Your top ten albums of 2010

[SirNewt]

I see a lot of people dropping these already in the music discussion thread. But why not give the topic it's own?!

[SirNewt]

1. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
2. Black Noise - Pantha du Prince
3. High Violet - The National
4. Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
5. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds
6. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
7. Gorilla Manor - The Local Natives
8. Fang Island - Fang Island
9. Crazy for You - Best Coast
10. Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

Not completely in love with all of these but I've got a lot more to listen to. Looking at the free sounds thread has given me a lot more to think about.

[endingcredits]

1. High Violet (The National)
2. Le Noise (Neil Young)
3. Status Quo Vadis (TV Torso)
4. Entropy (Shugo Tokumaru)
5. Libson (The Walkmen)
6. Rare Forms (Woodsman)
7. Fang Island (Fang Island)
8. Transference (Spoon)
9. Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
10. Band Of Joy (Band Of Joy)

I still need to check out The Monitor, This is Happening, and a bunch of other stuff on your list SirNewt.

[Acapelli]

in no particular order:

The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme
Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
Wavves - King Of The Beach
The-Dream - Love King
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Thermals - Personal Life
Restless People - Restless People
Eternal Summers - Silver

other notable non-album releases (for me)

Your Youth - Aloha EP
Robyn - Body Talk 1+2 EPs
Veronica Falls - Found Love In A Graveyard 7" / Beachy Head 7"
Gauntlet Hair - I Was Thinking 7" / Out, Don't 7"
Girl Unit - Wut EP
OFF! - 1st EP
oOoOO/White Ring - Emotion 7"
Gentleman Jesse And His Men - She's A Trap 7"
Washed Out/Small Black Split 7"
White Ring - <><> 7"
Weed Hounds - Demo
Cults - Cults 7"

[ledfloyd]

High Violet (The National)
Teen Dream (Beach House)
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West)
The Archandroid (Janelle Monae)
This is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)
The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Return of Chico Dusty (Big Boi)
False Priest (Of Montreal)
Have One On Me (Joanna Newsom)
The Age of Adz (Sufjan Stevens)

HMs:
Body Talk (Robyn)
All Day (Girl Talk)
The Monitor (Titus Andronicus)
Lisbon (The Walkmen)

order subject to change.

[SirNewt]

I need to give The Archandroid another shot.

[Derek]

in no particular order:


No Public Strain?

[Acapelli]

No Public Strain?
that would be close

there are a few albums that were hard to leave off that i did

sucks that they broke up too

[Derek]

that would be close

there are a few albums that were hard to leave off that i did

sucks that they broke up too

I'm hoping they just need some time apart, since they were touring like crazy. But seriously, is there a more awesome way for a band to break up than getting into a fist fight and smashing another band member's guitar while dressed up like Mr. T? How did no one catch this on camera?

[Acapelli]

pretty http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3301/rock2.gif

[D_Davis]

Started compiling my shortlist this morning, which looks like:

Analog Workshop - Emporium of Broken Toys
Ballpen - The Dreams Trilogy
The Big Sleep in Search of Hades - Ethos
Doyeq - Eyelashes of Lanterns
Henrik Jose - Little Things
Rho - Cedarleaf
The Roots of Orchis - Empty Lands
Rushus - Stories
SineRider - Decembers Embers
Specta Ciera - Wind Shift
False Awakening - So Far, So Close

Still have a ton of stuff to review though.

[Boner M]

Alphabetically, though the first two are coincidentally also my 2 favorites:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Fabulous Diamonds - II
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Naked on the Vague - Heaps of Nothing
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Nothing People - Soft Crash
Yellow Swans - Going Places

HM: Swans - My Father..., Natural Snow Buildings - The Centauri Agent, CocoNuts - s/t, Gate - Republic of Sadness

Disappointments: Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Pantha Du Prince, Balaclavas, Intelligence, Harvey Milk, Sun Araw

Notable EPs/7":

Home Blitz - Perpetual Night 7"
Homostupids - Night Deacon 7"
Moon Duo - Escape 12"
Puerto Rico Flowers - 4 12"
Royal Headache - s/t 7"
Sun Araw - Off Duty 12"
Total Control - Paranoid Video 7"

[kopello]

Current top 5 would be

Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope to the Sky
LCD Soundsystem -This is Happening
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Monster Movie - Everyone is a Ghost
The Fall - Our Future Your Clutter

Also enjoyed new Brian Eno, The Ruby Suns, Dum Dum Girls, Future Islands, Kvelertak, and some others I may have forgot.

