THE ROLLING 'BEST OF 2010 ALBUMS' THREAD

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 1:07 pm

Throw me in with the too old/lazy to rank anymore camp, but these are the albums I've really been enjoying so far.

Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do
Beach House - Teen Dream
Ted Leo - Brutalist Bricks
Spoon - Transference
The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever
Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
The Ike Reilly Assassination - Hard Luck Stories
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
Band of Horses - Infinate Arms
Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time
Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions
Nick Curran and the Lowlifes - Reform School Girl
The Mynabirds - What We Lose in the Fire, We Gain in the Flood
Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
Glossary - Feral Fire
The Black Keys - Brothers
Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing
LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
The National - High Violet
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

And here's my haven't decided/need to listen list:

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Wonder Show of the World
Phosphorescent - Here's to Taking It Easy
Morning Benders - Big Echo
Hot Rats - Turn Ons
Harlem - Hippies
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Wild Nothing - Gemini

harry · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 1:40 pm

It's been an odd year... traditional indie rock (and that traditional describes indie may be telling in itself) hasn't satisfied been real satisfying (Surfer Blood, Local Natives, Liars, National... all sound kinda ok for a spin or two and then get put away). I am hoping the Broken Social Scene restores the "rock" to my menu of delights.

My continuing addiction to ambient/experimental in all its guises continues... and the margins of club or dance music sometimes fail in their discoism (Caribou) or fill in the spaces with riddim' and surprise (Pantha du Prince, Four Tet)... but that's where my ear mostly is these days...

And the music that doesn't get noticed on obner... Erika Badu's new one reveals new things every listen... Christian Scott's nu-jazz Yesterday you Said Tomorrow is the best recording of the year to me...

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 1:58 pm

harry Wrote:

And the music that doesn't get noticed on obner... Erika Badu's new one reveals new things every listen... Christian Scott's nu-jazz Yesterday you Said Tomorrow is the best recording of the year to me...

1 for 2 there, Harry. Badu's album is a bit of a hit around here.

But I tend to agree with your point about indie (though I doubt Broken Social Scene will do anything except exacerbate the problem).

harry · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 2:10 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

harry Wrote:

And the music that doesn't get noticed on obner... Erika Badu's new one reveals new things every listen... Christian Scott's nu-jazz Yesterday you Said Tomorrow is the best recording of the year to me...

1 for 2 there, Harry. Badu's album is a bit of a hit around here.

But I tend to agree with your point about indie (though I doubt Broken Social Scene will do anything except exacerbate the problem).

thanks Rads, even when I don't agree with you I usually agree with you. I did a search and saw Badu attached to you, Dalen, and Two Guns Don't... did I miss a thread where it was lauded? Her voice is so odd... rich and barely holding the pitch... but she sounds like the Lady Day of post-racial (not) Amerika...

jsh · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 2:45 pm

harry Wrote:

It's been an odd year... traditional indie rock (and that traditional describes indie may be telling in itself) hasn't satisfied been real satisfying (Surfer Blood, Local Natives, Liars, National... all sound kinda ok for a spin or two and then get put away).

agreed, but i find it strange that the even more middle of the road kind of indie rock, you know song music, is catching my ear this year more than any recently. stuff like radio dept, mynabirds, she and him, tindersticks, morning benders, besnards, even vampire weekend, are typically not things i'd get that excited about, but there seems to be a glut of good releases in this group.

i have at one time or another, or continuously, been infatuated with these records:

Joanna Newsom
Roky Erickson with Okkervil River
The Radio Dept.
Eluvium
Solex vs. Cristina Martinez vs. Jon Spencer "Amsterdam Showdown, King Street Throwdown" - This is a sleeper around here, though people should take notice. Solex's return after 6 quiet years is deeper than almost anything she put out before, of equal quality, all the while managing to sound fresh and distinctly, uniquely like the turn of the millenium.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 3:19 pm

There have definitely been a good year for new music so far. But I kind of just attributed that to the fact that I've been getting high all the time lately.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2010 5:27 pm

Agreed with above sentiments. Tons of quality records this year, but I keep getting caught up with older stuff.

Normally, I'd be all over the new National and BSS, but I'm really not moved by what I've heard.

Some bands who have put out 2010 releases that have been catching my ear:

Hammock
Slow Six
Nels Cline
Joanna Newsom
Bonnie Prince Billy
The Water (local Bmore band)
Thee Silver Mt. Zion
Scuba
Sandra McCraken
Jose James & Jef Neve
Glossary
DBT
Dawn Landes
David Byrne + Fatboy Slim
Ben Sollee + Daniel Martin Moore
Beach House
Madlib
The Whigs

pinehurst · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:45 am **Posts:** 1526

