaint - The Fool
28. Liars - Sisterworld
29. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
30. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
31. Konono No 1 - Assume Crash Position
32. Smoke Fairies - Through Low Light And Trees
33. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast / Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
34. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
35. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
36. Mount Kimbie - Crooks And Lovers
37. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
38. Best Coast - Crazy For You
39. PVT - Church With No Magic
40. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
41. Vampire Weekend - Contra
42. Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
43. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
44. Midlake - The Courage Of Others
45. The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
46. Sleigh Bells - Treats
47. O Children - O Children
48. Glasser - Ring
49. Zola Jesus - Stridulum 2
50. Holly Miranda - The Magician’s Private Library
51. Sea Of Bees - Songs For The Ravens
52. JJ - No3
53. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
54. Twin Shadow - Forget
55. Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
56. Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
57. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
58. Cours Lapin - Cours Lapin
59. Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez
60. School Of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
61. Beach Fossils - Beach Fossils
62. Shit Robot - From The Cradle To The Rave
63. Jonsi - Go
64. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
65. Belle And Sebastian - Belle And Sebastian Write About Love
66. Chilly Gonzales - Ivory Tower
67. Connan Mokasin - Please Turn Me Into The Snat
68. Holy Fuck - Latin
69. The School - Loveless Unbeliever
70. Tobacco - Maniac Meat
71. Dios - We Are Dios
72. Allo Darlin’ - Allo Darlin’
73. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
74. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
75. El Guincho - Pop Negro
76. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
77. Kort (Kurt Wagner And Cortney Tidwell) - Invariable Heartache
78. Solar Bears - She Was Coloured In
79. Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing
80. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
81. Kings Go Forth - The Outsiders Are Back
82. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
83. Dan Michaelson And The Coastguards - Shakes
84. Stornoway - Beachcomber’s Windowsill
85. Tamaryn - The Waves
86. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
87. Four Tet - There Is Love In You
88. Magic Kids - Memphis
89. Marina And The Diamonds - Family Jewels
90. Mystery Jets - Serotonin
91. Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
92. Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
93. Fool’s Gold - Fool’s Gold
94. Frankie Rose And The Outs - Frankie Rose And The Outs
95. Aloe Blacc - Good Things
96. Drums Of Death - Generation Hexed
97. Am - Future Sons And Daughters
98. Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
99. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
100. Time And Spacemachine - Set Phazer To Stun

Initial thoughts:
- I like the Caribou pick. Not my #1, but definitely a top 5 for me.
- Glad to see some love for Tame Impala (discovered here!), The Black Keys and Glasser (though way too low).
- Seriously shocked at Sufjan being that low.
- I like Gold Panda, but think they'll be trying to figure out why they put it in the top ten a year from now.
- Salem? Seriously?
- Swing and a miss on Marco Benevento, Bibi Tanga, Fang Island, and Jamie Lidell.

pzeke

No Spoon? No New Pornographers?

BigD-Bluez

Far out. My retro old fart cred is untarnished. If I have any of these I got them on Amie for free, and they are now somewhere on the hard drive at home. If they'd added The New Pornographers it would have spoiled my no hitter.

pzeke

Not even the new Superchunk made the list. Doesn't running the most successful indie-rock label count for anything?

BigD-Bluez: my retro old fart self is still trying to figure out the lyrics to Clash songs from 1978. Any similar multi-decade obsessions?

thomnottom

I count 35 I own. Probably 6 or 7 of those were Amie freebies that I otherwise might not have "purchased".

Kenny

I own 8. I trust no list that puts Sufjan down in the 80s.

mommio

Not one of the cool kids - I have 5.

amclark2

I own 12; #'s 13, 15, 18, 21, 36, 41 (unfortunately), 46, 48 (I haven't actually listened to it yet), 57, 64, 65, 80.

I trust no list missing Janelle Monae. (Well ok, no list 100 items long from a store or blog - I don't expect her to be in everyone's personal top 10 - people are only human after all).

bremble

9 for me - only 2 in the top 20 (Charlotte Gainesbourg and Black Keys).

BigD-Bluez

Any similar multi-decade obsessions?

I'm currently obsessed with NWOBHM - well, not exactly new anymore. It's fulfilling a need for new areas for me, because I just don't like the guitar tones and cookie monster vocals of a lot of modern metal. Michael Schenker era live UFO also.

Brighternow

- Got these ones:
2. Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
23. Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
25. Joanna Newson - Have One On Me
87. Four Tet - There Is Love In You

- And want these ones:
37. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
73. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

- I guess my old fart cred just went down the drain.

cafreema

I have 17 of them, and like I said on the eMu thread, any top 100 that doesn't include Owen Pallett or Titus Andronicus is wrong.

Craig

thomnottom

@Craig - Good call on Owen Pallett.

I think it's a bad idea to do 100 for a year. It makes it seem much more "all encompassing" but there will still be too many albums missed. If you do a top 10 or 20 or even 50 there's much more room for someone to shrug off snubs.

@BN - Definitely get the Flying Lotus. Been playing that a bunch in my car this week - awesome!

Daniel, Esq.

any list out prior to the release of kanye's disc is a list out too soon.

the gil-scott heron is a damn fine album, i'll say that. me and the devil is jawdropping, and kind of dubstep-y (as is much of the disc).

greg

I surprised myself by having ten on the list! At least two others I'd like, but have never been able to download because they are on Domino, which we could never get in the UK from emusic, even before their recent removal. The Villagers, for example, is £7.99 on itunes (around $10.60) and there were always other prioriites when I came to actually getting my credt card out. But I will try out a few more from the list. My particular favourite from the 100 is Stornoway, but I have always liked Belle and Sebastain from pre download days.

xtrev

The Piccadilly Records 100 is up too.

