iB::Topic::Best Albums of 2010?

bilmas
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my top ten, in no particular order (except for allo' darlin' being number one)

allo' darlin' - s/t (as well as all the 7"s they put out this year)
sufjan stevens - all delighted people ep
sufjan stevens - the age of adz
betty & the werewolves - teatime favourites
truckstop honeymoon - homemade haircut
against me! - white crosses
world/inferno friendship society - hallowmas 2010 7"
the school - loveless unbeliever
butts - number two
small bones - s/t

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iwannabeyourtampon,Sep. 27 2004,23:13
If making a class seems more important to you than Hallowmas, you need to get your priorities straight.

-INFERNITE

posted on Nov. 30 2010,10:01
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Matt the Knife
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no particular order:

Johnny Miles & the WaywardsWhen the Saints Sleep
Paul WellerWake Up Nation
Cee-Lo GreenThe Ladykiller
Joanna NewsomHave One on Me
Elvis CostelloNational Ransom
Laurie AndersonHomeland
SuperchunkMajesty Shredding
Franz NicolayLuck & Courage
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse {r.i.p}Dark Night of the Soul
Willie NelsonCountry Music
Johnny CashAmerican VI: Ain't No Grave
Jack Rose {r.i.p}Luck in the Valley
Abe VigodaCrush
Kanye WestMy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

There were some great re-issues this year too: Bruce Springsteen Darkness on the Edge of Town, Iggy & the Stooges Raw Power, The Rolling Stones Exile on Main St., David Bowie Station to Station, NIN Pretty Hate Machine really stand out though.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,11:38
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in no order...

Arcade Fire - Suburbs
Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
The National - High Violet
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Fitz and the Tantrums - Picking up the Peices
Agiants Me! - White Crosses
Franz Nicolay - Luck and Courage
New Pornogarphers - Together
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo (decent solo effort)

Notable Dissapointment - The Hold Steady... they lost a step with Franz!

Notable Live
Avett Brothers Live Volume 3
Dan Bern Live from LA
Indigo Girls
Bruce Re-Isuues

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,13:31
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No Order:

Fight Like Apes - The Body Of Christ And The Legs Of Tina Turner
The Bad Plus - Never Stop
Franz Nicolay - Luck and Courage
Anti-Social Music - Fracture: The Music of Pat Muchmore
Anti-Social Music - Greatest Hits... LIVE(ish)
Anti-Social Music V.S. Franz Nicolay - Unlucky & Discouraged (Remixes) (Released today for free!)
Memory Map - Holiday Band
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt
Ke$ha - Cannibal
Chumbawamba - ABCDEFG
Dark Dark Dark - Bright Bright Bright

All of I can think of right now.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,14:15
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XXXyouwouldXXX
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Also in no order
Luck and Courage- Franz Nicolay
Heaven is whenever - The Hold Steady
Rohnert Park - Ceremony
Man on the moon vol 2 - Kid Cudi
Grinderman 2-Grinderman
Off! first four eps- Off!
Mc chris goes to hell - mc chris
Lapse demo - Lapse
T.W.W.L. 7"" - Troops of Tomorrow
Sea of Cowards - The Dead Weather

posted on Nov. 30 2010,16:17
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bilmas
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i will never understand the album - artist format

nothing about it seems natural

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iwannabeyourtampon,Sep. 27 2004,23:13
If making a class seems more important to you than Hallowmas, you need to get your priorities straight.

-INFERNITE

posted on Nov. 30 2010,16:18
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XXXyouwouldXXX
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Did not mean to offend

posted on Nov. 30 2010,16:22
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parapunx
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here's my 'world' list...missing ex soviet (russian$co) and ex yugoslavian (croatian&co) releases

Adversión - el juicio final (2010) madrid oicore
Against Me! - White Crosses (2010) :blushing:
Anal Thunder - Time Of Your Life (2010) Swede!Swede! (Heartbreak Ridge scene)

Autistic Youth - Idle Minds (2010) awesome!
Banda Bassotti - Check Point Kreuzberg Live At The SO36 (2010) my favorite band! italian ska/punks
Brendan Kelly - Joe McMahon - Wasted Potential Split (2010) me likes!
Chumbawamba - ABCDEFG (2010) it's ok

