2010 End Of Year Lists:

Nice one Barnacle on MGMT making your list.

Alright then, top 10 albums and top 20 singles, but in no particular order.

LPs

1. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
2. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
3. The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
4. The Walkmen - Lisbon
5. The Coral - Butterfly House
6. Christian Bland & The Revelators - The Lost Album
7. Manic Street Preachers - Postcard From A Young Man
8. BRMC - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
9. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - III/IV
10. School Of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire

Singles/Songs

1. The Bees - I Really Need Love
2. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
3. The Black Angels - Yellow Elevator #2
4. Richard Ashcroft / UNS - Are You Ready?
5. Ryan Adams - Kill The Lights
6. UNKLE - Natural Selection
7. Foals - Total Life Forever
8. Broken Bells - The Ghost Inside
9. Doves - Andalucia
10. Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry
11. School Of Seven Bells - Heart Is Strange
12. Miles Kane - Inhaler
13. RSS - Hidden Persuaders Remix
14. The Streets & Robert Harvey - Going Through Hell
15. The Coral - More Than A Lover
16. The Walkmen - Blue As Your Blood
17. BRMC - Bad Blood
18. ATB - Could You Believe
19. Tennis - Take Me Somewhere
20. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Destroyers

i see it in everyone's list - i fucking LOVE their first album, and like most of the second, but i still havent gotten into the new arcade fire one

Albums

20. Broken Bells - Broken Bells


19. Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now! - Fixing The Charts


18. Goldheart Assembley - Wolves & Thieves


17. She & Him - Volume 2


16. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation


15. Gil Scott-Heron - I’m New Here


14. Black Keys - Brothers


13. The Coral - Butterfly House


12. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM

*I haven’t listened to this in ages and maybe it should be higher but it serves her right for confusing me.

11. Sad Day For Puppets - Pale Silver And Shiny Gold


Surprised there’s no love for this, more cohesive than their debut and some massive sounding Oasis guitars.

10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy


Loses my interest too often to rank any higher, but when it scoops me back up again it’s spectacular.

9. Lucky Soul - A Coming Of Age


Always enjoyable and occasionally great, plus Ali Howard’s voice melts me like a big gay marshmallow.

8. I Am Kloot - Sky At Night


It felt like they’d been going through the motions for a while, but this was a real return to form for them, sounding fresh and captivating for the first time in a long while.

7. The Futureheads - The Chaos


Somebody said they’re like a modern day Ramones, that’s such a great description. They wring every last ounce of melody and energy out of their formula brilliantly.

6. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening


NOT AS GOOD AS SOUND OF SILVER NOT AS GOOD AS SOUND OF SILVER NOT AS GOOD AS SOUND OF SILVER NOT AS GOOD AS SOUND OF SILVER

5. Ryan Adams - III/IV


Words can’t describe how happy/relieved/strangely aggressive I felt when this started clicking with me. A joyous alt. country-geek-metal-Smiths-punk thrash of a (double) album with surprisingly little flab.

4. The National - High Violet


That performance of Terrible Love on Letterman were the first notes I’d ever heard by them and straight away I felt like a massive fool for the fact. Brooding and compelling, it makes you feel like you’re inside a brilliant film noir.

3.Rose Elinor Dougall - Without Why


I only followed her career because she was in a girl group who looked fit in polka-dots and sang fun ditties about boys and dancing, I wasn’t expecting this . A proper, eloquent, grown up pop record - her voice aches and swoons its way along in a way never had a chance to before. Gem.

2. Steve Mason - Boys Outside


Never heard owt by him or the Beta Band before, so I owe this to 6music for playing the arse out of the single, becuase knowing me I would never have ended up bothering with this either. As it turns out it could have been any song on here getting the airplay and it would still have caught my ear, because from track 1 to 10 it’s loaded to the brim with great vocals, understated swagger and absolute dead-eyed beauty.


1. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can


I’ve probably listened to this album about half as much as some of the others in my top 10, it’s one you definitely need to be ‘in the mood’ for, but whenever that mood comes it delivers above any other record this year for me, it pulls off the amazing trick of being as intimate and engaging as someone like Bright Eyes at his most confessional whilst remaining masterful and elegant throughout. I was sceptical when people said this was better than the debut and for a while I didn’t get it, it felt like the tunes weren’t there, but then I sat a little closer to the speakers, listened to the sound of her consonants clicking their way over the delicate guitars and strings and it transformed into something completely spellbinding. Can’t believe that flab faced gypsy-chic spack from Bumturds and Sons gets to sniff her knickers.