Still have a lot I want to listen to like new Tindersticks, Sigh, Kanye, Grinderman, Arcade Fire, etc.

[SirNewt]

Disappointments: Pantha Du Prince


Really, was there anything in particular you didn't like?

[Boner M]

Really, was there anything in particular you didn't like?
Nah, just general blandness aside from the Panda Bear track. To be fair, I deleted it after several listens.

[EyesWideOpen]

In no order:

Broken Bells - S/T
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
MGMT - Congratulations
N.A.S.A. - The Big Bang
Ratatat - LP4
The Roots - How I Got Over
Girl Talk - All Day

[SirNewt]

In no order:

Broken Bells - S/T
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
MGMT - Congratulations
N.A.S.A. - The Big Bang
Ratatat - LP4
The Roots - How I Got Over
Girl Talk - All Day

Here I was thinking 'Broken Bells' came out last year. I'm definitely going to have to update my list now.

[endingcredits]

Update

1. High Violet (The National)
2. Le Noise (Neil Young)
3. Status Quo Vadis (TV Torso)
4. Mines (Menomena)
5. Entropy (Shugo Tokumaru)
6. Libson (The Walkmen)
7. Rare Forms (Woodsman)
8. Broken Bells (Broken Bells)
9. Fang Island (Fang Island)
10. Transference (Spoon)

[Boner M]

Add the new Deerhunter to the 'disappointment' pile. Band just goes further and further downhill.

[Raiders]

Off the top of my head I can only think of five albums I listened to and liked this year...

(no order)

Neil Young, Le Noise
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
The Fall, Your Future Our Clutter
Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz
Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me

I don't really listen to much new music anymore.

[Acapelli]

Add the new Deerhunter to the 'disappointment' pile. Band just goes further and further downhill.
have you listened to the royal baths album? seems like something you'd enjoy

[jamaul]

1. This is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Kanye West)
3. The Age of Adz (Sufjan Stevens)
4. Sir Lucius Leftfoot: Son of Chico Dusty (Big Boi)
5. Plastic Beach (Gorillaz)
6. The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
7. High Velvet (The National)
8. Brothers (The Black Keys)
9. The Archandroid (Janelle Monae)
10. Grinderman 2 (Grinderman)

All tentative and not set in stone. Kanye's has shot up the list since it leaked ... I'd been following the unfinished leaks and G.O.O.D. Friday drops since they started, and so once the finished product was out it only confirmed its greatness. All in all, it may end up #1. Also, new Girl Talk is pretty great ... it may crack my top ten yet. And Flying Lotus should be on here, so who knows.

HM's to Deerhunter, Erykah Badu, Cee-Lo, Kid Cudi, Robyn and a shitload I'm forgetting.

[Derek]

Add the new Deerhunter to the 'disappointment' pile. Band just goes further and further downhill.

"Desire Lines" is incredible and a sign they've still got it, but yeah, I've liked each album a little less than the last. Not too worried though since Cox's solo album last year was pretty great, but I still like Cryptograms more than anything he/they have done since.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Add the new Deerhunter to the 'disappointment' pile. Band just goes further and further downhill.

?

Microcastle is clearly their best. Haven't heard this one yet, though.

[Boner M]

have you listened to the royal baths album? seems like something you'd enjoy
Listening to it now. Enjoying it indeed, so far. Thx for the rec.


Microcastle is clearly their best. Haven't heard this one yet, though.
Cryptograms > Microcastle > Rainwater > this one

I dunno, it seems like the band are becoming more and more of a pastiche of bands who already were pastiches (Stereolab, Pavement, Yo La Tengo etc), and hence not particularly interesting. I do like Atlas Sound quite a bit tho, esp. the first one.

[EyesWideOpen]

If the second half of the Kanye album was as good as the first half it might have been greatness but their is not even a single decent track after song 7.

[ledfloyd]

If the second half of the Kanye album was as good as the first half it might have been greatness but their is not even a single decent track after song 7.
devil in a new dress is great. blame game is good if you ignore the chris rock outtro. i like runaway. and lost in the world is possibly my favorite song on the album.

i think so appalled is the weakest song on the album. followed by hell of a life. everything else is pretty money.

