Hopefully I can write some short reviews for the top 5-10, but in the meantime, after much re-ordering and over thinking, this is my favourite 25 albums from 2010.
| 25 | Well Done Europe | The Chap |
| 24 | ..Are The Roaring Night | The Besnard Lakes |
| 23 | Big Echo | The Morning Benders |
| 22 | Magic Bullets | Magic Bullets |
| 21 | The Suburbs | Arcarde Fire |
| 20 | One Life Stand | Hot Chip |
| 19 | How I Got Over | The Roots |
| 18 | High Violet | The National |
| 17 | Olympia | Bryan Ferry |
| 16 | This Is Happening | LCD Soundsystem |
| 15 | Business Casual | Chromeo |
| 14 | Record Collection | Mark Ronson |
| 13 | OMNI | Minus The Bear |
| 12 | Shadows | Teenage Fanclub |
| 11 | Acolyte | Delphic |
| 10 | Barking | Underworld |
| 9 | Man Alive | Everything Everything |
| 8 | Gemini | Wild Nothing |
| 7 | TSOL | Shad |
| 6 | Forgiveness Rock Record | Broken Social Scene |
| 5 | The Drums | The Drums |
| 4 | Total Life Forever | Foals |
| 3 | Majesty Shredding | Superchunk |
| 2 | Swim | Caribou |
| 1 | Odd Blood | Yeasayer |
1. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
ReplyDelete2. Wolf Parade – Expo 86
3. Laurie Anderson – Homeland
4. James – The Night Before / The Morning After
5. PS I Love You – Meet Me At the Muster Station
6. Martha and the Muffins – Delicate
7. Hurts – Happiness
8. Tomboyfriend – Don't Go to School
9. Marina and the Diamonds – The Family Jewels
10. Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
11. Elvis Costello – National Ransom
12. Phil Selway – Familial
13. Brian Eno – Small Craft On a Milk Sea
14. The Besnard Lakes – ...Are the Roaring Night
15. Owen Pallett – Heartland
16. Black Dub – s/t
17. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
18. The Naked and Famous – Passive Me, Aggressive You
19. New Pornographers – Together
20. Cathal Coughlan and the Grand Necropolitan Quartet – Rancho Tetrahedron
21. The National – High Violet
22. Woodpigeon – Die Stadt Muzikanten
23. Working for a Nuclear Free City – Jojo Burger Tempest
24. Caribou – Swim
25. Stars – The Five Ghosts
26. Jim Bryson and the Weakerthans – The Falcon Lake Incident
27. Trembling Blue Stars – Fast Trains and Telegraph Wires
28. The Salteens – Grey Eyes
29. Women – Public Strain
30. Gord Downie and the Country of Miracles – The Grand Bounce
31. Manic Street Preachers – Postcards From a Young Man
32. Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
33. Marnie Stern – s/t
34. Natalie Merchant – Leave Your Sleep
35. Lloyd Cole – Broken Record
36. Diamond Rings – Special Affections
37. Performance – Red Brick Heart
38. Sarah Harmer – Oh Little Fire
39. Library Voices – Denim On Denim
40. Luke Doucet and the White Falcon – Steel City Trawler
41. Connan Mockasin – Please Turn Me Into the Snat
42. The Wilderness of Manitoba – When You Left the Fire
43. Kathryn Calder – Are You My Mother?
44. Forest City Lovers – Carriage
45. Laura Veirs – July Flame
46. Faust – Faust Is Last
47. Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen '.....For the Ghosts Within'
48. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
49. JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys – Fidelity!
50. Neil Young – Le Noise
Happy holidays, old sod.
Based on the Rheostatics reference and the make-up of that list, I feel fairly safe in guessing who resides behind "whalemusic". Great list. Some cool releases in there that passed by without me realizing, as well as some I am not familiar with. Thank you sir and happy holidays to you as well.
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