After watching last month's painfully long Grammy telecast (research for my trivia league), I was reminded that I never compiled a list of my favorite albums of last year. I was happy to see that my favorite album of the year, Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, took home the top prize (although I still don't understand the difference between "Record of the Year" and "Album of the Year"). I decided to whip up a quick list of some of my favorite albums from 2010.
On many fronts, last year was pretty lame for me and Mames. The year was filled with curve balls and speed bumps. However, in terms of music, 2010 was very strong. Good tunes helped the year go by quickly. It was pretty hard to narrow down a list of my 25 favorite albums because there was so much I liked. Old standbys like Neil Young, Tom Petty and Johnny Cash were put aside for albums by newcomers like Local Natives and Sleigh Bells. There are a handful of records I never had the chance to hear (The Roots, Belle and Sebastian, Deerhunter, Jamey Johnson etc.) and tons of albums I liked but didn't make the cut. Narrowing a list down to 25 wasn't easy but I think I'm happy with my picks.
[Note:] Mandy has been asking me to do this post for sometime now and for whatever reason (laziness) it took me forever to get around to it. I feel badly that I have been putting it off so I decided to write the post today. I spent a good chunk of my day coming up with witty and insightful remarks (and a little trivia) about each album as well as songs to recommend. When I hit post a message popped up that said "An error has occurred blah blah blah unable to process your request." I somehow managed to delete four hours worth of work with the push of a button. I thought this program automatically saves but nothing but the first two paragraphs of the post and the pictures of the album covers saved. I then spent more time Googling how to recover lost blog posts but no dice. So because I don't have much time left, I will spare you my commentary and just leave you with a list of my favorite tunes of 2010. Better luck next year I hope.
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Check out: "Sprawl II" and "We Used to Wait"
Check out: "Sprawl II" and "We Used to Wait"
Check out: "The Spirit of Jazz" and "Bring it On"
Check out: "Giving Up the Gun" and "Cousins"
Check out: "Tighten Up" and "Never Gonna Give You Up"
Check out: "Silver Soul" and "Walk in the Park"
Check out: "Texico" and "Sweetest Kill"
Check out "Dance Yrself Clean" and "I Can Change"
Check out: "Sorrow" and "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
Check out: "All of the Lights" and "Runaway"
Check out: "Daddy Learned to Fly" and "Birthday Boy"
Check out: "Dancing On My Own" and "Time Machine"
Check out: "Don't Look Back" and Ridin' In My Car"
Check out: "Out Go The Lights" and "Nobody Gets Me But You"
Check out: "Change of Time" and "Lantern"
Check out: "Stay Close" and "Simple Graces"
Check out: "Let It Out" and "Down For the Count"
Check out: "Some Kind of Nature" and "On Melancholy Hill
Check out: "Tell 'Em" and "Rill Rill"
Check out: "No Future Part Three: Escape from No Future" and "Theme from 'Cheers'"
Check out: "Wide Eyes" and "Who Knows Who Cares"
Check out: "Cold War" and "Tightrope"
Check out: "Linus Spacehead" and "Baby Say Goodbye"
Check out: "Cry" and "Faded High"
Check out: "One Life Stand" and "Alley Cats"
Infinite Arms - Band of Horses
Check out: "Laredo" and "NW Apt."
3 comments:
I have such a love-hate relationship with your "best of" list each year. I love it because you always introduce me to new music that I knew nothing about and thoroughly enjoy. I hate it because I don't know how to pace my music consumption and I inevitably end up spending WAY too much time and money on i-tunes for several days immediately after reading your post.
That being said, keep em' coming.
I'm mad you don't have a Justin Bieber album on this list!
fantastic list!!
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