Best Albums of 2010

[Music Head]

from mtv

1) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2) Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
3) Robyn - Body Talk
4) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
5) Vampire Weekend - Contra
6) National - High Violet
7) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
8) Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
9) Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
10) Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
11) Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
12) Sleigh Bells - Treats
13) Rick Ross - Teflon Don
14) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
15) Eminem - Recovery
16) Beach House - Teen Dream
17) My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
18) Black Keys - Brothers
19) Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
20) Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

[CRAZY-HORSE]

from Triple-J

1) Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2) Tame Impala - Innerspeaker
3) Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way
4) Vampire Weekend - Contra
5) Cloud Control - Bliss Release
6) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
7) Washington - I Believe You Liar
8) The National - High Violet
9) Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
10) Yeasayer - Old Blood

[Music Head]

Guess I am done with the best of's, other than my own, which I am working on.
You gotta stop sometime.
To top those off that I have got from various sites, I have put together a consensus.
This was done by assigning points based on the ranking that was assigned from each site.
A #1 ranking was given 20 points down to a #20 ranking getting 1 point.
Then those were added up to get total points.
This is how that came out.
First line is ranking, artist and album title.
Second line is points earned for each ranking followed by the total.

1) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
...14-20-17-20-20-11-20-19-18-20-20-19-20 = 238
2) Arcade Fire - Suburbs
...20-14-14-18-17-20-10-18-19-16-13-13-17-17 = 226
3) LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
...13-20-17-11-15-194-17-14-14-14 = 158
4) Beach House - Teen Dream
...18-11-4-4-12-16-14-18-20-16-6-10-5 = 154
5) National - High Violet
...19-18-10-6-18-15-10-19-18-1-15 = 149
6) Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
...11-13-19-15-2-9-2-18-20-13 = 122
7) Vampire Weekend - Contra
...17-10-15-14-15-20-16 = 107
8) Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
...8-12-19-4-18-1-17-15-4-7 = 105
9) Robyn - Body Talk
...7-11-7-6-2-8-19-14-18 = 92
10) Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
....2-16-6-11-16-9-12-19 = 91
10) Sleigh Bells - Treats
....15-9-5-10-17-17-9-9 = 91
12) Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
....10-8-17-3-19-14-12 = 83
13) Black Keys - Brothers
....12-19-19-10-16-3 = 79
14) Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
....16-10-17-11-11 = 65
15) Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
....9-12-13-5-10-11 = 60
16) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
....18-17-12 = 47
17) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
....7-5-7-13-11-3 = 46
18) Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
....5-15-14-8 = 42
18) Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
....16-16-10 = 42
20) Caribou - Swim
....4-9-4-7-15 = 39
21) Eminem - Recovery
....12-19-6 = 37
22) These New Puritans - Hidden
....20-16 = 36
23) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
....12-9-12 - 33
24) Best Coast - Crazy For You
....7-15-7 = 29
24) Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
....16-13 = 29
26) Yeasayer - Odd Blood
....9-1-5-6-7 = 28
27) Drake - Thank Me Later
....5-14-5-3 = 27
28) MGMT - Congratulations
....15-1-2-7 = 25
28) Broken Bells - Broken Bells
....9-16 = 25
30) Jonsi - Go
....4-8-12 = 24
31) Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt
....6-4-5-7 = 22
31) Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
....9-13 = 22
33) Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards
....4-10-6 = 20
33) Taylor Swift - Speak Now
....8-12 = 20
33) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
....20 = 20
36) Hot Chip - One Life Stand
....1-18 = 19
36) Grinderman - 2
....14-5 = 19
36) Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit
....19 = 19
39) Foals - Total Life Forever
....18 = 18
39) Elton John and Leon Russell - The Union
....18 = 18
39) Lady Antebelum - Need You Now
....18 = 18
42) Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
....17 = 17
42) Lady Gaga - The Fame
