ALBUMS
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1) Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
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2) Male Bonding – Nothing Hurts
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3) The Dream – Love King
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4) Fang Island – Fang Island
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5) Grinderman – Grinderman 2
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6) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
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7) Vampire Weekend – Contra
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8) Surfer Blood – Astro Coast
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9) Local Natives – Gorilla Manor
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10) Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot…
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Tallest Man on Earth (the Wild Hunt);
The National (High Violet);
Sleigh Bells (Treats);
The Walkmen (Lisbon);
Wild Nothing (Gemini);
Baths (Cerulean);
Spoon (Transference);
Weekend (Sports); Best Coast (Crazy For You); No Age (Everything in Between); Deerhunter (Halcyon Digest); The Fall (Your Future, Our Clutter); Ted Leo/Pharmacists (The Brutalist Bricks); Arcade Fire (The Suburbs); Charlotte Gainsbourg (IRM)
CRUSHING DISAPPOINTMENTS
The Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever – though it yielded some THS’s most engaging work to date (“Sweet Part of the City,” “The Weekenders“, “Barley Breathing“), the drivel in-between the inspiration made the record hardly worth it.
The New Pornographers – Together – an album that devolves with every track, and unnervingly revolves around Carl Newman’s nasty string habit.
Blitzen Trapper – Destroyer of the Void – as bad as the band name…
ALBUMS OF THE AUGHTS
1) The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday;
2) The Strokes – Is This It?;
3) Wilco – YHFT;
4) My Morning Jacket – Z;
5) The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema;
6) Radiohead – Kid A;
7) Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Hearts of Oak;
8) At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command;
9) Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker;
10) Sleater-Kinney – The Woods;
11) The Postal Service – Give Up;
12) McLusky – Do Dallas;
13) The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow;
14) The White Stripes – De Stijl;
15) El-P – Fantastic Damage;
16) The Dismemberment Plan – Change;
17) The Decemberists – The Crane Wife;
18) Mastodon – Leviathan;
19) Modest Mouse – Good News…;
20) Japandroids – Post-Nothing;
21) TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth…;
22) The Hold Steady – AKM;
23) Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American;
24) Cave In – Jupiter;
25) The Thermals – TB, TB, TM;
26) Saves the Day – Stay What Your Are;
27) Ghostface Killah – Fishscale;
28) Converge – Jane Doe;
29) Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP;
30) Dashboard Confessional – SAR
FLICKS OF 2010
1) True Grit;
2) The Social Network;
3) The King’s Speech;
4) The Fighter; 5) Blue Valentine;
6) Easy A;
7) All Good Things;
8) Black Swan;
9) Inception;
10) Hot Tub Time Machine
PERFORMANCES OF 2010
Christian Bale – The Fighter;
Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech;
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit;
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine;
Ryan Goseling – All Good Things;
Emma Stone – Easy A
TV OF 2010
1) Parks & Recreation
2) Terriers
3) LOST
4) Louie
5) It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
6) The League
7) Not Glee
PEOPLE OF 2010
1) Jimmy McMillan
2) Aziz Ansari
3) Charlie Day
4) Danny McBride
5) Drew Magary
6) Radley Balko
7) Emma Stone
8) Ian Cohen
9) Charles Barkley
10)Pauly Delvecchio (aka Pauly D)
RIP
1) Alex Chilton
2) Terriers
3) Four Loko (original recipe)
Kevin M. Falahee
Brooklyn