[Henry Gale]

Yeah, "Devil In A New Dress" is my favourite of the whole album, and was one of my top songs of the year even before he added the parts after the G.O.O.D. Friday release. "Blame Game" is awesome (yes, I even think the Chris Rock part works and is actually important to have there), as are the final versions of "Runaway", "Lost In The World" (though the new stock club percussion layers took some getting used to), and "Hell Of A Life" especially, considering how the leaks were unimpressive and the additions on the final album are all pretty perfect.

So, I definitely can't agree about the second half of the album being worthless. It's also in my Top 3 of the year, for sure. (List to come.)

[ledfloyd]

(yes, I even think the Chris Rock part works and is actually important to have there)
care to explain why?

[ContinentalOp]

Great so far:
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Deerhunter- Halcyon Digest
Clinic- Bubblegum
Best Coast- Crazy for You
Magnetic Fields- Realism

Good so far:
LCD Soundsystem- This is Happening
Belle and Sebastian- Write About Love
Massive Attack- Heligoland
Tame Impala- Innerspeaker

So-so so far:
Wavves- King of the Beach
Beach House- Teen Dream
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club- Beat the Devil's Tattoo


Deerhunter are playing it a little safe on their latest but four or five or their new songs are among their best, including Coronado, Desire Lines and He Would've Laughed. I'd say HD's about as good as Cryptograms, but a beat below the fantastic Microcastle.

[Henry Gale]

care to explain why?

The whole song goes from Kanye (or at least the character that the song's point of view is from) starting off at a point of anger and wanting complete control of the collapse of their relationship, accusing his girlfriend of cheating, then doing it himself. He starts making up a story of what may be going on behind his back in his head when he can't talk to her (in the part where his words start to become distorted, shifted around back and forth in each speaker and seemingly from different voices), seemingly going crazy over it, and eventually having no choice but to try and give up on them as a couple because he feels he's given her so much and she's not grateful for that, and even more selfishly, he gets nothing from out of that. Then one time when she pocket-dials him back, he hears a conversation between her and her new man (Chris Rock), and Kanye realizes how much she did love him, especially for the things she taught him, how they made each other better for a time, but that it's simply time to let her go.

Plus, I just think it's funny, and without it, it would probably stand out as the most deadly serious and depressing thing on the album. But as it is, the Rock ending delivers by elevating it from that sort of hopeless mood, and in a very unique way, giving another side to the story, which very few relationship songs bother to do.

[ledfloyd]

maybe my problem is i don't find it funny at all. and if the best thing a girl can remember from a relationship is the things you taught her in the bedroom i don't think it's fair to say she really loved him.

[dreamdead]

1. The National - High Violet
2. Sleigh Bells - Treats
3. Les Discrets - Septembre et ses dernières Pensées
4. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

Likely will get the LCD Soundsystem before the year's done.

[SirNewt]

1. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
2. Black Noise - Pantha du Prince
3. Marea - Gaston Arevalo
4. High Violet - The National
5. Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
6. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds
7. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
8. Gorilla Manor - The Local Natives
9. Crazy for You - Best Coast
10. Broken Bells - Broken Bells

HMs

Fang Island - Fang Island
Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

adjusted

[Idioteque Stalker]

The whole song goes from Kanye (or at least the character that the song's point of view is from) starting off at a point of anger and wanting complete control of the collapse of their relationship, accusing his girlfriend of cheating, then doing it himself. He starts making up a story of what may be going on behind his back in his head when he can't talk to her (in the part where his words start to become distorted, shifted around back and forth in each speaker and seemingly from different voices), seemingly going crazy over it, and eventually having no choice but to try and give up on them as a couple because he feels he's given her so much and she's not grateful for that, and even more selfishly, he gets nothing from out of that. Then one time when she pocket-dials him back, he hears a conversation between her and her new man (Chris Rock), and Kanye realizes how much she did love him, especially for the things she taught him, how they made each other better for a time, but that it's simply time to let her go.

Plus, I just think it's funny, and without it, it would probably stand out as the most deadly serious and depressing thing on the album. But as it is, the Rock ending delivers by elevating it from that sort of hopeless mood, and in a very unique way, giving another side to the story, which very few relationship songs bother to do.

I'm glad somebody's talking about this. It works for me because (and here's where I disagree with you) there isn't a trace of redemption, implied or otherwise. It's one of the most interesting bits of the album because of the disparity between how totally harrowing it is to Kanye's character and how funny it is to us. Agree with your last paragraph, though.

