Best Albums of 2010

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It's that time again.

Thought I would start a thread consisting of best of lists from various sites.
Interesting to see who shows up on these for me.
I will post different ones throughout the next month or so and will try to keep it to each sites top 20, as some go quite deep.

I may post mine after the year is actually over, although it is available now by looking at my New Album Listenings 2010 thread. That thread consists of all I have listened to, which are the only ones I can properly grade. It will take some time to resequence those month by month threads into one list, and I will have to get rather bored to do it.

Feel free to comment on any of these lists or post your own here if you wish.

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from besteveralbums

1) Arcade Fire - Suburbs
2) National - High Violet
3) Beach House - Teen Dream
4) Vampire Weekend - Contra
5) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
6) MGMT - Congratulations
7) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
8) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
9) Black Keys - Brothers
10) Janelle Monae - Archandroid
11) Spoon - Transference
12) Broken Bells - Broken Bells
13) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
14) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
15) Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
16) Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
17) Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
18) Foals - Total Life Forever
19)Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
20) Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms

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from rateyourmusic

1) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2) Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
3) National - High Violet
4) Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
5) Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
6) Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
7) Arcade Fire - Suburbs
8) Janelle Monae - Archandroid
9) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
10) Beach House - Teen Dream
11) Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
12) Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
13) Various Artists - Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings
14) Robyn - Body Talk
15) Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
16) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
17) Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
18) David Bowie - A Reality Tour
19) Mogwai - Special Moves
20) Various Artists - A Single Man

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from paste

1) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
2) Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
3) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
4) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
5) Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
6) Sleigh Bells - Treats
7) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
8) Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
9) Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
10) Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
11) National - High Violet
12) Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
13) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Learned The Hard Way
14) Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
15) Justin Townes Earle - River Blues
16) Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
17) Jonsi - Go
18) Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
19) Elizabeth Cook - Welder
20) Suckers - Wild Smile

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from spin

1) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
3) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
4) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
5) Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
6) Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
7) Grinderman - Grinderman 2
8) M.I.A. - Maya
9) Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager
10) Robyn - Body Talk
11) Vampire Weekend - Contra
12) Yeasayer - Odd Blood
13) Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
14) Best Coast - Crazy For You
15) Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
16) Drake - Thank Me Later
17) Beach House - Teen Dream
18) Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
19) No Age - Everything In Between
20) MGMT - Congratulations

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from rolling stone

1) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2) Black Keys - Brothers
3) Elton John and Leon Russell - The Union
4) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5) Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
6) Vampire Weekend - Contra
7) Drake - Thank Me Later
8) Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
9) Eminem - Recovery
10) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
11) Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
12) John Mellancamp - No Better Than This
13) Taylor Swift - Speak Now
14) Robyn - Body Talk
15) National - High Violet
16) Kid Rock - Born Free
17) Beach House - Teen Dream
18) Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
19) M.I.A. - Maya
20) Neil Young - Le Noise

[Tiggi]

The only 2010 releases I've bought are:

Wintersleep - New Inheritors
The Orb - Metallic Spheres
Robert Plant - Band of Joy
Unite - A Gathering of Strangers
Flaming Lips - Doing Dark Side of The Moon (2010 for the physical release, download was available in 2009)
Midlake - The Courage of Others

Percy Plant gets the honours in my view :first: with Midlake a very close runner-up.

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from billboard

1) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
2) Eminem - Recovery
3) Lady Antebelum - Need You Now
4) Lady Gaga - The Fame
5) Justin Bieber - My World 2.0
6) Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas
7) Taylor Swift - Fearless
8) Justin Bieber - My World (EP)
9) Taylor Swift - Speak Now
10) Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
11) Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom
12) Carrie Underwood - Play On
13) Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (EP)
14) Sade - Soldier Of Love
15) Michael Buble - Crazy Love
16) Drake - Thank Me Later
17) Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
18) Usher - Raymond v Raymond
19) John Mayer - Battle Studies
20) Kesha - Animal

[CRAZY-HORSE]

the 10 best new albums i bought this year are...in no particular order:

1.Paul Weller "wake up the nation"
2.Rumer "seasons of my soul"
3.Lauren Pritchard "wasted in Jackson"
4.Mark Sholtez "the distance between two truths"
5.Eminem "recovery"
6.Kanye West "my beautiful dark twisted fantasy"
7.Taylor Swift "speak now"
8.Angus & Julia Stone "down the way"
9.Elvis Costello "national ransom"
10.Gaslight Anthem "american slang"
10.Florence & The Machine "lungs"

[fresk]

i think the best album of the year must be Solo by Jason