Top Ten Tunes

edited for Barny

1. Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
2. Rose Elinor Dougall - Come Away With Me
3. Lady GaGa - Alejandro
4. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
5. Kanye West - So Appalled
6. Rihanna - Rude Boy
7. Ryan Adams - Icebreaker
8. Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See It Coming
9. Weezer - Memories
10. Janelle Monae - Cold War

I actually did a little cheer when i saw Lucky Soul had made your list

It grew on you, then?

Nice list Part Brut. I'll have to disagree with you on Sad Day For Puppets record, I thought it was really average & didn't have the hooks the debut had. Agreed on the Noel-like guitars though, definitely that vibe on a few tracks but not enough to save it.

Also as much as I love Eddie Argos that French Resistance record was fucking shit I like the 'he's such a prick' tune though

enjoyed your list part brut, top 5's are kinda similar!

Addendum to mine: I would have Tamaryn's The Waves in my top 10 had I waited, but I only heard it after seeing it on other lists. Awesome shoegazey/dream pop record. Check it out.

Ta guys



Aye I was just mardy at the time because the debut is near-perfect to me so it already it's work cut out, and to top it off they'd gone a bit disco - and nobody likes change (or disco). But then a bunch of other albums came along and when I came back to it a few months along it suddenly seemed obvious what a really good pop record it was in it's own right. Put me down as a fan for shizz.



Hah, I'd completely left it off my list until the last minute tbh and the thing is, I wouldn't even disagree about it being a bit shit it's just, like that She & Him album as well, it's a certain type of record that I find quite charming, I just turn my brain off and grin along

fakeedit: Should've put I Didn't See It Coming by Belle & Sebastian on my tunes list, that's a lovely song.

Great list, nice descriptions, hope the song list is a joke

Top 5 gigs:

1. Eels, Picture House, August
2. Steve Mason, Liquid Room, August
3. McCartney, Hampden, June
4. Supergrass, Barrowland, June
5. Belle & Sebastian, Barrowland, December

Top 10 tunes (not in order tbh)

1. Blur - Fool's Day
2. Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee
3. Best Coast - Boyfriend
4. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
5. Belle & Sebastian - I Didn't See it Coming
6. MGMT - It's Working
7. Janelle Monae - Tightrope
8. The Coral - 1000 Years
9. Steve Mason - Lost & Found
10. The Wynd - Favourites

Pretty rubbish year for albums although there were plenty of good singles IMO, almost everything I was looking forward to ended up disappointing me with particularly rubbish efforts from The Charlatans and Teenage Fanclub being low points. Really enjoyed the Steve Mason and Edwyn Collins records, I am Kloot and The National turned out to be growers which was a bit of a saving grace. Heard a couple of tunes off that Sad Day for Puppet LP, thought it sounded great but never got round to checking it out. Story of my life tbh.

I have the top albums compiled for what has been submitted so far. (i.e. up to 50 albums from each member, provided they are ranked, 50 points for top album, 1 point for 50th album, etc... so jollyboy, ben, longjohn, jp, Andy, mahoney, themex, krburg, titchjuicy, steve, columbia_rocks_man, barny and part brut at the moment. I've obviously counted those that aren't a total of fifty as well. Top album is still 50, 49 for 2nd etc... until the list ends.)

MORE LISTS IN THOUGH FFS

I was suposed to do this but I'm not gonna fight for it

I think counting just a top30 from each one would be better, in order to get less blowing ups

Seems like some forum member I'm not gonna mention and whose nationality wouldn't serve as a good clue has fallen down again in the dark and deep pool that is the unconscious and desperate drinking.

If I don't hear any news will do the top myself.

He probably went on a Coke Zero binge and is now streaking naked singing Hard-Fi songs at full volume across the Alps.

My favourite music of last year...

Favourite Album of the Year

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

I realise this record has probably already had enough positive and over-the-top write-ups, but thats because its just inexcapably excellent. I had Kanye about written off after the lacklustre of Graduation and the confusing-but-marginally-better 808s & Heartbreak, and then he pulls this out of the bag. Stunning album, flows perfectly start to finish and my favourite track on it changes constantly. If you haven't already heard it, get it looted and listened. Would list highlights, but the whole thing's worth having.