....17 = 17
44) Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
....16 = 16
44) Justin Bieber - My World 2.0
....16 = 16
46) M.I.A. - Maya
....13-2 = 15
46) Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas
....15 = 15
46) Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
....15 = 15
49) Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms
....1-7-6 = 14
49) Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
....6-8 = 14
49) Taylor Swift - Fearless
....14 = 14
49) Zola Jesus - Stridulum
....14 = 14
53) Spoon - Transference
....10-3 = 13
53) Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
....13 = 13
53) Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
....13 = 13
53) Justin Bieber - My World (EP)
....13 = 13
53) James Blake - The Bells Sketch (EP)
....13 = 13
53) Salem - King Night
....13 = 13
59) Roots - How I Got Over
....11-1 = 12
59) Surfer Blood - Astro Coast
....8-4 = 12
59) Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager
....12 = 12
59) Liars - Sisterworld
....12 = 12
59) Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
....12 = 12
64) Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
....11 = 11
64) Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
....11 = 11
64) Drums - Drums
....11 = 11
64) John Grant - Queen of Denmark
....11 = 11
68) No Age - Everything In Between
....2-8 = 10
68) Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom
....10 = 10
68) Twin Shadow - Forget
....10 = 10
71) Warpaint - The Fool
....3-6 = 9
71) John Mellancamp - No Better Than This
....9 = 9
71) Carrie Underwood - Play On
....9 = 9
71) Devo - Something For Everybody
....9 = 9
71) Owen Pallett - Heartland
....9 = 9
76) Various Artists - Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings
....8 = 8
76) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Learned The Hard Way
....8 = 8
76) Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster (EP)
....8 = 8
76) Gayngs - Relayted
....8 = 8
76) Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
....8 = 8
76) Rick Ross - Teflon Don
....8 = 8
82) Sade - Soldier Of Love
....7 = 7
82) Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
....7 = 7
82) Fall - Your Future, Our Clutter
....7 = 7
85) Celph Titled & Buckwild - Nineteen Ninety Now
....6 = 6
85) Justin Townes Earle - River Blues
....6 = 6
85) Michael Buble - Crazy Love
....6 = 6
85) Tracey Thorn - Love And It's Opposite
....6 = 6
89) Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
....5 = 5
89) Kid Rock - Born Free
....5 = 5
89) Broken Social scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
....5 = 5
89) Lizz Wright - Fellowship
....5 = 5
89) The-Dream - Love King
....5 = 5
94) Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
....4 = 4
94) Factory Floor - Untitled
....4 = 4
94) Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown
....4 = 4
94) My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys
....4 = 4
98) How To Dress Well - Love Remains
....2-1 = 3
98) David Bowie - A Reality Tour
....3 = 3
98) Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
....3 = 3
98) Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
....3 = 3
98) Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown
....3 = 3
98) Usher - Raymond v Raymond
....3 = 3
98) Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
....3 = 3
98) Four Tet - There Is Love In You
....3 = 3
98) Walkmen - Lisbon
....3 = 3
107) Mogwai - Special Moves
.....2 = 2
107) Elizabeth Cook - Welder
.....2 = 2
107) John Mayer - Battle Studies
.....2 = 2
107) B.o.B. - The Adventures Of Bobby Ray
.....2 = 2
107) Jenny Wilson - Hardships
.....2 = 2
107) Kelis - Fleshtone
.....2 = 2
107) Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
.....2 = 2
114) Various Artists - A Single Man
.....1 = 1
114) Suckers - Wild Smile
.....1 = 1
114) Neil Young - Le Noise
.....1 = 1
114) Kesha - Animal
.....1 = 1
114) Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
.....1 = 1
114) Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
.....1 = 1
114) Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
.....1 = 1

[Music Head]

I guess I'm done for the year.
The following is a list of all the new albums I have listened to online this year, along with the grades after 1 listen.
I have only included those that I would consider buying.
The list of those that fell below that mark is longer than this one.
Of those on this list, I have a purchased a grand total of 4. lol
Those are numbers 1,2, the first 3, and the first 5.
Of those 4, only #2 has stood up to repeated listenings.
That is an excellent soul/jazz/blues album.
Here is my list.

