2010 in music. • Page 3

Going to forego the big writeup this week (and probably going forward) because it takes a lot of time and my thoughts on 2010s music are pretty heavily documented from here on out. I wrote about a bunch of these albums for their 10-year anniversaries in 2020, and a lot of them also appear on my end-of-the-decade list.

1. Chad Perrone – Release
2. The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
3. Sara Bareilles – Kaleidoscope Heart

Excruciating cuts:

Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Jimmy Eat World - Invented
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Also love:

The National - High Violet
The Alternate Routes – Lately
Valencia - Dancing with the Ghost
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
Donovan Woods – The Widowmaker
Butch Walker – I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Brandon Flowers – Flamingo
Anberlin - Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place
Cary Brothers – Under Control
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever
The Maine – Black and White
Tyler Hilton – Ladies & Gentlemen

Honorable mentions:

Jesse Malin – Love It to Life
I Can Make a Mess… – The World We Know
Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life
Ryan Bingham – Junky Star
Stars – The Five Ghosts
Guster – Easy Wonderful
Black Lab – Two Strangers
Wakey!Wakey! – Almost Everything I Wish I’d Said the Last Time I Saw You
I Can Make a Mess… - The World We Know
Jakob Dylan – Women + Country
Josh Ritter – So Runs the World Away
Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You
Locksley – Be In Love
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
Steel Train – self-titled
The Morning Of – The Way I Fell In
Maroon 5 – Hands All Over
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Hanson - Shout It Out
Francis & The Lights - It'll Be Better
Sister Hazel – Heartland Highway
Spoon – Transference

 

1. Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?
2. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
3. The Reign of Kindo - This is What Happens

Honourable mentions;

4. Chad Perrone - Release
5. Charlie Simpson - When We Were Lions
6. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks
8. Joshua Radin - The Rock and the Tide
9. letlive. - Fake History
10. Ellie Goulding - Lights
11. The Birthday Massacre - Pins and Needles
12. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
13. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz
14. Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
15. Valencia - Dancing With a Ghost
16. Ling Tosite Sigure - still a Sigure virgin?
17. Taylor Swift - Speak Now
18. McFly - Above the Noise
19. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
20. Foxy Shazam - Foxy Shazam
21. Stars - The Five Ghosts
22. I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Buisness - The World We Know
23. Mae - (e)vening
24. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
25. 65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
26. Susanne Sundfør - The Brothel
27. Jeff Martin & Steven Padin - The First Joke & Other Matters
28. Hanson - Shout It Out
29. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
30. Fair - Disappearing World

Songs
1. The Reign of Kindo - Psalm
2. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
3. Charlie Simpson - Lost
4. Taylor Swift - Enchanted
5. Chad Perrone - Under Different Circumstances
6. Hellogoodbye - Finding Something to Do
7. My Chemical Romance - Summertime
8. Stars - How Much More
9. Jeff Martin - Runway
10. 65daysofstatic - Come to Me
11. Frightened Rabbit - Yes, I Would
12. Joshua Radin - Wanted
13. Kanye West - Power
14. letlive. - The Sick, Sick, 6.8 Billion
15. McFly - I Need a Woman
16. Ellie Goulding - Your Biggest Mistake
17. Seventh Wonder - Alley Cat
18. I Can Make a Mess - Telling Me Goodbye
19. Sufjan Stevens - Too Much
20. Mae - I Just Needed You To Know
21. Circa Survive - Get Out
22. Ling Tosite Sigure - A Symmetry
23. You Me At Six - Stay With Me
24. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
25. Foxy Shazam - Intro/Bombs Away
26. The Birthday Massacre - Pins and Needles
27. Motion City Soundtrack - Her Words Destroyed My Planet
28. Hanson - Make It Out Alive
29. Susanne Sundfør - It's All Gone Tomorrow
30. Janelle Monae - Come Alive (War of the Roses)

Been away all weekend so I'm late but this was a great year!

 

1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
2. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring
3. The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

The Monitor is a fucking colossal record. Other 2 are p sweet as well.

 

1. Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
2. Mike Patton - Mondo Cane
3. Deftones - Diamond Eyes

Lucky Shiner is such a warm record with so many cool sounds and eclectic samples, but still a real simplicity, almost naivety, to it. I believe it was made over the course of a couple of weeks which certainly makes sense, in the best way possible. A great journey from beginning to end, endlessly listenable.

