1. Deftones - Diamond Eyes 2. Foals - Total Life Forever 3. The National - High Violet --------------------------------------- 4. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 5. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 6. Kings Of Leon - Come Around Sundown 7. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 8. Spoon - Transference 9. Minus The Bear - Omni 10. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor 11. The Black Keys - Brothers 12. Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker 13. Broken Bells - Broken Bells 14. Young The Giant - Young The Giant 15. Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms 16. Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 17. Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds 18. Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots 19. A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You 20. The Roots - How I Got Over 21. Jimmy Eat World - Invented 22. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager 23. Vampire Weekend - Contra 24. Yeasayer - Odd Blood 25. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life 26. Portugal. The Man - American Ghetto 27. Rogue Wave - Permalight 28. Fools & Horses - Fools & Horses 29. Sleigh Bells - Treats 30. The Drums - The Drums Honorable Mention: Against Me! - White Crosses Alkaline Trio - This Addiction Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place Angels & Airwaves - Love, Pt. 1 Ariel Pink - Before Today Bad Books - Bad Books Belle and Sebastian - Write About Love Best Coast - Crazy For You Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat The Devil's Tattoo Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell... Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise Cloud Nothings - Turning On Coheed and Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow Darker My Love - Alive As You Are Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest Deer Tick - The Black Dirt Sessions Dierks Bentley - Up On The Ridge The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis Drake - Thank Me Later Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do Eels - End Times Eels - Tomorrow Morning Envy On The Coast - Lowcountry Field Music - Measure Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing Freelance Whales - Weathervanes Frightened Rabbit - The Winter Of Mixed Drinks The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang Girl Talk - All Day Good Old War - Good Old War Gorillaz - The Fall Guster - Easy Wonderful Here We Go Magic - Pigeons The Hold Steady - Heaven Is Whenever Hot Chip - One Life Stand Interpol - Interpol Jack Johnson - To The Sea Japandroids - No Singles Keane - Night Train LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts Maps & Atlases - Perch Patchwork Maroon 5 - Hands All Over Matt and Kim - Sidewalks Menomena - Mines MGMT - Congratulations Midlake - The Courage Of Others The Morning Benders - Big Echo My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys The Naked And Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You OK Go - Of The Blur Colour Of The Sky Old 97s - The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1 Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise Small Black - New Chain Stars - The Five Ghosts Story Of The Year - The Constant Suckers - Wild Smile Superchunk - Majesty Shredding Surfer Blood - Astro Coast Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks Title Tracks - It Was Easy Titus Andronicus - The Monitor Tokyo Police Club - Champ Toro y Moi - Causers Of This Twin Shadow - Forget Underoath - Disambiguation The Walkmen - Lisbon The War On Drugs - Future Weather (EP) Wavves - King of the Beach Weezer - Death To False Metal Weezer - Hurley Wild Nothing - Gemini Wolf Parade - Expo '86 The Wonder Years - The Upsides The Young Veins - Take A Vacation! Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give Checking Out In Full for First Time (Artist's 2010 album): 65daysofstatic Bad Religion Beach House Biffy Clyro Bomb the Music Industry! Brandon Flowers Bruno Mars Butch Walker Cary Brothers Ceremony The Chariot Colour Revolt Disturbed The Flatliners Four Year Strong Foxy Shazam Godsmack Ghost Good Charlotte Goo Goo Dolls A Great Big Piles Of Leaves Helmet John Butler Trio Korn letlive. Los Campesinos! The Menzingers Middle Class Rut Neon Trees The New Pornographers Now, Now Rob Zombie Sevendust Steel Train Stone Sour The Tallest Man On Earth Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders Taylor Swift Tera Melos Tigers Jaw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers You Me At Six
I love this year so fucking much. Not sure if it's just great memories, or the albums were that great or what. But I really really love this year.
2010 was fucking weird. I have to do my taxes tonight...Yes I know, last minute Larry over here...so my list will have to wait.
If it wasn't the last day to get them done, I wouldn't care but I waited until the last minute and I can't do my taxes at work lol.
The year 2010 its self was fucking weird. and funny enough, a part of that 2010 past popped up outta nowhere last Friday...so I'm a little....
Gaslight- American slang Turnpike troubadours- diamonds and gasoline Josh Abbott band - she’s like Texas
To reiterate my Danger Days love, that album was a really interesting pivot and almost ahead of its time. For whatever reason, it wasn't embraced by the teens who loved the black-makeup MCR and weren't really a fan of the neon-colored futuristic sound (at least here in the US). That being said, I think it did well in the UK, Europe and Japan especially given MCR's ability to headline the Reading Festival when they were back slogging through 2-3k clubs here in US.
