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A Not Quite Definitive Best Of 2010 Lists List.....
Apologies to anyone who has already posted something similar but this has taken me rather a long time to complete hence the urge to share (and Pitchfork and the Guardian only posted their lists today)...
Over the last few nights (when I could have been doing something constructive), I've compiled a 'list of lists' based upon end of year polls from a number of non-specialist music websites and magazines. The sources were;
Clash / Drowned In Sound / The Guardian / Mojo / NME / Pitchfork / Q / Spin / Stereogum / Uncut
The Rules...
- The number of albums that each magazine had in their list varied from 40-75, for fairness sake only the Top 40 from each list are included
- Points have been awarded (1-40) against each placing in each list i.e. 1st place = 40 points, 40th place = 1 point, not placed = 0 points.
Three main lists have been produced;
Albums Of 2010 (UK/US).. 181 Nominations: All Sources
US* Albums Of 2010... 79 Nominations: Pitchfork / Spin /Stereogum
UK* Albums Of 2010... 149 Nominations: Clash / DiS / The Guardian / Mojo / NME / Q / Uncut
*Refers to origin of magazine/website rather than artist.
And two UK sub-lists…
'Younger Demographic'* Albums of 2010... NME / Drowned In Sound / Clash
'Middle Aged'* Albums of 2010... Uncut / MOJO / Q / The Guardian
*Refers to target market of magazine rather than age of artist
Here's Mike Read to introduce the results in a very interesting outfit...
The Results...
The Top 40 Albums of 2010 (UK/US)
01. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
02. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
03. Beach House - Teen Dream
04. The National - High Violet
05. Vampire Weekend - Contra
06. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
07. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
08. Caribou - Swim
09. These New Puritans - Hidden
10. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
11. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
12= Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
12= Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
14. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
15. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
16. Robyn - Body Talk
17. MGMT - Congratulations
18. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
19= Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
19= The Black Keys - Brothers
19= Foals - Total Life Forever
22. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
23. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
24. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son Of Chico Dusty
25. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
26. Sleigh Bells - Treats
27. Robert Plant Band Of Joy
28= Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
28= No Age - Everything In Between
30. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
31. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
32. MIA - /\/\/\Y/\
33. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
34. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
35. Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
36. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
37. Gayngs - Relayted
38= The-Dream - Love King
38= Neil Young - Le Noise
40. Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
The Top 20 Albums of 2010 (US)
01. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
02. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
03. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
04. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
05. Vampire Weekend - Contra
06. Beach House - Teen Dream
07. Robyn - Body Talk
08. Janelle Monae - The Archandroid
09. Sleigh Bells - Treats
10. Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: Son Of Chico Dusty
11= Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
11= Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
13= Yeasayer - Odd Blood
13= Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (II)
15= The National - High Violet
15= Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
15= Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
18. No Age - Everything In Between
19. Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
20. The-Dream - Love King
The Top 20 Albums of 2010 (UK)
01. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
02. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
03. These New Puritans - Hidden
04. The National - High Violet
05. Caribou - Swim
06. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
07. Beach House - Teen Dream
08. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
09= Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
09= Foals - Total Life Forever
11= Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
11= Yeasayer - Odd Blood
13. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
14. Vampire Weekend - Contra
15. The Black Keys - Brothers
16. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
17. MGMT - Congratulations
18. Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
19. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
20. Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
The Top 20 'Younger Demographic' Albums of 2010 (UK)
01. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
02. These New Puritans - Hidden
03. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
04= Caribou - Swim
04= The National - High Violet
06. Foals - Total Life Forever
07. Beach House - Teen Dream
08. Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
09. Yeasayer - Odd Blood
10. Sufjan Stevens - The Age Of Adz
11. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
12. Villagers - Becoming A Jackal
13. Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
14. Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here?
15= Gonjasufi - A Sufi And A Killer
15= No Age - Everything In Between
17. Deftones - Diamond Eyes
18= Perfume Genius - Learning
18= The Phantom Band - Wants
20. The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
The Top 20 'Middle Aged' Albums of 2010 (UK)
01. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
02. John Grant - Queen Of Denmark
03. Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation
04. Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here
05. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
06. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
07. Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
08= The National - High Violet
08= Vampire Weekend - Contra
08= Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
11. The Black Keys - Brothers
12. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
13. Grinderman - Grinderman 2
14. MGMT - Congratulations
15. Manic Street Preachers - Postcards From A Young Man
16. Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
17= These New Puritans - Hidden
17= Hot Chip - One Life Stand
19= Caribou - Swim
19= Beach House - Teen Dream
There is a very large spreadsheet to back this up if anyone is interested, in the meantime I'm off for a lie down.
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just wanted to say thanks
for putting so much work into this. Can't say I've heard a huge amount of much of it. But I do like Laura Marling, Foals and - surprisingly Sufjan Stevens - as I haven't really liked much of his stuff previously.
Thanks again and take that well deserved rest - at least you'll have a lot to listen to!
That's some good analysis
but you've conjured up your own categories there. Mind you, regardless of how you do the stats, Arcade Fire and Kanye West still always win. Sad times :(
Thanks for gathering this together
Here's a link to a Spotify playlist (assembled by a kind person) Of Rough Trade's top 100 albums
http://open.spotify.com/user/kevmaguire/playlist/2o3287kweVfl3AsjE0Pxua
Thanks!
and Hurrah for the mighty Deerhunter I say. It is heartening to see a band gradually maturing and producing some excellent work several LPs into their career (especially a beat combo on the 'indie scene' where bands seem to go from 10 people at a gig, to enormodomes and back to oblivion in the space of a year)
Cheers
Excellent work!
..and I have all but 3 of your 21- I think it's been a good year for intelligent rock music
Who are they bribing? Arcade Fire, I mean.
They can't be so universally liked that they top everything unless bags full of wonga are changing hands. I mean, they're BLOODY AWFUL.
Maybe it's because
The Arcade Fire and particularly Kanye West are very very good records.
Thanks For The Analysis
I have officially fallen out with the critics
Unsure what to think of 2010
I have 13 of the records in the top 20 uk list, only Grinderman (3), John Grant (3) Robert Plant (4) and Laura Marling (6) have been played more than twice according to my iTunes account. It may be a bit skewed as I use Sonos just as much which doesn't collate the number of times played but still....
My top 5 played (according to iTunes)
David Ford - Let the Hard Times Roll
Mick Thomas & Michael Barclay - Head Full of Roadkill
Chris Difford - Cashmere If You Can
Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Kristin Hersh - Crooked
Excellent work....
....but at the risk of driving you to top yourself, you do know that there is a website that amalgamates these year-end lists don't you?
At acclaimedmusic.net they include something like 150 charts from the US, UK and all over Europe. Their - or actually his - massive spreadsheets can be downloaded and played around with at will.
Your hard work is not in vain however, as Acclaimedmusic will wait to the year to finish before publishing his 2010 list.
Now somebody tells me...
Thanks for the tip off, it may help to cure me of my unhealthy spreadsheet fixation...
Yeasayer
I can confirm that Odd Blood by Yeasayer is superb.