[videoheadcleaner]

This topic is for any of those lists published either online or in print of the top albums or songs of the year. I decided on this due to picking up Mojo's Top 50. A little surprised.

1 John Grant - Queen of Denmark - ???
2 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3 MGMT - Congratulations
4 Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
5 The Black Keys - Brothers
6 Paul Weller - Wakes Up The Nation
7 Midlake - The Courage of Others
8 Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy
9 The Coral - Butterfly House
10 Doug Paisley - Constant Companion
11 Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
12 Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone
13 Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
14 Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
15 Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
16 Aerial Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
17 Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer
18 Caribou - Swim
19 Rumer - Seasons of My Soul - (dark horse for me)
20 Grinderman - Grinderman 2 - (yay Aussie!)
21 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Hawk
22 Sam Amidon - I See The Sign
23 Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings - I Learned The Hard Way
24 The Jim Jones Revue - Burning Your House Down
25 Foals - Total Life Forever
26 Gorrilaz - Plastic Beach
27 Field Music - Field Music (Measure)
28 DangerMouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of The Soul - (wasn't this last year)
29 Gill Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
30 Janelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
31 Neil Young - Le Noise
32 Robert Plant - Band of Joy
33 The Roots - How I Got Over You
34 Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
35 M.I.A. - /\/\ /\ Y /\
36 LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
37 Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
38 Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
39 Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephens - For The Ghosts Within
40 Eli Paperboy Reed - Come and Get It
41 Tom Jones - Praise and Blame
42 Kelley Soltz - To Dreamers
43 The Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night
44 Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
45 Roky Erickson with Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
46 Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back - (my initial favourite)
47 Jane Weaver & Septieme Souer - The Fallen By Watch Bird
48 John Legend & The Roots- Wake Up!
49 Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Ali & Toumani
50 Matthew Dear - Black City

[The Best Albums Of 2010]

one of the better lists I've seen so far (apart from not having 'plastic beach')
Stereogum's Top Fifty of 2010

50 Emeralds – Does It Look Like I Am Here?
49 Small Black – New Chain
48 Sharon Van Etten – Epic
47 Baths – Cerulean
46 Frank (Just Frank) – The Brutal Wave
45 Perfume Genius – Learning
44 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
43 Big Boi – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
42 Lower Dens – Twin-Hand Movement
41 Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
40 Glasser – Ring
39 Gold Panda – Lucky Shiner
38 Avey Tare – Down There
37 jj – jj nº3
36 the morning benders – Big Echo
35 Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
34 Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
33 MGMT – Congratulations
32 Twin Shadow – Forget
31 Warpaint – The Fool
30 Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude
29 Matthew Dear – Black City
28 Delorean – Subiza
27 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
26 Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
25 ceo – White Magic
24 Tamaryn – The Waves
23 SALEM – King Night
22 Marnie Stern – Marnie Stern
21 Liars – Sisterworld
20 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
19 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
18 Abe Vigoda – Crush
17 Owen Pallett – Heartland
16 The National – High Violet
15 The-Dream – Love King
14 Yeasayer – Odd Blood
13 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
12 Crystal Castles – II
11 Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
10 Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
09 Wild Nothing – Gemini
08 Antony & The Johnsons – Swanlights
07 Vampire Weekend – Contra
06 Sleigh Bells – Treats
05 Robyn – Body Talk
04 Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
03 Beach House – Teen Dream
02 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
01 Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

[Kiki]

[Applerill]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/239077
That's Rolling Stone's top 30 list.

Kanye West tops it, and the Black Keys got second.

I love how Taylor Swift is on it, but where's Janelle Monae?

[Guest]

[videoheadcleaner]

A listener's poll on Aussie station Triple J last night.

* - denotes Australian album

triple j listener's Top 10 Albums of 2010:

1. ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
*2. TAME IMPALA - InnerSpeaker
*3. ANGUS & JULIA STONE - Down The Way
4. VAMPIRE WEEKEND - Contra
*5. CLOUD CONTROL - Bliss Release
6. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
*7. WASHINGTON - I Believe You Liar
8. THE NATIONAL - High Violet
9. TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - Tourist History
10. YEASAYER - Odd Blood

And because you always want to know:

11. KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
*12. BIRDS OF TOKYO - Birds Of Tokyo
13. MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INTL. - Record Collection
14. GORILLAZ - Plastic Beach
*15. SIA - We Are Born
16. FOALS - Total Life Forever
17. THE BLACK KEYS - Brothers
*18. LITTLE RED - Midnight Remember
*19. CHILDREN COLLIDE - Theory Of Everything
*20. HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY - Escapades

Richard Kingsmill's (head announcer/chief) Top 10 Albums of 2010:

1. KANYE WEST - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
2. THE NATIONAL - High Violet
3. SUFJAN STEVENS - The Age Of Adz
*4. TAME IMPALA - InnerSpeaker
5. AVI BUFFALO - Avi Buffalo
6. LAURA MARLING - I Speak Because I Can
7. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - This Is Happening
8. ARCADE FIRE - The Suburbs
9. YEASAYER - Odd Blood
*10. SIA - We Are Born

Site: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/kingsmill/albumpolls/

Also check out the previous years on here!

