Gone to Shiloh - great great song. best thing johns done in years. Including the lion king.

Fuck You = single of the year, possibly the decade. It'll take some beating.

Bloodbuzz Ohio = close runner up. Can't tell you how excited I was to hear this for the first time on the radio.

...or even the new Duffy, I don't care. The rest of the album doesn't particularly grab me but this one song is like sinking into a warm bath. Simply gorgeous.

and

The Black Keys - Ten Cent Pistol

I just love the easy rolling swagger of this track. The arrangement shimmers in perfect harmony with the cautionary lyrics, the short guitar breaks and stabs of organ blend perfectly. It's like having the blues of Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac sold back to us from across the pond.

Broken Bells - Vaporize

I love the Shins. They can do no wrong so I'm hooked on this before I even have to listen to it. Similar to The Black Keys in the way it evokes pop music of yesteryear with its Beatles influenced melodies. Just a great pop song.

Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss

Retro again of a Pink Floyd psychedelic epic-pop hue but aided and abetted with some French disco. Any track that includes the line There's a party in my head and no is invited is always going to be given top billing in the Bisto musical brain

Neil Cowley Trio - Stereoface

I'm a sucker for melodic light jazz where percussion, bass and piano work in harmony to create complex but accessible arrangements out of simple components. Just as well as that's what you get with NCT

Ali Farke Toure & Toumani Diabate : Be Mankan

Such incredible music. It makes me cry with its overwhelming beauty

He just gets better and better. The whole of the Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen album 'For The Ghosts Within' is magical but this really stands out.

I know it's an oldie but was released only yesterday in remastered form:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/232004#ooid=hhYTh0MTocP27sY...

but I'd like to champion this one as apart from being a great track, from a great album I fear it might pass a lot of people by and that would be a great shame. As a bonus it has a lovely Christmassy feel with the brass - beautiful.

The Walkmen - Stranded [from the album 'Lisbon']

http://open.spotify.com/album/6yX8iQViJUkdaAo0LCP7H6

An album that's coming up fast on the rails and challenging for the duco01 2010 Album of the Year title is "Porcor" (ECM) by the Norwegian duo of Trygve Seim (saxophones) & Andreas Utnem (keyboards).
Here's a track from it: "Praeludium, Improvisation"

Every November myself and a few pub-buddies get together to swap CDs of the years hits and highlights(these don't have to be entirely new tunes, just new to you this year).My comp' is downloadable here...
http://www.divshare.com/direct/13111026-6b7.mp3

With the tracklist below (to avoid getting the Word website a DMCA blog-whacking)

http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-like-it-what-is-it.html

John Grant - Marz (and pretty much the whole Queen of Denmark album)
LCD Soundsystem - I Can Change (still cursing the fact their double-bill tour with Hot Chip didn't make it to Scotland)
MGMT - Congratulations

And a bundle of other stuff from Weller, Janelle Monae, Ariel Pink, M.I.A. and others I'll kick myself later for not remembering...

"More Than a Lover" could just as easily have been "1000 years"

(and she is beautiful)

Cee Lo Green - Fuck you

Paul Weller - No Tears To Cry

Mumford & Sons - The Cave

so here's Shelby Lynne instead:

and while I'm at it here's Court Yard Hounds

Always happy when it popped on the radio

all year is Darwin Deez. Not a bad song on the album, my absolute favourite track has an annoying unofficial video so I'll post this one in stead; Constellations.

Anoter gift that keeps on giving is the Galactic album Ya-Ka-May, represented here by the track Boe Money:

Just to name two that seem to have slipped under the radar of most people - well worth a listen!

On a very short shortlist for jazz album of the year, 2010: "Mirror" by the Charles Lloyd Quartet (ECM).
At the age of 72, Charles Lloyd is making the music of his life.
Try "La Llorona":

King of Spain

Gutsy folk from this Swede - fine voice, fine guitar.

Head First

Bit Abba-esque

Dirty Picture: I bet it's not on the top list of too many people around these parts, but it's by far and away my single of the year. It's the bassline which squelches and growls in a lovely vintage synth manner.

You don't need to agree with me, I'm too busy dancing.

(I liked the Kesha album too, it's a lot of fun!)

Quite a few of the above tracks have excited me over the year as well