1. Spoon
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Joanna Newsom
4. The National
5. Yeasayer
6. New Pornographers
7. Plants & Animals
8. Broken Social Scene
9. Corinne Bailey Rae
10. Mike Patton
11. Titus Andronicus
12. Drive-By Truckers
13. The Hold Steady

huskerpunk · **Posted:** Tue May 25, 2010 2:24 pm

The Black Keys - Brothers
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks
The National - High Violet
Shining - Blackjazz
Spoon - Transference
Vampire Weekend - Contra

barneyhazelwood · **Joined:** Wed Jan 05, 2005 9:43 pm **Posts:** 100

Neon Trees - "Habits"
Beach House - "Teen Dream"

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue May 25, 2010 9:25 pm

Jonsi
Josh Ritter
Surfer Blood
Morning Benders
Spoon
Living Sisters

Nothing much surprising yet and I still haven't heard the new National, Black Keys or Hold Steady, because I'm waiting until I actually buy them, but I'm pretty sure they'll be in that list once I do.

andyfest · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 10:25 am

Ranking of the only albums I've acquired so far:

1. The National
2. Surfer Blood
3. Spoon
4. Dr. Dog
5. The Besnard Lakes
6. Vampire Weekend
7. Midlake

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 10:46 am

So hideous, My Love
Black Keys
Harlem
Titus Andronicus
The Bells (Sleigh & Broken)
Nevermore
Besnard Lakes
Coheed & Cambria

are all leading my 2010 pack so far...

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 7:16 pm

Late May update:

01. Joanna Newsom - Have One on Me
02. Beach House - Teen Dream
03. Sightings - City of Straw
04. Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
05. Spoon - Transference
06. Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
07. Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago
08. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
09. Daughters - s/t
10. The Morning Benders - Big Echo

11. Liars - Sisterworld
12. Skullflower - Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament
13. Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
14. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
15. Toro y Moi - Causers of This
16. The National - High Violet
17. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
18. Janelle Monáe - The Archandroid
19. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a Scheme
20. Free Energy - Stuck on Nothing

21. Caribou - Swim
22. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
23. Autechre - (Oversteps)
24. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
25. Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
26. Fang Island - s/t
27. Vampire Weekend - Contra
28. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM

discostu · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 7:24 pm

stuff I dig in no order:

DBT
Spoon
Beach House
Sleigh Bells
The Alps
Actress
Holy Fuck
Jakob Dylan
BRMC
Mumford & Sons (although this is wearing a little thin now)

Stuff I know I need to spend more time with:
Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang
Caribou
Four Tet
Flying Lotus
Bonobo
Panta du Prince
LCD Soundsystem

it's been a good year for electronic music

shiv · **Posted:** Thu May 27, 2010 7:54 pm

definite top 20 (until i wear them out or something replaces them)
owen pallett heartland
titus andronicus the monitor
xiu xiu dear god i hate myself
caribou swim
mi ami steal your face
hot chip one life stand
meth, ghost & rae wu-massacre
deer tick the black dirt sessions
eddy current suppression ring rush to relax
harlem "hippies"
mike patton mondo cane
kate nash my best friend is you
holy fuck latin
zola jesus stridulum
sleigh bells treats
crystal castles II

possibly top 20
first aid kit the big black and the blue
guilty simpson oj simpson
fang island s/t
ariel pink before today
joel alme waiting for the bells
yeasayer odd blood
lcd soundsystem this is happening
tame impala innerspeaker
janelle monae the archandroid
nice face immer etwas
indian jewelry totaled
tanlines settings
child abuse cut & run
pan sonic gravitoni
daughters s/t
these new puritans hidden
major lazer & la roux lazerproof
the strange boys be brave
ratatat lp4
the black keys brothers
the morning benders big echo
the ruby suns fight softly

good but not top 20
the soft pack s/t
personal & the pizzas raw pie
vampire weekend contra
mark sultan $
rafter animal feelings
sally seltmann heart that's pounding
jamie lidell compass
double dagger masks
male bonding nothing hurts
the pack a.d. we kill computers
we are wolves invisible violence
high on fire snakes for the divine
surfer blood astro coast
spoon transference

i'm not even gonna to bother to list the albums i hated.

FT · **Posted:** Fri May 28, 2010 4:05 pm

top 10 so far

1. soft pack
2. black keys
3. glossary
4. dbt
5. miles kurosky
6. new pornos
7. she and him
8. hold steady
9. deer tick
10. pernice brothers

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat May 29, 2010 4:32 pm

No Ted Leo, Bob?

OPA! · **Posted:** Sat May 29, 2010 6:08 pm

The new Caribou is a huge disappointment.

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

OPA! Wrote:

The new Caribou is a huge disappointment.

so are you.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sat May 29, 2010 7:34 pm

FT Wrote:

7. she and him

oh man, I thought this was pretty terrible.

harry · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 12:32 pm

OPA! Wrote:

The new Caribou is a huge disappointment.

Yeah, so far that emperor has no clothes.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 2:52 pm

It's better than Andorra, but it's still not that great.

shiv · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 9:23 pm

y'all crazy

FT · **Posted:** Sun May 30, 2010 11:51 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

No Ted Leo, Bob?

it's good, but not great

prolly end up cracking the lower reaches of my top 20

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