This is almost everything I bothered listening to with any level of attentiveness. I'm not including albums by AM, Gin Wigmore, and Findlay Brown because I listed them last year even though they're technically 2010 releases. Also, I'm still pissed I never heard Penny Ikinger Penelope in time for this.

1. Spoon Transference



2. Silver Seas Chateau Revenge!



3. Jim Jones Revue Burning Your House Down



4. Asa Beautiful Imperfection



5. The Cute Lepers Smart Accessories



6. Dan Kelly Dan Kelly's Dream



7. J. Roddy Walston & The Business s/t



8. Locksley Be In Love



9. Mynabirds What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood



10. Smash Palace 7



11. Title Tracks It Was Easy



12. The Gay Blades Savages



13. Jason Falkner All Quiet On The Noize Floor



14. Free Energy Stuck On Nothing



15. Elvyn The Decline



16. Macy Gray The Sellout



17. Yukon Blonde s/t



18. Sunrise Highway s/t



19. Kasey Anderson Nowhere Nights



20. Willie Nile The Innocent Ones





21. Bobby Bare Jr. A Storm, A Tree, My Mother's Head
22. Nick Curran & the Lowlifes Reform School Girl
23. The Shivers Sunset Psalms
24. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Brutalist Bricks
25. Telepathic Butterflies Wow & Flutter

26. My Jerusalem Gone For Good
27. The Postelles s/t
28. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon Steel City Trawler
29. Little Fish Baffled And Beat
30. You Am I s/t

31. Hollerado Record In A Bag
32. The Men Four Good Men And True
33. Young Rebel Set s/t
34. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings I Learned The Hard Way
35. Two Cow Garage Sweet Saint Me

36. The Parties Coast Garde
37. High Dials Anthems For Doomed Youth
38. Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues
39. Bubblegum Lemonade Sophomore Release
40. Marah Life Is A Problem

41. Caroline & The Treats Bad All Over
42.The Rebels of Tijuana Where Did This Trip Go Wrong?
43. Henry Clay People Somewhere On The Golden Coast
44. The Russians Crashing The Party
45. The Small Change Every Line In My Head

46. The National High Violet
47. Stacie Collins Sometimes You Gotta
48. Young Rival s/t
49. The Parting Gifts Strychnine Dandelion
50. Deerhunter Halcyon Digest

51. The Bowers Her Night
52. Alejandro Escovedo Street Songs Of Love
53. The Candle Thieves Sunshine and Other Misfortunes
54. Rooney Eureka
55. Delta Spirit History From Below

56. The 88 s/t
57. Sugar Stems Sweet Sounds of the Sugar Stems
58. Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Old Devils
59. Frederick Squire March 12
60. The Love Language Libraries

61. Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 2
62. The Dirty Shames s/t
63. Jaill That's How We Burn
64. Quattro Where Are The Coconuts?... Ha?
65. The Drive-by Truckers The Big To-Do

66. The Go Find Everybody Knows It's Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight
67. The Hold Steady Heaven Is Whenever
68. Wild Nothing Gemini
69. Los Chicos We Sound Amazing But We Look Like Shit
70. The Booze Rebirth of the Cool

71. Flashy Jacks & The Allnighters s/t
72. The Salteens Grey Eyes
73. The Walkmen Lisbon
74. Dax Riggs Say Goodnight To The World
75. The Glossary Feral Fire

76. Duncan Maitland Lullabies For The 21st Century
77. Harlem Hippies
78. Beautiful Girls Spooks
79. Lucky Soul A Coming Of Age
80. The Volebeats s/t

81. Len Price 3 Pictures
82. Deer Tick Black Dirt Sessions
83. Twin Shadow Forget
84. Arcade Fire The Surburbs
85. Bleu Four

86. Morning Benders Big Echo
87. Sonny & The Sunsets Tomorrow Is Alright
88. Titus Andronicus The Monitor
89. Beach House Teen Dream
90. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Grafitti Before Today

91. Dan Sartain Lives
92. Gaslight Anthem American Slang
93. The Unwelcome Guests Don’t Go Swimming
94. Best Coast Crazy For You
95. Lower Dens Twin Hand Movement

96. Surfer Blood Astrocoast
97. Josh Ritter So Runs The World Away
98. Black Keys Brothers
99. Wavves King of the Beach
100. Sleigh Bells Treats

I'm surprised you liked the Spoon THAT much. There's a lot on here I need to check out. Even though I don't think our tastes are very similar, there are always some surprising overlaps

meh

quite a few of my favs in there (but they should be higher )

I kept meaning to check out that Cute Lepers album as their last one ranked high for me. Also I listened to the Sunrise Highway and am really surprised you liked it that much.

