Not been a great year, but not awful by any means.

My favorites so far:

Contra - Vampire Weekend

Together - New Pornographers (their best yet)

Love Is All - Two Thousand and Ten Injuries

B.O.B. - The Adventures of Bobby Ray (pure pop album of the year)

Hot Chip - One Life Stand

Kelis - Flesh Tone

Maya - MIA

Funstyle - Liz Phair (yes it's kinda silly but my brain just seems to shut down with her. Oh god ima fam!)

Prince - 20ten (begins and ends weak. But oh that middle...) Treats - sleigh bells (novelty album. But I like it)

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Scissor Sisters - Night Work

The National - High Violet

The Black Keys - Brothers

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

Groove Armada - Black Light

Hot Chip - One Life Stand

Yeasayer - Odd Blood

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Marina & The Diamonds - The Family Jewels

Kelis - Flesh Tone

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1. Janelle Monae- The ArchAndroid

2. LCD Soundsystem- This Is Happening

3. Kylie Minogue- Aphrodite

4. Gorillaz- Plastic Beach

5. Prince- 20Ten

6. James Murphy- Greenberg (OST)

I've also heard and somewhat enjoy:

Hot Chip- One Life Stand

Goldfrapp- Head First

Marina and the Diamonds- The Family Jewels

I was somewhat disappointed by Sade's Soldier of Love.

Looking forward to releases by:

Chromeo

!!!

Arcade Fire (these 3 all released albums within months of each other in 2007 too.)

Kim Wilde

1. The Sea - Corinne Bailey Rae

2. Soldier Of Love - Sade

3. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae

4. Another Round - Jaheim

5. The Love And War Masterpiece - Raheem DeVaughn

6. Aphrodite - Kylie Minogue

7. Still Standing - Monica

8. Teflon Don - Rick Ross

9. The Imagine Project - Herbie Hancock

10. 20TEN - Prince

So far:

1. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part two.

2. Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid.

3. Prince - 20TEN.

4. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma.

5. Kelis - Flesh Tone.

6. UNKLE - Where Did The Night Fall.

7. N'Dambi - Pink Elephant.

8. The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble - Miles Away.

9. Yahzara - The Ballad Of Purple St James.

Best reissue this year so far:

The Art Of Noise - Influence.

1. MGMT - Congratulations

2. Yeasayer - Odd Blood

3. Jonsi - Go

4. David Byrne & Fatboy Slim - Here Lies Love

5. Macy Gray - The Sellout

6. Drake - Thank Me Later

7. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

8. The Hot Rats - Turn Ons

9. Vampire Weekend - Contra

10. Massive Attack - Heligoland

subject to change, of course

Seems the older I get, the fewer albums I buy - and the higher the likelihood that I'm already familiar with the artists. But for 2010 -

Really Like -

1. Scissor Sisters - Night Work

2. Black Francis - The Golem

3. The National - High Violet

4. Reggie Watts - Why S*** So Crazy?

5. The Break Up - The Break Up

Dashed Expectations -

Hot Chip - One Life Stand

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

Disliked -

Murder By Death -Good Morning, Magpie

Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn

MarkThrust said:

Seems the older I get, the fewer albums I buy - and the higher the likelihood that I'm already familiar with the artists. But for 2010 -

Really Like -

1. Scissor Sisters - Night Work

2. Black Francis - The Golem

3. The National - High Violet

4. Reggie Watts - Why S*** So Crazy?

5. The Break Up - The Break Up

Dashed Expectations -

Hot Chip - One Life Stand

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

Disliked -

Murder By Death -Good Morning, Magpie

Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn

I was definitely disappointed with LCD. The tracks just don't have that much interesting going on to drone for 8 minutes or whatever!

Janelle Monae- The ArchAndroid

Quadron- Quadron

Corinne Bailey Rae- The Sea

M.I.A. - /\/\/\Y/\ (MAYA)

Don't have one quite yet, but Badu, Monae and Sade have been outstanding thus far.

Waiting to hear 20TEN, the new Bilal album, Maxwell's followup (if it's going to drop this year), and Madvillain.

1. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
2. Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
3. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
4. Sleigh Bells - Treats
5. Goldfrapp - Head First
6. The Like - Release Me
7. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
8. The Dead Weather - Sea Of Cowards

9. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
10. Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1

I haven't listened to or heard a whole album this year and can barely think of 10 singles....

.. own these releases ..

Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh

Janelle Monae The Archandroid

Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea

Hot Chip One Life Stand

Georgia Anne Muldrow Kings Ballad

YahZarah The Ballad of Purple Saint James

.. Have enjoyed, but do not own ..