Favourite Debut Album of the Year

Pulled Apart By Horses

Self-titled album by Pulled Apart by Horses is easily the most exciting cd by a new band I heard in 2010. Packed largely with a mclusky-style punch but sometimes reminding me of QOTSA, early Idlewild or Glassjaw, they are breakneck, smile-inducing, turbo rock & roll. Back to the Fuck Yeah and High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive are standouts, look forward to hearing the next album on the promise of this one.

Favourite English Album

Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can

Her debut was pretty good, a bit sickly production-wise, but great songwriting, and her second cd basically just cuts out all the flaws and every song nails her strengths as a songwriter and a vocalist. Rambling Man and Darkness Descends are two highlights of an album that I was thoroughly addicted to during 2010.

Favourite Straight-up Hip Hop Album

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot

Plays like a greatest hits album, tunes upon tunes. Its essentially just a repeat of how funny, engaging, varied and addictive he was when he made Speakerboxxx, absolutely no bad thing though. Fo Yo Sorrows and Tangerine are my current most abused tracks, but Shutterbugg and General Patton are also absolutely killer.

Favourite Scottish Album

Emma Pollock - The Law Of Large Numbers

An absolute surprise this, never in any doubt it would be a decent listen, no idea it would be 10/10 and packed with tunes. Easily on a par with latter Delgados at their best, Emma's come into her own as a solo artist now and songs like Confessions, I Could Be A Saint, Chemistry Will Find Me and Hug The Harbour have been all over my 2010.

Other beastin 2010 CDs:

6 Fire Like This - Blood Red Shoes
7 I'm New Here - Gil Scott-Heron
8 Diamond Eyes - Deftones
9 Root For Ruin - Les Savy Fav
10 The Winter Of Mixed Drinks - Frightened Rabbit
11 The Wants - The Phantom Band
12 Astro Coast - Surfer Blood
13 TCOTU Town - The Magic Theatre
14 The Chaos - The Futureheads
15 Made The Harbour - Mountain Man
16 Everything In Between - No Age
17 Renegades - Feeder
18 Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man
19 OJ Simpson - Guilty Simpson & Madlib
20 Infinite Arms - Band Of Horses

SONGS:

1 Runaway - Kanye West
2 Say No To Love - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
3 High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive - Pulled Apart By Horses
4 Skip The Youth - Frightened Rabbit
5 Katy On A Mission - Katy B
6 Twin Peaks - Surfer Blood
7 Fuck You - Cee-Lo Green
8 Fo Yo Sorrows - Big Boi
9 Lips N Stuff - Les Savy Fav
10 Sally, Where'd You Get Your Liquor From? - The Low Anthem

11 Pass Out (remix) - Tinie Tempah & Snoop Dogg
12 Barking Dogs - Feeder
13 Papermill - Madvillain
14 Keeping It Close - Blood Red Shoes
15 I Need Air - Magnetic Man
16 (Its Not War) Just The End of Love - Manic Street Preachers
17 All Of The Lights - Kanye West
18 Success - Interpol
19 New York Is Killing Me (remix) - Gil Scott-Heron f/ Nas
20 We've Always Been Your Friends - The Sunshine Underground

I thought you had enjoyed End Times, remember you biggin' it up

Here we gan

Position - Artist - Album - Points - Votes[/b][/u]