Am also curious to hear Kasey Anderson.

The Cute Lepers album is a real grower. At first it felt like a bit of a letdown from Can't Stand Modern Music, but almost a full year later it's surpassed it in every respect. Better songs, more varied sound - just a good step forward for an already good band. I still think they're the closest the Earth's ever gonna get to the Exploding Hearts again, unless the Biters pull it together for a full length.

Sunrise Highway sounds like a mere confection at first, but the damn thing's got dem legs.



Very much Steve Earle-influenced, tough-as-nails roots rock that's not afraid of some Crazy Horse style guitar crackle and buzz.

Not my link:

Even though he really can't sing, I still want to hear that new Jason Faulkner album

Coincidentally enough, the thing that made this album stand out for me so much was his voice. He's singing in a lower register on this one, and it really works.

Damn straight with that Spoon at 1. I'll be checking out a few of those I missed. Thanks for the Silver Seas. Dan Kelly has tracks that made a few comps I put together, a solid album. And that Nile is good, but i thought it was a leak for 2011 so I never considered it.

One thing about Ted Leo, I don't listen to him much but every time I read about him or see him in an interview he's seems so fucking cool I go back and listen more.

I think he nearly always sings in a lower register though, no? I keep thinking of that song off his first solo album, "Author Unknown".

j roddy and free energy ... showing up on ANOTHER list. i tried em, i just don't hear anything. j roddy has a great cover though.

even I didnt have spoon at number 1.

I won't be doing a list this year as I've had an eventful time lately and too many of the albums I bought are still unrated to make it worthwhile but we share a number 1 if not much else.

The Silver Seas was unrated but would have been Top Ten; after that not much cross over at the top end (I had Ted Leo, Sharon Jones, Drive By Truckers on my list but all in the top fifteen).

Yeah I like Sunrise Highway, though that shouldn't be surprising.

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Paul Collins was more disappointing than Wavees?

Always enjoy your lists Radcliffe. We have opposite taste when it comes to how we like our music produced/recorded, but i guess i need to check out Free Energy & Telepathic Butterflies and perhaps look into a few others. You can stick Roddy's piano up your arse though.

Add "written/performed" and I'll co-sign.


(winky smiley face)

I forgot about Paul Collins, but really I just wanted to give Wavves the cherished #99 spot.

I'm not into pretentious/precious.

(wanker sign)

I know, you're pretty much into the same garage band, over and over and over.

Fuck you sign?

What about Bellrays?

Dern, forgot about them too. I knew there'd be a flaw in trying to get to 100.



Also, guys... Don't be arguing in front of Elvyn.

Yeah, no kidding. The album is okay, if unspectacular, but then "Down On The Bowery" comes on and steps it all up about a million levels.

I think most of it is pretty great. More albums should start with an opener as simple and rockin as "Anchor". It sets the mood. Speaking of "Down In The Bowery", is that Rod Stewart guest dueting in the middle of the song or what?

As for your list, I like and strongly endorse Spoon in the #1 slot--there's really nothing negative I can find to say about the album. Sorta surprised (actually I'm not, you've been high on them all year) that you placed J. Roddy and Jim Jones so high: I found both of this records to be pretty disappointing and in some places, not very good. But to each his own.

I've been listening to Chateau Revenge a lot this week. It really reminds me of early Phoenix in a lot of places. Also, there's songs on there that would be at home on that Ariel Pink record if they (AP) had been more interested in song craft than forced experimentalism.

And dern, ol' Elvyn showed up.