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We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
They were number 3 on my list above. I love them so, and they have home field advantage with me. And the hypercolor CD reminds me of my youth! Way cool how it does that!
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Here's my rough list, at this point, after a massive cramming of music these past three weeks.
Top Albums of 2010:
1. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi 2. The Social Network OST - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 3. Swim - Carribou 4. Your Future Our Clutter - The Fall (very little talk of this one, but it's yet another great record from these legends) 5. Seconds Late For The Brighton Line - The Legendary Pink Dots 6. Small Craft On Milk Sea - Brian Eno 7. Grinderman 2 - Grinderman 8. Archandroid - Janelle Monae 9. Cizana De lOS Amores - Omar Rodriguez Lopez 10. Skit I Alt - Dungen 11. Soldier Of Love - Sade 12. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus 13. Go - Jonsi 14. Constance - The Restoration 15. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem 16. New AmErykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh - Erykah Badu 17. Sepulcros de Miel - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet 18. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives 19. How To Destroy Angels - How To Destroy Angels 20. Heligoland - Massive Attack 21. Age Of Adz - Sufjan Stevens (only listened a few times, but I felt it needed to be mentioned)
Edit: ah, damn it. I forgot to mention the new Lost In The Trees...
Newly revised:
1. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty - Big Boi 2. Age Of Adz - Sufjan Stevens 3. The Social Network OST - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross 4. Swim - Carribou 5. Our Future Your Clutter - The Fall 6. Small Craft On Milk Sea - Brian Eno 7. Seconds Late For The Brighton Line - The Legendary Pink Dots 8. Archandroid - Janelle Monae 9. Grinderman 2 - Grinderman 10. Ski I Allt - Dungen 11. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus 12. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter 13. All Alone In An Empty House - Lost In The Trees 14. My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky - Swans 15. Cizana De Los Amores - Omar Rodriguez Lopez 16. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem 17. Absolute Dissent - Killing Joke 18. How To Destroy Angels - How To Destroy Angels 19. Go - Jonsi 20. Constance - The Restoration 21. Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator - Squarepusher (reviews weren't great for this one, but I'm a sucker for everything he does) 22. Soldier Of Love - Sade 23. Brothers - The Black Keys 24. Heligoland - Massive Attack 25. Sepulcros de Miel - Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quartet 26. Gorilla Manor - Local Natives 27. Suburbs - Arcade Fire 28. Metallic Spheres - The Orb w/ David Gilmour 29. Industrial Complex - Nitzer Ebb 30. Mantra Hiroshima - Omar Rodriguez Lopez
As far as my rating scale goes, it's like this; at this very moment, I have numbers 1 - 4 at ****1/2 out of a possible 5. 5 - 14 at ****, 15 - 20 at ***1/2, and 21 - 30 at ***. No five star albums this year, at least at this point, but a bunch of notable records that were very good.
Yeah, man, it clicked with me for sure... I was really taken aback at how great it was, but I didn't want to overrate it without more listens. Nope, I don't think I'm overrating it.
I agree, that list is really awful. Completely myopic. The hipsters love the Beach House album. I don't get that. It's good, but nothing special. Faaaaaar from the best record of the year. Some of the stuff they just left off is laughable.
Definitely a lot of stuff on that list I've never heard of. I'll have to bookmark it and dig through.
Some of the more obscure albums on that list are actually pretty good. It's just that that list, as a whole, is just way too irreverent and hipsterish.
Agreed, Garage. And I was pretty into that Harlem record when I first heard it.
Same could be said for Shabazz Places, Lower Dens, Games, White Denim, Earl, Dum Dum Girls, etc. Decent albums, but they don't belong anywhere near a year-end best list. They're the kind of albums you listen to once or twice, enjoy them, and move on.
Post by awolfatthedoor on Dec 3, 2010 11:26:45 GMT -5
There are like three or four albums on that list that I think people should get. All the rest of the ones I've heard or heard other albums by the band make me think gvb is garbage, but I think we all already knew that.
I got the Girls EP before I read that, and haven't listened to it yet. Other than that, it was stuff I'd either not heard of, a few I have listened to, and a handful I care not to hear.
1-The Tallest Man on Earth, The Wild Hunt 2-Black Keys, Brothers 3-LCD Soundsystem, This is Happening 4-Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest 5-The National, High Violet 6-Sufjan Stevens, Age Of Adz 7-Dax Riggs, Say Goodnight to theWorld 8-Dr. Dog, Shame Shame 9-Local Natives, Gorilla Manor 10-Paul Cary, Ghost of a Man 11-The Whigs, In the Dark 12-The Morning Benders, Big Echo 13-Grinderman, Grinderman II 14-Jonsi, Go 15-Brian Wilson, Reimagines Gershwin 16-Caribou, Swim 17-Janelle Monaé, The ArchAndroid 18-Big Boi, Sir Luscious Left Foot 19-Mumford and Sons, Sigh No More 20-The Melvins, The Bride Screamed Murder 21-Punch Brothers, Antifogmatic 22-Everest, On Approach 23-Street Sweeper Social Club, The Ghetto Blaster EP 24-Carolina Chocolate Drops, Genuine Negro Jig 25-Bobby McFerrin, Vocabularie 26-Broken Social Scene, Forgiveness Rock Record 27-Future Islands - In Evening Air 28-Delta Spirit, History From Below 29-Four Tet, There is Love in You 30-No Age, Everything In Between 31-The Radio Dept, Clinging to a Scheme 32-Neil Young, Le Noise 33-Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me 34-Gorillaz, Plastic Beach 35-Beach House, Teen Dream 36-Robert Plant, Band of Joy 37-The Roots, How I Got Over 38-Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network OST 39-Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, True Love Cast Out All Evil 40-Galactic, Ya Ka May 41-Baths, Cerulean 42-Bonobo, Black Sands 43-Avi Buffalo, Avi Buffalo 44-High on Fire, Snakes for the Divine 45-Phosphorescent, Here's To Taking It Easy 46-Arcade Fire, The Suburbs 47-Merle Haggard, I Am What I Am 48-David Byre and Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love 49-Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Dark Night of the Soul 50-Titus Andronicus, The Monitor 51-Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 52-Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh 53-Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here 54-Boombox, Downriverelectric 55-Wavves, King of the Beach 56-Mavis Staples, You Are Not Alone 57-Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs 58-Jaga Jazzist, One-Armed Bandit 59-Harlem, Hippies 60-Sade, Soldier of Love 61-Sleigh Bells, Treats 62-MGMT, Congratulations 63-Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM 64-Trombone Shorty, Backatown 65-Surfer Blood, Astro Coast 66-Holy Fuck, Latin 67-Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Before Today 68-Broken Bells, Broken Bells 69-Tame Impala, Innerspeaker 70-Freelance Whales, Weathervanes 71-Yeasayer, Odd Blood 72-Flying Lotus, Cosmogramma 73-The Books, Way Out 74-Portugal the Man, American Ghetto 75-Zola Jesus, Stridulum II 76-Best Coast, Crazy for You