Now I feel silly.

They've been getting heavy rotation on a radio show I listen to but I thought the DJ said Silver Seeds and consequently various attempts to find the album by the Silver Seeds proved, if you'll excuse the pun, fruitless.

Apparently they put out two albums previously (Starry Gazey Pie and High Society) under the name The Bees. But not those Bees (hence the name change).

The Bees "US"/Silver Seas are a Nashville band. I've only heard High Society, but it was a very well done AM-pop style record. Had it been released during those days, it would've been a classic.

I haven't heard them since that record was out, but I'm assuming they're still putting out well-honed guitar pop records? I'm probably not going out on a limb here to say that this could be FT's favorite band if he'd give them a shot.

Yep, well-honed guitar pop is a decent description, but there's a sleek 80s British slant to this new album as well. I would have assumed they were a UK band rather from anywhere near Nashville if I'd gone only on their sound.

They're probably a little too good for FT to like them.

I gotta get my shit together and make a list. Overall, it's been a pretty good year.

Rads, I'm surprised that the Love Language album didn't make your list.

Is this posted in the Twentyten thread?

I think it's buried in there somewhere, but here ye be. BTW - I'm hearing a fair amount of World Party on this album.

That was fast. Thank you -
Also, after checking out your top 20, I may have my work cut out for me.

I can't wait to download this and admit it's too good for me...

Front to back, an unexpectedly great record. I'm hearing an eclectic mix of influence held together by some good songwriting. Apparently, 'High Society' from 2007 is even better.

Got this in the mail yesterday and am digging it. Two ace releases in a row...Gordon Lightfoot never sounded so good.

01. Unwelcome Guests - Don't Go Swimming
02. Jonsi - Go
03. Clem Snide - The Meat of Life
04. Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All
05. Mixtapes - Maps
06. Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms
07. Black Wine - S/T
08. Full of Fancy - Liquid Nature
09. Dinosaur Feathers - Fantasy Memorial
10. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
11. Chumbawamba - abcdefg
12. Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You
13. Librarians - Present Passed
14. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
15. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
16. Stars - The Five Ghosts
17. Hamid Drake & Bindu - Reggaeology
18. Tender Trap - Dansette Dansette
19. The 20 Belows - For Better Days
20. Electronic Anthology Project - S/T

That 20 Belows album will shoot up high on my list, just haven't organized yet. Have heard some recent stuff that I really like, I don't know if it will knock out what I've got so far.

Still a bunch of stuff I need to spend more time with that I haven't listed here, but these are the albums I've enjoyed the most so far in no order. I'd say 2010 has been pretty good.


Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight to the World
Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
Beach House - Teen Dream
Ted Leo - Brutalist Bricks
Spoon - Transference
Wavves - King of the Beach
The Black Keys - Brothers
Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
The Ike Reilly Assassination - Hard Luck Stories
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
The Postelles - Self-titled
Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy
The National - High Violet
J. Roddy Walston - J. Roddy Walston & the Business

yeah I like a lot of those, TOK, but I'd probably add in Justin Townes Earle to any list I put together.

I've only spun that once so far but it was good. Seemed a little grittier than his second album.

I just got a $50 gift card for that place and have already bought:
Ronnie Wood - I've Got My Own Album to Do and Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues

But, I want to buy something that's come out in the last couple of years, preferably from a newer artist. I feel like, despite hanging out here, I've been kinda falling behind on the new music front... just have been gunshy when it comes to pulling the trigger on making those purchases. And, I don't really like to download here at work. So I haven't been paying as much attention to this thread as I probably should have been.

So, I'm bumping this fucker, strictly for selfish reasons.

I'm really fucking bored, so list time. This may change with the wind.

1 - Neil Young - Le Noise
2 - Harvey Milk - A Small Turn Of Human Kindness
3 - Drive By Truckers - The Big To-Do
4 - Ty Segall - Melted
5 - Budos Band -Budos Band III

6 - A-Frames - 333 (compilation)
7 - Hacienda - Big Red & Barbacoa
8 - Len Price 3 - Pictures
9 - Wipers - Out Takes (comp)
10 - Personal & The Pizzas - Raw Pie

11 - Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues
12 - Nick Curran & The Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
13 - Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust

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(2nd Tier)

The Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder
Venetian Snares - My So Called Life
The Anomalys - The Anomalys
The Splinters - Kick
NoBunny - First Blood
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Pierced Arrows - Descending Shadow
Derek trucks band
Shonen knife - Free Time


(Need To Hear More)

Paul Collins - King Of Power Pop
Fred Hersch Trio - Whirl
Richard Thompson - Dream Attic
Michael Hurley - Blue Hills
John McLaughlin & The 4TH Dimension - To The One
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses - Junky Star
Paul Motian - Lost In A Dream
Haunted george - American Crow
Saigon Rock And Soul: Vietnames Classics
Bobby Mcferrin - vocab...
Mary Gauthier - Foundling
The Intelligence - Males
Kenny Werner -No Beginning, No end

(I don't think these are for me, but don't be suprised that one ends up as my fav record!)

