Tag Archives: year-end list

I’m try­ing to pull these togeth­er now. A few albums leap to mind:

• Liars – Sis­ter­world
• The Roots — How I Got Over
• Kanye West — My Beau­ti­ful Dark Twist­ed Fantasy
• Tay­lor Swift’s Speak Now
• Sight­ings — City of Straw
• Janelle Mon­ae — The ArchAn­droid
• Erykah Badu — New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
• Ted Leo and the Phar­ma­cists — The Bru­tal­ist Bricks
• The-Dream — Love King
• Titus Andron­i­cus — The Mon­i­tor
• Big Boi — Sir Lus­cious Left Foot…
• Spoon — Trans­fer­ence
• Kyle­sa — Spi­ral Shadow
• Sleigh Bells — Treats
• V/A Casu­al Vic­tim Pile comp

I’m still look­ing around for things I missed. Real­ly wish there were more met­al on this list, to say noth­ing of weirdo noise and psych stuff. More coun­try, too! I’m not above hear­ing ten albums in the next week and mak­ing those my favorite albums of the year. Still haven’t heard that Beach House album that came out so long ago it feels like 2009! I’m over wor­ry­ing what crit­ics think of my year-end list; none of them mat­ter so much to war­rant the cos­mopoli­tan ulcer I used to give myself come Novem­ber. Have to admit that it feels good to have reached the point in my life where I’m hap­py to nom­i­nate the main­stream fluff I used to hate see­ing in the Vil­lage Voice Pazz ‘n’ Jop poll. That Tay­lor Swift album is damn good!

What are your favorites of 2010? Feel free to drop links in the com­ments. Wow me.