Gorillaz Plastic Beach

Kelis Fleshtone

Quadron Quadron

.. looking forward to hearing ..

Kylie Minogue Aphrodite

The Roots How I Got Over
Joanna Newsome Have One on Me

Flying Lotus Cosmogramma

Big Boi Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Return of Chico Dusty

Gonjasufi A Sufi and a Killer

Abe Vigoda Crush

Robyn The Body Talk, Pt 1 & 2

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings I Learned the Hard Way

Can I vote just singles?

man its only july.....

Addiction Chico DeBarge

New Amerykah 2 Erykah Badu

Imagine Project Herbie Hancock

The Roots How I Got Over

song honorable mentions:

Aphrodite Kylie Minogue

How You Like Me Now The Heavy

MendesCity said:

MarkThrust said:

Seems the older I get, the fewer albums I buy - and the higher the likelihood that I'm already familiar with the artists. But for 2010 -

Really Like -

1. Scissor Sisters - Night Work

2. Black Francis - The Golem

3. The National - High Violet

4. Reggie Watts - Why S*** So Crazy?

5. The Break Up - The Break Up

Dashed Expectations -

Hot Chip - One Life Stand

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening

Disliked -

Murder By Death -Good Morning, Magpie

Evelyn Evelyn - Evelyn Evelyn

I was definitely disappointed with LCD. The tracks just don't have that much interesting going on to drone for 8 minutes or whatever!

Wow. I'm surprised! I think This Is Happening is rightfully awesome. It may not be as amazing as Sound of Silver, but practically nothing is.

The Archandroid

New Amerykah II

Distant Relatives

Stray Bullets

Soldier Of Love

I Learned The Hard Way

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR!!

an EP....but i'm counting it.

not 100% thrilled but i'll include this one too.

don't own these two yet..but i'm sure they'd be on the list for this year so far.

and round it out with HALF of this album..

shit...that was hard coming up with 10

Moonbeam said:

MendesCity said:

I was definitely disappointed with LCD. The tracks just don't have that much interesting going on to drone for 8 minutes or whatever!

Wow. I'm surprised! I think This Is Happening is rightfully awesome. It may not be as amazing as Sound of Silver, but practically nothing is.

I really want to like it, and there's some songs on it that are definite faves...but the things that bug me about this album really bug me...

Remove the tedious introduction to Dance Yrself Clean; drop Somebody's Calling Me and edit You Wanted a Hit to under 6 minutes? I'd be arguing this album is as good as Sound of Silver.

rocknrolldave said:

Top ten of 2010?! You're kidding, right....? I couldn't pick a top two, it's been that poor this year.

Agreed. I can only think of one album I really enjoyed this year so far.

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Not in order.

1. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Uni5: The World's Enemy

2. Krayzie Bone - The Fixtape 3: Lyrical Paraphernalia

3. Tech N9ne - The Lost Scripts Of K.O.D.

4. Brotha Lynch Hung - Dinner And A Movie

And although not releases you can find in stores

5. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Thugggish II

6. Bone Thugs N Harmony - Bone 2010

Not out yet, but will most likely make my list

7. Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon 2: The Legend Of Mr. Rager

8. Bizzy Bone - Crossroads 2010 (Judging by the snippets, it's okay but not amazing)

9. Tech N9ne Collabos: The Gates Mixed Plate

And these following are not released in 2010, but they are still relevant and still have singles and selling copies.

10. The Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.

With that said, another good album from 2009 that is still relevant in 2010 that I would have added if we could have more than 10 is Alicia Keys - The Element Of Freedom. Tech N9ne's K.O.D. was great too, and was released in late 2009, but I don't think it'd be possible to add that in considering the "era" of that album (videos, promotion, ect) is gone.

Moonbeam said:

MendesCity said:

I was definitely disappointed with LCD. The tracks just don't have that much interesting going on to drone for 8 minutes or whatever!

Wow. I'm surprised! I think This Is Happening is rightfully awesome. It may not be as amazing as Sound of Silver, but practically nothing is.

That first track for me is just a momentum killer - there's always been something about Murphy that puts me off a little. Can't quite put my finger on it - it's like he seems bored or something. And that long first track really highlights that somehow. I do like a few songs on it, though.

MarkThrust said:

Moonbeam said:

Wow. I'm surprised! I think This Is Happening is rightfully awesome. It may not be as amazing as Sound of Silver, but practically nothing is.

I really want to like it, and there's some songs on it that are definite faves...but the things that bug me about this album really bug me...

Remove the tedious introduction to Dance Yrself Clean; drop Somebody's Calling Me and edit You Wanted a Hit to under 6 minutes? I'd be arguing this album is as good as Sound of Silver.

Totally agree.