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2010 Best of Music List
At long last my best music of the year list. It took me forever to get it done (I say this as if there were tons of people just dying to read it). I was about half way through it when this past weekend’s sadness stopped me cold. I have done this list two years in a row (click here for those lists) and never really written about my process. I actually go through and listen to every album I bought during the year again. I only consider albums that have a US release date in 2010. So I don’t actually pull from everything I bought just new releases. The same rule applies for my favorite songs. So, of course, the list is limited to music I actually thought enough about to buy in the first place . This year that amounts to 65 albums and 753 total songs (this is why it can take me some time to compile this list). It is of course entirely my opinion and if you have any suggestions for albums you loved not on my list leave it in the comments or drop me a note on Twitter. I am always looking for new music.
Normally I make this list out in no particular order but this year that isn’t totally true. The top 3 were far and away my favorites this year.
Artist-Album
Zoë Keating – Into the Tress
Kim Boekbinder – The Impossible Girl
Dessa – A Badly Broken Code
Pomplamoose – Tribute To Famous People
Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
Broken Bells – Broken Bells
Puerto Muerto – Drumming For Pistols
V V Brown – Traveling Like The Light
Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Buke And Gass – Riposte
Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
The Mynabirds – What We lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood
Jesca Hoop – Hunting My Dress
The New Pornographers – Together
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band – Where The Messengers Meet
Jukebox the Ghost – Everything Under the Song
Josh Ritter – So Runs The World Away
Gogol Bordello – Trans-Continental Hustle
Favorite Songs (in no particular order)
Song - Artist Mineshaft II - Dessa Alibi - DessaYou Only Want Me 'Cause You Want My Sister - Evelyn Evelyn Nature Boy - PomplamooseMe And The Devil - Gil Scott-Heron Tightrope - Janelle Monáe Vaporize - Broken Bells The Ghost Inside - Broken Bells A Slight Discomfort - The Hold Steady Intelligentactile 101 - Jesca Hoop Feast Of The Heart - Jesca Hoop Summer Is The Champion - Laura Veirs Wide-Eyed, Legless - Laura Veirs Drumming For Pistols - Puerto Muerto Down On Love - Sarah Blasko Raise the Knowledge - Gogol Bordello Impossible Girl #4 - Kim Boekbinder Stalker Song - Kim Boekbinder Medulla Oblongata - Buke And GassLittle Lion Man - Mumford & Sons Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk - The New Pornographers Escape Artist - Zoë KeatingOptimist - Zoë Keating The Queen of Lower Chelsea - The Gaslight Anthem Drag A Rake - Social Studies One Polaroid A Day - Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Heathen Child - Grinderman Pigeons - The Hundred In the Hands The Remnant - Josh Ritter I Live in New York City - Sxip Shirey Hurrah - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Let the Record Go - The Mynabirds Angel Dance - Robert Plant Cloud Shadow On the Mountain - Robert Plant Lying Low - Peter Wolf