[Wombi]

Pitchfork's Top 50 Of 2010

1 My Beautiful Dark Fantasy - Kanye West
2 This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
3 Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
4 Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty - Big Boi
5 Teen Dream - Beach House
6 Contra - Vampire Weekend
7 Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
8 The Bells Sketch EP/CMYK EP/Klavierwerke EP - James Blake
9 Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
10 The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
11 The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
12 The Archandroid - Janelle Monae
13 Everything In Between - No Age
14 Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
15 Body Talk - Robyn
16 Treats - Sleigh Bells
17 Swim - Caribou
18 New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
19 Love Remains - How To Dress Well
20 Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never
21 Lisbon - The Walkmen
22 Broken Dreams Club EP - Girls
23 Sit Down, Man - Das Racist
24 One Life Stand - Hot Chip
25 The Age Of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
26 Forget - Twin Shadow
27 There Is Love In You - Four Tet
28 High Violet - The National
29 Play It Strange - The Fresh And Onlys
30 Love King - The-Dream
31 At Echo Lake - Woods
32 Bastard - Tyler, The Creator
33 The Wild Hunt - The Tallest Man On Earth
34 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
35 Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
36 Does It Look Like I'm Here - Emeralds
37 Stridulum EP - Zola Jesus
38 Teflon Don - Rick Ross
39 Crazy For You - Best Coast
40 Crush - Abe Vigoda
41 Subiza - Delorean
42 Thank Me Later - Drake
43 Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
44 Spiral Shadow - Kylesa
45 I'm New Here - Gil Scott-Heron
46 Black City - Matthew Dear
47 Public Strain - Women
48 Dagger Paths - Forest Swords
49 Gemini - Wild Nothing
50 King Of The Beach - Wavves

Naturally disagree with a lot of their ordering but my biggest gripe is that they fucked over 'Heartland' and 'The Golden Archipelago'. Also 'Sisterworld' got snubbed as an honorary mention and 'Gemini', 'Thank Me Later' and the humongous crap that is 'Crazy For You' got in. Glad to see 'High Violet' didn't touch the top 20. But I don't get why P4k have such a boner for James Blake. Anyway thats my 2 cents.

[thomas697]

[Wombi]

[videoheadcleaner]

1 Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
2 Neil Young – Le Noise
3 Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation
4 Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
5 Robert Plant – Band of Joy
6 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
7 John Grant – Queen of Denmark
8 Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate – Ali and Toumani
9 LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
10 Grinderman – Grinderman II
11 Drive-By Truckers – The Big To-Do
12 These New Puritans – Hidden
13 Vampire Weekend – Contra
14 The National – High Violet
15 Field Music – Field Music (Measure)
16 Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
17 The Fall – Your Future, Our Clutter
18 Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
19 Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
20 Oneohtrix Point Never – Returnal
21 Hans Chew – Tennessee and Other Stories
22 Spoon – Transference
23 Teenage Fanclub – Shadows
24 Alasdair Roberts – Too Long in This Condition
25 Gayngs – Related
26 Los Lobos – Tin Can Trust
27 Voice of the Seven Thunders – Voice of the Seven Thunders
28 The Black Keys – The Black Keys
29 Afrocubism – Afrocubism
30 Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
31 Richard Thompson – Dream Attic
32 The Duke & The King – Long Live The Duke & The King
33 Edywn Collins – Losing Sleep
34 Dylan LeBlanc- Pauper’s Field
35 Roky Erickson and Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil
36 The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever
37 Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea
38 Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen – For the Ghosts Within
39 Yeasayer – Odd Blood
40 Trembling Bells – Abandoned Love
41 Steve Mason – Boys Outside
42 Blitzen Trapper – Destroyers of the Void
43 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
44 Hot Chip – One Life Stand
45 Toro Y Moi – Causers of This
46 Sleigh Bells – Treats
47 Solar Bears – She Was Colored In
48 Zola Jesus – Stridulum II
49 Olof Arnalds – Innundir Skinni
50 Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown

Interesting positions for Arcade Fire and National.

Also found this link. Haven't looked through yet. http://www.albumoftheyear.org/lists.php