51 .- Blood Red Shoes - Fire Like This - 94 - 3
52 .- The School - Loveless Unbeliever - 91 - 3
53 .- Allo Darlin’ - Allo Darlin’ - 91 - 3
54 .- Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II - 88 - 2
55 .- Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep - 87 - 3
56 .- The Vaselines - Sex with an X - 84 - 3
57 .- Caribou - Swim - 84 - 2
58 .- The Phantom Band - The Wants - 84 - 2
59 .- Owen Pallett - Heartland - 80 - 2
60 .- Magnetic Man - Magnetic Man - 80 - 2
61 .- Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame - 79 - 2
62 .- She & Him - Volume 2 - 78 - 2
63 .- Woods - At Echo Lake - 78 - 2
64 .- Harlem - Hippies - 76 - 2
65 .- Clinic - Bubblegum - 74 - 2
66 .- Holy Fuck - Latin - 73 - 2
67 .- Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man - 70 - 2
68 .- Christian Bland & The Revelators - The Lost Album - 69 - 2
69 .- Band of Horses - Infinite Arms - 69 - 4
70 .- Les Savy Fav - Root For Ruin - 68 - 2
71 .- Jonsi - Go - 65 - 3
72 .- Teenage Fanclub - Shadows - 62 - 2
73 .- Broken Records - Let Me Come Home - 57 - 2
74 .- 22-20's - Shake / Shiver / Moan - 54 - 2
75 .- The Like - Release Me - 50 - 1
76 .- Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz - 50 - 2
77 .- Wolf Parade - Expo 86 - 50 - 2
78 .- Eels - Tomorrow Morning - 49 - 3
79 .- Kula Shaker - Pilgrim's Progress - 49 - 1
80 .- Neil Young - Le Noise - 49 - 2
81 .- Pulled Apart by Horses - Pulled Apart by Horses - 49 - 1
82 .- The Booze - Rebirth Of The Cool - 48 - 1
83 .- The Morning Benders - Big Echo - 47 - 2
84 .- Smashing Pumpkins - Teargarden By Kaleidyscope project - 47 - 1
85 .- Perfume Genius - Learning - 47 - 1
86 .- Emma Pollock - The Law Of Large Numbers - 46 - 1
87 .- Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three - RiverBoat Soul - 45 - 1
88 .- The Strange Boys - Be Brave - 45 - 2
89 .- John Grant - Queen Of Denmark - 45 - 1
90 .- Philip Glass - The American Four Seasons - 44 - 1
91 .- The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Who Killed Sgt Pepper? - 44 - 1
92 .- Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan - Hawk - 44 - 1
93 .- The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever - 43 - 1
94 .- The Tamborines - Camera & Tremor - 43 - 1
95 .- Errors - Come Down With Me - 43 - 1
96 .- Delorean - Subiza - 43 - 1
97 .- Deftones - Diamond Eyes - 43 - 1
98 .- Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks - 42 - 1
99 .- Sleigh Bells - Treats - 42 - 1
100 .- Titus Andronicus - The Monitor - 41 - 2
101 .- Carl Barat - Carl Barat - 41 - 1
102 .- M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\ - 41 - 1
103 .- Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks - 41 - 1
104 .- Agent Ribbons - Chateau Crone - 40 - 1
105 .- The Loungs - Big Wow - 40 - 1
106 .- The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Acoustic Sessions & La Carotte Bleue - 40 - 1
107 .- Adam Green - Minor Love - 40 - 1
108 .- Sad Day For Puppets - Pale Silver And Shiny Gold - 40 - 1
109 .- Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky - 39 - 1
110 .- Lana Mir - Lana Mir - 39 - 1
111 .- Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart - 39 - 1
112 .- The Magic Theatre - TCOTU Town - 38 - 1
113 .- The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme - 37 - 1
114 .- Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern - 37 - 2
115 .- Eminem - Recovery - 37 - 1
116 .- Standard Fare - The Noyelle Beat - 37 - 1
117 .- Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer - 37 - 1
118 .- Moon Duo - Escape - 36 - 1
119 .- Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez - 36 - 1
120 .- Of Montreal - False Priest - 36 - 2
121 .- Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise - 36 - 1
122 .- Mountain Man - Made The Harbour - 36 - 1
123 .- Stars - The Five Ghosts - 35 - 1
124 .- Big Troubles - Worry - 35 - 2
125 .- Jesse Malin - Love It To Life - 35 - 1
126 .- Pete Molinari - A Train Bound For Glory - 34 - 1
127 .- Four Tet - There is Love in You - 34 - 1
128 .- Midlake - The Courage Of Others - 34 - 1
129 .- Feeder - Renegades - 34 - 1