Fast Forward - At The Peak (2010) polish hardcore
HARDxTIMES - Life is Battlefield (2010) paris SXE oi
heratys - s-t (2010) sweet mother of sweden hc
Hour Of The Wolf - Decompositions Vol I LP (2010)
Ignotus - Punk 'n' Roll (2010) madrid punk'n'roll
Iron Chic - Not Like This (2010)
KOP - Accio Directa (2010) catalunya hardcore
Los Muchachos - La Cara Del Odio (2010) oi boys from madrid!
Mary's Kids - Mary's Kids (2010) swe 1
Masshysteri - Masshysteri (2010) swe 2
Mindset - Time And Pressure EP- (2010)
None More Black - Icons (2010) ok
Off With Their Heads - In Desolation (2010)
Reaching Away - Push Away The Moon (2010) emo
RPG-7 - ... Un Paso de un Largo Camino (2010) oicore madrid, spain
Sista Sekunden - aldras med stil (2010) crazy sweeds
Smoke or Fire - The Speakeasy (2010)
Stage Bottles - Power for Revenge (2010) german street punx! <3
Street Dogs - Street Dogs (2010) dogs!
Swingin' Utters - Taking The Long Way EP + Brand New Lungs EP (2010) lungs are great!
The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang (2010)
The Hotknives - About Time (2010) skaa
The Kings Of Nuthin - Old Habits Die Hard Ltd.Ed. (2010) although it leaked in 2008.

The Peacocks - After All (2010) swiss rockabilly

pending...(not leaked yet)

8°6 Crew - Old reggae friends awesome french skinhead reggae/ska/oi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frP8acZbWHg

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,17:08
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Matt the Knife
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It's amazing how completely out of touch I am with punk/hardcore after the late 90's. It's like Refused broke up and I just stopped paying attention. All my favorite punks bands tend to be from the 70's or 80's hardcore. Even the newer punk stuff I like tends to be bands that have just been around forever.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,18:39
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VASS
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Over all a weak year with too many disappointments.

1. My Chemical Romance
2. Gaslight Anthem
3. Arcade Fire:
4. Frightened Rabbit
5. Jimmy eat World: Invented
6. Bruce Springsteen - The Promise
7. Robert Plant: Band of Joy

The lets downs:
Kings of Leon
Kate Nash
Full of fancy

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,18:50
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whoaman
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no particular order, just like everyone else

hold steady - heaven is whenever
world/inferno - hallowmas 7 inch
sharon jones and the dap kings - i learned the hard way
cee lo green - the ladykiller
troops of tomorrow - TWWL 7 inch

i still haven't listened to luck and courage, which i expect to fix soon, but, otherwise, i didn't really pay attention to new music this year. i went through familiarizing myself with the entire tom waits catalogue and important older punk bands that i had skipped.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,19:24
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Do you guys really like the album Ladykiller? I thought it was pretty weak except for Fuck You obviously. But I guess that song is so good it can carry the entire album.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,19:43
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Matt the Knife
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Quote (threemosphere @ Nov. 30 2010,19:43)

Do you guys really like the album Ladykiller? I thought it was pretty weak except for Fuck You obviously. But I guess that song is so good it can carry the entire album.

I did like the record overall. It's not really a great record, but as Vass rightly pointed out, this was a WEAK year for music. On my list the every record is at least a 6/10, that was the qualification.

Johnny Miles gets a 7.5
Paul Weller gets a 7.5
Cee-Lo barely gets a 6
Joanna Newsom gets a 8.5
Elvis Costello gets a 6.5
Laurie Anderson gets a 7
Superchunk gets a 6.5
Franz Nicolay gets a 7.5
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse gets a 6
Willie Nelson gets a 6.5
Johnny Cash gets a 6
Jack Rose gets a 7.5
Abe Vigoda gets 6
Kanye West gets a 9

By that rating system I'd say very good to great means 8 or above, meaning I'd say only Joanna Newsom and Kanye put out what I would consider great records this year. Which is really sad.

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posted on Nov. 30 2010,22:21
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bilmas
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not sure if it will move you the way it moved me but if you haven't listened to allo darlin here is most of everything i have by them not including the bruce and ramones covers:

http://www.mediafire.com/?q4rtfd33cx1kysv

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iwannabeyourtampon,Sep. 27 2004,23:13
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posted on Nov. 30 2010,22:28
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Matt the Knife
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Downloading now. I'll take a listen.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,01:00
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ariana
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off the top of my head, the new gaslight anthem and bad religion.

posted on Dec. 01 2010,12:23
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Matt the Knife
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Gaslight Anthem are like a shittier/more commercial version of the Ratchets. But then again Gaslight, Hold Steady, and even the Ratchets (though I really enjoy a few of their songs)

And frankly, I'm tired of all these bands tapping into (i.e., ripping off) Springsteen and trying to install themselves in that progeny. Springsteen was like a forest fire that consumed arenas and stadiums and purged them of overbloated arena rock a la Kiss at least for ONE fucking night. He was a revolution/revelation. He did it. No one has even come close to doing it better. Stop trying and get off the man's jock. He has his legacy and being a poor man's Springsteen (or a poor man's anything) isn't exactly an admirable or desirable legacy to carry.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,12:28
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Gaslight Anthem has been a guilty pleasure of mine for a good part of the year. I tried not to like them for a while and it just didn't work out. and for the record, they do a rip off other people as well.

