Best Albums of 2010

Listed below are the best albums of 2010 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 6 hours ago).
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2010 year summaryThe best artists of 2010 were Kanye West, Arcade Fire, The National, Beach House, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz, Deerhunter, Sufjan Stevens, Joanna Newsom and The Black Keys.
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"The new pornographers returned with a mid-tempo rocker (for them anyway) picking up the pace of "challengers" a bit but still not returning to their glory days. Most songs only have 1-or-2 hooks whereas their first two albums packed 2-to-4 hooks in every song."  Reply
- paladisiac | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Sweet cocktail of an album. Strong songs all the way through with a very cool delivery. This album and others popular in urban enclaves at the time -- e..g. Washed Out, Neon Indian, Small Black, Yacht, Yeosayer -- were the soundtrack for life in the bubble of Obama's blue America, especially on t..."  [+]  Reply
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"Fast. Loud. Emotional. Heavy. This album changed the way i view music entirely. Lyrical masterpiece. Instrumental Masterpiece. Go listen to 'I Dont Care If You're Contagious' and 'The Boy Who Could Fly' right. Now."  Reply
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"Fantastic Norwegian metal. First track has pummeling drums which gives an indication that it's going down a bit of a black metal road. This is not the case. From track 2 onward sets the tone of the album. Heavy as fuck but with the rhythms and riffs of classic metal. Top notch metal album."  Reply
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