Dalton Presents Everyone's Preliminary Top Albums of 2010 (too soon)

[Dalton]

1. The Suburbs : Arcade Fire -
2. High Violet : The National -
3. Romance is Boring : Los Campesinos! -
4. Forgiveness Rock Record : Broken Social Scene -
5. All Day : Girl Talk -
6. The Social Network : Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross -
7. The Monitor : Titus Andronicus -
8. Best Bless EP : High Life -
9. Go : Jonsi -
10. My Twisted Dark Fantasy : Kanye West -


I haven't had time to do my write ups for the albums yet, but here they be.

React to me.

 

[PhilsFan]

I've listened to five of the albums in your top ten (numbers 1-4 and 10). Four of those five albums are currently in my top ten (all but the BSS record), though I still have more to listen to.

 

[Lancemc]

1-4 and 6 would be in my top 10. The Suburbs my #1. This is Happening #2. Probably BSS at #3.

 

[u2popmofo]

Why is this all about you, Dalton?

 

[LemonMelon]

1. The Suburbs : Arcade Fire -
2. High Violet : The National -
3. Romance is Boring : Los Campesinos! -
4. Forgiveness Rock Record : Broken Social Scene -
7. The Monitor : Titus Andronicus -
10. My Twisted Dark Fantasy : Kanye West -

All of these place in my top 20 or so.

Didn't dig Gorillaz?

 

[Dalton]

Why is this all about you, Dalton?

I bow to your whims.

 

[Dalton]

You know, I haven't even listened to the Gorillaz album since it was released. I think I liked it.

Lance, I'm very tempted to replace the Jonsi album with the LCDS album.

 

[IWasBored]

i'm wondering if high violet was the only album released in 2010 that i even heard. i think the street dogs put out an album that i didn't initially like, but then it grew on me, that was this year...otherwise, can't remember shit.

 

[the tourist]

2 of those 10 would be on my list.

 

[lazarus]

I love how this punk-ass barely shows his face around here anymore, and now he's creating official threads.

You can take your Top Ten and stick in your Bottom One.

Spoiler

Los Camp!

 

[u2popmofo]

i'm wondering if high violet was the only album released in 2010 that i even heard. i think the street dogs put out an album that i didn't initially like, but then it grew on me, that was this year...otherwise, can't remember shit.

Stop playing World of Warcraft and listen to music.

 

[Dalton]

I love how this punk-ass barely shows his face around here anymore, and now he's creating official threads.

You can take your Top Ten and stick in your Bottom One.

Spoiler

Los Camp!

I will slap that ironic mustache right off your mesh hat.

 

[bono_212]

Heart 8/10 of those and they're all great Dalton

I'm not quite ready to post my list yet

 

[IWasBored]

Stop playing World of Warcraft and listen to music.

i keep my game sound off so i can listen to music well, that and i keep the game sound off anything cos it usually annoys the crap out of me.
it's just that none of it is new.

 

[the tourist]

1. The Black Keys: Brothers
2. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Cee-Lo Green: The Lady Killer
4. Twin Shadow: Forget
5. The National: High Violet
6. Morning Benders: Big Echo
7. The Fresh & Onlys: Play It Strange
8. Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest
9. Surfer Blood: Astro Coast
10. Girls: Broken Dreams Club EP*

*might rise over time, but after two listens, it already bumped some other stuff.

 

[IWasBored]

1. The Black Keys: Brothers

oh yeah, i bought that one.

 

[lazarus]

1. Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
2. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
3. Superchunk - Majesty Shredding
4. Harlem - Hippies
5. The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Cotton Jones - Tall Hours in the Glowstream
7. Bettie Serveert - Pharmacy of Love
8. Fang Island - S/T
9. Stricken City - Songs About People I Know
10. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Special Mention: Bruce Springsteen - The Promise (the best thing I've heard this year, but can't really include it on a 2010 list)

 

[Jive Turkey]

This is just so when someone else makes a similar thread near the end of the year, Dalton can claim he was there first

 

[IWasBored]

i could probably make a half-decent list of top 10 albums i still need to get around to hearing/buying from 2010.

and then there's top 10 albums of 2010 that i think i should have liked way more than i did.

if i start threads for each of those lists, that would make me better than dalton! and the wrath of mods would rain down on me like hellfire....

 

[lazarus]

Disappointment of the Year: Spoon, Transference.

Not a bad album by any stretch, but arguably the weakest of their entire career. I would MAYBE put it above Telephono, but I'd rather listen to the Soft Effects EP.

 

[bono_212]

I LOVED it at the beginning of the year, but now it's dropped to #30 on the list.

Nothing disappointed me as much this year as probably Scratch My Back. I enjoy some of it, but it really didn't need to take the place of I/O, which is NEVER coming out, I finally realize.

Also disappointed by Ke$ha's EP and All Day, but uh, let's not go into that.

 

[LemonMelon]

6. Cotton Jones - Tall Hours in the Glowstream

I know their lead singer. My mom is best friends with his, so I am occasionally asked what I think of his trajectory within the indie conscious. Frankly, I found his material with Page France really formulaic, so I hated being asked about it. What's the Cotton Jones stuff sound like? I really don't want it to suck.

 

[lazarus]

What does it sound like? Read the Pitchfork review, I guess. Just sounds very old-school and retro to me (think Lanois' stuff on Time Out Of Mind, maybe? Swampy?), and if I had read that the singer was some 50 year-old dude I may have believed it.

All I can say is that I DLed it on their recommendation and was very impressed. Haven't heard any Page France so I can't make comparisons.

 

[Dalton]

This is just so when someone else makes a similar thread near the end of the year, Dalton can claim he was there first

Meh, that'd be nothing new. I always come first.

 

[PhilsFan]

Where does that Sex Church record rank for all of you bitches?

 

[Imperor]

Funny you bring that up since I had "I Don't Want to Die" stuck in my head for a good while today. Not sure where it'd place on my list having not even come close to making one yet. If I do, Laz won't be the only one reppin' that Harlem LP.

 

[Dalton]

Searching "Sex Church" in iTunes is funnier than searching "Old Balls" on Google Images.

 

[phanan]

Don't know what my Top 10 is yet, but The Suburbs is #1.

 

[PhilsFan]

I've listened to about 25 albums, but there's a lot still to go on my list. I'm ranking songs this year, too. First time for that.

 

[bono_212]

I didn't even realize Sex Church came out this year. Never put it on my list