Mike Patton doing covers of Italian orchestral pop songs from the 50s and 60s is as good as it should be. I think Mondo Cane might be the best thing he's made in the last fifteen years or so. It's a joy.

I once read someone describe Diamond Eyes as "Sexy Meshuggah" and I can't really top that.

Honourable Mentions:

• letlive - Fake History
• White Ring - Black Earth That Made Me (EP)
• Agent Fresco - A Long Time Listening
• Admiral Angry - A Fire To Burn Down The World (EP)
• Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
• John Roberts - Glass Eights

 

1 Kanye - MBDTF
2 Wonder Years - The Upsides
3 Gaslight - American Slang

 

01. The Roots - How I Got Over

Statik Selektah - 100 Proof: The Hangover
Jaheim - Another Round
J. Cole - Friday Night Lighs
Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Rick Ross - Teflon Don
Fat Joe - The Darkside Vol. 1
Bun B - Trill O.G.

 

1. MGMT - Congratulations
2. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz
——————
4. Vampire Weekend - Contra
5. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days
6. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
7. The National - High Violet
8. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
9. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
10. Marina & the Diamonds - The Family Jewels

This year was the end of middle school / beginning of high school for me, and the first year where I actively listened to albums front-to-back (thanks to Congratulations)

 

Going back to the Jonsi album, I forgot how damn good this thing is. Up there with anything Sigur Ros has done. So fucking catchy.

 

Couple of creepy songs from 2010

The intimate, manipulated vocals on this are awesome

And this track hits upon one of my favourite things in music - melodies that sound like they belong to a different song but still somehow work

 

Worth noting that we still have not had a hip-hop winner. I'm sure it will come with little surprise but some frustration to the hip-hop heads that Kanye will (likely) be the first one.

 

1.The Chariot - Long Live
2. Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise
3. KanyeWest -My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Honorable Mentions:

Bring Me The Horizon - There Is A Hell...
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
The Devil Wears Parada - Zombie EP
Girl Talk – All Day
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager
Letlive - Fake History
Los Campesinos - Romance is Boring
Minus the Bear – Omni
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
The National - High Violet
Parkway Drive - Deep Blue
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Underoath - Ø
The Wonder Years - The Upsides

 

2010
1. Hans Zimmer - Inception (Music From The Motion Picture)
2. Eminem - Recovery
3. My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys

4. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - The Social Network
5. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. The Black Keys - Brothers
7. Jimmy Eat World - Invented
8. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
9. Michael Giacchino - LOST: The Final Season (Original Television Soundtrack)
10. Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
11. Angels & Airwaves - LOVE, Pt. 1
12. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday
13. Rihanna - Loud
14. Minus The Bear - Omni
15. Anberlin - Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place

Honorable Mention
How To Destroy Angels (EP)

Favorite songs from other 2010 albums
Far East Movement - "Like A G6"
B.o.B. - "Airplanes, Pt. II"
Katy Perry - "Teenage Dream"
Usher - "Lil Freak"
Pretty Lights - "Total Fascination"
Weezer - "Memories"
Ke$ha - "TiK ToK"
Lil Wayne - "Knockout"
Christina Aguilera - "Woohoo"
Diddy - "Hello Good Morning"
Enrique Iglesias - "I Like It"
Ludacris - "My Chick Bad"
Lil Wayne - "I'm Single"
Brandon Flowers - "Only The Young"

 

I only checked that out yesterday. Really liked it.

 

I completely missed this album when I originally made my list but thankfully it was mentioned here so I was able to include it. I go back and forth between this and You’re Dead! as their best but I’d probably give Cosmogramma the edge, just a fantastic mostly instrumental mind warping album all around.

 

it is dumb. numerous that should have won.

 

1 is better than 0. This is the last chance

 

I havent refreshed my memory on what else came out those years, but I'd imagine that Kendrick's 3 studio albums could be in the running for their years.

 

My Krazy Life or death

 

List edited to include MCR and MTB. Also I had the WRONG record from Ida Maria in there, was thinking of her 2008.

 

With a mediocre album nonetheless

 

How can one person have so many bad takes

 

I’ve been saying that im hindsight Kanye fell off after Late Registration

 

Hard to say jerry. It’s truly remarkable

 

You might be dying alone on that hill man.

 

Yeah I’ve found that it’s an unpopular opinion on this site. Oh well. I just never enjoyed much of it outside of a few songs. Always surprised me the love it got.