For those surprised at the low or non appearance of some albums in the rough trade list above, don't forget they're a very UK centric hipster-indie type of set-up.
Piccadilly too, although a bit less hipstery.

I'd guess Janelle Monae and Kanye would have been far too mainstream for either to even consider, likewise Spoon and The New Pornographers, although those weren't big hits over here anyway, and if it wasn't for you lot (including some on emu) I'd never have heard of Owen Pallett or Titus Andronicus so I'm not at all surprised they aren't on the charts.
I'm sure when some the US lists turn up they'll be much more prominent.

cafreema

I'm really intrigued by that Piccadilly list. I'll need to dig into when I get a chance.

Craig

choiceweb0pen0

I have a decent number from the Rough Trade. Thinking about my own list and this year, I would put that Midlake album at the bottom or take it off all together. Their first two albums are wondeful, but the Courage of Others is just ho hum. If nothing else, the Age of Adz should be way above it.

hoosfoos

I have 10:
5. Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy (deserving of a top 10 place. BigD-Bluez might even like this or at least not embarrassed by it.)
13. The National - High Violet
14. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I’m Here?
44. Midlake - The Courage Of Others
73. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
82. Grinderman - Grinderman 2

only got these because they were cheap on amie:
20. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
84. Stornoway - Beachcomber’s Windowsill

only got these for my daughter:
21. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
41. Vampire Weekend - Contra

denver

I have thirteen of those, but my eventual 1 and 2, probably, are not on their list at all, my 3 is about a third of the way down, and lots of others on my list aren't there, either. I guess I'm not a UK centric hipster-indie. Paul Weller and Robert Plant are UK, but I suppose they're too old now to be hipsters. I was looking forward to the John Grant, but I found it to be only partially satisfying. I agree about Sufjan being too low, and I think Beach House is way too high. I was unable to listen to Sleigh Bells all the way through once, but I suppose I'll try again. I'll have to try to find that Caribou somewhere. Gil Scott-Heron was a favorite of mine 40 years ago, so it'd be interesting to hear what he's up to now.

11. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
13. The National - High Violet
15. Beach House - Teen Dream
19. The Black Keys - Brothers
21. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
30. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
31. Konono No 1 - Assume Crash Position
41. Vampire Weekend - Contra
46. Sleigh Bells - Treats
80. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
82. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
84. Stornoway - Beachcomber’s Windowsill
86. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

choiceweb0pen0

Okay, looks like I have 15:

1. Caribou - Swim
7. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
10. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
13. The National - High Violet
15. Beach House - Teen Dream
21. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
29. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
33. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast /
41. Vampire Weekend - Contra
43. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
44. Midlake - The Courage Of Others
63. Jonsi - Go
65. Belle And Sebastian - Belle And Sebastian Write About Love
80. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
86. The Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt

Daniel, Esq.

I got 31 from the Rough Trade list.

thomnottom

Thank god. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me having over 30...

Brighternow

- And I think I retained some of my old fart cred, only 4. . .

mommio

Just 2 on the Piccadilly list.

No Classical 100 list. I might do better on that one.

Daniel, Esq.

i love the gil scott-heron album, and i haven't been much of a fan of his in the past. that and the grinderman disc hover close to the top of my year-end list, too (probably nos. 3 -- 2, in that order). it's kind of fascinating, since both discs are -- in very separate ways -- reactions to, and bristling against the notion of, getting older, instrumentally and/or lyrically.

Daniel, Esq.

me and the devil gives me shivers every time i hear it, beginning with the mechanized, abrasive ticking that knifes in at the beginning of the song.

Muggsy

I own three on the Rough Trade list (Arcade Fire, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, and Field Music). Liked Field Music, wasn't overly impressed with Dark Night of the Soul but need to give it a couple more listens. Haven't listened to Arcade Fire yet but just picked it up at Amazon recently. Of the others, I own older records from a few (Black Keys, LCD Soundsystem, Eno, and I guess Edwyn Collins if Orange Juice counts). Do I qualify as a retro old fart? I'd like that.

Brighternow

Bleep: The Top 10 Artists Of 2010:

Oneohtrix Point Never
James Blake
Autechre
Gil Scott-Heron
Caribou
Gold Panda
Funkineven
Emeralds
Roska
Four Tet
(In no particular order, I guess)
Link.

thomnottom

GORILLA VS. BEAR’s ALBUMS OF 2010

01 Beach House – Teen Dream
02 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
03 Shabazz Palaces – Of Light/Shabazz Palaces
04 James Blake – CMYK/Klavierwerke
05 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
06 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
07 Lower Dens – Lower Dens
08 Games – That We Can Play
09 White Denim – Last Day of Summer
10 Girls – Broken Dreams Club
11 Toro y Moi – Causers of This
12 Earl Sweatshirt – EARL
13 Twin Sister – Color Your Life
14 Big K.R.I.T. – wuz here
15 Dum Dum Girls – I Will Be
16 Grimes – Geidi Primes
17 The Samps – The Samps
18 Harlem – Hippies
19 Forest Swords – Dagger Paths
20 Twin Shadow – Forget
21 Frankie Rose & the Outs – Frankie Rose & the Outs
22 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
23 Tennis – Tennis (cassette)
24 The Walkmen – Lisbon
25 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh
26 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
27 Mount Kimbie – Crooks & Lovers
28 Caribou – Swim
29 Shackleton – Fabric 55
30 Ty Segall – Melted

thomnottom

Paste's The 50 Best Albums of 2010

This one's a pain to copy, so I'll do it later...