[Ivan Drago]

1. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
2. Tron Legacy OST - Daft Punk
3. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
4. The Social Network OST - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
5. Contra - Vampire Weekend
6. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Various Artists
7. Crystal Castles II - Crystal Castles
8. Interpol - Interpol
9. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (sorry guys)
10. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Would soundtracks apply to this too?

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
2. Julian Lynch - Mare
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
Drake - Thank Me Later
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Vampire Weekend - Contra

[SirNewt]

1. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
2. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3. Contra - Vampire Weekend
4. Crystal Castles II - Crystal Castles
5. Interpol - Interpol
6. Teenage Dream - Katy Perry (sorry guys)
7. Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Would soundtracks apply to this too?

certainly

[endingcredits]

I had some quality time with my headphones over the weekend. Here's my updated and re-worked list

1. High Violet (The National)
2. Le Noise (Neil Young)
3. The Monitor (Titus Andronicus)
4. Status Quo Vadis (TV Torso)
5. Mines (Menomena)
6. Causers of This (Toro Y Moi)
7. Entropy (Shugo Tokumaru)
8. Libson (The Walkmen)
9. Gorilla Manor (Local Natives)
10. Broken Bells (Broken Bells)

11. Rare Forms (Woodsman)
12 The Wonders of the World (Bonnie Prince Billy and the Cairo Band)
13. Fang Island (Fang Island)
14. Transference (Spoon)
15. Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
16. Band Of Joy (Band Of Joy)

[trotchky]

1. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
2. LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions
3. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
4. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
7. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
8. Wavves - King of the Beach
9. Best Coast - Crazy For You
10. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest

Maybe something will come along in the next month and shake this up but probably not. I've already listened to over 100 albums from this year, most of them I'll never listen to again, and I'm just really tired of listening to 2010 records at this point.

[Benny Profane]

Just based on the two or three songs I've heard on the radio the love for The National really confuses me. Most of the stuff on you guys' lists I've never heard of before.

My meager list:

Black Keys - Brothers
JJ Grey and Mofro - Georgia Warhorse
Ray LaMontagne - God Willing and the Creek don't Rise

Only three albums I've really liked this year.

[endingcredits]

JJ Grey and Mofro - Georgia Warhorse


I saw Mofro on a friend's rec following the release of Blackwater (2001?) and listened to that album like a fiend for months. It's been years; I need to catch up.

[Benny Profane]

I saw Mofro on a friend's rec following the release of Blackwater (2001?) and listened to that album like a fiend for months. It's been years; I need to catch up.

Blackwater is awesome. I recommend Slow Hot and Sweaty off the new album. You can do some serious fucking to that song.

[SirNewt]

1. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
2. RxRy - Omega
3. Black Noise - Pantha du Prince
4. High Violet - The National
5. Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
6. Marea - Gaston Arevalo
7. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
8. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
9. Crazy for You - Best Coast
10. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds

HMs

Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Gorilla Manor - The Local Natives
Fang Island - Fang Island
Forgiveness Rock Record - Broken Social Scene

alright I'm making a list of all the stuff I need to hear/re-hear before I update again.

[endingcredits]

2. RxRy - Omega


Nice. I have the s/t and love it.

[SirNewt]

1. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
2. Sir Lucious Left Foot The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
3. Crazy for You - Best Coast
4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5. Black Noise - Pantha du Prince
6. RxRy - Omega
7. This is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
8. Marea - Gaston Arevalo
9. High Violet - The National
10. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds

HMs

Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Gorilla Manor - The Local Natives
Subiza - Delorean
Disconnect From Desire - School of Seven Bells
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae

[Dead & Messed Up]

I don't really devour music the same way I devour film and TV.

1. Contra (Vampire Weekend)
2. The Suburbs (Arcade Fire)
3. The Social Network (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
4. Danger Days (My Chemical Romance)
5. This Is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)
6. Tron: Legacy (Daft Punk)
7. Colonial Spa (Carl Sagan's Ghost)
8. A Thousand Suns (Linkin Park)
9. Love (Angels & Airwaves) (free download off their site)

[endingcredits]

Final List

1. High Violet - The National
2. Sisterworld - Liars
3. Status Quo Vadis - TV Torso
4. Real Life Color - Magic Man
5. Teen Dream - Beach House
6. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
7. Le Noise - Neil Young
8. In Evening Air - Future Islands
9. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds
10. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem

[D_Davis]

I don't really devour music the same way I devour film and TV.

