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Your top albums of 2010
direwolf74
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12-20-2010, 08:29 PM
Let's hear 'em!

My favorites from this year, in no particular order:

Greg MacPherson- Mr. Invitation
The Black Keys- Brothers
Gord Downie & the Country of Miracles- The Grand Bounce
Sarah Harmer- Oh Little Fire
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Drive By Truckers- The Big To-Do
The National- High Violet
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans- The Falcon Lake Incident
The Sadies- Darker Circles
Paul Langlois- Fix This Head
The Hold Steady- Heaven is Whenever
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists- The Brutalist Bricks
Wintersleep- New Inheritors
Neil Young- Le Noise
Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
Pearl Jam- Madison Square Garden, NY, 05/21/2010
Bruce Springsteen- The Promise
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12-21-2010, 12:11 PM
Lissie- Catching a Tiger--Check this album out it is amazing- If you like Sarah Harmer you will like this
black Keys-brothers
Michael Franti and Spearhead- The sound of sunshine
Band or Horses- Infinite Arms
The Grand Bounce
Ray Lamontagne and Pariah Doogs-God Willing and the Creek Don't Rise
Ben Harper and Relentless 7- Live from Montreal
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12-22-2010, 11:42 PM
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Wolf Parade - Expo 86
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - S/T
Paul Langlois - Fix This Head
Dead Weather - Sea of Cowards
MGMT - Congratulations
Spoon - Transference
Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
Hawksley Workman - Milk

Just a few of my 2010 favs that haven't been mentioned in this thread yet.

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12-23-2010, 02:42 AM
The National- High Violet
The National- High Violet
The National- High Violet
Arcade Fire- The Suburbs
Wintersleep- New Inheritors
Holy Fuck- Latin
Gordie
The Black Keys- Bros
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12-23-2010, 01:01 PM
Tempus Fugit - Shallow Water Blackout Smile
Crowded House - Intriguer
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
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12-23-2010, 02:52 PM
direwolf74 Wrote:Let's hear 'em!


Neil Young- Le Noise

Am I the only Neil fan that found this album boring and repetitive?
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12-23-2010, 07:59 PM
These two blow everything else outta the water:

PS I Love You-Meet Me At The Muster Station
The Fresh & Only's-Play It Strange
Escape Is At Hand-Tales of a Boy and a Band due June 2013 from Eternal Cavalier Press
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12-24-2010, 02:07 AM
mojo_mattv Wrote:
direwolf74 Wrote:Let's hear 'em!


Neil Young- Le Noise

Am I the only Neil fan that found this album boring and repetitive?
No.
And I even love 'Fork In The Road'.
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12-24-2010, 11:14 AM
The Heron Outside Wrote:These two blow everything else outta the water:

PS I Love You-Meet Me At The Muster Station
The Fresh & Only's-Play It Strange

Says you...
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12-25-2010, 12:40 PM
Phantom51 Wrote:
The Heron Outside Wrote:These two blow everything else outta the water:

PS I Love You-Meet Me At The Muster Station
The Fresh & Only's-Play It Strange

Says you...

Dude just listen to 'em. They're great.
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12-25-2010, 11:21 PM
some that haven't been mentioned yet

Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions

Daniel Romano - Workin' for the Music Man

Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Kings of Leon - Come Around Sundown
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12-28-2010, 08:21 AM
My overall favourites were:

The National - High Violet
John Grant - Queen of Denmark
The Phantom Band - The Wants

But overall it was a banner year for new music. Here's my mix of the year:

1. Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles - The East Wind
2. Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You
3. Wolf Parade - What Did My Lover Say? (It Always Had To Go This Way)
4. Menomena - TAOS
5. Maximum Balloon - Absence of Light
6. John Grant - Sigourney Weaver
7. Hawksley Workman - Warhol's Portrait of Gretzky
8. Sia - Clap Your Hands
9. Robyn - Fembot
10. Kanye West - Hell of a Life
11. Sage Francis - Three Sheets to the Wind
12. Buck 65 - Smalltown Boy
13. The Phantom Band - Into the Corn
14. Sufjan Stevens - Get Real Get Right
15. Midlake - Rulers, Ruling All Things
16. Shearwater - Hidden Lakes
17. Damien Jurado - The Falling Snow
18. The National - England

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12-28-2010, 11:13 AM
ugh. i must be the only person in the country who didn't like Arcade Fire's album. i have listened to it 15 or 20 times and it just bores me every time.
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12-28-2010, 03:46 PM
mark Wrote:ugh. i must be the only person in the country who didn't like Arcade Fire's album. i have listened to it 15 or 20 times and it just bores me every time.
Must be. Sprawl II is one of the catchiest songs I've heard all year, and possibly my top AF track.
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01-09-2011, 03:51 AM
Late to this party, but I'd go with...

Albums:
1 Menomena - Mines
2 Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
3 The National - High Violet
4 Gord Downie & tCoM - The Grand Bounce
5 Owen Pallett - Heartland

Songs:
1 "Albatross" by The Besnard Lakes
2 "Terrible Love (Alternate Version)" by the National
3 "Yellow Days" by Gord Downie
4 "Yulia" by Wolf Parade
5 "Oh Pretty Boy..." by Menomena
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