1) Eels - End Times - 2.7
2) Sade - Soldier Of Love - 2.4
3) Tim Barry - 28th & Stonewall - 2.3
3) Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Age Of Miracles - 2.3
5) Vampire Weekend - Contra - 2.2
5) Patty Griffin - Downtown Church - 2.2
5) Reckless Kelly - Somewhere In Time - 2.2
8) Joe Firstman - El Porto - 2.1
8) Midlake - The Courage Of Others - 2.1
8) Citizen Cope - The Rainwatewr LP - 2.1
8) Kasey Anderson - Nowhere Nights - 2.1
8) Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More - 2.1
8) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devils Tattoo - 2.1
8) Jakob Dylan - Women + Country - 2.1
8) The National - High Violet - 2.1
8) Wintersleep - New Inheritors - 2.1
8) Villagers - Becoming A Jackal - 2.1
8) Elsinore - Yes Yes Yes - 2.1
8) Joey & Rory - Album #2 - 2.1
20) Ok Go - Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky - 2.0
20) Surfer Blood - Astrocoast - 2.0
20) Basia Bulat - Heart Of My Own - 2.0
20) Beach House - Teen Dream - 2.0
20) Adam Green - Minor Love - 2.0
20) Electric President - The Violent Blue 2.0
20) Butch Walker - I Like It Better When You Had No Heart - 2.0
20) Sambassadeur - European - 2.0
20) Zeus - Say Us - 2.0
20) Shout Out Louds - 2.0
20) Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat - 2.0
20) Alberta Cross - Broken Side Of Time - 2.0
20) Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame - 2.0
20) Jesse Malin & The St. Marks Social - Love It To Life - 2.0
20) Patrick Park - Come What Will - 2.0
20) Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing - 2.0
20) Fyfe Dangerfield - Fly Yellow Moon - 2.0
20) Peggy Sue - Fossils And Other Phantoms - 2.0
20) Hank Williams III - Rebel Within - 2.0
20) Blitzen Trapper - Destroyer Of The Vois - 2.0
20) Shoulders Of Giants - Shoulders Of Giants - 2.0
20) Great Big Sea - Safe Upon The Shore - 2.0
20) Ryan Star - 11:59 - 2.0
20) Toadies - Feeler - 2.0
20) Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise - 2.0
20) Moondoggies - Tidelands - 2.0
20) Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown - 2.0
47) Katherine McPhee - Unbroken - 1.9
47) Freedy Johnston - Rain On The City - 1.9
47) Lady Antebelum - Need You Now - 1.9
47) Soft Pack - Soft Pack - 1.9
47) Fair - Disappearing World - 1.9
47) Angels & Airwaves - Love - 1.9
47) Sarah Buxton - Sarah Buxton - 1.9
47) Alkaline Trio - This Addiction - 1.9
47) Quasi - American Gong - 1.9
47) Angus & Julia Stone - Down The Way - 1.9
47) Wakey! Wakey! - Almost Everything I Wished I'd Said - 1.9
47) Scorpions - Sting In The Tail - 1.9
47) Secret History - The World That Never Was - 1.9
47) Barenaked Ladies - All In Good Time - 1.9
47) Mishka - Talk About - 1.9
47) Greg Laswell - Take A Bow - 1.9
47) New Pornographers - Together - 1.9
47) Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms - 1.9
47) Tift Merritt - See You On The Moon - 1.9
47) Cat Empire - Cinema - 1.9
47) Halsted - Life Underwater - 1.9
47) Stornoway - Beachcomber's Windowsill - 1.9
47) John Mellencamp - No Better Than This - 1.9
47) Dead Confederate - Sugar - 1.9
47) Goo Goo Dolls - Something For The Rest Of Us - 1.9
47) Jarrod Gorbel - Devil's Made A New Friend - 1.9
47) Buddy Guy - Living Proof - 1.9
47) Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? - 1.9
47) Johnny Flynn - Been Listening - 1.9
76) Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life - 1.8
76) Soundtrack - When In Rome - 1.8
76) Day Of Fire - Losing All - 1.8
76) ALO Man Of The World - 1.8
76) Watson Twins - Talkin To You, Talking To Me - 1.8
76) Scanners - Submarine - 1.8
76) One For The Team - Ghosts - 1.8
76) Look Mexico - To Bed To Battle - 1.8
76) Yukon Blonde - Yukon Blonde - 1.8
76) Melissa Auf Der Maur - Out Of Our Minds - 1.8