1. Steel Train - Steel Train 2. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz 3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 4. Good Old War - Good Old War 5. Sleigh Bells - Treats 6. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise 7. Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam 8. Gold Motel - Summer House 9. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life 10. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 11. The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggresive You 12. Wild Orchid Children - ...Are Alexander Supertramp 13. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You? 14. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is The Place 15. I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business - The World We Know 16. The Wonder Years - The Upsides 17. Weezer - Hurley 18. Girl Talk - All Day 19. Nas & Damian Marley - Distant Relatives 20. Valencia - Dancing With A Ghost
All Day is another one that irks me for not being on Spotify. All of the other Girl Talk stuff is on there...
1. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang 2. Parkway Drive - Deep Blue 3. Kvelertak - Kvelertak Also like: The Black Keys - Brothers Neil Young - Le Noise Ghost - Opus Eponymous Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots Deftones - Diamond Eyes The Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
I wish the Super Mash Bros albums were on spotify too. I thought some of their shit was better than Girl Talk.
Super Mash definitely felt like the high school garage version of what Girl Talk did, but I do remember them being fun as well. I have two albums in my library, All About The Scrillions and Mile(y) High Club
1. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway 2. The National - High Violet 3. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt We Were Exploding Anyway is a marvel, a layered and continually mesmerising piece of electronic infused post-rock that just absolutely sets the bar for how those two genres can be fused together, that anybody else that tries something similar is doomed by comparison. I could listen to an hour long version of Tiger Girl alone. I will continually flux between my favourite National album, but I think on more days than most, I'd give the edge to High Violet. A wonderful piece of melancholy, with instrumentation that makes it soar. The Wild Hunt is basically the same album again from The Tallest Man on Earth, but if it's aint broke, don't fix it. Incredibly written, both from a lyrical and songwriting perspective, and wonderfully performed. Honourable Mentions; Dessa - A Badly Broken Code: Pretty unlucky not to make the top three, but I think I prefer the versions on Castor, The Twin slightly more than the originals here. One of my favourite lyricists and storytellers in music. Kanye West - My Dark Beautiful Twisted Fantasy: A sprawling, maximalist piece of work that chucks everything at it, and a fantastic exploration of Kanye's psyche and worldview. Meursault - All Creatures Will Make Merry: A sometimes impenetrable bit of folktronica, but when it works, songs like "Song for Martin Kippenberger" are stunning. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks: A louder and noisier record than Midnight Organ Fight, and sometimes it does drown the songs a bit, but they still manage to shine through. The Xcerts - Scatterbrain: Sounds a little too close to Brand New's Daisy at times, but if you love that sound, and want to hear a band that are bloody lovely people (touch wood) doing that sound, this is a great noisy bit of indie rock. 65daysofstatic - Heavy Sky: Off-cuts from We Were Exploding Anyway, and while it can't compare to that album, it's a fantastic companion EP / mini-album. Gil-Scott Heron - I'm New Here: The legendary figure taking on more modern sounds with electronica and trip-hop, meeting his poetic spoken word vocals. The Menzingers - Chamberlain Waits: Time Tables might still be their best song, a really great raucous, rough-and-tumble punk record. Capsule - Player: Energetic and silly electro-pop, that's a blast to listen to. The Chariot - Long Live: Not one that's necessarily on regular rotation, but when I'm after a metalcore album to just hit with 30 minutes of intensity, this'll do nicely. "The City" is their best song.
1. I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business - The World We Know 2. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light is a Place 3. The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang Others: The National - High Violet Frightened Rabbit - Winter of Mixed Drinks House of Heroes - Suburba Lakes/Eager Seas - The Agreement Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
I had MBDTF as my #1 on my list IN 2010. I just don't come back to it all that often. And honestly, with Kanye's career trajectory since then, I can never decide if that should make me appreciate MBDTF all that much more or not lol.
1. The Wonder Years - The Upsides 2. Taylor Swift - Speak Now 3. Against Me! - White Crosses 4. Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes 5. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 6. Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back from the Discomfort We're Alright 7. Underoath - Disambiguation 8. Man Overboard - Real Talk 9. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 10. Bomb the Music Industry - Vacation 11. Deftones - Diamond Eyes 12. Ceremony - Rohnert Park 13. The Menzingers - Chamberlin Waits 14. Make Do and Mend - End Measured Mile 15. Hostage Calm - Hostage Calm
1. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 2. Menomena - Mines 3. Deftones - Diamond Eyes 4. Underoath - Disambiguation 5. Circa Survive - Appendage 6. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise 7. Alexisonfire - Dog's Blood 8. The National - High Violet 9. Drake - Thank Me Later 10. Bad Books - Bad Books 11. The Naked and Famous - Passive Me, Aggressive You 12. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 13. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis 14. pmtoday - In Medias Res 15. Cloudkicker - Beacons