7. Colonial Spa (Carl Sagan's Ghost)


:pritch:


Final List
4. Real Life Color - Magic Man
7. Le Noise - Neil Young


I'm stoked that you like the Magic Man so much. Great album. And Le Noise is also super good.

[Henry Gale]

Something like...

1. Beach House - Teen Dream
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. MGMT - Congratulations
4. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
5. The Roots - How I Got Over
6. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
7. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
10. The National - High Violet

11. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
12. Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III of IV)
13. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
14. Vampire Weekend - Contra
15. Daft Punk - Tron: Legacy OST
16. Spoon - Transference
17. The-Dream - Love King
18. The Black Keys - Brothers
19. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network OST
20. The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards

21. Weezer - Hurley
22. Girl Talk - All Day
23. The Morning Benders - Big Echo
24. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo
25. Wild Nothing - Gemini
26. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
27. Best Coast - Crazy For You
28. Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
29. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
30. Rihanna - Loud

But still feel like I have a ton to catch up on, despite it being almost February of the new year.

[Derek]

2. Sisterworld - Liars

Woah, nice to see this land so high.


6. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
8. In Evening Air - Future Islands
9. Does it Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds
10. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Love it. Glad to see the LCD grew on you!

[endingcredits]

Woah, nice to see this land so high.
The sounds coming out of sisterworld are the perfect mix of rhythmic grit and lyrical laceration.


Glad to see the LCD grew on you!
Me too :). Pow Pow and Drunk Girls still irritate me but the rest of it is a blast.

[Megiddo]

1. Ratatat - LP4
2. Origin of Darkness - The Living Darkness
3. Noisia - Split the Atom
4. Danger - 9-17 2007
5. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here
6. Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell
7. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
8. Manilla Road - The Deluge
9. Sacred Blade - Of the Sun + Moon
10. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

I ran out of albums from 2010 about half way through, so I decided to fill the rest with stuff from 1986 thus invalidating the order of my list and making it objectively better than every other in this thread.

[D_Davis]

So you must be a Thomas Ligotti fan.

[Megiddo]

Nah, I just like to stand outside the small presses and look cool.

[D_Davis]

Ah bummer. There are so very few of us.

[endingcredits]

1. Ratatat - LP4
2. Origin of Darkness - The Living Darkness
3. Noisia - Split the Atom
4. Danger - 9-17 2007
5. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here
6. Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell
7. Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
8. Manilla Road - The Deluge
9. Sacred Blade - Of the Sun + Moon
10. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

I ran out of albums from 2010 about half way through, so I decided to fill the rest with stuff from 1986 thus invalidating the order of my list and making it objectively better than every other in this thread.

Didn't like the new Swans?

[Megiddo]

Not enough to put it on any kind of top list. It my also have something to do with the vague feeling of spite I have for everything after Young God.

[Acapelli]

in no particular order:

The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme
Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday
The-Dream - Love King
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Thermals - Personal Life
Restless People - Restless People
Eternal Summers - Silver
Robyn - Body Talk
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement
Tyler, The Creator - Bastard
updated my albums list

POW POW POW POW (bitch i'm bussin at em)

[Pip]

Sleigh Bells' Treats is pretty easily my favorite from last year. Great noise. Dunno how to rank after that without sitting down and squinting at a blank text document for a few hours. Plastic Beach and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy would be up there though. I'll go ponder and come back one day with a list.

[Ivan Drago]

POW POW POW POW

With you on the keystroke, and me on the gangplank, there's advantages to both.

[MadMan]

1. Brothers, The Black Keys
2. Broken Bells, Broken Bells
3. Plastic Beach, Gorilliaz
4. How I Got Over, The Roots
5. The Social Network OST, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
6. The Suburbs, Arcade Fire
7. Contra, Vampire Weekend
8. Them Crooked Vultures, Them Crooked Vultures
9. The Big To-Do, Drive By Truckers
10. Omni, Minus the Bear

Hm: Teen Dream, Beach House, Transference, Spoon, Congratulations, MGMT, My Dinosaur Life, Motion City Soundtrack

I think I've heard at least 16-17 albums from 2010, which isn't bad all things considered. I have a long way to go before getting a really awesome list, but I like this for starters. Also 1-5 get ****/****, while the bottom 5 plus all HMs save for MCS's get *** 1/2. MCS gets ***.

PS: Throw Sleigh Bells in there as well. I just heard that album this year, and it gets *** 1/2.