76) Freelance Whales - Weathervanes - 1.8
76) Court Yard Hounds - Court Yard Hounds - 1.8
76) New Young Pony Club - The Optimist - 1.8
76) Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear - 1.8
76) Everest - On Approach - 1.8
76) Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy - 1.8
76) Tracey Thorn - Love And Its opposite - 1.8
76) Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels - 1.8
76) Jack Johnson - To The Sea - 1.8
76) Travie McCoy - Lazarus - 1.8
76) Tokyo Police Club - Champ - 1.8
76) Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - 1.8
76) Constellations - Southern Gothic - 1.8
76) Alex Band - We've All Been There - 1.8
76) Jackie Greene - Till The Light Comes On - 1.8
76) Silver Seas - Chateau Revenge - 1.8
76) New Politics - New Politics - 1.8
76) Crowded House - Intriguer - 1.8
76) Miniature Tigers - Fortress - 1.8
76) Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now - 1.8
76) American Bang - American Bang - 1.8
76) Robert Plant - Band Of Joy - 1.8
76) Rhonda Vincent - Taken - 1.8
76) Tired Pony - The Place We Ran From - 1.8
76) Electric Six - Zodiac - 1.8
76) Darius Rucker - Charleston, SC 1966 - 1.8
76) Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost - 1.8
76) Monster Magnet - Mastermind - 1.8
76) Tangents - One Little Light Year - 1.8
76) My Jerusalem - Gone For Good - 1.8
76) Rusty Willoughby - Cobirds Unite - 1.8
76) Susan Boyle - The Gift - 1.8
118) Plain White T's - Wonders Of The Younger - 1.7
118) Matt Morriss - When Everything Breaks Open - 1.7
118) AM Conspiracy - Am Conspiracy - 1.7
118) Nick Jonas & The Administration - Who I Am - 1.7
118) TobyMac - City On Our Knees - 1.7
118) Story Of The Year - The Constant - 1.7
118) Benjy Davis Project - Lost Souls Like Us - 1.7
118) Drive By Truckers - The Big To-Do - 1.7
118) Titus Adronicus - The Monitor - 1.7
118) Slow Club - Yeah, So - 1.7
118) MGMT - Congratulations - 1.7
118) Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can - 1.7
118) Tallest Man On Earth - The Wild Hunt - 1.7
118) Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks - 1.7
118) Alpha Rev - New Morning - 1.7
118) Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever - 1.7
118) Crash test Dummies - Oooh La La - 1.7
118) Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots - 1.7
118) Hawthorne Heights - Skeletons - 1.7
118) Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation - 1.7
118) Futureheads - The Chaos - 1.7
118) Against Me! - White Crosses - 1.7
118) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mojo - 1.7
118) Gaslight Anthem - American Slang - 1.7
118) Macy Gray - The Sellout - 1.7
118) Korn - Remember Who You Are - 1.7
118) Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose - 1.7
118) Clubfeet - Gold On Gold - 1.7
118) Futurebirds - Hamptons Lullaby - 1.7
118) J Roddy Walston & The Business - J Roddy Walston & The Business - 1.7
118) Dax Riggs - Say Goodnight To The World - 1.7
118) Lost In The Trees - All Alone In An Empty House - 1.7
118) American Hi-Fi - Fight The Frequency - 1.7
118) Jeremy Camp - We Cry Out (The Worship Project) - 1.7
118) Dylan LeBlanc - Pauper's Field - 1.7
118) Atom Smash - Love Is In The Missile - 1.7
118) Interpol - Interpol - 1.7
118) Eden Brent - Ain't Got No Troubles - 1.7
118) Walkmen - Lisbon - 1.7
118) Matt White - It's The Good Crazy - 1.7
118) Big B - Good Times And Bad Advice - 1.7
118) Margot and The Nuclear So and So's - Buzzard - 1.7
118) Pete Yorn - Pete Yorn - 1.7
118) Joshua Radin - The Rock And The Tide - 1.7
118) Belle & Sebastian - Write About Love - 1.7
118) Liz Phair - Funstyle - 1.7
118) Bryan Ferry - Olympia - 1.7
118) Matt & Kim - Sidewalks - 1.7
118) Alter Bridge - AB III - 1.7

