Top 10 Albums of the Year

[HevyDevy]

1. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver linings
2. Devin Towsend - Addicted. Really loving this CD at the moment.
3. Dark Tranquility - Where Death is Most Alive. Brilliant live album from the masters of melodic death metal
4. Queensryche - American Soldier. Great to have these guys back.
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
6. Devin Townsend - Ki
7. Lamb of God - Wrath
8. Megadeth - Endgame
9. Devil Driver - Pray for Villians
10. Slayer - World Painted Blood. So disappointed in this CD. Slayer has become a band of really cranky old men completely lacking creativity. Still it has its moments.

CD's I've yet to check out this year which would probably make the list
Porcupine Tree - The incident
Between the Buried and Me - The Great misdirect.

Close, but add in Immortal - All Shall Fall, and Behemoth's new one too.

I'll have to have a look back before posting my own top 10 but yes, Dream Theater and Dev will be there.

 

[Godz Illa]

Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Wilco - Wilco
Raewkon - Cuban Linx 2

 

[fish eel]

a late contender for mine list though would be the new REM double live album. Picked it up yesterday but havent played it yet.

 

[Cupid Stunt]

Wouldn't say these are albums of the year, but they have had the most play time in the car & home.

1) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2) Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
3) Jamie T - Kings & Queens (Still no idea why I like this album)
4) Weezer - Raditude
5) Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
6) Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons

Jury is still out on Thousand Foot Krutch - Welcome To The Masquerade.

 

[HevyDevy]

Wouldn't say these are albums of the year, but they have had the most play time in the car & home.

1) Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
2) Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West
3) Jamie T - Kings & Queens (Still no idea why I like this album)
4) Weezer - Raditude
5) Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
6) Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons

Jury is still out on Thousand Foot Krutch - Welcome To The Masquerade.

:shock:

 

[Cupid Stunt]

Haha yeah slightly left of centre BUT... I don't buy into the whole "black metal" thing but I do like the way they put a musical piece together. They do some almost theatrical stuff, the tracks are just "full" for lack of a better word.

 

[ElectricEelMan]

1. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
2. Kingdom of Welcome Addiction - IAMX
3. The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
3. Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
4. Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside
5. As Day Follows Night - Sarah Blasko
6. Embryonic - The Flaming Lips
7. Strict Joy - Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová
8. Get Guilty - A.C. Newman
9. Epcot Starfields - Windmill
10. Crack the Skye - Mastodon

 

[TiggaPlease]

Blakroc
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
Chamber Music
A Fist in the Thought
Crime Pays
Supporting Caste
Dopium
Double Barrel
Let the Dominoes Fall
The Resistance

I'd prolly change slightly from your list:


All in a day's work
Ground Original 2 No Sell Out
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
Chamber Music
Heavyweights
Castleton Ave
Double Barrel
More Grey Hairs
Street Hop
The Life N Death of my Hood

No particular order

 

[Alex28]

a late contender for mine list though would be the new REM double live album. Picked it up yesterday but havent played it yet.

See...I would have included Nirvana's 'Live At Reading' as well, but live albums aren't really albums...they are live compilations of other albums.

 

[LESStar58]

Haven't bought a lot of "new" music but best album of the year: John Doe & The Sadies- Country Club. f**king magic

Not far behind it are the self titled albums by The Currency and Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women.

Gonna have to give props to the new Rancid album as well. I know it's been trashed but I really like it.

 

[fish eel]

See...I would have included Nirvana's 'Live At Reading' as well, but live albums aren't really albums...they are live compilations of other albums.

I'm pretty sure I could count the new REM live one as it has some new tracks I believe. ;-)

I left out what was my fav album of the year for the reasons you said - Wilco's Ashes of an American Flag.

 

[mongoose]

Mos Def - The Ecstatic

Awesome album.

 

[bartman]

New list, top 20 from UK paper The Independent
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e.../andy-gill--the-music-to-my-year-1837821.html

Wilco - Wilco
Keith Jarrett - Paris/London: Testament
David Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion
The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Duckworth Lewis Method
Teitur - The Singer
Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
Antonio Pappano - Verdi: Messa Da Requiem
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Staff Benda Bilili - Très Très Fort
Dave Rawlings - A Friend of a Friend
Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe Suite No 2
Sparks - The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman
Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
Tinariwen - Imidiwan
Candi Staton - Who's Hurting Now?
White Denim - Fits
Os Mutantes - Haih Or Amortecedor

A bit... diverse? Of these I'd consider getting the Wilco album, Paulo Nutini and Doves (on past reputation), and The Low Anthem if I saw them in the new year at a good price.

 

[Cliffhanger]

I'd prolly change slightly from your list:


All in a day's work
Ground Original 2 No Sell Out
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
Chamber Music
Heavyweights
Castleton Ave
Double Barrel
More Grey Hairs
Street Hop
The Life N Death of my Hood

No particular order

Hearing Rumors of a Rae tour for March next year

Meth in Jan RZA in feb and Rae in March SWE-EH-EEEEEEEEEEEETT

 

[bartman]

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/kingsmill/

triple j listener's TOP 10 ALBUMS of 2009!

10. Passion Pit - Manners
9. Lisa Mitchell - Wonder
8. Paul Dempsey - Everything Is True
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
6. Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
5. Florence & The Machine - Lungs
4. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
3. Muse - The Resistance
2. Temper Trap - Conditions
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Richard Kingsmill's Top 10 Albums of 2010

1. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2. The Bloody Beetroots - Romborama
3. Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
4. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5. Karnivool - Sound Awake
6. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
7. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
8. Paul Dempsey - Everything Is True
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
10. Blakroc - Blakroc

 

[Flapper]

Finally done

1)Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
2)Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
3)Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low
4)Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
5)Tinted Windows - Tinted Windows
6)Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
7)Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
8)Broken Records - Until The Earth Begins To Part
9)Eels - Hombre Lobo
10)Cage - Depart From Me

 

[Solid]

Say Anything - Self Titled
Mew - No More Stories
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Emery - In Shallows Seas We Sail
Propagandhi - Supporting Castle
Brand New - Daisy

The Mew album is my favorite by far.

 

[Cupid Stunt]

Late arrival but after a week or so of listening I'm definitely adding the new Mudvayne.

 

[nathanbrown'sghost]

I could not get down to ten but here is a solid 16. Also, I don't include compilations/live but Nirvana at Reading and R.E.M. Live at the olympia are worth the cash.

Girls - Album
Delorean – Ayrton Senna ep
Yacht – See Mystery Lights
The Antlers – Hospice
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Moby – Wait for Me
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Dappled Cities - Zounds
Talons - Rustic bullsh*t
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
Rock Plaza Central - At the moment of our most needing
Ox - Burnout

 

[LESStar58]

I could not get down to ten but here is a solid 16. Also, I don't include compilations/live but Nirvana at Reading and R.E.M. Live at the olympia are worth the cash.

Girls - Album
Delorean – Ayrton Senna ep
Yacht – See Mystery Lights
The Antlers – Hospice
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Fruit Bats - The Ruminant Band
Heartless Bastards - The Mountain
Moby – Wait for Me
White Rabbits - It's Frightening
Dappled Cities - Zounds
Talons - Rustic bullsh*t
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Throw Me The Statue - Creaturesque
Rock Plaza Central - At the moment of our most needing
Ox - Burnout

Good album and certainly on my list as well. Furnace Room Lullaby or The Virginian are my favs of hers but MC is still a pretty solid album. Are you going to see her in January?