Jose James & Jef Neve- For all We know
Subway Surfers - Three Chords & A Mission
Overnight Lows - City Of Rotton Eyes
Gerardo Frisina - Join The Dance
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
Jose James- Black Magic
Orgone - Cali fever
Harlem - Hippies
Jack Rose
Limes - Rhinestone River
Moonhearts -
Joe Elloit Down 'N' OUTz - Regenration
Hamid Drake & Bindu - Reggaeology
Moon Duo - Escape
Woven Bones - In And Out And Back Again
Acid Eater - Black On Wheels
Jason & The Scorchers
White Fence - White Fence
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Weekends - Strange Cultures
Wavves - King Of The Beach
J Roddy Walston
Bobby Bare jr - A Storm, A Tree, My mothers Head

01. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
02. Women - Public Strain
03. Beach House - Teen Dream
04. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
05. Sightings - City of Straw
06. Wavves - King of the Beach
07. Rangda - False Flag
08. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
09. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
10. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts

11. Daughters - s/t
12. The Walkmen - Lisbon
13. Spoon - Transference
14. Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
15. Abe Vigoda - Crush
16. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
17. No Age - Everything in Between
__. Double Dagger - Masks EP
18. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
19. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
20. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter


21. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot... The Son of Chico Dusty
22. Build an Ark - Love Part 1
23. The Besnard Lakes - Are the Roaring Night
24. Julian Lynch - Mare
25. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
26. Autechre - Move of Ten
27. Woods - At Echo Lake
28. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
29. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
30. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

31. Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
32. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
33. The-Dream - Love King
34. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
__. Glass Vaults - Glass EP
35. Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime
36. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
37. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
38. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP
39. The Books - The Way Out
40. Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid


41. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
42. Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
43. Liars - Sisterworld
44. Build an Ark - Love Part 2
45. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
46. Autechre - (Oversteps)
47. Best Coast - Crazy for You
48. Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
__. Best Coast - Far Away 7"
49. Curren$y - Pilot Talk
50. Toro y Moi - Causers of This

51. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
52. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
53. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
54. Wild Nothing - Gemini
__. Best Coast - Something in the Way 7"
55. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
56. Fang Island - s/t
57. Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
__. Bon Accord - Honeydew EP
58. Caribou - Swim
59. Sleigh Bells - Treats
60. Vampire Weekend - Contra


61. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
62. The National - High Violet
63. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
64. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
65. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be

Digging the following 2010 releases:
• Jenny and Johnny - Now I'm Having Fun
• Ty Segall - Melted
• Best Coast - Crazy For You
• Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
• Cleaners From Venus - English Electric
(off the top of my head, and not including my own record.)

Ok, I've decided to roughly order these cause i'm bored as heck.

01. Unwelcome Guests - Don't Go Swimming
02. Dead Mechanical - Addict Rhythms
03. Darren Hanlon - I Will Love You At All
04. The 20 Belows - For Better Days
05. Dinosaur Feathers - Fantasy Memorial
06. Clem Snide - The Meat of Life
07. Jonsi - Go
08. Mixtapes - Maps
09. Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame
10. Black Wine - S/T
11. Stars - The Five Ghosts
12. Full of Fancy - Liquid Nature
13. Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
14. Chumbawamba - abcdefg
15. Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You
16. Librarians - Present Passed
17. Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
18. Moondoggies - Tidelands
19. Candle Thieves - Sunshine And Other Misfortunes
20. The Dopamines - Expect The Worst

21. Hamid Drake & Bindu - Reggaeology
22. The Challenged - Loaded Language
23. Harlem - Hippies
24. New Pornographers - Together
25. Nick Curran & The Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
26. Magic Kids - Memphis
27. Tender Trap - Dansette, Dansette
28. Be My Doppleganger - No Composure
29. Egghead. - Would Like A Few Words With You
30. Electronic Anthology Project - S/T
31. Brian Wilson - Reimagines Gershwin
32. The Sword - Warp Riders
33. J Roddy Walston & The Business - S/T
34. Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises
35. The Books - This Way Out
36. Morning Benders - Big Echo
37. Vampire Weekend - Contra
38. Jaill - That's How We Burn
39.
40.

I've yet to hear the new Superchunk and the Sugar Stems album, so I might as well save some slots...Also, I had Surfer Blood on my list last year, and it was wrong for me to prematurely list it, but fuck it.


These were pretty good too:

Beck, Everyone Everywhere, Hoquiam, jj, Magnetic Fields, RJD2, Menomena, Allo Darlin', Beach House, Damien Jurado, Flying Lotus, Eight Legs, Amon Tobin, Peter Broderick, Underworld, Vaselines.


EPs

01. Night Birds - Midnight Movies
02. AV Club - Not Your Heart (also anxiously awaiting the full-length)
03. Tattle Tales - Moon Glasses

I finally gave it a listen, and I really like it.

Kind of surprised Rads digs it, though. It seems too light and breezy for his tastes (or my obviously erroneous impression of them).

A couple of songs out-Josh Rouse Josh Rouse.

I really need to hear this. I have one of his earlier albums which I like quite a bit.

I got it off magiska. I haven't gotten into his older stuff mostly due to availability. Yep Roc put this one out though, gonna look for it today at the record store.

I have this one from 2002, and I saw him play about the same time. When I get my music back (about a month or so) I'll up it for ya if you want.

As of right now, my Top 20 will look something like this...

1) Deftones 'Diamond Eyes'
2) Devil Sold His Soul 'Blessed & Cursed'
3) So Hideous My Love 'EP'

not ranked yet...
Best Coast
Broken Bells
Sleigh Bells
Black Keys
Harlem
Black Jaspers
Charred Walls of the Damned
Titus Andronicus
Mono
Ratt
White Wizzard
Bullet for My Valentine
The Blanche Hudson Weekend
Black Mountain
Toadies
Iron Maiden
Opeth
War Paint