Anyway, topic at hand:
New Kings of Nuthin'-best album.

Other ones in my book:
Fake Problems-Real Ghosts Caught On Tape
AM!-White Crosses
The Flatliners-Calvacade
The Dreadnoughts-Polka Never Dies
The Slackers-Great Rocksteady Swindle
Gogol Bordello-Trans-Continental Hustle (sue me)
Less Than Jake-TV/EP
Jesse Minute-Shut Up and Play

I'll throw The Promise in there, but I think the whole shabang adds a lot more than just the pure audio.

posted on Dec. 01 2010,13:49
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The_Terminator
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!!!TITUS ANDRONICUS-THE MONITOR!!!!
OMEGAS-SONIC ORDER EP
FUCKED UP-Year of the Ox and/or Davids Plan 7"
Masshysteri S/T
Ceremony-Rohnert Park
the GRUDGES demo

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,13:52
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ariana
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fuuuuck i need to check out the new slackers record. and i agree with your criticisms, matt the knife. BUT THEY'RE JUST SO DAMN CATCHY!

posted on Dec. 01 2010,14:07
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not the best year for new music, for me.

i recently realized that i like the new against me! record in the same way i like two and a half men - i realize both are terrible, but they are both catchy/funny in the most 'lowest common denominator' way. the tv show revolves around the same inane jokes that you always see coming but still laugh at, and the band uses the same generic pop hook in every song that you've heard a million times but still gets stuck in your head.

the ex's latest was disappointing, mainly due to the new singer.

uz jsme doma put out a good record this year, but i only discovered them a couple months ago so all of their records were new to me, and some of the older ones are much better.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,17:59
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Pretty sure Anarchy & Ecstasy will be the best album of 2011

posted on Dec. 01 2010,18:31
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Quote (syndicatex @ Dec. 01 2010,18:31)

Pretty sure Anarchy & Ecstasy will be the best album of 2011

yes
yes it will be

defiance ohio - midwestern minutes is still my call. i guess its a derivative choice for me but oh well.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,18:36
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also:
- second midwestern minutes!
- 'messy, isn't it?' - dangers
- 'odd blood' - yeasayer

i want to say last year was a better year for music, but now that i think about it, i didn't make much of an effort to listen to new material from bands that i didn't know. these are just releases from bands i already know and love. i want to change that!

posted on Dec. 01 2010,18:58
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peteis2cool4u
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I dont have a list for this year but this just came out
http://www.mediafire.com/?18feh1881cl858o#2

It's the Crazy Spirt 7" which is fucking rad

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,19:22
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Quote (peteis2cool4u @ Dec. 01 2010,22:22)

I dont have a list for this year but this just came out
http://www.mediafire.com/?18feh1881cl858o#2

It's the Crazy Spirt 7" which is fucking rad

Backed. So fucking good. And you can't tell from the mp3s, but beautiful packaging as well.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,19:37
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oh, Demander's Future Brite came out early this year! one of the best records of the last 10 years, and probably the next too. couldn't believe my ears when i first heard these songs. it was music that i was hoping somebody would make sometime but nobody had until then.

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,20:07
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bilmas
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ysi it?

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iwannabeyourtampon,Sep. 27 2004,23:13
If making a class seems more important to you than Hallowmas, you need to get your priorities straight.

-INFERNITE

posted on Dec. 01 2010,20:09
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sharon jones and the dap-kings- i learned the hard way
screaming females- castle talk
arcade fire- the suburbs
joanna newsom- have one on me
esperanza spalding- chamber music society
fang island- fang island
brian wilson- brian wilson reimagines gershwin
sufjan stevens- age of adz

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posted on Dec. 01 2010,20:13
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Quote (BurnItDown @ Dec. 01 2010,20:37)

Quote (peteis2cool4u @ Dec. 01 2010,22:22)

I dont have a list for this year but this just came out
http://www.mediafire.com/?18feh1881cl858o#2

It's the Crazy Spirt 7" which is fucking rad

Backed. So fucking good. And you can't tell from the mp3s, but beautiful packaging as well.

these guys are also all awesome people. they are doing a west coast tour this winter.

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