130 .- Goldfrapp - Head First - 33 - 1
131 .- Archie Bronson Outfit - Coconut - 33 - 2
132 .- He's My Brother She's My Sister - He's My Brother She's My Sister EP - 33 - 1
133 .- Sourpatch - Crushin - 33 - 1
134 .- Goldheart Assembley - Wolves & Thieves - 33 - 1
135 .- The Pippetes - Earth Vs. The Pippetes - 32 - 1
136 .- Cypress Hill - Rise Up - 32 - 1
137 .- Curren$y - Pilot talk - 32 - 1
138 .- Weezer - Hurley - 32 - 1
139 .- Everybody Was In The French Resistance... Now! - Fixing The Charts - 32 - 1
140 .- Guilty Simpson & Madlib - OJ Simpson - 32 - 1
141 .- The Blue Angel Lounge - Narcotica - 31 - 1
142 .- The Kissaway Trail - Sleep Mountain - 31 - 1
143 .- The Two Man Gentlemen Band - ¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta! - 31 - 1
144 .- Kevin Burgess - Vaudeville Hopscotch - 31 - 1
145 .- Bill Callahan - Rough Travel For a Rare Thing - 31 - 1
146 .- Cloud Nothings - Turning On - 31 - 1
147 .- The Dig - Electric Toys - 30 - 1
148 .- The Courteneers - Falcon - 30 - 1
149 .- Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo - 29 - 1
150 .- Spirit Night - What Will We Be - 29 - 1
151 .- Bombay Bicycle Club - Flaws - 28 - 1
152 .- The Chemical Brothers - Further - 28 - 1
153 .- Blank Dogs - Land and Fixed - 28 - 1
154 .- Turin Breaks - Outbursts - 28 - 1
155 .- Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer - 28 - 1
156 .- Nedry - Condors - 28 - 1
157 .- New Young Pony Club - The Optimist - 27 - 1
158 .- Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Mojo - 27 - 1
159 .- The Charlatans - Who We Touch - 27 - 1
160 .- Tokyo Police Club - Champ - 27 - 1
161 .- The Bees - Every Step's A Yes - 26 - 2
162 .- Zola Jesus - Stridulum II - 26 - 1
163 .- Mystery Jets - Serotonin - 26 - 2
164 .- Darker My Love - Alive As You Are - 26 - 1
165 .- Superchunk - Majesty Shredding - 26 - 1
166 .- Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing - 26 - 1
167 .- Women - Public Strain - 25 - 1
168 .- Rory Erikson w/ Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil - 25 - 1
169 .- Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1 - 24 - 1
170 .- Xiu Xiu - Dear God I Hate Myself - 24 - 1
171 .- Versus - On The Ones And Threes - 23 - 1
172 .- Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way - 23 - 2
173 .- Holly Golightly & The Breakoffs - Medicine County - 23 - 1
174 .- Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) - 22 - 1
175 .- Christian Bland and the Revelators - Lost Album - 22 - 1
176 .- Kelis - Flesh Tone - 20 - 1
177 .- Jamie Lidell - Compass - 20 - 1
178 .- Woodpigeon - Die Stadt Muzikanten - 19 - 1
179 .- I Blame Coco - The Constant - 18 - 1
180 .- Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma - 18 - 1
181 .- Sparrow & The Workshop - Crystals Fall - 18 - 1
182 .- Sharon Van Etten - Epic - 17 - 1
183 .- Blessure Grave - Judged by Twelve, Carried by Six - 17 - 1
184 .- Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul - 16 - 1
185 .- We Are Scientists - Barbara - 15 - 1
186 .- Local Natives - Gorilla Manor - 15 - 1
187 .- Magic Kids - Memphis - 13 - 1
188 .- Wild Nothing - Gemini - 13 - 1
189 .- Detroit Social Club - Existence - 12 - 1
190 .- Toro Y Moi - Causes of This - 11 - 1
191 .- Hot Chip - One Life Stand - 10 - 1
192 .- Vampire Weekend - Contra - 10 - 1
193 .- Club 8 - The People's Record - 9 - 1
194 .- DJ Shadow - The DJ Shadow Remix Project - 8 - 1
195 .- Sia - We Are Born - 8 - 1
196 .- Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring - 8 - 1
197 .- Interpol - Interpol - 8 - 1
198 .- Dessa - A Badly Broken Code - 6 - 1
199 .- The Roots - How I Got Over - 5 - 1
200 .- Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday - 5 - 1
201 .- Exit Calm - Exit Calm - 4 - 1
202 .- The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards - 4 - 1
203 .- Mat Riviere - Follow Your Heart - 4 - 1
204 .- Mark Ronson & The Businesss Int'l - Record Collection - 3 - 1
205 .- The Wave Pictures - Susan Rode the Cyclone - 3 - 1
206 .- Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now - 1 - 1
207 .- The Magnetic Fields - Realism - 1 - 1

Nice one Barny.