Best Albums of 2010

Listed below are the best albums of 2010 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 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 Apples in Stereo" make music with pop appeal. Layered with vocoders, disco strings, wacky synths, and pulsing dancefloor beats that have been blended into their bubblegum indie sound, this album's complex layers still digested easily. Increasingly more synthisized than previous releases and ..."  [+]  Reply
- ~SMiLE~ | 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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"This album is kinda of my "guilty pleasure" album. Certainly not a "greatest album ever" worthy album, but being a young man I gotta have some love for techno/club music. This is one of my favorite techno albums ever. I don't care if it's "mainstream" or not, it's a good ass album. Get some bass-..."  [+]  Reply
- Anti | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 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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"Is it a really great band? Almost! They have all the ingredients necessary. Great musicianship, taste and creativity. But somehow they fail on arrangements. Almost every song of this record has tons of instrumentation. I know the band is big but that doesn't mean that everybody should play at all..."  [+]  Reply
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"For fans of this artist (me) and this album (me) there’s a wonderful 10 year anniversary edition to enjoy featuring the original 7 tracks followed by 7 cover versions of those tracks featuring IDELS, Lucinda Williams, Australia’s Courtney Barnett and none other than Fiona Apple. A wonderful tribu..."  [+]  Reply
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