[JazzyRandy]

Okay, here's my down-n-dirty dozen best albums of 2010. I thought of waiting a while longer to fully digest the 2010 albums I bought late in the year (December) but with more on the way and maybe to be ordered soon, I figured that would be a fool's waiting game. So, here we are ...

1) Janelle Monáe The ArchAndroid – Easy call. Gave me the most joy in 2010. There was a time in the last quarter of the year when this fell out of rotation (because I was buying so much music) that I thought it might lose its grip on the top spot. When I began listening to all my 2010 albums in December, I was quickly reminded there really is no challenger to Janelle's throne.
2) Dave Holland Pathways – Very well done. Contains the first certified 5-star song of the year for me. Holland's style isn't for novice Jazz listeners; when I first started listening to him, I was bored silly. One day, it all clicked and since then I've never been disappointed in any of his albums. This one was even better than most of his, and snags the runner-up spot this year.
3) Roots How I Got Over – Though it was released in June, it is the album that received the most play of any '10 album. By the JazzyRandy Music Appreciation Law #4 (what you play the most, ipso facto, you like the most) this should be my #1 album of the year. But I can't justify moving either of the top two albums down, so HIGO remains in this slot.
4) Tom Harrell Roman Nights – Very enjoyable through and through. Harrell has always had an interesting style but his albums were always hit-and-almost-miss with me, usually within the albums themselves. Since he settled on this supporting band three albums ago, he been consistently brilliant. Except for the ballad of a third track, this album is a smooth swingin' toe-tapping affair.
5) Incognito Transatlantic RPM – Has constantly remained in rotation for over 5 months since the first play. For that reason, I think it should be moved higher. It won't, because while I can listen to this so easily, it contains mostly very good songs and few great songs. After a couple of uneven albums, it was nice to see Bluey and company return to their usual great form.
6) NaS & Damian Marley Distant Relatives – Very easy to get into. Five songs I could listen to all year and love, and only one I skip regularly; the rest are very good. The mixture of Hip Hop and Reggae is so magnificently seamless I wonder why it hasn't been done this well before.
7) John Legend & The Roots Wake Up! – Very fine listening. Some songs are so good I wanted to move this higher, but a couple are lame enough to get skipped every time and a couple more are listenable but nothing special. This is about the right spot for this.
8) Sugarland The Incredible Machine – This was one of those albums I bought, immediately fall in love with, and play dozens of times in the first few weeks. Usually I fall out of love in a couple of months and they receive rare listens thereafter. If the first two Sugarland albums are any indication, this one won't fade away. It's just good clean fun and happy feelings, and there's nothing wrong with that.
9) SF Jazz Collective Live 2010: 7th Annual Concert Tour – There's enough dynamism to rank it at least this high, but not enough to make a higher ranking an automatic decision. I appreciate the change at tenor sax and trumpet, (especially trumpet, where Sipiagin was a boring turn-off for me. Beware the ballads (one per each of the three discs,) which are so interminably paced I can't listen to any but one. Very good triple-disc release, but a bit shy of great.
10) K-os Yes! - Disappointing upon first round of listens. So much so, I never thought it would end up on my year-end best list. After a long hiatus, I found the nirvana in this one. Not as good as his first two albums, but probably as good as the previous one. Hard to explain what this is about if you haven't heard K-os before. Think Hip Hop spirit infused with equal doses of soul and Island hipness.
11) Rhymefest El Che – This was a tough rank for me, partly because it was a late-year acquisition and partly because a couple of tracks bore me silly lyric-wise and production wise. However, there are enough very good songs that I find myself going back to this enough to satisfy JazzyRandy Music Appreciation Law #4.
12) Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part 2: Return Of The Ankh - Hard to judge overall. It's good, but even after months of listening I can't tell how good, yet. The problem is that unlike every Badu album so far, this one doesn't have that one song that is my unquestioned favorite. This has a lot of songs I like, but none I love. Another thing that detracts is a couple of songs outstay their welcome. What keeps it on this list is there are a trio of very good songs, and nothing about it I hate or even strongly dislike. She needs Poyser to return to her backing band/slash/production team.

[greyan]

WOw!1 this is fantastic Collection and info. I really all Posts..

[AmericanIdle]

My favorite was Black Keys' 'Brothers' but I also liked Kanye's album

[fresk]

From the last year i think Fame monster is the best album of,Lady Gaga just rock here.

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[SteveO]

Tiggi,

I just saw this post and was surprised you had Wintersleep at the top. They're from my home turf Halifax/Dartmouth.
They opened with Joel Plaskett for Macca in 2009 and then they were going off to Ireland. Looks like it paid off.

[Jane]

Lady Gaga- Born This Way